But with every due acknowledgment of the kindness and courtesy that I received from you on my first coming to town, I remain, dear Sir, your obliged, S.T.

COLERIDGE.
Leigh Hunt was another of Murray's correspondents.

When the _Quarterly_ was started, Hunt, in his Autography, says that "he had been invited, nay pressed by the publisher, to write in the new Review, which surprised me, considering its politics and the great difference of my own." Hunt adds that he had no doubt that the invitation had been made at the instance of Gifford himself.

Murray had a high opinion of Hunt as a critic, but not as a politician.

Writing to Walter Scott in 1810 he said: _John Murray to Mr.Scott_, "Have you got or seen Hunt's critical essays, prefixed to a few novels that he edited.