Lest you should not, I send them.

Hunt is most vilely wrongheaded in politics, and has thereby been turned away from the path of elegant criticism, which might have led him to eminence and respectability." Hunt was then, with his brother, joint editor of the _Examiner_, and preferred writing for the newspaper to contributing articles to the _Quarterly_.
On Leigh Hunt's release from Horsemonger Lane Gaol, where he had been imprisoned for his libel on the Prince Regent, he proceeded, on the strength of his reputation, to compose the "Story of Rimini," the publication of which gave the author a place among the poets of the day.
He sent a portion of the manuscript to Mr.Murray before the poem was finished, saying that it would amount to about 1,400 lines.

Hunt then proceeded (December 18, 1815) to mention the terms which he proposed to be paid for his work when finished.

"Booksellers," he said, "tell me that I ought not to ask less than L450 (which is a sum I happen to want just now); and my friends, not in the trade, say I ought not to ask less than L500, with such a trifling acknowledgment upon the various editions after the second and third, as shall enable me to say that I am still profiting by it." Mr.Murray sent his reply to Hunt through their common friend, Lord Byron: _John Murray to Lord Byron_.
_December_ 27, 1815.
"I wish your lordship to do me the favour to look at and to consider with your usual kindness the accompanying note to Mr.Leigh Hunt respecting his poem, for which he requests L450.

This would presuppose a sale of, at least, 10,000 copies.