They have actually given up their names, as the authors of the offences charged upon them, by implication only, in the pamphlet.

How they could possibly conceive that the writer of the pamphlet would be such an idiot as to quit his stronghold of concealment, and allow his head to be chopped off by exposure, I am at a loss to conceive....
I declare to God that had I known what I had so incautiously engaged in, I would not have undertaken what I have done, or have suffered what I have in my feelings and character--which no man had hitherto the slightest cause for assailing--I would not have done so for any sum....
In answer to these remonstrances Blackwood begged him to dismiss the matter from his mind, to preserve silence, and to do all that was possible to increase the popularity of the magazine.

The next number, he said, would be excellent and unexceptionable; and it proved to be so.
The difficulty, however, was not yet over.

While the principal editors of the Chaldee Manuscript had thus revealed themselves to the author of "Hypocrisy Unveiled," the London publisher of _Blackwood_ was, in November 1818, assailed by a biting pamphlet, entitled "A Letter to Mr.
John Murray, of Albemarle Street, occasioned by his having undertaken the publication, in London, of _Blackwood's Magazine_." "The curse of his respectability," he was told, had brought the letter upon him.

"Your name stands among the very highest in the department of Literature which has fallen to your lot: the eminent persons who have confided in you, and the works you have given to the world, have conduced to your establishment in the public favour; while your liberality, your impartiality, and your private motives, bear testimony to the justice of your claims to that honourable distinction." Other criticisms of the same kind reached Mr.Murray's ear.