Perhaps it is no inconsiderable honour to add that institutions of a similar nature and on the same plan are organizing in different parts of the United States. The New World cannot do better than imitate the old so far as concerns the management of those who labour under mental infirmities. J.W.F.
1816. 1 Mon 4. Sharon Carter, Philadelphia.
1816. 1 mon. Wm. S. Warder, from Philadelphia.
1816. 2 mon 21. Rev. Thomas H. Gallaudet, who visits Europe for the purpose of qualifying himself to superintend an Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, proposed to be established in Hartford, Connecticut, of the United States of America.
1816. 4 mon 8th. Archibald Gracie, Junr., New York.
1816. April 29th. George F. Randolph, Philadelphia. John Hastings, Baltimore.
1816. 6 mon 19th. Charles Longstreth, from Philadelphia.
1816. 6 mon 19th. Jacob Smedley, from Philadelphia.
1817. 7 mon. Henry Kollock, of Savannah, Georgia. Dr. Wm. Parker, Savannah. G.C. Versslanchi, of New York.
1817. 11/24. Hannah Field, North America, with Elizabeth Fry.