It excited, however, some attention among parliamentary and political people.

The best strength of the party was put forth in it; and its execution did them much more credit than that of the _Westminster Review_ had ever done.

Bingham and Charles Austin wrote much in it; as did Strutt, Romilly, and several other Liberal lawyers.
My father wrote one article in his best style; the elder Austin another.
Coulson wrote one of great merit.

It fell to my lot to lead off the first number by an article on the principal topic of the session (that of 1825), the Catholic Association and the Catholic Disabilities.

In the second number I wrote an elaborate Essay on the Commercial Crisis of 1825 and the Currency Debates.