He was Considered one of the most prolific literary figures of the second half of the 18th century and, together with Luciano Francisco Comella and Gaspar Zavala y Zamora, one of the most popular playwrights of that period,[1] writing over 200 plays.
[1] Once in Madrid, in order to maintain a lifestyle in accordance with his own words, "honor heredado en su cuna" ("the honour inherited from the cradle"), he began to write plays and publish articles.
His vast output earned him the negative criticism of leading literary figures, such as Juan Pablo Forner and Leandro Fernández de Moratín, of being just another, of many, hack writers.
[1] The publication, whose full title was Semanario erudito, que comprehende varias obras inéditas críticas, morales, instructivas, políticas, históricas, satíricas y jocosas, de nuestros mejores autores, antiguos y modernos, published in Madrid, ran to 34 volumes.
In 1818 he managed to sell, for 18,000 reales, his vast collection of manuscripts, which he had previously tried to publish, to no avail, despite having been granted the corresponding royal privilege, to Francisco Javier de Burgos, then a journalist and a future afrancesados and liberal who went on to become Interior minister.