The Watchman (periodical)
The Watchman was a short-lived periodical established and edited by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1796. The first number was promised for 5 February 1796 but actually appeared on 1 March. Published by Coleridge himself, it was printed at Bristol by , and appeared every eight days to avoid tax. Publication ceased with the tenth number. The publication contained essays, poems, news stories, reports on Parliamentary debates, and book reviews.
The volumes all contain explicitly political material such as the ‘Introductory Essay’, ; the ‘Essay on Fasts’, ; two anti-Godwinian items, ‘Modern Patriotism’ and ‘To Gaius Gracchus’; ‘To the Editor of the Watchman’ ; and an extract from Coleridge’s lecture ‘On the Slave Trade’.
