The _Epistle_ is a pleasing Horatian piece that makes good-natured fun of the Whig wits and politicians of Brooks’s Club. On John Townshend (1757-1833), later called Lord John, second son of the first Marquis Townshend, see W. P. Courtney, _Eight Friends of the Great_, 1910, pp. 172-183. Fox, in the country, is depicted urging on his pointers with “patriot names”: No servile ministerial runners they! Not RANGER then, but WASHINGTON, I cry; Hey on! PAUL JONES, re-echoes to the sky: Toho! old FRANKLIN—SILAS DEANE, take heed!— Cheer’d with the sound, o’er hills and dales they speed. But as he toils through fields of stubble he yearns for “The long lost pleasures of ST. JAMES’S STREET,” which are set forth by Tickell in graceful and glowing lines. The _Epistle_ was very highly praised by the reviewers and by others, but Horace Walpole, in a letter to Lady Ossory of 2 December 1779, recorded an acute dissent: “Towards the end there seems some very pretty lines; but, upon the whole, _à quoi bon? à quel propos?_ I believe it was meant for a satire, but the author winked, and it flashed in the pan (_Letters_, ed. Toynbee, XI, 74-75).” viii Common-Place Arguments against Administration, with Obvious Answers, (Intended for the Use of the New Parliament.) London: Printed for R. Faulder, New Bond Street. M DCC LXXX. 8vo. P. [i], half-title, verso blank; p. [iii], title, verso blank; pp. [v]-viii, “Advertisement”; pp. [an inserted leaf], “Contents”; pp. [9]-101, text; p. [102], blank. Copies: HC, NYP. Sabin #95794. Second, Third, and Fourth Editions, Faulder, 1780. Dublin: R. Marchbank, 1780; called “The Third Edition.” A transparent attempt to repeat the success of _Anticipation_, this satire was unanimously assigned to Tickell by the reviews and is clearly his. Opposition charges and ministerial replies are provided on such topics as “Best Officers drawn from the Service,” “The last Campaign, and State of the Nation,” and the like, together with a section of “Miscellaneous Eloquence, or, Collateral Rhetoric for the Gallery,” which contains the best mimicry the tract affords. The reviewers justly taxed Tickell with writing for hire and borrowing from himself. ix Select Songs of the Gentle Shepherd. As It Is Performed at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane London: Printed for T. Becket, Adelphi, Strand. M DCC LXXXI. [Price Six-pence.] 8vo. P. [1], title, verso blank; pp. [3]-19, text; p. [20], blank. Copy: HEH. There were no other issues.