North Briton

The North Briton was a radical newspaper published in 18th century London.

Only eight days after that newspaper began publication, the first issue of The North Briton came out.

He attacked it in an article of issue 45 of The North Briton.

Throughout the novel, Random is referred to by both himself and others as a "North Briton".

And so The North Briton came into existence.

Entick had printed several copies of The North Briton, but not number 45.

Cardinal Wolsey was an Editor of a paper named North Briton.

Why not The North Briton ?

We can send a copy of The North Briton to the law officers of the Crown.

The North Briton also served as the pseudonym of the newspaper's author, used in advertisements, letters to other publications, and handbills.

Walpole called the decision "a choice so universally approved that I do not think she will be abused even in the North Briton".

In 1763 Wilkes published a satirical pamphlet called 'The North Briton'.

On 19 April the King opened Parliament and four days later number 45 of The North Briton appeared.

So forcefully did he argue that the secretary retired, but the next morning he had presented himself at the offices of The North Briton.

In June 1762 John Wilkes started the newspaper The North Briton.

He had regularly attacked the government in the North Briton newspaper, edition 45 of which was burned by the hangman as a seditious libel.

Although written anonymously, The North Briton is closely associated with the name of John Wilkes.

He came in clutching The North Briton and it was easy to see that he was as angry as the King.

He was beaten by Lord Kennedy's four-year-old North Briton in the first heat of a £50 plate and was withdrawn from the second.

He was the target of vicious caricatures, sustained attacks by the journalist John Wilkes in the North Briton magazine, and even an assassination attempt.

He now became a close ally of John Wilkes, whom he regularly assisted with The North Briton weekly newspaper.

Wilkes's North Briton, simply by its title, satirised Bute's attempt to speak for the nation in the Briton.

In 1763 Wilkes wrote in a periodical called the North Briton that parts of a Speech from the Throne were untrue.

Johnstone became notorious for cudgelling a writer for The North Briton over his comments on Bute's appointments.

Tailors are more conservative than North Briton fanners and they have a more nose-in-the-air attitude than the wife of the most recently knighted nabob.