REPORTING M.P.'s ELOQUENCE.
In gossiping about one of the oldest of ourrenfc periodicals—the "Gentleman's Magazine," the "Academy" revives the xeoolleotion that Edward Gave, its founder, was the first to attempt the reporting of Parliamentary debates: —It was illegal to do so, and Gave got into tronble more than, once, particularly over the Lovat trial in 1747. But he held to his illegal practices for many year a. Concealed in the House or in She Strangers' Gallery be and his lieutenant Guthrie ajad others would make notes, and rer •tire afterwards to compare tbeirf and have them vtiritten up. When prohibited from reporting the proceedings openly, be published the ""Debates in the Senate of LilJjiput," much as the "London" gave Latin >aames to the speakers In the House and pretended to be telling ■of ancient Home. Id 1743 Guthrie was dismissed, and Johnson took iJbis place. How Johnson did the -work is notorious; he invented the speeohes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8133, 7 May 1906, Page 7
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156REPORTING M.P.'s ELOQUENCE. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIX, Issue 8133, 7 May 1906, Page 7
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