“When I had the pleasure of meeting you sometime ago in the Argyle Booms, and complained to you of the treatment which I experienced from your friend, Mr. Jerdan, you said you thought he was right, and that in the same situation you should act in the same manner. Now as I shall ‘be glad to learn of abler men,’ I should esteem it a great favour if you would let me know upon what principle of morality and common justice, to say nothing of religion, you would justify such treatment, from one who is not the proprietor of a single share of the ‘Sun’ newspaper, to one who is the proprietor of nine-tenths,
“I beg leave to thank you for your recent critique on ‘Coriolanus;’ but I fear it is much too sublime and poetical for ordinary readers, and may be misconstrued into bombast and turgidity by the vulgar—‘Caviare to the million.’
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“I forgot, I fear, to tell you that I in vain attempted to obtain a written acknowledgment from Mr. Jerdan of your claim upon him for letters written from Paris, though, as I learned from you, he had repeatedly promised to give one. But this is one of the features of his conduct which shall be properly noticed in due time and place.
