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that it i is his duty to report its present critical situa 
I Hee especially, as the response was prompt and 
Sie Bic = > ia since, he made a similar appeal He ~ 
znerélly leesicaed, and should it be left, to die f) penury 
or: midst of abundance, its editor will exonerate himself from 
blame, and will lay both the 1 opury and the dishonor at the door of 
his country. He therefore, at once, proceeds to state, that unless 
reinvigorated by an enlarged list of paying subscribers, this Journal i 
cannot be permanent. ‘The obvious causes are, a progressive dimin- ela 
ution in its patronage, and the want of good faith in too many of those 
. who have given in their names. A great majority, however, to their 
honor, have been faithful and punctual, in every vicissitude, while a 
“Notice of discontinuance or of removal is often neglected, until 
veral numbers rest unclaimed in some, perhaps, distant Post Office ; 
they are returned, with a dishonored bill. It is long since the 
losses of the Journal in this way have swollen to a heavy sum, imp- 
. lying a serious charge upon the honor and moral rectitude, of many, 
who would resent the imputation. After paying the bills of the 27th 
~ yolume for paper, printing and doing up, the trifling sum remaining 
presented the anxious alternative of a discontinuance, or of the sage 
newal of a personal charge upon the editor. 
It is not agreeable to tell this tale of dishonor. To a country 
of unlimited resources, and proud toa fault of its intelligence and lib- 
erality, it will not be acceptable ; and should the charge of arrogance 
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