“I saw the article to which you allude, in the papers. There have been several others, all of them mutilated and imperfect, with a mixture of truth and falsehood. Yet they will so far be useful, as they will serve as a sort of advertisement of my book, and save me so much of expense; it will also serve as a justification of its being published, in order to correct the misrepresentations that have been made.
“Mr. Hobhouse,
one of Lord B.’s executors, has
written me a polite letter on the subject, to which I gave, I hope, a
satisfactory answer, explaining my object and views, and the nature of the
work. An Appendix will contain the correspondence with Lord
B. and others. The topics embraced are many, and those of the
most important and difficult kind. I have directed all my attention to these
subjects; and though some interest may be lost by delay, yet nothing shall
induce me to compromise myself by hastening on a crude and imperfect work on
such an occasion, and on such a subject. If
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