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 The malignancy of critics abuses his works, and the public most foolishly and unfortunately countenances all his detractors." "So they do," said Scribble, "they are all in a confederacy against me." "The public," observed Hamilton, "has acted extremely ungratefully to my friend here. If you were to collect all that his indefatigable activity has written, you would find it more than the labours of some of our ancient divines. Nay, I really do not believe, that Saint Cyril himself wrote more against the Nestorian heresy, though he contributed seven folio volumes to orthodoxy, than Mr. Scribble's reservoir of erudition has done to attack heretics in literature, who, as he observes, abound so much in the present day; and," continued our hero, "it is not on one subject, but on all that he writes; my friend here is not more meritorious for