You will leave out some word or letter in your answer, and the ignorance of the cathedral clergy will be harped upon; you will make some small mistake, which will be a falsehood, or some admission, which will be self-condemnation; you will find yourself to have been vulgar, ill-tempered, irreverend, and illiterate, and the chances are ten to one, but that being a clergyman, you will have been guilty of blasphemy! A man may have the best of causes, the best of talents, and the best of tempers; he may write as well as Addison, or as strongly as Junius; but even with all this he cannot successfully answer, when attacked by _The Jupiter_.

In such matters it is omnipotent.

What the Czar is in Russia, or the mob in America, that _The Jupiter_ is in England.

Answer such an article! No, warden; whatever you do, don't do that.

We were to look for this sort of thing, you know; but we need not draw down on our heads more of it than is necessary." The article in _The Jupiter_, while it so greatly harassed our poor warden, was an immense triumph to some of the opposite party.