 He was about to start a medical practice at Dover when he received a summons from the Duke of Clarence (afterwards William IV), to whom he had been introduced to by Admiral Child, a connection of Mrs. Beattie's, to attend the duke's family on a visit to the courts of Germany.At the end of winter he resumed his studies in Paris, and spent the next two years travelling and studying in Italy, Switzerland, and on the Rhine.At the end of 1824 he entered upon a medical practice at Worthing (the salubrity of whose climate he recommended in a pamphlet published in 1858), but left it in the following March to again accompany the Duke and Duchess of Clarence to Germany.