He was a person of extraordinary simplicity of manners.

Though he lived in a state of pecuniary independence, he gave an example of great temperance, as well as of great humility of mind.

But however humble he appeared, he had always the courage to dare to do that which was right, however it might resist the customs or the prejudices of men.

In his own line of trade, which was that of a timber-merchant on an extensive scale, he would not allow any article to be sold for the use of a slave-ship, and he always refused those, who applied to him for materials for such purposes.

But it is evident that it was his intention, if he had lived, to bear his testimony still more publicly upon this subject; for an advertisement, stating the ground of his refusal to furnish any thing for this traffic upon Christian principles, with a memorandum for two advertisements in the Liverpool papers, was found among his papers at his decease.
[Footnote A: In London, Bristol and Liverpool, I had already obtained the names of more than 20,000 seamen, in different voyages, knowing what had become of each.].