576 
premiums for the best imitation of Leg- 
horn plait: twenty-four specitnens were 
exhibited; for three of which medals were 
awarded. A person stated that he had 
seen at Paris a Leghorn straw hat, plaited 
for the Duchess of .Betri, the value of 
which was estimated at 1000' frances; and 
that, in ns opinion, the straw hat to which 
the Society had adjudged the first pre= 
minum was of a texture equally fine and 
eeurious. 
Oe : DEATH ABROAD. 
At Leipsick, M. Brockhaus, the cele- 
brated bookseller, His death is consi- 
dered as a severe loss, even by these 
worthle-s writers who exist by imposing 
on booksellers, and whose frauds he ¢on- 
stantly resented, not only to the cit, of 
Leipsick, where he gave employment tonn- 
merous persons, but toliteratnrein geneyal. 
Some persons pretend, that his otherwise 
strong constitution was overcome by the 
increasing rigour of the Prussian censor- 
ship. If the apologetical memorial, which 
he addressed a few months ago to the 
respectable Count Von Lottum, president 
of the Council of Ministers, could be gene- 
rally read, it would certainly excite com- 
passion for a man, who had snch immense 
property deteriorated, and such noble plans 
frustrated. He first settled in Amsterdam 
In 1796 as a Fretich and German booksel- 
Jer. In his visits to the Leipsick fair, he 
formed connexions with German authors 
of the first class, found himself peculiarly 
circumstanced on account of Massin« 
bach’s Memoirs, and removed his business 
to Altenburg ; where, under the immedi- 
ate patronage of [ield-marshal Prince 
Schwarzenberg and the Allies, he pub- 
lished, in 1813 and 1814, the journal 
called “ Deutsche Blatter.” Here he 
purchased, from a Leipsick bookseller, 
the first very meagre edition of the Lexi- 
con of Conversation. ‘The work, which, 
in the progress of five complete, constantly 
enlarged, and improved editions, has in- 
creased to twelve volumes, closely printed 
in the smallest type, has been raised, by 
an uncommon union of talents, to the rank 
of a national work ; and its immense sale 
enabled Brockhaus to venture on literary 
speculations, which no other German 
bookseller, except Cotta and Reimer, 
wonld have ventured upon. A short time 
before his death he had engaged hew and 
_Tespeetive departments. 
Death Abroad. 
able editors for his “ Zeitgenofsen” (Con- 
temporaries,) and his “ Litteraresche Con- 
versations biatt.” Both those publications 
were the cause of much vexation to him, 
as it was hardly possible ta avoid many 
errors. His quarterly critical journal, 
“* Hermes,”? contained capital articles and 
Reviews, by men of great talent in their 
It isa mistake 
to consider it ax in opposition to the 
“Annals of Literattre,” published at 
Viena, Brockhaus, who was a man of 
various knowledge, promoted the success 
of his journal by his extensive connexions 
with the ablest writers in Germany, and 
by liberal remuneration; so that the 
nineteen volumes, which have already ap~ 
peared, are most interesting to all ‘per- 
sons, in particular, whose studies relate to 
political economy, legislation, polities, and 
Belles Lettres. The favonrite pockets 
book Urania, for 1824, will be published 
in a few weeks. Brockhans has pro- 
vided by his will, that his extensive busi- 
ness, for which (calculating, indeed, on a 
longer life,) he was building a real patace, 
in one of the suburbs of Leipsick, shall be 
continued undivided, for six years after his 
death; and Mr, Reichenbach, one of the 
first bankers’ in Leipsick, having volun- 
tarily taken on himself the administration 
of the whole, his distant commercial 
friends will feel perfect confidence ; which 
may be justly expected, for the two 
worthy sons of a man, who, having heen 
obliged some years ago, by untoward cir- 
cumstances, to suspend his payments; 
fully satisfied all/his creditors four years 
ago, when he had the means inhis power. 
The eldest son is an excellent printer 5 
and, at the last Easter fair mission, the 
booksellers assembled in his father’s 
house, to see a new improvement of the 
Stanhope press. Henry, the younger, has 
been brought up by his father to his own 
business. Death overtook this enter- 
prizing bookseller, who often worked 
for sixteen hours ina day, just as he was 
on the point of taking a journey to Pava- 
ria for relaxation, and was going to marry 
again. Indefatigable activity, great know- 
ledge of mankind, acute understanding, 
and philological knowledge, cannot be 
denied him even by his bitterest enemies, 
of whom he made enough, by his resent- 
ment of fraud, both inand out of Leipsick. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
An elegant and vivid Comet may at this time be seen between four and seven in 
the morning’, in the south-east, near the constellation Hercules, 
Our usual Supplement will appear on the 1st of February. 
The Editor having retired from his commercial engagements, and removed from 
his late house of business in New Bridge-street, communications should be addressed 
io the appointed Publishers ; but personal interviews of Correspondents and interested 
Persons may be obtained at his private residence in Tavistoch-square. 
