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JOURNALIST AND PRINTER. 211 business is publick, and my writings as well as principles counter to theirs, I am continually binding over and pro- secuting by juries. And thus stand 1, the Butt of Factious Hate, but Immobile Saxum (I) 1 This is rather like Pott's declaration to Mr. Pickwick : The contest shall be prolonged so long as I have health and strength and that portion of talent with which 1 am gifted. From that contest, sir, although it may unsettle men's minds and excite their feelings and render them incapable for the discharge of the everyday duties of ordinary life ; from that contest, sir, I will never shrink till I have set my foot upon the 'Eatanswill Independent.' Cross-Grove continues : I have sent you my last week's < Gazette,' together with one 1 printed on 29th January last [Charles 1. was beheaded on joth January, and Cross-Grove never forgot to celebrate the anniversary by a poem], for which I stood a severe shock from our glorious B. [Bishop Trimnell], and, though I was then censured for writing on that subject, I believe I shall not spare them an inch next time ; for I am not yet certain whether 'tis now a real crime to be loyal. Writing on aist March, 1714-15, Cross-Grove tells Strype of an election not unlike that of Eatanswill : The church interest is strangely thrown here, for the Whigs have carried their members, both for city and county ; and at the election of the latter they were so outrageously insulting that they drove the Church candi- dates off the hill with brickbats and stones, and had the 1 Copies of these letters are in the Cole MSS., vol. 5853 (Add.).