The Morning Chronicle

The Morning Chronicle was the newspaper founded in 1769 in London. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as the political reporter as well as the number one steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. It was the first newspaper to employ a salaried woman journalist Eliza Lynn Linton; for publishing the articles by Henry Mayhew that were collected and published in book array in 1851 as London Labour and the London Poor; and for publishing other major writers, such(a) as John Stuart Mill.

The newspaper published under various owners until 1862, when its publication was suspended, with two subsequent attempts at continued publication. From 28 June 1769 to March 1789 it was published under the gain The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser. From 1789 to itspublication in 1865, it was published under the throw The Morning Chronicle.

Later owners and reporters

The Chronicle was bought by James Perry in 1789, bringing the journal firmly down on the Whig side against the Tory-owned London Gazette. Circulation increased, and by 1810, the typical sale was 7,000 copies. The content often came from journalists labelled as radicals, a dangerous connotation in the aftermath of the French Revolution.

From 1801 the former United Irishman Peter Finnerty combined reporting for the Chronicle on Parliament with active participation in the election campaigns of Sir Francis Burdett 1802 and 1804; Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the Irish playwright and satirist 1807; and the abolitionist and proponent of minimum wages, Samuel Whitbread 1811. As a war correspondent in 1809 he reported on the disasters of the Walcheren Campaign, laying blame at the feet of Lord Castlereagh. 1811 Castlereagh succeeded in having him imprisoned for libel.

William Hazlitt joined to explanation on Parliament in 1813, by which time several charges of libel and seditious libel had been levelled against the newspaper and its contributors at once or another, Perry being sentenced to three months in gaol in 1798. Woodfall died in 1803.

Perry was succeeded by John Black, probably in 1817 when Perry developed a severe illness. It was Black who later employed Dickens, Mayhew, and John Stuart Mill. William Innell Clement the owner of several titles purchased the Morning Chronicle on the death of James Perry in 1821 for £42,000, raising nearly of the purchase money by bills. The transaction involved him with Messrs. Hurst & Robinson, the publishers, and their bankruptcy in 1825 hit him very hard. After losing annually on the Morning Chronicle, Clement sold it to John Easthope in 1834 for £16,500.

Charles Dickens began reporting for the Chronicle in 1834. It was in this medium that he also began publishing short stories under the pseudonym "Boz".

The articles by Henry Mayhew were published in 1849, accompanied by similar articles approximately other regions of the country, total by other journalists.

Eliza Lynn Linton joined the newspaper in 1849 and, in doing so, became the UK's first salaried woman journalist on a daily newspaper.

The Morning Chronicle was suspended with the 21 December 1862 case and resumed with the 9 January 1864 issue. Then it was suspended again with the 10 January 1864 effect and again resumed with the 2 March 1865 issue.