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and of his taste and judgment as an editor. The Cambrian Traveller's Guide is remarkable for its accuracy, and evinces nuich patient inrestiga- tioD. in a treatise On the Conduct of Man to Inferior Animals, (which went tbrongh four editions,) we have evidence of his humanity of disposition; and nmnerous tracts, caiculated to improve the morals, and add to the comforts of the poorer classes, are proofs of the same desire of doing good. In short, he possessed in m eminent degree, strength of intellect, with uni- rersal benerolence and tindeviating uprightness of conduct. Mr. Nicholson was also the author, translator, or compiler of th« following works : Stenography, or a new System of Short Hand, 8to. The Mental Friend and Rational Com- panioH, toniitting of mamms and reflexiotu, relating to the conduct of life, 12mo. The Ad- vocate and Friend of Woman, I2mo. Directions for the Improvement of the Mind, 12mo.

1825, AW. 4. James JMontgomebv, editor of the Sheffield Iris, aai who is no less distin- guished as a poet of no ordinary powers, than fer his consistent political virtue and minci]^, was on this day invited to a dinner at Sheffield, (lord Milton in the chafr) upon his relinquishing the editorship of that paper, which he had con- ducted for tnirty-one years.* With respect to his principles, as a public writer, Mr. Montgomery addre^ed the meeting in a .speech which was a masterpiece of eloquence. He entered into many parts Of his own history, for the purpose of stating the difficulties which he had to encounter, and the ground which he took from the first, which was " a plain determination, come wind or sun, come fire or flood, to do what was right."

1825, Nov. An action was brought by a prin- ter, in the court of common pleas, London, to recover £94 from Mr. Stockdale, the publisher of Harriette Wilson's Memoirs, for work and labour done. The claim was proved, but the counsel for the defendant maintained that the work " was so immoral, so licentious, so much calculated in every way to injure the true in- terests of society, that no man engaged in assist- ing to bring it before the public could maintain an action for compensation for the labour he had employed to such a shameful purpose." The lora chief justice fully entered into and admitted the objection. The plaintiff was nonsuited.

1825, Dec. 16. James Watt, the original pnblisher of the Montrose, Arbroath, and Brechin Jlemew, while on his passage from Scotland to London, fell overboanf in Yarmouth roads, and was drowned. — See page 844, ante.

• Wben air Robert Peel retired from the premiership, in April. 1 835, one of Ilia laat acts as a minister, was to grant Ur. Montgomery a pension of j€\50 a-year.

Jamea Montgomery was born in the year 177* : — the most important of his works are entitled Prison Amtae- nent», 1 797; the Watuterera of Switzerland, and other poems, isofi; the Went India, and other poems, 1810; the World before the Flood, and other pieces, 1813; Green- land, and other poems, 1819; Sonn of Zion, 1829; and the Pelican Inland, 1827 i all of which are characterised by parity and elevation of thought, harmonious versifica- tion, and a fine strain of devotional feeling. He still con. tinnes to reside at Sheffield.

1826, Jan. 1. The Manchester Onirier, No. J, printed and published by Thomas Sowler.

1825, Jutu 2. The Manchester Advertiser, No. 1, conducted by Stephen Whalley, and printed by Joseph Pratt. This publication was upon the i>rinciple of gratuitous circulation. It continued in existence only a few months.

1825. The Nottingham Herald, printed and published by E. B. Robinson.

1825, Sept. The Nottingham arid Netrark Mercury, printed and published by Jonathan Dunn, for the proprietors. This paper has been for nearly the whole of its existence under the editorship of Mr. M. H. Barker, well known in the literary worid as the " Old Sailor."

1825, Dee. The Liverpool Albion, printed and published by the proprietor, Thomas Bean.

1825. The Ijorulon Magazine.

1825. The Mechanics' Magazine.

1825. The Sydney Monitor, conducted by Mr. E. S. Hall, being the third paper in New Sonth Wales.

1826. The Tatmanian, conducted by Mr. O. T. Howe, late proprietor of the Sydney GaseO*.

The firstreview ofabook in New South Wales, was James Busby, On the Cultivation of the Vine, 1825, 8to. pp. 270. printed at Sydney, and for which review a premium had been given. This book has been supposed, though erroneously, to have been the first printed work in Australia.*

1826, Feb. 12. Died, Deobatus Bye, formerly an eminent printerin St. John's square, Clerken- well. He was, with only one exception, the oldest member of the company of stationers, of which he had been a liveryman sixty years. Though possessing no inconsiderable talents, he was one of the most unassuming of human beings, but at the same time one of the most kind hearted. Content with a very moderate income, he retired, many years before his death, to a tranquil retneat, where he calmly breathed his last. Whilst in business, his principal employment was the print- ing of the religious tracts of the society for pro- moting christian knowledge. He was editorof an edition of Cruden's Concordance, in which he carefully examined every text by the original in the bible. He also printed the Diversions of Purley, for Mr. Home Tooke, with whom he was deservedly a great favourite, and who permitted him to substitute blanks for many names which the timid printer thought it prudent to suppress. Mr. Bye compiled the copious index to the octavo edition of Swift's works, published in 1803. That he was also a versifier, may be seen by a lew lines signed " D. B." in the Gen- tleman's Magazine, vol. 87, p 446. With his habitual placidity of mind, after he had' totally lost the use of his right hand, he soon acquired

• Anstralia, in modern geography the flfth great division of the plobe. Including New Holland, Van Dieman's Land, and all those namerous islands situate to the south-west of Asia. So stmn gly was felt the importance of a newspaper, by the new colonists at Swan River, on the western coast of Australia, that until the materiel at ti prIntlDg establish- ment could be obtained ftam England, a writen newspaper was issued from the seat of government, and copies or it nailed to trees at particular stations in the settlement.

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