By ROBERT BELL, Bookſeller, Provedore to the Sentimentaliſts, and Profeſſor of Book-Auctioniering, who is juſt arrived from Philadelphia, and will return thither in a few days.
Hours of Exhibition by Auction from Six to Ten each Evening; when the Jewels and Diamonds will, inſtantaneouſly, either be ſold or ſacrificed, according to the Taſte of the Company.
Printed CATALOGUES of the Books to be had at the Time and Place.
N.B. On Tueſday, or Wedneſday next Week, the Book-Auctionier intends alſo to exhibit a Collection of Books by Auction in the town of Newbury-Port; and ſometime in the Week after, he intends to exhibit another Collection of Books by Auction in the Town of Portſmouth, the Capital of the State of New-Hampſhire.
In the "Herald of Freedom," published in Boston, is the following singular notice from Osgood Carleton:—
Oſgood Carleton,
Having been frequently applied to for a deciſion of diſputes, and ſometimes wagers,[A] reſpecting the place of his nativity, and finding they ſometimes operate to his diſadvantage: Begs leave to give this public information—that he was born in Nottingham-weſt, in the State of New-Hampſhire—in which ſtate he reſided until ſixteen years old; after which time, he traveled by ſea and land to various parts, and being (while young) moſtly converſant with the Engliſh, he loſt ſome of the country dialect, which gives riſe to the above diſputes.
[A] Several Engliſhmen have diſputed his being born in America.
Boston, august 20, 1790.