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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
editor of the FreemasorCs Magazine. One of his principal undertakinp^s was a new edition of the Bioffraphia Dramatica, four vols. 8vo. also a small Biographical Dictionary; and on the death of Isaac Reed, he became the editor of the European Magazine. From 1799, for very many years, he selected an amusing annual volume from the newspapers, 8cc. under the title of the Spirit of the Journals. He was the author or editor of about twenty other works.
1828. The British Almanack, commenced by the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge.
1828, Jan. 1. The London Eneyclopadia, part I, sixth edition. liondon : Thomas Tegg.
1828, Jan. 1. The Harmonist ; a new series of the Flutist's Magazine, and Pianist's Review.
1828, Jon. 2. 77ie iltAemnun, a literary gazette and weekly critical review, conducted by James Silk Buckingham, editor of the Oriental Herald and the Sphynx.
1828, Jan. 25. The Chesterfield Gazette, No. 1, printed and published by John Roberts. About 1830, the title was changed to the Derbyshire Courier, and Chesterfield Gazette, and still continues in the hands of the original proprietor. This paper was ior a long time edited by the late Mr. Inglis,* the intelligent writer on Ireland.
1828, Oct. 17. The Manchester Times,T^o. 1, edited, printed, and published by Archibald Prentice ; and now conducted by Messrs. Fren> tice and Catherall, Ducie-place, Manchester.
1828, Nov. 15. The Manchester and Salford Advertiser, No. 1, printed by Jonathan Crow- ther, for the proprietors.! Now conducted by Mrs. Laresche and George Condy, a barrister-at- law. Market-street, Manchester.
1828. The Canton Register. This is the first paper established in the celestial empire, and still continues to be published weekly. It is somewhat anti-Chinese in its politics, and com- municates much occasional information on Chi- nese manners, ceremonies, and festivals.
1828, Colonial Advocate, instituted by Mr. A. Bent, Hobart Town, Australia.
1829. Jan. 12. Died, George Riley, many years a printer and bookseller, formerly of York. He died at Greenwich, aged eighty-six years, and was nearly the oldest proprietor of a news- paper in the kingdom.
1829. According to returns, the king's prin- ters in England alone, sold 51,500 bibles, and 75,691 testaments. On the crown privilege of printing bibles, see Gents. Mag. for Feb. 1819, and Companion to the Newspapers, No. 2.
- Henry David Iag:Iis was a native of Scotland, and
first became known in the literary world under the name of •* Derwent Conway." He was the editor of a news- paper on the island of Guernsey ; then of tlic Leeds Inde- pendent ; and also of a monthly publication in that town ; and his final connexion with the periodical iiress, was at Chestcraeld. He was the author of the Modern Oil Bias, and of worlis reforrins to Norway, Spain, Swilzelrand, the Channel Islands, and Ireland, all of which are charac- terised by powers of lively description ; the last of these became an authority on all subjects connected with the sister kingdom. Mr. Inglis died at London, March 20, aged forty years, deeply regretted by the literary world.
t The licensed victulcrs of Manchester and Salford.
1329, Jan. 19. It was considered that printing, • both for execution and facility, had reached its zenith, at least, the printing profession was not prepared at all for we " striking magnificence of appearance" of the Times, London newspaper, of this day, which surpassed every thing that ever preceded out of a mechanical press, or was taken off from a revolving cylinder. It was a double paper, says the editor of that journal, consisting of eight pages and forty-eight columns, instead of four pages, and was the largest sheet till dien manufactured.
1829, Feb. 17. Died, Benjamin Flowu, the original proprietor and editor of the Cam- bridge Intelligencer, which he established in the year 1793, and whose imprisonment in the cause of the liberty of the press we have already noticed at page 779 ante. The name of Benja- min Flower will be revered by every one who had the pleasure of his friendship, and not less by those who wish for the improvement and hap- piness of mankind, will his memory be ever held in respect for the magnanimous activity and self-devotion which he showed in the cause of civil and religious liberty. The imprison- ment of Mr. Flower, in 1797, led to Uie happiest event of his life. It is not common to find a woman (capable as they are when properir devoloped) of that high and sensitive apprecia- tion of moral and intellectual worth, which can enable her to enter minutely into the feelings of any one who is suffering from the consequences of their noblest exercises. An amiable and accomplished lady, with whom he was previonsly acquainted, visited Mr. Flower, whilst deprived of nis liberty, and shortly afterwards became bis wife. This was indeed " the marriage of tnie minds," for she greatly assisted him in all his subsequent literary labours. Of the depth of his feelings for her, some idea may be formed from his own words on her death : " When such friends part, 'tis the survivor dies." They speak more than volumes. It was he who felt the earthiness of the grave, while she ascended. During his latter years, thatch his zeal in the cause of liberty and truth remained in all itt pristine sincerity, he seemed to entertain the con- viction that "Providence had committed their defence to other and younger hands." His private character was that of manly virtue and intelligence — the result of sustained feeling: his public character was the illustration of it. He died at Darlston, aged seventy-four years.
1829, March 1. Died, Alexander AtACKAT, jun. proprietor and printer of the Belfast Newt Letter, where he died.
1829, April—. Died, the right hon. and rev. Francis Eoerton, earl of Bridgewater. He left to the president of the royal society the sum of £8,000, to be applied by him to appoint some persons to write, print, publish, ana expose to sale one thousand copies of a work, On the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, at mani- fested in the Creation. Agreeable to this be- quest, Mr. Gilbert Davies, Uien president of the royal society, relieved himself of the respon-
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