Now he would hand over the riches of the Indies to the bloody French!

现在还想把印度群岛的财富拱手让给可恶的法国人
lf... If we didn't have slaves, there would be no plantations.

没有黑奴就没有农场
And with no plantations, how would we fill the coffers of the king?

没有农场怎么充实国库
Does my honourable friend

各位议员
really believe that if we left off the trade,

你们真的相信一旦废除奴隶...
the French wouldn't immediately step into our place and reap the rewards?

法国不会取而代之坐享其成
All this food. There's only a handful of people in there.

客人不多却准备这么多食物
He's an optimist. Completely incurable.

先生是无可救药的乐观主义者
Our defeat in the House today was not unexpected.

我们早料到今天在议院会挫败
But our intention was to flush out the opposition

但这次的目的是刺激反对党
and discover how many people would support us.

看议院有多少人支持我们
Yes, well, we certainly found out who our friends are.

很明显我们找到支持者