Cumberland, Harry Dampier, Goodall, Hudderford, Knapp, MATHIAS, Mansell,
Wrangham, Stephen Weston, and many others, chiefly Etonians. George
Steevens, it is believed, fixed upon the real author at an early period:
at least in the _St. James's Chronicle_, from Tuesday, May 1. to
Thursday, May 3. 1798, we find--

"THE PURSUER OF LITERATURE PURSUED

"_Hic niger est_.

"With learned jargon and conceit,
With tongue as prompt to lie as
The veriest mountebank and cheat,
Steps forth the black ----.

"At first the world was all astounded,
Some said it was _Elias_;
But when the riddle was expounded,
'Twas little black ----.

"This labour'd work would seem the job
Of hundred-handed _Gyas_;
But proves to issue from the nob
Of little black ----.

"Through learned shoals of garbled Greek
We trace his favourite bias,
But when the malice comes to speak,
We recognise ----.