Makes some remarks concerning the management of controversies between the political writers. This he illustrates by two examples; by which he would intimate the spirit that animates and governs both parties. The first is a quotation of two severe personal characters, from a pamphlet entitled _Sedition and Defamation display’d, in a Letter to the Author of the Craftsman_. The other is some paragraphs attacking two characters on the opposite side, drawn from the Pamphlet call’d, _A proper reply to a late scurrilous libel intitled Sedition and Defamation display’d; in a Letter to the author, by Caleb D’anvers Esq;_ which four characters he supposes imaginary, for if they were real, no man of sense, honour, or honesty would espouse them. Weekly Register, _Jan. 9._ No. 39. The _Register_ publishes a mystical letter from a club of Gardners, wherein is figuratively describ’d the evils which the fraternity have occasionally suffer’d from the depredations _of Locusts_, _Palmer-worms_, _Caterpillars_, and other pestiferous vermin. Several discourses were made by the members concerning the Origin and Progress of these their common enemies. One of the company said, that the first appearance of them is in a sort of spawn, spread over the cabbage-leaves, which gradually rises into _Grubs_. This _Grubbean_ race, he reckons, are descendants of the _Egyptian Locusts_, and the _Palmer-worms_ and _Caterpillars_, a spurious offspring of the _Locusts_. Another of the society believes they are of an _English_ extraction; gives several significations of the word _Grub_, and then runs a parallel between the insects called _Grubs_, and the _Grubean Society, or Grubstreet Journalists_. To which he adds a remark, that ’tis something strange a body of Men should set themselves up to make a merit of other men’s faults: they must of course be despicable themselves, because they take a pleasure in making others appear so. Remembers that in the late wartime many postscripts to the _Flying-Posts_ were bawl’d about with abundance of news, but scarce a word of truth: So that paper gain’d the name of the _Lying Post_, and was called _Grub-street News_. And still it’s a common appellation, when we hear full and true accounts cry’d by our doors, _’tis Grubstreet, all Grubstreet_. Weekly Register, Jan. 16. No. 40. On _Ridicule_, address’d to the authors of the _Grubstreet-Journal_.