One of the unfortunate results of the initiation and publication of the Representative was that it disturbed the friendship which had so long existed between Mr. Murray and Mr. Isaac D’Israeli.  The real cause of Benjamin’s sudden dissociation from an enterprise of which in its earlier stages he had been the moving spirit, can only be matter of conjecture.  The only mention of his name in the later correspondence regarding the newspaper occurs in the following letter: 

Mr. Lockhart to John Murray.

THURSDAY, February 14, 1826.

I think Mr. B. Disraeli ought to tell you what it is that he wishes to say to Mr. Croker on a business of yours ere he asks of you a letter to the Secretary.  If there really be something worth saying, I certainly know nobody that would say it better, but I confess I think, all things considered, you have no need of anybody to come between you and Mr. Croker.  What can it be?

Yours,

J.G.L.

But after the Representative, had ceased to be published, the elder D’Israeli thought he had a cause of quarrel with Mr. Murray, and proposed to publish a pamphlet on the subject.  The matter was brought under the notice of Mr. Sharon Turner, the historian and solicitor, and the friend of both.  Mr. Turner strongly advised Mr. Isaac D’Israeli to abstain from issuing any such publication.

Mr. Sharon Turner to Mr. D’Israeli.

October 6, 1826.

“Fame is pleasant, if it arise from what will give credit or do good.  But to make oneself notorious only to be the football of all the dinner-tables, tea-tables, and gossiping visits of the country, will be so great a weakness, that until I see you actually committing yourself to it, I shall not believe that you, at an age like my own, can wilfully and deliberately do anything that will bring the evil on you.  Therefore I earnestly advise that whatever has passed be left as it is....  If you give it any further publicity, you will, I think, cast a shade over a name that at present stands quite fair before the public eye.  And nothing can dim it to you that will not injure all who belong to you.  Therefore, as I have said to Murray, I say to you:  Let Oblivion absorb the whole question as soon as possible, and do not stir a step to rescue it from her salutary power....  If I did not gee your words before me, I could not have supposed that after your experience of these things and of the world, you could deliberately intend to write—­that is, to publish in print—­anything on the differences between you, Murray, and the Representative, and your son....  If you do, Murray will be driven to answer.  To him the worst that can befall will be the public smile that he could have embarked in a speculation that has cost him many thousand pounds, and a criticism on what led to it....  The public know it, and talk as they please about it, but in a short time will say no more upon it.  It is