The Cambridge University Library catalogue attributes this to Defoe on the authority of W.T. Morgan : A Bibliography of British History (1700-1715) v.1 p.382. _x000b_It would appear, from internal evidence, that this is an attack on Anthony Hammond (1668-1738), politician. Clues include “M.P. for one of our Universities”- he was returned for Cambridge in 1698; and “He was Poet-Laureat to Monsieur Poussin... they met together at the Blew-Posts” - he was one of the notorious “Poussineers”, three leading tories discovered at the Blew Posts tavern closeted with a French envoy who had been ordered to leave England by the government. (The pub still exists, a few yards from the front entrance of the Ritz Hotel).