In 1830, he was appointed United States consul at Hamburg, but on his arrival in Europe he found that the Senate had failed to confirm his appointment. After residing for some time in Paris, he returned to Pennsylvania. He next settled in Leipzig in 1833, where for some time he was U.S. consul. He was a journalist in Paris from 1837 to 1843, where he wrote articles for Thiers's centre-left paper "Le Constitutionnel". He wrote several letters for the Augsburg "Allgemeine Zeitung", which were published in 1841 in a volume under the title of "Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie".