ABSTRACT
The ANTIJACOBIN REVIEW AND MAGAZINE (1798–1821), the monthly successor of the more famous Anti-Jacobin; or Weekly Examiner (1797–1798), was edited at first by John Gifford (1758–1818, DNB; not to be confused with William Gifford of the Anti-Jacobin and the Quarterly Review). The politics of the Antijacobin Review, as suggested by its name (which with volume XXXVI became the Antijacobin Review and True Churchman’s Magazine), were conservative and its religion high church. Though it apparently received little direct financial support from any political group, lack of writers of talent made it seem merely a party-line mouthpiece for the Tory establishment. The reviews of Byron’s poems show the complete subservience of the journal to political party-spirit. They praise the anonymous author of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers as a second William Gifford for his attacks on Jeffrey, the Edinburgh Review, Lord Holland, and other Whigs and Whig institutions, but they judge Byron’s subsequent productions harshly because he espoused liberal principles and cultivated Whig friends.
