Fror. he Lond9a Literary Gazette.


LIFE OF AN EDITOR.
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-Fhen there is another species OF
correspondents. who under the pretence OF
giving advice, are the most abomnable,
saucy, and impudcnt fellows in the world,
and who modcstly give their crude sngses-
tions as infalliblc maxims, which II you
do not obev, yon must lose their mualnabH
friendship and support. Thus. one will tell
you "your paper is insupportably dull ana
he cant read it unless it contains an account
of all the prize fights and other occurrences
in the sporting world" another declares
that IF you pollutc your columns with such
trash, he will cease to take your journal. =
One correspondent seems to think your pa
per of too literary cast, and wishes You to
give little more variety, and now and then
to pop in few remarkable and horrd acci-
nents-or a bloody murder; "thesc are the
things" says he, 'to make it SELL" a sec
ond says, that you "fll your paper with a
collection of stories only fit foF old women
and begs to have a luminous crltque on
the various works of taste and imagination
as they appear" Mr.. Dismal says, the
paper is 'ttoo dull;" whilst Miss Prude
thinks, "it has not sufficiently serious
turn" Miss Languish begs for ga little
more" and hopes whilst Farmer Giles
writes to You 'to leave out all that stuil OF
poetics, ant. put in more about the price OF
corn and such like" A sentimental young
lady, who signs herself Fnrtilla, begs that
yon "wil put in all love" whilst the maiden
aunt says "you ough. not to suffer the word
love to appear in print" Horace Gadabout
wishes YOU 40 be particular in giving spirit
cd and copious notices of the drama J"
whilst Mr. C4ntwcli desires, that his spa
per may be discontinued, unless you omit
all mcnton of such hcinous and abominable
proceedings" Thus every man wishes his
own particular taste to be gratified, without
any regard to his neighbours; and the on
ly way in which an editor can act, is to dis
regard all such partial solicitations, and tc
keep on the even tenor of his way; without
paying any respect 10 the confined views o
his correspondents.