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A collection of pfalm and hymn tunes, taken principally from a celebrated work, lately published in London, and ufed at the chapel of the Lock Hospital, &c. To which will be added some of the most favourite tunes at present in use in the United States. This work will be adapted for four voices and organ for the publick worship. As the full harmony, or thorough bafs, is annexed to the treble, in fmall notes, it will be equally calculated for the piano forte with one or two voices. The whole work will contain about 200 pages folio, including a title page, index, &c. The first number, of 8 pages folio, engraved, will be published the 1ft of March, and continued monthly. Price to fubfcribers 50 cents, to nonfubfcribers 75 cents. Boston, C. Graupmer, publisher.

The Man of Feeling, a novel, by H. Mc Kenzie, Efq. author of the Man of the World, &c. with an account of the author's life, never before published. 1 vol. 8vo. price 1 dol. Richmond, Vir. S. Grantland.

A new musical work, entitled The Harmonick Magazine. To be published in numbers, femi-monthly, and to contain felections from the compofitions of the most celebrated musicians in Europe, together with American original compofitions. Each number to contain 32 pages quarto. A title page and index to be given with the volume. Price 3 dollars per annum, or 50 cents per number. Salem, Maffa. S. Holyoke, publisher.

INTELLIGENCE,

A beautiful Stereotype Prayer-Book, in double columns, 12mo., with large face minion letter, on 264 plates, was published by the University of Cambridge, Eng. July ; and fince then an 8vo. English Teftament in long primer. These are the firft fruits, we truft, of many excellent productions of this kind, which may be expected to proceed from that prefs. We are happy to hear, that the Univerfity of Oxford has adopted the fame plan of printing; and that preparations are now making there to begin a new octavo edition of the Welsh Bible in Stereotype, of which the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge has engaged twenty thousand copies, A Stereotype Pocket Bible, in Welsh, of twenty thousand copies, had been previously undertaken for the British and Foreign Bible Society, by the Univerfity of Cambridge.

The Bookfellers have agreed to reprint Dr. Jobnfon's English Poets, with the addition of Chaucer, Spenfer, and the other early poets, as well as the most eminent of thofe poets who have died fince Mr. Jobnfon's feries closed. The whole will form a complete body of English poetry. The early poets will be collected, and the additional lives written by Mr. Alexander Chalmers.

A new edition of Dr. Jobnfon's works, being the fourth fince his death, is alfo in the prefs, and will appear in the early part of the winter. This has fome additions and illustrative notes.

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It is in the department of ancient clafficks, that the emulation of the Ger man literati appears chiefly to be ftimu lated. Many have come forth from the school of Heyne. The edition of Homer's Iliad, by Profeffor Wolf, who prefixed an elaborate collection of proofs, deduced from internal and external circume ftances, that all the poems afcribed to Homer were not written by the fame hand, has excited great attention in France, where it has been opposed by the learned Reviewer of the hiftorians of Alexander the Great.

The doubts which have been started in England, on the authenticity of the four celebrated orations fuppofed to have been delivered by Cicero after his return from exile, and which had been refuted by Gefner in his lectures before the Royal Society at Göttingen, from 1753 to 1759, were revived by Mr. Wolf, who reprinted, in 1801, the arguments on both fides of the queftion, with his objections to thofe of Gefner, and intimas tions that the authencity of another famous oration of Cicero might be difputed. Accordingly, in the following year, he printed the oration pro Marcello, with an introduction, and commentary, maintaining it to be fpurious. These essays, which we apprehend to have been merely fportive, threw the publick cenfors of literature into no fmall perplexity and confternation; and they feem to have thought Wolf, like Antæus, to be invin cible on the foil from which he sprungs

At length, Wormius ventured to encounter him on Danish ground and printed another edition of the controverted oration, with annotations, in which, ftep by ftep, he gravely refuted M. Wolf, probably much to the amufement of the latter, whose only view is thought to have been, to indulge his humour at the expenfe of perfons who prided themselves on the reputation of fuperiour criticism.

The new edition of Tacitus, with Ruperti's Commentary, published (at the Jate Leipzig fair) by Dieterich, is merely a compilation, printed with bad types on coarfe paper. At the fame time, M. Fritsch, of Leipzig, published an edition of the younger Pliny's works, edited by Schäfer; and alfo, of Propertius, by Mr. Kninöl of Gieffen. The former is an improvement of Gefner's edition; and is printed with excellent types, on fine paper but the latter is, in thefe refpects, much inferiour to Heyne's Tibullus.

Mr. Wooll has in the prefs, Biographical Memoirs of the late Dr. J. Warton, with a felection from his poetical works, and an extensive literary correspondence between eminent perfons, left by him for publication.

J. C. Davie, Efq. has in the prefs, Travels in South America, in a series of letters to the late Mr. Yorke, of TauntonDean.

Mungo Park, with his companions, who failed from Portfmouth a few months ago, having touched at the iflands of St. Jago and Goree, arrived at Kayay, on the river Gambia, on the 14th of April, whence they were to proceed in a few days into the interiour of Africa. The heat was at that time fo exceffive, that the thermometer was, in the middle of the day, 100 degrees in the fhade, and frequently three hours after funfet it continued from 82 to 92 degrees.

Mr. Humboldt is beginning to pubfish the refults of his late travels, with an affectation that deferves to be repro bated. He begins with fome expenfive numbers of botany, and thence proceeds to fome other numbers of zoology and geology, promifing that he will condefcend alfo to give to the publick an abridged account of his travels, adapted to general reading. His condefcenfion does not, however, terminate here: for he tells the world that he may probably, in a few years, publish a full account of his travels, but that the abridged account

may fatisfy curiofity till he has leisure to gratify it fully!

Mr. Irving, author of a work on English Compofition, and of the Lives of the Scottish Poets, is engaged on a Life of the celebrated George Buchanan.

The emperour of Ruffia proposes forming an inftitution at Petersburg for the purpose of improving the navy, which is to be called the Marine Mufeum. In this inftitution, leffens in all the fciences neceffary to be known by a seaofficer will be given. It will publish a fort of journal upon every subject that concerns the marine. There will be attached to the museum a library and a collection of natural history, which will be conftantly open to the ftudents. The eftablishment is to be under the direction of the minifter of the marine, and the members are to wear a uniform like that of the marines.

General Alexander Palitzyn has tranflated into the Ruflian language the Voyage of Lord Macartney to China, which will be accompanied with very fine plates.

M. Dupuis, of the Inftitute, has read a curious memoir on the phoenix. He demonftrates that this celebrated bird never exifted. It was ftated to return at periods of 1481 years; but writes very confiderably relative to this duration. Herodotus relates many wonderful things concerning the phanix; Pliny speaks of its reproduction; Tacitus informs us, that it repairs to Heliopolis to die. It was confecrated to the fun. One of the times of its appearance occurred during the reign of Sefoftris, 1328 years before our era. Horus Apollo and Nonnus affert that it was an emblem of the fun, and one of the names of that luminary.

A fociety has been established at Berlin, whose object is to send missionaries every year to Africa, and especially to that part of it inhabited by the negroes, that with the light of chriftianity they may diffufe fome tincture of our arts, and fow feeds of a more refined civilization. Two miffionaries have already set

out for Guinea.

A variety of valuable antiquities have been difcovered in Theffaly. Among them are the bufts of Ariftotle and Anacreon, a large ftatue of Ceres, with a coin of Lyfimachus, and fome remarkable pillars. A Greek MS., containing a commentary of Nicephorus on the ancients, and the ancient Greek church, was difcovered at the fame time.

The refearches at Pompeii are continBed with great fuccefs. The queen of Naples has been with the royal family to infpect them, and in her prefence was difcovered an ancient edifice, in which were found vafes of the greatest beauty, medals, mufical inftruments, and what is of more value than all the reft, a beautiful bronze statue representing Hercules killing the celebrated hind of mount Manalus. The compofition and defign of this group are perfect. In the fame building have likewife been found fome extremely beautiful paintings, among which one reprefening Diana furprised by Acteon is particularly diftinguished. The colouring of Diana is equal to any thing that Titian ever produced. The queen, it is faid, intends to have this ftructure repaired. She has likewise ordered the chevalier Venuti to fuperintend at Rome the execution of a work in marble, alabafter, and metal, representing Pompeii in miniature. The chevalier has already executed a fimilar performance, reprefenting the temples of Peftum, which is in the poffeffion of the queen.

At the town of Fiefole, near Florence, a beautiful amphitheatre has been difcovered, and the greatest part of it cleared from the rubbish. It is fupposed that it would contain at least 30,000 perfons.

Neutral Rights.-The editor, having received letters from feveral perfons of diftinction in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Beston, moft of whom are perfonally unknown to him, advising him to republifh his numbers on neutral rights in a more permanent form, and their advice having been backed by that of fome of the most refpectable of his friends in this place, makes the following reply to all thefe applications at once. His circumftances are not fuch as to enable him unaffifted to carry on a work through the prefs of the magnitude this would be, nor would prudence juftify the attempt, without the fapport of a fubfcription to at leaft an indemnifying amount. The fubject is becoming in fome degree trite, and, to borrow from a letter before me, publick curiofity, always capricious and eafily wearied, is fomewhat abated for reading performances of this nature. As, however, the numbers which have appeared in this paper, and which are in a State of preparation to appear, will, when the feries is completed, afford at least a

more extenfive view of the fabject, in all
its afpects, than any publication that has
yet iffued from the prefs; the editor is
ready and even defirous to comply with
the requests with which he has been hon-
oured, if a fubfcription for that purpose
can be filled. And that the experiment
may be fairly made, he offers the follow-
ing proposals :-- The numbers, with those
to come, fhall be remoulded, revifed, and
corrected, and form a firft part; a par-
ticular answer to fome of the fophifms
of War in Difguife, will form a fecond
part; and a collection of all the official
documents and memorials which have
appeared, having relation to the subject,
fhall be added by way of Appendix; fo
as to put the purchafer in poffeffion of
a book to which he may at any time re-
fer for all the information he may de-
fire on a queftion of fo great national
moment. As it is not practicable to af-
certain what the fize of the book will be,
it is not easy to fix upon the price. It
is poffible it may extend to a volume of
400 or perhaps 500 pages, and it will be
afforded at the ufual price of a work of
fuch a fize. To be put to press as foon
as the appearance of the fubfcription lift
will justify it.
W. COLEMAN.
[N. York Evening Peft.]

We have received from Philadelphia a profpectus of a new periodical paper, to be called The Hour, by Thomas Timekeeper; to be published every Monday, and will, for the most part, be devoted to topicks immediately connected with the Hour; embracing politicks, arts, sciences, and polite literature; and including, in a more especial manner, a review of the new books, magazines, repofitories, and various journals of the United States. It will confift of eight large octavo pages, elegantly printed. The price 4 dollars

per annum.

Rev. Samuel Austin and Mr. Isaiah Thomas, jun. have iffued proposals for publishing, by fubfcription, The complete Works of the late Rev. Prefident Edwards of New Jersey, in eight octavo volumes of about five hundred pages each, price fourteen dollars, bound.-The publick are now in poffeffion of these works, but in feparate volumes and imperfect editions. It was thought a tribute of refpect due to this great and amiable theologian, that it would be promotive of the literary reputation of our country, and effentially fubferve the

cause of truth and piety in general, to collect these works and publish them under one entire impreffion. Since this plan was projected, a fimilar one has been formed, and the execution of it is now in confiderable forwardness on the other fide of the Atlantic. But from the late increase of taxes impofed by the British government, and other incidental caufes, books imported from England cannot be afforded by booksellers as cheap as those which are printed here. Befides, it is to our reproach to suffer the works of a man of so much celebrity and fuch uncommon attainments, a man who ftands on the height of elevation, as a metaphyfician, a theologian, a discrimine ating cafuift, and an experimental chrif tian, to want that patronage in his own country which they have abroad.

The Plays of William Shakespeare,. with Johnfon and Steevens' notes, augmented by Ifaac Reed, are now publishing by Meffrs. Riley & Co. of New York, and Maxwell, &c. of Philadelphia. This firfl complete American edition will be contained in feventeen volumes crown octavo, printed in a ftyle eminently beautiful on a nfie cream-coloured woven paper, under the immediate direction and fuperintendance of an editor, affifted by feveral men of letters.

Sydenham's Works.-Mr. Francis Nichols, of Philadelphia, propofes to reprint the works of Dr. Sydenham, in two volumes octavo, price about three dollars fifty cents. Many phyficians have been confulted on the fubject, who concur in recommending their publication. They will be published with notes, in tended to render them more useful to the American student of medicine, by Benjamin Rufh, M. D. Profeffor of Medicine in the univerfity of Pennsylvania. As the expense of publishing thefe works will be confiderable, and the fale not extenfive, they cannot be undertaken without a profpect of fuccefs; all phyficians therefore who are inclined to encourage

the publication of them, are defired to use their intereft among their medical friends, and to tranfmit the names of fubfcribers to F. Nichols, T. Dobson, J. Conrad & Co. and S. F. Bradford, book fellers, Philadelphia; or to White, Burditt, & Co. Boston.

Mr. Samuel Pleasants, jun. of Richmond, Virginia, is preparing for the prefs, Part I. of the fecond volume of the Revised Code, containing a collection of fuch acts of the general affembly of

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FOR FEBRUARY.

AT the commencement of Febru ary the weather was cold for the moft part, and fometimes attended with fnow. Afterwards, a cloudy atmosphere, fudden changes to warm weather, which quickly diffolved the fnows, and then as fuddenly became cold.

From about the middle of the month it has been uniformly mild; the fnow has difappeared, and vegetation commenced.

The acute difeafes of the month have been fewer, than might have been expected from the great variations of temperature, which have exifted. In the return of deaths (which, by the way, is deficient and incorrect, but better than none) we find scarcely any acute difeafes named. The truth is, that most of those disorders, which recurred, were cured by medicine. Among thefe may be enumerated a few cafes of pneumonic inflammation, of rheumatism, of ca tarrh, and fome of typhus mitior followed by long protracted conva lefcence. Chronic complaints form at prefent much the largest propor tion of difeafe.

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Posilipo....Palace of Queen Joan....Tomb of Virgil....Grotto of Posilipo.

BELOW the suburb of Kiaja is situated the village of Posilipo. The country houses here are a cool retreat during the heat of summer. They are built against the hill of Posilipo, composed of tupu and volcanick substances, and their walls are washed by the waters of the bay, which here, flowing against the base of the hill, leaves no room for a carriage way beyond Posilipo; afterwards there is only a narrow footpath, in traversing which the passenger is often wet by the spray. Sir William Hamilton had a house here, where he used to retire and enjoy the coolness of the evening. They are mere occasional dwellings; the space is so circumscribed,that there is no room for gardens; some of them have a terrace with a few orange and lemon trees. Yet the luxurious Neapolitans esteem this, with reason, a delicious place of resort. After existing through the debilitating heat of the day, they devote the night to pleasure, Posilipo is then a favourite resort; here they come and regale themselves on oyster suppers, of which they are extravagantly fond. Refreshed by the cool breezes of the evening, and soothed by the murmurs of the waves breaking against the walls of their houses,the luxurious pleasures Vol. III. No. 3. P

of the night console them for the lassitude they are tormented with during the fervid heat of the day. One of these casinos was pointed out to me, as having been, a short time before, the residence of an English nobleman, whose eccentricities amused the Neapolitans. He always dressed in the most effeminate manner,the neck and bosom of his shirt edged with fine lace and open like a child's. He dined at eight o'clock, the Italians dine at two; and making his servants take the lights, he would go and work in his garden by candle light.

Close by Posilipo the ruined palace of Queen Joan projects into the bay. This was the spot, in which that barbarous queen committed those licentious and cruel acts which history attributes to her. The building is very large, and not so far ruined, as to prevent being repaired. It affords shelter to fishermen and their boats. While strolling amid its ruins, reflecting on the scenes of blood and licentiousness which had formerly been acted within its walls, the sight of a fisherman, coming from some of its obscure apartments, started me from my reverie, as though I had seen one of the ghosts of its ancient inhabitants.

Below Posilipo are the extensive

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