Editing Thomas Moore (section)

===Squib writer for the Whigs===
To support his family Moore entered the field of political [[Squib (writing)|squib writing]] on behalf of his Whig friends and patrons. The [[Whigs (British political party)|Whigs]] had been split by the divided response of [[Edmund Burke]] and [[Charles James Fox|Charles Fox]] to the French Revolution. But with the antics of the Prince Regent, and in particular, his highly public efforts to disgrace and divorce [[Caroline of Brunswick|Princess Caroline]], proving a lightning rod for popular discontent, they were finding new unity and purpose.

From the "Whigs as Whigs", Moore claimed not to have received "even the semblance of a favour" (Lord Moira, they "hardly acknowledge as one of themselves"). And with exceptions "easily counted", Moore was convinced that there was "just as much selfishness and as much low-party spirit among them generally as the Tories".<ref name="Moore, Political and Historical Writings" />{{rp|237, 248}} But for Moore, the fact that the Prince Regent held fast against Catholic admission to parliament may have been reason sufficient to turn on his former friend and patron. Moore's [[Satire|Horatian mockery]] of the Prince in the pages of ''[[The Morning Chronicle]]'' were collected in ''Intercepted Letters, or the Two-Penny Post-Bag'' (1813).