short time resumed his business, and the conduct of the Royal Gazette, but on a favorable opportunity occurring, he made his retreat from all commercial anxieties. He was a truly honourable, worthy, and charitable man, and his death was much lamented. Mr. Aikman visited Great Britain in 1795, in which voyage he was taken by a privateer, and had to repurchase his property at Philadelphia, in 1801, in 1802, and in 1814, but from that time had remained at home. He married at Kingston, Jamaica, January 14, 1782, Louisa Susanna, second daughter of his former master, Mr. Robert Wells. This lady had for four years been his fellow-clerk in her father's printing-office, at Charleston. She joined him from England after no little peril, having twice attempted the voyage. On the first attempt she was captured by the French, by whom she was detained three months, in France; and on the second, by a king's ship, in consequence of her taking her passage in a slave vessel. By this lady, who died November 29, 1831, he had two sons and eight daughters, of whom the only survivors are Mary, wife of Mr. James Smith, of St. Andrew's, Jamaica; and Ann Hunter, the widow of John Enright, surgeon, R.N. His younger son, Robert, died an infant. His elder son and successor in business, Alexander Aikman, died April 11, 1831, leaving a numerous family.
1838, July 2. Upon this day 175,000 newspapers were put into the London post office, to be forwarded to the provinces.
1838, July 22. Died, Giles Balne, late of the firm of Gye and Bahne, printers, Gracechurch-street, London. He died at Nottingham, aged 61.
1838, July 22. Died, William Suttaby, bookseller, and pocket-book manufacturer, of stationers' hall-court, London. He died at Hastings, aged sixty-five years, highly respected.
1838, July. Curiosities of Literature, by I. D'Israeli, esq. doctor of civil law in the university of Oxford, and fellow of the society of antiquaries of London; illustrated by Bolton Corney, esq. honorary professor of criticism in the republique des lettres, and member of the society of English bibliophiles, post 8vo. pp. 256. Second edition, revised and acuminated.[1] To which are added, Ideas on Controversy; deduced from the practice of a veteran; and adapted to the meanest capacity.
In answer to this work Mr. D'Israeli published the Illustrator Illustrated. 1838, 8vo. pp. 81.
1838, July 31. An act for securing to authors, in certain cases, the benefit of international copyright.
1838, Aug. 11. Died, Mr. Lewer, the publisher of the American edition of the English magazines and reviews, at New York. He was one of the original proprietors of the London Athenaeum, and of the Sphinx newspapers, and the Oriental Magazine. During his residence in North America, he was employed in the re-publication of the English magazines, and had reduced that business, with the aid of steam presses and steam navigation, to so well ordered a system, that the public have received these periodicals within a month of their original appearance in Great Britain.
1838, Aug. 21. Died, Henry Fox Cooper, many years connected with the London press, formerly editor of the John Bull newspaper, and in 1826, proprietor and editor of a newspaper under the title of Cooper's John Bull.
1838, Nov. 11. Died, Charles Nesbitt, the eminent engraver in wood. He was a native of Swalwell, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was apprenticed to Mr. Bewick at an early age. His talents in wood engraving were of the first order. He was awarded the gold palatte of the society of arts for his famous view of St. Nicholas's church, Newcastle, which be executed in no less than twelve distinct blocks of wood; and in 1802 he also received the society's silver medal. His illustrations of Hudibras and Shakspeare, and of sir Egerton Brydges' works gained him unqualified praise from every admirer of the arts. Mr. Nesbitt resided chiefly in his native village, and executed such work as was sent to him. It was during an absence from home, on a visit to the scene of his early labours, that he closed his useful life at Brompton, near London, in the sixty-fourth year of his age.
1838, Dec. 18. Died, James Moyes, an eminent printer of Castle-street, Leicester-fields. During thirty-three years of active business, he produced many works, which confer great honour on his press; and the courtesy of his manners, and the zealous attention to business, constituted the friendship of a very extensive circle. He had for years printed the Literary Gazette. He was a native of Scotland. He left one son and three daughters.
1838, Dec. 29. Died, Thomas Kelly, in the eightieth year of his age, and for upwards of forty years, a corrector of the London press. He died at Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester.
1838, Jan. The Hull and East Riding Times.
1838, Jan. 3. The Sunderland Beacon, No. 1; published at Sunderland, by Mr. Kitchen.
1838, March 1. The Monthly Chronicle, a national journal of politics, literature, science, and the arts; royal, 8vo. price 2s. 6d. London: Longman and Co.
1838, Aug. 6. The Lancashire Herald, No.l, printed at Liverpool. It ceased
1838, Sept. 22. The Manchester Journal, No. 1; printed and published by Joseph Macardy.
1838, Nov. 3. The Legal Guide, No. 1. price sixpence; published by Richards and Co., law booksellers and publishers. Fleet-street, London.
Nov. The Dublin Monitor, a political library and commercial journal, published on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
1838, Dec. 4. The Sheffield Patriot, No. 1; printed and published by Ebenezer Havell Edmunds. "This is true liberty, when free-born men, having to advise the public, may speak free; what can be nobler in a state than this?"—Milton.
- ↑ The first edition of this caustic little work was privately printed at Greenwich, [F. Shoberl, London] and appeared at the close of the year 1837, post 8vo. pp. viii, 160.
