In 1805, Thomas Paine addressed a tract to the Board of Health of the United States entitled “Of the Cause of the Yellow Fever; And the Means of Preventing it” in places not yet effected with it. In 1807, Clio Rickman printed and published this tract in London.
THE battles which decided the fate of the King of Prussia and his Government, began on the 9th of October, and ended on the 14th of that month; but the final event, that of the total overthrow of the Russian army of one hundred and fifty thousand men on the 14th, was not known in
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Of the term “Liberty of the Press“ from the American Citizen, October 20, 1806. THE writer of this remembers a remark made to him by Mr. Jefferson concerning the English Newspapers, which at that time, 1787, while Mr. Jefferson was Minister at Paris, were most vulgarly abusive. The remark applies with equal force to the
A challenge to the Federalists to declare their principles. from the American Citizen, October 17, 1806. The old names of Whig and Tory have given place to the later names of Republicans and Federalists; by contraction Feds. The word republican contains some meaning though not very positive, except that it is the opposite of monarchy;
[The original manuscript of this letter is in the library of Harvard University – ed.] I received your friendly letter, for which I am obliged to you. It is three weeks ago today (Sunday, August fifteenth), that I was struck with a fit of apoplexy, that deprived me of all sense and motion. I had
Of the cause of Yellow Fever, and the means of preventing it in places not yet infected with it, addresed to the Board of Health. from the American Citizen, June 27, 1806. A great deal has been written respecting the yellow fever. First, with respect to its causes, whether domestic or imported. Secondly, on the
From the April 26, 1806 Aurora. New Rochelle, April 23, 1806. Mr, Duane – I see, by the English papers, that some conversations have lately taken place in parliament in England, on the subject of repealing the act that incorporated the members elected in Ireland with the parliament elected in England so as to form
To Anonymous March 20, 1806 NEW ROCHELLE, SIR: I will inform you of what I know respecting General Miranda, with whom I first became acquainted at New York, about the year 1783. He is a man of talents and enterprise, and the whole of his life has been a life of adventures. I went to
From the letter in the Aurora, Philadelphia, February 10, 1806. To JOHN INSKEEP, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. I saw in the Aurora of January the 30th a piece addressed to you and signed Isaac Hall. It contains a statement of your malevolent conduct in refusing to let him have Vine street wharf after
Frome the original letter at the Library of Congress. NEW ROCHELLE, Dear Sir I have not seen nor heard anything respecting the subject I wrote to you upon and also to the vice-president after his arrival at Washington. His letter, however, is on a different subject, and which I introduce without meaning that the one
