less--weekly, or so, with some improvement or modifications upon
the plan of the present scoundrels, who degrade that
department,--but a _newspaper_, which we will edite in due form,
and, nevertheless, with some attention.

"There must always be in it a piece of poesy from one or other of
us _two_, leaving room, however, for such dilettanti rhymers as may
be deemed worthy of appearing in the same column; but _this_ must
be a _sine quâ non_; and also as much prose as we can compass. We
will take an _office_--our names _not_ announced, but
suspected--and, by the blessing of Providence, give the age some
new lights upon policy, poesy, biography, criticism, morality,
theology, and all other _ism_, _ality_, and _ology_ whatsoever.

"Why, man, if we were to take to this in good earnest, your debts
would be paid off in a twelvemonth, and by dint of a little
diligence and practice, I doubt not that we could distance the
common-place blackguards, who have so long disgraced common sense
and the common reader. They have no merit but practice and
impudence, both of which we may acquire; and, as for talent and
culture, the devil's in't if such proofs as we have given of both
can't furnish out something better than the 'funeral baked meats'
which have coldly set forth the breakfast table of all Great
Britain for so many years. Now, what think you? Let me know; and
recollect that, if we take to such an enterprise, we must do so in
good earnest. Here is a hint,--do you make it a plan. We will
modify it into as literary and classical a concern as you please,
only let us put out our powers upon it, and it will most likely
succeed. But you must _live_ in London, and I also, to bring it to
bear, and _we must keep it a secret_.