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844 constitutional freedom, in whose cause the sacrifice has been made, to follow the example of the present meeting, and generously step forward to afford him that remuneration which he appears to be so justly entitled to.

1811, Nov. 12. Died,, bookseller. High Holborn, aged seventy-four. The abilities of Mr. Hayes were of no ordinary class, and his erudition very considerable.

1811. The Gleaner, a series of periodical essays, selected from papers not included in the British Essayists, four vols. 8vo. By Nathan Drake, M. D. He died at Hadleigh, in Suffolk, 1836, aged seventy years.

1811. Town Talk; or, Living Manners, 8vo. by John Agg.

1811. The Philosopher. This periodical was the production of general Sarrazin.

1811. Essays, Literary and Miscellaneous, by Dr. John Aikin.

1811. The Times, by A Bickerstaffe. These essays appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine.

1811, June 29. The Westmoreland Advertiser and Kendal Chronicle, No. 1, printed and published by Richard Lough, at Kendal. It was long a subject of wonder and regret, that the county of Westmoreland should not produce a permanent newspaper before this period; though Kendal, so early as the time of Camden, was a very populous and respectable town.

1811, July 5. The Liverpool Mercury, No. 1. printed and published by Egerton Smith & Co.

1811. The Montrose, Arbroath, and Brechin Review, established, and was for many years distinguished by great ability of writing, while under the management of the late Mr. Watt.

1812, Feb. 7. Died,, bookseller. King-street, Westminster, and afterwards of Gerard-street, Soho. Of him Mr. Dibdin observes, "In the present Caxton-loving age, with what avidity would such a number of this printer's books be sought after. They will rarely ever again appear in one collection so numerous or so perfect. I am well acquainted with the skill and liberality of Messrs. Payne, White, Egerton, and Evans—that these know and love Caxton as well as Aldus, Froben, and the Stephenses; but I question if, in the ocean of English black-letter, they have taken quite so deep a plunge as Mr. Manson, of Gerard-street, Soho, It is due to the spirit and perseverance of this latter bookseller, to notice his love of the imprints, colophons, and devices of our venerable English typographers. Professor Heyne could not have exhibited greater signs of joy at the sight of the Townley manuscript of Homer, than did Mr. Manson on the discovery of Rastill's Pastymes of the People among the books of Mr. Brand. If I wished for a collection of Rembrandt's or Nanteuil's prints, or of old portraits and black-lettered books, catalogued, I would, with the utmost confidence, resign the whole to the integrity and discrimination of Mr. Manson."—Director, vol. II. p. 36.

1812. A splendid mode of printing in burnished gold letters was invented by the late Mr. John Whittaker, an ingenious and eminent bookbinder of Queen-street, Westminster; and who executed an edition of magna charta, from the original manuscript deposited in the British museum, on royal purple satin, and on superfine vellum paper. He also executed a most singularly splendid work in letters of gold, of the august ceremonial of the coronation of George IV. the execution is truly superb, and reflects the highest honour on the artist. As a binder, Mr. Whittaker was celebrated as the restorer of deficient portions of the works printed by Caxton and other early printers, by the use of brass type. He introduced a new style of binding, to which the name of Etruscan has been given.

1812. A fac-simile of the Book of Psalms was printed from the same manuscript and types as the Codex Alexandrinus, and published by the rev. H. H. Baber, one of the librarians of the British museum. The art of printing with types, so formed as precisely to resemble the characters of manuscript, was first practised at Florence, in the year 1741, when a fac-simile of the celebrated Medicean Virgil was published in small