“The invention which he brought forward, promised to be of essential service to the public, by expediting the process and lessening the expense of printing.  Dr. Franklin sanctioned it with his approbation, and Sir Joseph Banks encouraged him with the most decided and animated opinion of the great advantages which would arise to literature from the LOGOGRAPHIC PRESS.  Nevertheless Mr. Walter was left to struggle with the interest of some, and the prejudice of others, and, though he was honoured by the protection of several persons of high rank, it happened in his predicament, as it generally happens in predicaments of a similar nature, that his foes were more active than his friends, and he still continued to struggle with every difficulty that could arise from a very determined opposition to, and the most illiberal misrepresentations of, the LOGOGRAPHIC IMPROVEMENT.

“Mr. Walter has, however, at length triumphed over the falsehood and malignity of his opponents; LOGOGRAPHIC PRINTING, after having produced such a work as this, which he now presents to the public, with many excellent publications that he has already printed, can no longer be considered as an idle speculation:  on the contrary, it is proved to be a practical improvement, that promises, under a due encouragement, to produce a great national benefit.  To advance it to the perfection of which it is capable, Mr. Walter engages to employ his utmost exertions, and he takes the liberty of expressing his confidence, that he shall not be disappointed in the enjoyment of that public favour which now promises to reward his labours.”

C.

Old Brompton, Jan. 3. 1850.

[We may mention another work printed in this manner—­an edition of Robinson Crusoe, in 3 vols. 8vo. 1790—­"printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by J. Walter, No. 169.  Piccadilly, opposite Old Bond Street."]

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MEMORIALS OF THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH’S LAST DAYS.[9]

At a recent meeting of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin, Dr. Anster exhibited a manuscript volume of 157 pages, which he declared to be the identical “album filled with songs, recipes, prayers, and charms,” found in the Duke of Monmouth’s pocket when he was seized.  It was purchased at a book-stall in Paris in 1827 by an Irish divinity student, was given by him to a priest in the county of Kerry, and, on the priest’s death, became the property of the present possessor.  Respecting in its identity and history, from its removal from the rebel duke’s pocket down to its production at the Royal Irish Academy, Dr. Anster showed that after Monmouth was beheaded—­which he was on Tower Hill, by the too-celebrated John Ketch, on the 15th July, 1685—­the articles found on his person were given to the king.  At James’s deposition, three years afterwards, all his manuscripts, including those that had belonged to Monmouth, were