Rev. Mr. Turner, Newcastle - G. Taylor, coachmaker, ditto Thomas Tiren, Gateshead Taylor, Lemington Ifaac Taylor, Newbourn John Verty, Newcastle W Wilkinson, ftay-maker, ditto Jofeph Walker, Shiel Row, ditte John Watfon, Willington Matthew Waddell, Morpeth Thomas Wilkin, Alnwick Rev. Henry Wilkin, ditto - White, glafs-cutter, Newcastle Walton, clerk, ditto Henry Waggot, ditto Wray, Tyne Brewery, ditto Thomas Wilkinson, Stockton George Watfon, North Shields Caleb Willon, baker, Sunderland Mrs. M Wood, Stockton, 2 cops. Mifs Weatherburn, Bishop Wearmouth, 3 copies لا Dr. Young, Newçaftle Names omitted in the foregoing lift. R. H. Atkinson, North Shields Peter Shields, Tynemouth Mrs. Taylor, South Shields D We have endeavoured to make the abave lift as perfect as poffible, by printing all the names that have been handed to us. Our friends will therefore pardon any accidental omissions. ADDRESS to the PUBLIC. THE inquisitive mind, assisted by history, explores the transactions of ages past, and, by analogy, forms conjectures of what probably is, in future, to be achieved on the busy scenes of human affairs. It is obvious that faithful history is highly useful and of the utmost importance. Indeed, without it, ages would revolve, and events great and consequential take place; but, if not recorded in the historic page, they would all be carried down the stream of time, into the dark abyss of oblivion, forgotten and unknown. The honest historian, therefore, unwarped by prejudice, and superior to circumstances of locality, who considers the world as his country, and all men his brethren, is a friend to human kind. Hence, when HERODOTUS, THUCYDIDES, DIODORUS SICULUS, LIVIUS, and other renowned names, recited their immortal compositions, in the Forum and public places, before their enlightened and exulting countrymen, the honours paid them a 2 were |