Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1807-05-07

board ahe Spanish feet. Weuday suppose
thar gsuch paragraphs were dssigusd- by
abe policy Of nufleigh, who Understood she
articles Of p.intlnS, % excite the teFForss
sof the English people. 70 point their Fss
sentiment aga,n. Spain, and % elsss nls.
love for Elizabeth. q ssssSsss
Its remarkable fact whief histpfF 81 q a sss
leithsr 100 idle 10 asss q iqqxaalcll a
lshamed to.relate that ths ns Of well
commuuicatsd 70 Sc0Itand with 6ther, be-
lnehss, the Erst aews paper y hich had ever
illuminated the .gloomsor dispelled the ia
]naticism Of the north. Each army carrie
led lis own daaD,ef with il, expecting to
aconginre BY lis reasoni sg OF TO delude by
,4tiits false hoods, King Charles carried ko;s
]bert Barker with him 10 New Castle ia
l9l6S9, and gsnerAl Cromwell conveyed,
Christopher Higgins TO Leithin i65 -------
i3When Cromwell had here established d
lIcitadeI, Higgins reprinted in November
El652, what had beer already published al
London, !" A Diurnal Of some passages
! and affairs, for the information OF the En-.
glish soldiers" So
Co the 31sss Of December, 1850, APP
peared at Edinburgh, .'Niercurius Gale
donlus. comprlsing The affairs 10 agitaii,n,
with q survey of foreign intelligence. -
thus Scotland WAS 10 enjj ev The luxufy Of
a newspaperyrhich was Of Scottish manu-
feature YET il only centipoedsfortsn mum
sbers, which were very loyal, very i!liferatel
and very affected. by this failure .thefsf
twas not newspaper printed IN Scotland
a, the ara Of The revolution. The few
| had doub less instructed Themselves, dur.
| irg several wears, from thu London Ga
aste; and the many had been TOO basy.
| dnnag the late times with the affairs Of the
Other world, TO be very ag!ons about lie.
rveass of this; even years elapsed afsr.
the revolution before il was deemed ss!5.
By the ,pabiic, or advantageous BY 40 lodi
yidual, 70 print newspaper
The first private, not roy.I newspaper, in
London, began in August, 1922, and WAS d
weekly one ). this was soollfollowed by others,
under the title of Weekly GUARANTEES in the
civil wars the Diurnal and various Mercarics
came forth, which were increased inlumber
during the reigns Of Charles and James H.
| In 1896, the coffee houses OF London, eXeIu-
sive OF the votes Of Parliament every day, had
tnine newspapers every week; butmthe reign
i5of Queen Anne, London first enjoyed tie lux
bury Of newspaper every day; in 1909 there
Ewas ore daily paper, and seventeen other pa
pers II l724 three daily papers were pub
hshed, and eighteen other papers; in 1853,
the number of newspapers sold in all England
according to an average Of three years pre-
ccding, was 7,4ll,757; at the close of the
late reign in 1850 twas e,4o4, 79o; inl79o,
1t was IA, o35, $50: il l79i, was l4s7s4, l55 !;
and in l79s, was l5,oo5,76o. This forms
such ia phenome aon Of curiosity, political and
literary, as has not been paralleied In any
other Part of the world.
| AT present there are 23S weekly provincial
J newspapers published in Great-Britain and
ireland, of each Of which one thousand copies
are sold on the average. FAt six pence each
paper, the annual return to the proprietors is
263,9ool. and at tae duty OF three pence half
penny per paper, they yield to the state
l54,o0Gl, per annu,n Each paper contains
also an average Of forty advertisements, yield
ing to the propriesors, at seven shilings each,
the sum of l47,7s4l. per annum,; and the4'u-
ty, at three shillings peradyertisement, yields
to the state 6S,SS5l. per annum Such are
the wonders of one department only ofourpe-
riodical press.
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