On December 25, 1815, he wrote: "I was about to tell you that Croker was so pleased with the idea of a Caledonian article from you, that he could not refrain from mentioning it to the Prince Regent, who is very fond of the subject, and he said he would be delighted, and is really anxious about it.

Now, it occurs to me, as our _Edinburgh_ friends choose on many occasions to bring in the Prince's name to abuse it, this might offer an equally fair opportunity of giving him that praise which is so justly due to his knowledge of the history of his country....
"I was with Lord Byron yesterday.

He enquired after you, and bid me say how much he was indebted to your introduction of your poor Irish friend Maturin, who had sent him a tragedy, which Lord Byron received late in the evening, and read through, without being able to stop.

He was so delighted with it that he sent it immediately to his fellow-manager, the Hon.

George Lamb, who, late as it came to him, could not go to bed without finishing it.