ABSTRACT
The BRITISH REVIEW (1811–1825) was a quarterly published by John Hatchard (who also published the monthly Christian Observer) and edited until 1822 by William Roberts. It supported the Evangelical wing of the Church of England and was patriotic and moralistic, urging reformation of all British institutions by moral regeneration of the clergy and the ruling classes. Its audience — so far as it had one — was obviously middleclass. Roberts himself, who wrote the reviews of Byron’s works, appears to have been a self-satisfied, humorless pedant, who allowed his journalistic career to be destroyed by his reaction to some lines in Byron’s Don Juan (I, 1671–1680) beginning:
