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the Orange Grove, carrying on business where is now Miss 
Sturmey’s fur shop. He was a man of culture and a poet, and 
numbered Graves, of Claverton, and many other distinguished 
men among his friends. He published No. 1 of “The Bath 
Herald and General Advertiser” on Saturday, March 3rd, 1792, — 
and for the purpose of making it known circulated the first 
number gratis, but in No. 2 the price was fixed at 4d. It was 
printed by R. Paddock, Green Street, and consisted of four pages 
17}in, by 114in., each containing four columns of type. 
Meyler had the same experience as Pope, but his notice was 
more amiable ; he said in his first number :— 
Ina late Address, announcing the publication of the BatH HERALD. 
it was presumed, the great increase in the Buildings and Inhabitants 
of this City, rendered a Third Paper necessary. We were, it seems, 
not singular in this opinion; for a numerous Co-partnership have 
judged a Fourth at least expedient. To this measure, which will serve 
to augment our industry, though it may lessen the fruits of it, we cannot 
object. The road to public favour is open to every man who has the 
ability to merit it. It is to be hoped, however, that the competition. in 
the present case, will proceed with equal spirit and liberality, and that 
the sole contest between the Rival Prints will be, which shall be made most 
useful and entertaining to the public. 
The paper here referred to was “ The Bath Register and 
General Advertiser,” also first published on Saturday, March 3rd, 
1792. It was printed by J. Johnson, at No. 16, Stall Street, now 
- Messrs. W. Titley and Sons’ shop. Its editor states that he was 
“many years concerned as conductor of a newspaper in the 
western part of England.” The proprietors however sustained a 
heavy loss by publishing at 3}d. instead of 4d., the then price of - 
the other Bath papers, and a junction was effected with “The 
Herald,” which on October 5th, 1793, appeared as “The Bath 
Herald and Register,” and on June 20th, 1795, Mr. Meyler 
announced that he had purchased the whole property and 
interest in the paper. With the first number for 1800, the 
second title “Register” was dropped and the paper resumed its 
