FRANCES LEWIS.
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One of the signers of the Declaration OF
Independence, Francis Lewis, born III
Wales, was a merchant in New-York about
the year 1887. One of his first shipments to
Europe consisted of an entire cafge OF
wheat; and he frequently remarked, that,
from its novelty, 1T was at that time the SUD
iect of muth conversation. The port 2t
f,ew-York being then inadequate to stfo
supply Of full freight for the vessel, be
was compelled to send her round to Philadel-
phia to complete her loading: the average
price of wheat was three shillings and four
pence per bushel. There is much TO inter
est the reader in the outline of his life. fur
nished in the sixth volume of the Biography
of the Signers, &c. The large property
which he had acquired, was nearly all sa-
crifced at the altar of patriotism during the
Revolutionary war. He died Ill 1905, IN the
nineteth year OF hisage. In the same VOL
ume the memory of the late Judge James
| Wilson is fully indicated from the charge
of hostility to General Washington, which is
preferred in Johnson's Life of Gen. Greene.
! Richard Henry Lee is also involved IN TINS
charge in Judge Johnson's BOOK, put most
uniustly, as his grandson has proved IN ms
! Memoir of his ancestor. Morton, announcer VI


the Signers, hearing, when on his death-oea'


and in the very pangs OF dissolutlon, li'


1777,) that some OF his ole trienus reProoae-


ed the casting vote which he had given III
favour of the Declaration of independence


said energetically---" Tell them that they


will live to see the hour, when they Shall


acknowledge it to have been the most ylo,


rious service that | ever rendered to my
country" Old Governor Hopkins another
of the Signers, left the following sound les


son for the voters: "I.et every freeman
carefully consider the particular duty allot'


ted to him as such by the constitution; let hin
give his suffrage with candour, Tor the per


son he sincerely thinks best quaihed ie
him despise the man who offers nun an oi
fce. and spurn the sorad wretch that wout


rive him brbe let him think it his obi
gation to bestow his vote according to hi


own conscience, and not depend on others tt
discharge his duty for him.