Note 17 — NO. IV.—TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1807.

It is not a little singular, that this mode of ridiculing the gossiping productions of Sir John Carr, and other tourists of the day, should have been successfully adopted almost at the same moment by two writers placed in different and distant quarters of the globe. My Pocket-Book appeared in London only two or three weeks after the publication of these “Memorandums” in New York—so that neither writer could possibly have borrowed from the other—and by its ingenious pleasantry and poignant satire, crushed a whole host of book-making tourists, with the luckless knight at their head.—Paris Ed. This matter is again referred to at the close of No. XIII.