I have no information how it was that Blackwood made acquaintance with Coleridge, or conceived the idea of turning him into a prop of the Magazine. Coleridge, one would have thought, had little reason, in the review of himself and his works with which the existence of that periodical had begun, to think very well of Blackwood; but whether the poet was so magnanimous as to have forgiven or—which was the more likely way — too dreamy to have remembered that assault upon him, it is certain that he lent a not unwilling ear to Blackwood's suggestion that he had but to call at the office of Messrs Cadell & Davies any day with a little roll of MS. in order to procure ten guineas, in whole or part payment, whenever he pleased and as often as he pleased. That this was not to be the limit of the offered price was implied, but it was a sort of retaining fee, and evidence of good faith. Coleridge was already at Highgate in the curious retirement in which the rest of his life was spent when this proposal reached him; but he was still comparatively a young man, and evidently felt himself quite able to enter into the arena of active life. There had also been in the meantime amende honorable fully made in the Magazine by a most admiring and genial review.