Contributions to the Edinburgh Review (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review

I wrote the first article in the first Number of the Review in October 1802 z - end my lut'contribution to it, in October 1840! N is along period, to have persevered in - or in ill doing! But I was by no means equally alert tn the service during all the i mediate time. I was sole Editor, from 1803 It late in 1829; and during that period wasno doubt a large and regnlnrcontributor. In that last year however, [received the m or heingelected, bymybrethren or the Bar, to theofliceof Deanot' the Fe of catesz - When it immediately occurred to me that it was not quite fitting that the official head of a pest Law Corporation should continue to be the conductor of what might be fairly enough resented as, in many respects, a Part Journal: and I consequently withdrew ct once and together from the management - w 'eh has ever since been in such lands, as can have left those who take an interest in its success, no cause to t my retirement. But I should not have acted up to the spirit of this nation, nor {elm I had redo-med thepledgeot'neutmlitylmeanttogiveb it, it'i notatthesametim ceased to contribute to, or to concern mysel in an way, with the conduct or of the Review. I wrote nothing for it, according? For a considerable time ww: and during the whole fourteen years that ve since elapsed, have Four pers to that work-none of them on political subjects. Icessed, in reality to he s contri tor, in 1829.

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