It professed to be written by An Englishman at the Court of Hanover, which affords some ground, though it must be confessed slight, for supposing that Defoe had visited Hanover, presumably as the bearer of some of Harley's assurances of loyalty.

The _Seasonable Warning and Caution_ was circulated, Defoe himself tells us, in thousands among the poor people by several of his friends.

Here was a fact to which Harley could appeal as a circumstantial proof of his zeal in the Hanoverian cause.

Whether Defoe's Anti-Jacobite tracts really served his benefactor in this way, can only be matter of conjecture.

However that may be, they were upon the surface written in Harley's interest.