The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-08-07 00:00:00

Mr. William Diaries, ceihil he, 111111 examined Isp
Mr. Terser.

' What would the delivery of eleven copies of your publi-
c:odious, fire the lint four years, upon commie paper, have
assonsted to ?`Within the last four year. I have a wino-
rosette, that thou' of each of our publicatioas. WI small
paper. at the wholesale price, would have amounted to
1,361/. 16s. 4d.
aaderstand you are avisouncing twenty-two works for
pelbliestioe ; what will the delivery of eleven copies of those
weeks goose, to l—The dirtiest works we have lately au-
noosietd, would amount to rather con than 1,0001.
Will the delivery, ie your opinion, operate, or sot, to pre.
veal future pahlientiouo?—Of many expensive hooks most
eertaialy, kernse it very oft,. Incomes a metier of Aught
wish authors whether they shall publish; they &pearl very
each upon the support of politic libraries frequeotly, whe-
ther they shall bring their work forward.
Has your trade any particular risk distinct from other
nianafactures ?--The great disadvantage of our trade is. that
we ant obliged, before we harm whether SO copies of our
books will be oeM, to provide 2 or 300; I coercive uo ether
.specien of asanufactore is liable to so heavy a risk.
Weald you print 'levee topics snore of any of your works
for the sake of the delivery, ?—Certaiuly, 1 court i-r not ; I
do sot recollect a single Malmsey, when we have i.eut our
basks On Staliseere Hall, that slvvru bucks were copied fur
that purpose.
Will you be able to indemnify yourself for the delivery by
iocreasing the prices ef books?—Certainly, I should illumine
net: es always put, in the first iustassce. 2P high a price as
we onoceive the public would think reamnahle, and to add
to that, we coaceivei would prevent the sale of the hook.
Ovamitteg...What is the overage atualser of cultic, you

prime of your soaks ?-1I Surat depend vs the Vldaft of doe
work; *ever Ties eltia.sted, of swag that are likely lo sell.
Now, dividing the actual cost of tl use eleven coldrie
amoomit the total Ofttlill.r of copies, would the adilitiosi
price decrease the sale!—No; my answer was, that we
always, without the obligallus to deliver alit clever tapirs,
pat as high a price as the politic would 'Wok reasonable,
to provide an equivalent fur the liras by Ike delivery of the
eleven copies: it might he attempted to piodoca it by in-
retrains the price of the book ; bit in adding a shilling, or
according to whet might be the price of the book, the loss
by the eleven copies delivered would be positive, sail in Cie
And isotope.; hot if we wordy isidel a hoodrod rvpies out of a
thousand, or live hundred, or whatever it might be, we tbeu
do net produce an equivalent.
I. tins" of pew, you honk to a considerable esport ?
Unonestioesality; to America have go a great many.
Is it your spheral' in the evert of the intercourse with
America below opened maim, du you look for a veal fur
your hooks iu that quarter ?...Of certain books, till they
bruits to priat this., Walesa of eroding so as fur them.
Do you conceive that as additirand price fur books will,
in your opinion, throw au *Wade in the way of the same
vent in your books?—lt world lessen the number sold. tot
this groused ; orders front abroad areal"( commonly limiiril
is their amount, amt therefore I conceive, that in sending
out !IL sus eh of books we should only send twenty books at
one guinea, instead of tweeity.ose at owe pound.WWll.' it not also hare this 'feet, by bring so additional
rocuaragerneut to riot fibular sou books ?—Uuquestionably
it world.
And to reprint yours !—ljnepsestionobly ; the cheaper we
send our books to foreign marki ea, the less eucouragesarut
there is for them to print.
Mr. Truer—Are the risks tied expenses of ynnr business
greater Oise formerly?—Every part of our expenses are con-
siderably increased, hut the scut of all, the reennueration to
authors; they have iscrearad Is au enormous degree; so
mach, within my own kuoveledge, it would be astosishing.
Committee—Has the Dole of books Whereas/ d?—Yes.

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Nave you found, in the experience of your trade, that the
great increased expenses of paper sod printing have already
tended to discourage the publication of the same quantity
of works?-1 imagine that it has ; I think 1 may safely say
that it has: it must be evident, that tire dearer au article
is, the fewer will be mid.
Of caur►e it must follow, that if an additional prier were
put sac, it would still inure discourage it ?-1(s a, it mast have
that effect ; 1 conceive it is out merely in foreign markets,
it is also in our domestic trade it wools' have that effect ;
fur individuals limit their purebases to particular amounts,
particularly hook societies.
Du out you conceive the •amber of purchases of books
hu much lammed within these late years?—Moat utiques-
tionably.
Do. not you believe that in the last year and the year pre-
ceding as large a *lumber of winks were published lot this
country as at any taste preceding that within your memory ?
—1 thick it has increased.
Then the Conantitlie are to understand that the ineseaseil
price of rioting and paper has taut had ■n effect in fact in
dimi•ishtag the •umber of publications ist the two ISM years
—Of the later pablicat isms, for the small hooks, constituting
the greater cumber of the public+, loos; hint, I conceive, of
the works of solid literature there has tint been smelt so M.
creme; that stands pretty Peach where it bas always done.
Is that the most successful part of yissir trade ?-I.llifor-
lanately not; generally speaking, the bud books are the
less, profitable.
You said that yon looked to the eleven nightie Illornries as the
purchasers of those rideable works; do you think that the de.
ductiuu of eleven public libraries, tram the great number of
public libraries ill the kingdom, can materially, or at all,
affect the demand?—The proportion of politic libraries that
see looked to for the support of an expeissiee publication,
is not 11111104:f01111; and to take. eleven out of that number,
would be a material defalcation.

De you believe that all t►o.e eleven libraries would be-
come purchasers of the expensive works you have spoken
uf!—lf properly conducted, and they lad the means of
purchasing; if the curators of ileum libraries were to pay
proper attentiurs to them, and they had funds, those books
irrusdrl be pert hased, ennitestionahly.
Hay.: nay, and how many of 1604 eleven libririev sub-
scribed le Gough's Sepulchral MUIIIIMell).6, Daniel's
tat Scenery, ur any other expensive works ?—We have SW in-
terest in those works. _ _ _

Any work, you are ColletTliefi In!—They do nisi En front
to the libraries; they go thruisch other bsokiellero, and
thrrerssre we do not knew where they go to.

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Have soy of those expensive weeks to which you have
ii:lsultst guise to any of shove eleven public libraries, and to
obit+ ?—We have nu means of kitouisig that; but 31r.
Nichols can give you intorrustion of that.
On those works fur which yon have paid copyright money,
have you, or have you not, 'timid yourself the peirchuse ?
I have very serious doubts *tether, wpm' the whole, we
bare received profits on that.
What, tit your opiuiuu, would best relieve fibs grievance
complained uf'—ln music to that, I world leg leave 111 stitte,
as far as I rim Icons from C.llllVerSal 111111, it is out their wish
they should hr relieved by the Universities brio;; deprivril of
their supply; but that ivstead of its rioting with snows
sod booksellers to supply these copies, they should be de-
sired by the assistance sit l'ailmment. 1 might remove to
add to that, that I ant persuaded, that the aright *huh it
bears ',pun atitlims and booksellers is spot duly uppreciated ;
it is much heavier thau the members of this Committee are
swore of.

In what way would you expect relief a pecuniary
grant; but tiwre air many of the Mamie' sufficiently en-
dawril ulcer's: y
Can you 11/Vll6Oll nny of the Universities that are endow-
ed?—Nut 11 00000 soy own knowledge. I Inhere the Library
of Trinity Collect, Dublin; I know they buy bunks.
cuurt.r, in the course of your tarty business, poi have
a large 'stuck of bunks in the a arthuusirs?—Yes.
Will eleven copies taken away from each of these works,
at the price poi estimate them to he worth in the warehouse,
nimbi it take a very considerable sum away from the Pluck
in your baud?—lll would be, perhaps, our whole poverty.
It takes an eleventh part of the value away frum your
stork in trade!—Must unglues o i 000 iaLly ; it may often he
eleven mat of fifty, and eirven out dye hundred ; in ullerr
rases it may very often happen to be au eleventh past of the
whole.

Mr. John Nichols, called in, and examined by Mr. Turner.
Whist would have bees* your kiwi oil those four works ?
['Aerial, a paper to the wanner ]—This paper is a slat. tarot
of the loss. [lf was delivered in, and rend as fullers :3
Bibliotheca Topographies Beitannice. In reiy,
410. 260 copier only printed ; skies. copies,
at the wholesale prier, would be - - f 174 6 0
Qiicen Elissbeth's Progresses, 3 rule. Ito. 2:30
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_ printsd; clever copies., wholesale price . 44 4 0
Hibtoly of Leicritershire ; eleven omits, at cost
price, on MUMMA paper - - 231 0 0
History of Dorseiskirr, ow printing; eleven
copses, mamas paper - . 139 16 0

(Ti lb* continued )

f 590 6 0

Wednesday morning, ■t live o'clock, the remains
of the

removed from his Lordship's house in St. James's-
rapine, for interment in the family vomit in :Mallow&
shire, attended by his sons, the lion. GEORUL and
HENRY ANsON, sos chief mourners, his Lordship's
brother', confidential servants, &c.

On Siturday, at Durham, as the prisoners were
returning to gaol, after nrcriesog their sentences,
Jukx Pratt, a young woo. '24 years of age (sen-
tenced to trinisportat for seven years), suddenly
threw off his bawl-cuff% mod ran away from the
constables in whore change he then was, near the
head of Although the alarm was
instantly gives., lie ran through the Market-plaer,
which aes much csuatittl with peukile, and got clevr
oft;

INTELLIGNiVCE.

INIARGATg, AUGUST S.
The wreck of • timber laden vara.el, with her sterol and
**owns out, •ae towed into this harbour last night, 'savior
i.e.. fallen in with 'lone tis the Longvatad Head. She is ap-
parently Iw•taeen 3 and 100 tuns burden, black bottom,
white sides with two black streaks, lower masts painted
white; wheat boarded her innvis and rigging were hanging
over the side, which the sailors were obliged to cut away lu
get her clear. The vinve auf the caboose lien the maker's
name upon it, *Oliver, 286, Wapping." The limber,
skate, &c. which remained on deck and below, ate dis-
charging. The mikes report, that a considerable quan-
tity of square timber was flaunting in •ll directions near
the wreck when they boarded her; also the long-bust, full of
water, with the name a Tlsomas Watson" within the stern.
The buttons of n ship, answering to the above wreck, was
towed on shore here yesterday evening. As nu tiding* of
the crew hare as vet reached this place, it is conjectured
anal hoped tiny misvt have been picked up by some vessel,
and landed elsewhere. The following names ■re cost tint on
the cabauu• :—William Dakar, I$IO; Henry Charles Kasen,
1811 ; ICiltiam lived, 1811 ; A Hare; Eliza; bat no other
marks can be diveui•errd on board to lead to the ship's
1114gle Sr port.

LIPP:SPOOL, AUGPIPT 1.
The Prince Regent, whieb was uu shore iu Bootle Bay,
has been gut eft

GRATOEND, AUGUST S.
Arrived the Dornihy Forster, Snowdon, front Jamaica;
Lawn. —, from Stettin ; and three ur fonrfurcigner*._
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Sailed the Alexander, Se diem, for Madeira and tale of
France; Nana, Lawson, for Cape St. Mary's; Itorben and
Eliza, Siuwell, for New Yuck; Brsianuia, Jackwoo, for Ham-
burgle ; and Triton, Tyack, fur 31akra.
WAVER/ORD, attavri 3.
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‘Vithin there few weeks many whales, some of considerable
size, have been seen in the neighbouring bays, and even at
the mouth of the harbour. To • certainty, the .whole, or
rather the grainpue, has before now berm seen in this neigh-
bourhood, and ii is isi full recullection that some twenty-
Ave years ago' a grampus Milt driven ashore at ("Ape Ko-.
neen, above Passage, and far within our htrhour. But, from
the rocs number, and variety of those that hate lately been
seen, we think it most reasonable to conjecture that their
appearance is connected with that revolution, ohatever it be,
in the Puler Sias, that has sent ice islands nearly to the West

FIERCULRA N TASK —Hn Soodiey er'oniglit
young inati, named CARPENDALE, undertook, for
it wager of one guinea, to gri on foot from Ash..
well. Rutland, to Market lisrborouah, a Instance
of twenty-two mites, in two hoar'. lie left Ash-
well at twelve o'clock at noon, and arrived at H dr.
borough at fifty-live eee i e lutes past one o'clock, hue-
Mg fire minutes to spare, and ntitwent is person on
horseback, who attended to witness the performance.
A correspondent says, ‘‘ The wheut is excellent
both in Ireland and iu Entland—the oats and bars
Icy very poor in bOth. The harvest is unusually
early, as they are cutting all kinds of grata."
Flit airplay of grain to excessively shinolmt ; no
kiss than 100 Sa I reached the Ricer ou M
with cargoes of wheat, barley. &v. Although the
slceline to price has already been considerable, a
further reclnctiiiii sunlit lie the conteriisence.
EXTREME lIVAT.—A I two o'clock on Wednesday,
a therm ter in the shade, with H *Mali aspect in
the Strand, was at 84 deg. A thrt eft,mioer iu ihe
Sun. 114 deg. ; ditto, bulb blacked, (kg. —four
feet from the grosind.

listurvi.—A few thy' ago, •it!Mon
Wake, Stafford-hire, as the bull ,V;i4 being taken
from the stoke to the stable, he singled out a near
of the name of JOSEPH GOLUKT, whom he attacked
with great rage.. knocked him down, trampled 1111011
him, tore off one of his eats, and gored him in so
shocking • manner as to kill tutu on the spot.
GREENLAND FlSHERr.—Arrived at !lull ou t!'e
3d instant the John, 13 fifh; Shannon. 13 livh ;
and Ontscornbe, 8 fivh. Arrived at Whitby on the
oth instant the Cherub, with 33 fish. Arrived at
Montrose, on the .2d i.istatil, the Eli:a. SWAN,
with 8 fish; and Monarch, with 7 6.11. The ta-
terprize, of Lynn, pasted Shields Bar ou the 3.1
instant, with 11 fish.

ROBINSON CRUSOEL—Extract from the journal
Of a voyage in the ship Enterpthe, lately arrived
at PIIIIMdCII,IIIN : —" From Relater's Island we pro.
regaled to the Snares (a small cluster cf island,' in
S. lat. 48. W. long. 166) ; here we found three
men who had been on the island seven years. A
114 bonnet, in which they were, being short of pro-
visions, they took their chalice on shore. They
took with them from the vessel a tort of rice, on
iron put, and half a bushel of potators—the pont-
toes they planted, mill alien we were there, the
whole side of the island was covered with them.
They had built live lonises, and had 1,300 dried
skins. We took them and their skins on board,
and brought them away from the island."
The fact is tint perhaps generally known, that
the cession, by this country, of the two Florida' to
Spain, in 1783, was made at a substitote fur Obi.
ramar, the restitution' of which we hail before for-
mally promised. M. de S.F.VELINEF., in his hire.
dattiom to the History qf the American War, gives
the following curious account or two, transaction,
which he affirms lie received Irma the hands of the
person himself who negotiated the peace of 1783,
M. GERARD DE ItAY,II.VAI.:
" The King of Spain, Chaska 111. demanded peremptorily
the restitution orGilirsitar In order to obtain it, be offered
to France to cede to her the Spanish ha:f of the island of St.
Domingo, on condition that she wood charge herself with
furnishing Englonal with as equivalent fur Gibraltar. After
many lung Riad sharp dust usatuus, M. de Baysieval, whit had
proceeded to London, the British Minister In admit
the restitution of Gibraltar as the basis of arrangement, sad
the only question Low related to the determination of a
proper equivalmit.
" During the discussion of this point, however, a political
remorse struck the British Premier, Loud Shelburne. In a
familiar conversation with M. de itayncval, he gave him to
uoderstand, by a very expressive gesture, that were be to Coll.
sent to the ceding of Gibraltar to Spain, he would expose
himself to the risk of loosing his head on the sealrold._

"By a singular eitincitlence. M. de Vergennes (the French
Minister) was tortionted with tiara much of the same kind.
He had promised Martinique as one of the indemnities,
without thinking how much the national pride would be
wuundetl at wring an ancient possession of Fvattec delivered
over to its enemy for the sake of pleasing the Spanish Go-
vernment. _ _ _

" 111.0 c Rsyncval concealed this change of opinion from
the Enghob Miiii.ter, and continued, notwithstanding, to
insist ea pinch as ever fur the fulfilment of his word. It
was 116.11 that the Cabinet of St. James's (not swore that
Spain had au longer the eviqualent of Martinique to offer
then.), first offered one of the Florida., and theta both of
them. This pea/position was ininiedi:ittly transmitted to
Versailles. The Count Arend., Ambassador from Spain,
and furnished with fall powers, was called there to receive
the eiiinwiunicetion of this dirpatth. After a few moments
of p►ofouwd ineditation; be declared officially, that he re-
nounced, in the name of his Sovereign, his demand for (Sib.
roller, ■led ate.lited of the two Florida.. ' I know to what
I captor my.elf,' said he, upon signing, but I know your
esittet regiment. red vars.' He was disgraced."