NEWS-PAPER. 
the hearts of the people; and Fog prates moll on liberty 
and property, when he is plotting molt for their de¬ 
finition, and drudging for the pretender. The Craftf- 
jnan is an old whig with a prodigious complaifance for 
the high clergy, becaufe they are his admirers : Fog is 
a veteran tory that has adopted the whig principles, to 
ferve a turn, and yet rails againlt the bench of bilhops 
becaufe they have not canoniz’d Sacheverel. Both have 
join’d forces for the common caufe. But themerrieft cir- 
cumftance of their alliance is, that they both fancy they 
make tools of each other. Fog laughs in his lleeve, 
that he divides the whigs againlt themfelves ; and the 
Craftfman fneers in return, that he makes tliejacobites 
the dupes for his preferment.” 
Applebee’s Journal. Daily Courant. 
Univerfal Speftator, weekly; Mich. 1728. 
Free Briton, every Thurfday ; Nov. 1729. 
Weekly Regilter, every Saturday; begun about Lady- 
day, 1730. 
Grub-dreet Journal, publilhed every Thurfday, but feems 
to have had two Nos. on that day, as (N° 1 Gent. Mag.) 
N° 53 and 54 are both dated Thurfday Jan. 14., 1731. If 
fo, it mull have been let on foot about Midfummer 1730. 
Britilh Journal, or the Traveller; 1730. 
Hyp-Do6tor; Nov. or Dec. 1730. 
Henley’s Orator’s. Mifcellar.y ; March 13, 1731. 
Weekly Mifcellany ; Dec. 16, 1732. 
Auditor, twice a-week; began Jan. 9, 1733. A paper 
fomething in the manner of the Spectator. 
The General Evening Poll, firll appeared on Tueflay, 
061.2, 1733, price three halfpence; publilhed by and 
for J. Roberts, Warwick-lane. 
Farthing Poll, and Halfpenny Pod; 1740. 
Wright’s Leeds Intelligencer; 1751. 
Morning Chronicle ; 1768. 
At the clofe of the reign of George II. the average 
number of news-papers printed annually throughout the 
kingdom amounted to 9,464,790; during the year 1775, 
i2,680,000; 177 6, 12,830,000; 1777, 13,150,642; 1778, 
13,240,059; 1779, 14,106,842; 1780, 14,217,371.; 1781, 
14,397,62°; 1792, 15,005,760. They are now'dill more 
numerous. See a ilatement for the year 1812 under our 
article London, vol. xiii. p. 529. 
In 1814, it appears, by an official return, that 129,500 
London newfpapers were lent out to the colonies, and 
215,762 to the continent of Europe ; and that 62,300 
French papers were received in England, 4368 Dutch, 3744 
German, and 5304 of other nations. Of the various 
Englifh periodical works, about 6000 w'ere fent abroad. 
Peace with America was not then figned, an event which 
no doubt has added greatly to the export of new's-papers 
and other periodical publications. 
At the time that an additional duty on advertifements 
was propofed (May 1815), an account was taken of the 
number of damps for new's-papers Blued in the three 
monthsending the id of May, 1814: it was 6,677,127, pro¬ 
ducing 97,374k 15s. 4-|d. and in the three months ending 
the id of February, 1815, it Was 5,890,671, yielding 8 5,905k 
12s. 4^d. making about 25 millions of papers per annum, 
or nearly half a million per week, among about 200 feve- 
. ral publications in the week, or 1250 each on the average. 
But, as the Morning Chronicle, Morning Advertifer, 
Times, and Courier, together, print 90,000 per week, 
and all the other London papers print as many more, the 
too country papers divide but 70,000 among them, or 
average but 700 copies. 
If the Americans are as great readers of books as they 
are of news-papers, a tade for literature mud be gaining 
ground very rapidly in the United States. Six years ago, 
there were 351 newfpapers publilhed in the republic. Of 
thefe, were printed in New Hampdiire, 12 ; Maffachufetts, 
32; Rhode Ifland, 7 ; Conne6licut, j 1; Vermont, 10; New 
York, 66; New Jerfey, 8 ; Pennfylvania, 71; Delaware, 2; 
Maryland, ai; Columbia, 4; Virginia, 23; North Caro¬ 
lina, 10; South Carolina, jo; Georgia, 17; Kentucky, 
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16; Tenneffee, 6; Ohio, 14; Inginia, 1; Miffiffippi, 4; 
Orleans, 10 ; and Louifiana, 1. Before the revolution, 
only 9 papers were publilhed, fo that 342 have fince been 
added. Of thefe, 25 are ilTued daily; 16 thrice a-week ; 
33 twice a-week ; and 278 weekly: 8 of them are in the 
German language, 5 in the French, and 2 in the Spanifh. 
In 1810, 157 were called federal, 158 democratic, and the 
red-neuter. The quantity of paper made and confumed 
in America, for news-papers only, amounted, in the year 
1814, to 500 tons, or 50,000 reams; the number of papers 
annually printed, amounting to 22,500,000. 
In the tenth volume of the Monthly Magazine, we 
meet with an intereding article upon the news-papers of 
Spain and Spanifh America; but, in the extra6ts we ffiall 
make, our readers mud be apprifed that the intelligence 
derived from that account, reaches no later than the year 
1800. 
The olded Spanifh news-paper w'e are acquainted with, 
began to be publilhed about the commencement of the 
eighteenth century. It is probable, however, that earlier 
ones might be found, as the counts de Taxis, who went 
thither from Burgundy as hereditary podmaders, received, 
along with the foie dire6tion of the pod, likewife an elx- 
clufive privilege for news-papers. Buteven now, howfew 
and how wretched are the Spanifh news-papers! Here, 
indeed, where religious oppreffion and inquifitorial li- 
cenfers cripple all literary enternrife, we cannot expe6l 
an abundant harved for the journalift. 
Gazeta is in the Cadilian language the name for a news<» 
paper. Diario, for an Intelligencer or Advertifer. The 
Memorial-Mercurios-Correos litterarios and Jeminarios be¬ 
long to neither of thefe clalfes ; for in them accounts 
of civil and political occurrences are admitted only as 
dop-gaps, or in monthly datements and retrofpe6ls. 
In Old Spain, though there are twenty-one Learned 
and lixty-one Economical Societies, only two political 
news-papers are publilhed ; viz. the Gazeta de Madrid and 
the Gazeta de Barcelona ; both of which appear only twice 
a-week, in quarto. The Gazeta de Madrid, en la Imprenta 
Real, has remained pretty much the fame fince its com¬ 
mencement in 1704; and is dill printed on a good type 
and paper, and with the paginal numbers running on. It 
is likewife the official court-gazette; and therefore under 
the particular fuperintendance of a fubaltern member of 
the office for foreign affairs. The editors, of late years, 
were not deficient either in talents or knowledge ; but the 
dridtnefs of the licenfers and date-policy prevented the 
proper exertion and application of them. Thus, for 
indance, the defeat of the Spanifh fleet off Cape St. Vin¬ 
cent on the 14th of February, 1797, was not permitted to 
be publilhed in the Gazeta till four weeks after. Articles 
from Spanifh America were not very frequently to be 
found in the Gazeta de Madrid ; and thofe that were in- 
ferted were generally founded on the uncertain reports 
brought over by the matters of fliips. During the con¬ 
tinuance of hodilities betwixt the French and Spanifh 
armies in the Pyrenees, this Gazette furnifhed to foreign 
news-readers and journalids a confiderable fund of enter¬ 
tainment and intelligence refpe6ting the progrefs of the 
war, which was employed in particular by the Englilh 
news-writers. 
Whenever politics give an opportunity for the intro- 
du6tion of religious refledtions, it is carefully laid hold of 
by the editors of the Gazette: and in an efpecial manner 
are they fond of recording accounts of converjions . Thus 
in the paper of the 8th of December, 1788, they found 
means to introduce a defcription of extreme undtion ; 
and the notification of the martyrdom of pope Pius VI. 
was accompanied by a well-written biography of that ill- 
treated venerable old man. 
Scientific articles or notices often fill up the gaps occa- 
fioned by erafures of the licenfers; and that in fuch a man¬ 
ner as to prove interedingand indrudtive even to foreigners, 
Thefe notices are fometimes derived from government; 
except the datements of cures and chirurgical operations, 
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