He also mentions his liking for Captain Fitzroy, whom he had met at Lushington's house a few days before Fitzroy had accepted the charge of the expedition; since the other brethren of Trinity House had refused permission for him to go, he had therefore recommended Captain Vidal, of whom others approved. Although Vidal was just about the depart on a government commission, Fitzroy insisted that he should take his copies of Buxton's books with him. He expresses surprise at the difference in opinion about his scheme caused by his second volume, converting those who were dubious after reading the first, and announces the success of the appeal for subscriptions. He mentions that he had been nominated Chairman of the new society, with Lushington and Inglis as Vice-Chairmen, Trew as Secretary, and Stokes as Assistant Secretary, with a working committee that would meet weekly. He had told the meeting that he intended to soon publish The Remedy because of the recent speech by Powlett Thomson about the admission of Brazilian sugar as he wished to prevent the government from supporting such a measure by arousing public opinion. After the meeting, Lords Seaford and Bexley and Sir T[homas] Acland accompanied him to the Admiralty to ask for Captain Vidal to be sent to Lushington's house the following Monday morning and for a frigate and two steamers. Lord Minto asked for the request to be made in writing and promised that he would see what could be done. He then visited Lieutenant Drummond, who issued the order for Vidal, and met Ferguson, an army surgeon of mixed heritage who had been sent out to Sierra Leone by Wilberforce seventeen years earlier, who told him about growing cotton and coffee and of the industry and good sense of the indigenous peoples. He had also seen McQueen, who did not wish at that time to act as the agent for their proposed agricultural company; he found this not surprising because of the prejudice of some of the society towards McQueen, chiefly from Macaulay and Ben Smith. In a postscript, he sends a message to Sarah from Burleigh about the continued wildness of Pussy, despite the horsekeeper's action.