TIMES, HERALD, CHRONICLE, ETC

We are enabled, by the courtesy of several correspondents, to furnish some reply to the Query of D. (No. 1 p. 7) *The Times* first appeared under that title on the 1st January, 1788, but bore the Number 941, it being a continuation, under a new name, of the *Universal Register*, of which 940 numbers had been published. --*The Morning Chronicle* must have commenced in 1769, as a correspondent, F.B., writes to tell us that he possesses No. 242. dated Monday, 12th March, 1770. See further Nichol's *Literary Anecdotes*, i. 303; and for *Morning Advertiser*, established in 1794, the same volume, p.…