We had a regular receipt for what we paid, but inadvertently departing again from the appointed way, we were in danger of paying the full duty a second time, or having the goods taken from us.

So much for travelling with excise goods.
Early in 1824, John Yeardley returned for a few months to England.

He had ingratiated himself so thoroughly into the esteem and love of his Pyrmont friends, that his departure even for a short time was the signal of lamentation through the whole meeting.

On the 11th of the First Month he had a farewell meeting at Friedensthal, which was attended by almost all his friends.

With his parting blessing he had some counsel to impart.
I have so much place, he says, in their minds, that whatever I say, either in counsel or reproof, is always received in love.