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rith the theatrical gentlemen contributed to per- etttate his necessities; yet being of a facetious lispositlon, he persevered in the same line of ondttct, calling himself Andrew the Merry, not lerry Andrew. Besides the players, his nume- ous poor relations generally surrounded his tble. To these he was liberal in victuals, but Iways made them procure their own liquor. le was frequently embroiled in a paper war, nd had a vein of satire in his writings that was raly laughable. It was remarkable that more iromen were brought up printers in his house, ban probably in all England before, it being no Dcommon sight to see uree or four in his office t a time. In 1746, Mr. Brice began hb Geo- taphieal Dictionary, in folio, and completed it n 1757, as far as it now appears. From hispro- osals, it seems, that he intended to have added ery copious indexes to the different subjects; >ut they never appeared. Among his other pub- ications was his Moh-aid, which met with very ew admirers. Indeed, in all his works, his style i as peculiar as his manners, and they exhibit oany new-coined words, which in Devonshire are till called Bricisnu. Having carried on business or such a leng^ of years as to have become the Idest master-printer in England, and having >uried all his children and two wives, a few ears before his death he relinquished his busi- ess to a successor, in consideration of receiving . weeUv stipend during his life, and retired to a larden-nouse in the vicinity of his native city, laving from the earliest part of his life been ery active among the free masons, of whom he nas the oldest member in England, they con- inued their attention to him to the time of his ieath, and upwards of three hundred of that ratemity followed his remsuns to the grave, ccompanied by several hundred of the inhabi- uits of the city, an anthem being sung on the ccasion. His corpse having been removed to he new inn Apollo, lay in state there for some ime; and every person admitted paid a shilling, be amount of which defrayed the expense of lis funeral, in Bartholomew church-yard. Of dr. Brice there are two portraits; one a mezzo- into, in 4to.; the other, an oval, sitting, " at. 9, 1773;" also in the Utdverud Magazine for )ecember, 1781, born which this notice is taken, bere is an engraved portrait.
1773. Isaiah Thomas, a printer of Boston, ent a press and ^pes to Newbury-port, in the 'rovince of Massachusetts, North America, where . newspaper was printed for a short time under lis direction.
1773. T. Green, a printer, firom New London, stablisbed a printing-office in Norwich, of New <ondon county, in tae province of Connecticut, lorth America; which be soon removed to Ver- nont. A second press also was erected in this ear by the firm of Robertsons and Tnunball.
1773. The Batchelor, a title given to a series f essays published in Dublin, of which the est was reprinted in two volumes 12mo. by tecket of London. There is a large portion of it and humour in this curious production.
1773. ne Templar. The essays under this tide were written by the celebrated bibliographer Mr. Samuel Faterson, and consisted only of fourteen numbers. It was chiefly designed as an attack upon the newspapers for advertising ecclesiastical offices, and places of trust under government
1773, Jan. Wettmintter Magazine.
1773. The Monthly Mieceliany.
1773. The Sentimental Magazine.
1773, Oct. The Skeptic; or, Unbdiever, No. 1.
1773. The Laioyei't Magazine.
1773. The Edinburgh Magazine and Eeview was commenced by Mr. William Smellie and Dr. Gilbert Stuart, which was conducted for three years with great spirit and talent, but was dropped in 1776, after the production of forty seven numbers, forming five 8vo. volumes. Its downfall was attributed to a continued series of harsh and wanton attacks from the pen of Dr. Stuart on the writings of lord Monboddo, which disgusted the public mind. For some curious particulars of Dr. Stuart and the Edinburgh Magazine, see Calamitie* of Authors, vols. i. ii.
1774, Feb. 6. Died, James Bettenham, of St. John's-lane, London, a printer of no small eminence in his profession, which he pursued with unabated industry and reputation till 1766, when he retired firom business, and died of a gradual decay, at the advanced age of ninety- one. To show the uncertainty of human aflairs,^ this worthy man, after carrying on a respectable and extensive business for more than sixty years, left behind him not quite £400. His first wife was the daughter of the first William Bowyer, to whom he was married in December, 1712; she died December 8, 1716, aged thirty; he had a second wife, who died July 9, 1736, aged thirty-nine.
1774. Jan. The Medical Magazine, No. 1.
1774. PA. 22. This day fiie great cause respecting literary property was finally determin- ed by the house of lords; upon which, on the 28th, tiie booksellers of London presented a pe- tition to the house of commons against that decision.
1774. Feb. A bill was brought into pariia- ment by the booksellers of London, for a mono- poly for fourteen years in such books as they had at any time purchased prior to that date.
1774. Robert Fowle, formerly a printer at Portsmouth, established a press at Exeter, in Rockingham county, in the state of New Hamp- shire, North America; but its operation came to a close within the short space of three years from its creation.
\T74,March. TheSt.Jamef»Magazine,^o.\.
\TTA, March, 11. The Irish newspapers first stamped; on which occasion the coffee-nouses of Dublin raised their coffee and tea a halfpenny a cup, and their breakfasts three halfpence.
1774. March. John Miller, printer of the London Evening Pott, was taken in execution and confined in Fleet prison on the suit of lord Sandwich, for the whole damages given him by a verdict.
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