difficulties. In religion he is reputed skeptical; but in our hearing he never derided subjects of this nature. He used formerly to talk infidelity to the offence of the serious; experience has taught him caution, or he has changed his sentiments. It is said upon good authority that he partook the sacrament at Coro. He is too much of an enthusiast in his favourite objects to allow his means to be enfeebled by moral scruples. I am willing to believe he has as much conscience as the impetuous passions of such men generally admit.

I make a few remarks on his person, manners and petty habits.

He is about five feet ten inches high. His limbs are well proportioned; his whole frame is stout and active. His complexion is dark, florid and healthy. His eyes are hazel coloured, but not of the darkest hue. They are peircing, quick and intelligent, expressing more of the severe than the mild feelings. He has good teeth, which he takes much care to keep clean. His nose is large and handsome, rather of the English than Roman

cast.

His chest is square and prominent. His hair is grey and he wears it tied long behind with powder. He has strong grey whiskers growing on the outer edges of his ears, as large as most Spaniards have on their checks. In the contour of his visage you plainly perceive an expression of pertinaciousness and suspicion. Upon the whole,without saying he is an elegant, we may pronounce him a handsome man. He has a constant habit of picking his teeth. When sitting he is never perfect ly still; his foot or hand must be moving to keep time with his mind which is always in exercise. He always sleeps a few moments after dinner, and then walks till bed time, which with him is about midnight. He is an eminent example of temperance A scanty or bad meal is never regarded by him as a subject : complaint. He uses no ardent spirits; seldom any wine. Sweetened wa.er is his common beverage. Sweetness and warmth, says he, are the two greatest physical goods; and acid and

cold are the greatest physical evils in the universe.

He is a courtier and a gentleman in his manners. Dignity and grace preside in his movements Unless when angry, he has a great command of his feelings; and can assume what looks and tones he pleases. In general his demeanour is mar ked by hauteur and distance. When he is angry he loses discretion. He is impatient of contradiction. In discourse he is logical in the management of his thoughts. He appears conversant on all subjects. His iron memory prevents his ever being at a loss for names, dates and authorities.

He used his mental resources and colloquial powers with great address to rec ommend himself to his followers. He assumed the manners of a father and instructor to the young men He spoke of the prospect of success, and of the preparations made for him with great contiden e. The glory and advantages of the enterprise were described in glowing colours. At another time he detailed his travels, his sufferings and escapes in a manner to interest both their admiration and sympathy. He appeared the master of languages, of science and lite rature. In his conversations he carried his hearers to the scenes of great actions and introduced them to the distinguished characters of every age. He took excursions to Troy, Babylon, Jerusalem, Rome, Athens and Syracuse. Men famed as statesmen, heroes, patriots,conquerors and tyrants, priests and scholars he produced, and weighed their merits and defects. Modern history and biography afforded him abundant topicks. He im pressed an opinion of his comprehensive views, his inexhaustible fund of learning. his probity, his generosity and patriot ism. After all, this man of renown, I fear, must be considered as having more learning than wisdom; more theoret ical knowledge than practical talent; toś sanguine and too opinionated to distin guish between the vigour of enterprise and the hardiness of infatuation.

NEW WORKS.

The universal spread of the Gospel. A Sermon preached at Northampton, before the Hampshire Missionary Society, at their annual meeting, Aug 25, 1808-by the Rev. Timothy Cooley, A. M. Pastor of the first Church in Granville, (Mass) to which is annexed, the annual report of the Trustees of the Hampshire Missionary Society, at the meeting of the Society, Aug. 25, 1808. Northampton, W. Butler.

A Sermon preached at Northampton, Oct 27, 1808, at the opening of Northampton Bridge. By Samuel Willard, minister of Deerfield. Northampton,

Bull & Butler.

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The Messiah of the Scripture. Sermon preached at the Tabernacle, in Salem, April 8, 1808-also at Beverly, May 1, 1808. By Samuel Worcester, A. M. Pastor of the Tabernacle Church, in Salem, Boston, Lincola & Edmands. Memoir of the Northern Kingdom, written A. D. 1872, by the late Rev. Wm. Jahnsenykes, I. L. D. and honourable Member of the Royal American Board of Literature, in six Letters to his Son. "Olim meminisse juvabit." Now firs: published, Quebec, A. D.-1901.

A Discourse delivered before the Soeiety for propagating the Gospel among the Indians in North America, at their anniversary meeting in Boston, Nov. 3, 1808. By Abiel Holmes, member of the first church in Cambridge.. Boston, published by Farrand, Mallory and Co. Belcher & Armstrong, Printers.

The Columbian Preacher, or, a collection of Original Sermons, from preachers of eminence in the United States, embracing the distinguishing doctrines of of grace, vol. I. Catskill, Nathan Elliot.

A Seimon preached May 11, 1808, at the Ordination of the Rev. Ebenezer Hubbard, over the second church and society in Newbury. By Timothy Flint, pastor of the church in Lanenburgh.

Newburyport, published by Thomas & Whipple. E. W. Allen, printer.

New German Text Copies, for the use of schools. Thomas & Whipple, proprietors, Newburyport.

Large and small round Text, round and running hand, biogresshical copies, with the component parts of letters, and an Alphabet of Capitals, arranged according to their similarity, &c. Thomas & Whipple, proprietors, Newburyport.

An Anthem for Ordination, selected from the scriptures, and set to musick by Samuel Temple, A.M. Boston, printed for the author, by Manning and Loring.

A Thanksgiving Anthem, by Daniel Hardy, jun. A. M. Boston, printed by Manning & Loring, for the author. 8vo. p. 32.

No. 1, of Evangelical Tracts; narrative, instructive and devotional; 'containing an adventure in Vermont, or the story of Mr. Anderson. Bostop, Lincoln & Edmands.

William Sawyer & Co. of Newbury port have now in the press, to be published in the course of the next month, the third volume of Massachusetts Reports, containing the cases from june 1807, to the end of the year.

The works of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, Minister of the Gospel, in Northhampton, Mass and afterwards President of the College in New-Jersey. 8 volumes-the 4 first only published. Worcester. Isaiah Thomas, jr.

Particulars respecting the trial, condemuation and execution of Major Henry Alexander Campbell, at the r magh Assizes, August 10 1808, for killing in a duel, Alexander Boyd; together with two letters by Major Campbell, one to his confidential friend, written several months previous to his condemnation; the other to his wife, on the day previous to his execution, and which he continues writing and dating from hour to hour, until within a few moments of his ext. Also, a letter from Mrs. Campbell to her condemned husband in prison, and a memorial to his Majesty, petitioning the life of her husband Boston-J. Cushing.

Debates, Resolutions, and other pro ceedings of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, convened at Boston, on the 9th of January, 1788, and continued until the 7th of February following, for the purpose of assenting to, and ratifying the Constitution, recommended by the grand Federal Convention, together with the Yeas and Nays, on the decision of the grand question. To which the Federal Constitution is prefixed; and to which are added, the amendments which have been made therein. Boston, Oliver & Munroe and Joshua Cushing.

Thoughts on the revival of Religion in New England about the year 1740, in a treatise offered to the publick on that subject. By Joathan Edwards, A. M. Worcester. I. Thomas. Jun

A Compendious History of New England, designed for schools and private Families. By Jedidiah Morse, D. D. and Elijah Parish, D D. ornamented with a neat Map of New England. Second Edition,with Improvements by the authors. Published at Newburyport, by Thomas & Whipple, Proprietors of the work. 12mo. pp.336. price 1 dol. 12 cents.

WORKS IN PRESS.

Greenough & Stebbins, of this town, have in the press, and will shortly publish Mrs. Grant's Letters, from the Mountairs.

David West, of this town, has in the press, and will shortly publish Bishop Butler's Analogy, a book which has

lately been introduced into Harvard University.

A. Sherman, of New Bedford, has ia the press an addition of Wakefield's Mental Improvements, from the 5th

London edition.

Charles Tappan, Portsmonth, N. H. has in press a handsome edition of the Children of the Abbey, in 2 vols.

William Sawyer & Co. Newburyport, have in press,the Romance of the Pyrren☛ es.

WORKS ANNOUNCED,

Thomas & Whipple, of Newburyport, and M. Cary, of Philadelphia, propose to print by subscription, four kinds of quar to bibles, to be published in December, at six, seven, ten and twelve dollars, to be handsomely printed, on good paper, and neatly and strongly bound, in plain or elegant bindings, to be embellished with from ten to twenty Maps and Historical Engravings; containing the Old and New Testaments, the Apocrypha, Brown's Concordance, a Chronolog cal Index of the years and times from Adam to Christ, a curious Analytical Dilection of the Books of Scripture, a Geographic al sketch of the boundaries, rivers, mountains, chief towns, population, and othe er particulars respecting Palestine, with a view of the present masters and miseries of that once happy country, a Family Record for marriages, births, deaths, &c a concise view of the evidences of the Christian Religion, above eight thousand Marginal References, in ad dition to those in the common editions, together with tables of different charac ters and offices in the Bible, of Scripture weights measures, and coins, reduced to those of the U.S. of the divisions of time among the Jews, of kindred and affinity, of all those passages in the Old Testament quoted by Christ and his apostles, a Chronological Table of the most remarkable events recorded in the Scriptures, an Alphabetical Table of proper Names used in the Bible, &c.

Linco'n and Edmands, of this town, propose to publish by subscription, the Works of the Rev. ohn Arndt, late su perintendant-general of Luneburgh. written originally in High dutch, entitled, True Christianity; or, the whole Economy of God towards Man, and the whole duty of man towards God work will consist of one vo ume, octavo Price to subscribers, two dolları in, boards,

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Attorney General-Q. At what time did you change your system. Will you swear, that within these last six years, you have not publish ed a book annexing to its advertisement,the commendation of reviewers?

A. Yes, I have no doubt I have. It may have happened within these two or three years, perhaps, but this has arisen from accident. We keep our old advertisements standing in the form in which we have been used to send them to the newspapers, for five or six years together. So that an advertisement may latterly have gone into a newspaper with the same paragraph in it, of the commendation of the reviewer,a long time after I had determined to discontinue that practice.

Q. You know of the Annual Review, and there is the Monthly

Review?-A. Yes.

Q. And there is the Eclectick Review, and the Critical Review? --A. Yes.

Q. Now, I ask you, there being this number of reviews, have you never looked into any of them to see if sir John Carr's work was reviewed by them?-A. I do not recollect to have done so, within the

last twelvemonth.

Q. I ask you whether you have not looked into them concerning "The Stranger in Ireland?".

Vol. V. No. XI.

A. I do not recollect to have seen in more than one review. I have "The Stranger in Ireland," noticed seen it in some review; I do not recollect which it was.

Q What was the character given in the review in which I saw it, it of it in that review ?-A I think, had a very good character.

Richard Phillips, I will ask you Attorney General. Now, Sir yourself assigned as a reason for not another question; have you not publishing this work of sir John Carr's, which you have seen in manuscript, The Tour in Scotland," "That sir John Carr was worn out?"-A. I never used the phrase.

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Q Nor any thing like it?.

Q. You never have assigned that as, Nor any other reason except that. areason for not publishing that work? of this publication, called "My Pocket Book," and these imputations cast upon the genius of the author? lers, questions, which they had no A. I have been asked by booksel. business to ask me, about sir John Carr's works, and conceiving such questions to be impertinent, I have said to such booksellers, "that my publick engagements would prevent me from embarking in such publi in tenderness to sir John Carr." cations, and I have given that answer

Q. Have you read "The Ton

through Scotland "A. I have looked into it, but not read it through.

Q. It is finished?-A. It is. One of the Jury-Q. I think, sir Richard, you told the booksellers that your publick engagements would prevent you from embarking in such publications; and that you gave that answer out of tenderness to sir John Carr. Pray what was that tenderness?-A. Because I would not have it understood that any work of that kind, (meaning such works as "My Pocket Book,") had had an effect, which appeared to me to be so prejudicial to his character.

Attorney General.—I will deal candidly with you, sir Richard: The person to whom I alluded, when I asked you whether you had not said, "sir John Carr was worn out," is a Mr. Murray. Now I ask you, did you not say 30 to him?-A. No, I did not, that I recollect.

Q. Will you take upon yourself to say, upon your oath, that, to Mr. Murray, you did not say "that sir John Carr was worn out?-A. I could not say such a thing.

Q. Do you swear positively, that you did not say that "sir John Carr was worn out ?"—A. I certainly do say, that I did not say so.

Attorney General. May it please your lordship: gentlemen of the Jury,I could, certainly, make many observations on the very many ridiculous passages which are to be found in the works of sir John Carr, and which fully justify the ridicule of this book, of which he complains. But I abstain; the case is so rich with ridicule, without it, that it would be bad taste to take that course. There is so much in the dramatis personæ, that it renders every thing in the way of ridicule superfluous. First we have sir Richard Phillips, who has given us evi

dence of his being either one of the greatest fools that ever lived under the sun, or that he is not to be credited on his oath. I say that it appears from his own testimony, either that he has given us false evidence, or that he is the greatest fool that ever walked upon the face of the earth-without a guide.

Lord Ellenborough interposing.Weakest, perhaps weakest.

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Attorney General.-The weakest man that ever walked upon the face of the earth, without a keeper. Erasmus would have given any thing for him when he wrote his Encomion Moria-or Pope, when he wrote his Dunciad. If the author of the Dunciad were now liv ing, he would have changed his hero. If we were living in the days of Pope, we should have a new edition of the Dunciad after this scene. Sir Richard Phillips tells us, that he is publisher of three of these voluminous works, which have been exhibited to you as the productions of sir John Carr. has told you, that he had given large sums of money for them.That he was about to open a negociation with sir John Carr, for the purchase of another work, and he tells you, there are I think five different reviews, the object of which is, to treat of the merits or demerits of different publications as they appear in the world, and that they must rise or fall, in a great measure at least; that is, fail of success, or succeed with the publick, according to the impression produced by these periodical publications. This must be the case with "The Stranger in Ireland," as well as any other work. And sir Richard Phillips being interested in pocket, as to the credit of that work with the publick, tells you that he never looked into any one of these reviews.