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1819, June 16. Died, Thomas Hall, for many yeais the highly respected proprietor of the Worcester Herald. He died at his residence at Cheltenham, aged sixty-three years.

1819. The English church missionary society sent out Mr. Thomas Brown to Benares, a large and celebrated city of great antiquity, situated on the left bank of the river Ganges, capital of the district of Benares, in Hindostan, with all the materials of a printing establishment.

1819, June. Mr. Daniel Lizars, engraver, of Edinburgh, invented a method of engraving upon copper to imitate a wood cut, the first specimen of which appeared in the frontispiece to Petei'$ Letters to hu Kinrfolk, three vols. 8to. 1819.

1819. Matthew West, printer, Capel-street, Dublin, introduced the first public stereotype foundry into Ireland.

1819, June 26. The premises of Messrs. Bensley and Son, printers, extending from Bolt- court to the back of Gough-square, Fleet-street, London, totally destroyed by fire, inclnding the

Srinting offices, warehouses, and a part of the welling-house in Bolt-court, formerly the resi- dence of Dr. Johnson; several other houses were much damaged.

1819. Composition rollers were introduced to the profession, which rapidly became general.

1819. Stereotype applied in printing tabular work, in Coxhead's Ready Reckoner, and of Logarithnu.

1819, Jvly 12. Died, Robert Christopher, printer and bookseller, at Stockton-upon-Tees, Durham, in his sixtv-ninth year. He had been in business nearly fitly years. During the whole of this period he was remarkable for assiduity, punctuality, and scrupulous integrity; whereso- ever known he was respected. His whole life was marked by such liberality and benificence, as more know bow to praise, than how to imitate.

1819, Nov. 16. Richard Carlisle, book- seller, Fleet-street, London, convicted of pub- lishing Paine's Age of Reamn, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment in Dorchester jail, and fined £1500.

1819. The Indicator. This was a weekly pub- lication by Leigh Hunt, and was a professed attempt to revive the interest that had been taken more than a century before, in such periodical essays, recommended neither by party politics nor any other stimulus derived from the topics and passions of the day, but addressing them- selves to our common humanity in its permanent tastes and affections. We fear the design was not crowned with any very large success. The circulation of the work was but limited; and the lot of the author was to find at must " fit audience, though few." In 1834 the papers were collected, and published in two volumes, crown 8vo. price 1 2s.

1819,JVot). 1. The North Georgia Gazetteand Winter Chronicle, No. 1. During the voyage undertaken for the discovery of a north-west pas- sage by captain Edward Parry, in the ships Hecla and Griper, in 1819 and 'l 820, a printing nress, which had been taken onboard the Hecla,

was set to work, upon the ships being icelocked for the winter, in Winter Harbour, off Melville island, situate in the North polar sea, in latitude 74 N. lon^tude 112 W. and the above paper was published until the 20th of March, 1820, when No. 21, closed the labours of the press. — This paper was afterwards reprinted in London.

1819, Dec. 15. A meeting of booksellers and printers, resident in the city of London and the neighbourhood thereof, was held at the London cofiee-house, Ludgate-hill, to consider the pro- visions of a bill then before parliament, for the more effectual prevention and punislunent of blasphemous and seditious libels, Joseph Butter- worth, esq. in the chair. The resolutions em> bodied in this petition, for eloquence and argu- ment, are not to be surpassed by any production of the same nature. Its effect was, to place Botany Bay one stage more distant, by the inter- vention of such a trifle as '^simple bmishment " at the offender's own expense, to a foreign country.

1819, Die. 30. Act 60 Geo. III. c. viii.— For the more effectual prevention and punishment of blasphemous and seditious Libels : —

1. That from and after the passing of the act, in every case in which any verdict or judgment by default shall be had against any person for composing, printing, or publishing any blasphe- mous libel, or any seditious libel, tending to bring into hatred or contempt the person of his majesty, his heirs or successors, or the regent, or the government and constitution of the united kingdom as by law established, or either house of parliament, or to excite his majesty's subjects to attempt the alteration of any matter in chureh or state as by law established, otherwise than by lawful means, it shall be lawful for the judge, or the court before whom or in which such ver- dict shall have been given, or the court in which such iudgment by default shall be had, to make an order for the seizure and carrying away and detaining in safe custody, in such manner as shall be directed in such order, all copies of the libel which shall be in the possession of the per- son against whom such verdict or judgment shall have been had, or in the possession of any other person named in the order for his use; evidence upon oath having been previously given to the satisfaction of such court or judge, that a copy orcopiesofthesaid libel is or are in the possession of such other person for the use of the person against whom such verdict or judgment shall have been had as aforesaid; and in every such case it shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, or for any constable or other peace-officer acting under any such order, or for any person or persons acting with or in aid of any such jus- tice of the peace, constable, or other peace- officer, to search for any copies of such libel in any house, building, or other place whatsoever belonging to the person against whom any such verdict or judgment shall have been had, or to any other person so named, in whose possession any copies of any such libel, belonging to the person against whom any such verdict or judg-

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