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HISTORY OF PRINTING.
up to receire jadgment for several libels inserted in that paper on queen Caroline,* when the fol- lowing sentence was passed upon them : Arrow- smith, to pay a flne of jG300 ; W. Shackell and J. Weaver, to be imprisoned three months and to pay a fine of £100.
1822, June 4. Died, W. Hall, who had held the situation of overseer in the office of theXan- eatter Gazette since its commencement, in 1801, in which he discharged his duty with the strictest honesty, industry, and integrity. He was aged fifty-three years.
1822, Jitly 29. William Blackwood, editor and proprietor of BlackumocPi Magazine, fined £100 for a libel on professor Leslie.
1622, Oct. 22. Messrs. Dolbv, Clarke, and Wadoinoton, convicted of publishing alleged libels.f
1822, Oct. Died, Francis Rivington, the senior partner in the highly respectable firm of the Rivineton's, of St. Paul's church-yard, and of Watenoo-phice, London, the immediate descendants of a long line of booksellers, who may be ranked among the most eminent in this useful profession. Mr. Francis Rivington moved in on extensive circle of friends ; and few men bare been more generally or more justly esteemed. His probity, his sincere and unaffected piety, and his natural hilarity of disposition, endeared him to all who knew him. He died at Isling- ton in his seventy-eighth year.
1822, Nov. 15. Died, John Dgbrett, formerly an eminent bookseller in Piccadilly, in Uie shop occnpied by Mr. Almon. He was the editor of the following works : — NewFoimd- ling Hoffritalfor Wit, 6 v. 12mo. 1784. Aiylrnn for Fugitive Piece* in Prose and Vene, 4 v. 12mo. Parliamentary Papert, 3 v. 8vo. 1797. The Peerage of Great Britain and Jreland,^ r. 18mo. 9th ed. 1813. New Baronetage of England, 2 V. 18mo. 1808.
1822. Asiatic Researchea ; or. Transactions of the Society for inquiririg into the History and Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia, plates. 15 vols. 4to. London, 1799. Calcutta, 1822.
1822, Nov. Died, Henbv Fbnwick, printer to the corporation of the city of London, an office which he filled for more than half a cen-
- On the nth of October, 1830, the printers of London
went in grand procession to Brandenborgrb house, the residence of the queen, at Hammersmith, and presented to her mi\)est)r an address, printed on white satin, the workmanship of which was a most splendid piece of typo- graphical skill. She died August 7, isai, and her remains were interred in the fkmlljr vault at Brunswick.
t When the renders of seditions libels, treasonable tracts, and blasphemous and obscene publications, coold And no other way of evading the law, they had recourse to varioos expedients ; amongst many was the following, by little WaddingtOD, at his shop, in the Strand, London. Within the shop were posted up the names of several books, with their prices, and opposite each book was a hook, to which a ^ort rope was attached, extending up to the first Boor, which was occnpied by Waddington j there was also a ring which the purchaser put on the book oppo- site the book he wanted, and thus signllled to the person above stairs what book it was he desired to have, the rope was then pulled ap,and a box was letdown through a hole. Into which the purchaser put the price, the box was then pidled up, and the book immediately let down.
tury, having been appointed to it in April, 1773. He had been a liveryman of the company of stationers more than sixty years, and died aged eighty-two. He was succeeded in the office of city printer by Mr. Arthur Taylor.
16S2, Dec. 9. Ddncan Stevensok, printer of the Beacon Edinburgh newspaper, was fined £500 for a libel.*
1822. The premises of Mr. Bagster, book- seller, in Patemoster-row, London, entirely con- sumed by fire, amongst other valuable property in books, was a great number of copies of a Polyglot Bible,\ printed with stereotype plates.
18^2. It is stated in ibe Revue Ena/clapediqve, that Ali Pacha, the spirited and enterpriang viceroy of Egypt, among other projects for the instruction ana general improvement of his subjects, erected m Bulak, in Upper Egypt, a college in which a considerable number of stu- dents were boarded and educated at his expense, and also a royal printing establishment; one work from which, an Italian and Arabic Dic- tionary, in two parts, is mentioned, bearing for imprint, £o^accu,(ie^/a Stamperia reale, 1822, 4to.
1822. Thecommencement of this year deserves to be noticed for the appearance of a number of illustrated publications, in London, which were sold so low ns twopence each. The only one remaining is the mirror, commenced by John Ijmbird, and as it was the first so it is alio the best — it still continues improving under the direction of its original proprietor, in the Strand, London.
1822. Loudon's Eneyclop(Bdia of Gardeimg.
1822. The New Monthly Magazine.
1822. The Hellenic Trumpet, a political news- paper in modern Greek, was printed at Corinth, a celebrated city of the Morea.
1823. Mechanics' Institute fonned in London and Glasgow on an extensive scale, and with great success.
- OnAugnst nnd, Mr. Abercrombie, the laesent speaker
of the house of commons, made a motion m the house of commons for the appointment of a committee to inqnire into the conduct of the lord advocate, and other law oAcen of Scotland, as connected with the public press of that country — ^the motion was negatived by a m^ority of twenty-flve— the numbers being 1!0 to ys.
t The Polttgtott, published by Mr. Bagster, in IS33,ii folio, by pnnessor SamLLee is deserving of every praiseat a splendid triumph of the British press. The editor of this splendid work was born at the village of Longnor, is the county of Salop, and from the education of a village school, and the trade of a carpenter and Joiner, this a- traordinary man made such rapid advances in theacqmJV' ment of languages, that he made himself acquahitKl, Indndlng his native toneue, with eighteen in number, which are as follows :— English, Ijitin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriae, Samaritan, Arabic, Persic Hindostsaee French, German, Italian, Ethioplc, Coptic Malay, Sanwrit, and Bengalee. Haptdlyforthe honour of the British natioD, these talents were not suffered to remain either inob* scurity, or to languish under that adversity where tbejr had their birth. At a Congregation, held on Qie lOth of March, 1818, the rev. Samuel l.ee, of Queen's cdllcp, was admitted master of arts by royal mandate, sod was afterwards eleeted professor of Arabic, on the resig- nation of the rev. John Palmer, B.D. of St. John's college. Such are the honours which Mr. Lee has attained, through the exercise of his extraordinary talents In the caoseoi virtue and religion. Of his personal character, an amlabls picture has been drawn by his first venotable Mend sod patron, archdeacon Corbet,who extended to him the hand uf benevolence and (Henddiip through life.
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