[2] While returning to Britain due to poor health in 1783, Baillie went back to the St Vincent and worked in partnership with Charles Hamilton from 1784 to c.1787.
When James died in 1793, Baillie took over the business importing cotton from the Guyana coast at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Merchant, Member of Parliament for that Great City, and Colonel of the Bristol Volunteers (London, 1809) and Interesting Letters addressed to James Baillie Esq.
of Bedford Square, Partner in the House of Baillie, Thornton, and Campbell (London, 1809).
These texts provide insight into his business dealings with his family members, and information about slave-trading, slave-ownership and mercantile activity prior to abolition of the slate trade in 1807.