THE HISTORY

OF

BRITISH JOURNALISM.

OF

BRITISH JOURNALISM,

FROM THE

FOUNDATION OF THE NEWSPAPER PRESS IN ENGLAND

TO THE REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT IN 1855,

WITH

SKETCHES OF PRESS CELEBRITIES.

BY

ALEXANDER ANDREWS.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

WITH AN INDEX.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET,
Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.

M DCCC LIX.

162005-B

THE HISTORY

OF

BRITISH JOURNALISM.

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CHAPTER I.

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CUCHEVAL CLARIGNY'S "HISTOIRE DE LA PRESSE "DANIEL STUART AND HIS BRILLIANT STAFF-COLERIDGE, LAMB, SOUTHEY, WORDSWORTH, AND MACKINTOSH-THE MORNING POST AND COURIER," AND WHAT THEY SOLD FOR -BURNS SPURNS STUART'S OFFERS-COLERIDGE'S CHARGES AND STUART'S DEFENCE-FOX'S OPINION OF COLERIDGE'S WRITINGS-DE QUINCEY ON THE SAME-THE MORNING POST LOOKING UP-MACKINTOSH WORKING FOR THE "ORACLE" AND JOHN BULL-THE 66 BRITISH PRESS ESTABLISHED-GEORGE

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LANE-STUART SELLS THE MORNING POST -THE MORNING HERALD
AT THE BAR OF THE HOUSE-THE ALBION AND WHAT BEFEL IT-ITS
EDITORS, M'LEOD AND FENWICK-CHARLES LAMB BECOMES A REBEL AND A
TRAITOR-SIR FRANCIS BURDETT TRIES A MUZZLE ON THE PRESS-COBBETT'S
66 POLITICAL REGISTER "-NAPOLEON DECLARES WAR AGAINST THE ENGLISH

PRESS-THE GOVERNMENT SIDES WITH IT-BUT BETRAYS IT-TRIAL OF
PELTIER FOR A LIBEL ON NAPOLEON-NO ROOM FOR THE REPORTERS-
PELTIER SUBSIDISED SECRETLY AND PROSECUTED OPENLY.

THE more recent events of British journalism, which we are now approaching, have been dwelt upon more frequently and more fully than the former portion of the subject, and another writer has added a few contributions to the history of the press for the last fifty years. This is a Frenchman, M. Cucheval Clarigny, formerly editor in chief of the Constitutionnel of Paris, who, content with adopting Mr. Knight Hunt's newspaper records of two