Political Mirror

• id: 409
• end_date: before October 6, 1802
• frequency: Weekly
• lineage_id: 97
• proprietors: John M'Arthur
• start_date: By May 5, 1801
• variant_number: Staunton 03-03
• notes: Earliest surviving number of this title is issue for May 5, 1801; numbered as no. 4 of vol. II, that issue suggests that a new volume was begun on April 14, 1801; yet, if the journal had been issued the week before that, then the survivor should have been numbered as no. 12 of a 2nd volume, indicating that sometime after issue of June 3, 1800, there was a 12-week suspension of publication. Also, sometime during period between those survivors, McArthur removed subtitle "Scourge of Aristocracy" from its masthead ornament, though continuing to use the image itself, so shortening the paper's title.
  Latest surviving number of this title now known is that for September 29, 1801; however, McArthur received a license from the Jefferson administration to publish the laws enacted by the 1st session of the 7th Congress, which evidently sustained his paper into the fall of 1802; on October 6, 1802, he wrote to Secretary of State James Madison about payment for publishing the laws of that resent session, noting that he had ceased publication of the Mirror from a want of funds to purchase paper, so end date reported here.
• lineage_title: Political Mirror
• Related Bios:
  • John McArthur

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