This supposed Woollen Draper, who seems to be well acquainted with the subject he treats, endeavours to shew his fellow tradesmen the very great injuries to which the woollen trade is exposed, by the commercial treaty, lately signed at Paris.... In his own style, the sample, which he hath here offered to the Public, is well wrought, and of a good fabric (_The Monthly Review_, LXXVI, 1787, 71). xv The People’s Answer to the Court Pamphlet: Entitled A Short Review of the Political State of Great Britain. Quid prius dicam solitis Parentis Laudibus?⸺Printed for J. Debrett, opposite Burlington-house Piccadilly. MDCCLXXXVII. 8vo. P. [i], half-title, verso blank; p. [iii], title, verso blank; pp. [1]-50, text; pp. [51-52], blank. Copies: HC, NYP, WLC. Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Editions, Debrett, 1787. Dublin: White, Byrne, Moore, and Jones, 1787. This tract is here first assigned to Tickell. His letter to Parr of 20 February [1787], mentioned in the preceding entry, begins: From some enquiries in your letter to Mrs. Sheridan, I believe you thought it was right to answer _the Political Review_. I mean the pamphlet that traduced the Prince of Wales and every one else except Hastings. I now send you the answer I gave it, because, as you thought it right it should be answered, you will excuse faults in a paper written in a hurry (Parr, _Works_, VIII, 131). The pamphlet to which Tickell refers is _A Short Review of the Political State of Great-Britain at the Commencement of the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Seven_, Debrett, 1787, a collection of political portraits and cursory observations as thin in substance as they are florid in style. Its authorship was acknowledged in the _Posthumous Memoirs_, 1836, of Sir Nathaniel Wraxall, who told there of its immense success upon publication: it ran through six editions in the last ten days of January, sold 17,000 copies, and elicited a half-dozen replies within a month (_Historical and Posthumous Memoirs_, 1884, IV, 372-375). _The People’s Answer_ was written from Tickell’s precise political position at this time and displays his characteristic style. Beginning in his usual brisk and pointed manner, Tickell suggests that the celebrity of the _Short Review_ is due largely to such a total want of polite wit among the supporters of Administration “that even a Charade from one of the _King’s Friends_ would excite ... admiration.” The author has provided “the dull desponding train of an unlettered Court” with a sort of handy manual for the Levee ..., lightly touching on the topicks most in vogue, and sketching out handy sentences for the Lords of the Bedchamber to retail, or the Maids of Honour to scribble on their fans.