[Mr. Huskisson’s ‘Resignation’]

First published Edinburgh Evening Post, presumably in the missing issue for 31 May 1828. Bodleian Library MS. Eng. Misc. d. 271. Printed from manuscript, Tave, pp. 349–56 (with attribution, pp. 356–7). The handwriting (in pencil, on white paper) is undoubtedly De Quincey’s. Other evidence includes the italicization of ‘that’, colloquialisms like ‘jib’, the Burkean discussion of parties and the constitution, and, most importantly, the allusion to De Quincey’s previous article ‘The Ministry’, in the Saturday Post of 26 January 1828 (Vol. 5, pp. 244–51), in terms of what ‘we said’. On the back of the second sheet of this manuscript, De Quincey has written:

Almost half as much more remains: this will be ready by 11 o’clock to-night; ‹this will› and M’ Abernathy can either send then, or as early to-morrow morn [in]⁸ as he chooses.

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