To take a general survey of Mr. Otis's character is easy: it might be summed up in a few sentences. It was the consummation of integrity and honour, of delicate sentiment, with nobleness of heart, of correct principles, of philosophick taste, and perfect urbanity of manners, of refined feelings, with an independence of mind, that shrunk not from duty, and on that altar would sacrifice every thing.

But few of his co-patriots are now living, those few love, and admire, and reverence his character. The celebrated author of the Farmer's Letters, the late Mr. Dickenson, a man admirable for the purity of his morals, the simplicity of his manners, the consistency of his con. duct, the intelligence of his mind, the rectitude of his principles, and the virtues of his heart, has lately borne testimony to the active virtues of Mr. Otis, in a letter to his sister, Mrs. Warren, wherein he says,

"My Esteemed Friend,

"THY letter, with its inclosures, came to my hands yesterday, for which I return many thanks.

"Thy approbation I consider as a real honour, and is greatly endear

ed to me by coming from a sister of my very deserving and highly valued friend, James Ŏtis.

"Our acquaintance with one another was formed at the first Congress, held at New York in the year 1765; and it soon grew into friendship.

At this distant period, I have a pleasing recollection of his candour, spirit, patriotisin and philanthropy.

"In a longer continued existence on this ear, than was allotted to him, I have endeavoured, as well as I could, to aid the cause, in which his heart was engaged, by asserting and maintaining the liberties, for which he would have been willing to share in all the distresses of our revolution, and, if necessary, to lay down his life.

"It soothes my mind, to bear this pure testimony to departed worth.

"May divine goodness graciously bestow on his relations a plentiful portion of consolations.

"Thy generous exertions to in form thy fellow citizens, and to present thy country before the world in a justly favourable light, will be, I firmly believe, attended with the desired success.

"With every respectful consideration, I am thy sincere friend,

"JOHN DICKENSON. "Wilmington, the 25th of the 1st month, 1805."

NEW WORKS.

No. 1, of the Minor Novelist: containing Emily Hammond, Clement and Agnes, and Frederick, a Fragment. 18mo. pp. 36. Price 124 cents, in blue covers. Boston and Troy, (N. Y.) Wright, Goodenow & Stockwell.

Ruin or separation from Anti-Christ. A sermon, preached at Byfield, April 7, 18c8, on the annual fast in the commonwealth of Massachusetts: by Elijah Parish, D. D. Minister of Byfield. 8vo. stitched, pp. 24. Newburyport, E. W. & W B. Allen, printers, 1808.

A Letter to the hon. Harrison Gray Otis, a member of the Senate of Massachusetts, on the present state of our national affairs; with remarks upon Mr. Pickering's letter to the governour of the Commonwealth. By John Quincy Adams. 8vo. stitched, pp. 32. Boston, published by Oliver & Munroe, 1808.

Interesting Correspondence between his excellency governour Sullivan and col. Pickering; in which the latter vindicates himself against the groundless charges and insinuations made by the governour, and others. 8vo. stitched, pp. 32. Boston, printed by Greenough & Stebbins. 1808.

The Elements of English Grammar. By Adoniram Judson, jun. A. B. 12mo. pp. 56. Boston, printed by Cushing & Lincoln. 1808.

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Vol. 2, of the Trial of Col. Aaron Burr, on an indictment for treason.

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Observations on Abortion; containing an account of the manner in which it takes place, the causes which produce it, and the method of treating or preventing it. By John Burns, lecturer on Midwifery, and member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow. First American edition. Small 12mo. pp. 151. Troy, N. Y. printed by Wright, Goodenow and Stockwell, and sold by them at the Rensselaer bookstore, and at their bookstore in Boston. 1808.

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Hora Juridicæ Subseriva: a connected series of notes, respecting the geography, chronology, and literary history of the principal codes and original documents of the Grecian, Roman, Feudal, and Canon law. By Charles Butler, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn. With additional notes and illustrations, by an eminent American civilian. 8vo. pp. 136. Philadelphia, published by William P. Farrand and Co. and Farrand, Mallory and Co. Boston, 1808.

A world without Souls.

Third Ame

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use,

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William Blagrove has in the press, and will shortly publish, a chaste collection of Amatory and Miscellaneous Songs; designed chiefly for the ladies. To which will be added, in an appendix, a selection of the most popular songs of the present day. To be embellished with a frontispiece. Price 1 dollar.

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of the Royal Academy.

Revelations, chap. vi. 7, 8. "And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was DEATH. And hell followed him and power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill

with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth."

THE class of subjects, to which this noble sketch belongs, cannot, with propriety, be denominated the historical; as such, therefore, the same principles of criticism are not to be employed in our examination of it: it belongs to an order of composition, which embraces the loftier

subjects of fancy, and the divine flights of inspired poetry; in a word, those subjects, which, having their basis in Revelations, are of a class, to which the most exalted imagination can scarcely expect to rise. This subject is intended to express the triumph of death over all things, by means of that variety of human calamities and mortal sufferings, which pestilence, famine, and the sword, together with the vices of man himself, have introduced into the world.

desolation; to depict all the nethIts object is to express universal ods, by which a world may be destroyed.

To bring out the subject of this composition, Mr. West has divided it into three parts. The fore

ground contains a group, extending nearly half the length of the canvass, in which are seen death by pestilence, famine, and despair, and by almost every means, which terminate existence in all ages and

sexes.

In the second group, we behold lions, men, and horses, in combat with each other, terminated with a furious bull, tossing men and dogs in the air.

The third group rises from the centre of the picture. It is the King of Terrours himself, on his pale horse. On his head is a crown, denoting his sovereignty over all things. His horse is without reins, and his uplifted arms scatter the shafts of death in all directions around him. His form, in the language of Milton, is without form.' It is dissolving into darkness, it is in awful and terrible obscurity, all the legions of hell are in his train; they are seen in the opening perspective, and terminate the distances almost in the immensity of space. On the fore ground is a serpent, his head bruised with a stone, which indicates his death from the hand of man near the serpent is the dove mourning over his dead mate.

In the back ground, we behold the rage of battle, by sea and land, whilst the elements are convulsed by earthquakes, thunder, and vivid lightning. The eagle is seen on his wing, pursuing and destroying the feathered race; whilst the general colour of the picture denotes an atmosphere, filled with every thing noxious and pestilential.

praise, which deserves to be recorded for its equal elegance and justness.

After reviewing the composition at large, he concludes, "This is the most difficult of subjects, which the pencil of man could undertake; but the painter has wILLED it, and it has been DONE."

LAFON'S MAP OF THE ORLEANS
TERRITORY.

In 1806, B. Lafon, a geographer and engineer, at New-Orleans, published A general Chart of the Orleans Territory, comprehending also WestFlorida, and a part of the Missisippi Territory. The explanations are in the French language, and the whole executed from the most recent observations. The author states, that a considerable portion of his materials are quite new; such, for example, as the courses of the Missisippi, which were finished in 1806, as well as those of the Albama, Mobile, Pascagoula, Tangipao, Mitalebani, Ticfoha, Amite, Washita, Yazoo, and their different rami. fications with the Missisippi; as also the Pearl, Red, and Sabine rivers.

This map exhibits all the country on the gulf, from Pensacola to the Sabine inclusive; which, computing the longitude of the former to be 89° 45 W. from the meridian of Paris, and the latter to be 96° 31', makes an extent of almost seven degrees of longitude. And it embraces the whole space from the south point of the Missisippi, which is its