Anti-Jacobin Review
The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine, or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor, a conservative British political periodical, was founded by John Gifford after the demise of William Gifford's The Anti-Jacobin, or, Weekly Examiner. Gifford and Robert Bisset were the chief writers, and the political philosopher James Mill wrote reviews. Described as "often scurrilous" and "ultra-Tory," the journal contained essays, reviews, and satirical engravings, notably by James Gillray. It grew out of the political ferment of the period and was a vocal element of the British Anti-Jacobin backlash against the ideals of the French Revolution.
The first edition was published on 1 August 1798 and was advertised in The Times as "containing Original Criticism; a Review of the Reviewers; Miscellaneous Matter in Prose and Verse, Lists of Marriages, Births, Deaths and Promotions; and a Summary of Foreign and Domestic Politics."
Contributors included Robert Bisset, John Bowles, Arthur Cayley, George Gleig, Samuel Henshall, James Hurdis, John Oxlee, Richard Penn, Richard Polwhele, John Skinner, William Stevens, and John Whitaker, though as items were frequently published anonymously attributions are often unclear.
It denounced reformers, especially the Evangelicals, and greatly angered them, as William Wilberforce, a leader of the anti-slavery movement, made clear in 1800:
