To William Bennet, of the Glasgow Free Press. : letter of A. Dallas, who was prosecuted and convicted on the 13th January, 1835, in a penalty of £200, at the instance of a secret conspiracy of mercenary editors and newspaper proprietors in Glasgow, for rebelling against the six acts of Sidmouth and Castlereagh, and assisting to break the chains of ignorance..
Dallas, A.
[Glasgow] : Published by Francis Reid, 91, Trongate.,
[1835]
A. Dallas was the editor/financial supporter of a proposed new radical newspaper, the "Glasgow News", scheduled to begin printing in December 1834, but it was closed down by the stamp office. Dallas, along with the publisher Francis Reid, was sent to trial and found guilty of attempting to sell an unstamped newspaper. This letter denounces William Bennet, editor of the "Glasgow Free Press" newspaper for spreading falsehoods about him and the "Glasgow News" in his newspaper.
Stamp duties
Newspapers
Scotland Glasgow.