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pseud. of C. F. Lawler, fl. 1810; the most successful of his many verse
satires on the Prince Regent and other members of the Royal Family, all
running to many editions, The R-L blood, or An Illustrious Hen
and Her Pretty Chickens. DIW.
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Notes
Dictionary of National Biography, Peter Pindar, pseud., comm, John
Wolcot, 1738-1819, as follows, ‘..issued various satires on George
III from 1785, his only efficient opponent being William Gifford, who
attacked him severely in Anti-Jacobin; His last work was an Epistle
to the Emperor of China (1817), on the occasions of Lord Amherst’s
unfortunate embassy. I.e. If Lawler used the name, Wolcot assumed it or
resumed it. NOTE, Canning wrote for the Anti-Jacobin.
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