...Notes Introduction 1. Macaulay wrote in the Edinburgh Review (Sept. 1828) that 'the (Parliamentary) gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of tbe realm'. Edmund Burke had used the term earlier in the House of Commons in 1774: 'there sits a Fourth...

...perceptions, with reporting of parliamentary proceedings becoming not only a press right, but a duty: The gallery in which the reporters sit has become...debates, a practice which seemed to the most liberal statesmen of the old school full of danger to the great safeguards of public liberty, is now regarded...

...wrote, some quotation detectives assumed Carlyle was referring to Lord Macaulay, who said in 1828: "The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm." "Fourth estate" had been used much earlier in both England and France, usually in reference to "the...

...those words, he would have been fined or imprisoned for his temerity. As Lord Macanlay well observes: The gallery in which the reporters sit has become...debates, a practice which seemed to the most liberal statesmen of the old school full of danger to the great safeguards of public liberty, is now regarded...