Answer. There is no revenue arising to his majesty, but out of the quit rents; and this he hath given away to a deserving servant, Colonel Henry Norwood.

23. What course is taken about the instructing the people, within your government, in the Christian religion; and what provision is there made for the paying of your ministry?

Answer. The same course that is taken in England, out of towns; every man, according to his ability, instructing his children. We have 48 parishes; and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better, if they would pray oftener and preach less. But, of all other commodities, so of this, the worst are sent us; and we had few that we could boast of, since the persecution in Cromwell's tiranny drove divers worthy men hither. But, I thank God, there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have, these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them and libels, against the best government. God keep us from both!

CATALOGUE,

OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.

FOR OCTOBER, 1810.

Sunt bona; sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura. Mart.

NEW WORKS.

Le Nouveau Testament de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ, en Français, Sur la Vulgate. Traduction de L. M. De Sacy. Revue sur les Meilleurs Editions. Vol. 1. Boston; D. Mallory & Co. Thomas & Andrews. * L'Art de parler et d'écrire correctement la Langue Française, exposé par principes, en vingt-quarte leçons; ou Grammaire Frai çaise, A l'aide de laquelle on peut apprendre à parler et à écrire correctement cette langue. Par. N. Faucon, professeur de langue Française. Première édition. Boston; D. Mallory & Co. Thomas and Andrews.

Part 2d, vol. 2d, A Compendium and Digest of the Laws of Massachusetts. By William Charles White, Counsellor at Law. Price 1 doll. 50 cents. Boston; T. B. Wait & Co.

A new Anthem for Thanksgiving, by William Cooper, author of the much admired Thanksgiving Anthem, "The Lord hath done great things for us." Boston; Buckingham.

An Inaugural Dissertation on the Disease, termed Pitechial or Spotted Fever; submitted to the Examining Committee of the Medical So

* Such books, pamphlets, etc. as are designated by this mark (*) may be found at the Boston Athenaeum.

ciety of Connecticut, for the county of Hartford, by Nathaniel Strong, jr. of Hartford. Price 37 1-2 cents. Boston; Wm. Wells.

*On the Love of Praise. A Sermon, delivered Sept. 23, 1810, being the Sunday preceding Commencement. By Samuel Stanhope Smith, D. D. President of the College of New-Jersey. New-Brunswick; L. Deare, printer.

* An Oration, pronounced in the Chapel of William's College, July 11, 1810, in commemoration of the death of William D. Horner, a member of the Sophomore Class, who was drowned in Deerfield river. By John Nelson, A. M. tutor. Published at the request of the class. Northampton; Wm. Butler.

Rev. Mr. Mitchell's Sermon, at his installation as Colleague with Rev. John Murray; together with the Charge, by Rev. Thomas Jones; and the Fellowship of the Churches, by the Rev. Mr. Murray. Boston; Monroe and Francis.

Dr. Milledoler's Sermon, preached at the Ordination and Installation of the Rev. Gardiner Spring, August 8, 1810. To which are added, Dr. Millar's Charge to the ministers, and Dr. Romeyne's Exhortation to the people. New-York; Williams and Whiting.

The Rules and Regulations for the Pilots of the port of New-York lately adopted by the Master and Wardens of the port, and approved by the Mayor. To which is annexed an Act, entitled "An act relative to the Master and Wardens and Pilots of the port of New-York," passed 4th April, 1805, together with "an Act to explain the Act aforesaid." New-York; Williams and Whiting.

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NEW EDITIONS.

Epistles on Women, exemplifying their character and condition in various ages and nations. By Lucy Aikin. Boston; T. B. Wait and Co. Henry's Chemistry. 2d American edition, improved. Price 3 dolls. and 50 cents. Boston; Wm. Andrews.

The Lady of the Lake. A Poem. By Walter Scott, Esq. With a likeness of the Author. Price 1 dollar. Philadelphia; E. Earle.

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, including several poems from the original manuscript, never before published in this country. To which is prefixed, a Biographical Sketch of the Author. By a gentleman of New-York. In two volumes. Boston; D. Mallory, &c.

The Refusal. A Novel. By Mrs. West. Philadelphia; Bradford and Inskeep.

"De Viris illustribus Urbis Romæ. A Romulo ad Augustum, ad usum Sexta Scholæ; Auctore, C. F. L'Homond, in Universitate Parisiensi, Professore Emerito." Philadelphia.

2d volume Smollet's Continuation History of England. Boston; Wm.. Mc.Ilhenney.

Tales of Real Life. Forming a Sequel to Miss Edgworth's Tales of Fashionable Life. In two vols. Price 1 dollar and 50 cents. Philadelphia; J. and A. Y. Humphreys.

WORKS PROPOSED AND IN PRESS.

James W. Burditt and Co. of Boston, have in press, which will be published shortly, a Practical Treatise on Pleading in Assumpsit. By Edward Lawes, Esq. of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law. With the addition of the decisions of the American courts-By Joseph Story.

W. Wells and T. B. Wait and Co. of Boston, have issued proposals for republishing The Christian Observer, a periodical work, published monthly in London. Those gentlemen who wish to patronise the above work are requested to send their names and place of residence to the publishers within three or four weeks.

THE

MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY,

FOR

NOVEMBER, 1810.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF ANDRE MICHAUX.

(Concluded from page 225)

On his return to Charleston, the 11th of April, 1796, he found his garden in the most flourishing condition; his nurseries were uncommonly fine, and were composed not only of the trees of the country, but of many from Europe and Asia, which he had undertaken to naturalize in America, some of which have already succeeded; such as the tallow-tree (croton sebiferum. L) the fragrant olive (olea fragrans, L.) the silk tree (mimosa julibrizin) (the sterculia platanifolia, L.) a Persian pomegranate, &c. His abode grew dearer to him every day but he had exhausted all his resources, and the only means of subsistence left were, either to enter into the service of a foreign government, or to sell the trees that he had raised for his country. Being unable to determine to do either, he resolved to return to France. He sailed from Charleston on the 13th of August, 1796. Their voyage was prosperous till the 4th of September, when they were within sight of the coast of Holland; a violent tempest arose, the sails were torn, the masts broken, and the vessel struck and split upon the rocks. The sailors and passengers, exhausted by the tempest, would all have perished, if the inhabitants of Egmond, a small village in the vicinity, had not afforded them assistance. Michaux was lashed to one of the yards, and was insensible when they carried him to the village. After some hours he recovered his senses, and found himself near a fire,

with dry clothes on, and surrounded by about fifty persons. His first thought on coming to himself was to inquire after his collection. He learned that the trunks containing his effects being on deck were swept away by the waves, but heard that the boxes in the hold were saved, and he was consoled. Notwithstanding the bad state of his health, he was obliged to remain six weeks at Egmond, and work night and day; his plants were all wet with sea water, and it was necessary to dip them in fresh water, and dry them separately in fresh papers.

He arrived at Amsterdam Nov. 25, where he was expected, and obtained permission to send on his boxes without their being examined at the custom houses He sat off on

the 30th, arrived at Paris on the 23d of December, and on the 24th went to see the professors of the museum.

He met with the most flattering reception from men of learning, from the members of the government, and from the national institute, of which he was a member; and he had the happiness of meeting his family and friends after a separation of ten years, but a severe disappointment embittered his pleasures. Only a few trees remained out of more than sixty thousand that he had sent to France, the fine plantations of Rambouillet having been destroyed by the storms of the revolution. However, seeing calm restored, and feeling sufficient strength to renew his labours, he consoled himself with the hope of repairing his losses. He first employed himself in arranging the seeds he had brought home in his last expeditions, and divided them between the Museum, M. Cels, and M. Le Monnier. He requested the institute to make a report of his collections, and M. M de Lacepede, Dolumieu, Jussieu and Cels, were appointed for the purpose; the two first respecting zoology and mineralogy, and the two last respecting botany and agriculture. He presented the minister with a memoir on the state in which he had left his nurseries in America, and solicited the means of rendering himself still more useful than he had hitherto been. It was not till after he had accomplished these objects, that he attended to his pecuniary affairs. His salary had not been paid for seven years, but the war at that time caused such great expenses, that only a slight indemnification was granted him, and the new government thought themselves released from fulfilling any engagements made by the ancient.

For the first time Michaux was uneasy at his situation : he reproached himself with having expended his son's fortune; in serving his country he had not thought of enriching himself, but he had hoped to recover the patrimony he had renounced for his enterprizes. Disappointed in his hopes, having solicited in vain a commission to return to America, and considering it as a duty not to undertake any more expeditions, he became a prey to dejection ;- but his mind was too vigorous to give way to despair. He devoted himself to study, and employed himself in digesting the observations he had made, arranging his history of the oaks, and disposing the materials of a North American Flora, and lived at Paris with the same simplicity he had lived among the savages.

But when M. Le Monnier was attacked by the illness by which he was taken from science and his friends, Michaux quitted every thing to be near him at a moment when he thought he might be useful; and after the death of his respectable patron, he took up his abode in his house, in order to take care of his garden, and render his widow those services which were in his power; and forgot every thing for the sacred claims of gratitude and friendship.

The manuscript of his history of the oaks was printed, but the engravings were not completed, when it was proposed to Michaux to accompany Capt. Baudin in the expedition to New Holland. Michaux would have preferred returning to America; but as it was impossible to go there at his own expense, he consented to be of the expedition, on condition that if on his arrival at the Isle of France he should be able to employ his time more usefully there, he should go no farther. He sat sail Sept. 13, 1801, and arrived at the Isle of France March 16.

During the voyage he gained the affections of all his fellow passengers: his age and character gave him a remarkable ascendency over the other naturalists; he awakened their zeal, and every one wished to imitate him. The vessels touching at Teneriffe, he went to botanize on the mountains, never returned till almost night, and always brought home a collection of seeds and plants taken up by the roots. He was delighted with the luxuriant vegetation at the Isle of France; the plants appeared to him to have a more magnificent appearance than either those of Persia or North America. He often passed several days in the woods, accompanied by a ne