Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the first day of January, LS in the forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1825, R. W. POMEROY, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

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Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, by Robert Waln, Jr.-Vol. VI."

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."—And also to the Act entitled, An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL,

Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

MIDDLETON.

IF ARTHUR MIDDLETON had given no other proof of his enlightened and firm mind, and of his gener. ous spirit, than that of having staked his life, his fortune, and the welfare of his family, by putting his name to an act, which was fated to produce such glorious results, the American people should feel no slight degree of interest in acquiring some knowledge of his private character, some account of the source from which he sprung, and some particulars of the share which he took, in the labours, and peril of the day.

In looking back on the scenes of the revolution, something is every day lost to the view. The curtain has dropped; the actors have disappeared; and little else remains on the mind but the moral denouement of the piece. Those who witnessed the representation, not only beheld the great scheme of the drama going on, but felt their interest warmed and kept up, both by various exhibitions of indivi

dual character, and by a knowledge of the parts which those individuals had played on the more confined theatre of provincial politics. It was a matter of course, that no man could be deputed to represent the interests and feelings of the people in the great council of the nation, who had not given early and decided proofs of having participated in those feelings, and of possessing some knowledge of those interests.

At that day a seat in the American congress was not to be obtained by electioneering or intrigue. The appointments were made by the provincial legis. latures; the service was one in which much was confided to the discretion of the delegate; and those who made the choice, had too near a view of consequences to put every thing to hazard by inconsiderate selections. It would be unjust to affirm, that there were not many individuals in the several states, who had equal claims to the confidence of their fellow eitizens with those who were delegated to represent them in congress, at the commencement of the revolution. But many of the former preferred occupying stations in which their ardent zeal for the public cause was more agreeably exercised by being brought into contact with the enemy, and where their achievements could acquire for them more immediate reputation than could possibly be obtained by