''The Examiner'' (originally titled Examiner, or Remarks upon Papers and Occurrences) was a newspaper commenced on 3 August 1710 and edited by

Jonathan Swift Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. In 1713, he became the Dean (Christianity), dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and was given the sobriquet "Dean Swi ...

from 2 November 1710 to 1714. It promoted a

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perspective on British politics, at a time when Queen Anne had replaced Whig ministers with Tories.Frank H. Ellis, "Arthur Mainwaring as Reader of Swift's 'Examiner'" ''The Yearbook of English Studies'', Vol. 11, Literature and Its Audience, II Special Number (1981), pp. 49-66 The newspaper was founded by John Morphew and it was launched by the Tories to counter the press of the Whig party. Among its first editors were philosopher and politician

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (; 16 September 1678 – 12 December 1751) was an English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tory (British political party), Tories, and supported the ...

Francis Atterbury Francis Atterbury (6 March 1663 – 22 February 1732) was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and ban ...

, chaplain of King William III, and the poet and diplomat Matthew Prior. Another notable contributor was Delarivier Manley. In 1711, Swift published the political pamphlet ''The Conduct of the Allies'', attacking the Whig government for its inability to end the prolonged war with France. The incoming Tory government conducted secret (and illegal) negotiations with France, resulting in the

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(1713) ending the

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