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was in the hands of John and Leigh Hunt, the sub-title was "A Sunday paper, on politics, domestic economy, and theatricals", and the newspaper devoted itself to providing independent reports on each of these areas. It consistently published leading writers of the day, including
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in 1808. For the first fifty years it was a leading intellectual journal expounding radical principles, but from 1865 it repeatedly changed hands and political allegiance, resulting in a rapid decline in readership and loss of purpose. The paper ceased publication in 1886.
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would pursue "truth for its sole object"; the paper's radical reformist principles resulted in a series of high-profile prosecutions of the editors. A tradition of publishing accurate news and witty criticisms of domestic and foreign politics was continued by
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in the mid-1860s, the newspaper took the form of a sixteen-page journal priced at 6d, designed to be kept and repeatedly referred to.
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Albany Fonblanque, the journal's political commentator since 1826, took over
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in 1830, serving as editor until 1847. He brought in such contributors as
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was repeatedly sold until the final edition appeared in February 1881.
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Index


Leigh
John Hunt
Lord Byron
Mary Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
William Hazlitt
Albany Fonblanque
John Stuart Mill
John Forster
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Sketches by Boz
The Pickwick Papers
Marmion Savage
William McCullagh Torrens
William Minto
The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens: Anniversary Edition
ISBN
978-0-19-964018-8
A Bookman's Catalogue Vol. 1 A-L: The Norman Colbeck Collection of Nineteenth-Century and Edwardian Poetry and Belles Lettres
ISBN
978-0-7748-0274-1
Keats
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978-0-571-26604-3
"Charles Dickens, the Examiner, and The Fine Old English Gentleman" (1841)
"Savage, Marmion W." 
Dictionary of National Biography

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