[Political Mirror or The Scourge of Aristocracy]

• id: 408
• end_date: before May 5, 1801
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 97
• proprietors: John M'Arthur
• start_date: ca. late June 1800
• variant_number: Staunton 03-02
• notes: No surviving issues from this period now known. Lyon withdrew from three of his Virginia journals in summer of 1800, and moved the fourth to Georgetown, D.C., effective August 26, 1800; only surviving number of this title with his imprimatur is issue of June 3, 1800 (I:19), antedating the withdrawals; next surviving issue for May 5, 1801 reports McArthur as sole proprietor and lacks subtitle previously seen in masthead ornament, though the graphic image was still employed; those numbers show that McArthur assumed control of paper sometime in the interim; Courtney married in Richmond in May 1800, and returned there to work shortly thereafter, leaving McArthur alone in Staunton.
• lineage_title: Political Mirror
• Related Bios:
  • John McArthur

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