CHAPTER VIII.
Continuation of the fourth class of forerunners and coadjutors up to 1787; Bennet Langton; Dr.Baker; Lord and Lady Scarsdale .-- Author visits Ramsay at Teston .-- Lady Middleton and Sir Charles (afterward Lord Barham) .-- Author declares himself at the house of the latter ready now to devote himself to the cause; reconsiders this declaration or pledge; his reasoning and struggle upon it; persists in it; returns to London; and pursues the work as now a business of his life.
I had purposed, as I said before, when I determined to publish my essay, to wait to see how the world would receive it, or what disposition there would be in the public to favour my measures for the abolition of the Slave Trade.

But the conversation which I had held on the 13th of March with William Dillwyn, continued to make such an impression upon me, that I thought now there could be no occasion for waiting for such a purpose.
It seemed now only necessary to go forward.

Others I found had already begun the work.

I had been thrown suddenly among these, as into a new world of friends.

I believed, also, that a way was opening under Providence for support; and I now thought that nothing remained for me but to procure as many coadjutors as I could.
I had long had the honour of the friendship of Mr.Bennet Langton, and I determined to carry him one of my books, and to interest his feelings in it, with a view of procuring his assistance in the cause.