The Morning Chronicle
London, Tuesday November 24, 1795

The Battle of Muizenberg in 1795 was a British invasion that resulted in the first British occupation of the Cape Colony, ending Dutch East India Company rule. British warships bombarded the Dutch fort at Muizenberg on August 7, 1795, and British troops advanced, pushing the Dutch forces back until they surrendered the colony on September 16, 1795.

The Morning Chronicle was a newspaper founded in 1769 in London. It was notable for having been the first steady employer of essayist William Hazlitt as a political reporter and the first steady employer of Charles Dickens as a journalist. It was the first newspaper to employ a salaried woman journalist, Eliza Lynn Linton; for publishing the articles by Henry Mayhew that were collected and published in book format in 1851 as London Labour and the London Poor; and for publishing other major writers, such as John Stuart Mill. Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote sonnets for the newspaper in the 1790s.

The newspaper published under various owners until 1862, when its publication was suspended, with two subsequent attempts at continued publication. From 28 June 1769 to March 1789 it was published under the name The Morning Chronicle, and London Advertiser. From 1789 to its final publication in 1865, it was published under the name The Morning Chronicle.

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