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critical articles on the Baltimore theatre in any num-
ber. All newspapers alike printed advertisements for
the coming productions; but any student of the Mary-
land theatre during this period should be directed to
the files of the Telegraphe rather than the better-
known Federal Gazette or American.

Early in the year 1797 the title of the newspaper
was changed to the City Gazette, & Daily Telegraphe.
In May or June it changed again to the Telegraphe and
Daily Advertiser; and with this second change, Clay-
land and Dobbin became the proprietors.

The senior partner did not live to enjoy his
proprietorship very long; he died at his dwelling on
Frederick Street on December 4, 1797, in the twenty-
sixth year of his age. The Telegraphe's obituary,
doubtless written by Dobbin, states:

After having sustained a short, but most
painful and distressing disorder, through the
progress of which he maintained an uncommon
degree of tranquility, equanimity and forti-
tude - he expired with that confident reliance
upon the mercies of a beneficient, long-suf-
fering and omnipotent God, which reliance can
be felt and indulged, only by one, whose life
has been a course of conscious rectitude, It
is enough to say, that as a son, he was most
dutiful - as a brother, most affectionate -
as a friend, ardent and sincere. In private
life he was amiable, respectable and worthy: -
as far as he was instrumental in public matters,
he was just and impartial. Those the most
intimately allied to him, have in his death,