On learning this, he wrote to Mr.Murray as follows: _Mr.James Mill to John Murray_.
My dear Sir, I can have no objection in the world to your delaying the article I have sent you till it altogether suits your arrangements to make use of it.
Besides this point, a few words of explanation may not be altogether useless with regard to another.

I am half inclined to suspect that the objection of your Editor goes a little farther than you state.

If so, I beg you will not hesitate a moment about what you are to do with it.

I wrote it solely with a view to oblige and to benefit _you personally_, but with very little idea, as I told you at our first conversation on the subject, that it would be in my power to be of any use to you, as the views which I entertained respecting what is good for our country were very different from the views entertained by the gentlemen with whom in your projected concern you told me you were to be connected.

To convince you, however, of my good-will, I am perfectly ready to give you a specimen, and if it appears to be such as likely to give offence to your friends, or not to harmonise with the general style of your work, commit it to the flames without the smallest scruple.