The last speech, confession, and dying declaration, of the Beacon, which departed this life, September 29th, 1821, in Donkie Slaverson's Royal Magazine of Slander, Scurrility, Personality, and other Pensioned Virtues; ...
Edinburgh : Webster, printer, Horse Wynd
[1821]
A spoof on the demise of an anti-Whig, pro-government periodical, The Beacon, supported by Sir Walter Scott and other leading figures of the Scottish establishment, which ran from 6th Jan. till 22nd Sept. 1821.
Donkie Slaverson = Duncan Stevenson, printer of The Beacon.
Printed material from the letters and papers of the Marquesses of Tweeddale, formerly preserved at Yester House.
Beacon (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Printed ephemera