[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.

[16]. By the existing laws of New York, interments can no longer be made in the city.—T.

[17]. American Biography.

[18]. See Brackenridge’s History of the late War.

[19]. This miserable pretext, of the profitableness of the traffic to 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 prig Boswell, in his life of Dr. Johnson.—T.

[20]. Eheu! vixit!

END OF VOLUME I.

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