680 HISTORY OF PRINTING.
of the Great Rebellion, and Boyer's History of Queen Anne, with neat cuts, &c. which they gave gratis, a sheet a week, till completed.
1750, Dec. 5. Died, James Brooke, esq., who had been sheriff of London, in 1738 ; gave by his will a legacy of £60 to the poor of the stationers' company, to be distributed at the discretion of the court.
1750, Jan. 31. The Student, No. 1. This is miscellany of great merit, which was published monthly, in numbers, at Oxford It rejects all politics and party discussion, but embraces a wide field in polite literature, and professes to insert nothing in its pages that had been previously published. It includes many curious documents in history and biography, and a valuable contri- bution of poetry by some of the first bards of the age, among which are many pieces by Warton.
1750. The Leicester Journal. This paper was printed in London, and sent down to Leicester for publication. It appears that the editors of newspapers were often at a stand for matter to fill thier columns, scanty as they were; and a singular instance occurs in this paper, that the editor had actually recourse to the bible to help him out, and filled up his empty space from it! He commenced with Genesis, and went as far in succeeding numbers as the tenth of Exodus.
1760. The Dumfries Journal. This was the fourth town in Scotland distinguished for the establishment of a newspaper. It was after- wards converted into a species of Magazine, which was conducted with much spirit by the late venerable Fulton, the celebrated compiler of the school pronouncing dictionary, and a few other youthful and enthusiastic literary associates. It again assumed the form of a newspaper about the year 1775 or 1776, and continued to flourish up till the era of the "reform bill" in 1831, when its conservative principles being no longer popular, it ceased in 1833.
1750. The Reflector.
1750, March 20. The Tatler revived; or, the Christian Philosopher and Politician, No. 1. stamped, price twopence, Tuesday, Thursday, and Satarday.
1760. The Westminster Magazine, by Laun- celot Pooer-stnick, an author, but no Esq. ; 4to.
1761. Died, William Wilkins, printer in Little Britain, who at this period was the printer of five different newspapers ; and the favourite printer of the Whig party. On a tablet under a naif-length of bishop deadly seated, possessed by the company of stationers, is inscribed, " This portrait of Dr. Benjamin Hoadly,[1] lord bishop of Winchester, prelate of the most noble order
of the garter, was painted at the expense of William Wilkins, esq. citizen and stationer of London, ont of the high esteem and voieratiini be had for the bishop, on account of his bdi^ always actuated by the true spirit of the gospel, and the principles of the Protestant religioii,aiHl of his being a firm friend to liberty, religious and civil. Mr. Wilkins left it to the stationeis' company after his wife's decease, who depaiifd this life the 29th day of July, 1784."
1751. Andrew Millar, bookseller, in tlie Strand, gave jClOOO to Henry Fielding forim novel of Amelia, which he suspecting would be judged inferior to Tom Jones, employed the Soi- lowing stratagem to push it on the trade. Ati sale made to uie boolmellers, previous to the pub- lication, Millar offered his friends his oiliei works, at the usual terms of discount; hntwiieD he came to Amelia, he laid it aside as * vorl expected to be in such demand that he coild not afford to deliver it to the trade in the luul manner ; the ruse succeeded ; the whole impres- sion was anxiously bought up, and the bool- seller relieved from every apprehension of 1 slow sale. Amelia was dedicated to tbeantW! great friend, Ralph Allen,* esq. From theperiod of the publication of Tom Jones, the vigooiof Fielding's mind sank, though by slow deerM, into a decline ; it has, however, the nuns of genius; but of a genius beginning to fall igUi decay. Nevertheless, AmMia holds the sai» proportion to Tom Jones, that the (Wyogr of Homer bears, in Longinus's estimation, to tk Illiad. In various respects it breathes a Git vein of morality ; many of the situations ir affecting and tender; and, upon the whole, ills the Odyssey, the moral and pathetic woil of Henry Fielding.
1751, Aug. Bartholomew Green, a printei from Boston, removed to Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, where he erected the first press »liicb appeared in that province, and died soon afta- wards. His successor, John Bushell, published, in the first week in January, 1752, the first ne*-"^ paper in Nova Scotia.
1751. Two printers, named Miller and Holland Holland, supposed to be natives of GenniJij, introduced a press at Lancaster, the capital of > county in the province of Pennsylvania, Norti America, where they executed some small »oib in the German language, and in this ortheneil year, 1752, published a newspaper in Gennu and English.
- Ralph Allen, esq. died at Prior Park, near Bath, June
19, 1764, of whom it will be no ostentatious encomium to observe, that he was one of the best and most beneveolent of men. His memory will ever be revered by the city and neighbourhood of Bath, to both which he dispensed a variety of acts of liberality; and his name is eternized in the memorials of that noble charitable foundation the hospital, to which be was a most munificent benefactor The following inscription, on the tablet of a tower near the park is emphatically expressive of his character- " Memoriae optimi, viti, Radnlphl Allen, positnn- Qui Tirtntem veram simplicemqne colls, Tenenre, vx sazum." Dr. Warburton married his niece, Miss Gertrude Tucker
and Prior Park became from that time his principal residence, and ultimately his own property.
- ↑ Benjamin Hoadly, was born at Westerham, in Kent, Nov. 14, 1676. On the accession of George I. he was made bishop of Bangor, which see he never visited, but con- tinued in London pleaching and publishing party sermons. One of these, on the Spirital Kingdom of Christ, pro- duced a violent dispute, called the Bangorian controversy. From Bangor he was translated to Hereford, thence to Salisbury, and lastly to Winchester. He died April 17, 1701, and was buried in his cathedral. From the above portrait he appears to have been more than sixty years of age, when the painting was made, and has pleasant full features, shaded by a moderate sized powdered wig.
