No. I.

New York.

Should I live to see the city again visited with the yellow fever, I have determined to remove as soon as my neighbours. I took notice of many things during the prevalence of the late fever, that I think may be of use to the inhabitants to be informed of, should the return of another such calamity compel them to leave their homes.

But before I proceed, I owe my friends and neighbours an apology, in return for the interest they took in my fate while I remained in the infected district. I have resided in this neighbourhood since the death of Dr. Treat, in the year 1795, and never left it during the prevalence of the yellow fever in all that period; and as the fever never, till this last season, prevailed in my neighbourhood, I did not take the alarm till it was too late to remove. In my house resides an old infirm female relative; it was almost impossible to remove her—and to have left her in the care of a stranger would have been cruel. Our plants (near 2000) would have all perished in a few days: any person that has been in the habit of raising plants, knows there is a certain attachment, beyond their value in dollars and cents—vegetable life is life still. I know those cold, calculating mortals, whose ideas never rose above a bale of cotton, or a cask of molasses, will smile at this. It only shows, that they are neither burdened with mother wit nor philosophy.

Besides, our whole stock of seeds, peas, and beans, would have been destroyed, as the rats came round me in hundreds in a few days after my neighbours removed; and had not the cats in nearly equal numbers quickly followed, I could hardly have stood my ground. But these useful cats, (like some of our good democrats, who generously serve the public for ten or twelve dollars per day,) compelled by hunger, and no doubt, in gratitude for what food and shelter I gave them, so completely cleared the premises, that I have not seen a rat since the 10th of September last. Let me here remind the public, should they again leave their homes, not to forget these poor animals, and suffer them to die by hundreds in the streets with hunger.