The celebrated James Rivington began his paper, under the formidable title of _Rivington's New York Gazette; or, The Connecticut, New Jersey, Hudson's River, and Quebec Weekly Advertiser_, in 1733. The imprint read as follows: 'Printed at his _ever open_ and uninfluenced press, fronting Hanover Square.' It is well known that Rivington was the royal printer during the whole of the Revolutionary War; and it is amusing to trace the degrees by which his toryism manifested itself as the storm gathered over the country. The title of the paper originally contained a cut of a large ship under sail. In 1774, the ship sailed out of sight, and the King's arms appeared in its place; and in 1775 the words _ever open and uninfluenced_ were withdrawn from the imprint. These symptoms were disliked by the patriots of the country, and in November, 1775, a party of armed men from Connecticut entered the city on horseback, beset his habitation, broke into his printing office, destroyed his presses, and threw his types into _pi_. They then carried them away, melted, and cast them into bullets. Rivington's paper was now effectually stopped--'omitted for want of room'--until the British army took possession of the city. Rivington himself meantime had been to England, where he procured a new printing apparatus, and returning, established '_The New York Royal Gazette_, published by James Rivington, printer to the King's most excellent Majesty.' During the remaining five years of the war, Rivington's paper was the most distinguished for its lies, and its loyalty, of any other journal in America. It was published twice a week; and four other newspapers were published in New York, at the same time, under the sanction of the British officers--one arranged for each day, so that, in fact, they had the advantages of a daily paper. It has been said, and believed, that Rivington, after all, was a secret traitor to the crown, and, in fact, the secret informant of Washington. Be this, however, as it may, as the war drew to a close, and the prospects of the King's arms began to darken, Rivington's loyalty began to cool down; and by 1787 the King's arms had disappeared and the title of the paper, no more the _Royal Gazette_, was simply _Rivington's New York Gazette and Universal Advertiser_. But although he labored to play the republican, he was distrusted by the people, and his paper was relinquished in the course of that year. In 1775, Samuel Loudon commenced his _New York Pacquet and American Advertiser_. When New York fell into the hands of the enemy, Loudon removed to Fishkill, and published his paper there. At the close of the war he returned to the city, and began a daily paper, which was continued many years.