He said he wished it to be ready by that time for very particular reasons; and yet he allows that the poem is not completed, and that he is yet undetermined if he shall make his hero happy or otherwise." The other important event, to which allusion has been made, was the transfer to Mr.Murray of part of the London agency for the _Edinburgh Review_.

At the beginning of 1806 Murray sold 1,000 copies of the _Review_ on the day of its publication, and the circulation was steadily increasing.

Constable proposed to transfer the entire London publication to Murray, but the Longmans protested, under the terms of their existing agreement.

In April 1807 they employed as their attorney Mr.Sharon Turner, one of Murray's staunchest allies.

Turner informed him, through a common friend, of his having been retained by the Longmans; but Murray said he could not in any way "feel hurt at so proper and indispensable a pursuit of his profession." The opinion of counsel was in favour of the Messrs.