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as he called him, led to his secession in 1815 or 1816. Stoddart was the
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Doctor Slop whom Tom Moore derided in his gay little Whig lampoons. The next editor was Thomas Barnes, a better scholar and a far abler man. He had been a contemporary of Lamb at Christ's Hospital, and a rival of Blomfield, afterwards Bishop of London. While a student in the Temple he wrote the _Times_ a series of political letters in the manner of
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Junius, and was at once placed as a reporter in the gallery of the House. Under his editorship Walter secured some of his ablest contributors, including that Captain Stirling,
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The Thunderer,