However, you suppose that they, at all events, returned me my Essay, as promised? Far from it! In violation of all honour, and of the written engagements of their Secretary, they have detained it ever since in their hands, thereby putting me to the vast expense of procuring new plates, instead of those which the original contained--an inconvenience, I must affirm, which they had hoped I could never have surmounted; while, in the interim, they should push out their _bantling_ upon the public, secure in the consciousness of having cushioned my work, that they should ride over the market without a rival. They should have known, however, that the person who, at _three months’ notice_, undertook to solve the Towers, and then kept them at bay for six months before they could chouse him out of his prize, was not to be deterred by such an obstacle as the above. And the reader may be satisfied that, though it has occasioned _me_ some hardship, _he is in no respect thereby a loser_. I have stated that the effect of my Letter No. 1 was to interrupt the transmission of the _Dublin Penny Journal_ to London. I have now to point out the result of the menace conveyed in Letter 8 of my determining to expose--as I enclosed the proofs that I could refute--the _antiquarian errors_ of their organ. It was that they _instantly took the hint, and sold their interest in the concern_! And its new proprietor, edified no doubt by a friendly lesson at their hands, very wisely intimates, in his opening number, that he shall forego _antiquities_, and make literary _jobbing_ no part of it. Here are his words: “From the concluding paragraph of the last number of this little publication, its readers will be aware that it is now in the hands of a new editor and proprietor, and they will naturally expect that in the present number something should be said relative to its future management. ‘Deeds, not words,’ has ever been the motto of its (present) conductor, and he will therefore merely say that it is his intention to give his readers good value for their money; that the _Dublin Penny Journal_ shall not be a mere ‘catchpenny,’ depending upon the number and excellence of its woodcuts for extensive circulation, but containing, as he considers a publication of the kind should do, such a variety of interesting and useful matter as shall render it really valuable. In future, therefore, while the _antiquities_ of the country will not be neglected, the work shall exhibit a more _general character in the subjects of its contents_.”[40] * * * * *