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and num1>erless other of the ablest writers of the age. In 1793, Mr. Cadell retired from trade, in the full possession of his health and &cttlties, and with an ample fortune, the sole and satisfactory fruits of unremitted diligence, spirit, and integrity ; leaving the business which he had established as the first in Great Britain, and perhaps in Europe, to Thomas, his only son, conjointly with Mr. Davies, who, following the alderman's example, have preserved the nigh reputation acquired from the liberality, honour, and integrity of their predecessors. Accustomed, however, from early days, to business, and con- scious that an idle life was a disgrace to a man of clear intellects, sound judgments, and an active mind, he, with a laudable ambition, soaght, and most honourably obtained, a seat in the magistracy of the city of London ; being unanimously elected, March 30, 1798, to suc- ceed his friend, Mr. Gill, as alderman of Wal- brook ward. At Midsummer, 1800, a period when party spirit ran high, he was elected bv a rerj honourable majority on a poll, with nis friend, Mr. alderman Perring, to the shrievalty of London and Middlesex. To the Asylum, where he had long been a valuable treasurer, the Foundling Hospital, and various other public charities, of which he was an active governor, and where his presence gave animation to their proceedings, while his purse liberally aided their rands, his loss was great : — to a very extensive circle of friends, (and there are several, who had unbent their inmost souls with him for more than forty years) it was incalculable. He was emi- nently characterized by the rectitude of his judg- ment, the goodness of his heart, the benevolence of his disposition, and the urbanity of his man- ners ; and, whether considered in his magisterial character, or in the more retired walks of social or domestic life, few men could be named, so well deserving of private veneration or public esteem. One of the latest public acts of his life was presenting to the company of stationers, of which he had been thirty-seven yeais a livery- man, a handsome painted window for the em- bellishment of their hall. By an affectionate wife, who died in January, 1786, he had one son and one daughter; both of whom he lived to see united in marriage, to his entire satisfac- tion ; and who have now the comfort to reflect, that their father fulfilled the various duties allotted to him with the honour of a man and the integrity of a Christian. He died at his house in Bloomsbury-place, in the sixtieth year of his age. In a sermon preached by Mr. Hut- chins (then chaplain to the lord mayor,) on the 9th of January following, a handsome compli- ment is paid to alderman Cadell, for " gentleness of manners, benevolence of disposition, purity of morals, tenderness to the unfortunate, and an unaffected deportment, in the various ofiSces of citizen, magistrate, parent, and friend."

1800. The Farmers^ Magazine, commenced by Archibald Constable, bookseller, Edinburgh, under the management of Robert Brown, an able East lothian agriculturist. This magazine

appeared quarterly, enjoyed a considerable share of prosperity, but eventually sank with the house of the publisher in 1827.

1800. A Monthly Magazine was commenced at Chelmsford, in Essex: the editor, a man of taste and honour, had a calf's head for the frontispiece, which in the course of the work gave nse to the following epigram :

" In every qnuter of this world ao irlde,

John Bull means Englishman— the same world's pride i

Proud may an Essex cat/ then surely be,

A true descendant of John BuU is he."

1800, Dee. The following is a correct list of the Magazines, Reviews, and other monthly publications which existed at this time in London, with the price at which they were sold :

Atmalt of AgriaUhm, Youn^t 1 o

Anti-Janim Rnim (Vlilght) a

AminiimMagaMine

Armv LtMt ; .. I

AmUj/Hcal'Rmiew (Johnatm)

Botany, Sowerbj^$ 5

Britiih CrUie Rmiiw (Rivlngton and Co.) ..20

Brtttth Magatbu i

BrUannie MagaKiite ] o

Botanical Magaxinet Cwrti^a 1 o

Britttk Inteett, Donoean't 1 o

BamitAffr o 4

CriMcoi ilev<«» (Hamilton and Co.) 1 o

Chfrurgieal Reoieur | Q

Commeretal MagoMine i o

Capper-plate Magazine 1

European Magattine {Stmt&Uii Co.) 1 8

European Repertory 3 o

Evangelical Magaxine (Williams*)

Faehiont of London and Paris I

Oentleman't Magazine (Nichols) I

Oerpuin Miuetan i

Ootpel Magazim o

Oenerat BaptiMl't Magazine

HIttoricat Magazine I g

London Review i s

London Medical Magazine I

Lady*t Magazine I o

LadfiMuieum I o

MonlMf Review {QriOita) a

ifiV<>«<)W (Phillips) I

Preceptor i o

Mirror ] o

Epitome

■ Viiitor I

Medical 4r Phytical Journal (Boosey & Co.) 3

Military Journal a

Naval Biography 3 o

Chronicle, Clarke'ti a

Magazine j o

Navy Liei o

NaturaliaVe Mieeellarm a o

Nicholton'i Journal (Robinson) a

PhiloeopUeal Magaicine a o

Becreatione in Apiculture, Anderton't 1

Repertory 0/ Arte (.V/jttt) i

Shellt, Donovan't a

Sporting Magazine (Wheble and Co.) i o

Unieertal Magazine (Bent and Co.) ]

Zoological Magazine I

ham-court chapel, married and settled at Bethnal-green, where to his other professions he established a wholesale stationary business, for the purpose of supplying the societies with which he was connected, paper for printing their magazines, journals, and other rdigioos productions. He contrived to obtain the Evangelical Magazine ftom the hands of Mr. Thomas Williams, a bookseller in Stationers' court, who had been at the expense of establishing It, and was also its editor, and made the property of Mr. Wilks, and his partners to their no little adrantage, considering the large numbers which were sold. By these means, and others of a similar description, Mt. Wilks contrived to realize a very handsome fortune.
 * Matthew Wilks, a methodisticai preacher of Totten.

t Founded by the rev. James Stanier Clarke, LL.B. and F.R.S. eldest son of the rev. Edward darke, who died November, 1780.

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