xxii. LEIGH,
Joseph.
Illustrations of the Fulfilment of the Prediction of Merlin, --occasioned by the late outrageous attack of the British Ship
of War The Leopard, on the American Frigate Chesapeake, and the measures taken by the President, supported by the citizens
thereon: By Joseph Leigh: --Copy Right secured--According to act of Congress.
Second edition.
Portsmouth: Printed for the author,
October, 1807.
12mo. 12 leaves: A-B
6, woodcuts at the end.
Sent to Jefferson by the author, who wrote from Portsmouth, N. Hampshire, on July 1, 1808: “There was transmitted you early in common with the Heads of Departments--The Illustrations of Merlin with a Real Signature
to Substantiate the same . . .”
Reference is made, on p. iii of the Address to Richard E. Lee, to the
elevation of our present illustrious Chief to the Presidential Chair.
On the recto of the last leaf is a poem of five stanzas headed:
The Chesapeake Massacre!
Composed by a Revolutionist of ’75.
The last stanza reads:
|
If JEFFERSON and Congress join,
|
|
We can defeat the base design
|
|
Of villainous ingrates;
|
|
Then let us arm at ev’ry point,
|
|
And with our blood, our cause anoint,
|
|
And trust to GOD our Fates.
|
Joseph Leigh, of Portsmouth. This is the second of three editions published in this year.
[1700]
xxiii. BENTLEY,
William.
A Discourse, delivered in the East Meeting-House in Salem, September 2, 1807, at the Annual Meeting of the Salem Female Charitable
Society. By William Bentley, minister of the Second Church in Salem.
Salem: Printed by Pool & Palfray,
1807.
First Edition. 8vo. 14 leaves collating in fours. On the verso of the title-leaf:
Published at the Request of the Members of the Society.
Sabin 4776 (n.).
Sprague VIII, 155.
See no. 1695 above.
[1701]
xxiv. ROMEYN,
John Brodhead.
Two sermons, delivered in the Presbyterian Church in the City of Albany, on Thursday, Sept. 8, 1808; being the day recommended
by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, for Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer. By John B. Romeyn, A.M. . . .
Albany: Published by
Backus & Whiting;
William Tucker, printer,
1808.
First Edition. 8vo. 40 leaves collating in fours.
Sabin 75038.
Sprague IV, 219.
John Brodhead Romeyn, 1777-1825, Presbyterian Minister, was born in Marbletown, Ulster County, N. Y.
[1702]
xxv.
Minutes of the Baltimore Baptist Association, held in the City of Washington, District of Columbia, on the 14th, 15th, 16th
and 17th days of October, 1808.
