Day, B. Bishop Storford, Herts, draper, July 23, and October 19. Day, W. Cheapside, mans'-mercer, July 27. Davies, D. Chester, cheesemonger, July 25. De Baume D. Great Winchester-street, insurance-broker, gust 10. Davison, A. Chester, winemerchant, August 5. Dwyer, J. late of Bristol, hatter, August 13. Davies, E. Ivy-lane, Newgate-street, furrier, August 13. Au Exeter, J. Harwich, linen-draper, July 23. Eagleton, E. Cheapside, grocer, August 6. Frazer, T. Nicholas-lane, merchant, July 20, Farquhar, C. Maddox-street, Hanover-square, builder, July 27. Froggatt, T. Matlock, Bath, Derbyshire, innkeeper, July 20. Field, W. Streatham, victualler, August 13. Fozard, J. sen. L. and J. jun. Parklane, stable-keepers, September 28. Forbes J. and D. Gregory, Aldermanbury, merchants, November 8. Fryer, G. Red-lion-street, Clerkenwell, merchant, August 13. Fassin, T. Bishopsgate-street, pewterer, August 3. Forbes, G. Copthall-court, Throgmorton-street, merchant, August 28. Fenwick, E. Kingston-upon-Hull, innkeeper, August 9. Fisher, J. Briestfield, Yorkshire, white-clothier, August, 10. Fulcher, H. Shoe-lane, victualler, August 10. Garlande, M. Deptford, Kent, victualler, August 10. Goodyear, W. Shepherd-street, Oxford-street, bricklayer, July 27. Goots, G. late of Cawston, Norfolk, merchant, August 9. Hewlett, W. V. High-street Borough, druggist, July 20. Hart, M. Bowen, Lincolnshire, money-scrivener, July 19. Hunter P. Durham, money-scrivener, July 19. Harris, T. Paul's-court, Wood-street, hosier, July 23. Harris, J. Keynsham, Somersetshi e, tanner, July 25. Hardman, J. Manchester, merchant, July 25. Hobson, T. Spilsbury, Lincolnshire, shopkeeper, August 16. Hill, S. Bishopgatestreet, cil and colourman, July 27. Haycock, R. Wells, Norfolk, merchant, August 13. Hale, H. Birchinlane, oilman, November 4. James, B. Northampton, shoemaker, July 25. Johnston, R. J. and W. St. Swithin's-lane, merchants, August 6. Innes, A. Duke-street, York-buildings, Strand, merchant, August 13. Irvin, T. and J. Holden, Halifax, York, dyers, August 13. Keir, L. Throgmorton-street merchant, July 20. Keen, J. Cross-street, St Maryat-hill, factor, August 13. Ker shaw, J. and W. Halifax, York, mer chant, August 7. Kemp, R. Hasle mere, Surrey, victualler, August 7. Kindel, J. late of Liverpool, cabinetmaker, August 10. Lawrence, R. New Windsor, bricklayer, July 17. Lloyd, H. Middle Templelane, money-scrivener, November 2. Levi, H. Ramsgate, Kent, dealer, November 29. Lee, P. South Shields, druggist, August 3. Lacy, J. Whitby, Yorkshire, ship-builder, August 9. Monteith, J. and J. Sequeira, Gracechurch-street, druggists, July 30. Metcalfe, C. Kighley, Yorkshire, moneyscrivener, July 22. Mathews, G. and T. Turnbull, Budge-row, merchants, July 27. Mills, J. Brook-green, linen-draper, August 14. Mello, J. and G. Pratt, Leek, Staffordshire, silk-manufacturers, July 30. Mayor, W. Preston, Lancashire, woollen-draper, August 5. Masters, W. and W. Greenwich, distillers, August 6. Mitchell, T. Hatton-court, Threadneedlestreet, merchant, August 17. Moses, S. Brighthelmstone, Sussex, linen-draper, August 6. Moffatt, D. 'Fleetmarket, grocer, August 13. Mundell E. Scarborough, corn-dealer, August 2. Matross, J. Durham, innkeeper, August 15. Morris, W. late of Coven try, merce, August 17. Nesbitt, J. sen. Aldermanbury, merchant, July 20 Nesbitt, J. E. Stewart, and J. Nesbitt the younger, Aldermanbury, merchants, July 20. Naish, J. Walcott, Somersetshire, coal-merchant, July 29. Newman, P. Melksham, Wilts, clothier, August 6. Ogden, J. Ashton-under-Lyne, cottonspinner, July 20. Oddy, J. J. St. Mary-axe, merchant, July 27. Oakes, J. Union-street, New Bond-street, coalmerchant, July 30. Phipps, J. Copthall-court, Throgmortonstreet, broker, July 10. Packer, W. Chambers-street, Goodman's-fields, tailor, July 27. Phillips, J. Ross, Herefordshire, innholder, August 1. Paine, W. Ipswich, coach-maker, July 13. Parrott, W. J. Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, wine-merchant, August 14. Page, J. Thavies-inn, Holborn, warehouseman, August 14. Preedy, J. Chipping Norton, Oxford, currier, August 10. Payne, T. late of Ashford, Kent, grocer, August 14. Plowes, J. Leeds, York, merchant, August 13. Rodd, T. Gerrard-street, jeweller, July 27. Roberts, E. Great Tower-street, Scott, A. Workington, mercer, August 2. Sha Tanswell, G. Shaftsbury, Dorsetshire, August 17. Turner, J. Manchester, dealer, August 5. Tabrum, R. Shopland, Essex, dealer, August 28. Thurgood, T. Welwyn, Herts, shopkeeper, August 28. Taylor, J. Maiden-lane, Wood-street, weaver, August 13. Vowell, J. jun. Watling-street, stationer, July 27. Wilkinson, J. Kingston-upon-Hull, draper, August 3. Wheatley, J. Marklane, cornfactor, July 20. Weller, W. W. Deptford, miller, July 20. Williams, T. and M. Field, Aldersgatestreet, packers, July 20. Wallas, R. King street, linen-draper, July 23. Wild, J. J. Watts, and J. Boddy, Upper Thames-street, grocers, July 27. Wright, D. Sealingham, Norfolk, miller, August 12. Wray, H. Birchinlane, draggist, July 27. Winter, J. Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire, leather-dresser, July 27. Wain, J. and T. Agg, Basinghall-street, clothiers, July 30. Whittaker, W. Manchester, merchant, July 31. Weaver, W. Bow-lane, warehouseman, August 28. Wanklin, J. late of Knighton, Radnorshire, merchant, July 29, and August 12. Whittle, R. late of Tarleton, Lancashire, shopkeeper, August 8. Wilmott, W. Borough, stationer, August 6. ANSWERS TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Gaunt Notegore is entitled to our warmest thanks, for his valuable communications, a part of which he will readily perceive that we have availed ourselves of, in the present number. The communications of W. B. will be very favourably received. A. B. C's. plan is inadmissible, as it would necessarily, from the very nature of his scheme, take up much more room than what it now does, and what can conveniently, be allotted to that department, in our Magazine. The Epitaph in a Traveller," shall appear in our next. It came too late for the present number. T. B. will very highly obtige us by drawing the diagrams (whenever they occur) on the smallest scale possible. In answer to a gentleman who subscribes himself a "Constant reader of our Magazine;" and who wishes to be informed, whether the "Remarks on the Pursuits of Literature," which, as it appears from the answers noticed to our Correspondents, in the month of February last, were offered by our learned and ingenious Correspondent, at Oxford, are entirely laid aside," or whether they are still to be expected; we have to reply that, at present, we are not enabled to give a satisfactory answer to this Enquirer, as we have not yet, been favoured with the MS. in question. The very valuable communications of X. C. shall appear in our next. The papers which we have been favoured with by Mentor, on the commercial relations of this country, our intercourses with foreign nations, the advantage, and disadvantage of trading companies, &c. are under consideration. Several of our obliging correspondent's productions, in prose and verse, are received, to all of which due attention will be paid to their respective merits, UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE. No. XXI.-VOL. IV.] For AUGUST, 1805. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF TH [NEW SERIES. HENRY of administration is to be attended with MEL- benefits resulting from that administration, and to write in opposition to it, THE fall of great characters, or those is to be the sure means of withdrawing supposed to be great, has gene- the common emoluments of a newsrally excited much curiosity, and with paper, to which it would be otherwise it no small degree of caluinny on the entitled, the public cause must suffer; fallen character. A remarkable in- for few will run the risk, or can afford stance to the contrary, in these days, to support the contest, with so powerhas been seen in the latter respect, and ful an adversary. Such language as has the subject of this sketch has found nu- been used by the supporters of Lord merous advocates, not only to palliate Melville, would, if used by his antahis crimes, but to endeavour, by every gonists, have subjected them to all the means in their power, to cover his pro- vexation of a libellous prosecution ;— secutors with disgrace. The public and the marked difference in the conpapers, with an exception of one or duct of the newspapers to Mr. Horne two, have been devoted to his cause; Tooke and Lord Melville, would exand the language used by them has cite no small degree of surprise in all, been such, as to imply a total disregard who are unacquainted with the secret of national honour, and that it was in springs by which they are conducted.— their power to direct to any purpose the After and during the report of the sefeelings of the public. In every respect lect committee of the house of comtheir attempts were baffled, and the mons, in which Mr. Dundas bore no benefit they have done to their noble inconsiderable share, and during the client is very problematical. "To whole time that Mr. Tooke was under press a falling man too far," argues a confinement, the papers teened with base and a depraved mind; but to en- abuse upon the latter, and every thing deavour to prevent his faults from lying was done to excite the populace against open to the laws-to aim at screening him. From the momem that the naval hi from justice-to overwhelm with commissioners had found grounds of calumnies those who are carnest for complaint against Lord Melville, till the public cause-these are depravities in the British press which we have been compelled to notice, and which argue a corruption of principles of the utmost detriment to the state. they were substantiated in the house of commons, and during the time that the most solemn argument was held on the proceedings to be adopted against him, the public newspapers advocated his This subject has not met with the defence, pursued with calumnies those attention it deserves. That any man, who were determined that justice should or set of men, should have such influ- be done to the country, and treated ence over the newspapers, is in the with the utmost contempt the unanihighest degree improper; and if it mous voice of the public. To what should arise from means afforded by ad- this conduct is to be attributed, is worministration, there is sufficient ground thy of serious enquiry, and at any rate, for enquiry, in what manner these it would be worth while, if we must means are afforded, and whether they have opposition papers, and adminiscan be consistently continued with a tration papers, to try whether it is not due regard to the welfare of the coun- possible to have also public papers, try. It is a common remark, that cer- that is, papers which shall be as detain papers are in favour of, and others cidedly in favour of the public, as the are in opposition to, administration; others may be in favour of their respecand this difference in opinion, as far as tive parties. the conductors of each paper act from Mr H. Tooke and Lord Melville their own principles, is far from being have for many years been near nag) prejudicial but if the writing in favour bours. The language used by the forVol. IV. |