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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
1819, May e. The Recorder, 'i>io.\. Printed by John Leigh, for Joseph Macardy, Manchester.
1819, Aug. 28. The Patriot. Printed and published by Joseph Aston, Manchester.
1820, Jan. 26. Died, Henry Andrews, stationer and boolcseller, at Royston, in Cam- bridgeshire, aged seventy-six, who during the forty years preceding, manufactured Moore'i Almanack for the stationers' company. He was bom at Frieston, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, of poor parents. At a suitable age he was sent from home to earn his living, and the first situa- tion he filled was at Sleaford as servant to a shopkeeper; after this he went to Lincoln to wait upon a lady, and devoted his leisure hours in making hour-glasses and weather-glasses. His last situation of this kind was in the service of J. Verinum, esq. who finding him so intent upon study, allowed nim a few hours evenr day for that purpose. About 1764, he opened a school at Basingthorpe, near Grantham, and afterwards engaged as an usher in a clergyman's boarding- school at Stilton. He then settled in Cambridge, where he proposed residing, in expectation that he might derive some advantage in prosecuting his studies, from the men of science in the uni- versity ; but the noise and hustle of the town not being agreeable to him, he left Cambridge, and went to resideat Royston,wheTe he openedascbool at the age of twenty-three, and at this place he continued as schoolmaster and bookseller until his death, which happened after a short illness. Mr. Andrews was intimate with many men of science, by whom he was much respected. He was well informed in the exact science, and his "Vox Stellarum" was as profound in occult science as " Season on the Seasons," and " Poor Robin, the worthy knight of the burnt island," two other almanacks long extinct. A few years before his death, Mr. Andrews predicted to a friend that people would soon know better than to buy, or be influenced by the prophecies which his employers required him to write. Since the tax has been taken ofl' almanacks,* the reading of Moore's prophecies has been chiefly confined to weak-mindea gossips, and illiterate people.
1620, J art. The Lonsdale Magazine, edited by John Briggs,* printed and published monthly, at Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland. In the prospectus to this work the editor says, that " A monthly magagine maybe properly compared to an orderly flower garden, where all cla.sses of society may spend an hour in rational enjoy- ment ; for where the bouquet is so various, it is presumed, something will be found to gratify the most capricious fancy. It is intended to serve
• Tht Ranaliu of John Briggt, late editor of the Lont- iale Magaxtiie and of the Westmorland Gazette, con. tahUng Letten from the Lakes, &c. Sec, 183S, printed by Arthur Foster, Kirkby Lonsdale. He was entirely the fonnder of his own fortune, being born of poor parents, near the viUageof Cartmel, in Lancashire, on Christmas day, 1788, and early initiated into his father's trade, that of a basket maker. By application to litrratnrc, he was enabled to become a bright ornament, but died at the early ajteof forty-six, November Jl, lnn.
t Repealed July 37, 1831, to the amount of ^85,000.
as a stage, on which the sous of genius maj a.. ercise their literary powers behind a friendly toI. Where, whatever may be the peculiar /orte of the writers, they have an opportunity of maUng trial of its strength, without subjecting th«&- selves to the ridicule of personal criticism."
\9Q0,Jan.Cobbet ft Evening Pott. This new- paper was started by William Cobbett,* m Lou- don, for the purpose of advancing his claims to a seat in parliament. It did not, however, effect its object, or continue long in existence. He was defeated at Coventry.
1820, Jan. 29. Died, George III. king of England, in the eighty-second year of his age. Thus terminated a reign of fifty-nine years and a quarter, the longest and most interesting m the English annals. His consort, queen Char- lotte, died at Kew, Nov. 17, 1818, in iheseveatj- fifth year of her age.
1820. Bees' t Ct/cloptedia, thirty -nine volnmes 4to. in seventy-nine parts, with six supplemen- tary parts, and numerous engravings, LondoD, 1802-20. On the completion of this great voik, Dr. Reesf and the proprietors stated in an ad- dress, that the entire cost of the work when finished, was above £300,000, an expenditnie on a single work which has no parallel in the history of literature.
1820, March 22. Z>jV<i, Joseph CLABKE,book- seller. Market-place, Manchester, aged eightj- one years. He was brother and partner of Mr. Isaac Clarke, noticed at page 864, ante.
1820, March 6. Died, John Evans, maov
Cirs a printer in I.ong-lane, West Smithfielo, ndon, in his sixty-seventh year.
1820, March. A destructive fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Gye and Balne, printers, Gracechurch-street, London, which entirely con- sumed the whole of their extensive establishment, and greatly damaged twelve adjoining hooses.
1820. A Memoir on the Ongin of PriiUi»f, addressed to John Topham, by Ralph WtUeU. This elaborate disquisition originally appeared in the eleventh volume of the Archtolagia,— Newcastle, 1818— thirty-two copies printed vrilh a preface, by J. T. Brockett — Newcastle, 1820, one hundred and fifty copies printed. Large paper thirty copies printed.
- To avoid the political storm which brought Honesn*
Wooler to trial, Mr. Cobbett left England for America i» March, 1817, and returned in the autumn of 1S19, when he was invited to a public dinner in London, Decembers.
t Abraham Rees, D.D., F.B.S., F.L.8., &c., «»s Bie son of Lewis Rees, a dissenting minister of great cclebii^ in the county of Montgomery, North Wales ; and by ti« mother's side was collaterally descended from the cele- brated ^ohn Penry, the martyr of Elizabeth's days- At what time Dr Rees left his native country we do not know, but his settlement as pastor of a congregation vti at St. Thomas's, Southwark, about 1766. It was in IfSl that the first numbers of Clmmberift Cj/clopeiia, edited by Dr. Rees, appeared in four voh'mes folio. The first volume of the 4to. Cyclope^a appeared in 1802. He was a great benefactor to his native country, and a Frotestut dissenter on deliberate and rational conviction. He died June 9, 1825, in his eighty-second year, and wasbniiedlo BnnhiU Fields. He was the author of a great number of works, which do groat credit to his judgment as a scbolar and divine. In 1788 he published The .Idrmtiigr' »/ Knnwtedne, a Sermon preached hefnre the Svjiportert nf the ffew College at Hacknei/, fivo, I7PS.
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