CHAPTER VI.
THE "QUARTERLY" LAUNCHED While Mr.Gifford was marshalling his forces and preparing for the issue of the first number of the _Quarterly_, Mr.Murray was corresponding with James Ballantyne of Edinburgh as to the works they were jointly engaged in bringing out, and also with respect to the northern agency of the new _Review_.

An arrangement was made between them that they should meet at Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire, at the beginning of January 1809, for the purpose of concocting their plans.

Ballantyne proposed to leave Edinburgh on January 5, and Murray was to set out from London on the same day, both making for Boroughbridge.

A few days before Ballantyne left Edinburgh he wrote to Murray: "I shall not let a living soul know of my intended journey.

Entire secrecy seems necessary at present.