The following refers to the purchase of Mr.Miller's stock and the removal of Mr.Murray's business to Albemarle Street.
_John Murray to Mr.Constable_.
ALBEMARLE ST., _October_ 27, 1812.
"I do not see any existing reason why we, who have so long been so very intimate, should now be placed in a situation of negative hostility.

I am sure that we are well calculated to render to each other great services; you are the best judge whether your interests were ever before so well attended to as by me ...

The great connexion which I have for the last two years been maturing in Fleet Street I am now going to bring into action here; and it is not with any view to, or with any reliance upon, what Miller has done, but upon what I know I can do in such a situation, that I had long made up my mind to move.

It is no sudden thing, but one long matured; and it is only from the accident of Miller's moving that I have taken his house; so that the notions which, I am told, you entertain respecting my plans are totally outside the ideas upon which it was formed....

I repeat, it is in my power to do you many services; and, certainly, I have bought very largely of you, and you never of me; and you know very well that I will serve you heartily if I can deal with you confidentially." A truce was, for a time, made between the firms, but it proved hollow.
The never-ending imposition of accommodation bills sent for acceptance had now reached a point beyond endurance, having regard to Murray's credit.