Then he became a friend of Mr.Wilberforce's, whose politics he admired, and had that famous correspondence with the Reverend Silas Hornblower, on the Ashantee Mission.

He was in London, if not for the Parliament session, at least in May, for the religious meetings.

In the country he was a magistrate, and an active visitor and speaker among those destitute of religious instruction.

He was said to be paying his addresses to Lady Jane Sheepshanks, Lord Southdown's third daughter, and whose sister, Lady Emily, wrote those sweet tracts, "The Sailor's True Binnacle," and "The Applewoman of Finchley Common." Miss Sharp's accounts of his employment at Queen's Crawley were not caricatures.

He subjected the servants there to the devotional exercises before mentioned, in which (and so much the better) he brought his father to join.