I entreat the favour of your exertion.

For the last five months my most imperative concerns have yielded to this, without the hope of my anxiety or labour ceasing.
"Tanti miserere laboris," in my distress and with regret from John Murray.
Mr.Gifford's reply was as follows: "The delay and confusion which have arisen must be attributed to a want of confidential communication.

In a word, you have too many advisers, and I too many masters." At last the second number of the _Quarterly_ appeared, at the end of May instead of at the middle of April.

The new contributors to this number were Dr.D'Oyley, the Rev.Mr.Walpole, and George Canning, who, in conjunction with Sharon Turner, contributed the last article on Austrian State Papers.
As soon as the second number was published, Mr.Gifford, whose health was hardly equal to the constant strain of preparing and editing the successive numbers, hastened away, as was his custom, to the seaside.

He wrote to Mr.Murray from Ryde: _Mr.Gifford to John Murray_.
_June_ 18, 1809.
"I rejoice to hear of our success, and feel very anxious to carry it further.