Jacobite's

The _Jacobite's Journal_ appeared at a moment when public opinion, and public gossip also, seem to have been immersed in the question whether a notorious pamphlet purporting to have been found among the papers of a late Minister, Mr. Thomas Winnington, were genuine or a libel.

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

He called his new paper "_The Jacobite's Journal_, by John Trott Plaid Esq're.," and the ironic title was accompanied by a woodcut traditionally associated with Hogarth.

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

The Jacobite's Journal appeared at a moment when public opinion, and public gossip also, seem to have been immersed in the question whether a notorious pamphlet purporting to have been found among the papers of a late Minister, Mr. Thomas Winnington, were genuine or a libel.

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

The Hanoverian philippics of “Mr Trott-Plaid” were still resounding in the Jacobite's Journal.

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

The first number of the Jacobite's Journal was dated Dec. 5,

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

Ten days later the Jacobite's Journal had ceased to exist; and that a rumour was abroad connecting this demise of the Journal with the bestowal of a new and arduous post on its editor appears from a paragraph in the London Evening Post.

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

He called his new paper “The Jacobite's Journal, by John Trott Plaid Esq're.,” and the ironic title was accompanied by a woodcut traditionally associated with Hogarth.

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

This abuse seems to have broken out with an excess of virulence not long after the appearance of the Jacobite's Journal; a fate, as Fielding observes, little to be expected by the editor of a loyal paper.

Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

In plan, and general appearance, it resembled the Jacobite's Journal, consisting mainly of an introductory Essay, paragraphs of current news, often accompanied by pointed editorial comment, miscellaneous articles, and advertisements.

Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883

Among these was again the excellent Richardson, who seems to have been wholly unpropitiated by the olive branch held out to him in the Jacobite's Journal.

Fielding Dobson, Austin 1883