CHAPTER XVII.
Author secures the Gloucester paper, and lays the foundation of a petition from that city; does the same at Worcester, and at Chester .-- Arrives at Liverpool .-- Collects specimens of African produce; also imports and exports, and muster-rolls, and accounts of dock duties, and iron instruments used in the Slave Trade .-- His introduction to Mr.Norris, and others .-- Author and his errand become known .-- People visit him out of curiosity .-- Frequent controversies on the subject of the Slave Trade.
On my arrival at Gloucester, I waited upon my friend Dean Tucker.

He was pleased to hear of the great progress I had made since he left me.

On communicating to him my intention of making interest with the editors of some provincial papers, to enlighten the public mind, and with the inhabitants of some respectable places, for petitions to Parliament, relative to the abolition of the Slave Trade, he approved of it, and introduced me to Mr.Raikes, the proprietor of the respectable paper belonging to that city.

Mr.Raikes acknowledged, without any hesitation, the pleasure he should have in serving such a noble cause; and he promised to grant me, from time to time, a corner in his paper, for such things as I might point out to him for insertion.

This promise he performed afterwards, without any pecuniary consideration, and solely on the ground of benevolence.