In consequence of this, five persons variously concerned in the matter were convened for discussion upon it.

As these Memoirs were not calculated to augment the fame of the writer, and as some passages were penned in a spirit which his better feelings since had virtually retracted, Mr.
Murray proposed that they should be destroyed, considering it a duty to sacrifice every view of profit to the noble author, by whose confidence and friendship he had been so long honoured.

The result has been, that notwithstanding some opposition, he obtained the desired decision, and the Manuscript was forthwith committed to the flames.

Mr.Murray was immediately reimbursed in the purchase-money by Mr.Moore, although Mr.
Murray had previously renounced every claim to repayment." The particulars of the transaction are more fully expressed in the following letter written by Mr.Murray to Mr.( afterwards Sir) Robert Wilmot Horton, two days after the destruction of the manuscript.

It seems that Mr.Moore had already made a representation to Mr.Horton which was not quite correct.