It has been the usual custom of comic papers to indulge in a similar fiction, mildly humorous and conveniently anonymous-"Figaro in London," "Pasquin," "The Puppet Show"-man, "The Man in the Moon," and the rest.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
Steele, in 1710, published in the Tatler a letter from Pasquin of Rome to Isaac Bickerstaff, asking for "an account of those two religious orders which have lately sprung up amongst you, the Whigs and the Tories."
"A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4)"
Justin McCarthy
What could you then have done for a living Pasquin for your stray lampoons and vagrant sarcasms?
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton