ABSTRACT
The SCOURGE; or, Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly (1811-1816) was, both in its name and tone and in its history, intimately related to the Satirist (q.v.). W. N. Jones, who had been the publisher of volume VI of the Satirist (1810), began publishing the Scourge in 1811. Hewson Clarke, who had written severe reviews of Byron’s earliest poetry and a poetic lampoon on Byron for the Satirist, became editor of the Scourge, and when in March 1811 he wrote an article attacking Byron for the treatment he received in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, Byron attempted to sue him for libel (see Byron, Letters and Journals, ed. R. E. Prothero, 1902, I, 321-323). In 1814 the Scourge changed its subtitle to the milder Literary, Theatrical, and Miscellaneous Magazine and, finally, its title to Scourge and Satirist; or, Literary, Theatrical, and Miscellaneous Magazine. Like the Satirist (which had expired in 1814), the Scourge contained political cartoons by George Cruikshank.
