The books, having been printed, were despatched before me.  Of this tour I shall give the reader no other account than that of the progress of the remedy, which the people were then taking into their own hands.  And first I may observe, that there was no town, through which I passed, in which there was not some one individual who had left off the use of sugar.  In the smaller towns there were from ten to fifty by estimation, and in the larger from two to five hundred, who made this sacrifice to virtue.  These were of all ranks and parties.  Rich and poor, churchmen and dissenters, had adopted the measure.  Even grocers had left off trading in the article, in some places.  In gentlemen’s families, where the master had set the example, the servants had often voluntarily followed it; and even children, who were capable of understanding the history of the sufferings of the Africans, excluded, with the most virtuous resolution, the sweets, to which they had been accustomed, from their lips.  By the best computation I was able to make from notes taken down in my journey, no fewer than three hundred thousand persons had abandoned the use of sugar.

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 Abridgment 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, Esqrs., as members; and that they had elected Hercules Boss, Esq., 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 Abridgment 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 Rev. William Turner, as chairman, and of Robert Ormston, William Batson, Henry, Taylor,