ROYALL TYLER was born in Boston on July 18, 1758, died in Brattleboro, Vt., August 16, 1826. He was graduated from Harvard in 1776 and studied law in the office of John Adams. He was aide-de-camp to General Benjamin Lincoln in the Revolution and in Shay's Rebellion in 1786. He contributed to the _Farmer's Museum_, and when Dennie became editor, Tyler was called in to assist him. He published a series of papers in the _Port-Folio_ for 1801. In 1797 he published, at Walpole, N. H., his _Algerine Captive, or the Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner among the Algerines_; 2 vols. In 1804 he contributed to the _Columbian Sentinel_. In 1800 he was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont. He also contributed to _The New England Galaxy and Polyanthus_. In 1809 he published _Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont_. THE CONTRAST. A Comedy in Five Acts. Written by a Citizen of the United States. Performed with applause at the theatres in New York, Philadelphia and Maryland; and published (under an assignment of the copyright) by Thomas Wignell. Philadelphia: From the press of Prichard & Hall, in Market Street, between Second and Front Streets. M.DCC.XC. Plate. Sm. 8vo, pp. xxii-107. First played at the John Street Theatre, April 16, 1787. Reprinted by the Dunlap Society, New York, 1887. * * * * * As the great business of the polite world is the eager pursuit of amusement, and as the Public diversions of the season have been interrupted by the hostile parade in the capital; the exhibition of a new farce may not be unentertaining. THE GROUP, As lately acted, and to be re-acted to the wonder of all superior intelligences, nigh head-quarters at Amboyne. The author had thought proper to borrow the following spirited lines from a late celebrated poet, and offer to the public by way of PROLOGUE, which cannot fail of pleasing at this crisis. _What! arm'd for virtue, and not point the pen, Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, Dash the proud Gamester from his gilded car, Bare the mean heart which lurks beneath a star,_ * * * * * * * * * * _Shall I not strip the gilding off a knave, Unplac'd, unpension'd, no man's heir or slave? I will or perish in the gen'rous cause; Hear this and tremble, ye who 'scape the laws; Yes, while I live, no rich or noble, knave, Shall walk the world in credit to his grave; To virtue only, and her friends, a friend. The world beside may murmur, or commend._ _BOSTON_: printed and sold by EDES and GILL, in _Queen-Street_. 1775. * * * * *