The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle

Extract of a Letter from one Friend to another in this Town.

" A desire of communicating my Sentiments to my Friends prompts me perhaps too often to trouble you with my Epistles,---but I know your generous Heart expands at the Praises of your Friends, especially when they so richly deserve them ; as our much esteemed American Orator ! Who far surpassed my most sanguine Hopes and Expectations. Had I the Pencil (with half the Genius) of the inimitable Raphael; I could have delineated Mr. H----k's figure from the Life, to more Advantage than his so much celebrated one of St. Paul, when preaching before Agrippa.

Indeed I admired Mr. H-.-.k's elegant Composition as much as I did the Manner in which it was delivered---my Heart swelled with Indignation, when he described the Ruffian Hand who patrolled our Streets, to the prejudice of young People of both Sexes, but the pathetic Address to the unfortunate M----k (who was conspicuously placed) melted my very Soul. Then he made me Smile with Pleasure, at the lively Manner in which he described the flight of those Wretches, who had brought such Destruction and Wretchedness among us, but when he so gracefully address'd the amiable Mr. A--ns, as the first of Patriots and Friends in his Country's Cause,---my Admiration and Gratitude were excited almost to Ecstasy.-..-Thus he awakened, such a Variety of Sensations, that my Ideas were Galloping from one Scene to another till he had done Speaking