2<5o THE ESTABLISHMENT OF [1802. 



tion. The first two or three numbers were given 

 gratuitously, and neither the writers nor the editor 

 would receive any remuneration. Afterwards, as I 

 have before mentioned, for five or six years, the editor 

 had a salary of 300 a-year, and the writers received 

 ten guineas a-sheet of sixteen pages. These sums 

 were in the succeeding years raised, the editor to five 

 hundred, and the contributors to twenty; so that 

 upwards of ninety thousand pounds must have been 

 paid for the publication of this work. There may 

 have been occasionally some difference in the rate of 

 payment of different writers, though I have no reason 

 to believe in any such. But one rule was absolute 

 no one was allowed to refuse payment at the usual 

 rate. Professional men, or judges in the receipt of 

 the largest incomes, or private gentlemen Komilly, 

 Denman, Drummond, Aberdeen were as much re- 

 quired to receive their payment as any writer who 

 made letters his profession. 



It was one benefit conferred upon literature and 

 science, that men were led to work at the production 

 of dissertations, often of treatises, interesting and 

 popular in their composition, who might never have 

 otherwise engaged in such works. Men who would 

 not think of publishing a book, had a place ready to 

 receive their writings, and a place of respectability, in 

 which their works appeared in decent company. If 

 they desired concealment, their secret was inviolably 

 kept ; but so many were well known as members of 

 society, and mixing with it daily, that there was the 



