Writing at birth for aristocratic Tory buyers and springing from the same firm as Murray's Magazine, the Quarterly was nevertheless ecumenical in its remarks on the press. They indicated its numerous manifestations, often accompanied by attempts to limit its clout, and its practitioners.

1. [Jacob, William]. “Travels in Brazil.” 31 (1824–25): 1–26.

Toured Brazil where the “few journals had a very limited circulation” and the chief news interest was trade.

2. [Blunt, J. J.]. “Tour in Germany.” 31 (1824–25): 174–97.

Exclaimed that “Dresden is perhaps the only respectable capital in Europe where no newspaper is published.” People either had “no political appetite” or had enough information from Leipzig and French and British gazettes, such as The Times and Morning Chronicle.

3. [Southey, Robert]. “Lisbon.” 31 (1824–25): 378–90.

Communicated that Lisbon had “no literary journals.”

4. [Barrow, John]. “South America.” 32 (1825): 125–52.

Registered that the press was relatively free in Brazil, and “several gazettes or newspapers are published and respectably conducted in Buenos Aires.”

5. [Barrow, John]. “The Australian Colonies.” 32 (1825): 311–42.

Introduced the Sydney press as the Australian Magazine, Australian Newspaper, and Sydney Gazette.

6. [Croker, J. W.]. “Pichot's Literary Tour.” 32 (1825): 342–55.

Review of A. Pichot's Voyage Historique et Litteraire en Angleterre et en Europe laughed at his notion that the Morning Post was the best newspaper for “regular, reasoned, literary criticism.”