Imperial Privileged National Gazette

the iron clamps, with which it is secured; and M, an iron bolt, which holds the frame together at the top. —

Fig. 3. represents a screw press, which can be used instead of the rolling press. AA. is a double-ended lever; BB. the screw; and C. a thick piece of wood or metal, upon which the screw acts, and to which it is attached. DD. the frame of the press, made of wood or iron; EE. a movable board, upon which the writing is placed, with a piece of cloth over it. FF. the base, or the lowest plate of the press, made of wood or metal.

The size of these presses varies and depends on the size of the papers and the purposes for which they are intended. *)

The sketches provided here are taken from one large enough for a folio sheet A folio sheet is a large leaf of paper, approximately 12 by 15 inches, created by folding a standard sheet once. of writing or post paper, specifically following the scale of 1/2 inch to the foot, or 1/8 of the natural size.

The contributor of this article hereby invites German artists In this context, "artist" (Künstler) refers to skilled craftsmen or mechanics. to bring such presses more into circulation; this will happen if they are made just as well, and for a cheaper price, than the English ones. He assures that the purpose is achieved so well by these—especially by the rolling presses—in an extremely convenient, swift, and time-saving manner, that one can copy a letter etc. in just a few minutes and find it thoroughly legible. This is true even with the smallest handwriting, of which he has the clearest proof before him, as a friend in London has written to him in this manner. These same copying machines are also used by newspaper correspondents in London during the wintertime, when they must send their letters in duplicate, via Hellevoetsluis and Ostend Ports used for mail packets between England and mainland Europe, for the sake of security. Should any artist find themselves enticed by this notice to provide such copying presses for a fair price, they are requested to notify the contributor of this piece (whose address can be requested at the office of the Reichsanzeiger), who could likely

*) The screw press, however, does not perform its service nearly as uniformly, accurately, and sharply as a rolling press; not even if the screw acts upon four corner pillars that converge at the top in a ring.

assign him some orders; or otherwise to declare themselves regarding this in the Reichsanzeiger.

Corrections and Disputes.

In Eisenach, there are two of my name; both writers; my brother, the Superior Consistorial Councilor, and I. Which of the two of us the inquiry concerns, I cannot know; however, I wish to answer it for myself and him (although without having received instructions from him to do so).

For what reasons any reasonable person could publicly name specifically only a Herr von Göchhausen in Eisenach as the author of a writing which is simultaneously declared to be a lampoon A "Schmähschrift" or lampoon is a piece of writing that harshly satirizes or slanders an individual or group., I do not comprehend. In the writing in question, as far as I am able to judge, there lies no reasonable cause for this. I have a fairly extensive correspondence in Germany, but as yet none of my friends have reported to me that even a suspicion prevails among their public: that a Herr von Göchhausen, in Eisenach, could be the author of the work: The Final Fate of the Freemason Order. The anonymous contributor of the inquiry surely will not take his local public for the general public? And yet it seems so! —

What an honest man owes to himself, I have known for a long time, and I do not intend to learn this first from the Intelligence Sheet of the Jena General Literary Gazette. I therefore do not consider myself at all bound to answer an unnamed person, nor to give him an account of what I do or do not do; and, if I make an exception here once and for all, it happens for the sake of showing certain people (who for some time, for reasons I do not wish to examine more closely here, have concerned themselves much with my name without bringing their own) that they