ejected his venomous
superfluity upon Dr. Benjamin Rush, comparing him to Doctor Sangrado, in
Gil Blas, because he advocated blood-letting as a remedy for the fever.
Rush, stung into retaliation, sued Cobbett, and recovered from him five
thousand dollars. This, together with an additional three thousand
dollars, the cost of the suit, ruined Cobbett, and he removed to
Bustleton, August 29, 1799, where he continued for a short time to
publish his "_Gazette_," weekly. The last barbed arrow, quivering with
scorn, was fired from Bustleton, January 13, 1800, and the author
returned to England.

Cobbett also published, in Philadelphia, _The Political Censor_, or
_Monthly Review_, which lasted from March, 1796, to March, 1797.

A German magazine was published in Philadelphia, in 1798:
_Philadelphisches Magazin fuer die deutschen in Amerika_. Philadelphia:
H. and J. R. Kaemmerer.

_The Dessert to the True American_ measures a year from July, 1798 to
July, 1799.

The last magazine published in Philadelphia in the eighteenth century
was the _Philadelphia Magazine and Review, or Monthly Repository of
Information and Amusement_. It was begun in January, 1799, and printed
for Benjamin Davies, 68 High Street. In announcing this work, the editor
alluded to the unsuccess that had attended all efforts to establish
magazines in Philadelphia, and he believed the cause to be the spurious
patriotism that led the editors to reject whatever was not of native
production. The magazine was strongly "anti-Gallican" in character. It
closed its career with its first volume.

I have made no mention in this necessarily incomplete enumeration of the
eighteenth century magazines of an early religious publication, _The
Royal Spiritual Magazine_, by Joseph Crukshank, 8vo, 1771. A few stray
numbers exist, but I have never seen a copy of it. How long it was
published I do not know.

Christopher Sauer printed, at irregular intervals, in 1764, the
_Geistliches Magazien_. There are fifty numbers in the first volume.
Sauer cast his own type, and this magazine is therefore printed, as he
himself says on page 136 of the second volume, with the first type made
in America.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

THE PORT FOLIO.

At the beginning of this century Philadelphia was the most attractive
city in America to a young man of brains and ambition. It was the seat
of an active social, political and literary life. Poet George Webbe
noticed in 1728 the lead