_STREET SWEEPER_,
TAKES this method publicly to return his grateful thanks to
his friends of Marlborough street, Cornhill, &c. for their
kindness to him during the past season; not only in
patronizing him while able to perform his usual labors, but in
assisting him while under the influence of a distressing and
debilitating disease. He has grown old in the service of the
inhabitants of Boston, and they do not forget him--they do not
cast him off, or suffer him to become an inmate of the
Alms-house; and although _he is an African_, he will not be
guilty of the _blackest_ of sins--that of ingratitude. He
humbly solicits a continuance of their favors, to enable him
to buffet the inclemency of the approaching season, (when his
regular employment fails) and flatters himself he shall still
be able to sustain that character of fidelity which the
partiality of his friends has bestowed upon him.