Little criticism was given the watch or the firemen, though neither fully protected the city. In 1812 the journal very properly attacked the “snug watch-boxes” in which the police were wont to sit, and demanded that the men be warmly dressed and kept constantly on patrol. During 1818 its complaints of the insufficiency of the police redoubled, and in 1823, when the total annual expense to the city was $56,000, Coleman asserted that for almost the whole ward surrounding Coenties Slip, with many valuable warehouses, there was but one watchman. The editor, using the adjectives “noisome,” “beastly,” “filthy,” spoke of the jail and bridewell in 1812 as standing reproaches to New York. He also condemned “the abominable practises of the marshals, constables, low attornies, and a number of other wretches” who hung about the courts and bridewell to prey upon arrested men. The _Evening Post_ at intervals till 1820 complained of a lack of inspection in public markets; while with almost equal regularity it scored the neglect of the Battery, whose only caretakers were too often the hogs. The one reform of the time which the paper opposed was the aldermanic decree in the spring of 1820 that no more interments should take place south of Canal, Sullivan, and Grand Streets. This was good sense; but Coleman, as a spokesman for the wealthy merchant families, objected because it rendered many family burial plots or vaults worthless, and because the nearest available cemeteries were three and a half miles from the city. II We have already named the daily newspapers which existed when Hamilton and his associates established the _Evening Post_. The oldest of the five was the _Daily Gazette_, which had been founded as a weekly in 1725; the _Post_ made six, Dr. Irving’s _Morning Chronicle_, patronized by Burr, seven, and the _Public Advertiser_ eight. In 1807 the whole list of city publications was as follows: Federalist:--_Evening Post_; _Commercial Advertiser_; _Daily Gazette_; _Weekly Inspector_; and _People’s Friend_. Clintonian:--_American Citizen_; _Public Advertiser_; and _Bowery Republican_. Lewisite (Morgan Lewis was the inheritor of Burr’s mantle):--_Morning Chronicle_. Neutral:--_Mercantile Advertiser_; _New York Spy_; _Price Current_. Literary:--_Monthly Register_; _Ladies’ Weekly Miscellany_; _Weekly Museum_.