National Gazette

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Boston, to his friend in Philadelphia, dated 25th September last.

This will be handed to you by citizen Robert, a French physician, and a gentleman of merit. He had engaged and paid half of his passage for France, when he learned the progress of the dreadful disease which rages in your city: without hesitation he has given up the money he had paid, to fly to the assistance of his fellow creatures. I hope his exertions will be crowned with success. I beg you will introduce him to some of your friends. He comes from the Manillas in the East-Indies, where the unhealthiness of the climate has afforded him the opportunity of being well acquainted with such diseases. On his passage from thence to his own country, he was taken by the British, and lost handsome property. Present my respects to your family—I wish to hear that none of them have been hurt by this disease.