Such was the manner of the pay-way of our departure from Judiville. In the morning, before the east was dappled, the extra engaged to take us to Utica was at the door, and with my wife, our child, and my son Charles, took us beyond the environs of the town before the dawn appeared. It was so intended, for I knew what I must have suffered had I been obliged to bid farewell to my friends and neighbours in public.

In our journey to New-York nothing special occurred; we travelled leisurely at our pleasure, and on our arrival there, made up our minds to remain a month. This was a fortunate decision; it afforded time for my son to forgather with Naomi Primly, the daughter of my old friend, by which occurrence we were induced to prolong our stay until we saw them married.

Soon after the wedding we embarked for London in the Brighton, commanded by Captain Sebor, one of the elect for mildness; and were safely landed on the twenty-sixth day from that on which we took our departure from New-York.

We had not been much above a week on shore, when who should come in upon us, but aunty Beeny? who, on hearing of our arrival, had, as she said, made an elopement from Edinburgh by James Watt steamboat to offer her salutations on our return into the circumference of Christendom, and to enjoy with us the entertainment of curiosities which adorn the metropolitan summit of Britannia's empire. She brought me two lines which had been addressed to me at Chucky Stanes from Baillie Waft, telling that he and Lucky his wife had been safely set down in Paisley, and wanting my advice about the disposal of "the bit gathering" he had with so much hard labour, pains, and industry earned in the wilderness of the woods of America. That, however, in these bad times, is a question not easy to answer, so I shall tell him. In the mean time, I here conclude the history of a life that has been in many points not made up of every-day occurrences, and which serves to show how little of good fortune is owing to our own foresight.

APPENDIX.

No. I.

NEW-YORK.

SHOULD I live to see the city again visited with the yellow fever, I have determined to remove as soon as my neighbours. I took notice of many things during the prevalence of the late fever, that I think may be of use to the inhabitants to be informed of, should the return of another such calamity compel them to leave their homes.

But before I proceed, I owe my friends and neighbours an apology, in return for the interest they took in my fate while I remained in the infected district. I have resided in this neighbourhood since the death of Dr. Treat, in the year 1795, and never left it during the prevalence of the yellow fever in all that period and as the fever never, till this last season, prevailed in my neighbourhood, I did not take the alarm till it was too late to remove. In my house resides an old, infirm female relative; it was almost impossible to remove her-and to have left her in the care of a stranger would have been cruel. Our plants (near 2000) would have all perished in a few days; any person that has been in the habit of raising plants, knows there is a certain attachment beyond their value in dollars and cents-vegetable life is life still. I know those cold, calculating mortals, whose ideas never rose above a bale of cotton, or a cask of molasses, will smile at this. It only shows, that they are neither burthened with mother-wit nor philosophy.

Besides, our whole stock of seeds, pease, and beans would have been destroyed, as the rats came round me in hundreds in a few days after my neighbours removed; and had not the cats in nearly equal numbers quickly followed, I could hardly have stood my ground. But these useful cats, (like some of our good democrats, who generously serve the public for ten or twelve dollars per day,) compelled by hunger, and no doubt in gratitude for what food and shelter I gave them, so completely cleared the premises, that I have not seen a rat since

the 10th of September last. Let me here remind the public, should they again leave their homes, not to forget these poor animals, and suffer them to die by hundreds in the streets with hunger. A wise king once said, " A merciful man is merciful to his neighbour's beast." What are we to think of them who had no mercy on their own beasts? here, if I could command words, I ought to record the philanthropy of two Long Island milkmen, and a generous-hearted Irishman, who, for several weeks, left at my doors each a quart of milk for the good of the starving cats; also, of a very big coloured woman, residing at the corner of John and Cliff-streets, who might be seen every morning in the street before her door, dividing the offals, which she had collected from the market, among forty or fifty cats.

On the 7th September, having sent the last of my family to the country, and considering it my duty to remain, I made my arrangements for life or death, just as Providence might order. I engaged a nurse to live in my house and after several fruitless attempts, a respectable physician undertook to attend me, if wanted. I rose at my usual hour every morning, wrought as usual all day, and went to bed at ten, my regular hour for many years past; and by way of preventive, as has always been my custom whenever the fever prevailed, put on my winter clothes, and before I left my room in the morning, took half a glass of rue water, which is made by putting two ounces of green rue in a porter-bottle, and adding one pint of clear rain water, and one pint of Holland gin.

From the most particular observations I have been able to make, I am satisfied in my own mind, that we would have no yellow fever in New-York, in a public sense, and but few cases in a private sense, without a first exciting cause. I believe the air of the city was in a state to receive imfection, but the flame would not have burst out, except some foul vessel, like the match applied to the powder, first commenced the blaze. I found this opinion on the fact, that the fever has always commenced its march from the neighbourhood of our wharfs; and for several weeks previous to the late fever, a number of very dirty, suspicious-looking vessels, apparently Spanish or Portuguese, lay near the spot where it first commenced. What effect the contents of one of these nasty vessels might have, could they be discharged among the inhabitants of Bergen or Harlem Heights, it is hard to tell. But one thing we all are sure of, that neither the sick, the dead, nor their bedding, has ever spread the contagion in the villages.

By fever in a private sense, I mean individuals who took the fever. I believe there was not one who remained in the infected district till the beginning of October, but what had the seeds of the disease ripe in their blood; and wanted only some act of imprudence, such as intoxication, colds, overfatigue, &c. to set the disease a-going. I could fill a volume of instances in support of this opinion, to which I was an eyewitness, in the late and former fevers.

Yours, &c.

No. II.

In my last I stated that I never saw a single instance of what I would term a spontaneous case of yellow fever. The first case in my neighbourhood the season past, was Mr. Tate, a respectable coloured man, temperate, strong, and healthy. He was one of the temporary watch-was on duty the night of the 3d of September, was dressed in thin clothes, no great coat→→→ it rained in the night, he got partially wet, complained of pain in the bones next day, was out next night again-no great coat -weather very hot. He told me it changed about two o'clock in the morning, and that he felt the cold very sensibly. At half-past five the thermometer stood in my yard at fifty-two. I took hold of his hand--his pulse beat high-I advised him to call a physician-he was afraid of being reported-he took medicine: while under its operation, was out and in--sometimes dressed, sometimes in bed. On Saturday the seventh, at five P. M. I spoke to him in the street; on Sunday evening a physician was called for the first time; and by half-past seven he was dead. Sept. 14.- It rained early this morning. Smith and his wife, residing at 21 Nassau-street, stood near half an hour collecting water from a gutter-got completely wet-taken down same day. Smith died in seven, and his wife some days after him. James North, stocking-weaver, in my house, having business in the Bowery, met with an old acquaintance-stayed till night-was overtaken by a thunder shower-got completely wet; next morning had the fever in its highest degree, and died the seventh day. Two out of the five sugar-house cases commenced in a similar manner; but as all their places of residence was in the upper part of the city, I never got any account of the others. There is one fact worth recording here, viz. Mr. Christian, the foreman, a sober, regular, temperate man, was the only person about the works who eat and slept nearly through the whole fever VOL. II.-17