A new weekly newspaper on independent principles
Subtitle: on Wednesday, September 28th, 1825, will be published, price seven-pence, the first number of the Nottingham Mercury : prospectus : in a town, containing nearly 50,000 inhabitants, a paper, combining the general advantages of an unbiassed, an impartial, and independent political reporter - the general features of a commercial, an agricultural, a mechanical gazette, - in short, the various adaptations of a provincial newspaper, with the more particular advantages of an early vehicle of commercial information and advertisement - has long been desirable ... An attempt on the part of the Proprietors, to demonstrate the utility of their paper, would be a waste of words: but it is an imperative duty of the Proprietors of the Nottingham Mercury, to give to their fellow townsmen ... their pledge, that the columns of the Mercury shall combine every benefit of a correct, a free, a firm newsaper ... The Mercury will be printed and published by Jonathan Dunn, Mercury Office, Market-Place, Nottingham ...
Contributors: Dunn, Johathan, -1834
Publisher: Printed by J. Dunn
Published: 1825
Place of publication: Nottingham
Language: eng
Subjects: English newspapers; Nottingham mercury
Other titles: On Wednesday, September 28th, 1825, will be published, price seven-pence, the first number of the Nottingham Mercury
Notes: Title from caption and beginning of text.