In July 1818 De Quincey became editor of '' The Westmorland Gazette '' , a Tory newspaper published in Kendal , after its first editor had been dismissed . He was unreliable at meeting deadlines , and in June 1819 the proprietors complained about " their dissatisfaction with the lack of ' regular communication between the Editor and the Printer ' " , and he resigned in November 1819 . De Quincey 's political sympathies tended towards the right . He was " a champion of aristocratic privilege , " reserved " Jacobin " as his highest term of opprobrium , held reactionary views on the Peterloo Massacre and the Sepoy rebellion , on Catholic Emancipation and the enfranchisement of the common people , and yet was also a staunch abolitionist on the issue of slavery
Peterloo Massacre
Peterloo Massacre
Thomas De Quincey