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Pope's Eaay on ilfan,almo«tliDe for line, printed in red. The frontispiece, engraved curiously on copper, contains the title of Uie poem ; the title is succeeded by a few pages, entitled advtrtite. ment and design.^ On the title-page is an ob- scene print, under which is an inscription in Greek, signifying the Saviour of the world. The notes are said, by John Almon to have been prin- cipally contributed by Mr. Potter. Thomas Farmer, who had conducted the Strawberry hill press, was the printer for Mr. Wilkes.*

1763, Dec. 10. Dryden Leach, printer, of London, obtained a verdict, and £300 damages at Guidhall, before lord chief-justice Pratt, from three of the king's messengers, fur talcing him into custody as the supposed printer of the North Briton, No. 45.

1763. An act was passed permitting news- papers to be sent and received free by members of both houses of parliament, provided they " were signed on the ontmde by the hand of the member," or " directed to any niember at any place whereof he should have given notice, in writing, to the postmaster-generaJ.

1763. A. Steuart, a roguish printer of Phila- delphia, who scrupled not to assume the title of " king's printer," established the second press in the province of North Carolina, at Wilmington. 1763. The Freeman't Journal. This paper, which still continues, was established in Dublin by a committee of the united Irishmen appoint- ed for conducting a free press. The manage- ment of it was entrusted to Dr. Lucas, a man of great talent and popular influence ; and from the elegance of composition and strength of argu- ment (being reckoned by many not inferior to Junius in both respects) manifested in many of the essays, it had a prodigious influence on the higher classes of the public. Dr. Lucas was elected one of the representatives of the city of Dublin, and the remarkable words with which be opened his address after the election, are still well remembered: " Yesterday, I was your equal — to-day, I am your servant." After his death, in 1774, the newspaper became the property of a person named Higgins.

1763. Savndert't News Letter. This paper was also established in Dublin about the same time as the Freeman') Journal ; and from the tact displayed in its management — steering in

to tnm the thinf to thdr p«cniilar)r advantage, bnt were at a lou to obtain a perfect copy. Another Jonmerman waa foimd who had worked off the Eaaay, who denied any knowledge of snch a work ; but being tampered with by threats and promises, he was at length persuaded to betray Hr. WUkcs, by producing a perfect copy. The author of an Eiplanalorp Letter to Mr. Ktdgell says, and that very truly, that the best way of deferang sndi a work wonld have been to have bnmed the proof sheet, and take no further notice of it ; and ceninres very severely the atti- flcea made use of to come at the work, Mr. Kidgell, whose life was not paiticnlary exemplary, was rector of Oodatone, in Sorry, where ha died about I7gs.

• Bechenhet ntr VOrigine iu Detpotime Oriental. Ouvrage posthmne de M. Boulanger.

" Honstrum horrendum, informe, ingens *'

A Londres, 1783, ISmo. pp. 336. Printed at Wilkes' priyata press, in Gerage-stnat, Westminster, by Thomas ntnaer.

a neutral course between the tno parties — it for many years maintained an ascendancy both in advertisements and circulation.

1763, Julif S. 7>rr«-n/tiw, another periodical paner by the author of the Geniui, which he published daily during the Enatnia, at Oxford, ra honour of the peace. Only four numbers appeared, and they are seasoned with a con- siuerable portion of wit and pleasantry.

1764. T. Green, from Newhaven, introduced printing into Hartford, the capital of the state of Connecticut, North America. Like most of his brethren printers in America, Green commenced his typographical career by the publication of a newspaper.

1764. W.Brown and W.GiLMOBE, printers, established a press at Quebec, the capital of Lower Canada, in North America, which was the first appearance of the art within the whole

Province of Canada. And it is observed by Mr. 'homas, that no other press existed in the pro- vince until the year 177d, when one was erected at Montreal.

1764, March 24. The Newcastle ChronieU, or General Weekly Advertiter, printed and pub- lished by Thomas Slack. It still continues to be published under its first title by Mr. Slack's

Cdsons, Thomas and John Hodgson. Mrs. Slack, wife of the above genueman, was well known in the literary world for her useful performances for the benefit of youth.

1764, Mai/ 4. Mr. Abthdr Beardmorb, an eminent attorney, received £1000 damages from the king's messengers for false imprison- ment for a supposed connection with the Moni- tor. Mr. J. Scott stated that Mr. Beardmore, Mr. Entick, and Dr. Shebbeare, were the authors of this paper, and on December 4, Mr. Beard- more received £1,500 damages from the earl of Halibx, for false imprisonment in the house of a messenger, and on the following day Mr. En- tick obtained a verdict for £20, Mr. Fell, book- seller, £18, Mr. Wilson, bookseller, £40, and Mr. Meredith, clerk to Mr. Beardmore, £200, from the earl of Hali&x.

1764, June 1. Was executed at Guildhall, before Mr. Bennett, secondary of Wood-street compter, a writ of inquiry of damages, in an action of trespass, wnerein Messrs. Wilson and Fell, two booksellers in Paternoster-row, some dine since imprisoned for printing some numbers of the Monitor, were plaintiffs, and three of his majesty's messengers defendants; when, after many learned arguments by the council on both sides, the jury, to compose which one person was summoned out of each ward in the city of London, withdrew, and in about forty minutes brought in the damages at £600. Mr. Wilson died at an advanced age, July, 1777.

1764, Sept. 5. Died, Robert Dodslev, book- seller, of Pall-mall, London, whose memory will ever be esteemed as a remarkable example of genius, springing up and advancing to use- fulness, amidst unfavourable circumstances. He was born in 1703, at Mansfield, in Nottingham- shire, where his father kept the fn«-schooT, onA

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