National Gazette

Extract of a letter from West-Jersey, April 6.

" I received duly the book you forwarded to me, entitled, The Travels of Captain Farrago. It puzzled me not a little on reading the work through, how, in conscience, the author could, in his preface, recommend it as a proper book for school-children, or for young clergymen, especially in such parts as the first chapter of the third book—what information could children receive from the vulgar Irish-isms in the latter end of the second chapter of the same book—Is it requisite to initiate young minds in the profane art of swearing, as exemplified in page 129 and several other parts of Mr. B-'s performance ?—One would think, from many specimens that might be adduced out of this farrago, that the author should have placed in his title page the following motto :
I leave you here a little book
For you to look upon,
That you may learn to curse and swear,
When I am dead and gone.
Neither do I approve of the freedoms Mr. B. takes with the clergy, in chapter 4 of book 3, where he evidently maketh jest of holy things, and such as ought to be held in repute by sober minded persons."