Thus the connexion was continued.

To these observations I may now add, that Samuel Hoare, of the same class as William Dillwyn, had, in consequence of the Bishop of Chester's sermon, begun a correspondence in 1784, as before mentioned, with Mr.Ramsay, who was of the same class as Mr.
Sharp.

Thus four individuals of the two first classes were in the way of an union with one another.
But circumstances equally natural contributed to render an union between the members of the second and the third classes easily practicable also.
For what was more natural than that William Dillwyn, who was born and who had resided long in America, should have connexions there?
He had long cultivated a friendship (not then knowing to what it would lead) with James Pemberton.

His intimacy with him was like that of a family connexion.

They corresponded together; they corresponded also as kindred hearts, relative to the Slave Trade.