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The ''Cambridge Intelligencer'' was an English weekly newspaper, appearing from 1793 to 1803, and edited by Benjamin Flower. It has been called "the most vigorous and outspoken liberal periodical of its day". Flower suffered imprisonment for contempt of the House of Lords, for remarks made in the ''Intelligencer'' against Richard Watson, bishop of Llandaff. His case followed that of Gilbert Wakefield, followed a different procedure, and had a temporary chilling effect on radical publishing at the end of the 18th century.〔Clive Emsley, ''Repression, "Terror" and the Rule of Law in England during the Decade of the French Revolution'', The English Historical Review Vol. 100, No. 397 (Oct., 1985), pp. 801-825, at p. 819. Published by: Oxford University Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/572566〕 ==Editorial policy== The ''Intelligencer'' first appeared on 20 July 1793, and from the start opposed the French Revolutionary Wars.〔M. J. Murphy, ''Newspapers and Opinion in Cambridge, 1780-1850'', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society Vol. 6, No. 1 (1972) , pp. 35-55, at p. 39. Published by: Cambridge Bibliographical Society. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/41154513〕 It was one of a number of provincial journals opposed to the administration of William Pitt the Younger; and managed to sustain its editorial independence. It opposed the Anglo-Irish Union.〔Peter Jupp, ''Britain and the Union, 1797-1801'', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Sixth Series, Vol. 10, (2000), pp. 197-219, at p. 217. Published by: Royal Historical Society. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3679379〕 The ''Intelligencer'' was considered to represent the standpoint of rational dissent, and was called "the most infamous paper that ever disgraced the press", by the ''Anti-Jacobin''. By 1796 James Montgomery was asking the editor acting for him not to reprint material from the ''Intelligencer''. Flower was able to continue editorial work while confined to Newgate Prison in 1799, lodging with the gaol keeper John Kirby.〔Whelan, p. 55 note 2.〕 The paper ran editorials, an innovation associated with the radical press of this period. Flower was anticipated in this development, which had been in use for a few years in the ''Sheffield Register'' of Joseph Gales, the ''Derby Mercury'' of William Ward, and Montgomery's ''Sheffield Iris''.〔Whelan, p. xxiii note 26.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cambridge Intelligencer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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