Although, after he was called to the Bar, Fielding practically relinquished periodical literature, he does not seem to have entirely desisted from writing. In Sylvanus Urban's Register of Books, published during January 1741, is advertised the poem _Of True Greatness_ afterwards included in the _Miscellanies_; and the same authority announces the _Vernoniad_, an anonymous burlesque Epic prompted by Admiral Vernon's popular expedition against Porto Bello in 1739, "with six Ships only." That Fielding was the author of the latter is sufficiently proved by his order to Mr. Nourse (printed in Roscoe's edition), to deliver fifty copies to Mr. Chappel. Another sixpenny pamphlet, entitled _The Opposition, a Vision_, issued in December of the same year, is enumerated by him, in the Preface to the _Miscellanies_, among the few works he had published "since the End of _June_ 1741;" and, provided it can be placed before this date, he may be credited with a political sermon called the _Crisis_ (1741), which is ascribed to him upon the authority of a writer in Nichols's _Anecdotes_. He may also, before "the End of _June_ 1741," have written other things; but it is clear from his _Caveat_ in the above-mentioned "Preface," together with his complaint that "he had been very unjustly censured, as well on account of what he had not writ, as for what he had," that much more has been laid to his charge than he ever deserved. Among ascriptions of this kind may be mentioned the curious _Apology for the Life of Mr. The' Cibber, Comedian_, 1740, which is described on its title-page as a proper sequel to the autobiography of the Laureate, in whose "style and manner" it is said to be written. But, although this performance is evidently the work of some one well acquainted with the dramatic annals of the day, it is more than doubtful whether Fielding had any hand or part in it. Indeed, his own statement that "he never was, nor would be the Author of _anonymous_ Scandal [the italics are ours] on the private History or Family of any Person whatever," should be regarded as conclusive.