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and continued there (with the exception of a short period, during which he carried on business as a printer on his own axxiount, but unsuccess- fully) till his death. As a compositor, he was a most raluable assistant, and his steady service might always be relied on. Moral in his con- duct, temperate and rationally frugal in his habits, mild and unassuming in his manners, it is no wonder, with such qualities and claims to esteem, that his death should have excited the sincere regret of those with whom he was con- nected. Mr. Bond to more general acquirements, added a considerable taste in music. He died at Battlebridge, in his fifty-sixth year.

1816. A private press was erected at Auchin- leck, in the county of Ayr, in Scotland, the resi- dence of sir Alexander Boswell, bart.* He was seized with the " type fever "\ upon which he converted a little building near the house into a printing-office, a view of which is prefixed to some of the works thereprinted. The first fruit of this press was the Tynmi'i Fall, 8vo. pp. 6. Auehinleck : printed by A. and J. Boswell, MDCccxv. By Alexander Boswell.

1815. A printing establishment was erected at Astrachan, a city in the Russian empire, at which was printed an edition of the Tartar Titrkiih New Tettament, 1816. TTu Ptalter, 1816. The Gctpel of St. Ltike, 1816. The New Teita- ment, 1820.

1816. Bibliographiana, a collection of origi- nal literary contributions to Aston's Mancheiter Exehartge Herald, and afterwards published for private distribution, in 12mo. consisting of twenty-four numhers. The principal contributors were F. R. Atkinson, esq. Mr. Nathan Hill, the late William Ford, bookseller, and others.

1816. The number of newspapers published in Great Britain was 262. Of these 66 were published in London, 16 daily, and 40 periodi- cally ; 122 in the country parts of England, 26 in Scotiand, ani 49 in Ireland. The total number of these papers printed during three months, ending April 1, 1816, was 6,890,621, making the annual average 22,762,764.

I8I6. The Encyclopadia Metropolitana com- menced. This work comprises the twofold ad- vantage of a philosophical and an alphabetical airangement, and published in such portions throughout tiie successive volumes, as to insure to the work, at its completion, the latest disco- veries and improvements relative to every subject. It was projected and arranged byS.T. Coleridge, who wrote the General Introdvction. It forms twenty-five 4to volumes, and has gone through several editions. ' 1816, Jan. 17. Died, Thomas Billinoe, printer and proprietor of the Liverpool Adver- tiier, and afterwards of the Liverpool Marine Intelligencer, in the seventy-fifth year of his age. His wife died in April, 1804.

son. He was created a baronet in 1831, and killed in a duel with James Stnart, esq. arising out of a politica] quarrel, March «), ten.
 * Eldrat «oii of Jamea Boswell. the blofn^pher of John-

t See BiiliorndMcal Deeameron, vol. Ui. p. tH.

1816, Jan. 26. Died, Robert Trveman, junior, one of the proprietors and editor of the Exeter Flying Pott, and a member of the com- mon council of that city, aged forty-nine years.

1816, Feb. 16. /Med, William Pick, of York, printer and publisher of the Historical Racing Calender, Turf Regitter, Sporttman't Vade Me- eum, Src. in the fifty-seventh year of his age.

1816, March. Died, Joseph Maruire, prin- ter, formerly of Baltimore, and for many years a reporter of the proceedings of congress, at Wasnington. This learned and ingenious young typographer at different times amused the public uirottgh the columns of the Portfolio, and the columns of the different newspapers. His last productions were the admirable letters under the signature of " Nicholas Pedrossa," which have so often afforded a fund of ent^tainments. — He was perfectiy versed in the dead, and several of the living languages; he was a poet of no ordinary merit, an accomplished stenographer; a belles lettres scholar, scarcely inferior to any in the age: a printer of taste and skill, ana a man of the most generous and upright prin- ciples ; yet eccentricity and frailty buried all these admirable qualities in obscurity ; and we see, sinking in a grave, dug by himself in early life, one on whom nature and education had bestowed almost all the shining gifts which adorn humanity.

1816, March 26. Died, Richard Dowell, at Dulwich college, where he had filled the office of organist lor thirty-four years, with the greatest satisfaction to his brother collegians, and highly respected by the neighbouring gentry. He was born at Great Geddon, in Huntingdon- shire, in 1748: his father was one of the pro- prietors of the York coach, which he drove him- self. At the age of fourteen be brought his soil Richard to Loudon, and he was bound an ap- prentice in the printing-office of Messrs. Bowyer and Nichols, where he conducted himself with great credit and satisfaction, and laid the foun- dation of his good fortune in future life. He continued in that office several years. Mr. Dow- ell, though diligent in business, filled up his leisure hours wiui the study of music, in which he made great proficiency. When an advertise- ment appeared, inviting candidates for the office of organist at Dulwich college, Mr. Dowell was chosen one of the two candidates to draw lots. Two bits of paper, of equal size and fold- ing are put into a glass, and then held to the candidates. It was offered to Dowell first; — with a trembling hand he took one, the other sticking to it came out of the glass, and dropped upon the floor. The master asked him if he would keep that he had got, or take the one that fell ; be hesitated, fearful that he had let the prize slip through his fingers ; but after a littie while said, with a faltering voice, he would keep thai he had got ; but he had not courage to open it. His opponent, who was no less a man afterwards than the famous Dr. Bumey, eagerly opened the other, which appeared a blank. Dowell then opened the other, and to

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