Excerpt from The Boston Port Bill as Pictured by a Contemporary London CartoonistFree discussion of both sides of the Ameri can question predominated in the columns of the newspapers. The editors gave much space to news from America, and lamented, that, owing to the government's practice of searching the mail bags from America, they were hampered in their efforts to enlighten their readers more fully on this all-important topic. The attitude of the newspapers, at this time, and during the war which followed, was thus fittingly described in The History of British Journalism written by Alexander Andrews, and published in Lon don nearly half a century ago.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.