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_Cottle's Life of Coleridge, when reviewed in the Times._
The _Times_ review of Joseph Cottle's _Reminiscences of Coleridge and
Southey_, appeared Nov. 3. 1847; and on the following day, Mr. Thomas
Holcroft complained by letter of a misrepresentation of his father by
Mr. Cottle.
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_Times, Herald, Chronicle, &c., when first established._
We are enabled, by the courtesy of several correspondents, to furnish
some reply to the Query of D. (No. 1 p. 7)
_The Times_ first appeared under that title on the 1st January, 1788,
but bore the Number 941, it being a continuation, under a new name, of
the _Universal Register_, of which 940 numbers had been published.--_The
Morning Chronicle_ must have commenced in 1769, as a correspondent,
F.B., writes to tell us that he possesses No. 242. dated Monday, 12th
March, 1770. See further Nichol's _Literary Anecdotes_, i. 303; and for
_Morning Advertiser_, established in 1794, the same volume, p.290.
Another correspondent writes:--During 1849 the _Morning Chronicle_ has
completed its 81st year; next in seniority stands the _Morning Post_, at
77; and the _Morning Herald_, at 65. _The Times_ in the numbering of its
days, is in its 64th year, but has not really reached its grand
climacteric, for its three years of infancy passed under the name of
_The Universal Register_, it having only received its present
appellation in the opening of 1788. _The Morning Advertiser_ is wearing
away its 54th year.
_The Public Ledger_, commenced in 1759, or 1760, is however, the oldest
Daily Paper.
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_Dorne the Bookseller--Henno Rusticus, etc._
Sir,--In answer to W. in page 12. of No. 1, I beg to suggest that
Dormer, written Dõmr in the MS.--a common abbreviation--may be the name
of the Oxford bookseller, and _Henno Rusticus_ may be _Homo rusticus_,
"the country gentleman." The hand-writing of this MS. is so small and
illegible in some places, that it requires an Oedipus to decipher it;
and the public will have much reason to thank those lynx-eyed
antiquaries who have taken great pains to render it intelligible. "The
_Sige_ of the End," is of course properly explained to be "the Signe of
the End."