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.
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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,_
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_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.
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THE GEORGIA SPEC; OR, LAND IN THE MOON. A Comedy in Three Acts.
Boston, 1797. 8vo.
This comedy was written to ridicule the speculating mania in wild
Yazoo Lands, and was performed in Boston with success.