ThePublic Advertiser was a London newspaper in the 18th century.

ThePublic Advertiser was originally known as theLondon Daily Post and General Advertiser, then simply theGeneral Advertiser consisting more or less exclusively of adverts. It was taken over by its printer,Henry Woodfall (1713–1769), and relaunched as thePublic Advertiser^[1] with much more news content. In 1758, the printer's nineteen-year-old son,Henry Sampson Woodfall took it over. H. S. Woodfall sold his interest in thePublic Advertiser in November 1793.^[2] A successorPublic Advertiser, or Political and Literary Diary was printed for some months by N. Byrne but was out of business by 1795.^[3]

The anonymous polemicistJunius sent his public letters to thePublic Advertiser.

Benjamin Franklin published eleven essays attacking the controversialTownsend Acts in thePublic Advertiser early in 1770. The letters can be viewed in volume seventeen ofThe Papers of Benjamin Franklin.^[4]

• From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899 by Bob Clarke,Ashgate Press, 2005

• Franklin, Benjamin (1969). Labaree, Leonard W. (ed.).The papers of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. XVII. New Haven: Yale University Press.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

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