In 1766, a British editor, william Bolts, started the first newspaper foe the English audience in calcutta. He criticized the ruling East India Company, and it sent him back to England. In 1780, james Augustus Hickey published Bengal Gazette/General Calcutta Adviser. The size of the four-page newspaper was 12"X8. Hickey too was against the Company Government and published internal news of the employees of the Company. It retaliated by keeping it out of the mail and eventually suppressed it. In November 1781, India Gazette appeared; it supported the government.