Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-10-02
THE LC.!DON PRESS.

THE LCrDON PRESS.
From the las. number Of the Edinburgh RerseU.
The MoRNlNG CHRoNiCLE.-ih ms
paper We nave been long USED to think
the best, both for Amusement AID IN
struction, that issued from the daily
press. 1t is full. but not crowded; and
we have breathins.spsces and openings
left to pause upon each subject we
have plenty and variety. The reader
of a morning paper ought not to be
erammed TO safety lie ought to rise
from the psrusai light and refreshed.
Attention is paid to every topic, but
none is over. done. THERE'S liherality
and decorum. Every class Of readers
is accommodated with its tavorite artl-
cles, served up with taste, ana without
sparing for the sbarpes' sauces. A co
ply Of verses 10 supplied by one OF the
popular poets of the day; prose essay
appears in another page, which, had II
been written two nundyed years ago,
might still have been lead with adsnira-
ton: correction of disputed reading,
in classical author, is contributed by
a learned correspondent. The poliii-
clan may look profound over a grave
dissertation on point OF constitutional
history;a lady may smile at rebus or
charade. Here. Pitt and Fox, Burke
anu Sher dan, ms,ntsined their nightly
comba,s over again; here Person criu-
eised, and kyll punned.
From the time of Woodfall. the
Morning Chronicle was distinguished
by lis superior excellence IN reporting
the proceedings OF Parliament. Wood.
fall himself often filled the whole paper
without any assistance. This, besides
the ardousDess of the Undertaking, re-
cessarily occasioned delay. At present.
several reporters take the different
speeches In succession-(each remain.
idg an hour at a time)--go Immediate
ly, and transcribe their notes ioI the
press: and by this means, all the ea''y
pact Of a debate is actually printed be-
fore The last speaker has risen upon his
legs. The publ, read the next day at
breakfast-tine (PeIhats) what would
make hundred octave pages; every
NO Of witch has been sppNei, writ
ten out and printed within the last IL
or Ia hours
Tie Times newspaper lie, we sup
pose, en,,sled 70 the character it gives
itself, OF being the Leading Journal OF
Europe and ia perhaps the greatest
engine Of temporary opinion IN the
world. Still 1T is not to our taste, eIther
in matter OF manner. It's elaborate,
bot heavy; foil, hut not readable; IT Is
stuffed up with official documents, with
matter.of-t tact details. IL seemsIDtend-
ed to be deposited in the otnce OF the
Keeper of the Records, and might be
imagined TO be composed as we'll ar
painted with steam-eDsine II IL
pompous, dogmatlcal, and full OF pre-
tensions, but nei her high, various, nor
agreeable. II sells more, contains more,
than any other paper aud when you
have said this, you have SAID all. ~
presents most formidable front 10 the
| mex perienced reader. IL makes toll
| OF O pleasure. II H. said 20 be cslcula-
ted Tor persons IN business, and yet It
is the business ct the whole morning to
get Though it. Batting volumnlous de,
tails OF what had better be omitted, the
same things are better done in the
Chronicle. To say nothing OF poetry
(which may be thought too frivolous
aud attenvateo for the atmosphere oi
the city)the prose is inferior No squat
ly sterling articles can be referred to in
! 1t, enher tor argument or wit. Move.
in short. is effected in the Morning.
ChroaiCle, wiihou, the fofmaliiy, and
without the effort. The Times is 20,
/ classical paper 1t isaeo mereial ps
per, paper of business, and It is con
Quoted on principles Of trade and bust.