Pope adopted a singular plan.

It was announced that the clergyman concerned with P.T.and Curll had "discovered the whole transaction." A narrative was forthwith published to anticipate Curll and to clear up the mystery.
If good for anything, it should have given, or helped to give, the key to the great puzzle--the mode of obtaining the letters.

There was nothing else for Smythe or P.T.to "discover." Readers must have been strangely disappointed on finding not a single word to throw light upon this subject, and merely a long account of the negotiations between Curll and P.T.The narrative might serve to distract attention from the main point, which it clearly did nothing to elucidate.

But Curll now stated his own case.

He reprinted the narrative with some pungent notes; he gave in full some letters omitted by P.T., and he added a story which was most unpleasantly significant.