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was released without punishment. Mr. Barber paid a visit to Paris, and his reception at the French court is copied from a newspaper of that date :— " Versailles, June 22, n. s. This day the hunting horses of one of the aldermen of Lon- don arrived here; and to-morrow he is expected himself, to run down a stag with his majesty. The king has ordered prince Charles of Lorraine to entertain him while he stays at the court, and to provide whatever he shall have occasion for." Mr. Barber was appointed city printer, March 22, 1709. Subsequently to his success in the South-sea scheme, he was chosen alderman of castle Baynard ward; in the year 1729, he served the office of sheriff; and in 1733, was elevated to the high office of chief magistrate. During his mayoralty he was elected president of St. Bar- tholomew's hospital. It also happened that in his year of servitude, the project of a general ex- cise was brought forward, by his strenuous oppo- sition to which he acquired, for a time, great popularity; though he is accused of having clandestinely procured from Mr. Bosworth, then city chamberlain, the documents which enabled him to make so conspicuous a figure upon that occasion. Of Mr. Barber's public actions, it should not be forgotten that he caused a monu- ment to Butler to be put up in Westminster abbey; upon which event Pope is asserted to have penned the following severe lines, which he proposed should be placed on the vacant scroD under Shakspeare's bust :

Thus Britain loved me, and preserved my fame Pure from a Barber's or a Benson's name 1

Mr. Barber presented to the universiw of Ox- ford, a portrait of dean Swift, with the following inscription in Latin :

JONATHAN SWIFT,

t DlAN OF St. Patrjck's, Ddblin.

This portrait of the Muses' fHend,

Of a happy turn of wit peculiar to himself.

That he might in some sort be restored to his Oxford

Friends,

Was :ilaced in the wall of the Bodleian gaUery,

A.D. HDCCXXXIX,

At the deshre of John Barber, Esquire, Alderman, and some time Uird Mayor of London.

He bequeathed £300 to lord Bolingbroke, £200 to dean Swift, and £100 to Pope. Dying a few days afterwards, he was buried, pursuant to his request, in the churchyard of MorUake, where his tomb is thus inscribed :

Under this stone are laid the remains of John Barber, Esq. Alderman of London, a constant lienefactor to the poor, true to his principles in Church and State. He pre- served his integrity, and discharged the duty of an up- right magistrate, in the most corrupt times. Zealous for the rights of his fellow-citirens, he opposed all attempt* against them; and, being lord mayor in the year 173S, was greatly Instmmental In defeating a scheme of a gene- ral excise, which had it succeeded, would have put an end to the liberties of his country. He departed this life January 2, 1740-41, aged 6S.

Barber was a tory, and claims the distinc- tion of an adherence to his principles when they had ceased to be the order of the day. Con- formably with those principles, indeed, he gave monumental celebriousness to Butler, one ^f the

HISTORY OF PRINTING.

most interesting champions of church and state, "in the most corrupt times," and when both were exposed to circumstances the most danger- ous. Efis character was otherwise good. His diligence appears to have been great; his con- duct respectable; and his property to have been equitably acquired, and benevojently applied.

1741. An edition of the Hebrew and Germm (with the Greek Testament) was printed at ZyUi- chau, a manufacturing town of the Pru»ian states, in the New Mark of Brandenburg.

1741, /an. 4. Died, Robert Goslino, book- seller, at the Middle Temple gate. On Dec. 17, 1711, Bernard Ijntot bought of Mr. Gosling the seventh share of Captain Cook's Vogaget for £7. 3«. Sir Francis Gosling, knt. bookseller, banker, and alderman of London, was his son.

1741, Nov. 8. Died, Fletcher Gvles, an eminent bookseller in Holbom, and treasnierof the charity school in Hatton Garden. He was patronized by Dr. Warburton, and published his Divine Legation. He published secretary Thur- low's State Papers, assisted by Thos. Ruddtman. . 1741, April 13. Died, John Stuart, an emi- nent stationer on London Bridge.

1741, Sept. 8. Died, Samuel Buckley, of whom Duuton says, — " Mr. Buckley was ori- ginally a bookseller, but follows printing. He is an exc^ent linguist, understands the Latin, French, .Wutch, and Italian tongues; and is master of ^ great deal of wit. He prints the Daily Coufant and Monthly Regitter (which I hear he translates out of the foreign papers him- self ) But I shan't enlarge on his character (for I never knew him), but will venture to say, as to his morals,' he is, or should be, an honest nun." Mr. Buckley is represented in the Tader, No. 18, in Uie character of a news-writer, as a literan Drawcansir, " who spares neither friend nor foe, but usually kills as many of his own side as the enemy's." Seven volumes of the original SfK- tutor in folio, were published by Samuel Buci- ley, at the Dolphin, in Little Britain. The Sffc- tator being discontinued at the close of the sevenlh volume, was succeeded by the Guardian; and Pope informs us, that Steele was engaged in articles of penalty to Jacob Tonson, for all the papers he published under this last name. The same author says, " the true reason that Steele laid down the Guardian wa« a quarrel between him and the bookseller above mentioned;" he adds, " that Steele, by desisting two days, and altering the title of his paper to that of the En- glishman, got quit of his obligation." In 1713 the periodical paper to which Steele gave the title of the Engluhman, was in the course of publication; it was printed by S. Buckley, in Amen-comer, folio; is dated on the 18ui of the June following, in 1714. He was after- wards appointed writer of the Gazelteer, and was put into the commission of the peace for the county of Middlesex. He was a man of excel- lent understanding and great learning, very sin- cere where he professed friendship; a pleasant companion, and greatly esteemed by all "ho knew him.

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