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before  he  became  a  journalist,  and  had  caused  Pope  to
exclaim —

Silence,  ye  wolves,  while  Ralph  to  Cynthia  howls,
And  makes  night  hideous.     Answer  him,  ye  owls.^

He  was  put  to  edit  '  The  Remembrancer '  as  an  organ
of  the  Prince  of  Wales  in  1749,  with  money  found  by
Bubb  Dodington  and  others.  According  to  Dodington,
to  whom  he  acted  for  some  time  as  a  sort  of  private
secretary,  he  was  '  a  very  honest  man,'  but  '  ready  to
be  hired  to  any  cause '  ;  and  in  the  course  of  his  career
as  a  scheming  intermediary  between  rival  plotters  '  he
actually  put  himself  to  auction  between  the  two  con-
tending parties — the  Bedfords  and  Pelhams — and,  after
several  biddings,  was  bought  by  the  Pelhams.'  ^  He
died,  poor  and  disgraced,  m  1762.
