Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

Messieurs Printers,

The lines in your last paper said to be written on a solemn occasion, were some time since directed to an artist, to be inscribed on a grave-stone; they were repeated (no copy was ever taken) to some person in confidence, who has officiously, and ungenerously handed them to the public, different from the original, and incorrect.--A breach of friendship not easily forgiven.--Nor could the author feel himself obliged by his laboured panegyric, had he vanity enough to think him serious, which is far otherwise; he advises him in future to divert himself on subjects of less solemn occasions.