The first issue of the radical quarterly founded by Jeremy Bentham, The Westminster Review, established as the official organ of the Philosophical Radicals, is published in London on January 24, 1824.

The first edition features an article by James Mill (it will be continued in the second by his son John Stuart Mill), which serves as a provocative reprobation of a rival, more well-established journal, the Edinburgh Review, castigating it as an organ of the Whig party, and for sharing the latter’s propensity for fence-sitting in the aristocratic interest.

The controversy draws in a wide public response; much, however, critical.