The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

the following britf sketch of t he life of

from a

contemporary. Mr. Teeg's early career was one of strug.
ling and difficulty, and his life presented a striking illus-
tration of how much can be accomplished by persevermnce
and earnestness of purpose. At h a death he left a large
fortune :—" Mr. T Tegg was born in 1776. at Wimble-
don, in Surrey. Doting h;s boyhood, Horne Tooke was
a neighbour of his patents, and frequently noticed him.

His father dying, he was left to the care of same friends,
who sent him to Galaahiels, in Selkirk hire, where for

the extremely moderate sum of ten pounds per annum, he
was boarded, lodged, clothed, and educated, by a Mr.
Graham, with whom be remained four years. At the end
of that time, he set out on a cold .\ ovember morning to
walk to Daikieth, with nothing in his pockets but a letter
of introduct,on to a party in that town, and a sixpence
There he obtained a situation. Removing to Edinburgh
a short time after, he first saw Robert Burns, Hugh Biter,
and Henry Mackenzie, in the shop of Creech, which
those worth'es were in the habit of frequenting. From
Edinburgh Mr. Tegg found his w.y successively to Ber
wick, Alnwick, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and Durham. After
many privations and trials, he obtained employment in
the last named city. In after years he visited Durham
under more gratifying circumstances, having been ho-
noured with an'invitatinn by Dr. Van Mildert, the Bishop
of that see. Prom Durham Mr. Teeg removed to Shef-
field and worked in Mr. Gale's printing office. His am-
bition, like that of every aspirant. was, however, turned
towards the metropolis. Eventually he set out fur Lon-
don, where he arrived almost broken in spirit and low in
purse. As he did not immediately obtain employment.
his sufferings were great: but perseverance overcamq
them, and he entered the service of the then well-known
publishers, the Messrs. Arch and Co., of Cornhill, with
whom he remained nine years. His care and prudence
durirg that time placed him in a position to think of
commencing business on his own account, and he took a
shop iu Alderseate-street, whence he afterwards removed
to 111, Cheapside. In the former Mr. Tegg laid the
foundation of his fortune;, fe commenced a system of
evening book auctions, which he continued for many
years. By means of these, and by entering hugely into
the publishing trade, either in issuing reprints or copy-
rights at a low price, he was, there can be little doubt,
one of the most active pioneers of the cheap literature of
the day. At length Mr. Tegg's trade increased so rapidly
that he found extensi/e premises essential, and trans-
ferred his business to No. 73, Cheapside, known as ' the
old Mansion House.' Here his Iran-actions were as
large perhaps as those of any single bookseller. In 1813
Mr.Tegg was elected Sheriff of Lyndon. but his declining
health prevented him from serving that important office,
and he not only paid the fine of £400.t0 the City of Lon-
don School, but presented an additional hundred to found
a ' Tegg scholarship,' together with a valwahlt collection
of books. In November, 1845, Mr. Tegg's health be-
came so seriously affected as to excite the worst fears of

his family and friendi;llnd,-;(termucli suffering, he ex-
pired on the 21st April last. He.was buried at Wimble-
don. his nat've village. Mr. Tegg was a man who com-
bined powers of endurance under misfortune with deter-
mination of purpose, in a remarkable degree. To use his
own recent words : Tints I can say that. passing through
life, whether rich or poor, my spirit never forsook me so
as to prevent me from rallying again. 1 have seen and
associated with all ranks and stations in society. I have
lodged with beggars, and had the honour of presentation
to Royalty. I have been so reduced as to plead for as-
sistance, and by the goodne's of Providence, I have been
able to render it to others.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.—His fate furnishes a re-
markable instance of the instability of human greatness,
and there is no doubt that his dislike to medicine re.
motely caused his early dissolution ; for rather than take
some simple remedy he allowed disease to gain the ascen-
psenrdsobnesincgaaninwoatysbeprotovoidgwdawtcihthfual
soaffethaenidr
ascen-
dancy over his constitution, and death was the result.
Thus
state ha
tues i oft hiseathltaht,
efficient medicine, such as Frampton's Pill of Heal
lt—
enjoy the two greatest blessings of this world, health and
long life.