But as this implied the expectation of a favour from him in return, the proposal was rejected; and, determined not to be baffled, he employed special couriers, at great cost, for the purpose of obtaining the earliest transmission of foreign intelligence.
These important qualities--enterprise, energy, business tact, and public spirit--sufficiently account for his remarkable success.

To these, however, must be added another of no small importance--discernment and knowledge of character.

Though himself the head and front of his enterprise, it was necessary that he should secure the services and co-operation of men of first-rate ability; and in the selection of such men his judgment was almost unerring.

By his discernment and munificence, he collected round him some of the ablest writers of the age.

These were frequently revealed to him in the communications of correspondents--the author of the letters signed "Vetus" being thus selected to write in the leading columns of the Paper.