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We declare we have no Design to enter into the Service of a Party, not to set our selves up in Opposition to any present Paper, or Publisher of News; but only to carry on an Affair, in a Manner as useful and entertaining to the Publick in general as any thing of its Kind extant. We shall therefore
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cautiously avoid the Rancour and Ill-nature of all Factions, Sects, political Distinctions, and particular Interests; tho' we shall make an impartial Use of every Side and Party to come at the Truth, and omit nothing in our Power, either of Information, or agreeable Amusement.
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William Cuthbert and the Quaker printer Isaac Thompson (1703–1776) printed a prospectus for a new Newcastle newspaper in January 1739. The enterprise, they announced, would be sustained by strict political impartiality:
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claimed circulation over an area with a 600-mile circumference. After Thompson's death in 1776, the paper was bought by T. Robson and Co, who printed it from 1778 to 1788. The paper ceased publication in April 1788.
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appeared on 7 April 1739. By the summer the editors claimed they were selling "nearly 2000 of these Papers weekly". They also claimed a wide regional circulation, with agents in towns as far afield as
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robustly defended its right to print opposition speeches, such as the April 1740 speech against the government by
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throughout the 1750s. However, the two men fell out, and in 1764 Slack attempted his own weekly newspaper, the
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Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Including the Borough of Gateshead
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Proposals for publishing a news-paper, to be entitled, The Newcastle Journal
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The Press in English Society from the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
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Politics and the Rise of the Press: Britain and France 1620-1800
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Local Studies Library User Guide No. 3: Local Newspapers
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Freshest advices: early provincial newspapers in England
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Freshest advices: early provincial newspapers in England
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until the end of his life, though he also published the
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Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Newcastle Courant
Berwick
Newhaven, Derbyshire
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
House of Lords
David Hume
Robert Walpole
Scots Magazine
Thomas Slack
Freshest advices: early provincial newspapers in England
Freshest advices: early provincial newspapers in England


Politics and the Rise of the Press: Britain and France 1620-1800
ISBN
978-0-415-12273-3
William Speck
"Politics and the Press"
ISBN
978-0-8386-3272-7
Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN
978-0-521-83331-8
David Hume Bibliography
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/64284
UK public library membership

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