Longman's contention, and of their "undisputable rights to one-half of the _Edinburgh Review_ so long as it continues to be published under that title." Longman & Co.

accordingly obtained an injunction to prevent the publication of the _Edinburgh Review_ by any other publisher in London without their express consent.
Matters were brought to a crisis by the following letter, written by the editor, Mr.Francis Jeffrey, to Messrs.

Constable & Co.: _June 1_, 1807.
GENTLEMEN, I believe you understand already that neither I nor any of the original and regular writers in the _Review_ will ever contribute a syllable to a work belonging to booksellers.

It is proper, however, to announce this to you distinctly, that you may have no fear of hardship or disappointment in the event of Mr.Longman succeeding in his claim to the property of this work.

If that claim be not speedily rejected or abandoned, it is our fixed resolution to withdraw entirely from the _Edinburgh Review_; to publish to all the world that the conductor and writers of the former numbers have no sort of connection with those that may afterwards appear; and probably to give notice of our intention to establish a new work of a similar nature under a different title.
I have the honour to be, gentlemen, Your very obedient servant, F.JEFFREY.
A copy of this letter was at once forwarded to Messrs.