The British merchant; or, Commerce preserv'd: in answer to The Mercator, or Commerce retriev'd. To be publish'd every Tuesday and Friday.1713 September 18-22Published as a Whig response to the Tory "Mercator", edited by Daniel Defoe; appears to have been more interested in party politics than economic or foreign news, apart from its detailed account of the import trade. Cf. McLeod.Semiweeklytext