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paper. lu little more than two years, viz., on the 4tli June, 1802, it is announced that the 

 publication of the Herald is suspended ; that it wiU appear only " on particular occasions ;" 

 but Mr. Tiffany hopes it " will by and by receive a revival." Other early papers published at 

 the to\vn of Niagara were the Gleaner^ by Mr. Heron; the Spectator ; and the Mail. The last 

 named stUl exists. 



In 1800, the Ui:ipe.r Canada Gazette or American Oracle is issued at York, weekly, from the 

 office of Willam Waters and T. G. Simons. In the number for Saturday May the 17th in that 

 year, we read that on the Tlmrsday evening previous, " His Excellency PetBr Hunter, Esq. , 

 Lieutenant Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Province arrived in our harbour on board 

 the Toronto; and on Friday morning about nine o'clock landed at the Garrison where he is at 

 present to reside." 



We are thus enabled to add two items to the table of dates usually given, shewing the intro- 

 duction of Printing at different points on this Continent: viz., the dates 1793 and 1800 for 

 Niagara and York respectively. The table will now stand as follows : 



1639. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Stephen Day and Samuel Green. 

 1674. Boston, John Poster. 

 1684. PhUadelphia, Wm. Bradford. 



1693. New York, Wm. Bradford, (removed from Philadelphia), 

 1730. Charleston, Eleazer Phillips. 



1730. Bridgetown, Barbadoes, David Harry and Samuel Keimer. 

 1751. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Bartliolomew Green jun. and John Bushel!. 

 1764. Quebec, Wm. Brown and Thos. H. Gilmore. 

 1771. Albany, Alex, and Jas. Pvobertson. 

 1775. Montreal, Chas. Berger and Pleury Mesplet. 

 1784. St. Georges, Bermuda, J. Stoekdale. 

 ' 1793. Newark (Niagara), Louis Roy. 

 1795. Cincinnati, S. Freeman. 

 1800. York (Toronto), Wm. Waters and T. G. Simons. 



As at York and Niagara, the first printers in most of the places named were publishers of 

 newspapers. 



It may be added that a press was in operation in the City of Mexico in 1569 ; and in the City 

 of Lima inl621. The original of all the many colonial government Gazettes was the famous royal 

 or exclusively court news-sheet published first at Oxford in November, 1665, entitled the Oxford 

 Gazette, and in the following year, at London, and entitled then and ever afterwards to this 

 day, the hoiidon Gazette. 



In 1801 J. Bennett succeeds Messrs. Waters and Simons, and becomes the printer and pub- 

 lisher of the Gazette, or Oracle. In that year the printing-office is removed to "the house of 

 Mr. A. Cameron, King Street," and it is added '^subscriptions will be received there and at 

 the Toronto Coffee House, York." From March 21st in this year and onward for six weeks, 

 the paper appears printed on blue sheets of the kind of material that used formerly to be seen 

 on the outsides of pamphlets and magazines and Government "Blue-books." Messrs. Printers 

 make no allusion to the circumstance which, as we suppose, was occasioned by the non-arrival 

 of the spring supplies of stationery. The Herald, at Niagara, of the same period, appeared, as 

 we have already noticed, in the like guise. 



On Saturday, December 26th, 1801, is this statement, the whole of the editorial matter : " It 

 is much to be lamented that communication between Niagara and this town is so irregular and 

 unfrequent, opportunities now do not often occur of receiving the American papers from our 

 correspondents ; and thereby prevents us for the present from laying before our readers the 

 state of politics in Europe." In the number for June 13th, the editorial "leader" reads as 

 follows: "The Oracle, York, Saturday, .June 13th. Last Monday was a day of universal 

 rejoicing in this town, occasioned by the arrival of tlie news of the splendid victory gained by 

 Lord Nelson over the Danes in Copenhagen roads on the 2nd of April last : in the morning the 

 great guns at the Garrison were fired : at night there was a general ilumination, and bonfires 

 blazed in almost every direction." The writer ventures on no further comments. 



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