Country Journal Or The Craftsman (Newspaper) - October 21, 1827, London, Middlesex The COUN T R Y * THE C R A FT S M % CALEB of October 21. 1727. ex Metello BeLique & vitia Qp v Arma plenum opus Alex & incedis per Cineri 7H0R. Caleb Have often wondered that a Man of your advanced and recline Manner of Life chufe to undertake fo and dangerous a Province as that of a political Writer of a Weekly for the Pretence of publick and the Love of Country you may be in either it will not be in this corrupt if it is will be the Mark of Fanatical Truth of this by that the upright the and the Regard to joined Zeal for their and ill not been able to from the and ill Ufage of chief Strength is known to lye in and It is merry enough to what Pains are in Defiance of and common to your Words a bad your Writings are every put she and tortured into contrary their obvious in my humble not all for Credit in Caufe Interpreters are If you think fit to oblige us on any moral or fecial there is airways to be fome mult Satire contained in If you chufe to entertain out of with the Practices said Fallot an md. officious Wretches are never at Eafe till They nave jutted the Cap to 1 I have 1 heard the Great Perfins mentioned on whom I knew to be very unlike antient and I am inclined by or ever came into your you were As all of Fate of l wicked been be invidious Parallels fo your panegyrical of the tues and Abilities of good Ones is fet by Method of as an artful or Innuendo fome modern Men in wanting the fame if you directly apply your Encomiums to in the the Gafe will be the notwithstanding all your the Strokes of your Pen will be 6v Nor will you find the Matter much by defending from and contenting felf with telling a fimple Story of a a fancy or a dirty for ten to if fome of ingenious of will not be with the Appearances cf do not find out fome dangerous Meaning at the and three plain menial Servants into as many prime Officers of you muft expect to be even for your Dreams and the incoherent Productions of or for Dreams are proceed from a Man's waking fo the former may be as as the and will certainly come under the fame S Then as to Foreign what a Task have undertaken at this nice and critical when it is for any Man to with provable is tire dangerous to be Indeed you feem have hitherto been remarkably happy in your Accounts under this and to have avoided the and repeated of of fome other I what hath all this Hath it the Mouth of or blunted the Edge of Detraction you are of the It is not for you to adhere ly to truth or the befi Information you cart gain nor in cafes of to verbatim out of Papers of the which cannot be to give unfavourable for there will be found out in the manner of your Printing either in the nature of the Type or the method of to | of and Invective to who have contracted fuch an incurable Antipathy to your Writings what I that I whether you will be in a little to give us an Account that his hath loft a or John hath cut his without incurring the Imputation of ironies and Your Account of Home News one would have the which hath been fixed on the other parts of your contains only the common Tittle-Tattle of the inch as Ship Prizes of Stocks fine Shews and Turns at yet you have been remarkably unhappy in if you giva us an account of a Duel or a common it is immediately to in Sin allegorical a fome Great I crying Complaints made your Paper for only mentioning at fuch a there would be a Ball or an it was publickly known to be as containing an ( Price ation of the Corruption and Immorality of the In like your account of Preferments hath been faid to be with a of contents with matter of Complaint and as your weekly Lift of Bankrupts is faid to in to depreciate the Publick 1 was very gravely what you could mean by in one of your that a wai broke out the Directors of a Great Company but this heard a Gentleman with great that the in your laft Saturday's relating to the of Breads was intended as a Reflection a certain Great Man in the Nay even your in are reckoned the Reading in have to the fame that you cannot give publick notice where a common Book is to be or a common without of having it by into Sedition or I am to fend you this ungrateful which the force of. Sincerity extorted being as great a of 7 tery as your However j as the far greater Num 4 her of your Readers perhaps the judge in a different I hope you will not it fo much to Heart as your Writings Since I am upon this it cannot be improper tqY take of fome other remarkable Particulars in the Conduct of your Ad I have been often exceedingly diverted with of various which from Time to been vented by of your with one and often with One all the cold Wit He is Mafler to you as a meer a poor fo deficient in or or and fo void of Truth or that your own Writings carry an Antidote along them j at the fame that he thinks fit his own dull the World under the reputed Credit of your and the Appearance of Writing on the fame fide of which feemS to be a that he doth not think on its own Another comes the in a complaining of a dangerous being carried under artful calling upon the faular Arm to put immediate upon left you turn the whole .It is worth how are in Contempt and foul you by Per is known to be their It is not to be wondered be angry who in their and have not