Looking back across two centuries on to the supreme figures of Pope and Fielding, it is matter for some wonder that these giants of the intellect should have greatly troubled to annihilate a Colley Cibber. A finer villain, it seems to us, might have been chosen by Pope for the six hundred lines of his _Dunciad_ a worthier target might have drawn the arrows of Fielding's _Champion_. But Cibber possessed at least the art of arousing notable enmities; and the four slashing papers in which the _Champion_ [11] promptly parried the scurrilities of the _Apology_ still make pretty reading for those who are curious in the annals of literary warfare. It is noteworthy that these _Champion_ retorts are honourably free from the personalities of an age incredibly gross in the use of personal invective. Fielding's journal, even under the stinging provocation of the insults of the _Apology_, was still true to the standard set in the _Prologue_ of his first boyish play 'No private character these scenes expose.' It is Cibber's ignorance of grammar, his murder of the English tongue, his inflated literary conceit, rather than his 'private character' that are here exposed. Some time during the latter half of 1740 the whole feud between Cibber, Pope, Fielding and Ralph was reprinted in the shilling pamphlet, already referred to, entitled _The Tryal of Colley Cibber_. The collection concludes as follows: "ADVERTISEMENT "If the Ingenious _Henry Fielding_ Esq.; (Son of the Hon. Lieut. General _Fielding_, who upon his Return from his Travels entered Himself of the _Temple_ in order to study the Law, and married one of the pretty Miss _Cradocks_ of _Salisbury_) will _own_ himself the AUTHOR of 18 strange Things called Tragical _Comedies_ and Comical _Tragedies_, lately advertised by _J. Watts_, of _Wild-Court_, Printer, he shall be _mentioned_ in Capitals in the _Third_ edition of Mr CIBBER'S _Life_, and likewise be placed _among_ the _Poetae minores Dramatici_ of the Present Age; then will both his _Name and Writings be remembered on Record_ in the immortal _Poetical Register_ written by Mr Giles Jacob." The whole production affords a lively example of the full-blooded pamphleteering of 1740; and throws valuable light on Fielding's repute as the _Champion_.