A letter to the Episcope goes by this post.

I wish you would bring Henry Taylor & John Coleridge together, & I have told J.C. so.

They ought to know each other, on the score of the Q.R, & will do it better thro you than by a dry introduction at Murrays, or one of his crowded dinners. Henry Taylor is at present a writer who has a great deal of power & all good materials in him; & his official situation is such that he is in a fair – I may say a sure way, of becoming a very considerable person. I have a great liking for him, & great hopes of him. – There was an article in the Courier

by him (which I have not seen) in reply to that atrocious & beastly libel in the M Chronicle.

That libel I have referred to Turner, to deal with, or leave alone as he may deem expedient; but if our laws are good for anything, I think he will notice it, in the only way which it ought to be noticed by prosecuting a paper villainous enough to publish it.

My letter has been inserted in Blackwoods Magazine with an introduction in the true Blackwood style, bepraising both Byron & me, talking nonsense about both, & praising the composition of the letter as a masterpiece in its kind.

The remarkable thing in this, is the forwardness with which that Magazine is got ready, & the promptude with which it is carried. My letter was published on the 13^th

it could not reach Edinburgh till the 16^th, – it is not the last article in the Magazine which is not to be published till New Years day, yet the Magazine is printed, sent to London for Francis Freelings frank, & reaches me by that account on the 23^d. The Scotch manage these things better than their neighbours.