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The oath of allegiance is no criterion of characters, nor the want of a certificate thereof an evidence of a person's being disaffected. Uniform character is the best rule to judge. Send up under guard all women who stroll to New-York without leave. But cause them to be well searched by matrons for papers immediately when they are taken; hair, caps, stays, and its lining, should be well examined.

That big statute in New-York Harbor of Liberty Enlightenin' the World, will jest lift her torch up high, and light 'em out of the country: that is what we had her for." I sithed low, and says, "I never knew that wus what she wus there for.

The garden wall is begun. I fear the front pavement will not answer your intention. I write you again tomorrow. Much love awaits thee. Thine, unchangeably, New-York, 25th September, 1785. Your dear letter of Saturday morning has just reached me. I was relieved, delighted, till the recollection of the storm you have since weathered took place. How have you borne it? Ten thousand fears alarm me.

They feel the hand that blesses them, and love because they are blessed. Thy orders shall be attended to. Mamma joins in the warmest assurances of sincere affection. Theodosia and Sally in perfect health. Beyond expression, Yours, New-York, 27th September, 1785. I have counted the hours till evening; since that, the minutes, and am still on the watch; the stage not arrived: it is a cruel delay.

New-York, August 28th, 1785. The enclosed was to have gone yesterday, but the intended bearer disappointed me. Young and his companions have just left us; at tasting your Madeira he pronounced you a d d clever fellow. Your merit increased with the number of glasses; they went away in good-humour with themselves and the hostess.

It has been known to only a very few individuals that on Colonel Burr rested nearly the whole labour; and that nothing was done, even by the canvassers, but under his advice and direction. It has therefore been deemed proper to insert here some of the official details of the case. They are worthy record, as an interesting part of the political history of the State of New-York.

"Better that the lady should know all she will act both wisely and tenderly perhaps for her son's sake, she will aid me to leave New-York." Such was the only language into which she allowed even her thought silently to form itself. Arranging her simple dress with as much care as though she were about to meet her lover himself, Lucy set out for her interview with Lady Houstoun.

If the Englishman who has seen a Thompson silenced in Boston, or a Macready mobbed in New-York, upon the ground that they were foreigners, should sit in Exeter Hall and hear an American orator until he was hoarse, and wonder why the American is better treated in England than the Englishman in America, he has only to attribute it to John Bull's superior knowledge of good manners, and his being a more law-abiding man than brother Jonathan.

The former espoused the whig cause, the latter the cause of the tories. George W. Irwin, subsequently minister to the court of Spain. Major General Jacob Brown, late of the United States army. Former United States Marshal of the Southern District of the state of New-York, and son of that distinguished revolutionary financier, the Honourable Robert Morris. Frederick Prevost, son of Mrs.

This gentleman and his whole ship's company had been cut off at the instigation of Ort-Vantyle, a Dutchman of New-York. Out of her they took water casks and other necessaries; which having done, they designed for the river Methelage, on the west side of Madagascar, in the lat. of 16 degrees or thereabouts, to salt up provisions and to proceed to the East Indies, cruise off the islands of St.