Authentic particulars of the celebrated Mr. John Stephens, corn-doctor, No. 98, Fetter-Lane, Holborn / [John Stephens].

  • Stephens, John
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[1807]
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Credit: Authentic particulars of the celebrated Mr. John Stephens, corn-doctor, No. 98, Fetter-Lane, Holborn / [John Stephens]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    His letters have been publifhed, one of which, addreffed to Sterne on the depreffed date of perfonal ilavery in the colonies, can never be too often read by the admirers of fympathetic writing. The writer of this article has the fa- tisfa&ion to obferve, that this uncommon character, after confide, able reading, and much reflexion taken up in a (fate fervitude, died a determined friend to genuine chriftianity, of in its true fpirit and practice. A portrait of him, engraved by the celebrated Bartolozzi, is prefixed to his letters, which are in two vols. 8vo. His fon, Mr W. Sancho, was * brought up to the profefiion of a bookfeller by Mr. Edward Jeffery, of Pall-Mail, and at prefent is the worthy fucceffor of Mr. Henry Paine at the Mews Gate in Caftle-ftreet. He is alfo, we believe, librarian to Sir Joleph Banks, and col- lects literary curiofities with the mod unwearied diligence. Memoirs of Mr. John Sewell, the late remarkable Bookfeller in Cornhill. , Jr Extracted from the European Magazine. ]VIr. John Sewell was born at Oakham in Rutland- (hire; we prefume, in 1735 ; as we find he was baptized on July the 27th of that year. Of his family wc know no particulars; but learn that he came to London in 1752, and became the apprentice of Mr. James Brotherton, who after¬ wards received him as a partner; and that connexion con¬ tinued till 1775, when Mr. Brotherton died, and left Mr. Jr Sewell the whole of his property, with the exception only of a legacy of 30I. to an elderly lady. Mr. Brotherton was an eccentric fort of man; and Mr. Sewell certainlyinherited, with his fhop and bufinefs, fome of his harml6fs whimficality. When, in 1779, he was chofen conftable for the ward of Cornhill, it was expected that