"As for the living in London, I would make that not difficult to
you (if you would allow me), until we could see whether one means
or other (the success of the plan, for instance) would not make it
quite easy for you, as well as your family; and, in any case, we
should have some fun, composing, correcting, supposing, inspecting,
and supping together over our lucubrations. If you think this worth
a thought, let me know, and I will begin to lay in a small literary
capital of composition for the occasion.

"Yours ever affectionately,

"B.

"P.S. If you thought of a middle plan between a _Spectator_ and a
newspaper, why not?--only not on a _Sunday_. Not that Sunday is not
an excellent day, but it is engaged already. We will call it the
'Tenda Rossa,' the name Tassoni gave an answer of his in a
controversy, in allusion to the delicate hint of Timour the Lame,
to his enemies, by a 'Tenda' of that colour, before he gave battle.
Or we will call it 'Gli,' or 'I Carbonari,' if it so please you--or
any other name full of 'pastime and prodigality,' which you may
prefer. Let me have an answer. I conclude poetically, with the
bellman, 'A merry Christmas to you!'"

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The year 1820 was an era signalised, as will be remembered, by the many
efforts of the revolutionary spirit which, at that time, broke forth,
like ill-suppressed fire, throughout the greater part of the South of