True Sun (London newspaper)

For the 1840 American newspaper The True Sun, see Benjamin Day (publisher).

The True Sun was a London, pro-Whig, evening newspaper that was first published on 5 March 1832 and ceased publication in December 1837. It was published daily except Sundays.[1]

In 1832–1834 Charles Dickens was a reporter for The True Sun.[2]

In December 1833 Henry Hunt brought a libel action against the True Sun's proprietor Patrick Grant, publisher John Bell, and printer John Ager for an article published on 18 December 1832; however, Hunt was awarded damages of one farthing.[3][4] Grant, Bell and Ager were prosecuted, convicted and confined in 1834 to the King's Bench Prison for advocating tax resistance against the British government's window tax.[5][6][7][8]

In July 1835 D. Whittle Harvey purchased The True Sun.[9] In 1837 Murdo Young purchased The True Sun from Whittle Harvey and a co-proprietor and merged it into his newspaper The Sun (which was published from 1792 to 1871).[10]

See also

• The Weekly True Sun

References

1. True sun (microform), National Library of Australia
2. Dickens As A Journalist, The Dickens Fellowship
3. Timperley, Charles Henry (1839). "libel suit against the True Sun". A Dictionary of Printers and Printing. p. 930.
4. "Mr. Henry Hunt, having brought an action against the printer". The Spectator. 7 December 1833.
5. PROSECUTION OF THE TRUE SUN. (Hansard, 23 July 1834)
6. The Whigs and the Press: Report of the Trial of the Proprietors and Printer of the True Sun, for Recommending Non-Payment of the Assessment Taxes: Upon an Ex-officio Information Filed by His Majesty's Attorney-General. True Sun Office. 1834.
7. "action brought against the True Sun". The Spectator. 8 June 1833.
8. "The Court of King's Bench". The Spectator. 8 February 1834.
9. Tait, William; Johnstone, Christian Isobel (1836). "D. Whittle Harvery, M.P., purchases The True Sun". Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. Vol. 3. p. 808.
10. The Northern Highlands in the Nineteenth Century - No. 14