The office involved pretty frequent absences, in Cardiff and elsewhere.

This doubtless was a welcome outlet, though a small one.

He had also begun to try writing, especially on public subjects; a much more copious outlet,--which indeed, gradually widening itself, became the final solution for him.

Of the year 1811 we have a Pamphlet of his, entitled _Military Reform_; this is the second edition, "dedicated to the Duke of Kent;" the first appears to have come out the year before, and had thus attained a certain notice, which of course was encouraging.

He now furthermore opened a correspondence with the _Times_ Newspaper; wrote to it, in 1812, a series of Letters under the signature _Vetus_: voluntary Letters I suppose, without payment or pre-engagement, one successful Letter calling out another; till _Vetus_ and his doctrines came to be a distinguishable entity, and the business amounted to something.