Having travelled over Wales, and two thirds of England, I found it would be impossible to visit Scotland on the same errand.  I had already, by moving upwards and downwards in parallel lines, and by intersecting these in the same manner, passed over six thousand miles.  By the best calculation I could make, I had yet two thousand to perform.  By means of almost incessant journeyings night and day, I had suffered much in my health.  My strength was failing daily.  I wrote therefore to the committee on this subject; and they communicated immediately with Dr. Dickson, who, on being applied to, visited Scotland in my stead.  He consulted first with the committee at Edinburgh relative to the circulation of the Abridgement of the Evidence.  He then pursued his journey, and, in conjunction with the unwearied efforts of Mr. Campbel Haliburton, rendered essential service to the cause for this part of the kingdom.

On my return to London I found that the committee had taken into their own body T.F.  Forster, B.M.  Forster, and James West, esquires, as members; and that they had elected Hercules Ross, esquire, an honorary and corresponding member, in consequence of the handsome manner in which he had come forward as an evidence, and of the peculiar benefit which had resulted from his testimony to the cause.

The effects of the two journeys by Dr. Dickson and myself were soon visible.  The people could not bear the facts, which had been disclosed to them by the Abridgement of the Evidence.  They were not satisfied, many of them, with the mere abstinence from sugar; but began to form committees to correspond with that of London.  The first of these appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne, so early as the month of October.  It consisted of the Reverend William Turner as chairman, and of Robert Ormston, William Batson, Henry Taylor, Ralph Bainbridge, George Brown, Hadwen Bragg, David Sutton, Anthony Clapham, George Richardson, and Edward Prowit.  It received a valuable addition afterwards by the admission of many others.  The second was established at Nottingham.  The Reverend Jeremiah Bigsby became the president, and the Rev. G. Walker and J. Smith, and Mess.  Dennison, Evans, Watson, Hart, Storer, Bott, Hawkesley, Pennington, Wright, Frith, Hall, and Wakefield, the committee.  The third was formed at Glasgow, under the patronage of David Dale, Scott Moncrieff, Robert Graham, Professor Millar, and others.  Other committees started up in their turn.  At length public meetings began to take place, and after this petitions to be sent to parliament; and these so generally, that there was not a day for three months, Sundays excepted, in which five or six were not resolved upon in some places or other in the kingdom.