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Great Britain 1 in 35-in France 1 in 30. The deaths in large towns bear a still greater proportion to the population, being in New-York and Philadelphia 1 in 40 or 45, in St. Petersburg 1 in 28, in Paris 1 in 23, and in London, 1 in 21! It thus appears, that most erroneous opinions have hitherto prevailed, particularly at a distance, respecting the salubrity of Milledgeville. It is worthy of remark, that, of the deaths last year, not a single adult fell a victim to the Billious Fever, that dreadful scourge of warm climates.

Military preparations are making in Georgia, for the purpose of quelling the Florida Indians.

The exports from Savannah, from the 1st of October 1816, to the 1st of April 1817, were 54,452 bales Upland Cotton; 15,436 do. Sea Island; 11,715 tierces Rice; 1,586 hhds. Tobacco.

George M. Bibbe, Esq. of Georgia, has been appointed governor of the new Territory of Alabama.

The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States has communicated to the Governor of this state an account of a species of grass, called Lupenella, some seeds of which he has received from our Consul at Leghorn. It is represented as the finest grass cultivated in Italy, and is particularly calculated for land that has been impoverished by crops. Three years cultivation of this grass is said to enrich the poorest land to such a degree, as to produce two abundant successive crops. It affords excellent food for cattle, and is much preferred by them to hay. It is cut with a sickle to avoid shaking off the blos

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Married] At Waynesborough, John Whitehead, Esq. to miss Abby L. Sturges of Fairfield, Conn.

Died.] At Savannah, Capt. John Smith, of Hampton, Vir. John Morse, merchant, aged 28.

LOUISIANA.

The suits recently instituted in the United States' District Court, by the heirs of Livingston and Fulton, against certain in dividuals, for violating the patentee's exclusive privilege of navigating the river Mississippi by steam, was dismissed by the Hon. D. A. Hall, judge of said Court, on the ground that said Court had not competent jurisdiction.

MISSISSIPPI.

The trade of Mobile is rapidly increasing. The importations of last year, chief ly coast-wise from Boston, New-York, and New-Orleans, are estimated at $1,000,000.

During the six months next preceding April last, 1700 bales of cotton were shipped at Mobile, and about the same quantity remained to be shipped. The trade of the present year is expected to be more than double that of the past. The trade of Madison county will be to Mobile. The navigation to this place has been explored, and the merchants of Madison county calculated their loss at 50,000 dolls. the last year, by not shipping to Mobile the goods purchased at New-York.

TENNESSEE.

Gov. M'Minn, of this state, Gen. Jackson, and Gen. Meriwether, of Georgia, have been appointed commissioners to negotiate with White River for all the territory claimed by the Cherokees, an exchange of lands on that tribe in Georgia and Tennessee.

KENTUCKY.

The steam-boat, which arrived at Natches on the 10th of March, from Shippingport in this state, passed, in its course down the Ohio and Mississippi, upwards of 500 boats, barges, &c. It must be a profitable trade to NewOrleans, that can employ so much tonnage.

Loammi Baldwin, esq. of Massachusetts, Falls of the Ohio, on the Kentucky side of has been surveying the ground round the the river, for the purpose of ascertaining the practicability and expense of a canal in that place. He has reported at much length, and gives his opinion that a canal for keel-boat navigation, which is, he thinks, most expedient, can be constructed for $240,000.

OHIO.

State of Ohio vs. Isaac Evans. Indictment for passing an unauthorized bank note, on

the Owl Creek bank of Mount Vernon. Decision-that the note was not money, and the defendant discharged.

On the 25th of April last, the Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, was fined one dollar and fifty cents, for not attending a militia muster, as a private sentinel, in strict conformity to the laws of the State of Ohio.

INDIANA.

There is now residing in the county of Wayne, in this state, a girl 17 years of age, that weighs 335 pounds.

The Governor of this state has recognised the bank of Vincennes as the state bank.

MISSOURI TERRITORY.

Not far from the bank of Quicaurrie river, 150 or 160 miles from its confluence with the Missouri, a large number of bones have been found, which are supposed to have belonged to the Mammoth. The shoulder-blade is said to be four feet long and three broad.

Died.] At Belle Fontaine, capt. Edmund Shipp, of the rifle regiment.

ART. 13. MONTHLY CATALOGUE OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,
WITH CRITICAL REMARKS.

NATECHISM of Political Economy, or Fawhich Wealth is produced, distributed, and consumed in Society, by JEAN BAPTISTE SAY, Professor of Political Economy, in the ATHENEE ROYAL,' of Paris, &c. &c. Translated from the French, by John Richter. Philadelphia. M. CAREY and Sos. New-York, KIRK and MERCEIN. 8vo. pp. 183.

chism is, perhaps, the most convenient compend for those who love to arrive directly at conclusions. M. Say appears to have written for no one meridian, nor any single exigency. There is no narrowness in his calculations. His premishows no squeamishness in approaching any disses are broad and his inferences general. He cussion; and is evidently exempt from the dominion of prejudice.

condition of his own country. Indeed, the very tain has been placed, have called forth a multitude of pens intent upon their melioration, and given rise to an infinitude of political speculations embodying important facts, but all too closely connected with the occasion of their origin, not it. Ganihl's able work on political economy, has to lose much of their merit when detached from done much towards fixing the standard princiThis is a very sensible and useful work,--as far not shrink from the labour of investigation; it ples of this science, and will interest all who do as it goes. It is, however, merely elementary, has, moreover, lessened that labour. and does not even touch upon many important We have subjects, much less does it descend to minute very lately seen a popular treatise on this subparticulars on any point. The author, frequent-nomy,' in form of familiar dialogues, the circulaject, entitled Conversations on Political Ecoy, refers in support of his positions to a more tion of which, as it must disseminate correct noextensive and elaborate work, which he has here- tions, and will tend to excite a wholesome spirit tofore published, under the title Traite d'Eco- of inquiry, we would gladly aid. This Cate nomie Publique,' and which from this specimen of his opinions and reasonings, we should be hap by to see. We are glad, in the mean time, to meet with a brief and perspicuous treatise, in which topics, in regard to which the people, at large, have so great an interest in being well informed, are brought under their notice, and adapted to their comprehension. Many useful reflections will pass through every man's mind who peruses this book, and it is, perhaps, one of the best recommendations that it has, or that work can possess, that it will set the reader to thinking. There are a multitude of useful truths within every one's reach, that are never converted to his use, merely because he does not turn his attention towards them. An author who will put us upon a right track, and give us an incentive to pursue the research to which he has invited us, often does us a greater benefit, by these means, than he possibly could by gratuitously imparting to us the results of his own labours. Habits of ratiocination are more valuable than any axiom, or collection of aphorisms, in the same proportion that the soil is more valuable than the crop it has yielded, or the loom, than the web it has wrought. The one is a capacity or power that may be made serviceable in various ways, and on any emergency,--the other is a product that has already received its Timitation, both as to its mode and measure of applicability. It is very possible that Mr. Say's assertions are not all of them entitled to be received as dogmas;-certain we are, that all of them will not be so admitted. They are recommended, however, by a boldness that does credit to the author's sincerity, at the same time that it encourages us to a like independent exercise of our understandings.

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The writings of Adam Smith are too abstruse to be easily comprehended by the unphilosophic mind, besides, subsequent experience has elucidated much that was problematical or intricate in his day. Mr. Malthus has, more recently, written some ingenious, though rather theoretical essays, on national industry and population, but his views seem to have been, in a degree, restrained by considerations bearing upon the peculiar

We cannot refrain from remarking, however, on the incongruity of the style of publication, with the principle of the work.

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A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States, with Reflections on the Practicability of restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, without impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a Colonial Asylum, for Free Persons of Colour, including Memoirs of Facts on the interior traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnapping. By Jesse Torrey, jun. Physician, Author of a Series of Essays on Morals and the Diffusion of Knowledge. Philadelphia. For the Author. New-York. KIRK & MERCÈIN. 8vo. pp. 94.

lication is endeavouring, we hope with success, The subjects to which the Author of this pubto call public attention, is of immense importance to our country. Slavery, with retributive justice, has become a curse to those who have inflicted it. In the southern section of the Union, slaves compose nearly the whole agricultural population,— the class that constitutes the bone and muscle of every community,-the class too, whose increase is most rapid. It requires but little reflection to comprehend the nature of the impending danger, though it surpasses the powers of ordinary prescience to define its extent, and baffles the skill of political wisdom to devise a remedy. Dr. Torrey is sensible of the impracticability of inducing the free blacks to emigrate, and the impolicy of emancipating those in bondage on any other condition. He proposes measures for the melioration of their present situation, and for their gradual enlargement: He very justly, however,

protests against the admission of freed-men to the of the Swedenborgians, that we consider them privileges of citizens, and against every measure rather a subject of philosophical speculation than In this light we must that tends to incorporate them into the mass of of religious controversy. the people. We pretend not to have formed any confess, that the pamphlet before us, as far as one definitive opinion on a subject beset with so many of the uninitiated can understand it, has its difficulties as the one under consideration. We merit. It suggests some very fanciful and pleasare glad that it has excited discussion. The pre- ing analogies between the spiritual and materiał sent work is calculated to do good. It is written worlds, which amuse, at least, if they do not ir Baron Swedenborg was a man of learnwith the warmth of a patriot and a philanthropist, struct. --though with more ardour of feeling than choice ing, equally conversant with nature and with of language. It is not confined merely to spe- books,-to such qualifications it needs but to add culating upon evils that exist in apprehension, a moderate degree of imagination to enable any -it unmasks atrocities daily practised upon man to form an ingenious theory that shall be the unofending race whom rapine has dragged susceptible of many specious supports, without to our shores enough, not only "to harrow up calling in the aid of inspiration. If then it be, as the soul" of humanity, but to make "the very we believe it is, a rule no less to be observed in stones cry out." Whatever differences may exist philosophy than in poetry, on any other point, we trust there can be but one sentiment in regard to protecting those whom we have brought into subjection to our laws. We earnestly recommend this work to general perusal. Though we do not believe that oppression is the prominent feature in the character of the slave-holders of the United States, it ought not to rest in their discretion to avenge offences against themselves, with a severity which justice does not exercise in punishing any crime committed against society. Nor ought it to be left in the power of an individual, in defiance of every principle of right, and every dictate of nature, to sever a tie sacred in the eye of religion, by whatever formality contracted. E.

Melincourt, a Novel, by the Author of "Headlong Hall." Philadelphia, MOSES THONew-York, KIRK & MERCEIN. 2 vols.

MAS.

12mo. pp. 484.

This book has the worst of all faults, in a work designed for amusement-that of being extremely tedious. The Author has attempted to introduce various political, philosophical, and (if we may so speak) sentimental opinions, in the form of a story; and in so doing he has produced a jumble, from which the reader can extract no interest, and very little information. On this last point we would speak with some diffidence, for the work has an air of mystery, and may contain stores of recondite knowledge, which our vision, bedimmed by its powerful soporific influence, had not the keenness to detect. The writer certainly appears to be a man of some knowledge and tatent, but he has learned nothing of the art of writing in a popular manner. His perpetual stateliness perpetually tires, and his manner of trifling, (which he frequently attempts,) reminds us of the mode in which Goldsmith said Doctor Johnson would write fables,-"His little fishes talk like whales."

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Religion and Philosophy United, or an attempt to show that Philosophical Principles form the foundation of the New Jerusalem Church, as developed to the world in the mission of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg. Boston, published for the subscribers. New-York. RILEY & ADAMS. 8vo. pp. 55.

There is something so extravagant in the tenets

'Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit:'

the credentials of the Baron's mission must be

severely scrutinized, and his authority admitted only on extrinsic evidence. For proofs of this kind we shall look in vain in this publication,—, nor do we, indeed, know where they are to be sought. This little Essay is well written, but contains more enthusiasm than argument, more of a distinctive feature of the professors of this regood feeling than of sound logic. It is, in fact, ligion, not less honourable than peculiar, that the most ardent attachment to their own sect enkin dles no rancour against others, and that the most fervid zeal of proselytism is combined with per fect philanthropy.

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Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, late President of the Royal Academy; comprising Original Anecdotes of many distinguished persons, his cotemporaries, and a brief Analysis of his Discourses. To which are added, Varieties on Art. By JAMES NORTHCOTE, Eq. R. A. Philadelphia. Reprinted, by M. Carey & Son. New-York KIRK & MERCEIN. 8vo. pp. 496.

This is a valuable as well as a very entertaining production, and is calculated to afford much seur, but to the lover of literary anecdote, and gratification, not only to the artist and connoisto all who have been accustomed to take an interest in the memoirs of such men as Burke and Johnson, Goldsmith and Garrick, the early friends and intimate associates of the subject of the present volume. Mr. Northcote, who is himself an eminent painter, became a pupil of Sir Joshua in the year 1771, and resided in his house for five years; by which means he had very favourable opportunities of becoming well acquainted with the character and opinions of his distin guished friend, who, as Mr. Burke observes, "was on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time." Sir Joshua Reynolds, it is well known, maintained a familiar intercourse with the most eminent men of his day for genius and learning, and the situation of Mr. Northcote, as above mentioned, enabled him to collect a number of anecdotes of these distin guished characters, which are not to be found in any other writer.

The celebrated Discourses on Painting, deliver

ed by Sir Joshua Reynolds, as President of the Chemist, Lecturer on Practical Chemistry, Royal Academy of Arts, have particularly Mineralogy, &c. &c. &c. Philadelphia, pubengaged the attention of Mr. Northcote in the lished by M. CAREY & SON. New-York. present work, and he has taken occasion to ex- KIRK & MERCEIN. 12mo. pp. 204. hibita brief analysis and summary of the ingenious principles, enlightened views, and critical instructions with which these Discourses so preeminently abound.

This book is a useful vade mecum for the checarefully made, and the results accurately stated. mical student. The experiments appear to be

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Poems, by Hannah Moore. From the Lon-
WELLS & LILLY.

Boston.
KIRK & MERCEIN.

Accompanying these Memoirs are several Essays or pieces of the Biographer himself, in which he has undertaken "to give opinions in respect don edition. to the Arts, under a variety of views." In one New-York. of them, under the veil of a Dream, he presents to the imagination a splendid portraiture of the Hannah Moore, which make a pretty sort of This is a collection of minor Poems, by Miss most celebrated painters of Italy; and through reading enough, though they betray not a single the allegory of the "Slighted Beauty," another scintillation of genius. Miss M. is a useful and piece of considerable length, he gives a represen- not unpleasing writer on most subjects, but tation of the Fine Arts, as they were gradually in- she enjoys only a modicum of the inspiration of troduced into England in the various attitudes, the muses. costumes, and fashions of the different schools of fancy as Dr. Johnson, without his energy of dicAs a poet, she has about as much painting on the continent.

tion.

The style of these Memoirs is, we think, highly creditable to Mr. Northcote-chaste, neat, time in print. We are obliged, however, to the Most, if not all these pieces, have been some and unostentatious; and the reader will be publishers, for noting that they are reprinted from pleased to find the Biographer taking no pains to the London edition. It should always be disthrust himself forward in order to display his own tinctly stated, whether a literary production be powers as a critic or philosopher; whilst, at the indigenous or exotic. Miss Moore is, indeed, too same time, the remarks he occasionally intro- well known to the reading world, to make it parduces are always sensible and pertinent. We ticularly necessary to guard against any mistake have no hesitation in saying that this volume will as to her identity,-but we daily see publications be a highly acceptable present to the public, and issuing from our presses, from the pens of foreign will be regarded as a very interesting supplement authors of no very great distinction, every parto Hawkins and Boswell, independently of its merit as a body of valuable information and critical instruction relative to the noble art of painting. A.

The Life of Andrew Jackson, Major General in the service of the United States: comprising a history of the war in the south, from the commencement of the Creek campaign, to the termination of hostilities before New-Orleans. Commenced by John Reid, Brevet Major, United States' Army. Com pleted by John Henry Eaton. Published for the benefit of the children of John Reid. Philadelphia, M. CAREY & SON. New-York, KIRK & MERCEIN. 8vo. pp. 423.

ticular of intelligence in regard to whom, we are obliged to glean from extraneous sources, which are difficult of access exactly in proportion to the necessity of inquiry. We cannot too strongly inculcate it upon Booksellers, to use the means in their power to discriminate between our own and foreign literature, and to afford data to assist the bibliographer of after times.

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Arator; being a Series of Agricultural Es-County, Virginia. Baltimore. JOHN M. CARsays. By Col. John Taylor, of Caroline 12mo. pp. 220. TER. New-York. A. T. Goodrich & Co.

The author of these essays is more accustomGenerally we dislike contemporaneous biogra: miliar with the logical process of either. His ed to thinking than writing, though not very faphy, because it is generally little else than a kind notions, as far as we can extricate them from the of covert panegyric. This book, however, forms intricacies of his style, are indicative of a natuan exception, and indeed corresponds to the lat- ral fund of good sense and habits of attentive obter part of its title more than to the former, being servation. He is correct, at bottom, in the posiless a biography than a history. It is a full and tion which he frequently and strenuously urges, explicit narrative of facts arranged with chrono logical accuracy, and set forth in a respectable style. It makes no high pretensions, while, ne vertheless, it bears every mark of fidelity. It also throws much light upon the nature of militia operations, and though there be no set eulogium upon the illustrious subject of the memoir, yet the facts recorded will stand a noble and imperishable monument of his military talents and devoted patriotism. L.

that premiums for the encouragement of manufactures are, in other words, premiums for the discouragement of agriculture. It is inconsistartificial meaus, from its natural channels. If it ent with sound policy, ever to divert industry, by were allowable to hold out adscititious inducements to any particular species of labour, they should unquestionably be used to promote the cul

tivation of soil.

The great cause of the general A Practical Essay on Chemical Re-Agents ral products, occasioned partly by the untowardpressure at this moment is a deficit of agricultuor Tests. Illustrated by a series of experi- ness of the seasons in the two years last past, but By Frederick Accum, Operative principally by the rushing from their spheres

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of all classes of the community, on the return of peace, into the vortex of trade. The reflux of the wave gives us now an opportunity to repair its

ravages.

A good historical and didactic treatise on the agriculture of the United States is a desideratum.

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Dissertation First: Exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Metaphysical and Political Philosophy, since the Revival of Letters in Europe, by Dugald Stewart, esq. F. R. S. London and Edinburgh, &c. &c. Part 1. 8vo. pp. 260. Boston, WELLS & LILLY. New-York, KIRK & MER

CEIN.

This is the first part of the first in a Series of Five Dissertations, prefixed to the Supplementary volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica, in which it is intended to exhibit a summary view of the progress and present state of metaphysical, mathematical, and physical science. The publication before us brings down the history of the moral and intellectual theories, the discussion of which, for some ages, constituted the employment, and consumed the talents of the learned, to the dawning of the day-star of reason on the Cimmerian night of the schools. The sequel of this preliminary discourse will take up the consideration of the writings of Locke and Leibnitz, and trace the progress of the science of mind to its present advancement. The high reputation of Professor Stewart is sustained by his present performance. He has taken a wide and liberal survey of his subject, and unbiassed by prejudice, and unawed by authority, has evinced a loyal adherence to the supremacy of common sense. He has been very successful in exposing the fallacies of docfrines that for centuries enslaved the understanding-it remains to be seen what other than negative advantages have resulted from their demolition. For ourselves, we consider all speculations upon nousogony, to coin a word adapted to designate that branch of metaphysics on which so much study has been wasted, as worse than mugatory, inasmuch as ignorance is preferable to error. Let us be content, without attempting to search into what is inscrutable, to adopt as the terminus to which all just investigations must ultimately tend, the truth contained in the text of Scripture, which Dr. Reid wisely adopted as his motto, "The inspiration of the Almighty has given (man) understanding,"-and diligently apply ourselves in imitation of his example, to the discovery of the means for its proper conduct. We cannot too cautiously guard against yielding our selves to the impulses of imagination, in subjects wholly foreign to its province. Those magnificent vistas into the regions of mind, which have so often dazzled the vision of philosophic fancy, have proved to the weary pursuit of painful meditation,

"Long passages that lead to nothing." To the faculty of imagination we must refer, not merely poetical creations, but every arbitrary ficton, as distinguished from fact-every species of reverie. It was the enticement of the illusions of this power that erst betrayed reason into the labyrinths of ontology, and again seduced it to enVOL. I. NO. III.

gage in the Sisyphean toil of climbing the steeps of German mysticism.

-We have much to congratulate ourselves upon in the disenthralment of opinion which has been achieved during the latter part of the last century, and the beginning of the present; and we have still more to hope from the spirit of free inquiry, upon every subject, which has gone abroad. The reaction of the mind, naturally incident to its emancipation from the bondage of superstition, has contributed more to the efficacy of its cadea intellectual vassalage, than all the aids furnished vours to burst the shackles of civil tyranny and by the champions of pneumatology. We are not among those who calculate upon the discovery of latent faculties in the human mind, or upon the invention of a patent process of ratiocination.-We rejoice in the prostration of past systems, not in the hope of any more satisfactory substitute, but in the belief that mankind will, at last, be willing to apply themselves to the cultivation of their intellectual powers, instead of spending their lives in a preliminary abstract inquiry into their nature and economy. The time that has been thrown away in frivolous controversy on points beyond our comprehension, and of no practical value if ascertainable, is the strongest possible evidence of our ignorance of that with which we have thought ourselves most conversant. is something, however, to have learnt, at length that there are limits which we cannot pass, and if we will haut profit by experience, and give our exertions to the attainment of objects within our reach, we may grasp much that is useful, which we have heretofore overlooked in our longings after ideal good. The world will be probably more benefited by the institution of experimental courses of education, than by any a priori speculation on the origin of ideas, or the modes of reasoning. It is enough for this object, to know that axioms are not innate, and that wisdom is in some way to be acquired.

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The history of the advances that have been made in the new science of political economy shows the steady progress of reason, where it has data to go upon, and equally evinces the fallacy of unfledged theories. We shall await with im patience the continuation of this able dissertation,

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The Seasons; with the Castle of Indolence. By James Thompson. New-York. W. B. GILLEY. 12mo pp. 287.

We do not take up this volume for the parpose of expressing our admiration of the poet, which would carry us nearly the length of exclaiming with Collins,

"Yet lives there one whose heedless eye,

Shall scorn thy pale shrine glimmering near! With him, sweet bard, may Fancy die,

And Joy desert the blooming year." It is from the rareness of the opportunity of commending an American edition of a British work, that we feel bound to notice the remarkable neatness of this, which is executed in a superior style of typography, and ornamented with some of the Whether most elegant wood cuts we have seen. the text be more accurate than the run of publications from our presses, we have not examined 2 H

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