CONTENTS.-VOL. II. .

CHAPTER VII.

THE PRESS OF THE PRESENT CENTURY.

Napoleon Bonaparte in Westminster Hall. The Libels of the French Emigrants. L'Ambigu. Mackintosh's Speech in defence of M. Peltier. Leigh Hunt, The Examiner, and the Prince Regent. Cobbett. Numerous Government Prosecutions. "The Battle of the Unstamped." Bulwer, and the Taxes on Knowledge. Reduction of the Stamp. The Increase of Newspapers.

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CHAPTER VIII.

THE LONDON DAILY PAPERS.

The Public Advertiser. Woodfall and Junius. The Public Ledger. The Morning Chronicle. Perry. John Black. The Morning Post. Mr. Tattersall. Rev. Bate Dudley. Dan Stuart's Descriptions. Coleridge. Charles Lamb. Bate Dudley starts The Morning Herald. Prospectus of the Paper. History of The Times. The Representative. The Constitutional. The Daily News.

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"What is it that drops the same thought into ten thousand minds at the same moment?
-the Newspaper."
DE TOCQUEVILLE.

"There she is the great engine-she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every
quarter of the world-her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies,
and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous. Yonder Journal
has an agent at this minute giving bribes at Madrid; and another inspecting the price of
potatoes at Covent Garden."
PENDENNIS.

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DAVID BOGUE, 86, FLEET STREET.

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