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HISTORY OF PRINTING.

1813. In an edition of the Liturgy, printed in 4to. at Oxford, the second line — " Lamb of God, that takest away the sins of the world" — is printed (at the eud) " the sins of the Lord."

1813, March 17. Died, Noah Rollason, printer, of Coventry, and upwards of twenty-five years proprietor of the Coventry Mercury.

1813, March 23. Died, Nathaniel Collis, an eminent boolcseller at Kettering, Northamp- tonshire. The general disposition of this worthy octogenarian rendered him truly respectable to a large circle of acquaintance, as well as his sympathetic 'regard for all in distress, and more particularly for the poor, whom be amply relieved in his life, and did not forget at his death. He retained the full enjoymeiit of all his faculties to the last. He was at one time in partnership with Mr. Dash, in the same town.

1813, April 21. Died, Thomas Curtis, formerly an eminent wholesale stationer, in Fleet-street, Newgate-street, and Ludgate-hill ; which latter place he quitted some years previous to bis death, resigning business to his only son. He had been more than fifty-five years a livery- man of the company of stationers ; and few men were more generally beloved and esteemed ; his mild and conciliating manners having uniformly secured the friendship of all who were connected with him, either in business or in domestic life. He died at Camberwell, in his seventy-seventh year, and was brother-in-law to Henry Baldwin.

1813, May. Died, James Bowling, aged seventy-five years, formerly proprietor, editor, and printer of the Leed» Mercury, which he revived in 1767, and conducted with a degree of integrity and firmness that honoured a free press. He was one of the few provincial editors who raised a warning voice against those fata] measures which produced the ruinous hostilities that severed the American colonies from the British empire. In the year 1794, he resigned the conduct of his journal, and lived in retire- ment, employing himself, as long as strength and mental energy existed, in acts of benevolence.

1813, May. Died, E. Edwards, bookseller, Ruthin, Denbighshire, aged seventy-eight years. For upwards of forty years he might literally be said to be as stationary as his counter, for, excepting upon real emergency, he never parted from it from morning till night. By penurious saving he amassed the large sum of £4,600 in the three per cent, consols, besides other pro-

Serty; the whole of which he left, jointly, etween two daughters, and in default of issue, in equal proportions to the Chester and Liverpool infirmaries ; restraining one of his daughters from marrying men whose names he specified.

1813, May. Died, W. Clacheb, many years proprietor of the Chelnuford Chronicle, at Cot- tage-place, near Chelmsford, aged eighty years. 1813, May. The Centor, a periodical pub- lished at Oxford.

1813. The art of printing was introduced at Rio de Janeiro, the capital of Brazil, in South America. A Portuguese and English Grammar by Freitag, was printed here in the year 1820.

1813, 3fay. Richard Brinslet Sheridan,* esq. M. P. for the town of Stafford, was piesentol by his constituents with an elegant vase cup, on which was engraved the following inscription :

To the Right Hon. R. B. Sbibidak, the eloquent. Intrepid, and incotrnpUlil*

Qoardian of that FallBdlum

of all the Civil, BeIl«^oas, and Political

Rlg-hts of Freemen,

The Lihertf of the Preu.

This Cop la presented

by his frienit of Sti^ord,

as a snudl Tribate of their nnboonded Admintlon,

irrevocable Esteem, and eternal Gratitode.

1813, July. Died, Robert Spence, one of the proprietors of that extensively circulated paper the York Herald, and son of the eminent bookseller of that name.f He died at York, aged thirty-four years.

1813, Aug. Died, Benjamin Robert Hat- DON, an eminent printer and bookseller, at Plymouth, aged fifty-five years. He was a man universally esteemed for the excellence of his disposition, and the benevolence of his mind. He was never so happy as when he could render himself useful to his friends ; whilst the cheer- fulness and good humour which were so con- spicuous in his manners and conversation, endeared him to all his acquaintance.

1813, Aug. 11. Died, Henry James Pte, poet-laureate,^ who, if he did not possess great genius, was not deficient in the patriotic spirit of the times. He was born in London in the year 1746, and educated at Magdalen college, Oxford, where he was created LL.D. in 1772, and in 1784 was in parliament for Berkshire. Mr. James Pye resumed the practice of writing a new-year ode; but after 1796, neither new- year nor birth-day odes appear in the periodical publications ; and we are therefore inclined to suppose that the serious events of the war put a final stop to this tom-foolery. He translated the war verses of Tyrtieus the Spartan, for the purpose of animating the British militia antinst the French ; and a board of general officers, much impressed by their weight and importance, agreed to pve all the eflect in their power to his intentions. The verses were accordingly read aloud at Warley-common and Barbam-idowns by the adjutants, at the head of five different regiments, at each camp; and much was expected. But before they were half finished, all the front ranks, and as many as were within hearing or verse-shot, dropped their arms suddenly, and were all found fast asleep. Marquis Townsend, who never approved of the scheme,

celebrated Thomas Sheridan, and born in the city of DnbUn, Oct. 30, 1751. As a parliamentary orator Shrrldan stands unrivalled, and in real patriotism displayed more than his great leader Mr. Fox. He was the author of many dra- matic pieces, and his School for Scandal is the most popular, and perhaps the most legitimate comedy of modern times. He died in London, July 7, l^lt.
 * Richard Brinalejr Sheridan was the third son of the

tDled Aug. n, 1834, in his seventy-sixth year.

t A Defence of Poetry, addremi to Henry James Pwt, esq. with a specimen of a new version of Tetemaekus. By J. D'Israeli, esq. 4to. I790. The whole edition, excepting a few copies that had been sold, was burned by Uie author.

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