And his influence flowed in minor streams too numerous to be specified.

This influence was now about to receive a great extension by the foundation of the _Westminster Review_.
Contrary to what may have been supposed, my father was in no degree a party to setting up the _Westminster Review_.

The need of a Radical organ to make head against the _Edinburgh_ and _Quarterly_ (then in the period of their greatest reputation and influence) had been a topic of conversation between him and Mr.Bentham many years earlier, and it had been a part of their _Chateau en Espagne_ that my father should be the editor; but the idea had never assumed any practical shape.

In 1823, however, Mr.Bentham determined to establish the _Review_ at his own cost, and offered the editorship to my father, who declined it as incompatible with his India House appointment.

It was then entrusted to Mr.( now Sir John) Bowring, at that time a merchant in the City.