Public dissatisfaction seems to have been expressed more forcibly against Curll than heretofore, and to have taken the form of a remonstrance to government, for he published _The Humble Representation of Edmund Curll, Bookseller and Citizen of London, containing Five Books complained of to the Secretary_. As the books were eminently of a nature requiring an apology, we cannot do more than give their titles: 1. _The Translation of Meibomius and Tractatus de Hermaphroditis_; 2. _Venus in the Cloister_; 3. _Ebrietatis Encomium_; 4. _Three New Poems, viz. Family Duty, The Curious Wife, and Buckingham House_; and 5. _De Secretis Mulierum_. At last the government did interfere, as we learn from a notice in _Boyer’s Political State_, Nov. 1725:-- “On Nov. 30, 1725, Curll, a bookseller in the Strand, was tried at the King’s Bench Bar, Westminster, and convicted of printing and publishing several obscene and immodest books, greatly tending to the corruption and depravation of manners, particularly one translated from a Latin treatise entitled _De Usu Flagrorum in Re Venereâ_; and another from a French book called _La Religieuse en Chemise_.” In the indictment Curll is thus accurately summed up: _homo iniquus et sceleratus ac nequiter machinans et intendens bonos mores subditorum hujus regni corrumpere et eos ad nequitiam inducere_; and in the _State Trials_ we read the following report of the sentence:-- “This Edmund Curll stood in the pillory at Charing Cross, but was not pelted or used ill; for being an artful, cunning (though wicked) fellow, he had contrived to have printed papers dispersed all about Charing Cross, telling the people how he stood there for vindicating the memory of Queen Anne.” It does, in fact, appear that he received three sentences at once, and that not until Feb. 12, 1728. For publishing the _Nun in her Smock_, and the treatise _De Usu Flagrorum_, he was sentenced to pay a fine of twenty-five marks each, and to enter into recognizances of £100 for his good behaviour for one year; but for publishing the _Memoirs of John Ker of Kersland, Esq._ (a political offence), he was fined twenty marks, and ordered to stand in the pillory for the space of one hour.[6] In 1729 Curll was again pilloried--this time by Pope in the _Dunciad_, in connection with Tonson and Lintot: “With authors, stationers obey’d the call (The field of glory is a field for all); Glory and gain th’ industrious tribe provoke, And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke; A poet’s form she placed before their eyes, And bade the nimblest racer seize the prize. * * * * * ----Lofty Lintot in the circle rose: ‘The Prize is mine, who ‘tempts it are my foes; With me began this genius, and shall end.’ He spoke, and who with Lintot shall contend?