Gazette

a newspaper. The word is derived from gazetta, a Venetian coin, which was the usual price of the first newspaper printed there, and which name was afterwards given to the paper itself. The first gazette in England was published at Oxford, the court being there, in a folio half sheet, November the 7th, 1665. On the removal of the court to London, the title was changed to the London Gazette . The Oxford Gazette was published on Tuesdays, the London on Saturdays. And these have continued to be the days of publication ever since that publication has been confined to London. All commi ions in the British army, militia, fencible, and volunteer corps must be gazetted. The dates specified in the gazette generally agree in every point with those of the original commi ions. So that by referring to the gazette, an officer may always know the precise day on which he is entitled to receive subsistence from the agent, and to a ume rank in the British army. Should an erroneous statement, however, get into the gazette, or a commi ion be wrong dated therein, a reference to the latter will always supersede any notification in the former.