ABSTRACT
SIR, I have read, with the Detestation it deserves, an infamous Paper call’d the Grubstreet Journal:2 A Paper written by a Set of obscure Scriblers in the true Style and Spirit of Billingsgate, without either Learning, Wit, Decency, or often common Sense, and design’d to vilify and defame the Writings of every Author, except a few, whose Reputation is already too well establish’d for their Attacks, the Characters of whom they have, in the Opinion of all wise Men, blacken’d more with their Applause, than they have the others with their Censures.
