Caledonian Mercury was the name of a Scottish newspaper, published three times a week between 1720-1867. Numbers published from 1800 on are available online for registered users of the National Library of Scotland

National Library of Scotland

The National Library of Scotland is the legal deposit library of Scotland and is one of the country's National Collections. It is based in a collection of buildings in Edinburgh city centre. The headquarters is on George IV Bridge, between the Old Town and the university quarter...

 website.

Currently it is a Scottish online newspaper

Online newspaper

An online newspaper, also known as a web newspaper, is a newspaper that exists on the World Wide Web or Internet, either separately or as an online version of a printed periodical....

 taking its name after its printed predecessor and the even earlier Mercurius Caledonius

Mercurius Caledonius

The Mercurius Caledonius - Comprising The Affairs now in Agitation in Scotland With A Survey of Forraign Intelligence, founded in Edinburgh in 1660 by the playwright Thomas Sydserf, the son of the Bishop of Galloway, was Scotland's first newspaper. Only 12 editions were published during 1660 and...

(1660–1661). Set up by Stewart Kirkpatrick, formerly (2000–2007) responsible for The Scotsman

The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a British newspaper, published in Edinburgh.As of August 2011 it had an audited circulation of 38,423, down from about 100,000 in the 1980s....

webpage, and launched late at night on 24 January 2010, it is supposed to "rarely cover breaking news, concentrating on analytical, discursive reporting".