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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
1805. The Prinee of WaUt't Itland Gazette.
This newspaper was published at Pulo Fenang, which was the first place in that remote portion of Asia situated beyond the Ganges, reaching from Hindustan to the Pacific ocean ; a region less known to Europe than any part of the world, except the interior of Africa. This paper con- Unued in existence twenty-two years, when it fell for want of support, ha Eitay on theMaley language, by J. Shaw, bears for imprint, Prince of Walet'n Iiland, 1807.*
1806. The Saunterer. These essays, the pro- duction of Mr. Hewson Clarke,-)- appeared in the Tyne Mercury, at Newcastle, during the years 1804 and 180d ; and having reached forty-four numbers, was printed in a 12mo. form early in 1806. A second edition, two vols. 12mo. was published in the same year.
1805. Melancholy tiourt. These ess^s, by Henry Kirke White,} appeared in the Monthly Mirror, during this year. They are twelve in number, and exhibit much feeling, taste, and judgment, and are written with correctness and
punty of style.
1806, Jan. 25. Died, Joseph Whitheld, bookseller, at the Bridge end, Newcastle-upon- Tyne. His residence was in the Close.
1806. Printing established at Caiaccas^ a large city of Terrn Firma in South America. The following notice of the typography of this city weowe to the inquiriesof the baron Humboldt:||
- It eune into poraession of the Brltiah in thernr I79fl,
and thron^h care has become a floarlahing colony, and a general rendezvous of all persons trading to those parts of the east. Georgetown is the chief to-trn on the island.
t Hewson Clarke was born at Maryport, in Comber- land, March 16, 1786, and admitted of Emmanuel college, Cunl>rldge, in I8O9. He has published the^rf of PUating, printed at Cambridge, 8vo. I807. Hutory of the Cam. poisnu in Ruviat Svo. 1813. Hittorjf of Wars, arising out 1^ the Trench Rettolution; i Continvation of Hume ; anda Supplement to Johnson*s Lines of the Poets. He has also been the editor of the Srtyrge, and several periodical Journals.
S Henry Kirke White, whose splendid talents, extraordi- nary virtues, and premature death at the age of twenty- one, must be considered both by the literary and moral world, by the disciples of genius and of piety, as a heavy and irreparable loss. He was born at Nottingham, March SI, 178A, where his father was a butcher, and intended to bring up Us son to the same trade. All the school educa- tion he received amounted to the acquirements of reading and writing bis mother tongue, with some Instruction in arithmetic and French, but he thirsted after more ample supplies t and already an ardent admirer of the beauties of nature, he revolted both from the occupation of a butcher and a hosier, to which latter business he was placed, when fourteen years of age. At the age of fllteen he was placed in the office of Messrs. Coldham and Enfield, attorneys, Nottingtiam ; he died six years aiterwards ; yet tiie acquirements he gained, and the works he achieved in th^ short space, were such as have not f^uenUy been equalled. In October, 1804, he quitted the law, and was entered of St. John's college, Cainbridge, where he died, Oct. ig, I8(K!, universally regretted by all who knew him. Bis Life and Remaine, published by Mr. Sonthey, form one of the most affecting and Intere^inc productions which has, for many years, been given to the public.
S OnthelCthof March. 1819, the then flourishing city of Caraccas experienced one of the most awful visitations recorded in history, by an earthquake, which In less than the space of a single minute levelled nearly the entire city with the ground, and buried from nine to ten thou- sand of the inhabitants beneath the fallen mins I It was founded by the Spaniards In the year 1507.
I Baron WUhelm Humboldt, a celebrated traveller, died Ai»ll 7, 1835, aged ilxty-seven years.
" When we remember, that in the United States of North America newspapers are published m small towns not exceeding three thousand inha- bitants, w&ffiay be surprised to learn, that Caiac- cas, with a population of lorty or fifty thousand soiiis, possessed no printing ofiice before 1806 ; for we cannot give this name to the presses which served only from veai to year to print a few pages of an almanacK, or the pastoral letter of a bishop. A Frenchman, M. Delpeche, alli^ to one of the most respectable families in the country, has the merit of having first established a printing-office at Caraccas. ft appears suffid- ently extraordinary in modern times, to see an establishment of \ix\s kind, afibrding the greatest means of communication between men, follow, and not precede, a political revolution." — Pertoml Narrative of Travels, vol. iii. book 4, chap. 13. 1806. James Phiup Palm, a German book- seller, memorable as one of the victims of Ftencb ambition. He was a native of Wurtembarg, and was established in business at Nuremberg, in 1806, when that imperial city, possessing laws of its own, was suddenly occupied by the French army. Being accused of having dis- tributed, in the spring of 1806, a pamphlet against Bonaparte, ascribed to M. Gentz, and entitled Germany in iti profound abasement, fnmi which the following lines is an extract :
BONAPARTE'S ECHO.
Je snls seal en ce lien, personne ne m^ecoute,
tTeeeatt. MorUeu I qui me repond ) Qui eat avec molt
Moi. 8ais-ta si Londres resistera f
RaiMUrt. SI Vienne et d'antres conn m'oppoaeront Im^omrsl
TVm/om. Ah, del I que dois-]e attendre aprH tant de malheunt
Malheun. Aprts tant de hauls fidta, que dois-Je entrepm^ t
Rendre. Rendrel cequej'ai acquis par des exploits inmlt/
Oui. Et quel serait le fin de tant dea soins et des peines I
Peina. Enfin, que deviendrait de mon peuple maiheureujr
neureut. Que sends-Je alors — moi> qui me crois Immortett
Xortel. L'nnivers n'est 11 pas rempli de mon nom t
N<m. Antrefois mon Dom seal inspirait la terrnir
£rrew. Trlste <cho ! laisse-moi, Je m'ennnye, Je me auKn
Mturs.
Palm was arrested by virtue of an order sent from Paris, and conducted to Braunau, where, three days after his arrival, he was arraigned before a military commission, when he alleged that he received by post the ofiensive pamphlet, and that he knew nothing of the author. He was, however, by this mock tribunal, condemned to be shot, and the sentence was carried into execution on the following day, notwithstanding the intercession of the inhabitants of Braunaa. Palm was regarded throughout all Germany as a martyr ; and subscriptions were opened for the benefit of his widow and five chiliu'en, not only in his native country, but in J/ondon and at St. Petersburg, where the emperor and empress dowager became contributors.
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