"Gen. Hamilton is supposed mortally wounded" — Boston Gazette, July 16, 1804

Monday, July 16,1804

UNFORTUNATE TRANSACTION

From New-York, July 12

“Yesterday morning Gen. Hamilton was badly wounded in a duel with Col. Burr. The citizens are generally and deeply affected with this event to a man who is greatly beloved, and whose talents and virtues as a statesman are not exceeded, perhaps not equalled, by any one. the General, though he reprobates the practice of dueling, yet was induced to go to the field but went with a firm determination not to take the life of his adversary; to receive and not to give the fire. Hopes are entertained that the wound will not prove mortal. The United States have not (since the death of Washington), another man to lose. If the wishes of his fellow-citizens prevail, he will live to be, as he has long been, the ornament and boast of his country.” Daily Gazette

Extract of a letter, July 11.

“I have the melancholy task of informing you that Gen. Hamilton is supposed mortally wounded in a Duel with Col Burr. The affair took place this morning at Hoboken and has excited the deepest regret in the breasts of all classes of people . . . Feeling, on this occasion, in common with our fellow-citizens, the deepest degree of sensibility, we forbear to obtrude on our readers any comment or conjecture whatever, until a particular statement of all of the circumstances, which have led to this affecting calamity, shall be given to the pubic.”

Also included on this page:

• Lengthy review of the first volume of John Marshall’s The Life of Washington, which had just been published,
• “. . . the Tunisians had formerly declared war on against the United States on the 16th of March . . .”
• “. . . filled with addresses to Bonaparte, that he would yield to the wishes of the French people, in assuming the title of Emperor . . .”
• “. . . the armed brig Sisters, Knox from hence to Kingston, Jam. was captured on the 29th of May last, off Turks Island, in a calm, by a French privateer . . .”
  
• “The situation of the British seamen, in the American service is particularly hard, and demands the interference of government.”
  
• “Capt. Logan, who arrived at Beverly on Wednesday last from Rochefort, informs that though the idea of an invasion of England was still agitated . . .”
  
• “In consequence of the many Dutch transports that are at the New-Diep, the merchants think it not safe to lay there, as the English are expected to come in, and attempt to burn the transports."