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FJ.782.029
10 Apr 1782:23, 31 (51)
Mr. Printer, The Freeman's Journal has given a great alarm
to all the Tories and to such Whigs as are of Tory
principles. . . [10 lines] I think a certain flabbergasted
musician, the author of Calumniator, on Mr. Claypoole's
paper, has his eye upon this office, and, if cringing,
fawning, lying, flattering, fetching, and carrying of
scandal, with an admirable adroitness at reasoning with
great men a posteriori, can bring it about, he will
certainly succeed.
The author has the assurance to tell the world that he
has been an author in Grub street. This is not true: and he
may bless his stars that he has lived in a country where
bread is more easily procured than in England: for in Grub
street all his talents united (except that of fiddling)
would not have procured him four pence a week. Men of
twenty times his abilities have starved to death in Grub
street. . . [1/2 column of invective]
But as the generous donor and fiddling suppliant, from
local circumstances, can only make and enjoy a temporary
appointment, let us, for the present, take a view of the
latter, in his official habiliments, and see his supercilius
exultation, when the trembling printer, advancing to him
with his cap in one hand, and his proof sheet in the other,
snuffles out, --Please your honor, or your reverence. . .
[32 more lines, signed] A Hater of Sycophants.
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