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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

mestic," It was printed on a sheet of common writing paper, the head ornamented with the loyal arms, and those of the city of Wateiford. The price was a halfpenny, or a shilling per quarter — being published twice a week.

1729. The Glatgou) Journal. This is one of the few Scottish newspapers, published at that early period, which hare existed to the present day.

1730. Peter Vandeb AA, an eminent book- seller, who was born at Leyden, in 1661. Nearly all the early publishers and printers possessed considerable literary attainments, of which a rery striking example occurs in this distinguished bookseller, who, in point of industry, at least, surpassed all his predecessors. He had a large printing-office, was eminent as a map engraver and geographer, and besides managmg a very extensive bookselling business, contrived in less than half a century to complete nearly one hun- dred folio volumes. His principal work is A Gallery of the World, in sixty-^ volumes, which he completed a short time prior to his death, in this year.

1730. Eleazar Phillips, of Boston, in con- sequence of a liberal offer made by government, erected the first printing press in Charlestown, a beautiful city, the metropolis of the state of South Carolina, in North America, and, except in the city, there was no printing throughout the whole province, previous to the revolution.

1730. An enteiprising bookseller in Boston having petitioned for and received some aid from the lepslature of Massachusetts, erected the first paper mill in that colony.

1730. David Harry, a printer of Philadel- phia, introduced the art into Bridgetown, the capital of the island of Barbadoes. In the fol- lowing year, a newspaper, the Barbadoea Gazette, began to be published. "Keimer's business," says Dr. Franklin, "diminishing everyday, he was at last forced to sell his stock to satisfy his credi- tors, and he betook himself to Barbadoes, where he lived for some time in a very impoverished state. His apprentice, David Harry, whom I had instructea while I worked with Keimer, having bought his materials, succeeded in the business. I was apprehensive, at first, of finding in Harry a powerful competitor, as he was allied to an opulent and respectable familv, I there- fore proposed a partnership, which, happily for me, he rejected with disdain. He was extremely proud, thought himself a fine gentleman, lived extravagantly, and pursued amusements which suffered him to be scarcely ever at home ; in con- sequence he became in debt, neglected his busi- ness, and business neglected him. Finding in a short time nothing to do in the country, he fol- lowed Keimer to Barbadoes, carrying his print- ing materials with him. There the apprentice employed his old masteras a journeyman. They were continually quarrelling; and Harry, still getting in debt, was obliged at last to sell his press and types, and to return to his old occupa- tion of husbandly in Pennsylvania. The person who purchased them employed Keimer tomanage

the business, but he died a few years after. He was a strange animal, ignorant of the cianiiin modes of life, apt to oppose with rudeness geie- rally received opinions, an enthusiast in couis points of religion, disgustingly unclean in ia person, and was merely a compositor, bdiifi wholly incapable of working at press. He hi been one of the French prophets, and knew bo* to imitate their supernatural agitations. Ee professed no particular religion, buta'little ujm all occasions. He was totally ignorant of tk world, and a great knave at heart."

1730, Feb.28. Weekly Medley. The folloiri«<; notice appears in this paper, " A gentleman hx brought over the first volume in manuscript of the History of Charlet XII. King of Swain, written in French, by the celebrated M. de Vol- taire, author of the Henriade. We heartlutit is not allowed to be printed in France, because of the many fine strokes upon liberty intersposed in different parts of it."

1730, June 5. In the Weekly Nem of tiw date is the following advertisement:— "Mr. Woolston's second part of his defence of iii! Ditcourset of Miraclet, just published, h> given such offence to the clergy, that they cm- not bear the sight of him. Thereupon be «as desired to forbear coming to the chapter hoos; or they who resort thither would leave the house.''

1730, Sept. 27. Died, Lawrence Eosdsr, u English poet of some eminence, who was born in Yorkshire, and educated at Trinity college, Cambridge, after which he took orders, and irs) for a considerable period chaplain to Bichiri, lord Willoughby de Broke. His first patnm wb lord Halifax, whose poem On the Battle of At Boyne Eusden translated into Latin. He ns also esteemed by the duke of Newcastle, oo whose marriage with lady Henrietta Godolplus he wrote an Epithalamium, for which, upon ik death of Rowe, he was by his grace prefemd in 1718 to the laureateship. He hatt several enemies, and, among others. Pope, who pat Mm into his Duneiad ; though we do not know wbl provocation he gave to any of them, unles by being raised to the dignity of poet-kuitW. Eusden died at the rectory of Coningsby, i" Lancashire. He was succeeded in the laumste- ship by Colley Cibber, a good comic dranntia, but a wretched poet. This was the fifth ^ pointment in which party politics had direded the royal choice to the neglect of real merit

1730, Jan. 8. Memoirs of the Societv ofGni- street. This is a paper of considerable wit wd humour, in ridicule of the host of had writeB which at that time infested the republic of letters. Most of these gentlemen had previoudj figured in the Duneiad, but are here row minutely held up to public contempt. The pro- ductions of Eusden, Cibber, Concanen, CnnI, Dennis, Henley, Ralph, Amall, Theobald, Wd- sted, &c., &c., are exposed with wholesome severity, and in a strain of the most keen m sarcastic irony. The principal writers of these satirical effusions were. Dr. Richard Rnssel, « physician, and the author of a Trttliit «■ ^

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