The Public Advertiser was a London newspaper in the 18th century.
6-638: The Public Advertiser was originally known as the London Daily Post and General Advertiser , then simply the General Advertiser consisting more or less exclusively of adverts. It was taken over by its printer, Henry Woodfall (1713–1769), and relaunched as the Public Advertiser with much more news content. In 1758, the printer's nineteen-year-old son, Henry Sampson Woodfall took it over. H. S. Woodfall sold his interest in
12-453: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Henry Sampson Woodfall Henry Sampson Woodfall (21 June 1739 – 12 December 1805) was an English printer and journalist. He was born and lived in London . Woodfall's grandfather Henry Woodfall (c. 1686–1747), was the author of the ballad Darby and Joan , for which John Darby and his wife were the originals:
18-471: The Public Advertiser in 1793. His son George Woodfall (1767–1844) was also in the family printing business. Woodfall's younger brother, William Woodfall (1746–1803), a journalist, established in 1789 a daily paper called the Diary, or Woodfall's Register , in which, for the first time, reports of parliamentary debates were published on the morning after they had taken place. William Woodfall's nickname
24-650: The Public Advertiser in November 1793. A successor Public Advertiser, or Political and Literary Diary was printed for some months by N. Byrne but was out of business by 1795. The anonymous polemicist Junius sent his public letters to the Public Advertiser . Benjamin Franklin published eleven essays attacking the controversial Townsend Acts in the Public Advertiser early in 1770. The letters can be viewed in volume seventeen of The Papers of Benjamin Franklin . This English newspaper–related article
30-581: The age of nineteen, Woodfall took over the control of the newspaper. In it appeared, between 21 January 1769 and 21 January 1772, the famous letters of Junius . In December 1769 Woodfall published a "Letter to the King" by Junius that brought legal charges against Woodfall and five others for seditious libel ; Woodfall's case went before a jury in June 1770 but a verdict of mistrial was handed down by Lord Mansfield in November 1770. Woodfall sold his interest in
36-689: The elder Woodfall had been apprenticed in 1701 to Darby, a printer in Bartholomew Close in the Little Britain area of London, who died in 1730. Woodfall's grandfather printed many of the works of Alexander Pope . Woodfall's uncle George was a bookseller in Charing Cross . His father, Henry Woodfall (1713–1769), was the printer of the newspaper the Public Advertiser , and Woodfall was apprenticed to his father. At
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