 He later served in the "Barham, Tonnant" and "Ortando", and visited Lisbon, Cadiz, the Canaries, the Mediterranean, the East and West Indies and China.Burton then studied law, entering the Inner Temple in November 1819, and was called to the bar in November 1824.He was recorder of Daventry in 1826–1827, and a puisne judge of the supreme court at the Cape of Good Hope 1828–1832, and then transferred to the Supreme Court at Sydney.