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The weekly Anti-Jacobin for 9 July 1798 claimed that the Jacobin enemy, unable to conquer England by force, sought to subvert by fallacies and lies ‘the judgment of those he could not openly hope to subdue’. To further this aim, ‘the Press was engaged, and almost monopolized in all its branches: Reviews, Registers, Monthly Magazines, and Morning and Evening Prints, sprung forth in abundance’. And of the daily prints, ‘it is not too much to say that they have laboured in the cause of infamy, with a perseverance which no sense of shame could repress, and no dread of punishment overcome’.1 Four months earlier the Anti-Jacobin’s tone had been even more strident:
Is a fellow too dishonest for a ticket-porter, too idle for a chairman, or too dull for a ballad-maker? he immediately commences Jacobin, raves as loud as Mr Fox for a Radical Reform, and, as a reward for his zeal, is entrusted with the care of enlightening his countrymen in the Courier, Post or Chronicle.2
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A. Aspinall, Politics and the Press c. 1780–1850 (Home and Vanthal, 1949) 69–72. In January 1789, the Prince of Wales bought an interest in MP to silence criticisms of his marriage to Mrs Fitzherbert. (See Aspinall, 272–4.) The same month John Walter, founder of The Times, accepted a government subsidy of £300 p.a. The Times remained a ministerial paper until summer 1799, when it was held by ministers to have breached the privilege of the House of Commons.
David V. Erdman, ‘Coleridge as Editorial Writer’ in Power and Consciousness, ed. Conor Cruise O’Brien and William Dean Vanech(London University Press and New York University Press, 1969), 192. Mackintosh was Daniel Stuart’s brother-in-law.
Lucyle Werkmeister, A Newspaper History of England 1792–3 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1967), 163.
Life of John Lord Campbell, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, ed. Mary Scarlett Hardcastle, 2 vols (1881), I, 105.
CO 16 October 1796. See Thomas Macknight, History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke, 3 vols (Chapman & Hall, 1858) III, 675.
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Andrews, S. (2000). ‘Jacobin Prints’: Courier and Star, Chronicle and Post. In: The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789–99. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403932716_10
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