1.
Priestly’s letters to the inhabitants of Northumberl
d.
PRIESTLEY,
Joseph.
Letters to the inhabitants of Northumberland and its neighborhood, on subjects interesting to the author, and to them. The
second edition with additions; to which is added a letter to a friend in Paris, relating to Mr. Liancourt’s travels in the North
American states. By Joseph Priestley, L.L.D. F.R.S. &c . . .
Philadelphia: printed by
John Bioren, for
John Conrad, & Co.;
M. & J. Conrad, & Co.,
Baltimore, and
Rapine, Conrad & Co. Washington City,
1801.
8vo. 52 leaves in fours, publisher’s advertisement at the end.
Sabin 65509.
Fulton and Peters, page 14.
Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I.
Sent to Jefferson on April 10, 1801, by Priestley, who wrote from Philadelphia: “. . . Your resentment of the treatment I have met with in this country is truly generous, but I must have been but little
impressed with the principles of the religion you so justly commend, if they had not enabled me to bear much more than I have
yet suffered. Do not suppose that, after the much worse treatment to which I was for many years exposed in England (of which
the pamphlet I take the liberty to inclose will give you some idea) I was much affected by this. My Letters to the Inhabitants
of Northumberland were not occasioned by any such thing, tho it served me as a pretence for writing them, but the threatnings
of M
r. Pickering, whose purpose to send me out of the country M
r. Adams (as I conclude from a circuitous attempt that he made to prevent it) would not, in the circumstances in which he then
was, have been able directly to oppose. My publication was of service to me in that and other respects, and I hope, in some
measure, to the common cause. But had it not been for the extreme absurdity and violence of the late administration, I do
not know how far those measures might not have been carried. Much, however, must be ascribed to the successes of the French
and something also, perhaps to the seasonable death of Gen
l. Washington. I rejoice more than I can express in the glorious reverse that has taken place, and which has secured your election.
This I flatter myself will be the permanent establishment of truly republican principles in this country, and also contribute
to the same desirable event in more distant ones . . .”
For a copy of the first edition see no. 3217.
The English edition of La Rochefoucault-Liancourt’s
Travels through the North American States
was first published in London in 1799 in a translation by H. Newman; the original French edition was published
in Paris in l' An VII de la République [1799]. See no. 4016.
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2.
M
c.knight’s Sermon on the present state of the world.
M
cKNIGHT, John.
A view of the present state of the political and religious world. Drawn from the general aspect of the Providences of God,
in connection with the predictions of His Holy Word. In a discourse, delivered January 1, 1802, by John M’Knight, D.D. One of the Ministers of the United Presbyterian Congregations, in the city of New-York. Published by request.
New-York: printed by
Isaac Collins and Son,
1802.
8vo. 20 leaves in fours.
Sabin 43474 (note).
Sprague III, 373.
John McKnight, 1754-1823, a native of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was for a short time President of Dickinson College.
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