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peor despicable scullions leaTn to cry Hig% Church ! No 

 Dutch kings I No Hanover ! that they may do it dexter- 

 ously when they come into the next mob. Here tlieir 

 antagonists of the dripping-pan practise the other-side 

 clamour, No French Peace! No Pretender! No Popery! 

 Up stairs the 'prentices, standing some on one side of the 

 shop and some on the other, throw High Church and Low 

 Church at each other's heads, like battledore and shuttle- 

 cock; and, instead of posting their books, are fighting 

 and railing at the Pretender and the House of Hanover. 

 If we go one story higher, the ladies, instead of their in- 

 nocent sports and diversions, are falling out amongst each 

 other ; the mothers and the daughters, the children and 

 the servants, nay, even the little sisters. If the chamber- 

 maid is a slattern, and does not please, I warrant she is a 

 High-Flyer or a Whig : I never knew one of that sort 

 good for anything in my life Xay, go up to your very 

 bed-chambers, and even in bed the man and wife shall 

 quarrel about it. People! people! what will become of 

 you at this rate ? " * 



The periodical literature of Queen Anne's reign 

 is very remarkable, and deserves the careful atten- 

 tion of all inquirers into the history of English 

 party. 



In the early part of this reign the most remark- 

 able periodicals are, The Observator, of which the 

 first Number was published April 1, 1702, con- 

 ducted by John Tutchin, a Whig and Low 

 Churchman. — The Review, which commenced 

 February 19, 1704, conducted by De Foe, who 

 comes under the same classification, but, like 

 Henry of the Wynd, generally fought for his 

 own band, and occupied that anomalous position 

 ascribed by tradition to Mahomet's tomb, and as- 

 sumed in our own times by Dr. Arnold. This 

 periodical was continued until May, 1713, when 

 it was finally relinquished, after a steady publi- 

 cation of more than nine years. A copy of the 

 last volume of this work is not known to be in 

 existence. (See Wilson, vol. iii. p. 295.) — The 

 remaining periodical of this period of any note is 

 The Rehearsal, conducted by the High-Church 

 champion, Charles Leslie. It commenced Aug. 2, 

 1704, and was discontinued at the end of March, 

 1709. Another writer revived it shortly after, 

 bat it soon fell to the ground. The Rehearsal 

 was published in folio, and was reprinted in 6 vols. 

 12mo. in 1750. 



In the succeeding reign also the most remark- 

 able party periodicals are three in number, I'he 

 Sco7irge, The Entertainer, and The Independent 

 Whig. 



The Scourge, in vindication of the Church of 

 England, was edited by Thomas Lewis, and con- 

 tains forty-three Numbers, 8vo., commencing 

 with February 4, 1717, and ending Novem- 

 ber 25, 1717. It was reprinted in a handsome 

 8vo. vol. in 1720, with a rubricated title-page 

 and a frontispiece, containing in five medallion 



* From De Foe's ironical Reasons against the Succession 



6f the House of Hanover "Si Populus vult decipi 



(iecipiatur : " London, 1713, pp. 45. 



portraits the royal family of the Stuarts. The 

 title runs thus : 



" The Scourge : in Vindication of the Church of Eng- 

 land. To which are added, 1. The Danger of the Church 

 Establishment of England, from the Insolence of Pro- 

 testant Dissenters, occasioned by a Presentment of the 

 Forty-second Paper of the Scourge at the King's Bench 

 Bar, by the Grand Jury of the Hundred of Ossulston. 

 2. The Anatomy of the Heretical Synod of Dissenters at 

 Salters' Hall. By T. L. : London, printed in the year 

 M.DCCxx. Price six shillings, pp. 384." 



The latter tract has a curious frontispiece prefixed, 

 representing the Synod. 



The next on our list is — ■ 



" The Entertainer : containing Remarks upon Men, 

 Manners, Religion, and Policy ; to which is prefixt a 



Dedication to the most famous University of Oxford 



London, printed by N. Mist." 



It contains forty-three Numbers, from November 

 6, 1717, to August 27, 1718 ; pp. 307, 12mo. 



The Independent Whig I shall notice more par- 

 ticularly. It contains fifty-four Numbers, from 

 January 20, 1720, to January 18, 1721. In the 

 preface to the last edition the editor says : 



" To gratify the usual curiosity of readers I have, at 

 the end of each paper, put the initial letter of the name of 

 the gentleman Avho wrote it. As there were only three 

 gentlemen concerned in the undertaking, and as their 

 names are well known, it will be easy to distinguish them 

 by this mark." 



The initials appended are G., T., and C. The first 

 stands for Thomas Gordon ; the second for John 

 Trenchard : for the third initial I must make a 

 Query. 



The last edition (the eighth) was issued in 

 4 vols. 12mo. in 1752 ; but the original periodical 

 ends at p. 173. of the 2nd vol. The editor, Thomas 

 Gordon, has added the remaining pages himself. 

 The title of the 1st vol. is — 



" The Independent Whig ; or, a Defence of Primitive 

 Christianity, and of our Ecclesiastical Establishment, 

 against the exorbitant Claims and Encroachments of 

 Fanatical and Disaffected Clergymen. By Thomas Gor- 

 don, Esq. The eighth edition, with additions and amend- 

 ments, in 4 vols. : London, 1753." 



The 2nd vol. has the same title : the 3rd the 

 same, except that it is " the third edition." The 

 4th is entitled — 



" The Independent Whig : being a Collection of Papers, 

 all written, some of them published, during the late Re- 

 bellion. The second edition," 



After a scurrilous dedication follows " A Letter 

 to the Publisher," full of rancour against the 

 famous Bishop of Sodor and Man, Dr. Wilson, 

 with that prelate's " Bull against The Independent 

 Whig," and extolling that "honest and brave ma- 

 gistrate, the Governor of Man, Capt. Home," for 

 his conduct in the affair. 



The titles of some of the papers may serve to 

 give some idea of this work : 



"7. Of Uninterrupted Succession. 12. The Enmity of 

 the High Clergy to the Reformation, and their Arts to 



