Perhaps most important, the "Analytical Review" provided a forum for radical political and religious ideas. Although it aimed at impartiality, its articles were often critical of the British government and supportive of the French revolutionaries. While the journal had low circulation numbers for its day, it still influenced popular opinion and was feared by the conservative government of William Pitt the Younger. In late 1797, the "Anti-Jacobin", the self-styled nemesis of the "Analytical Review", was founded by supporters of the government and other reactionary interests; it criticized the radical politics of the "Analytical" and monitored it for unpatriotic and irreligious sentiments.