A. Come, Come; 'Tis the Press that has made'um Mad, and the Press must set'um Right again. The Distemper is Epidemical; and there's no way in the world, but by Printing, to convey the Remedy to the Disease.
Q. But what is it that you call a Remedy?
A. The Removing of the Cause. That is to say, the Undeceiving of the People: for they are well enough Disposed, of themselves, to be Orderly, and Obedient; if they were not misled by Ill Principles, and Hair'd and Juggled out of their Senses with so many Frightful Stories and Impostures.
Q. Well! to be Plain and Short; You call your self the Observator: What is it now that you intend for the Subject of your Observations?
A. Take it in few words then. My business is, to encounter the Faction, and to Vindicate the Government; to detect their Forgeries; to lay open the Rankness of their Calumnies, and Malice; to Refute their Seditious Doctrines; to expose their Hypocrisy, and the bloudy Design that is carry'd on, under the Name, and Semblance, of Religion; And, in short, to lift up the Cloke of the True Protestant (as he Christens himself) and to shew the People, the Jesuite that lies skulking under it.
Q. Shall the Observator be a Weekly Paper, or How?
A. No, No; but oftner, or seldomer, as I see Occasion.
Q. Pray favour me a word; When you speak of a True Protestant, don't you mean a Dissenting Protestant?
A. Yes, I do: For your Assenting and Consenting Protestant (you must know) is a Christian.
Q. And is not a Dissenting Protestant a Christian too?