I shall travel by the mail, and shall, instantly on arriving, go to the "Crown," hoping to find you and an imperial dinner.
By the bye, you had better, on your arrival, take places north and south for the following day.

In four or five hours after your receiving this, I expect to shake your princely paw.
Thine, J.B.
Scott also sent a note by the hand of Ballantyne to tell of his complete rupture with Constable owing to "Mr.Hunter's extreme incivility." As a result of these negotiations the Ballantynes were appointed publishers of the new Review in Edinburgh, and, with a view to a more central position, they took premises in South Hanover Street.

Scott wrote with reference to this: _Mr.Scott to John Murray_.
_February_, 1809.
I enclose the promised "Swift," and am now, I think, personally out of your debt, though I will endeavour to stop up gaps if I do not receive the contributions I expect from others.

Were I in the neighbourhood of your shop in London I could soon run up half a sheet of trifling articles with a page or two to each, but that is impossible here for lack of materials.
When the Ballantynes open shop you must take care to have them supplied with food for such a stop-gap sort of criticism.

I think we will never again feel the pressure we have had for this number; the harvest has literally been great and the labourers few.
Yours truly, W.S.
_Mr.James Ballantyne.