That just makes so many more enemies, unnecessarily; and you not only deprive me of the communications of my friends, but you positively provoke them to go over to your adversary." It seemed impossible to exercise any control over the editors, and Murray had no alternative left but to expostulate, and if his expostulations were unheeded, to retire from the magazine.

The last course was that which he eventually decided to adopt, and the end of the partnership in _Blackwood's Magazine_, which had long been anticipated, at length arrived.

Murray's name appeared for the last time on No.

22, for January 1819; the following number bore no London publisher's name; but on the number for March the names of T.Cadell and W.Davies were advertised as the London agents for the magazine.
On December 17, 1819, L1,000 were remitted to Mr.Murray in payment of the sum which he had originally advanced to purchase his share, and his connection with _Blackwood's Magazine_ finally ceased.

He thereupon transferred his agency for Scotland to Messrs.