The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-26 00:00:00

CITY OF LINCOLN NESS SPAPER.

(IN SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1828, and
kJ on FRIDAY (Market-Day) the 27th, at Noon, for
the City of Lincoln and its Vicinity, will be Published,

TO BE CONTINUYD WEEKLY,
NO. I, OF A NEW PUBLIC JOURNAL,
For the City and County of Lincoln,
IiNTITLED

THE LINCOLNSHIRE HERALD,
AND COUNTY ADVERTISER
. .

Printed on an entire New Type, cast by Carllon and Livermore.
The establishment of a Public Journal in the ancient City
of Lincoln, the metropolis of the second county, in extent, in
the kingdom, has long heetu a desideratum that was equally
called for by the central and commanding situation of the
City ; and the want of a Public Record, expressly and
distinctly embodying the various local interests of the County,
in an intelligible form. This object could not indeed be
effected in any other place, which had not the same imme-
diate access to the principal sources of County Intelligence ;
fur in any other situation the Gmnty interests must be
necessarily mixed op with, and rendered secondary to, a
distracting variety of the conflicting claims of other districts.
The LINCOLNSHIRE HERALD is not conceived in any
spirit of hostility to other Establishments, nor projected with
any views of opposition to other interests. Indeed there is no
other Journal which can be materially affected by its ap-
pearance ; for the principal paper, published on the borders
of the County, essentially reposes on a wide extent of busi-
ness in various other important districts ; and where we
m'ay come in contact with a portion of the extensive circu-
lation of our opponent, we shall seek no further rivalry
with the parties than that of contending with them in the
cause of public utility; and emulating them in the promo-
tion of sound principles.
The period at which the Editor will commence his labours,
is one of singular difficulty and importance, whether we
regard the Foreign or the Domestic policy of the
State. The principles of a public Journalist are
perhaps best seen and appreciated in connection with
public events as they transpire; for there is no mere
catechism of political maxims that can embody all the va-
rious colours of opinion which attach to the character of
the times. He must be a sorry politician who could hope,
on a spot consecrated to so many affecting recollections in
our National History, to promulgate aught of those wild
and visionary doctrines, which have in different periods of
the last thirty years shaken the repose of so many nations.
It will rather he the ambition of the Editor, as far as his
powers may extend, to give to a City, yet unrepresented
by the Press, that voice which would seem naturally to
belong to the celebrity of its former actions, and the splen-
dour of its ancient name. It is fit that one of the first
Agricultural Districts in the kingdom should bring the in-
fluence of its opinions, and the energy of its councils, to
bear on the mass of rival and conflicting interests, which
are incident to the day.
Lincoln, considered in reference to the population and
opulence of the County of which it is the capital, and its
distance from the turbulence and discord of the chief seats
of our Manufactories, constitutes the centre of the most
important and unmixed Agricultural District in the United
Empire ; and when we consider that there is (as the writer
believes) no other County Town in England, and ecaretly
in the principality of Wales, that is without a public Jour-
nal; and that several county Towns of inferior magnitude
have two Pe, iodicala ; it is not perhaps assuming too much
to say that the City has abated something of its intrinsic
claims, and foregone some advantages, by such a depriva-
tion. Within the circle of the Provincial Capitals of
the Kingdom, it has, therefore, not only a great and ex-
tensive interest to defend, but a paramount duty to per-
form. To the parties now offering to supply this deficiency
in the Institutions of the City, it is no sudden and fresh
object of the mind ; as they had contemplated the same
purpose more than twenty years ago, when they were an-
ticipated by the efforts of others : which, though unsuccess-
fnl, served at least to show that the advantages of such an
Establishment were appreciated by the Counts-.
In respect to the general plan of the 'Lina:rishire
Her.ld, it will he sought to render it a brief and spirited
at -tract of the times ; combining the miscellaneous and
light character of the Newspaper with interesting selec-
tions from popular works, and occasional dissertations on
the chief questions of political discussion, to which its
existing circumstances give weight and attraction. It will
he content to leave the crabbed doctrines of Political Eco-
nomy, to those prolix and ponderous scribes who mistake
the province of a Journalist for that of thelßook-maker.
It is rather the business of the, professor of the " Broad
Sheet" to consider his work as a little map of the world, en
which the man of business has as great a claim as the man
of sentiment ; where the Beau may adjust his costume in
the " Glass of Fashion ;" and the Belle regulate the depth
of her flounces by the last number of Ackermann : in short,
that within the range of his columns, all the various inte-
rests of mankind are in some degree located and repre-
sented ; for there the trifles of the trifler; the long odds at
Tattemall's ; the views of the philosopher ; the designs of
the philenthropist ; and the amenity of the poet, dwell to-
gether in a spirit of good neighbourhood ;--jostled by the
strife of nations—amid " battle, murder; and sudden
death ;"—and all the " moving accidents by flood and
field." It is his duty to hold the balance with a steady
hand, equally between matters of inconsiderable import,
and affairs of the highest moment ; and in reference to the
grand arena of conflicting human events, to remit no es-
sential particularity, whether in the bulletin that shakes
the security of empires, or the last change in the price of
clover seed. Following this shadowy procession, which mas-
querades through the columns of every Newspaper, comes the
strange medley of congregated gaiety and grief ; the con-
fused and crowded throng of merry makers and of mourners
in bridal festivity, and in funeral pomp ; alternating the
mirthful peal and the passing bell, over the ceremonies of
the rival claimants at the altar and at the grave.
The use of the Press is as severe a test of discretion, as
it is of talent. In the department of original correspon-
dence, on subjects of local and County' interests, the
strictest principles of honour, fidelity, and impartiality will
he observed towards all parties and persons who may'
honour the Editor with their communications ; and
though it may rest with him at times, to exercise a severe
judgment on the letters addressed to him, a due considera-
tion of that peculiar sense of duty to the general public, by
which he is bound to be guided, will reconcile all reason-
able men to a just exercise of a discretionary power that
is rendered imperative by circnmstances ; and not by the
will or the desire of the person occupying the Editorial
Office.

It is the especial desire of the Editor to avail himself of
all the best sources of local information, whether in the
City, or in the other chief towns of the County; and he,
therefore, respectfully solicits persons who may wish well
to his cause, or feel desirous of promoting his usefulness,
to communicate to him, or to his Agents, confidentially,
such articles of intelligence as it is desirable should be re-
ported faithfully and accurately ; and this is commonly
best done by the parties who have a proper interest therein.
The Editor considers this Address rather as a mere
announcement of the Journal than an elaborate sacrifice
to custom, in the way of detailed views and principles,
which have commonly little meaning, and often no mean-
ing at all. We never read a Prospectus of a new Journal
that did not hold forth a display of " independence and
jospartiality"—though, possibly, they might never be traced
beyond the Editor's filet address.
The first number of the " Herald" will contain some
strictures on the affairs of the East, and the late Foreign
Policy of the Country.
The "Herald" will contain the latest intelligence in
London up to the hour that the Mail leaves on Thursday
evening ; thus comprehending the chief information which
appear: in the London Morning Papers of Friday.
Orders, Letters, kc. at present may be sent. direct to the
Office in Lincoln.. Agents will be immediately appointed
in the principal Towns, and a List of the same published
in the earliest Numbers of the Paper.
London Agents : Mr. Barker, 33, Fleet-street, and
Messrs. Newton and Co. Warwick-square.
The " Lincolnshire Herald" will be filed at the leading
Coffee. bruises in London, and in the principal News Rooms
in the chief Towns of the. Kingdom.
Printed for the Props ieturs 12' Joshua Drewry and Co.

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