Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ya kasance daya daga cikin kwamishinoni don sasantawa da dama da'awar da suka shafi Gunboat War
tun daga shekarar 1807. A cikin ramuwar gayya ga harin Copenhagen, gwamnatin Denmark ta kwace kayayyakin Burtaniya a cikin ɗakunan ajiya, da jiragen ruwa na kasuwanci tare da kayan su. Kodayake an kwantar da asarar kayayyaki a kan ƙasa ba da daɗewa ba bayan haka, masu mallakar jiragen ruwa suna ci gaba da neman su ba tare da sakamako ba don neman diyya daga Gwamnatin Birtaniya har zuwa 1861. Koyaya, tare da faduwar gwamnatin Melbourne (1841) an rufe aikin Helps na tsawon shekaru kusan ashirin. Ya sayi gidan Vernon Hill kusa da Bishops Waltham, Hampshire, kuma samun kudin shiga na kansa ya ba shi damar juya zuwa rubuta littattafai da wasan kwaikwayo, wanda ya rubuta wa wani amanuensis.