The Critical Review (newspaper)

Contributors included Samuel Johnson, David Hume, John Hunter, and Oliver Goldsmith.

The Edinburgh printer Archibald Hamilton started publishing The Critical Review in 1756 with Tobias Smollett as its first editor.

The content was mainly book reviews, which were often long and favourable, with copious verbatim quotations.

Besides Smollett, the writers of the first two volumes have been identified as John Armstrong, Samuel Derrick, Thomas Francklin, and Patrick Murdoch.

[2] After a libel against Admiral Sir Charles Knowles in the Review, Smollett was sentenced to a fine of £100 and three months in King's Bench Prison.