A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
        Letters 1813
        Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 29 November 1813
        
        
          
        
        
          
        
       
      
      
      
      
     
     
    
    
      November 29th, 1813. 
       My dear Murray, 
     
    
     I am sorry the editors of the Review should so construe my article as to
                                    suppose it inimical to the free ![]()
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 circulation of the
                                    Scriptures. I do not dissuade anybody from circulating the Scriptures; but
                                    merely say to a particular body of men, “You are bound in consistency
                                        to circulate the Scriptures with the Prayerbook, in preference to any other
                                        method.” Nothing can be more ridiculous than the whole contest;
                                    but as it exists, I thought it right to notice it. Pray regulate the pecuniary
                                    concerns of the Review as you think best, and I shall be obliged to you to
                                    return my review when you have an opportunity of procuring a frank. 
    
     I am ashamed to say I have not read Brougham’s article upon education; but I stated my
                                    argument to him in the summer, and he completely acquiesced in it. 
    
     I remain, dear Murray, in haste,
                                    yours very truly, 
    
    
    Henry Peter Brougham, first baron Brougham and Vaux  (1778-1868)  
                  Educated at Edinburgh University, he was a founder of the 
Edinburgh
                            Review in which he chastised Byron's 
Hours of Idleness; he
                        defended Queen Caroline in her trial for adultery (1820), established the London University
                        (1828), and was appointed lord chancellor (1830).