The conversation turning upon the affairs of Ireland, the Marquis said he had seen in the Philadelphia papers an account of Mr. Carey’s troubles with the Parliament, and inquired what had become of the poor persecuted Dublin printer, when he was informed that he was then in Philadelphia. On the arrival of the Marquis in that city, he wrote to Mr. Carey requesting him to call upon him. Mr. Carey then told him that upon receipt of funds from home he proposed to establish a newspaper in Philadelphia. Of this the Marquis approved, and promised to recommend him to his friend, Robert Morris, and others. The next morning Mr. Carey was greatly surprised at receiving a letter from the Marquis containing $400. “This was the more extraordinary and liberal,” says Mr. Carey, “as not a word had passed between us on the subject of giving or receiving, borrowing or lending money.” Nor was there a word in the letter about the inclosure. Mr. Carey went to the lodgings of the Marquis, but found that he had left the city. He wrote to him at New York expressing his gratitude in the strongest of terms, and received a kind and friendly answer. “I have more than once assumed, and I now repeat,” says Mr. Carey, “that I doubt whether in the whole life of this (I had almost said) unparalleled man, there is to be found anything which, all the circumstances of the case considered, more highly elevates his character.” Although this sum was in every sense of the word a gift, Mr. Carey always considered it as a loan, payable to the Marquis’ countrymen, according to the exalted sentiment of Dr. Franklin, who, when he gave a bill for ten pounds to an Irish clergymen in distress in Paris, told him to “pay the sum to any Americans he might find in distress, and thus _let good offices go round_.” Mr. Carey paid the debt in full to Frenchmen in want, and subsequently in addition discharged it to the Marquis; the latter only accepting it upon the urgent solicitation of the former. On receiving this money, Mr. Carey at once issued proposals for the publication of the _Pennsylvania Evening Herald_, and the first number was accordingly published January 25, 1785. He received but £50 from the sale of the _Volunteers’ Journal_, in Dublin, his brother having been ruined partly by the persecutions of the government, and partly by the establishment of an opposition paper of the same name under government patronage. The success of the _Evening Herald_ was not very great, and the means of the publisher being small, on the 25th of March he took two partners, and enlarged the paper. It, however, made but poor progress until Mr. Carey, in August following, commenced the publication of the Debates in the House of Assembly, a great novelty and innovation which gave the _Herald_ an advantage over all its contemporaries.