 In 1760 Goldsmith began to publish a series of letters in the "Public Ledger" under the title "The Citizen of the World".Purportedly written by a Chinese traveller in England by the name of Lien Chi, they used this fictional outsider's perspective to comment ironically and at times moralistically on British society and manners.It was inspired by the earlier essay series "Persian Letters" by Montesquieu.