Anti-Jacobin

Anti-Jacobin A weekly journal which ran from November 1797 until July 1798. Its prospectus declared its prejudices in favour of the established institutions of church and state, and its satire was directed against British radicals— Paine, Godwin, Holcroft, Thelwall—and their Whig allies, with side-swipes at the Noble Savage, sensibility, and Gothick. Among its more memorable items is the denunciation of the Whig as ‘the friend of every country but his own’, and Canning's celebrated ‘The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder’.