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Identifier: williamhonehisli00hackrich (find matches)
Title: William Hone; his life and times
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Hackwood, Frederick William, 1851-
Subjects: Hone, William, 1780-1842
Publisher: London (etc.) T. F. Unwin
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Dog chop-house in Holywell Street, whenCruikshank proposed to Hone to publish a sort of comicnewspaper interspersed with caricatures, and consistingof all sorts of curious and eccentric paragraphs. Theidea was a happy one, and was acted upon at once,though Hone transformed the original suggestion intoa burlesque of the New. Times, the organ of his mortalenemy, Stoddart. The object of the satire, which ran through severaleditions, was Dr. John Stoddart, who had been aleader-writer on the Tintes, but having had a differencewith the proprietors, had parted from them, and in1817 had started a rival daily paper, which he calledthe New Times. In this sheet he constituted himselfthe champion of the Bridge Street Gang —Honesname for the Constitutional Society. Though Hone stigmatises Stoddarts work as sloppy, he was a capable journalist, a good lawyer,and a sound scholar. His lick-spittle sycophancy wonhim a knighthood from George IV. in 1826 ; two yearslater the New Times ceased to exist.
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POLITICAL PAMPHLETEERING 225 On the day of his third trial Hone had encounteredDr. Stoddart in the precincts of the Court, and therefound cause to complain bitterly of his conduct.Stoddarts journal was always ready to perform anydirty work which would be deemed acceptable to thosein power ; and he had maliciously circulated a reportthat a man had been tried and convicted by a jury,and summarily sent to punishment for publishing thevery parodies for which Hone, the arch-offender, hadbeen twice acquitted. The defendants wrath andindignation were intense ; he would proclaim Dr. Slop(a name given to Stoddart before he was dismissedfrom the Times on account of the profane curses lavishedby him on Napoleon Buonaparte) a villain to his face,whenever and wherever he should meet him. Thence-forward Hones hatred of Stoddart will be found to runthrough all his political publications. As for theBridge Street Gang, he regarded that party as theembodiment of all political evil. The SLap at Slop, in

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