two or three pi information which we bestow public chiefly because it suits our own p and convenience that they should be and partly because we do not wish tha should be any ill will between us at th of our acquaintance our intention is simply to instruct the reform the old correct the town and ca the age this is an task and th we undertake it with confidence we for this purpose to present a striking of the town and as every body is � m of esq see his o n on canvas stupid or ugly it may be we have no doubt but the whole town will flock to our exhibit tion our necessarily include a variety of figures and should any gentleman or lady be displeased with the truth of their they may ease their by laughing at those of their neighbours � this being what we understand by poetical justice like all true and able we consider ourselves and therefore with the customary of our brethren of the we shall take the liberty of interfering all matters either of a public or private nature we are critics and and as we know � i by the of our � that every opinion which we may advance in either of those characters be correct we are determined though it j be questioned contradicted or even yet it shall never be to conclude we invite all of news papers and literary journals to praise us heartily in advance as we assure them that we whim and opinions intend to deserve their praises to our door neighbour � town � we hold out a of declaring to him that after our paper will stand the best chance for we an exchange of shall furnish us with notices of poem and we in return will with original speculations on all subjects together with � the my grandfather s mahogany chest of draw � the life and of mine uncle � anecdotes of the family � and li ed from that unheard of writ from the elbow chair of esq we were a considerable time in whether we should be at the pains of i � the title of a newspaper published in new york the c of which among other miscellaneous topics occasional on the performances at the theatre � ed of esq ourselves to the public as we care for nobody and as we are not yet at the bar ive do not feel bound to hold up our hands ind answer to our names willing however to gain at once that frank confidential footing which we are certain of possessing in this doubtless � best f all possible cities � and anxious to spare worthy inhabitants the trouble making wise conjectures not one of which ould be worth a tobacco we have it in some degree a necessary of charitable condescension to furnish with a slight clue to the truth before we proceed further however we advise every body � man woman and child � that can read or get any friend to read for them to purchase this paper � not that e write for money for in common with all philosophers from solomon downwards we hold it in supreme contempt we beg the public particularly to understand that we no patronage we are determined on the contrary that the patronage shall be entirely on our side the public are whim and opinions come to buy this work or just as the choose if it be purchased freely so mud the better for the public � and the we gain not a if it be not purchased we give fair we shall bum all ou essays and in one pro blaze and like the books of th and the library they be lost for ever to posterity for the sake therefore of our for the sake o the public � and for the sake of the public children to the nineteenth generation we ad them to purchase our paper if they do let them settle the affair with their own and posterity we beg the old of this city not to be alarmed a the appearance we make � we are none o those who swarm in h york who live by their wits or rather by little wit of their neighbours and who the genuine american tastes of daughters with french and sentiment we have said we do not write for money � neither do we write for fame we of l esq too well the nature of public opinion to build our upon it we care not what ihe public of us and we suspect e the number they will not know what to think of us in two we write for no other earthly purpose but to please and this we shall be sure of doing � � for we are all three of us determined before hand to be pleased with what we write if in the of this work we and instruct aad amuse the public so much the better for die public � but we frankly acknowledge s on as we tired of reading our own works we shall them without the whatever the public may think it while we continue to go on we will go oa merrily if we it will be but and on all occasions we shall be more to make our readers laugh than cry � for we ar laughing philosophers and clearly of opinion that wisdom true wisdom is a plump dame who sits in her arm chair laughs right merrily at the farce of life and the world as it goes we intend particularly to notice the con whim and opinions of the fashionable world � nor in shall we be governed by that s with which narrow minded c at the little of the but with that liberal which every man of fashion while we keep r than a watch over 