text:  who indolent as he was possessed the taste of a true Spaniard for dramatic representation; to criticise the absurd system pursued by the physicians abuses of subordinate officers of justice the follies of false pretenders to philosophy the disorders and corruptions which swarm in every department of a despotic and inefficient government the multitude of sharpers and robbers in the towns and highways the subterranean habitations in which they found shelter and security the ingenuity of their frauds and daring outrages of their violence--in short to hold up every species of national error and every weakness of national folly to public obloquy and derision