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to. Political pieces, with spirit and candor, in which measures rather than men, are attacked will always have a place in this paper. For the poet a corner is ever open : and the mathe- matician will not be neglected." In September, 1795, the paper became a semi- weekly. With the issue of March 8, 1796, the imprint became "Printed for Robert Coram by Bonsai & Starr," and the same year it was again changed to "Printed by W. C. Smyth, rear of the New Fire-Engine, Shipley Street, opposite Capt. O'Flinn's Tavern." The Gazette was discontinued with the issue of September 7, 1799. The last issue, however, an- nounced a successor in The Mirror of the Times, to be published a little later by James Wilson. After the failure of The Chron- icle, James Adams took his son Samuel into partnership and started the third paper, The Delaware Courant and Wilmington Advertiser, in September, 1786. It appeared weekly and sur- vived about three yeaTs.

The fourth paper, The Delaware and Eastern Shore Advertiser , was established in Wilmington on May 14, 1794, by S. and J. Adams and W. C. Smyth. With the issue of March 18, 1795, Smyth withdrew from the partnership in order to associate him- self with The Delaware Gazette, as has already been mentioned. On Thursday, August 1, 1799, the paper appeared without the name of the publisher and in all probability that issue was the last.

PAPER POORLY SUPPORTED

The Mirror of The Times and General Advertiser, mention of which was made in the last issue of The Delaware Gazette, was the fifth paper in Delaware, and was started in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 20, 1799, by James Wilson as a Federal paper. It incidentally attracted a great deal of attention be- cause it was the first newspaper in America to be printed on pure white paper especially prepared by a bleaching process dis- covered by Thomas D. Gilpin, of Wilmington. Its motto told the following tale:

Here sovereign truth for man's just rights contends, Alike unawed by foes, unswayed by f