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of great plesssntry and ready wit ; and many of his bon moU are well recollected in Aberdeen.
1793. The Edinburgh Herald, conducte<l by James Sibbald, but did not continue long in existence. Is 1783, Mr. Sibbald established a montUy literary miscellany, under the name of die Bainburgk Magazine. This was the first time that a rival to the ancient ScoU Magazine met with decided success. Mr. Sibbald was himself the editor and chief contributor.
1792. Mr. Campbell obtained a patent for bleaching of rags for the making of paper.
1792. The Carlton Home Magazine, vd. 1.
1792, Dec. 13. The Astociator.
1792. Peter Porcupine, published by William Cobbett, bookseller, Fkiladelpbia.
1793, Jan. The British Critic, No. 1. This pnbliaitioD was commenced by Messrs. Riving- toD, booksellers, in partnership with the rev. William Beloe and the rev. Robert Nares, arch- deacon of Stafford. The editorship was entrusted to the judgment, sagacity, learning, and scute- nen of Mr. Nares, in all and each of which qualities that gentleman proved himself eminently excellent. Mr. Beloe, in conjunction with Mr. Nares, conducted this work to the end of the forty- second volume, and then resigned it to others.
1793. An act of parliament was passed autho- rizing compensations to the clerks of the secre- taries of state for the loss sustained by them " in consequence of the methods in which newspapers were mspetsed into the country," and the sending and receiving of newspapers by members of par- liament was limited to the period of the sitting of parliament, and forty days before and after the session.
1793. R. RouLSTONE introduced the art of printing into Knoxville, the metropolis of the state of Tennessee, in North America, at which time he commenced the publication of a news- paper, entitled the Knoxville Gazette.
1793. Isaiah Thomas of Boston, and subse- quently of Worcester, set up a press at Walpole, in Cheshire county, in the state of New Hamp- shire, Nordi Amenca, and published a newspaper entitled the Farmer's Museum. In the following year Mr. Thomas established a press at Brook- field, in Worcester county in Massachusetts.
1793. A printing establishment was foimded at Scutari, in Natolia, the Asiatic suburb of Con- stantinople, by the sultan Selim III. It was closed at the revolution of 1807-8, in which the unfortunate monarch lost his throne and his life. Only a few years previously to this catastrophe he had erected a paper-manufactory also at Scu- tari, which in all probability shared the same £ate. Selim III. was assassinated July 28, 1808.
1793, Jan. 4. — Carter, a bill poster, was sentenced at the sessions house, Clerkenwell- g^reen, to six months' imprisonment, and to find sureties for his good behaviour for one year, him- self in £100, and two others in £60 each for posting up an Addrea from the London corre- Monding Society in Great Britain, united for the purpose of obtainittg a Reformation in Par- liament.
1793. Mr. Alexander Stebvens published his edition of Shakspeare, 15 vols. 8vo.* In pre- paring this edition, it is said, "he gave an instance of editorial activity and perseverance which is without example. To this work be devoted solely, and exclusively of all other attentions, a period of eighteen months, and during that time, he left his house every morn- ing at one o'clock with the Hampstead patrole, and proceeding without any consideration of the weatoer, or the season, called up the compositor, and woke all his devils.
Him late from Hampstead JonnieTing to his book Auiom oft for Cephaloa mistook : What time he bnuhed the dews with hasty pace, To meet tlie printer's ilev'let face to face.
" At the chambers of Mr. Reed, where he was allowed to admit himself, with a sheet of the letter-press ready for correction, and a room pre- pared to receive hipi, there was every book he might wish to consult. This nocturnal toil greatly accelerated the printing of the work, as, while the printer slept the editor was awake, and thus, in less than twenty months, he completed his eilition." " Though Mr. Steevens," says an eulogist, "is known rather as a commentator than as an original writer, yet when the works he illustrated, the learning, sagacity, taste, and general knowledge which he brought to the task, and the success which crowned his labours, are considered, it would be an act of injustice to refuse him a place among the first literary charac- ters of the age." HediedJan.22, 1800,aged64.
1793, Feb. 16. William Holland, book- seller, sentenced to be imprisoned one year, to pay a fine of £hX), and find sureties for his good behaviour, himself in j£200, and two others in jGlOO each, for selling a copy of Paine's let- ter to the Addressers.
1793, Feb. 20. Died, Samuel Hooper, book- seller, and the well-known publisher of captain Grose's works. He kept a shop for some time in the Strand, afterwards in Ludgate-strcet, and finally in High Holbom.
1793, March 9. Died, Archibald Hamil- ton, a printer of considerable eminence in the city of London. He was bred to the profession of a printer at Edinburgh, but quitted that city in the year 1736, after the riots occasioned there by the popular vengeance against captain Porteous jf in which he was in some degree impli- cated, by having been present at the illegal execution of that unfortunate culprit. On his arrival in London, he obtained the superintend- ence of Mr. Strahan's ofiice. But this was not a field wide enough for his talents, or his am- bition ; and be very soon commenced business on his owivaccount, which he carried on with great success for many years. Amongst other fortunate connexions, his aoqnuntance with Dr. Smollett
- Of Johnson and Steeven's fomth edit. IS vols. sro.
1793, large paper, on whidi paper only twenty-flre were printed, one sold at Reed's for .^20; and a copy at Mr. Strettel's, in 1890, for iSXO U. Ritson, 1803, ^u lOs. Bindley, £t\.
t Captain Porteous was mardercd Sept. 7, 1730.
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