May I ask you or some of your readers to give me an interpretation of the inscriptions?
G. T. H.
Hallett and Dr. Saxby.—In the Literary Journal, July, 1803, p. 257., in an article on "The Abuses of the Press," it is stated:
"Hallett, to vex Dr. Saxby, published some disgraceful verses, entitled 'An Ode to Virtue, by Doctor Morris Saxby;' but the Doctor on the day after the publication obliged the bookseller to give up the author, on whom he inflicted severe personal chastisement, and by threats of action and indictment obliged both author and bookseller to make affidavit before the Lord Mayor that they had destroyed every copy in their possession, and would endeavour to recover and destroy the eight that were sold."
Can any of your readers throw a further light upon this summary proceeding, as to the time, the book, or the parties?
S. R.
Rugby.