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James Pitt was an 18th-century English journalist.James Pitt Esq. from London buried Jan. 23 1763 at Hampstead. Mr. Pitt who died at his house in Essex-street at the age of 84 had formerly been editor of one of the periodical papers in favor of Sir Robert Walpole and is supposed to be the person alluded to in the Dunciad under the name of Mother Osborne. Some letters of Mr. Pitt’s are printed in Dr.