AN ARO VIS

OF

PUBLIC CHARACTERS.

DRAWN FROM

THE LIVING AND THE DEAD.

WITH

NOTICES OF OTHER MATTERS.

BY

IGNATIUS LOYOLA ROBERTSON, L. L. D.

A RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

"He that writes,

Or makes a feast, more certainly invites
His judges than his friends; there's not a guest,
But will find something wanting or ill drest."

"But here, where Freedom's equal throne
To all her valiant sons is known;
Where all are conscious of her cares,

And each the power that rules him shares,
Here let the bard, whose dastard tongue,
Leaves public arguments unsung,

Bid public praise farewell;

Let him to fitter climes remove,

Far from the hero's and the patriot's love,

And lull mysterious monks to slumber in their cell."

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY E. BLISS.

AND SOLD BY G. C. & H. CARVILL; W. B. GILLEY, AND C. 8. BOSTON, HILLIARD, GRAY, & Co. AND CAR

FRANCIS.

TER & HEndee. PHILADELPHIA, JOHN GRIGG,

AND CAREY & HART.
1830.

G. L. Austin, & Co. Printers.

Southern District of New York, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eleventh day of June, A. D. 1930, in the 55th year of the Independence of the United States of America, Elam Bliss, 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.

"Sketches of Public Characters. Drawn from the living and the dead, with notices of other matters, by Ignatius Loyola Robinson, L. L. D. a resident of the United States.

"He that writes,

"Or makes a feast, more certainly invites

His judges than his friends; there is not a guest, "But will find something wanting, or ill drest.”

"But here, where freedom's equal throne
"To all her valiant sons is known;
"Where all are conscious of her cares,
"And each the power that rules him shares,
"Here let the bard, whose dastard tongue
"Leaves public arguments unsung,
"Bid public praise farewell;

"Let him to fitter climes remove,

"Far from the hero's and the patriot's love,

"And lull mysterious monks to slumber in their cell."

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 Aris of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints."

FRED J. BETTS,

Clerk of the Southern District of New-York.