Star.
London, England, 1808-11-21 00:00:00

EDINBURGH NEWSP4PER and REVIEW.

We announce in this day's paper a new Weekly
Paper to be published in Edinburgh, under the name
(sec the following Prospectus) of The .3dinburgh
Weekly Chronicle, with some circumstances attending
which it is fit that the public should be acquainted.
We are authorised to say, that the necessary arrange-
ments for this Paper were nearly completed before
the Proprietors were aware that another Edinburgh
Weekly Paper was in agitation.
Application was made to the Publisher of the
Edinburgh Revival, to have copies of the Prospectus
of the former stitched up with the present number of
that publication. This wat refused by reason, as was
stated, that it would give offence to the friends of
that Review, who were determined to support, to the
utmost of their power, the other Paper," of which the
proprietors of the Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle, had for
the first time heard only the day before, and for a si-
kmillar reason the Publisher also refused to.allow copies
of this Prospectus to be stitched up with the Farmer':
Magazine, the Medical Journal, or the Scottish Maga-
zine,,all of which are published by him.
It appeared to the Proprietors of the Edinburgh
Weekly Chronicle, that the Editor of the Edixtuigh
Review should be apprised of this illiberal conduct
in his publisher. They therefore addressed the fol
lowing letter to him:

as Edinburgh, Noy. 9, 1808.

Sig—Mr. Constable having positively refused to
allow copies of the enclosed Prospectus to be stitched
up with the present number of the Edinburgh &vim"
by reason, as he stated, that it would give offence to
you and the other friends of that Publication, we
think it right to apprize you of this latter circum-
stance, that if Mr. Constable has made a mistake,
you may disavow it, or if it really be as he has stated
it upon his conception of the matter, that we may be
enabled to place the refusal to the right account.
gg We are, Sir,
41 Your most obedient humble servants,
(Signed) 41 MUNDIML, DOIG3 and STEVENSON.
"Francis Jeffrey, Esq,"
The following answer was immediately retuned
to this letter : _ _

Gera esttw—l take no charge cf what Mr.
Constable stitches under the cover of the Reviews.
Only I requested him some time ago to give a place
there to the Prospectus of a projected Weekly Paper,
to be called the Edinburgh !Verily Regitti.r. I think Mr.
Constable mentioned to me yesterday that he had
been asked to insert the Prospectus of another Paper,
under the wry tame title* which he had declined. I
said it was very absurd to haVe two Works with the
same name, and, being hurried at the time, I had no
farther conversation with him on the subject. I ne-
ver heard of your Paper till yesterday, and really
have no leisure for this sort of correspondence.
" I have the honour to he, Gentlemen,

" Your very obedient Servant,
( Signed 64 r. JEITRET,"
" Messrs. Mundt:land Co."

It is thartbe tiliduegh Review a
mere engine of party. If the suppoite,
work choose so to degrade the purposes
they cannot fail to be visited by the cc
that degradation. Its effects already a,
fastened themselves upon their Editor,
have been expected that the. advocate
would have be. ruined with indign:ll
tempt,.lwwever miserable, to check ,
But a liberal.mirided Gentleman, who
cumstancts would have spurned at the IT
upon him by his Publislwr, is so bli
spirit, that he appears insensible to
Publisher does not act as from himself.

the fear of giving offence to his Editor,
ted to the latter, who is moreover distil

on to disavow It ; but so tar from &Ai
a circumstance which lcd his rubli!

that he would be offended if a place
this Prospectus in his publication, nami
to give a place to another, which was
of an opposite tendency. No one who /mows lit
Jeffrey will believe, that he would have been offend 4
with his Publisher if he had given a place to thi
Prospectus. But it is impossible to read his lett •
without being *satisfied that he approved of his refo
notwithstaming that he was identiiied with it ha
manner which he could not fail to have disclaimed,
the spirit of a partizan had not overwhelmed his Luis
ter feelings.
This incident, it is to be hoped, will lead this Gm
tleman to consider well the consequences of becoming
the literary tool of a party. The object of his Put;
Esher, with which he submits to be identified, is, as
far as in him lies, to lead, or as we think, to mislead
the public opinion iu Scotland, by engrossing the pe.
riodic 11 publications of Edinburgh. The Fame(
Magazine, the Medical Journal, and the Scotch Ma.,,
a:nc, (into which also, we are informed, a pine"
refi sed to the Prospectus of the EdinGurEh wag
Chronicle,) are all published by the same Buokselles.
Every department of science and of art is, by these
men, to be made 'subservient to the views (id*
party. But we trust that their effcrts in thi
by means of these publications, will be renles:
ab ntive, as, we know they will be, in their aaetele
to suppress a Paper winch will be decidedly hQsnlits
such views.

• The Paper, the Prospectus of which Mr. Constable,'
asked to stitch up with Lis Review WAS therein calltid doh,
locgh ;Vet. The mistake, •uppodng Mr. Coal
to have talLn i .to it, was not assigned by him at the Mali
reato.ti of his rd-usal, and is of sit) importance with hit-nuts
the reason which wits assigned, in regard to whicittir.lthi
Alt9jetbtX

PROSP.C.II.IS
OP AN ORMINAL 'NEWSPAPER, ENTITLCD "TRYEDph
ZURG:I IVEEKLY U.toNIcLE," TO AS M 11911311
I:ItY WEDNESTAY.
No: hirg has contributed more to the gcncal difusioect End.

ligence in the present age, than the establishment of penisksa
publications, particularly Neitspapers. By means of thee ha, .1
events of the highest importanoe to the welfare of mankind, a '
well as occurrences which are calculated to gratify a moment;
curiosity. are communicated with the same rapidity.ln subside
vehicles, the affairs of every dia•rict and every country,ue toad
detailed with a corresponding interest ; and every man, in men
quence, whatever r:.ay be his situation in life, or bowerettem
his place of residence, has an sa;peartun y withoot miring lads
world, of becoming acquainted at one.: with the protpettyni
the misfortunes of his neighbours, as well as with their*
She power, and the disposition of the frkocis and enemis dli
country, From the diversified and ne....essary occupatimd
few persons have titre or inclination fcr the business of itinn
thin. To the mass of mankiral, therefore, a periodical aged
of informs& n must always prove a welocnuesabstitute for ad
elaborate productions.
Without euteringinto a minute detail of the plan ea which It
Edinburgh {Verily Chrosizie will ho conducted, the Proprinon wit
merely mention, that they propose having all theintelligeoce,fe
which they may be indebted to other Publicatiors, r rittes re
their own Work, and that a proper selection will be made gine
articles as. are most important, and which shall appear, on debit-
rate consideration, best calculated to excite the most genoal
terest.
Though the Proprietors of this Publication are far trete irtia
ding to throw out any insinuations against the conductors ofeler
works of a similar kind, they yet venture to assure the Pat'
that inure Information will be given than is usually obtained
other Pipers of the same limits. Beoides correcting the dilho
language of such articles as they may extract from those Ptite
whose frequency of publication may render amplification nem
sary, they are resolved to allot, at all times, a portion of the
Publication, somewhat treater than usual, to the purposes it
which Nenjpaoers were originally established; so as always,
hold in view the propriety of referring as much room as milk
sufficient to give a clear arersatisfactory compendium of thews
of the week. That there may be no d.ley, however, to thenp
gar insertion of Advertisements, an addition will be made, grits
tously, to the common limits of the Paper, by moos of a, Sy,
pigment, as often as it shall be necessary.
besides the information that is Usually obtained from tbe!t•
riodical Works, which appear in different parts of the Simi'
Private Intelligence will be forwarded from London ham
mos: respectable authorities, of such events as may tranqial
the interval between the publication of the Nesvi.papers odes
departure of the Post.
Nu opportunity will he omitted of giving the most nettio
formation on Political Subjects, and of gratifying the gesteisi
lively intentst which is at present exerted by^ the situation of.
on the Continent.
White it is proposed to giveparticular, and even tnie
of the Foreign intelligence, it is also intended to bring s.°
view, as frequently as possible, the sub ranee of those 021511
detached facts and contradictory hints, in which Informs"u
genera topics, and events, even of the greatest impoll
often communicated.:,
departtueut allotted to Domestic Intoligence caul
an object of more than ordinary attention. The Proprietonr
deed, hope, from their industry and inCue..ce, and the plant.
Scottish Nona"

oiew has be
Porters of t4at
uses of science.
consequences of
appear to bale
tor. It is'at to
of a free press
Cation at any at,
free discussion. Nt
,ho in other i.
imputation cag
n,
linded by In
its sting, Ha
if motive is
or. This is sta.
inctly calledu
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s sorposed to it arm

they have adopted, that theil superiority in Scottish Neuter
evinced in the most satisfactory manner.
Tbe Proprietors of the Edinburgh Weekly Chroniclettlli
sensible of the little regird which is paid to prOftNilatt
pendence, and declarations of principles, from the yea*
weakness which so often follow, that they will forbear POO
thing on this head. They have only to observe, that the/
alwa; *be more eager to cotutuuticate useful inforntatits
anxious to guide the pub!.c opieh a; that they will be WO
rout of detailing 7;:ts, and giving dear views of subject')
tor and kt _obtruding their own sentiments; and tat dui
ever be more zealous of distinguishing themselves by their
dastry and their candour, than ambitious of attracting at&
smartness of observation or keenness of remark. Iheir ,
aim, in short, will be, by a judicious and impartial Seleci"'._
Articles, to produce a well-digested Miscellany, or Ego'
Evens, in a concise style—where every occurrence and WI
b: detailed in a manner suitable to their importance.
It is unnecessary, as indeed it is impossible, to enumerate
precision the nature of the different Articles which Will
place in this Paper—all that is here intended is, to giveln
of the Plan on which it is to be conducted. For a more
acquaintance with the design, and the manner in which ill: •
be executed, the public are referred to the First Numb'?
will be published on the 7th of December next, sod sc"'",l
gratis, or sent, free of expense, agreeably to any directito
which the publishers may be favoured.
To be printed by and tor Mundel, Doig, and Steeensethi#,
'Pent Stairs ; to whom, or to William Watson (the 1140.0
den and Communications may br addressed.
LONDON : Printed and Published by LEVEL KENT'
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