10. Warden, t. 2de.
10. Warden, t. 2de.
11. See this letter in Franklin’s works.
11. See this letter in Franklin’s works.
12. The Bowery, and Lafayette theatres, the Mount Pitt Circus, and other places of public amusement, have been built since. Some of them have also been burnt down and rebuilt within a short time.
12. The Bowery, and Lafayette theatres, the Mount Pitt Circus, and other places of public amusement, have been built since. Some of them have also been burnt down and rebuilt within a short time.
13. The writer was probably not acquainted with the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, which had been but lately established when General Lafayette arrived, and which is rapidly becoming an excellent school of music. It has already performed in public in a very creditable manner, several English and German oratorios, such as Handel’s Messiah, and Haydn’s Creation. Since Lafayette’s departure from this country, New York has had an Italian opera led by Garcia, Angrisani, Signorina Garcia, &c. &c. The New Orleans troop of Comedians has performed with great applause both at New York and Philadelphia. They have met with so much encouragement that a regular annual visit is expected from them.—D.
13. The writer was probably not acquainted with the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, which had been but lately established when General Lafayette arrived, and which is rapidly becoming an excellent school of music. It has already performed in public in a very creditable manner, several English and German oratorios, such as Handel’s Messiah, and Haydn’s Creation. Since Lafayette’s departure from this country, New York has had an Italian opera led by Garcia, Angrisani, Signorina Garcia, &c. &c. The New Orleans troop of Comedians has performed with great applause both at New York and Philadelphia. They have met with so much encouragement that a regular annual visit is expected from them.—D.
14. This venerable man is still living in Massachusetts; October, 1829.
14. This venerable man is still living in Massachusetts; October, 1829.
15. These were his titles of recommendation! They now serve but to remind his country of the vast loss sustained by his death!—T.
15. These were his titles of recommendation! They now serve but to remind his country of the vast loss sustained by his death!—T.
16. By the existing laws of New York, interments can no longer be made in the city.—T.
16. By the existing laws of New York, interments can no longer be made in the city.—T.
17. American Biography.
17. American Biography.
18. See Brackenridge’s History of the late War.
18. See Brackenridge’s History of the late War.
19. This miserable pretext, of theprofitableness of the trafficto the merchants [robbers] concerned, was resorted to till the last, in the British parliamentary discussions relative to abolition, and unfortunately was allowed to exert considerable influence. The last time we recollect to have seen this seriously urged as an argument in favour of the continuance of the slave-trade, was by that prigBoswell, in his life of Dr. Johnson.—T.
19. This miserable pretext, of theprofitableness of the trafficto the merchants [robbers] concerned, was resorted to till the last, in the British parliamentary discussions relative to abolition, and unfortunately was allowed to exert considerable influence. The last time we recollect to have seen this seriously urged as an argument in favour of the continuance of the slave-trade, was by that prigBoswell, in his life of Dr. Johnson.—T.
20.Eheu! vixit!
20.Eheu! vixit!
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