CHAPTER IX.
Continuation of the fourth Class of forerunners and coadjutors Up to 1787 .-- Author resolves upon the distribution of his book .-- Mr.
Sheldon; Sir Herbert Mackworth; Lord Newhaven; Lord Balgonie (afterwards Leven); Lord Hawke; Bishop Porteus .-- Author visits African vessels in the Thames; and various persons, for further information .-- Visits also Members of Parliament; Sir Richard Hill; Mr.
Powys (late Lord Lilford); Mr.Wilberforce and others; conduct of the latter on this occasion.
On my return to London, I called upon William Dillwyn, to inform him of the resolution I had made at Teston, and found him at his town lodgings in the Poultry.

I informed him also, that I had a letter of introduction in my pocket from Sir Charles Middleton to Samuel Hoare, with whom I was to converse on the subject.

The latter gentleman had interested himself the year before as one of the committee for the Black poor in London, whom Mr.Sharp was sending under the auspices of government to Sierra Leone.

He was also, as the reader may see by looking back, a member of the second class of coadjutors, or of the little committee which had branched out of the Quakers in England as before described.

William Dillwyn said he would go with me and introduce me himself.