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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

1709, April 12. Tatler, by Isaac Biclerstaff, Elsq. No. 1. This paper was commenced by Steele, under the assumed name of Bick'erstaff, who was assisted by Addison, and other eminent writers. It was published three times a week, at the price of one penny, and reached 271 numbers, the last appearing on Jan. 13, 1711. « The hand that has assisted me," says Steele, " in those noble discourses upon the Immortality of the Sotd, the Glorious protpecta of another life, and the tnoit tublime ideas of religion and virtue, is a person, (alluding to Addison)* who is too fondly my friend ever to own them." The Tatler was essentially a newpaper, in as far as it con- tained articles of foreign intelligence and adver- tisements, and the only difference between it and the other sheets of news then published, was in its containing original papers of morals and cri- ticism — they being, of course, the only portions now preserved. — See Spectator, page 696, pott.

1709, May 12. Gazette i la Mode; or, Tom Brown's Ghost. No. 1.

1709, July 8. Female Tatler; by Mrs. Crac- kmthorpe, a Lady that knows every thing. No. 1. In No. 28, a wooden portrait was introduced, and continued till No. 62, when the title adds, " by a Society of Ladies."

1709, Aug. 17. Scott Pottman, No. 1. This paper was established by permission from the town coimcil of Edinburgh, in virtue of the plenipotent jurisdiction they then exercised, and granted to Mr. David Feame, advocate, licence to print this paper every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, wtth a prohibition againtt all othert from puhlitking on thete dayt. John Moncur was the printer of this paper for Mr. Feame.

1709, Aug. 22. The Tattling Harlot.

1709, Aug. 23. Mr. Boyer't Cote; and his undovbted Right and Title to the Writing of the True Pott Boy asserted. "All gentlemen, shopkeepers, coffee-men, and others, who will think fit to continue the true Pott Boy by A. Boyer, are desired to give particular directions about it to the hawkers that serve them ; because Mr. Roper uses all mean endeavours to binder its being dispersed. Mr. Roper, inparticular, ought gratefully to reflect, that Mr. Boyer has written for him. The Hittory of King William, in three volumes; seven volumes of lie Queen' t Annalt; some other books ; and the Pott Boy for four years-; by all which he has got considerable sums of money.

17t)9, Sept. 6. Evening Post. "The peat ezpence gentlemen are put to in buying six or seven prints of a post-day, that bear the title of newspapers, when at the same time any one of them would contain more real news than is found in all, and as a further tax as well as imposition

his name, as connected with the Tatter, a profound secret from his Mend Addison, who was then in Ireland as se- cretary to the lord lleatenant ; but Addison, soon disco- vered the author amoo^ the very first numbers, by Steele Inaerttnff some remarks on Vtr^ which had been sanest. «d by his friend, and they thereafter laboured jointly Id the work. Addison's first contribution appeared on the S6th of May, 1709.
 * It waa the intention of air Richard Steele to have kept

there must be 3 or 41. per annum paid by tboce gentlemen that are out of town for written news, which is so far generallyVrom having any proba- bility of matter of fact in it, that it is frequently stuffed up with a We hear. Sec. or. An enanent Jew Merchant has received a letter, Sec. being nothing more than downright fiction ; it is in- tended that this paper shall come out every even- ing at six o'clock, in which shall not only be contained an extract of all the foreign as well as domestic prints, but a better account of oat home transactions than has yet appeared, in which there has been such a careless neglecrt hitherto, that we read more of onr own affaiis in the Dutch papers than in any of our own. And likewise those persons that have advertisements to put in, if they send them by twelve of the clock, shajl have them inserted the same day, being so short a time that the payment of aill lost or mislaid bills may be stopped, whereas the delay of the other papers occasions the loss of many valuable things."

1709, Sept. 27. The General Pottteript; hang an Extract of all that is most materiiil from the Foreign and English newspapers ; with Remarks upon the Observator, Review, Tatlers, and the rest of the Scribblers; in a Dialogue between Novel and Scandal. No. 1.— In No. 12, Oct. 24, is the following remark : "The weekly papers being exceedingly barren and impertinent ; the following catalogue, we hope, will not be un- exceptionable to every English reader:"

MONDAY— B.

The Dttilp Cmirant, by Socinos Editor, a modern Whig. — The Supplement, by Jacobus Abenias, a Poalacrlptarian. —The BrUM Apollo, by a Society of Gentlemen, coniist- inf of Abennlf^ Simpleton only. — The Oemeral Rewtmrk, by the most learned and laborions Poveus, Frcr)ectar and Operator extraordinary. — The Female Taller, by Scan- diloalssima Sconndrella, and her two natural Brothen. — The Oenerat Pottteript, by Novellus Scandalos, an Dbiqui. tarian.

nmSDAY— 18.

The London Qazette, by the Gazetteer.— T)k< Foot Mmt, by M. Hogonotias PoUticns Gailo-An^lus, a spltefol Com- mentator. — The Pott-Boy, vide Snpplement— 7%e Plpimg Pott, by Scotus Fhanaticus, an Observator. — The Reciem, by Verbosns Enthnslasticus, a Modernist. — The DaHf CourarU, ditto.— TA« Taller, by Scriptor Forioma, • Superintendent, and Court Intelligencer. — The ffrffcraisaf revived, by A^tator Maximns, an Antedilavlan. — The Evening Pott, by Compositor Fatnus, a defacer of Laa- gnages.— TA< Whiiperer, by Mrs. Jenny Frivolooa, a near reli^on to Jacobos Abellius, the Postscriptoiian. — Zkc Pott-Bog Junior, by H. Boyeiius a famous Veraioneei'. — The City Intelligencer, by Mr.Nlbble-news, a ParagnpUaa.

WEDNESDAY— «. The Daily Cnurant.—The Supplement. — The Ohtrrtmlar, vide Plying Pott.— The General Remark.— The Femtmie Tatler.— The General Pottteript.

THURSDAY—U. The Oaxetle.—The Potl-Man.—The Pott-Boy.— The r^f- ing.Pott.—The Daily Courant.—The Seview.—The Tmtler. —The Reheartal Revived.— The Evening Pott.— The Wti»- perer.— T»e Pott-Boy Jm^or.—The City Intelligencer.

FRIDAY— «.

The Dally Courant. — The Supplement. — The Gememl Be- mark.— The Female Tatler.— The Oeneral Pottteript. — The Britith Apollo.

SATURDAY— 13.

The Oa*ette.—The Pott-Man —The Pott-Boy.— The Fif- ing Pott.— The Daily Courant — The Ohtervator. — The Be- view.— The Tatter.— The Reheartal Revived— The Bneming Pott.— The Whiiperer.— The Pott-Boy Junior.— The City Intelligencer. In all — 3S.