BY GENERAL SUBSCRIPTION,
FOR THE FREE QUAKERS.
ERECTED A.D. 1783,
OF THE EMPIRE, 8.

In the burying-ground across the street, and in and about the sacred walls
of Christ Church, not far away, lie Benjamin Franklin, Francis Hopkinson,
Peyton Randolph, Benjamin Rush, and many a gallant soldier and sailor of
the war for freedom. Among them, at peace forever, rest the gentle-folks
who stood for the king--the gay men and women who were neutral, or who
cared little under which George they danced or gambled or drank their old
Madeira. It is a neighbourhood which should be forever full of interest to
those who love the country of our birth.




I


A child's early life is such as those who rule over him make it; but they
can only modify what he is. Yet, as all know, after their influence has
ceased, the man himself has to deal with the effects of blood and breed,
and, too, with the consequences of the mistakes of his elders in the way of
education. For these reasons I am pleased to say something of myself in the
season of my green youth.

The story of the childhood of the great is often of value, no matter from
whom they are "ascended," as my friend Warder used to say; but even in the
lives of such lesser men as I, who have played the part of simple pawns in