bout the latter part of 1716, and worked with Ir. Wilkins in Little Britain, in company with amuel Negus. He then worked for Mr. Watts. 11718, he again visited Ireland, but soon remed to London, and commenced master. In 24, Mr. Gent removed his printing-office from ndon to York, and married a relation of Mr. hite's, with whom he had become acquainted ring his former residence in that city. His idence was in Petergate, the same that had onged to Mr. White. The imprint to one of books states that his printing-office was in ffee-yard, "where that useful art, to which sons of learning are infinitely obliged, is permed after a neat manner." He pursued his iness with diligence until he had attained the anced age of eighty-seven years, being at that e the oldest master printer in England, and reeman of the cities of London, York, and blin. He was interred in the church of St. chael le Belfrey, in York. Mr. Gent was the hor of a great number of small tracts in verse prose, and published a useful compendium, taining some things not in larger histories, tuled, The antient and modern History of the ous City of York; and in a particular manof its magnificent cathedral, commonly ed York-minster, &c. &c. was easy, cheerful, and facetious. If he did not abound, his wants were few, and he secured enough to carry him to his journey's end. He was retainer to the Muses, but rather traversed the plains than ascended any steps up the hill of Parnassus. In 1740 he published the first book of Paradise Lost in rhyme: and ten years afterwards, with somewhat better success, Matrimonial Scenes; consisting of the Seaman's Tale, the Manciple's Tale, the Character of the Wife at Bath, the Tale of the Wife at Bath, and her Five Husbands; all modernized from Chaucer; by A. Jackson. The first refiner of our native lays Chaunted these tales in second Richard's days; The contents of his catalogues of the years 1756, 1757, 1759, and one without date, as specified in their titles, were in rhyme. In 1751, in conjunction with Charles Marsh, he republished, as Shakspeare's, a Briefe conceipte touching the Commonweale of this Realme of England; originally printed in 1581. He quitted his business about a year before his death, having completed his eighty-third year the fourteenth of May preceding. 778, June 1. Died, JOSEPH BENTHAM, an rman of Cambridge, and many years printer 1778, Aug. 12. Died, ROBERT GOADBY, prinhe university. He was born at Ely, in No- ter and proprietor of the Sherborne Mercury, ber, 1708 his father was a very worthy cler- who carried on a large and extensive business an of the diocese of Ely, and descended as a bookseller. Few men have been more ge1 an ancient family in Yorkshire. Mr. Ben- nerally known in the west of England than Mr. a was not eager after money in the way of Goadby, and few had more friends or more enebusiness, but rather ambitious of printing mies. To the freedom of his sentiments on reliis that would do him credit. He printed gious and political subjects, and to the openness rother's valuable History of Ely, at a conwith which he declared them, he was indebted rable expense to himself. He had a great for both. Truth was the object of his researches. for gardening, and a turn for humour. He Mr. Goadby was also the conductor of several a very amiable man, and the only one of six miscellaneous and periodical publications; which hers that was not in orders. He married being sold extremely cheap, and very widely cire, sister and heiress of George Reste, esq. culated, had a considerable good effect, and was buried, as was his wife, in Trumpington proved the means of disseminating a great deal of rch. useful knowledge among persons whose opportu778, July 25. Died, ANDREW JACKSON, book-nities of giving information were few and scanty; r, well known as a dealer in old books, and kletter, for more than forty years, in Clare rt, Drury Lane. Here, like another Magchi, midst dust and cobwebs, he indulged ppetite for reading; legends and romances, ry and poetry, were indiscriminately his urite pursuits. Unlike a contemporary her of the trade, he did not make the sity of his customers the foundation of a ction for his own use, and refuse to part an article, where he found an eagerness in a haser to obtain it. Where he met with a y, he would retain the same till he had fied his own desires in the perusal of it, and part with it agreeable to his promise. ugh placed in an humble rank in life, he and to his praise it should be observed, that he carefully excluded from his publications every thing of an immoral and irreligious tendency. He compiled an Illustration of the Scriptures, three vols. folio; a work, entitled, the Universe Displayed; and he was also the author of the Life of Bamfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars. His weekly paper, the Sherborne Mercury, was uniformly conducted in a manner friendly to the liberties of Englishmen. In particular, he had a just idea of the importance of the liberty of the press and the celebrated axiom of Mr. Hume," the liberties of the press and the liberties of the people must stand or fall together,” was a favourite one with Mr. Goadby. To the poor he was a constant and generous friend. His acts of beneficence were very numerous while he lived; and by his will he left a sum in the stocks, the interest of which was annually distributed among the poor of Sherborne. He left 40s. a : year to the vicars of Sherborne for ever, on con- | May 27, 1780, having latterly been issued twice dition of their preaching an annual sermon upon a-week. Of the one hundred and ten papers to the first Sunday in May, when the beauties of which the Mirror extended, forty-two were connature are in the highest perfection, on the won-tributed by Henry Mackenzie, author of the ders of the creation. The inscription on his tomb | stone, placed there in consequence of his own directions, is another proof that the infinite varieties of vegetation engrossed a considerable share of his attention. It stands in the church yard of Oborne, a small village about a mile from Sherborne, and is as follows: In memory of ROBERT GOADBY, Many of Mr. Goadby's friends apprehended that he injured his health by too great an application to business and study. He was, indeed, of a disposition uncommonly active and assiduous, and could not bear long to be idle. He was not without his faults; but they were few, and not of a singular kind; they were, without doubt, greatly overbalanced by his good qualities, which certainly entitle him to the character of a most active, useful, and worthy member of society. 1778. Johnson's Sunday Monitor. This was the first newspaper published on the sabbath, in Great Britain. It appeared in London. 1778, Aug. 17. Died, WILLIAM CASLON, the second type-founder, who, as an artist had great merit, though not equal to his father; yet the reputation of the foundry suffered no diminution in his hands. He married Miss Elizabeth Cartlitch, only child of Dr. Cartlitch, a lady of beauty and understanding, by whom he had two sons, William and Henry. Mr. Caslon dying without a will, his property became divided in equal proportions between his widow and two sons, but the superintendence devolved on the elder William. Of Mrs. Caslon it would be improper to pass unnoticed. Her merit and ability in conducting a capital business during the life of her husband, and afterwards till her son was capable of managing it, was deserving of all praise. In quickness of understanding, and activity of execution, she left few equals among her sex. On the death of her husband, and their eldest son establishing himself in Moorfields, she conducted the business herself, and continued to do so till disabled by an attack of the palsy, which she survived but a few months, dying Oct. 23, 1795, aged about 70 years. 1778. Died C. HEYDINGER, a German bookseller, in the Strand, London. He was unsuccessful in business, and died in distressed circumstances some time in this year. 1779, Jan. 23. The Mirror, a weekly paper resembling the Spectator, commenced at Edinburgh on this day, in the shape of a small folio sheet, price three half-pence, and terminated Man of Feeling, &c. &c. The sale, during the progress of the publication, never exceeded four hundred copies. When republished in 12mo. volumes, a considerable sum was realized from the copyright, out of which the proprietors presented £100 to the orphan hospital, and treated themselves to a hogshead of claret, to be drunk at their ensuing meetings. The Mirror, though inferior to the Spectator in variety and humour; to the Rambler in dig nity and ethic precept; and to the Adventurer in the field of splendid fiction; yet supports a character which has justly rendered it a favourite with the public. There is, owing in a great measure to the genius of Mr. Mackenzie, a pathetic charm, a tender strain of morality, thrown over its pages, which greatly interests; nor is it, by any means, sterile or defective in the delineation of character. These qualifica tions are to me, by many degrees, more pleasing and permanently impressive, than the eternal wit and irony which pervade the World and Connoisseur. When we affirm, therefore, that sweetness, delicacy, and pathos, are the distinguishing features of the Mirror, we doubt not, from the imperishable nature of these ingredients, that it is formed to delight a distant posterity. 1779, May 10. LORD NORTH, prime minister, and chancellor of the university of Oxford, introduced a bill into parliament to renew and legalize the privilege of the universities, and the stationers' company, to the exclusive right in printing almanacks; but after an able argument by Mr. Erskine in favour of the public, pe the petition of Mr. Carman, the bookseller, the house of commons rejected the ministerial preject by a majority of forty-five votes. 1779. In this year there were twenty printing offices in the city of Edinburgh, and ten paper mills in the neighbourhood. 1779, May 11. Died, EDWARD DILLY, a bookseller of great eininence in the Poultry, Lond particularly in the line of American exportation and in the writings of the good old school of Presbyterians, Doddridge, Watts, Lardner, ke Mr. Edward Dilly was an enthusiastic admin of the politics (if not of the personal chara of Catharine Macauley,t whose publications regularly ushered into the world; and may tra be said to have been a general and generous p tron. He was a man of great pleasantry • Henry Mackenzie was a native of Scotland, died 14, 1831, in the eighty-sixth year of his age; as a he is distinguished by refined sensibility and ex taste; with more delicacy, Mackenzie possesses Sterne's peculiar pathos. His principal works are the of Feeling, the Man of the World, and Julis de R + Catherine Macauley Graham, an historias of celebrity, was the daughter of John Sawbridge, fe Otlantigh in Kent, and born in 1730. In 1760 she Dr. George Macauley, a physician, who left her a In 1783, she married Mr. Graham, a clergyman. In she went to America for the purpose of visiting Ge Washington. She died at Binfield June 23, 1791. manners, and so fond of conversation, that he Near this place lies interred and died May 11, 1779. chant in Glasgow,' but it would appear that his 1779, Nov. 12. Died, JOHN BEECROFT, a considerable wholesale bookseller in Paternoster-row, many years agent to the university of Cambridge, and master of the company of stationers in 1773. He died at Walthamstow. 1779, Nov. 24. HENRY SAMPSON WOODFALL, printer of the General Advertiser, sentenced in the court of king's bench to pay a fine of six shillings and eight pence, and to be confined in Newgate twelve months, for publishing a handbill expressive of joy at the acquittal of admiral Keppel.* The business was carried on by his younger rother Charles Dilly, who had been some time is partner, and thus became the sole proprietor fa very valuable trading concern, which he ntinued to cultivate with that industry and plication, which in the great commercial meopolis of England almost invariably leads to julence, till 1807, under which year see a notice. 1779, July 20. Died, DOUGAL GRAHAM, the yming chronicler of the rebellion of 1745, id who for some time carried on the business of printer at Glasgow; and it has been affirmed, at, like Buchan, the chronicler of Peterhead, used to compose and set up his works without er committing them to writing. Unfortutely, no account of the parentage or early life this eccentric individual has been preserved. has been said that he was engaged in the rellion of 1745 and 1746, but without sufficient thority. He had, to use his own words, "been 1 eye-witness to most of the movements of the mies, from the rebels first crossing the ford of rew, to their final defeat at Culloden;" but it uld seem from this expression, as well as from e recollections of some of his acquaintances, at it was only in the capacity of a follower, ho supplied the troops with small wares. But ougal's aspiring mind aimed at a higher and bler employment, the cultivation of the use; and no sooner was the rebellion termited by the battle of Culloden, than he deterined to write a history of it "in vulgar rhyme." ccordingly, the Glasgow Courant of September ), 1746, contains the following advertisement: That there is to be sold by James Duncan, inter in Glasgow, in the Salt-Mercat, the cond shop below Gibson's Wynd, a book atitled, A full, particular, and true account of e late rebellion in the years 1745 and 1746, ginning with the Pretender's embarking for cotland, and then an account of every battle, ege, and skirmish that has happened in either 'cotland or England: to which is added, several ddresses and epistles to the pope, pagans, poets, nd pretender, all in metre, price fourpence. Jut any booksellers or packmen may have them asier from the said James Duncan, or the uthor, D. Graham. The like," the advertiseent concludes, "has not been done in Scotand since the days of sir David Lindsay!" As he book beecame known, Dougal issued editions greatly enlarged and improved." That of 771, while it contains many additions, is said o want much of the curious matter in the editio rinceps. In 1752, Graham styles himself 'mer-rate periods first lord of the admiralty. He died Oct. 2, 1768. 1779. DR. JOHNSON published his long-expected work, the Lives of the English Poets, and fixed the price at two hundred guineas, at which Malone observes, "The booksellers, in the course of twenty-five years have probably cleared five thousand. Johnson has dignified the booksellers as the "patrons of literature." In the case of the above work, which drew forth that encomium, he had bargained for two hundred guineas; and the booksellers spontaneously added a third hundred. On this occasion the great moralist observed to a friend, "Sir, I have always said the booksellers were a generous set of men. Nor in the present instance have I reason to complain. The fact is, not that they have paid me too little, but that I have written too much." The lives were soon published in a separate edition; when for a few corrections, the doctor was presented with another hundred guineas. This work was first suggested by a literary club of booksellers, * Augustus, viscount Keppel, was the second son of the his voyage round the world, and in 1778 commanded the earl of Albemarle. He accompanied commodore Anson in channel fleet, which, July 12, in that year, fell in with the French under count d'Orvilliers off Ushant. A partial action ensued, which the English admiral thought to have renewed in the morning, but the enemy had retired. This affair gave great dissatisfaction to the nation, which was aggravated by sir Hugh Palliser, second in command, preferring a charge against admiral Keppel, who was honourably acquitted by a court-martial at Portsmouth. Sir Hugh was then tried and censured. In 1782, admiral Kep. pel was raised to the peerage; he was also at two sepa of which alderman Cadell, with Messrs. James Dodsley, Lockyer Davis, Thomas Longman, Peter Elmsby, honest Tom Payne of the Mews-gate, Thomas Evans, and James Robson, were the members, and from which originated the germ of many valuable publications. Under their auspices, Mr. Thomas Davies (who was himself a pleasant member of the club) produced his Dramatic Miscellany, and his Life of Garrick.* 1779, Jan. The British Miscellany, No. 1. 1779, Jan. 18. The Literary Fly, No. 1. Edited by the rev. Herbert Croft. 1779, March. The Englishman, No. 1. 1779, May. The Whig Magazine; or Patriot Miscellany, No. 1. 1779, July. The Foreign Medical Review. 1780, Jan. 8. Died, FRANCIS NEWBERY, a bookseller, at the west end of Saint Paul's, who was for several years publisher of the Gentleman's Magazine; he was the nephew of Mr. John Newbery, esq. the respectable vender of Dr. James's powders, at the east end of St. Paul's church yard. | printer in the Savoy, in 1724, and afterwards many years printer of the London Evening Post; had long retired from business, and died in Bartlett's buildings, aged eighty-six. 1780, April 24. Died, JOHN NOURSE, many years bookseller to his majesty. He was a man of science, particularly in the mathematical line; in which department a great number of valuable publications were by him introduced into the world. He also published a considerable number of French books. After the death of Mr. John Nourse, the extensive business of the house was carried on, with indefatigable diligence, by Mr. Francis Wingrave, for the benefit of Mr. (afterwards Sir Charles) Nourse, an eminent surgeon at Oxford, equally distinguished for the long period, and the eminence of his practice. He received the honour of knighthood, Aug. 15, 1786, on his majesty's visit to the university. He was a cotemporary student and pupil with the celebrated Mr. Pott; of similar vivacity, temper, and manners, and of equal celebrity ist professional abilities and knowledge. He had plaint; which terminated fatally April 19, 1769 Mr. Wingrave was his successor in the longestablished shop in the Strand. 1780, Feb. 20. Died, in Greyfriar's gate, Not-long laboured under a severe dropsical com ingham, aged seventy-two years, THOMAS PEET, land surveyor, a skilful astronomer, mathematician, and schoolmaster. He was the oldest almanack writer in England, having wrote the Gentleman's Diary and Poor Robin upwards of forty years; during which time he was never behind hand with his competitors at prognosticating future events. 1780. ISAIAH THOMAS, printer at Worcester, in Massachusetts, North America, printed an almanack for this year; one of the boys asked him what he should put opposite the 13th of July. Mr. Thomas being engaged, replied, "a "any thing, any thing!" the boy returned to the office and set rain, hail, and snow." The country was all amazement-the day arrived, when it actually rained, hailed, and snowed. From that time Thomas's almanacks were in great repute. 1780, March 11. Died, RICHARD NUTT, a * David Garrick, one of the most celebrated actors which England has produced, was born at Hereford, Feb. 1716. His father was a captain in the army, descended from a French family, who being protestants, fled to England on the revocation of the edict of Nantes. He received his education partly at the grammar school of Lichfield, and partly under Dr. Johnson, with whom he visited London in 1735. His first appearance on the stage was at Ipswich, in 1741, under the assumed name of Lyddal; and the applause he met with induced him to make his appearance at the theatre in Goodman's fields, in the character of Richard the Third. The other theatres were quickly deserted, and Goodman's-fields became the resort of the people of fashion till that theatre was shut up. In the summer of 1743, he played in Dublin to such full houses, that the heat of the weather and the crowds occasioned a fever, which was called the Garrick fever. In 1747 he became joint-patentee selle Violetti, an Italian stage dancer. In 1769 he celebrated a fete in honour of Shakspeare, called the Jubilee, of Drury-lane theatre; and in 1749 he married Mademoi at Stratford-upon-Avon. It was afterwards made an entertainment at Drury-lane, under the same title, and had a prodigious run. In 1776 he gave up his concern in the theatre for £35,000. He died 1779, and was buried in Westminster abbey. Mr. Garrick was hospitable and generous, but vain, and fond of flattery. He wrote several dramatic pieces, prologues, epilogues, songs, and epigrams, in the last he excelled. Mrs. Garrick (Eva Maria Violetti) was born at Vienna, Feb. 29, 1724, and died at London, Oct. 16, 1822. 1780, June 6. Died, MR. EMERSON, printer, of St. John's square, London, and proprietor of Lloyd's Evening Post: after carrying on business with reputation for more than twenty years, r retired with an easy competency. 1780. Died, GEORGE HAWKINS, many year a bookseller in Fleet-street, near the Temple gate. He was treasurer of the company of st tioners from the year 1766 till his death. 1780, July 28. Died, EDWARD ALLEN, 8 VETY excellent printer in Bolt-court, Fleet-street. London, the dear friend" of Dr. Johnsen. and a member of the Essex head club. He wa far advanced in years; his printing office united to the dwelling of Dr. Johnson, which was next door to it, and afterwards occupied by Mr. Thomas Bensley, who demonstrated with foreigners that the English press could rival and eve excel the finest works that graced the continen tal annals of typography. 1780. Weekly Review. This publication was commenced by James Tytler, during his res dince in the sanctuary at Holyrood, Edinburgh; but was soon discontinued, when a printer named Mennons, renewed the publication, and Tytler was employed in the capacity of chiel contributor. 1780. The Volunteer Evening Post. From the time of Saunders's News Letter, in 1763, wa published in Dublin to this year, a great host of publications, most of which soon perished. amongst the ephemeral prints was the above named paper; the circumstances attending the origin and expiration of which exhibit a lively portrait of the spirit of the times. The oppes tion to the government was then so strong that no printer could be found in Ireland to publish a paragraph in opposition to the popular cause Government was therefore compelled to send a Say's. It has been remarked, however, as a somewhat strange circumstance, that in an occupation so nearly allied to literature as that of printing, a single candidate only should have offered himself as qualified to enjoy so comfortable a stipend. 1781. MR. TILLOCH, editor of the Philoso press and printers from England for their purpose, but it required no little management to stablish it. It first assumed a popular name, and professed to take a warm side in that cause. To increase the deception, the portrait of a olunteer, in full uniform, was exhibited every ight, and every other device put in practice with the same view. But the secret soon dis-phical Magazine, presumed to have invented a layed itself, and the mob proceeded to take method of stereotyping, without having, at the ammary vengeance. The editor escaped, but time, any knowledge of Ged's invention.* In he printer was dragged to the Tenter-fields, and perfecting the invention, Mr. Tilloch had the ere tarred and feathered! Unable to withstand assistance and joint labour of Mr. Foulis, printer opular hatred, the paper was dropped; but so to the university of Glasgow. After great labour, rong was the public indignation, that no one and many experiments, these gentlemen "overuld be got to purchase the materials, and came every difficulty, and were able to produce litors, printers, types, press, &c. were, after plates, the impressions from which could not be ree years' effort, re-transported to England. distinquished from those taken from the types 1780. The Poetical Magazine. from which they were cast. Though we had reason to fear, from what we found Ged had met with, that our efforts would experience a similar opposition from prejudice and ignorance, we persevered in our object for a considerable time, and at last resolved to take out patents for England and Scotland, to secure to ourselves, for the usual term, the benefits of our invention." Owing to some circumstances of a private nature, not connected with the stereotype art, the business was laid aside for a time, and Mr. Tilloch having removed from Glasgow to London, the concern was dropped altogether; but not till several volumes had been stereotyped and printed, under the direction of Messrs. Tilloch and Foulis. 1780, Aug. 4. The Protestant Packet; or, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, printed by T. Angus, 1780, Nov. The Traiteur, No. 1. 1780. The Whig. This series of papers was itten by the late Hugh Boyd, and appeared Almon's London Courant; and, together with e Freeholder, very ably assisted in maintaining e cause of constitutional liberty. 1780, Dec. 2. Periodical Essays, by the rev. obert Nares, afterwards archdeacon of Stafford, 0. 10, Feb. 3, 1781. "in 1781, Feb. Died, JACOB WRAGG, a compositor every The Freeman's Magazine; or the Constitutional Repofory, containing a free debate concerning the cause of berty; consisting of all the papers published in the ondon newspapers from Northumberland and Newcastle, the county of Durham, from the sending of instrucons to the Newcastle members of parliament, till this resent time. By the rev. James Murray and others. misnam igitur liber? Sapiens qui imperiosus Jolla Juga: Liber liber sum dic age.-Horace. 1781, Feb. 6. News from the Pope to the Devil, with their lamentations for the acquittal of lord George Gordon; to which is added the Hypocrite, by Judas Guzzle Fire, A. M. (the rev. James Murray.) Newcastle: printed for the author. MDCCLXXXI. Small 12mo. 19 pages. 1781, March 1. Died, Mr. CHASE, printer of Norwich. 66 1781. April. LORD NORTH introduced a bill into parliament, with respect to laying an additional duty on almanacks. In the course of his speech his lordship observed, According to the laws now in being, sheet almanacks are subject to a duty of twopence each; and book almanacks to one of fourpence each. But, of late, complaints had been made to him by the printers of the latter, that the printers of the former had contrived to print upon a very large sheet of paper, which, admitting of a variety of matter, and folding up, almost in the manner of a book, *Mr. Tilloch says so in the Philosophical Magazine; and, therefore, we must suppose he had not, at that time, seen the narrative, just read, of Mr. Rowe Mores's books, dated 1788, in which a tolerable outline is given of the practice of stereotyping, although not under so learned a name; but quite sufficient, if any body else had happened to have seen it at the time, to have raised a competitor to Messrs. Tilloch and Foulis.-Hansard. Of course, if they came southward. The Rev. James Murray, author of A History of the Church in England and Scotland, Travels of the Imagination, Sermons to Asses, and many other works, was born in Scotland, at Fauns, in Roxburghshire. He became minister of the High Bridge Meeting-house, Newcastle upon Tyne, in the year 1764, where he continued to reside and publish his works till his death, which happened January 28, 1782. |