American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

The establishment of the Aurora has been transferred to Mr James Wilson, editor of the Steubenville Herald, in Ohio, "who was for 18 years previous to 1815, variously and usefully connected with the Aurora." (We extract the following paragraphs from Col. Duane's parting address to his friends:

Wash C. Gaz.

Of myself-of the past-of the present and of the future-all fruitful topics for a valedictory, it may have been expected that I should speak at large, when retiring after a public service of more than a quarter of a century : but my feelings and my time do not allow me to gratify such anticipations : On some future occasion, a retrospect may be rendered the medium of gratification to myself, and perhaps of instruction to others.

There is one subject, which, if I were alone concerned, I should scorn to notice on an occasion like the present-I mean the vast amount due to me for value delivered: my duty to others, however, compels me to make an anxious appeal to the justice and indeed the generosity, of those who are indebted to me-if they had repaid my services with the fidelity with which I am conscious those services were performed, I should not have had occasion to relinquish this paper, (a painful operation) or to seek in my sixty-third year, in a foreign clime and new pursuit the means necessary to the support of a numerous family. With regard to the injuries meditated or inflicted upon me, and the counteracting confidence and friendship which I have received, in a career through uncommon circumstances and times, the record of the one is not inscribed upon my memory, but that of the other is engraved upon a heart which will retain the impression to the latest moment of its existence.

WM. DUANE.

Philadelphia, Sept 26, 1822.