Jackson’s news columns were every bit as full in comparison as the London papers to-day. With politics, too, he dealt very fully. In a short and pithy editorial, however, he assured his readers that his own political views did not count--he was merely running the paper. This, odd as it may seem, was sound diplomatic policy, because in those days, with ever-changing party feeling, it was a mere matter of five minutes to issue an injunction, stop the press, and confiscate the whole plant. Devoted as he was to political interest Jackson printed many of the promised “curious Pieces of Prose and Verse.” “RECEIPT TO MAKE A VOTE. “_By the cook of Sir J. D----d._ “Take a Cottager of Thirty shillings a Year, tax Him at Forty; Swear at Him; Bully Him; take your business from Him; Give Him your business again; make Him drunk; Shake Him by the Hand; Kiss his Wife, and he is an Honest Fellow. “_N.B._--The above Cook will make Affidavit before any Justice of the Peace, that this Receipt has been try’d on the Body of Billy S---- and several others in the Neighbourhood of K--rtle--n, and never failed of Success.” The other political contribution took the form of an election song, the sort of thing that the Undergraduates of those times would seize upon and parade the streets of the university, chanting right lustily in gangs. “ADVICE TO FREEHOLDERS. “Ye honest Freeholders, bestir all your stumps; For all now depends upon who turns up Trumps. Be sure that you chuse Neither Placemen nor Jews. Nor such as are likely their trust to abuse. To the devil you’re sold if the Conj’rer prevails; If Israel’s Black Seed, beware of your Tails. _Chorus._ “Alas! that poor Britons should lose for their Sins Their Liberties, Properties and their Fore-Skins.” In addition to such contributions in prose and verse, the columns of the Journal were open to any keen correspondent who cared to air either his views or his grievances--an opportunity of which the fullest advantage was taken. In every issue urgent appeals and exhortations to voters and freeholders appeared over various names. The advertisement columns, such as they were, contained frequent announcements of the publication of political pamphlets addressed to the “Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of the country of Oxford.” These columns contained also the most curious hotch-potch of unexpected posts and requests, such as: “TO BE DRUNK FOR BY CANDLE, “AT WILL’S COFFEE-HOUSE, IN OXFORD, ON WEDNESDAY NEXT, “A LIVING, “Worth near _Thirty Pounds_ per Annum, besides Surplice fees and other emoluments. None but True Blue Parsons to drink for it. Three Gentlemen with White Wigs and Red Faces are already entered.