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Publicola was Mr. Williams, a violent and coarse but very vigorous and popular writer. He wrote weekly for about sixteen or seventeen years, and after his death the signature was assumed by Mr. Fox, the famous orator and member for Oldham. Other writers also borrowed the well-known signature. Eliza Cooke wrote in the _Dispatch_ in 1836, at first signing her poems
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E. and
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E.C. ; but in the course of the following year her name appeared in full. She contributed a poem weekly for several years, relinquishing her connection with the paper in 1850. Afterwards, in 1869, when the property changed hands, she wrote two or three poems. Under the signature
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Caustic, Mr. Serle, the dramatic author and editor, contributed a weekly letter for about twenty-seven years; and from 1856 till 1869 was editor-in chief. In 1841-42 the _Dispatch_ had a hard-fought duel with the _Times_.
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Publicola wrote a series of letters, which had the effect of preventing the election of Mr. Walter for Southwark. The _Times_ retaliated when the time came for Alderman Harmer to succeed to the lord mayoralty. Day after day the _Times_ returned to the attack, denouncing the _Dispatch_ as an infidel paper; and Alderman Harmer, rejected by the City, resigned in consequence his aldermanic gown. In 1857 the _Dispatch_ commenced the publication of its famous
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Atlas,