I have not during this Session been able to send a single line to the Edinburgh Review; and, if I had been out of office, I should have been able to do very little.

Edward Bulwer has just given up the New Monthly Magazine on the ground that he cannot conduct it, and attend to his Parliamentary duties.

Cobbett has been compelled to neglect his Register so much that its sale has fallen almost to nothing.

Now, in order to live like a gentleman, it would be necessary for me to write, not as I have done hitherto, but regularly, and even daily.

I have never made more than two hundred a year by my pen.