CATALOGUE. OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, FOR APRIL, 1808. Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura................MART. NEW WORKS. No. 1, of the Minor Novelist: containing Emily Hammond, Clement and Agnes, and Frederick, a Fragment. 18mo. pp. 36. Price 12 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, 1808, 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. A Sermon, preached at Trinity Church, in Boston, on the Fast Day, April 7,1808. By J. S. J. Gardiner, A.M. Rector of Trinity Church. 8vo. stitched in blue, pp. 22. Boston, printed by Munroe, Francis, & Parker. 1808. An accurate report of the argument on a motion for an attchment against Baptis Irvine, editor of the Whig, for a contempt against the court of Oyer and Terminer, for Baltimore county. By A. C. Hanson, one of the Counsel for the State. Baltimore, Jacob Wagner. A Sermon, delivered at the request of the Ladies' Society, instituted for the relief of distressed women and children, in the city of Albany, Jan. 10, 1808. By the Rev. Frederick Beasley, M. A. Rector of the Episcopal Church in said city. Price 25 cents. Vol. 2, of the Trial of Col. Aaron Burr, on an indictment for treason. The Military Companion, being system of Company discipline, founded on the regulations of Baron Steuben, late Major-General and Inspector General of the army of the U. S. Containing the manual exercise, &c. together with duty of officers and privates. Designed for the use of the Militia. Newburyport, W. & J. Gilman. Price 25 cents. A Discourse, delivered in the church in Hellis street, April 13, 1808, at the interment of the Rev. Samuel West, D.D. late pastor of said church. By John Lathrop, D. D. pastor of the Second Church in Boston. To which is added, A Biographical Memoir of the Rev. Dr. West, written and published at the request of a committee of the Society in Hollis street, Boston. By the Rev. Thomas Thacher, A. M. A. A. S. of Dedham. 8vo. pp. 38. Boston, Belcher & Armstrong, printers. 1808. Pratical questions on English Grammar, to be answered by those, who study Murray's abridgment; to which are added some directions for parsing. By the Rev. Timothy Alden, jun. pp. 36. Boston. Manning and Loring. NEW EDITIONS. Considerations on the causes, objects, and consequences of the present war, and on the expediency, or the danger of peace with France. By William Roscoe Esq. late member of the Parliament for Liverpool. From the fourth English edition. Phi ladelphia, Birch & Small. An enquiry into the causes and consequences of the Orders in Council, and an examination of the conduct of Great Britain, towards the neutral commerce of America. By Alexander Baring, Esq. member of Parliament. New-York, Alsop, Brannon & Alsop. Price 50 cents. Corinna, or Italy: by Madame de Stael Holstein. In 2 vols. 12mo. Boston, printed for Farrand, Mallory, & Co. A pocket dictionary of the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Bank Notes, Checks, &c. with an appendix, containing abstracts of acts and select cases, relative to negotiable securitics, analysis of a count in assumpsit, tables of notarial fees, stamps, postage, &c. By John Irwin Maxwell, Esq. of the honourable society of the Inner Temple, author of "The Spirit of Maratime Law," &c. With many additions, for the use of the American merchant. 12mo. pp. 251. Philadelphia, published by William P. Farrand & Co. and in Boston by Farrand, Mallory & Co. 1808. 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. A treatise on contracts, within the jurisdiction of Courts of Equity. By John Newland, of the Inner (emple, Esq. barrister at law. 8vo. pp. 543. Published by William P. Farrand, Philadelphia, and Farrand, Mallory and Co. Boston. 1808. Horæ 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 rican edition. 12mo. pp. 106. Boston, Manning and Loring. 1808. The Histories of Greece, Rome, and South and North America; designed for the use of schools. 12mo. Belcher and Armstrong. WORKS IN THE PRESS. W. Pelham has in the press, a system of Notation, representing the sounds of alphabetical characters, by a new appli cation of the accentual marks in present use, with such additions as were necessary to supply deficiencies. Messrs. Lincoln & Edmands, No. 53, Cornhill, have now in the press, Essays to do good. By the Rev. Cotton Mather: revised and improved, by the Rev. George Burden. In one vol. 1 2m0. 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. Farrand, Mallory & Co. have in the press, Walker's key to the classical pronunciation of Greek, Latin and Scripture proper names. Farrand, Mallory & Co. have also in the press, Buonaparte's last campaigns in Prussia, Saxony, Poland, &c. ornamented with engravings, exhibiting the likeness of Buonaparte, king and queen of Prussia, and emperour of Russia. translation of this work, by Samuel Mackay, A. M. is now completed. A Oliver and Munroe of this town, have in the press, An Address to young Persons. By Richard Watson, Lord Bishof Landaff, to be comprised in one volume 18mo of about 100 pages. Greenough and Stebbins of this town, have commenced printing an 8vo. edìtion of the Holy Bible. The work will be completed by the first of December next, WORKS ANNOUNCED. Lincoln & Edmands will shortly put to press, Mason's Spiritual Treasury for the Children of God; being a Reflection for each morning and evening in the year, from select texts of Scripture, 2 vol. 12mo. Ephraim C. Beals, Boston, proposes publishing by subscription, the Beauties of the Poets being a collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry, from the most eminent authors. Compiled by the late Rev. Thomas Janes, of Bristol, England. The work to be comprised in one vol. 12mo. containing near 300 pages, and delivered to subscribers at one dollar, in extra boards. Col. Ir. Amelot de Lacroix has prepared for the press, a new elementary work, entitled Modern French Tacticks, or Military Instructions, for the officers of all grades, from a subaltern to a majorgeneral. Now translating into English, by Samuel Mackay, A. M. late captain in the U. S. army. This work will be comprised in one volume octavo, and contain about five hundred pages. It will be divided into five distinct parts, and be ornamented with suitable plates to illustrate the different attitudes, motions and evolutions, which will render the whole intelligible to those officers, whose avocations deprive them of leisure and op portunities to make deeper researches ; The Peter Varon, Teacher of the French, English and German Languages, Boston, proposes publishing by subscription, Le Guide Fidele de la Langue Francoise and Angloise, or a Faithful Guide to the French and English Languages. work to consist of two volumes, octavo; containing together about six oreven The hundred pages, closely printed. price to subscribers will be 5 dollars in boards, or 6 handsomely bound. The proof sheets of the French will be carefully revised and corrected by a judicious person thoroughly acquainted with the language. James P. Parke, of Philadelphia, proposes publishing by subscription the History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the abolition of the African Slave Trade. By Thomas Clarkson, M. A. author of the Portraiture of Quakerism, and several other works. To be printed in 2 thick vols. 12mo. price 3 dols. per set. INTELLIGENCE. LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS. MR. WEST'S CELEBRATED PICTURE. DEATH ON THE PALE HORSE; OR, THE OPENING OF THE SEALS. From a sketch, by B. WEST, ESQ. President of the Royal Academy. 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. 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 ings, which pestilence, famine, and 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 This subject is intended to express the triumph of death over all things, by means of that variety of human calamities and mortal suffer the sword, together with the vices of man himself, have introduced into the world. Its object is to express universal desolation; to depict all the methods, 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 230 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 His form, in the lanaround him. of Milton, is without form.' guage 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. Such is the description of a picture, which has attracted the notice of the community of arts throughout the civilized world, and upon which an eminent writer, whilst it was upon exhibition in the Louvre at Paris, has passed the following praise, which deserves to be record- After reviewing the composition LAFON'S MAP OF THE ORLEANS In 1806, B. Lafon, a geographer 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 extreme termination on the side of the ocean, in lat. N. 29°, to the parallel of 33°, which is considerably to the northward of Tombigbee fort, the Yazoo mouth, and the settlement of Natchitoches; making four degrees of latitude. This piece of geography is handsomely executed; and is, doubtless, the most correct and instructive display, that has ever been made of those regions. We announce it, therefore, with pleasure; but at the same time, with an expression of our regret, that it is not accompanied with sufficient explanation of their physical geography, nor of their statistical condition. PRICE AND STROTHER'S MAP OF NORTH-CAROLINA. The year 1807 has added another imp rtant map to our geography. By the labours of Jonathan Price and John Strother, a map of the state of North Carolina has been compiled, the first, it is said, from actual survey. It includes the whole of its extensive and peculiar coast on the Atlantick ocean, from the Virginian line, a little north of Currituck inlet, to the South Carolina boundary, at Little River inlet. But the new discoveries, made under the auspices of the national government, which have been published by virtue of a resolve of Congress, dated 2d of March, 1807, seem not to be comprehended in it. This is probably owing to their having been made after the map was put into the engraver's hands. From its extreme point of east-longitu le at Cape Hatteras, in about 75 50 W. from Greenwich, this commonwealth extends to the 84th, or thereabout, on the westernmost part of its supposed junction with Tennessee, beyond the Iron, Bald, Walnut, and Sm aky mountains, in which the territorial line is not fully ascertained. The civil divisions into counties are distinctly marked, and coloured. And the roads, rivers, towns, places of publick worship, villas, hills, and swamps, are so minutely marked, that the map may be deservedly ranked among the most instructive publications of this class. The engraving and printing was performed by the Harrisons of Philadelphia. SOUTHERN SHRUBS BECOMING ACCLIMATED TO NORTHERN SITUATIONS. William Bartram, who in 1793 published Travels made through North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee, Creek, and Chactaw Countries, in 1773, added thereby much to our knowledge of the plants and animals of North America. This man of original observation, of modest mer. it, and unaffected manners, cultivates at his beautiful villa, on the western banks of the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia, a number of the vege tables which he found during his southern excursions. Among others, he may be considered as having already naturalized the superb Franklinia, a native of the country near the Altamaha, to the severity of a Pennsylvania winter. The cucumber tree too, a fine species of magnolia, grows to a stately size in his grounds. This interesting man is son to the celebrated botanist, John Bartram, who contributed much to the scientifick character of his country, by the collections in natural history which he made, and by his correspondence with Peter Collinson and Charles Linnæus. The present proprietor now inhabits the house built by his father, over one of the windows of which is this inscription, expressive of the sense of devotion, which was felt by that zealous cultivator of natural history. His God alone Almighty Lord, |