The first number was published in 1814 in Swansea by the local Baptist minister and writer Joseph Harris (Gomer).

[1] The weekly was intended to cover news from the whole of Wales and from overseas, as well as literary material.

Its success was limited: it went out of business in 1815 after 85 editions, partly due to the heavy tax on newspapers and a shortfall in advertising revenue.

The writer and poet Evan Owen Allen was among its contributors.

When Harris died in 1825, the paper was purchased by Carmarthen publisher Hugh William Jones [cy] and became a quarterly Baptist magazine.