CAVE, EDWARD English printer, was born at Newton, Warwickshire, on Feb. 27, 1691, and died on Jan. 1o, '754. He entered the grammar school at Rugby, where his father was a cobbler, but was expelled for robbing the master's hen roost. After many vicissitudes he became apprentice to a London printer and was sent to Norwich to conduct a printing house and publish a weekly paper. While still a printer he obtained a place in the post office, and was promoted to be clerk of the franks. He was at this time engaged in supplying London news-letters to various country papers ; and his enemies, who had twice sum moned him before the House of Commons for breach of privilege, now accused him of opening letters to obtain his news, and he was dismissed from the service. He then set up a small printing office at St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, which he carried on under the name of R. Newton. He had long formed a scheme of a magazine "to contain the essays and intelligence which appeared in the two hundred half-sheets which the London press then threw off monthly." In 1731 he put it into execution, and began the Gentleman's Magazine (see PERIODICAL), of which he was the editor, under the pseudonym "Sylvanus Urban, Gent." In 1732 he began to issue reports of the debates in both Houses of Parlia ment, and in 1738 he was censured for printing the king's answer to an address before it had been announced by the speaker. From that time he called his reports the debates of a "parliament in the empire of Lilliput." To piece together and write out the speeches for this publication was Samuel Johnson's first literary employ ment. In Cave was reprimanded for publishing an account of the trial of Lord Lovat, and the reports were discontinued till 1752. Cave published Dr. Johnson's Rambler, and his Irene, London and Life of Savage, and was the subject of a short biog raphy by him.