Lancaster." In that paper is described the unsuccessful attempt of the three American envoys, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Elbridge Gerry and John Marshall, to establish diplomatic relations with the French Republic. The first dispatches of the envoys, sent from Paris October 22nd, 1797, reached

subscribed for this valuable work, though at the time he was living, I think, in Northampton county, where he had been commissioned in 1788 a justice of the peace, and judge of the courts of common pleas and quarter sessions. The name of Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D., who was a son of the Rev. Thomas Barton

Revolutionary war. The subjects of the maps are as follows: 1. Boston with its Environs. 2. A Plan of New York Island, part of Long Island, &, showing the Position of the American and British Armies, before, at, and after the Engagement on the Heights, August 27th, 1776. 3. A Plan of the Country from Frogs