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inercial man, knowing the Dublin market, 
it will appear a Fonifhing that the fluétua- 
" tion was fo little.” Mr. Colville * does 
mot hefitate to fay, that fome resulations 
are neceflary in order to put the drawings 
ander a proper management 3°’ and it 13 
worthy of obfervation, that although the 
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Memoirs of Paul Manuzio. 
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treafury drew upon! London between the ad 
iad March and 3d of Aoril 1804, for 
£.595,960, yet the exchange was not 
Padased lowér than to 164, and that only 
for 57 days of the ndonthy 
(Fo bz concluded it our next.) 
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ACCOUNT rth Litho PAULO MANU- 
Z1iO. 
JAULO Manuzio or Manueci, the 
fon of Aldo, was born at Venice, 
in the ey r5iz. After his father’s 
death, he lived with his mother and we 
other ule at Afela, at fome diftanc 
from Venice, while the bufine!s of His 
printing etablifiment at Venice was car- 
ried on, for the general benefit “of the 
family, by his erandfather, Andrea d’A- 
fola, and the T orrefani, his maternal 
uncles. At Afola, Paulo inde buc fmail 
progrefs m letters. He was, however, 
removed, very young, to Venice, where he 
had every advantage of initruétion and en. 
coursgement to ftudy: Bembo, Sadolet, 
Bonamico, Reginald Pole, B. Ra: betes 
and Galp. Contarini, who had been his 
father’s friends, took a pleafure to excite 
and to dire& Him in his literary purfuits, 
He owis alfo, in the Dees to his familiar 
Epiftles, that he was under great obliga; 
tions, for fimilar aéts of kindneG, to G. 
B. Eenatio. 
Paulo applied’ to the ftudy of eloquence 
in particular, with a zeala 2nd perfeverance 
which did ferious injur x to the natural de- 
Hicacy of his health. ‘The phiyficians for- 
bade him the ufe of books for a time, 
But, after two years ceffation, he was. 
allowed to refume his ftudies. 
He fuffered, focn after, much vexation 
in regard to the partition of the etlates of 
of hrs father and his matérnal grandfather 
between himfelf and the other lreirs. His 
uncles and himielf could not agree in the 
manavément of the bufinefs of We print- 
ing-houfe. In 1529, it was fut up. 
In 1533, Paulo, in the twenty-firft year of 
his age, again opened it, and fenewed the 
buf fells in the names, and for the cormmon 
bencfit, of the heirs of Aldo, ci Andrea 
D° Ajola. In 1547, the affairs of the eita- 
bilhment came again to a paufe. — In 
3540, the partverfhip was diffélved. The 
buiinets was, from this period, continued 
in the names of the ‘* Sons of Aldo,” on'y. 
Paulo, from the fimé of his facceeding 
to the fole direGtion of this ettablifhmenr, 
fet ‘himiel? to purfue, with indefat tigable 
zeal, the example of his se er. His‘time 
was devoted wholly to literature, and to 
the cares of his p fs. As the mot vahia. 
bie remains of Grecian literature were 
already in’ prynt, he began to give new 
editions of a number of | the bet Latin 
authors. He admired, with the fondeft 
enthufiaim, the ityle and eloquence of 
Cicero; and the work which he firft print. 
éd, was titat great man’s T Treatifes upon 
Oratorg. The date of its publication 
was in 1533. He was, at the fame time, 
at Work upon Cicero’s** Familiar Letters,”* 
his firf& edition of which came out alfo 
that fame year. The fifth Decade’ of 
Livy; @ SCO, by Caltighone; I 
Petrarca, and Poxtani Carmina, tom. 1. 
were publifhed by him, in the interval 
between the appearances of thofe two 
parts of che writings of Cicero. In that 
and the following year, the number of 
both Tfalian and Latin es which he 
printed was confiderable. His fir't Greek 
publication was Themiffius, wiich was 
quickly followed by Ifecrates and Actius 
Avmidegus. is uncles had availed them- 
falas but little of the affiitance of the 
Ieanted men of the time. But Paulo, 
like his father, declined no help that could 
contribute to make the ROIS of his 
prefs more unexceptionably accurate. G. 
B. Egnatio, G. P. Valesiano, Lazzaro 
Bortintica: and Ben. Lampridio were 
among the kindeft of his literary friends, 
amidit the progrefs of his 8: undertakings ; 
and he derived the greateit benefit fiom 
fheir aid and advice, 
In 1535, he accepted an invitation ta 
Rome, upon a promife, thot he fhould 
there haye an opulent and elygtble etablith. 
ment. After paving his court, tor fome 
months, fruitlefsly :o thofe who called 
themielves his patrons, in that capital, he 
returned, with fome indignation, to his 
accultomed bulinels and Audies at Venice. 
During 
