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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

iu opposition to the money being raised for him on that society. In the preface to No. IV. the writer »no(ie»<^ likens himself to a phcenix; he exists merely of hinuelf — he has passed through Hue fire of persecution, and, in imitation of that bird, has risen again yi^m hit own ashet; so that his subjects of fires and illuminations, singular as they appear, are only natural. No. V. was announced as an intenaed Sequel to the Mt- moirs of the late Jack Straw, Sinner, Saint, and Devil, who told booki hy millions. He was a man of strong natural understanding, though not much assisted by literature ; and was of the strictest integrity; but unfortunately possessed an habitual irritability of temper, which proved a perpetual discomfort. With the most earnest inclination to do right, he frequently wandered into error; and a considerable portion of his time was employed in making apologies for mistakes which a slight consideration would have pre- vented. He was for thirty -six years happy in a connubial connexion with a very worthy woman, by whom he left three daughters ; all of whom being respectably married, he again engaged in a matrimonial connexion, Jan. 21, 1798, with the widow of a captain in the India trade, who survived to lament his almost sudden loss. In St. Bride's Churcb-yard, Fleet-street, there is an inscription to the memory of his wife (Mary) who died June 18, 1796, in her thirty-sixth year.

Abo the uid WUliam Bin^ey, died »d October, I7gg, aged 61.

Cold is that heart that beat in freedom's cause. The steady advocate of all her laws. t'nmov'd by threats or bribes his race be ran, And lived and died tbe patriot I— the man.

1799, Nov. 2. Died, William Sandby, many years a bookseller of high eminence, in Fleet- street, London ; but exchanged that profession, about 1769, for the more lucrative one of a banker, in the old-established firm of Snow and Denue, in the Strand. He was the son of Dr. Sandby, prebendary of Worcester, and brother to Dr. George Sandby, master of Magdalene college, Cambridge. Mr. Sandby married to his third wife, 1787, Miss Fellows, of Walton- on-Thames. He died at Teddington, in Middle- sex, in the eighty-second year of his age, deeply regretted by all who knew him.

1799, March. The Historical, Biographical, Literary, and Scientific Magazine, No. 1.

1799, Sept. 26. Literary Leisure. It ended December 16, 1800.

1799. The Asiatic Annual Register, vol. I.

1799. The Shamrock, established at Water- ford, in Ireland, by Dr. Heam.

1800, Jan. The booksellers of Manchester make a resolution of charging one halfpenny upon all sixpenny periodical publications, and one penny upon those of one shilling and up- wards, conveyed by mail or coocA.

1800. The Stanhope Press, the invention of the patriotic nobleman whose name it bears, and which »ill be handed down to posterity, after many expensive and laborious experiments suc- ceeded, with the assistance of a very ingenious

mechanist (the late Mr. Walker*) in bringing it to a state of perfection. The first press wu finished, and its powers were tried at the office of William Bulmer, (the Shakspeare press) in Cleveland-iow, St. James's, London, in whidi house it at present remains. In the formation of his iron press, earl Stanhopef must hare found many useful hints in M. Aiiisson's /Vernier Mimoire tur P Impression en Lettres, smvi de Is Description d'ltne Nouvelle Presse ixecutie pottr le Service du Roi ; in which he says — ^" Je me suis attache principalement a rendre son action et ses mouveraens les plus independans qu'il m't ete possible du inaniement deregle des oarrien auxquels elle est confiee." This has been par- ticularly attended to in the Stanhope .press, and nodiing is left to the judgment of the pressman but the colouring.

1800, Feb. Died, Edmond Monk, proprietor and printer of the Chester Courant.

1800. Dr. Alexander Adam, of Edinburgh, published his Classical Biography, and for tbe copyright received £300. He was born at Raf- ford, near Forres, in Scotland, June 24, 1741, and died at Edinburgh December 18, 1809.

1800, March 15. Joseph Baldwin, twenty- four years clerk to the companv of stationers, many years deputy clerk of the crown, and registrar of the Amicable Society in Seijeant's Inn. He died universally respected, aged 7i.

1800,3forcA 30. iMeti, Robert Faeie, book- seller, Glasgow.

1800, April 1. Died, Joan Rider, many yeas a respectable printer in Little Britain, London. Returninghome from stationers' hall, he dropped down in an apoplectic fit in Warwick-lane, and instantly expired. He was one of the sons of the rev. William Rider, B. A. lecturer of St. Vedast, Foster-lane, curate of St. Faith's, and many years sur-master of St. Paul's school. Author of a History of England to thtyear 1763 inclusive, in fifty pocket volumes ; a Cummentiry on the Bible; an English Dictionary ; and other works. He died March 30, 1785.

1800, April 4. Died, Solomon Hodgsox, many years printer and publisher of the New- castle Chronicle, in the conduct of which he uniformW advanced the genuine sentiments of his mind, uninfluenced bv party, or any politi- cal society. Firmly attaclied to the principles of constitutional liberty, and actuated by the purest impulse of integntyand honour,he viewed with honest indignation, the corruptions too pre- valent in society; possessing a spirit alive to

successor to Mrs. Walker; IDS, Dean street, Oxford-street, LiOndon.
 * Now mannfactored by S. J. Spiers, (son-in-law sail

+ Charles Stanhope, third earl Stanhope, was born in the year 1753, and educated at Eton and Genera, wbeic he passed ten years under the instruction of M. le Sage, well known as the author of a Thtorj/ of Ornilt, sad other works. Although lord Stanhope was diieSy knom by his cotemporaries as a politician, it is rather sa a pbiw- sopher that he made himself generally known to tte world. In all his Improvements relating to printing, luS lordship would never suffer any of them to become soft- Jects of patent or monopoly, but took the precanUooM enteiing a notice or caveat at the patent ofllce. BedM December, ISIS, in the sixty-fonrtb year of his age.

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