Corbett's short-lived newspaper...

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April 25, 1797

PORCUPINE'S GAZETTE, Philadelphia, April 26, 1797 The front page includes a: "Two Dollars Reward" ad for a runaway indented servant girl, with details. Pages 2 and 3 have reports on the Napoleonic War including a letter signed in type: Buonaparte, which includes: "I shall send you immediately the ten standards which we have taken from the Pope in the different actions we have had with his troops...".
Cobbett was a prolific & controversial publisher who often wrote under the pen name of "Peter Porcupine." He was famous for sniping at his political opponents, usually those of a Jeffersonian-Republican sentiment. The first issue appeared on March 4, 1797 and the newspaper lasted but 770 issues.
There are no fewer than 3 detailed runaway slave ads, one of which takes over half a column with detail (unusual).
Four pages, very wide, never-trimmed margins, nice condition.

Category: The 1600's and 1700's