He remarks on the way their sons sought each other's company in Trinity College, Cambridge. He offers consolation over the Niger Expedition, assuring Buxton that he had done everything in his power beforehand to ensure its success and that no blame could therefore be placed on him and begs him, not to allow it to affect his health or to dwell upon it in an unreasonable manner. He would like to see Buxton when next in London and issues an invitation to his sons to visit him. He asks if Buxton could introduce him to an intelligent corn merchant or broker who could inform him on the failures in lending occurring in connection with the import of corn, since he was studying Peel's new Corn Bill; he already had access to Samuel Gurney and Samuel Lloyd. If it was reported that Barclay and Perkins had returned annual profits of £180,000, Peel would have to rely on compliant supporters and opportunists to secure his income tax. The state of distress in Ireland was so great that the prospects of country gentlemen like himself were very dismal and if he did not have his official salary [from the Exchequer], he would have difficulty in educating his children that year, but it was preposterous to attribute this to the Corn Law or the tariff since it sprang from lack of buying power among the chief consumers. He chaffs him for addressing him by his title, saying that he was welcome to call him Monteagle or even Paddy after a friendship dating from 1818.