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tliit pablieatiou that the celebraled Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesqtie, with engrav- ings by Thomas Rowlandson,* appeared. 1813. The Scotchman, published at Glasgow. 1813, /an. Died, Gotlob Schutzleb, many years an eminent bookseller at Bristol.

1813, Jan. The following papers were pub- lished in London : — Eight morning ; seven evening; seven every other evening; sixteen Sunday; eighteen other weekly. There were also published in the country 2i80 weekly pub- lications throughout Great Britain and Ireland. 1813. Bread and Bulls, an apologetical oration, on the flourishing state of Spain in the reign of king Charles IV. delivered in the Plaza de Tores, >fadrid, by don Gasper de Jovellanos. Mediterranean: printed on board his majesty's ship, Caledonia, off Toulon. 4to. pp. 90.

The speech of doctor D. Antonio Joseph Ruiz de Padron, deputy to the cortes from the Canary Islands, spoken in the sitting of Jan. 18, 1813, relative to the inquisition.

The translation of these two political pamphlets is dedicated to vice-admiral sir Edward Pellew, bart. afterwards lord Exmouth, commander in chief in the Mediterranean.

1813, Feb. 21. Died, Henry Baldwin, printer of the St. James's Chronicle. He was (except one) the oldest member of the company of stationers, of which he had been a liveryman fifty-seven years, and was master in 1792. As a printer, he was of the old school — bred under Mr. Justice Ackers, of Clerkenwell, the original printer of the London Magazine; and he com- menced business for himself under the most promising auspices — first in Whitefriars, then in Fleet-street, and finally in Bridge-street, in a iiouse built purposely for him. Connected with % phalanx of the first-rate wits, Bonnel Thorn- uid others, commenced the St. James's Chronicle, in the foundation of a very old newspaper of learly the same title -, and had the satisfaction >f conducting it to a height of eminence unknown o any preceding joumsil. From early association vith men of eminence both in the literary and 'ashionable world, Mr. Baldwin had acquired leg^nt habits, and, without any profound stock if literature, he sufficiently cultivated a mind laturally strong, to render his company and his onrersation in the highest degree acceptable. tut the firm rectitude of his mind, the real
 * on, David Garrick, the elder Colman, Stevens,

e^wry, London, July, 1756, of avery respectable famUy,and t a very early period gave presage of hia future talent. The laoy works wtiich his pencil illustrated are existing evi- ences of this. Many successions of plates for new litions of those populaj: volumes. Dr. SyrUiut in Search of ke J'tcturaque, The Dance of Death, The Dance of Life, nd other well-known productions of the versatile pen of te late in^nious Mr. Coombe, will ever be regarded as lementns of his graplxic humour. No artist of the past or resent school, peihaps, ever expressed so much as Row- ladson, with so little effort, or with so small and evident n appearance of the absence of labour. He died in 1827-
 * This well-known and admired artiat was born In Old

WUliam Coombe, author of the Tour of Dr. Syniajr, ohrtny Qum Genus, and the papers entitled the Modern pectatmr, in Ackermann'a Repotitorj/ of Arts, &c. died in ambeth Road, London, June IS, 1829.

tenderness of his heart, and the sinoeritT of his attachments, were best known in hia domestic circle, and by his choice friends, who regretted in him the loss of one, who, in a rare and peculiar manner, united the sometimes opposed virtues of justice and generosity. About 1810, he lost two brothers, one older, the other younger than himself, and an only sister, all of a good old age ; but their loss had a very visible efiiect on his usually cheerful spirits. Mr. Baldwin left two sons and three daughters, and a widow.

1813. A private press was erected at Lee prioiy, near Canterbury, the residence of sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, bairt.* The following notice of its origin is taken from his Autobiography, page 191, vol. 2. "In 1813, a compositor and pressman (Johnsonf and Warwick) persuaded me, with much difficulty, to allow them to set up a private press in the priory. I consented, on express condition that 1 would have nothing to do with the expenses; but would gratuitously furnish them with copy, and they must run all hazards, and, of course, rely on such profits ui they could get. These printers might have done very well if they had been decently prudent. They quarrelled as early as 1817, and Johnson quitted. The press was not finally given tip till Dec. 1822."— See Martin's^ History of Book* Privately Printed, and Dibdin's Bibliomania.

1813, March 5. Henry White,§ proprietor and editor of the Independent Whig, was tried and found guilty, in the court of king's bench, of publishing a libel on the duke of Cumberland,] j insinuating that his royal highness was the mur- derer of his servant," Sellers; for which Mr. White was sentenced to fifteen months' imprison- ment in Newgate, and to pay a fine of £200.

• Sir Samuel E^rton Brydgres died Sept. s, 1837, at Grosjean, near Geneva, aged 75 years. He was addicted to poetry from very early me, and liegan printing hia effu. sions about A 790. The most admired of these was a son- net called Echo and Silence. He was also a literary anti- quary of great acquirements, and was the originator of Centura Literaria, Restiiuia, and BriiiMh Bibliographer, He pablished several tales of considerable merit, and hts historical researches have thrown great light on obscure portions of our annals. Not a few of his ablest perform- ances of this kind, and some of his longer poems, wera printed abroad, particularly at Geneva, near which city lie latterly resided in great seduaion. For several yeans he scarcely quitted his bed, and, nevertheless, continued hia labours with all the ardour and confidence of youth. At one period he was in possession of a very valuable library of old English literature, and he availed himself of it in the many curious and interesting reprints made at bis private press of Lee Priory. At the time he was in parliament, he had a notion that he was destined by nature to become a great statesman and orator. Hto manners were sometimes eccentric but very kind and cordial, and he was a warm encourager of all whom he saw strnggling into notice, and, as he thought, deserving ixipularity ; but hts estimate was sometimes more amiable than judicious. During the latter period of his life he never shaved, and his white beard and hair gave him a most venerable and patriarchal appearance.

t John Johnson, author of Tj/pographia; or. Printer^ Inntructor, two volumes London, 1824, and now a master printer in London. John Warwldt has been dead some years.


 * John Martin, who has diatingnished himself in the

literary world, was a bookseller m Bond-Street, London, and succeeded J. H. Wiffin, author of Aonian Hours, tie. who died May 3, 1836, as librarian to the duke of Bedford.

{ Mr. White died at London, May I, ISIB.

I Ascended the throne of Hanover June so, I8$7.

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