Necessaries, viz.
Bank-Bills at par, Crowns, Dollars, Half ditto, Quarter ditto, Pistareens, Nine penny pieces, Four-penny half-penny ditto, or Cents.
Terms of Payment:
One half the sum down, and the other half on the delivery of the
articles.
Rudiments gratis, viz.
- Those indebted for Arguments
- Must not be Agitated;
- Nor think it a Grievance
- If they should meet Punishment
- For calling such Superfluities;
- Nor think it Extraordinary
- That I find it Necessary
- To demand immediate Payment.
ANDREW SMITH.
The smallest favour thankfully received.
New London,
March 1, 1819.
It seems a pity that such genius as that of “the subscriber” should have been wasted upon trifles; but possibly in such a country as the United States, where nothing is beyond a man’s reach if his head is only long enough, he reaped the honours and rewards to which his talents entitled him. So many famous people have been called Smith, in America as well as here, that it would be vain to attempt a discovery of his subsequent career. Maybe he went to New York, and composed the following advertisement, which is just of three years’ later date, and seems strange to those who know the Empire City in its present condition only:—