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year to the vieais of Sherborne for ever, on con- dition of their preaching an annual sermon upon the first Sunday in May, when the beauties of nature are in the highest perfection, on the won- ders of the creation. The inscription on his tomb stone, placed there in consequence of his own directions, is another proof that the infinite va- rieties of vegetation engrossed a considerable share of his attention. It stands in the church yard of Obome, a small village about a mile from Sherborne, and is as follows :

In memory of Rombt Goadbt,

late of Sherbonie, printer, who departed this life

Angnst 13, 1778, aged S7.

Death i» a path ttiat mnst be trod.

If man woold ever come to Ood.

The fir tree aapires to the Ay,

and is clothed with everlaiting verdore i

Emblem of the (ood, and of that everlasting life,

which God will bestow on them.

Since death is the gate to life,

the grave shonid be crowned with flowers.

Many of Mr. Goadby's friends apprehended that he injured his health by too great an appli- cation to business and study. He was, inaeed, of a disposition iincommonly 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, tiseful, and worthy member of society.

1776. JohntotCt Sunday Monitor. This was the first newspaper published on the sabbath, in Great Britain. It appeared in London.

1778, Aug, 17. Dted, William Caslon, the second type-founder, who, as an artist had great merit, though not equal to his father ; yet the reputation of the foimdry suffered no diminution in his hands. He married Miss Elizabeth Cart- litch, 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 propertv 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 im- proper to pass unnoticed. Her merit and ability in conducting a capital business during the life of her husband, and aiterwaids till her son was capable of managing it, was deserving of all praise. In quickness of understanding, and ac- tivity of execution, she left few equals among her sex. On the death of her husband, and their eldest son establishing himself in Moor- fields, 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. HEvniNGEB, a German book- seller, in the Strand, London. He was unsuc- cessful in business, and died in distressed cir- cumstances some time in this year.

1779, Jan. 23. The Mirror, a weekly paper resembling the Spectator, commenced at Edin- burgh on this day, in the shape of a small folio sheet, price three half-pence, and terminated

May 27, 1780, having latterly bem issaed twier a-week. Of the one hundred and ten papers to which the Mirror extended, forty -two were con- tributed by Henry Mackenzie,* author of the Man of Feeling, &c. &c. The sale, daring tW progress of the publication, never exceeded fcai hundred copies. When republished in ]2iiki. volumes, a considerable sum was realized fnm the copyright, out of which the pFoprietors pn- sented£IOO to the orphan hospital, and treated themselves to a hogshead of claret, to be dmsk at their ensuing meetings.

The Mirror, though inferior to the Sptetaia in variety and humour ; to the Sambler in di|;. nity and ethic precept ; and to the A de tn t mn in the field of splendid fiction ; yet snppoits i character which has justly rendered it a uvoniite with the public. There is, owioe in a great measure to the genius of Mr. Mackenzie, i pathetic charm, a tender strain of monlitv, thrown over its pages, which greatlv inlcfesB; nor is it, by any means, sterile or defective ii the delineation of character. These qnalifici- tions are to me, by many degrees, more pleaai^ and permanently impressive, than the etenal wit and irony which pervade the World aai Connoitteur. When we affirm, thendTore, Ihil iweetneu, delicacy, and pathos, are the distii- guishing features of the Mirror, we dovbt ik. from the imperishable nature of these ingredkne; that it is formed to delight a distant posterity.

1779, May 10. Loan Nobtb, prime mimsKi, and chancelloT of- the university of Oxford, n- troduced a bill into parliament to renew lad legalize the privilege of the universities, and ik stationers' company, to the exclusive right ii printing almanacks ; but after an able aigiumt by Mr. Erskine in favour of the public, Dps the petition of Mr. Carman, the bookseller, dc house of commons rejected the ministerial poy ject by a majority of forty-five votes.

1779. In this year there were twenty printiH offices in the city of Edinburgh, and ten p(]ie mills in the neighbourhood.

1779, May II. Died,Ej>WAKi> Dilly, a book- seller of great eminence in the Poultry, Loiute. particularly in the line of American exportatte. and in the writings of the good old school d Presbvterians, Doddridge, Watts, Lardner, kc Mr. Edward Dilly was an enthusiastic admire of the politics (u not of the personal chamsl of Catharine Macauley,f whose publications it regularly ushered into the world ; and may tndr be said to have been a general and generous pa- tron. He was a man of great pleasantry ei

14, 1831, in the eighty-sixth year of liis age ; as a vrilE he Is distinguished by refined sensibility and yiii ' il^ taste; with more delicacy, Mackenzie possesses mocktf Sterne's peculiar pathos. His principal works are the Jha 0/ Feeliitg, the Man of the World, and Julia, de RamUfK-
 * Henry Mackenzie was a natire of Scotland, died Ju.

t Catherine Macauley Graham, an historian of mmx celebrity, was the daughter of John Sawbridge, esq. ^ Otlantigh in Kent, and born in 1730. In 1760 she manii^ Dr. George Macauley, a physician, who left her a widov In 1783, she married Mr. Graham, a clergyman. la >;•» she went to America for the purpose at viaUiBg Cfamr Washington. She died at Binfield Jnne X3, 1791.