He would advise me, he said, to pay the expenses, and a trifle to Hazlitt himself privately.

Hazlitt's agent agreed to this." [Footnote: I have not been able to discover what sum, if any, was paid to Hazlitt privately.] Notwithstanding promises of amendment, Murray still complained of the personalities, and of the way in which the magazine was edited.

He also objected to the "echo of the _Edinburgh Review's_ abuse of Sharon Turner.

It was sufficient to give pain to me, and to my most valued friend.

There was another ungentlemanly and uncalled-for thrust at Thomas Moore.