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    defcttftt' * £ etrtfah * rt ; * rr < f , if any person be generajiy Antf avowedl y known to fere the editor of a paper , be would lose table if he irtre tiNs

    viously considered of the clefts gentlernanL This rende r * it inettfoDeitt on gentlemen , who become editors of newspapers , carefully to keep from ike circle in which timy move all knowledge of the fact ; arid , though it may sometimes be vrhi&pered tbatMv . A * is the editor of euch a paper / men avoid alluding to U > as they would avoid aiiudipg , in the presence of his brother , to a man who had been hanged . '

    (Thomas Barnes and Edward Sterling are then set forth as joint editors of the Times' newspaper ; and matter follows which led Edward Sterling to leader a cartel of defiance to Jo&rt Roebuck . The silence of Thomas Barnes would seem to indicate his

    acknowledgment of the truth of it . But Edward Sterling , feeling himself aggrieved , or at any rate annoyed , indited a long" epistle to John Roebuck , containing , amongst other matter , the following sentences : I have never been technically or morally connected with the editorship of the ?* Time */* not possessing over the course or choice of it * politics any power or influence whatever , nor , by consequence , being responsible for its acts .

    ' My first purpose is to contradict , in distinct and unequivocal terms , generally and individuall y * one and all the assertions which the author of the pamphlet has made with reference to myself . ' The error committed by John Roebuck was in asserting that Edward Sterling was an editor of the ' Times , ' and of this emrf Edward Sterling seems to have taken advantage , for the purpose of leadi notstrictl editor

    special p ng . He was , y speaking , an ; but what then ? He does not deny that he was a writer ot leading articles , and that he constantly used the editorial ' We * in his writings for the * Times . ' He was not an editor , but not the less an employe . I do not believe that he wrote the blackguard articles ; ' there is but one man who , to use his own phrase , can pitch into' the public in that particular style . Edward

    Sterling is a grave old gentleman , a beau of the old school , on * who would not for the world commit a solecism in politeness , bnt still one who would think plain-dealing in political matters the very height of absurdity . He seems to be one of those men who possess ho capacity for inductive logic , and are therefore given to prosing , but who nevertheless run down a hackneyed subject

    tolerabl y well . It seems odd that John Roebuck should cbwg * him with being editor of the 'Times , ' when him own knowledge of hi * character and capabilities must have convinced him that he was devoid of the necessary shrewdness for such an office . True or false , the general understanding in the newspaper world 49 HI the position of Edward Sterling has been , that he was on& of hip * Majesty V eapfcains bold , who , in addition to his half-pay atjfd private means , had no objection to receiving a thousand pounds 2 R 2

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1835, page 551, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2648/page/51/