The Royal Gazette was a Jamaican newspaper. It was founded in 1779[1] as The Jamaica Mercury, and Kingston Weekly Advertiser by David Douglass and William Aikman[2] and became The Royal Gazette in 1780 after it obtained government patronage.[3] It was aimed at the white planters and slave-owners on the island and in its early years often contained notices of escaped slaves.[4] It later became the Royal Gazette and Jamaica Times.[5]