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... the brainchild of Sir Charles Hanbury Williams. The New Foundling Hospital for Wit starts off with his poem, “Isabella,” which stands up well beside Rape of the Lock. A vehicle for John Wilkes and his radical bookseller John Almon, this later miscellany offered up the most audacious satires and politicized...

... quality. Sloane’s natural history and curiosity collections, and the activity of collecting itself, appeared ceaseless, and Sloane insatiable. The satirist, dip- lomat, and sometime patient of Sloane, Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, gently ridicules this in his ode “To Sir Hans Sloane, Who saved...

...: the jostling for position following the fall of Robert Walpole. As Don Nichols discusses elsewhere in this issue, the miscellany was associ- ated with Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, Henry Fielding, Henry Fox, George Lyttleton, and William Pitt the Elder, and had a strongly Oppo- Censorship...