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.

Mr.Langton was a gentleman of an ancient family, and respectable fortune in Lincolnshire, but resided then in Queen's-square, Westminster.

He was known as the friend of Dr.Johnson, Jonas Hanway, Edmund Burke, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and others.

Among his acquaintance indeed were most of the literary, and eminent professional, and public-spirited, men of the times.