Note 411 — Chapter XVI · ON THE STATE OF THE CONSTITUTION IN THE REIGNS OF ANNE, GEORGE I., AND GEORGE II. (continued 2)

Bolingbroke's letter to the Examiner, in 1710, excited so much attention that it was answered by Lord Cowper, then chancellor, in a letter to the Tatler (Somers Tracts, xiii. 75), where Sir Walter Scott justly observes, that the fact of two such statesmen becoming the correspondents of periodical publications shows the influence they must have acquired over the public mind.