and then burst into laughter See if Mr. Russel's carriage is at door/ said he to the servant, and he hastened to put on his cloak. While I was contemplating a removal into the country, where I could have boarded at about a dollar, or a dollar and a quarter a week, intending to wait the arrival of my funds, a most extraordinary and unlooked-for circumstance occurred, which changed my purpose, gave a new direction to my views, and, in some degree, colored the course of my future life. It reflects great credit on the Marquess de La Fayette, who was then at Mount Vernon, to take leave of General Washington. A young gentleman of the name of Wallace, a fellow-passen MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN HILOSOPHICAL AND OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETIES BORN IN DUBLIN IN THE YEAR 1760; SETTLED IN AMERICA IN 1783-4 "Your Brothers Book has done more to vindicate Irdant than all that ever was written or published on the subject. Declaration of the R Res D' Troy KCA Bot Dublin Nos MI MBER OF THE AMERI AN 1HILOSOPHICAL AND OP THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETIES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY AND CN INTERNAL. IMPROVEMENT. BORN IN DUBLIN IN THE YEAR 1760: SETTLED IN AMERICA IN 1783 4. "Your Brothers Book has done more to vin.licate Irent than all that ever was written or published on the subject Declaration of the R Ray D' Tryk At Bes Dub New and then burst into laughter. "See if Mr. Russel's carriage is at the door," said he to the servant, and he hastened to put on his cloak. Francis!" cried he as he entered the coach. 66 Francis. "Drive like the devil, Francis." 66 66 Yes, Sir," quoth And such is the world," thought Russel when the door was closed; "all seems fair and true until the bitter fruit of knowledge undeceives us-and then we find, alas! that our eyes have been dazzled by a 'whited sepulchre.' 322 B. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MATHEW CAREY. LETTER II. WHEN I determined on emigration, I hesitated between New-York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and was finally led to prefer Philadelphia, because I had lately received a parcel of papers from this city; among others the Pennsylvanian Packet of June 10, 1784, and Bradford's Weekly Advertiser, of about the same date, which contained an account of the proceedings of the House of Commons against me. In Philadelphia, therefore, my case was known; and of course the oppression I had undergone, I was led to conclude, would probably make me friends there. In sailing up the river Delaware, the America, which was under the care of a drunken pilot, ran aground on the Brandywine shoals, and was in imminent danger-but, after a long struggle, was finally got off, by the aid of a number of hardy passengers, and half a dozen sailors belonging to a vessel bound for Jamaica, which had been wrecked at sea. They were taken off the wreck by a Philadelphia vessel, bound for London, which we met, and which removed them to the America. As this vessel was a clipper, very sharp built, and aground at high water, there was a great alarm among the passengers, who were bewailing their hard fate, to be in such imminent danger, after a safe passage of three thousand miles. Men six feet high displayed the utmost consternation, and actually shed tears. Trunks and boxes were opened to secure money, and trinkets, and other valuable articles which were in a small compass, and could be carried about the person. The alarm was greatly increased by the frantic conduct of the pilot, who lost his self-possession, and ran about distracted. Behold me now landed in Philadelphia, with about a dozen guineas in my pocket, without relation, or friend, and even without an acquaintance, except my compagnons de voyage, of whom very few were eligible associates. While I was contemplating a removal into the country, where I could have boarded at about a dollar, or a dollar and a quarter a week, intending to wait the arrival of my funds, a most extraordinary and unlooked-for circumstance occurred, which changed my purpose, gave a new direction to my views, and, in some degree, colored the course of my future life. It reflects great credit on the Marquess de La Fayette, who was then at Mount Vernon, to take leave of General Washington. A young gentleman of the name of Wallace, a fellow-passen |