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absent}) ‘couched in’ the following 
terms :— 
' Edinburgh ; Jan. 3, 1822. 
Sir,—We have your Ictter of the 22d 
inst. and beg ‘to decline duing what you 
wish as to the agency of your books. 
Were we inclined ‘to’ aid your views, we 
would not do s0, on accout of the un- 
founded, designing, and stupid, articles, 
that find, their,.way into your Magazine, 
“on the subject.of the Edinburgh Review, 
—a work which has done more for tite- 
#atnre, and the people in. general, than 
‘any other work, 
We are, sir, your most obedient, 
A. CONSTABLE and Co. 
—Soon after this curious epistle was 
written, a regular attack was.com- 
menced, in the language of low. scur- 
rility, in an auxiliary Magazine of the 
parties, in which the Monthly Maga- 
“ine and its editor were treated as'they 
used to be, some years since, in those 
Billingsgate: works—the Satirist. and 
the, Scourge,* As these missiles fell 
short of their object, the Review itself 
is now made, the direct vehicle ; and in 
a London article, in the last Review, 
‘# malicious .representation is intro- 
‘duced of the conduct.and character of 
this Miscellany; in which a pretended 
comparison is.set up. between the 
Monthly Magazine and some works of 
mere. wiap-syllabub, which have been 
opposed to it, and which doubtless 
suit the taste of the writer, who hap- 
pens not to be unknown tous. His 
frothy communications have been re- 
fused admission into our pages; and 
he is known to get his daily bread by 
wriling ip the two works which he 
has praised, and in the weekly news- 
paper which he asserts is the best in 
Loudon. In a word, wo shall be 
among the foremost, to hail the period 
* Ini reply to.a remonstrance of ours on 
these follies, Mr. Constable, iv a letter 
dated Dee. 27, 1822, observes, “The 
Monthly Magazine ‘has always been a 
great favourite of mine; and even now, in 
@pite of all contending opposition, still 
maintains its own rank in utility. How- 
ever, 1 think you have sometimes attacked 
the Edinburgh, Review in the Monthly 
Magazine, and 1.do not mean to approve 
of this in-estimating the character of your 
avork 5 yet, on the, whole, L have always 
considered it excellent, as preserving a 
vast mass of asefu) information.”—Of the 
Hioral and intel ctual qualities of Mr. 
Constable, we eritertain the highest opi- 
vion, and think he has done more to raise 
the character of Scottish literature than 
any man that ever preceded Lim. 
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whén the Edinburgh Review has be- 
come more settled and more firm in 
its principles, and when it improves in 
the energy and originality of its com- 
positions ; and we hope this concession 
on our parts will be received by its 
conductors and proprietors as an olive- 
branch of peave. 
A new edition is in preparation of 
W AtKINs’s Portable Cyclopedia. This 
-edilion will be greatly enlarged, and 
will be embellished with nearly 1000 
engraved illustrations, so as to render 
it a perfect book of réference on every 
subject of a scientific character. 
A second and very improved cdition 
of Guzman d’Alfarache, or the Spanish 
Rogue, translated by J. H. Brapy, is 
ready for publicatiou. 
The length of streets now lighted 
with gas in London extends over 215 
miles; the main pipes belonging to the 
four Gas Light Companics in, London 
reaching to this almost incredible 
distance, from which ramify the 
smaller pipes convcying the light to 
shops, alleys, and private dwellings, 
and which may be calculated at a 
distance greater than the length of the 
mains. 1. The London ‘Gas Light 
Company have their works in Peter- 
strect, Westminster, Brick-lanc, and 
Curtain-road ; they supply 125 miles of 
main pipes, and consume aunually 
20,678 chaldrons of coals: thiscompany 
lights 27,635 lamps. 2. The City Gas 
Light Company, in Dorset-street, sup- 
ply fifty miles of main: they consume 
8840 chaldron of coals annually, and 
light 7836 lamps. 3. The South Lou+ 
dou Company, at Bankside, supply 
near forty miles of mains, consume 
3640 chaldrons of coals, and light 4038 
public lamps. 4. The Imperial Gas 
Light Company, in Hackncy-road, is 
recently established. 
A Critical Analysis of the Rev. E. 
Trvine’s Orations and Arguments, &e. 
is preparing for publication, inter- 
spersed with remarks on the composi- 
tion of a sermon, by Philonous. 
The death of Mr. Bent has afforded 
an opening for the publication of a 
New Literary Advertiser, to be conti- 
nued on the first Wednesday in every 
month. It is to be confined exclu- 
sively to books and works connected 
with literature: copious literary no- 
tices will be given, and the earliest 
intelligence procured, of works about 
to be published. 
Suggestions on Christian Education, 
&c, accompanied by twe biographical 
sketches, 
