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indeed of feeding himself. In this accumulated distress, with two daughters, wholly dependent on him for support, a gleam of comiort was afforded him in the best moments of his exist- ence, by a liberal benefaction from that excel- lent institution. The " Literary Fund," which also enabled his daughters to consign his remains to a decent grave in the churcn-yurd of St. James's, Clerkenwell.

1820, Dec. 11. Mr. Wright, bookseller, editor of the Parliamentary Hiitory, &c. Sec. obtained a verdict of £1,000 damages against William Cobbett for several libels published in the Political Register.

1820, Jan. 1. The Durham Chronicle; or. General Northern Advertiter, No. t, printed and published by John Ambrose Williams,* in the city of Durham. It is now (Sept. 1838,) pub- lished by John Hardinge Vetch.

1820. The Beacon, published at Edinburgh. This weekly newspaper was established by a ^w tory gentlemen, and lawyers, by which the more violent of the radical prints should be met upon their even grounds. As the scurrilities of the Beacon inflicted much pain in very respectable quarters, it sank, after an existence of a few months, amidst the general execrations of the community. Sir Walter Scott, who was one of the association, and who partly furnished the means for its establishment, probably never con- templated, and perhaps was hardly aware of the guilt of the Beacon, was louldly blamed for his connection with it.

Another paper of the same stamp was started in London, called the John Bull, and the violence of its politics, aud the scurrilities with which its pages were filled, caused the printers to be repeatedly fined and imprisoned.

1821, Feb. 3. Jane Carlilb was sentenced in the court of king's bench to two years' impri- sonment in Dorchester jail ; and at the expu«- tion of that time to find two sureties for her good behaviour in £100 each, for publishing, in the Republican, a letter to a clergyman at Bristol. Her husband was confined in {he same prison.

1821. A printing establishment was carried OB at Sleswick, a large city of Denmark, by the pupils of a desif and dumb school. Dr. Cotton observes " that it appears to be an excellent me- thod of employing such afflicted individuals."

1821, Feb. 7. The Cazton printing-office, situate on Copperas-hill, Liverpool, the property of Henry Fisher, totally destroyed by tire. It was the largest periodical warehouse in the united kingdom ; and contained sixteen printing presses : ten copper-plate presses ; with apparatus for heating the plates; 16,000lbs. weight of types; 700 Teams of paper; 400 original drawmgs; two patent hydraulic presses; 10,000 pages of stereotype plates ; and 3,500,000 of folio, quarto, and octavo numbers. The whole was insured for £36,000. Mr. Fisher removed to London.

KM on the dagj of the eonntr uid cathedral ehnrch of Durham, which appeared in hi* paper, Aogiut IS, ini.
 * In J11I7, ISXl, Mr. WUUanu wu fonnd gaOtr ot •

1821. FeS. 16. A duel between Mr. Scott,* editor of the London Magazine, and Mr. Christie, editor of an Edinburgh Magazine, in which the former was mortally wounded. Mr. Christie and Mr. Trail were tried for the murder of Mr. Scott, but acquitted for want of evidence.

1821, Feb. 28. Died, John Rackbam, nearly forty-three years a printer and bookseller at Bury St. Ffdmunds, Suffolk, and one of the burgesses of the corporation. He had retired to bed in health as good as usual, and in a few mi- nutes afterwards, without uttering a groan, was found to he a corpse. Aged sixty-four years.

1821,3foreA 10. Died, William Meyleb, proprietor of the Bath Herald, and one of the magistrates and senior common councilmen of the city of Bath, where he died, aged sixty-five years. Mr. Meyler was a clever writer of small pieces of poetry, and published, in 1806, a vo- lume of Poetical AmuiemenU.

1831, March 19. Thomas Flindell, editor of the Weetem Luminary, found guil^ of a libel on queen Caroline, and sentenced to be imprisoned eight months in Exeter gaol.

1821, Aprn 6. Died, Charles BaiOHTLEr, printer and publisher, of Bungay, in Suffolk. Happening to be at Stamford in the course of a journey on business, he went from the Crown inn to secure a place by the coach for Leicester. He was remarked at the coach-office as a fine robust-looking man, about sixty years of age, and seemed to be in perfect hedth. He mA paid his fare, and had just reached the gateway of the Crown inn, when he fell down and died instantly. He published An account of the me- thod of catting tlereotype, a$ praetised by the au- thor, 8vo. 1809.

1831, April. Died, William Towers, for more than forty years editor to the Sherborne Mercury, aged sixty-five years. He was brother to Dr. Joseph Towers noticed at page 786, ante,

1821, Jtfay 11. Died, George Howe, pro- prieter of the Sydney Gazette, and to whom we nave already briefly alluded at page 814, ante. He was born at St. Kitts, where his father and brother were printers. While yet a young man Mr. Howe went to London, where for some time he worked as a printer, and was em> ployed in the office of the Timet newspaper. He arrived with his family in the colony of New South Wales, in the year 1800. Young as the settlement then was, and absorbed as were its inhabitants in pursuits far different from those of literature, the spirit of his art was still brisk within him, and to establish the press upon these

he received his edncation. Ue commenced tlieinibllcation of a weekly paper called the Cenaor. and was afterwards engaged as editor of the Statenum, an evening paper, and successively editor of the Champion and Newt, pub- liahed by Mr. Drakard, at Stamford, and at the time of Us death of the London Magamu. A series of articles in the latter publication, on the conduct of Btackwooft Magaxine, led to thennfbrtnnate duel. Mr. Scott pnbUsbed a volome replete with valnable and sterling sense, entitled A VitU to Parit is 1814, isiw a Review </ tk* Moral, Po. lUical, Intelleetmal, ani Soaal Coniitiim of the French C*iriM, Svo. IBIS.
 * John Scott was a native of Aberdeen, at which dt7

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