But, if any hankering remained with me for making
an experiment of something of that kind, it must have
been speedily put an end to, by the bad success and up-hill
work my son had met with on his journey, which soon after
took place, with a view of getting the accounts of former pe-
riodicals wound up ; and which, with the great trouble and
expence necessarily incurred, in collecting so many scattered
accounts, even in cases where they were well paid, may per-
haps be the best answer that can be given to my good friends,
the Messrs Chambers, when, in their Oazetteer of Scotland,
they surmise that such a work as the Cheap Magazine << might
surely be tried again, with better hopes of success than the
first,'' unless some method can be devised to ensure payments
with less expence and less risk, if not in advance, the practi-
cability of which I wish them much success in being able to
ascertain, in their widely extended experiment with the Jour-
nal. It may be sufficient for my purpose at present, to say.
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t}tat I see by my correspondence at that time, that my son
had a good deal of trouble with one individual, who was in-
debted, and in arrears, for these two small articles, the Ma-
gazine and the Monitor, to the amount of upwards of ^38,
the greater part of which I lie out of to this day, and now, in
consequence of the death of the party, I suppose, ever shall.
