Excerpt from Letter to Francis Jeffray, Esq. On Certain Calumnies and Misrepresentations in the Edinburgh Review: The Conduct of Certain Individuals, on the Night of Mr. Thelwall's Probationary Lecture, at Bernard's Rooms, Edinburgh; And the Ignorance of the New Critical Junto of the Simplest Elements of English Composition and English Grammar, With and Appendix, Con
Literary 'journals have not always been ve ry 'candid', or very impartial 3-3-for they are the productions of Men, whohave their prejudice: and of Proprietors, who have their interertr yet they have, hitherto, been conducted with' some regard to decency and decorum. They have been con ducted,also,with a degree of secrecy-which, though it 'she'lters the uncandid from responsibility, is in finitely preferable to the ostentatious profligacy that flames forth in the Edinburgh Review.
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