to write for the _Port Folio_. They "are
divided between Federal politics, attacks on French democracy, the Della
Cruscan literature, and the fashionable frivolities of the day." He also
wrote for the _Port Folio_, in 1801, a series of similarly varied
articles, richly reminiscent, entitled "An Author's Evenings."

ROBERT HARE (1781-1858), father of Judge J. I. C. Hare, who was
professor of chemistry and natural philosophy in William and Mary
College, and, later, professor of chemistry in the University of
Pennsylvania, published a number of moral essays in the _Port Folio_
under the pen-name of "Eldred Grayson."

DR. NATHANIEL CHAPMAN (1783-1850) used the pen-name of "Falkland."

ALEXANDER GRAYDON (1752-1818), a man of elegant manners and author of a
useful and entertaining volume of "Memoirs of a Life chiefly passed in
Pennsylvania within the last Sixty Years," published, in the _Port
Folio_, in 1813-14, a series of chatty paragraphs styled "Notes of a
Desultory Reader." He lived in the "Slate-Roof House," at Second Street
and Norris' Alley, where he had an opportunity of meeting men of rank
and fame.

JOSIAH QUINCY (1772-1864), whose opinion of the _Port Folio_ has been
already quoted, contributed to it a series of articles, beginning
January 28, 1804, in the style of Swift, and signed "Climenole".[16]

[16] The name of the flappers, employed by the inhabitants of Laputa to
arouse them from their scientific reveries.

JOHN LEEDS BOZMAN (1757-1823) studied at the University of Pennsylvania,
and read law in the Middle Temple, London. He contributed both prose
and verse to the _Port Folio_.

GENERAL THOMAS CADWALADER (1779-1841) furnished the magazine with
translations of Horace.

RICHARD RUSH (1780-1859) was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1800,
and successfully defended William Duane, of the _Aurora_, on a charge of
libelling Gov. Thomas McKean. He occasionally contributed official and
personal anecdotes to the _Port Folio_.

RICHARD PETERS (1744-1828), the witty judge of Belmont, extended
princely hospitality at his country seat. His association with the most
distinguished men of Europe and America stored his memory with the
choicest bits of political and personal history. These odd old ends,
stolen out of the secret chronicles of the time, and decked with his
rare wit, were given upon irregular occasions to the _Port Folio_.

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS (1752-1816) contributed political satires in both
prose