TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



THERE are many communications still remaining in the hands of the pub- 

 lisher ; and others will be forwarded by the fifth of the month. Those of our 

 correspondents who may not have received private communications by the date 

 specified, are requested to send to Messrs. Whittaker as soon afterwards as 

 may be convenient. 



To a correspondent who charges us with having changed our politics, and 

 with becoming "thorough-bred reformers," we beg to say one word. To the 

 accusation of being " reformers" in the farthest and fullest, though in an un- 

 revolutionary sense of the word we, without the slightest remorse or contrition, 

 plead guilty. But that we, as public writers, have " changed our politics/' is a 

 charge that results only from ignorance of a particular fact that the political 

 writers in the present volume of the " Monthly" are not the political writers in 

 the last volume. The Magazine has cast its Tory skin, we admit but this is 

 attributable to the circumstance, that a proprietor does not purchase principles 

 with a journal ; any more than our correspondent, if he wished to purchase a 

 house for his own occupation, would purchase one already inhabited by an 

 obstinate tenant and ten children. A man buys an estate, and plants it as he 

 pleases. The present proprietors of the " Monthly/' when they undertook the 

 management of it, never dreamed of carrying it on upon any but popular and 

 independent principles. They have simply possessed themselves of a fortress of 

 the enemy, and turned into a stronghold for the friends of Reform. They were 

 prepared for any misrepresentations they may have encountered, and are aware 

 of the risks they run in being honest and open in their measures. They did not 

 wheel round " bit by bit," but came at once to the point, and confessed, without 

 fear, for what party they intended to vote. 



Articles intended for insertion in the ensuing number must be forwarded by 

 the 10th of the month. 



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 only, and forwarded to Messrs. Whittaker, Ave-Miria-Lane. It is scarcely 

 necessary to say that no unpaid letter can be received. 



The writers of poems, and other short pieces, are requested to keep copies of 

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H. BAYLIS, JOHXSON'S-COIJIIT, FLEET -STREET. 



