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parts of the country decent houses for publick worship have been lately erected; and where such accommodations are wanting, multitudes assemble, and continue encamped for days in the open fields. This is a crisis, of which enlightened and influential christians should avail themselves "

The middle association of Essex

county, who always have a sermon at their monthly meetings, have, we hear, agreed that for the present year the sermon be on the subject of the Trinity, or the divinity of Jesus Christ; also that one of their number exhibit an essay on one of these subjects at each of their meetings.

Literary Intelligence.

GREAT BRITAIN.

FOREIGN.

Mr. Parkinson, surgeon, has in the press a work, entitled, “ Organick Remains of the former world displayed." In which the Mosaick account of the deluge is shown to agree with the pres. ent appearance of the globe.

Major Rennel has been comparing the Geography of Scripture, with his own local observations, which have fully established its accuracy. We have not heard whether the result of this investigation has been made publick.

Mr. Barrow, who lately published the second volume of his Travels into the interior of Africa, was, a year since, about to bring forward the Account of

his Travels in China.

Mr. Park, the celebrated African Traveller, has undertaken another journey of discovery, into the southern part of Africa.

A series of Letters has been published in England, written from South America, by an English gentleman, detained a prisoner by the Spaniards, in Paraguay, in the years 1797-8,descriptive of the Country, Government and Manners of the Inhabitants, adorned with highly finished engravings.

The Rev. T. Wood, of Huddersfield, has issued proposals for publishing by subscription, a work entitled, "An Historical, Geographical, and Chronological account of the progress of Christianity on its first promulgation; also a sketch of the primitive Christian Church; with remarks on the revival of religion in the present day." This work was to have been published in April last, price 5s. boards.

An improved edition of Miss Hannah Adams' View of Religions has been published in England, revised and corrected by the Rev. A. Fuller ; to which is prefixed, an original Essay on the Nature and importance of truth.

PORTUGAL.

In Portugal, a strong disposition has been lately manifested to patronize those studies which benefit mankind. This has been indicated by the patronage afforded to Mr. Bartolozzi, after Britain had declined to engage his services any longer; and by a commendable attempt to construct a map of that country from actual measurement, and a series of triangles. This map is published in an advanced, though not in a complete state.

GERMANY.

The Literary Society of the county of Mansfield, in Saxony, have opened a subscription, for erecting a monument to LUTHER, at Eisleben in Saxony, the place of his nativity. The king of Prussia patronizes and supports the undertaking.

The ELECTOR of BAVARIA has purchased for the University of Wiirsburg, the Blankian Cabinet of Natural History consisting of 28,000 specimens. The library of the University has also been enriched with the books that belonged to the secularized clergy.

The number of works which appeared at the last Leipsick Fair, was 1404; among which were 125 novels; 36 dramatick pieces, and more than

300 translations.

M. Harding, of the Observatory at Lilienthal, near Bremen, who has been employed on an atlas of all the stars down to those of the eighth magnitude, which lie within and near the orbits of the two new planets Ceres and Palas, discovered on the first of Sept. 1804, a THIRD NEW PLANET. place, as settled by Dr. OLBERS, on Sept. 8, was at M. T. 8h. 11m. 20d.. A.R. 1d. 29m. 39s. dec. in south Od. 47m. 19s. its motion in A.R. is about

Its

7m. 56s. retrograde, and in declination about 12m. 24s. south per diem. It is

similar to Ceres in light and apparent magnitude. Nothing nebulous can be distinguished around it; and, in all probability, it is another of a consider. able body of small planets, of which this is the third recently discovered. The new planet just mentioned, dişcovered by M. Harding, of Lilienthal, has been named JuNo.

UNITED STATES.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

The legislature of South Carolina

has passed a law, dividing the state into 119 school districts, to each of which they have given one hundred dollars toward building a school house, and one hundred fifty dollars for supporting a school master.

CONNECTICUT.

All the publick laws of Connecticut, now in force, are comprised in an octavo volume of less than 700 pages. Prob ably the laws of no other independent civilized country on earth, which has been in existence more than 150 years, are comprised in so small a compass.

List of New Publications.

THEOLOGY.

AMERICAN.

THE Family Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with original notes, and practical observations. By the Rev. Thomas Scott, morning preacher at the Lock Chapel, &c. London. With copious marginal references. Reprinting by William W. Woodward, Philadelphia, from a new and improved edition now publishing in England, 4 vols. 4to. 24 dols. the set, neatly bound and lettered. Two vols. are completed; the third is in forwardness.

A scripture catechism, or system of religious instruction in the words of scripture, being a selection of the most plain and important texts, so arranged as to give a systematick view of the principal doctrines and duties of our holy religion. Intended as an assistant to christian ministers, parents and instructors in the religious education of children and youth; adapted to the use of schools and families. By a clergyman of Massachusetts. Cambridge. Hilliard.

An attempt to explain God's gracious Covenant with believers, and illustrate the duty of parents, to embrace the covenant, dedicate their children in baptism, and train them up in the fear of God. By John H. Church, Pastor of the Church in Pelham, N.H. Amherst. Cushing.

Sermons of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French Church at the Hague. 6 vols. 8vo. translated from the original French by Robert Robinson. Nichols. New York.

Sermons by Williams Jay, first American from the second London edi.

tion, 1 vol. 8vo. 2 dolls. Boston. B. and J. Homans.

Two occasional sermons preached Nov. 4th, and 29th, 1804. One entitled The two Olive Trees, or Zerubbabel and Joshua, Religion the leading qualification of civil rulers and christian ministers; the other, God the foundation of confidence and joy, a thanksgiving sermon. By Joseph Lyman, D.D. Pastor of the Church in Hatfield; 20

cents.

A discourse delivered at Byefield, on the annual Thanksgiving in the commonwealth of Massachusetts; by Rev. Elijah Parish, pastor of the Church in Byefield. 2d edition, 12 1-2 cents. Salem. Cushing.

A discourse delivered at the ordination of the Rev. Joseph Buckminster, to the pastoral charge of the Church in Brattle Street, Boston. By Joseph Buckminster, D.D. Pastor of the North Church, Portsmouth.

Moral Education, by a disciple of the Old School Philosophy. N. Haven printed 1804; 25 cents.

An address delivered to the candidates for the Baccalaureate, in Union College, (Schenectady) at the anniversary commencement, May 16th, 1805. By Eliphalet Nott, President.

A discourse before the society for propagating the gospel, among the Indians and others, in N. America, delivered on the first Nov. 1804, by Rev. Levi Frisbie. Ipswich.

A sermon preached January 9th 1805, in the Tabernacle, Salem, at the ordination of Rev. Lucius Bolles, to the pastoral care of the Baptist Church and Society in that town. By Samuel Stillman, D.D.

A Sermon delivered at Sedgwick, May 15th, 1805, at the ordination of Rev. Daniel Merrill, to the Pastoral charge of the Baptist church of Christ in that place. By Thomas Baldwin,

D. D.

A sermon preached in the audience of His Excellency Caleb Strong, Esq. Governour, the other members of the Executive, and the honourable legislalature of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the anniversary Election, May 29th, 1805. By John Allyn, Congregational minister of Duxborough.

BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of the Life, Writings and Correspondence, of Sir William Jones. By Lord Teignmouth. Philadelphia. Poyntell; 2 dolls. 75 cents.

Sketches of the Life of the late Rev. Samuel Hopkins, D. D. Pastor of the first Congregational Church in New. port, written by himself. Interspersed with marginal notes, extracted from his private diary: To which is added, a dialogue by the same hand, on the nature and extent of true christian submission: Also,

A serious Address to professing christians, in the name and from the words of Jesus Christ, recorded in Revelation xvi. 15. with an introduction to the whole by the Editor. Pubfished by Stephen West, D. D. Hudson and Goodwin. Hartford, 1 doll.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A publick lecture, occasioned by the death of the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. L.L.D. President of the university in Cambridge. By Eliphalet Pearson, L L.D. Hancock Professor of Hebrew.

Cautions to young persons concerning health, in a publick lecture delivered at the close of the medical course in the Chapel, Cambridge, Nov. 20th, 1804; containing the general doctrine of chronick diseases; she wing the evil tendency of the use of tobacco upon young persons; more especially the pernicious effects of smoking cigarrs; with observations on the use of ardent and vinous spirits in general. By Benjamin Waterhouse, M.D. Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physick, and Teacher of Natural History, in the University of Cambridge.

Letters from London; written in 1802 and 1803. By William Austin. Boston. Pelham.

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THE Evangelical Magazine. This work, which is well known and highly approved by the friends of vital relig ion in the United States, has been continued monthly, since the beginning of the year 1793. Since the death of the Rev. Mr. Eyre, it has been under the principal direction of the Rev George No less than 17,000 copies of this useBurder, author of Village Sermons. ful and truly evangelical work are printed monthly. The profits are devoted to the relief of the poor widows of gospel ministers. Published in London, monthly, 64 pages, 8vo.

promote the knowledge and belief of The Biblical Magazine, intended to the sacred scriptures; monthly, at Dunstable, Eng. This republished spectable work commenced, May, 1801, and is under the direction of the Baptists.

The Christian Observer is conducted by members of the established merit. It commenced with the year church, and is a work of distinguished 1801.

Presbyterian Magazine, published at The Religious Monitor, or Scot's Edinburgh, monthly, since March, 1803, 40 pages, 8vo. Its Editors have taken their motto from Jer. vi. 16, and the spirit of the work appears conformable to their motto.

A new review commenced with this year, in London, called the Eclectic Resiew. The design of the Editors is expressed in the following motto, which they have prefixed to their work.

Cicero gives us an account of the various opinions of philosophers in his age; but he himself was cf the Eclectic sect; and chose out of each of them, such positions, as, in his judgment, came nearest to the truth." Watts' Improvement of the Mind.

The numbers appear monthly, containing 80 pages 8vo price 1s 6d sterhing. The profits are applied to the

assistance of the New British and Foreign Bible Society.

We have seen the three first numbers, "The object of this work is to rescue good writers from the partiality and abuse of Socinian and high church criticks." The work is ably and impartially conducted, and on ev ery account is worthy of publick patronage.

All the above works harmonize in their design, with the Panoplist, and from them the Editors expect to derive much assistance.

OBITUARY.

Nov. 26. At Bath, aged 82 the Rev. ARCHIBALD MACLAINE, forty eight years minister of the English church at the Hague. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Gardiner, of Bath, who stated many particulars which strongly indicated the truly christian frame of mind in which this venerable minister of the gospel departed this life. Dr. Gardiner observed, as we have been told, that on retiring to bed, Dr. Maclaine thanked God, that while the heathens, naming Socrates in particular, were so much in the dark about their future state, he, who had been a grievous sinner, had, through the mercy of God, such a blessed hope, and added, "I know in whom I have believed." Dr. Gardiner represented the Dr. to come as a penitent to the throne of grace, leaning only on the cross of Christ, filled with gratitude to God; that Christ Jesus and eternal salvation were his constant theme, and that he was filled with the hope of glory. His last words to his friends were, "Weep not for me, O ye of little faith."

In Scotland, Dr JOHN ROBINSON, professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Playfair, exprofessor of Mathematicks in the same University has succeeded him. Dr. ROTHERAN, professor of Natural Philosophy in the neighbouring University of St. Andrews, died about the same time. Also, Dr. WILLIAM BUCHAN, aged 76; in his death the medical world has lost one of its most valuable members: a man who, perhaps beyond all others, simplified the language and doctrines of medicine, and, by adapting his style to ordinary understandings, stripped

(To be continued.)

the science of its mysteries, and in fact taught every one to be his own physician. His "Domestic Medicine" is doubtless one of the most useful books on the subject, in any language; and his " Advice to Mothers" cannot be too much recommended.

A letter just received from Edinburgh, from the secretary of the soci ety in Scotland, for promoting Christian Knowledge, announces, with deep regret, the death of Rev. Dr. JOHN KEMP, the late worthy secretary of the very respectable Society abovenamed. This intelligence (to use the language of the letter) "will perhaps be as sincerely lamented, though not so extensively felt, on the other side of the Atlantick, as it is in his native country. In July last the doctor was visited by very alarming symptoms both of paralytick and apoplectick affections, which led his physicians to order him to retire to the country, where he chiefly resided since that period. For a considerable time previous to his dissolution, his health seemed to be rather improving; but on Tuesday last he had a severe stroke of an apoplexy, and expired on Thursday," the 18th of April. We shall improve the earliest opportunity to communicate some sketches of the character of this excellent man.

In Mohegan, (Con.) MARTHA, 2ged 120; widow of Zacarah, one of the Nobility of the Mohegan tribe of Indians, and many years an Agent from said tribe to the General Assembly of Connecticut.

Drowned, in Salem harbour, Mr. JOHN EDWARDS, rigger. He, with his son and another man, were returning

from the ship Franklin, when their boat upset. Mr. Edwards could not swim, and his son kept him upon his back for nearly half an hour, when being quite exhausted, the son said, "Father we will both go down together!"

THE REAPERS' SONG.

Ye verdant hills, ye smiling fields,

on which the father quitted his hold and sunk immediately. The son and the other man were soon after taken up by a boat from the ship. Mr. Edwards was an industrious, worthy

man.

Poetry.

Thon earth, whose breast spontaneous yields

To man a rich supply ;
Echo, whose mimick notes prolong
The melting strain, and bear along
O'er distant glades and caves among,
The mountain shepherd's artless song
Loft swelling to the sky.

Attend the reapers' joyful lays,
And hear the tribute of their praise

To Nature's bounteous King:
Whose voice, loud sounding from the pole,
In thunder oft is heard to roll,
And oft has melted down the soul,
When murmuring along it stole

The zephyr's silken wing!

With bread, the heart of man to cheer,
Ser, bending low, the ripen'd ear

Bow its luxuriant head!

In vain, ye swains, had been your care,
Had not he caus'd the blight to spare
The promise of the summer fair,
And bade the sun, the rain, the air,

Their gracious influence shed.
He bade the soft refreshing gale
Blow gently down the teeming vale,
Nor hurt the peeping grain:
But when the ear began to rise,
To him we rais'd our anxious eyes;
Oft from the cisterns of the skies
He sent, in mercy, rich supplies,

Early and latter rain.

And now his hand hath crown'd our toil,
We joy, like those that share the spoil,

The harvest home to bear!
With shouts the laughing pastures ring;
With grateful hearts, ye reapers, sing
The praise of Heav'n's eternal King,
Through whose paternal care ye bring
The produce of the year !
Margate.

W. B. COLLYER.

THE SMILE OF JESUS. LOVELY is the face of nature Deck'd with Spring's unfolding flow'rs, While the sun shews every feature

Smiling through descending showers: Birds, with songs the time beguiling, Chant their little notes with glee, But to see a Saviour smiling, is more soft, more sweet to me!

Morn her melting tints displaying
Ere the sluggard is awake;
Ev'ning's zephyrs gently straying
O'er the surface of the lake;
Melting hues, and airy breezes,

All have powerful charms for me;
But no earthly beauty pleases
When, my Lord, compar'd with thee!
Soft and sweet are show'rs descending
On the parch'd, expecting ground;
Fragrance, from the fields ascending,

Scatters health and joy around.
These, with ev'ry earthly blessing.
Loudly for thanksgiving call;
Yet, one smile from thee possessing.

Surely, far exceeds them all!

Sweet is sleep to tired nature;
Sweet to labour is repose:
Sweet is life to ev'ry creature ;

Sweet the balm that hope bestows:
But though spring, and ev'ning's breezes,
Sleep, and hope, and life, to me

All are pleasant, nothing pleases,
Jesus! like a smile from thee!
Margate.

W. B. COLLYER.

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Sweet Babe!

She listen'd for a while to hear,
Our mortal griefs; then turn'd her ear
To angel harps, and songs; and cried.
To join their notes celestial, sigh'd and dy'd,
Sweet Babe!
Sweet Babe no more, but Seraph now;
Before the throne behold her bow!
Her soul enlarg'd to angel size,
Joins in the triumph of the skies;
Adores the grace that brought her there,
Without a wish, without a care;
That wash'd her soul in Calv'ry's stream:
That shorten'd life's distressing dream,
Short pain, short grief, dear babe, was thine;
Now joys eternal and divine !"

PATER

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