On both these topics Mr.
Walter spoke out freely in terms of reprobation; and the result was, that the printing for the Customs and the Government advertisements were at once removed from The Times office.
Two years later Mr.Pitt died, and an Administration succeeded which contained a portion of the political chiefs whom the editor had formerly supported on his undertaking the management of the paper.

He was invited by one of them to state the injustice which had been done to him by the loss of the Customs printing, and a memorial to the Treasury was submitted for his signature, with a view to its recovery.
But believing that the reparation of the injury in this manner was likely to be considered as a favour, entitling those who granted it to a certain degree of influence over the politics of the journal, Walter refused to sign it, or to have any concern in presenting the memorial.
He did more; he wrote to those from whom the restoration of the employment was expected to come, disavowing all connection with the proceeding.

The matter then dropped, and the Customs printing was never restored to the office.
This course was so unprecedented, and, as his father thought, was so very wrong-headed, that young Walter had for some time considerable difficulty in holding his ground and maintaining the independent position he had assumed.

But with great tenacity of purpose he held on his course undismayed.

He was a man who looked far ahead,--not so much taking into account the results at the end of each day or of each year, but how the plan he had laid down for conducting the paper would work out in the long run.