By introducing my work to the sanction of a friend of such high character and extensive connexions, I thought I should be doing great things.  And so the event proved.  For when I went to him after he had read it, I found that it had made a deep impression upon his mind.  As a friend to humanity, he lamented over the miseries of the oppressed Africans; and over the crimes of their tyrants, as a friend to morality and religion.  He cautioned me, however, against being too sanguine in my expectations, as so many thousands were interested in continuing the trade.  Justice, however, which he said weighed with him beyond all private or political interest, demanded a public inquiry, and he would assist me to the utmost of his power in my attempts towards it.  From this time he became a zealous and active coadjutor in the cause, and continued so to the end of his valuable life.

The next person, to whom I gave my work with a like view, was Dr. Baker, a clergyman of the Establishment, and with whom I had been in habits of intimacy for some time.  Dr. Baker was a learned and pious man.  He had performed the duties of his profession, from the time of his initiation into the church, in an exemplary manner; not only by paying a proper attention to the customary services, but by the frequent visitation of the sick and the instruction of the poor.  This he had done, too, to admiration in a particularly extensive parish.  At the time I knew him, he had May-Fair Chapel, of which an unusual portion of the congregation consisted then of persons of rank and fortune.  With most of these he had a personal acquaintance.  This was of great importance to me in the promotion of my views.  Having left him my book for a month, I called upon him.  The result was that which I expected from so good a man.  He, did not wait for me to ask him for his co-operation, but he offered his services in any way which I might think most eligible; feeling it his duty, as he expressed it, to become an instrument in exposing such a complication of guilt and misery to the world.  Dr. Baker became from this time an active coadjutor also, and continued so to his death.

The person to whom I sent my work next, was the late Lord Scarsdale, whose family I had known for about two years.  Both he and his lady read it with attention.  They informed me, after the perusal of it, that both of them were desirous of assisting me in promoting the cause of the poor Africans.  Lady Scarsdale lamented that she might possibly offend near and dear connexions, who had interests in, the West Indies, by so doing; but that, conscious of no intention to offend these, and considering the duties of religion to be the first to be attended to, she should be pleased to become useful in so good a cause.  Lord Scarsdale also assured me, that, if the subject should ever come before the House of Lords, it should have his constant support.