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_Cottle's Life of Coleridge, when reviewed in the Times._

The _Times_ review of Joseph Cottle's _Reminiscences of Coleridge and
Southey_, appeared Nov. 3. 1847; and on the following day, Mr. Thomas
Holcroft complained by letter of a misrepresentation of his father by
Mr. Cottle.

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_Times, Herald, Chronicle, &c., when first established._

We are enabled, by the courtesy of several correspondents, to furnish
some reply to the Query of D. (No. 1 p. 7)

_The Times_ first appeared under that title on the 1st January, 1788,
but bore the Number 941, it being a continuation, under a new name, of
the _Universal Register_, of which 940 numbers had been published.--_The
Morning Chronicle_ must have commenced in 1769, as a correspondent,
F.B., writes to tell us that he possesses No. 242. dated Monday, 12th
March, 1770. See further Nichol's _Literary Anecdotes_, i. 303; and for
_Morning Advertiser_, established in 1794, the same volume, p.290.
Another correspondent writes:--During 1849 the _Morning Chronicle_ has
completed its 81st year; next in seniority stands the _Morning Post_, at
77; and the _Morning Herald_, at 65. _The Times_ in the numbering of its
days, is in its 64th year, but has not really reached its grand