modate the trade of both those places, as well as quality, so as to render the use of bad gravel round of those regulations are oppressive to commerce and the iron trade of Staffordshire, besides the potteries the metropolis no longer necessary. But this mea agriculture, by compelling an inconvenient construcand coal mines, which will afford a great amount of sure, to be performed in an economical and efficient tion of carriages.* The author has never observed business. manner, must be done upon an extended scale; it any great difference of effect, on a well made road, Some surprize has been felt at the very great ex. must become one interest, directed by one select bo- by narrow or broad wheels; either of them will pass penditure which has been made on the Liverpool and dy of men of weight, ability and character. over a smooth, solid road, without leaving any visi Manchester Rail-road, and the further expenditure| A Road near London inay be made as smooth, ble impression: on rough, loose roads, the effect proposed in the construction of a new tunnel. The solid, and easy for cattle to draw carriages over, as will certainly be different; but whether a loose and road now enters the city to a place called Wapping, the Road near Bristol; and the London Road so rough road can be amended by dragging an unwiela central point of business near the Queen's Dock, made will last longer, and consequently be less ex- dy carriage over it, or whether, if it were possible to by means of a tunnel or subterranean passage, of a pensive, than the Bristol Road, because the materials amend roads by such means, it can be deemed the mile and an eighth in length. This is not a con- which may be obtained are more durable and may be most economical for the nation at large, can hardly venient point of departure for passengers, and it is procured at less expense. be subject of doubt.t proposed to construct another tunnel of a mile and Flint makes an excellent Road, if due attention It must however be admitted, that the wear of a third in length, 25 feet high, and 22 feet wide, be paid to the size; but for want of that attention, roads is proportioned to the weight and velocity of leading to another part of the town, and at an addi- many of the flint Roads are rough, loose, and ex- carriages running upon a given breadth of the tire tional expense of 100,000l. The profuseness of this pensive. of the wheels, and therefore, it is of consequence that expenditure is easily accounted for by the amount of Limestone, when properly prepared and applied, some regulations should be adopted. The best regu. receipts, and a provision in the charter of the incor. makes a smooth, solid Road, and becomes consolida-lations, as regard the breadth of the tire of wheels, poration by which it is limited to dividends of 10 per ted sooner than any other material; but from its na- will be found in several Acts of the Session of Par. cent. per annum, and required, if the net profits ex-ture is not the most lasting. liament, 1816, where Carts are required to have ceed that rate to reduce the tolls. It appears from Whinstone is the most durable of all materials; wheels of a cylindrical form five inches broad; the report made to the stockholders on the 5th of and whenever it is well and judiciously applied, the and Wagon Wheels of the same form six inches Jan. last that the gross receipts in the half year end. Reads are comparatively good and cheap. broad, with an equal upright bearing. The weights on the 31st Dec. amounted to 90,0071., and the ex- The pebbles of Shropshire and Staffordshire, are will be best and most easily regulated by the number penditures, including a variety of extraordinary of a hard substance, and only require a prudent ap- of horses, or other cattle, drawing the carriages: charges, amounted to 49,0981. A dividend of 4 1-2 plication to be made good Road materials. and this, as a regulation of economy, may be made, -per cent. was declared for the last six months, and On the other hand, the Scottish Roads, made of by the tolls at present payable on the cattle beone of the same amount was previously declared for the very best materials, which are abundant and ing levied in a larger ratio as the number increases. the preceding half year. The confidence of receiv. cheap in every part of that country, are the most Wagons and carts with wheels of a cylindrical ing the utmost dividend which the charter allows, loose, rough and expensive Roads in the United King-form and upright bearing, running on a breadth of on the whole amount of the investment, had raised dom, owing to the unskilful use of the material. tire of five and six inches, cannot injure a well made the market price of the shares to 2091. for 1001. paid. The formation of Roads is defective in most parts road, at the slow pace with which such carriages The charter of the Boston and Worcester Rail- of the country; in particular the Roads round Lon- travel; at least, in any proportion beyond the toll road is more liberal in its restrictions on the divi- don, are made high in the middle, in the form of a they pay. On the contrary, it is certain, that Stage dends, than that of the Liverpool and Manchester roof, by which means a carriage goes upon a dange. Coaches, with their present system of loading, and road. It gives to the directors the authority to es-rous slope, unless kept on the very centre of the velocity of traveling upon very narrow wheels, damtablish tools at their discretion with the only restric- Road. age the road in a much greater proportion than the tion that at the expiration of ten years the Legisla. These Roads are repaired by throwing a large compensation derived from the toll. ture shall be authorized to reduce them, from that quantity of unprepared gravel in the middle, trusting Every wheel, propelled by a force applied to its time forward, in case they produce a net income of that, by its never consolidating, it will in due time centre of motion, as the axis of a carriage wheel, is more than ten per cent. to such rates, as on the aver move towards the sides. disposed by its specific gravity, to be dragged forage of the ten years would have produced ten per When a Road has been originally well made, it wards, instead of turning round; and the rotative cent.; and they will have the same power of making will be easily repaired. Such a Road can never be- motion is occasioned by the resistance presented by a reduction on the same principle, at the end of the come rough, or loose; though it will gradually wear the surface over which it passes; yet this resistance next ten years.-[Boston Daily Adv.] thin and weak, in proportion to the use to which it is does not entirely prevent dragging; for every exposed; the amendment will then be made, by the wheel running upon a road drags in some degree. addition of a quantity of materials prepared as at This degree will be proportioned to the weight of first. As there will be no expense on such Road, the carriage, and the velocity of the wheel upon its between the first making and each subsequent repair axes, and will be opposed by the breadth of the tire THE MODE OF MAKING ROADS.-The modes of mak. except the necessary attention to the water ways, and coming in contact with the road. ing and repairing Roads are so various in the differ-to accidental injuries, the funds will be no longer bur. Stage Coaches, therefore, carrying heavy weights, ent parts of the kingdom, that it would be an end. thened with the unceasing expenditure, at present moving with great velocity, and presenting to the less task to attempt a particular account of each. experienced, from continual efforts at repairing, road a narrow tire of wheel, must of necessity drag in a greater degree than any other carriage, as com It may, however, be possible to give a general idea without amendment of the Roads. of them according to the materials produced in each kingdom may be made smooth and solid in an equal ing is produced. There cannot be a doubt, that all the Roads in the bining in themselves every cause by which drag. In the neighborhood of London the Roads are for- Their durability will of course depend on the strength means of putting all the roads in the United Kingdegree, and to continue so at all seasons of the year. When the Legislature shall have provided the med of gravel: in Essex and Sussex they are formed of the materials of which they may be composed, dom into the best and fittest state for the accommo but they will all be good while they last, and the dation of the agriculture and commerce of the coun. only question that can arise respecting the kind of try, they will naturally consider of the most proper materials, is one of time and expense, but never of modes of protecting them from injury, or for indemnifying the funds for the effects of use which are un*The increase of the breadth of the wheels, tho' The gravel of which the Roads round London are traveled upon, or worth the care of being preserved. no means a compensation for it; because the whole precedence of measures for making Roads fit to be in greater proportion than that of the weights, is by formed is the worst; because it is mixed with a large Will it be deemed presumptuous to propose that breadth in many instances, from the inequality of the portion of clay, and because the component parts of gravel are round, and want the angular points of some regulations may be adopted for encouraging ground, or the wheels, will not be brought to bear. contact, by which broken stone unites, and forms a and promoting a better system of making Roads, by Whenever it can, the first impression must be made solid body; the loose state of the Roads near Lon. eliciting the exertion of science, and by creating a by the nails where they are prominent, perhaps by a set of officers of skill and reputation, to superintend single nail; or the bearing may happen upon single don is a consequence of this quality in the material this most essential branch of domestic economy? and of the entire neglect, or ignorance of the methpieces of materials, or upon the edges of materials ed of amending it, When Roads are properly made, very few regula- incapable of supporting the weights. See Inquiry A more careful examination of the facts connect. tions are necessary for their preservation. It is cer- into the State of the Public Roads, by the Rev. Hen ed with the Roads round London, has discovered tainly useful to make effectual provisions for keep-ry Homer, A. M. Rector of Birdlingbury, Warwick. several other causes, from whence proceed the de.ing clear the water courses, for removing nuisances, shire. Published in 1767,Page 66. fective state of these Roads. The greatest appears and for the pruning of trees and hedges; for these It must be observed, that these remarks of Mr. to be the division of the Road into so many small purposes ample powers should be given to commis- Homer, and of every other writer on the subject of Trusts, which precludes the possibility of any extensioners; but the advantage of many existing regu- roads, are only applicable to such as are loose, rough, ded plan of operations, for the benefit of the whole.ations respecting wheeled carriages may very well and uneven; and that no one seems to have contem. Before any one Road round London can be properly be questioned. There can be no doubt that many plated the idea of a road being made at once strong, reformed, and all wasteful expenditure restrained, a smooth, and solid.-[Author.] comprehensive view of the local situation of the *This must not be understood as conveying an Broad-wheeled carriages are found to be so unwhole district will be requisite. opinion, that a good Road may not be constructed adapted to the purposes of husbandry, the number Another great impediment to improvement, arises with the London gravel, properly prepared and ap- of horses requisite for their draught so great, and from the laws and regulations, which prevent a supplied. The Road at Reading, in Berkshire, has late- the beneficial effects of them to the road so questionply of good Road materials of several kinds being ly been made perfectly smooth, solid and level, with able, that neither the encouragements on the one brought to London by water, and landed in different a gravel inferior to that of London, and at less than hand, nor the discouragements on the other, have places, convenient for the Roads. Were these re.it formerly cost. Carriages make no impression on been sufficient to bring them into general use. [Ho. strictions removed, as far as concerns stone, flint, or this Road, and it has remained good in all changes of MER'S INQUIRY, Page 25.] [From Remarks on the Present System of Road-making, by J. McAdam, Esq. General Surveyor of Roads in the Bristol District, England } REMARKS ON ROADS-PART FIRST. part of the country. of flmt, in Wilts, Somerset and Gloucester limestone is principally used; in the north of England and in Scotland whinstone is the principal material; and in Shropshire and Staffordshire large pebbles mixed with sand. Excellent Roads may be made with any of these materials. the immediate condition of the Roads. The anxious provisions of the Legislature for pre. servation of the Roads have unfortunately taken any ballast for road making, London is so favorably weather. Nevertheless, a means having been dis- Above fifty Stage Coach journeys are made situated for water carriage by the river, and by the covered, by diligent inquiry, for importing flints daily between Bristol and Bath: the Author's ob canals connected with it, that a supply equal to the from a distance, the Reading Road will, in future, be servation leads him to the conclusion, that the toll wants of all the Roads in the vicinity of London, repaired with flint, at half the expense required to duty paid by them, does not indemnify the funds for might be obtained at a reasonable rate, and of good prepare the gravel of the neighborhood. the wearing of the road. avoidable, by imposing toll duties in a just and equitable proportion on the carriages occasioning such injury. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. all persons are to be tried who shall, by means of the press, ex cholera. The annexed article from the London Courier, as it will have been perpetrated by him, if no The cholera increased but slowly-and the actual to the State of the Press in Belgium, is little calcu. him, who has the power, prevented. lated to recommend to popular favor here, the mission just now instituting from this country to that. fact of its being cholera was still disputed: 16 cases The Spectator, in noticing the arrival of Brussels reported by the central board to have broken out in Marylebone, at the west end of London, were depapers, saysLATER FROM EUROPE.-By the Sheffield packet ship King Leopold has established a Council of War, before which clared by Mr. Hume, in the House of Commons, on from Liverpool, we have our papers of the 8th cite to desertion, or correspondence with the enemy, or any other the authority of the parish authorities, not to be ult. from that port, and to the 7th inclusive from crime dangerous to the State. The fact is indisputable. The decree signed by London Cholera Report for March 8th.-New caLondon. Leopold is posted on the walls of Belgium. Thus The arrival of a portion of the French expedition in this boasted laud of liberty, the writer of a news- ses 42, recoveries 34, deaths 28. Total from com[From the Messager des Chambres, of March 1.] in Italy-1000 men having disembarked at Ancona paper who may happen to offend the Government or mencement-cases 441, deaths 234. The ship Suffren, and the frigates Arthenise on 22d February, and taken possession of the citadel-the bigoted priesthood who govern the Government, may be called before a court martial, composed peris the chief subject of comment in these journals. haps, of low military adventurers, and receive sen- and Victoire, having on board 1,200 troops, entered The smallness of the force, however, and the assu-tence of banishment, or death, whilst the tribunals the port of Ancona on the evening of the 28th of rances on all hands, that the expedition was rather recognized by the constitution for the trial of offen- February. This naval division, which left Toulon "It appears, that in consequence of the mission one to gratify the pride of France, than meant to ces of the Press, look on in terror and amazement. on the 7th, made the voyage in 14 days. We have supported the Belgians in their just de. interfere in any way with Austria, seem to preclude mands, but we little imagined that the result would of MM. Dittmer and Vatry, they were prepared to any apprehension of disturbances from this source. be the sway of a low tyranical priesthood, with a receive our troops at Ancona. A French Commissary, If the disembarked in the first instance, and the troops Protestant Sovereign as their instrument. The London Courier of 6th, on this head, says: A letter, written by a gentleman of high rank and Belgians understand liberty so little as to submit to afterwards in the course of the night. It is said wishing either to receive or to oppose by open force diplomatic knowledge in Paris to a friend here, this, they deserve all that bigotry and tyranny can that the small Pontifical garrison of the citadel, not the landing, our Sappers cut through the g tes with states that the expedition of the French to Ancona impose upon them.-[London Cour.] In France all seems tranquil. The House of Peers strokes of the hatchet, and that all passed off will produce no disagreement with Austria, and that in fact it was with the full knowledge, and, to a cer- had, however, rejected the bill of a single line passed peaceably. It is believed that the Pontifical Comtain extent, approbation, of the great leading Powers of Europe, that the expedition was undertaken. by the Deputies, repealing all former laws directing mandant had no precise orders from his Governpurpose of misleading the Austrians. These Powers, says our authority, clearly under. the observance, with religious ceremonies, of the ment, or that this comedy was enacted only for the "Cardinal Albani, Commissary Extraordinary of stand that the maintenance of Casimir Perrier's mi. 21st January. The King of Bavaria has announced the accept- the four legations, published on the 20th an edict, nistry is essential to the peace of Europe; and that, surrounded as it is with many enemies, it is necesance by his son, Prince Otho, of the throne of establishing a criminal tribunal and awarding the sary to do something to control the national feeling. the authors of seditious acts or discourses. This The French expedition to Ancona will, it is thought, Greece. It is the intention, says the London Spec. punishment of death and that of the galleys against do this, by flattering the French nation, as it will at tator, of the Five Powers immediately to take steps edict of reaction, the object of which is to impress all times have some weight in the Italian affairs. to procure for the young Monarch a military esta- terror on the whole population, appears to have The smallness of the number of French troops can-blishment suitable to the station he is to hold, and been drawn up to counterbalance in the minds of the not give cause of jealousy to Austria; and it is obthe order which he will be called on to maintain. inhabitants the happy effect produced by the announcement of a French expedition. The Cardinal served that, as the French Ministry will, in all pro. bability, be strongly attacked on the Foreign Bud. The expense will be borne by the Five Powers, as has all the appearance of having hastened the pubget, it was requisite to have some popular feature was agreed in the case of Prince Leopold. The ication of his edict before the arrival of our troops, Council of Regency is to be named by the Five in order to avoid the observations which would have The extracts from the private correspondence of Powers, but with a special regard for the feelings been used to dissuade him from it. But it is still time enough to check the cruel effects of so odious the London Times, and from the Messager des Cham- of the Greeks. a decree, which lavishes the most cruel punishments In England the Reform Bill still was unsettled, e- for the slightest offences. The mission of our troops bres, will apprize our readers of the particulars of this debarkation. The Times treats the whole ex-verf in the Commons, and the opposition to it always is entirely conciliatory; it must protect at the same pedition as uncalled for-likely to be either useless bold and uncompromising. Some consultations and time the Pontifical Sovereignty and the safety of his or injurious—as manifesting a great departure from correspondence had occurred between Lord Harrow. subjects." Dr. How, a citizen of the United States of A. the understood laws of national independence, and by and Lord Wharncliffe, "moderate Reformers,” meriza, who was sent to Berlin by the Polish Comas likely to lead to the collision which all alike pro- as they are called-as we talk of General Jackson mittee of Paris, of which he is a member, for the fess an anxiety to avert. The Courier, on the other and his friends, as favoring “a judicious tariff,”-of purpose of distributing relief to the refugees travershand, says on authority to which it attaches great which the object was to see whether some modifica- ing Prussia on their way to France, has been arrested at Berlin, and thrown into prison. When the credit, "that the Austrian cabinet is perfectly agreed tion of the bill before the Commons could not be alotter which brought this intelligence was sent off, with that of France as to the unfitness of the Papal greed on. The Duke of Wellington upon being none of his friends had been allowed access to him. government, as it now exists, and that very import-consulted, declared he would have nothing to do [Revolution.] Letters from Lisbon of the 30th ult., state that, ant modifications favorable to the interests of the Pa- with the thing in any shape, and that if new Peers pal States, will be insisted upon." Meanwhile, Car- were created to insure the bill, he and twenty other after the arrival of the Sandwich packet on the 29th additional exertions were made to despatch the reindinal Albani has established a criminal tribunal, Peers that he knew, would secede from the House of February with London newspapers of the 22d, which is to condemn to the gallies or to death, per and refuse to take any part in the proceedings.forcement of troops to Madeira, and that a corvette, From some remarks in the London Times of the 7th, a brig of war, four store ships, and five small schoosons politicaly obnoxious. There is nothing more advanced in the affairs of there would seem to be some apprehensions as to pers, had that morning put to sea, having on board Holland and Belgium. Count Orloff, to whose mis- the firmness of Lord Grey. After speaking of the from 1000 to 1200 troops, in the hope of reaching sion much importance is attached, was still at the manoeuvres of the Tories as natural enough, that Hague, but was expected in London about the 12th, paper asks: on the side of the Minister. Madeira before the arrival there of Don Pedro. These troops comprised two regiments selected for their loyalty to Don Miguel; but their conduct if meantime he could obtain the concurrence of the But what must be said of that Whig Minister, who on leaving the shore was such, as to make it very Dutch cabinet in his view of the treaty of the Con- first undertakes a reform of Parliament, and then, doubtful whether that loyalty could be depended on having raised the pulse of the people of England to if they found the standard of Donna Maria flying, ference. the highest point of joyous and exulting confidence, upon their arrival at Madeira. Lisbon was in a state of great excitement, and of Portugal we have nothing further. The Paris-having been cheered and sustained in his noble correspondent of the Times leans to the opinion that project, by an impassioned unanimity from all clas. many of Don PEDRO's manifestoes and proclamations the interference of France and England would in- ses of this great nation, which must have breathed had not only been circulated, but actually posted on duce Spain to desist from any purpose of openly life almost into a marble statue, by the plaudits of the Convent and Church doors,and even close to the the wise, the sympathies of the virtuous, and a mag. gates of the arsenal. aiding Don Miguel. The Courier's correspondent, nanimous devotion on the part of his brave Sovehowever, writes differently-as for instance: reign, which may be characterized as nothing less PARIS, MARCH 4.-Letters from Spain, of the than sublime,-what must we say of such a Minis25th ult., confirm the departure of the Royal Guards ter, if, by the curse of Providence, he should live to from Madrid to the frontiers of Portugal, and state co.operate in the disappointment of the hopes which that the greatest activity reigns in the War Depart- he has excited, and in the frustration of the very ment. Troops are daily concentrating on the ex-measure which he had himself declared to be indistreme frontiers of Estremadura, where an army of pensable to British liberty ?-what, but that he has The Constitutionalists were highly delighted at at least 25,000 to 30,000 men will be ready to enter laid the mine to the foundations of a glorious monat a moment's notice as soon as the disembarkation ument, erected even in his life-time to his own me. the intelligence contained in the Courier of the 22d of Don Pedro is announced, as Ferdinand, notwith mory, and incapable of perishing but by his hand of February, that the English and French GovernOf such a Minister, should the earth have ments had interposed to prevent Spain from inter. standing the reports to the contrary, is determined alone. Politi No proceedings had been instituted for enforcing the loan, although scarcely one half had been col lected; but they were daily expected to take place more especially against Baron Q intella. cal arrests were occurring daily. Don Miguel, in the midst of all this, had gone up the river to a Palace about twenty miles from Lisbon, upon a shooting excursion. to support Don Miguel. The army may be called nourished such, it is not enough to say that he has fering in the affairs of Portugal. That she meant one of observation; but I think it will prove to be permitted the overthrow of a nation's peace and hap. to have done so there can be no doubt, as the troops piness. He will not have permitted the fatal deed: were on the frontiers.-[London Courier March 19] one of offence. NEW YORK AMERICAN. LITERARY NOTICES. The death of my sister has incapacitated me for going headlong to destruction, and would fain stop mirth; my letter, therefore, is of an improper com- them if I could. That their views respecting this plexion to one already afflicted. My love to my nation are totally inconsistent with the materials of sisters, to Wilkins, whose integrity I love and re. which it is composed; and that the worst thing, spect, to the good natured Counsellor of Bermuda, which could happen, would be to grant their wishes. We had only space last week, to speak in general and such others as deserve it. The number is not He tells me, that he is sensible that his party are terms of the Life of Gouverneur Morris,' by Mr. great. Sparks, without presenting any extracts from these instructive and interesting volumes. We propose in this second notice, to go somewhat more into de. tail. son. mad, and tells them so, but is not the less deter. Pray believe me most sincerely your affectionate mined to die with them. I tell him, that I think it GOUVERNEUR MORRIS. would be quite as well to bring them to their senses, Honorable indeed is this letter to his feelings, as and live with them. He says that he is determined to resign his seat, which step I approve of, because son and as a man, and to his patriotism. Many the instructions by which he is bound are contrary of our readers too will be struck by that part of it to his conscience. Before we part, I take an opwhich refers to Him who “weighs our minutes, and portunity to tell him, that if the Tiers are now very moderate they will probably succeed; but, if vioeut, must inevitably fail. a We subjoin some miscellaneous extracts from the Diary, and a letter from Mde. de Flahaut, chiefly as it refers to the present King of France, and to a person known extensively here by her works, Mde. de Genlis, then called Mde. de Sillery: The general reputation, of Mr. Morris, and the estimate of his services during, and subsequent to, the Revolution, will certainly be enhanced by this numbers out our days;" and they will hear with publication. He appears a much more considerable pleasure that this sense of dependance `on, and sub. and influential man in the very earliest stages of, and mission to, Divine Providence, accompanied Mr. throughout, the revolutionary struggle, than his youth Morris through life, as is strikingly illustrated by at the time, or the brief notices of his career hereto. several passages in his letters aud Diary, and by fore made public, would lead one to anticipate. As none more than by the following entry in the latter: Dresden August 19.-In the streets are many the zealous and undesponding chairman of some of the most important committees of the revolutionary avoid their countrymen. They are allowed to stay French emigrants, who are travelling eastward to The Countess dé Flahaut to Mr. Morris. Bremgarten, Switzerland, Jan. 27th, 1797. Congress, and, subsequently as the associate, at twen- only three days. Unhappy people! Yet they emSIR--I have seen in Switzerland the young Duke ty eight years of age, of Robert Morris, in restoring ploy themselves in seeing everything curious, which of Orleans. He has had a serious quarrel with Maand founding the dilapidated credit of the nation, they can get at; are serene, and even gay. So great dame de Sillery, from whom he has received very exhausted by war, and distracted for want of an ef- could bear it so well. But, alas! the weight is not knew he had divulged it, she would persecute him a calamity could never light on shoulders, which bad treatment. But say nothing of this, for if she ficient federal government, Mr. Morris's career was diminished by the graceful manner of supporting it. even in his concealment. He is now entirely es most honorable, and his services most indefatigable. The sense however is less, by all that spleen and ill tranged from her and her principles, and has even This portion of the biography, however, though, as humor could add to torment the afflicted. Doubtless, taken his sister from her charge, and put her under has been well remarked elsewhere," most impor. there are many among them, who have a conscious. the care of the Princess de Conti, his aunt. ness of rectitude to support them. This ground of Since he left the army his conduct in regard to tant in enabling us to form a correct idea of the abi-hope in the kindness of that Being, who is to all his his mother has been perfect. When he arrived with lity of Mr. M., is less interesting than that which creatures an indulgent father, with the cheerfullness Dumouriez at the Austrian army, the Archduke and relates to his long residence abroad." Hure Mr. of temper, which nature has given to some of her the Prince of Coburg proposed to him to enter into favored children, may make their hearts beat light. the service of the Emperor, retaining his rank and Sparks has availed himself, with judgment, of a ly in their bosoms, while those of their more fortu- appointments of lieutenant general. He refused, alDiary kept by Mr. M., apparently for his own use, nato oppressors shall sink and sicken. For surely though wit out money, and without knowing what but with great regularity, and, as is manifest from the opppressor can never be happy. I flatter my would become of himself, telling them that he was every line in it, with great honesty. It is, clearly, self with the belief, that a great majority of those in unwilling to expose his mother and brothers, and not a diary which, under the guise of a private their brethren, wandering in proscribed wretchedness mediately departed, in company with an aid-deFrance would rejoice at an opportunity to call home that he could not serve against his country. He im daily record, was made up for a market, or with a through a world which is to them almost a wilder. camp, and traveled through Germany in a misera view to produce false impressions, either as to the ness. But the day is yet, perhaps, at a distance.-ble cabriolet. Being persecuted in Switzerland by writer himself, or the persons or events falling un. Oh God! it is thy wisdom which hath ordained and the extreme partizans both of aristocracy and jaco der his observation. It gives, on the contrary, the thy hand which heavily hath inflicted this blow, binism, he separated from his aid-de-camp, and with consistent most surely with those just deerees, a single servant, who followed him from the time real impress of the hour as it fleeted, and that has which we may not presume to measure, nor even of his emigration, (the same who courageously gave not since been altered. dare to know, but yet we know, for we feel, that his horse to Dumouriez) he wandered on foot among But it is not less as a man, than as a citizen and thy merey will season to those, who suffer them, the mountains, spending no more than thirty sous & public servant that these volumes will exalt the char. the sharpness of these afflictions. Yes, we feel day for the food, lodging, and other necessaries reacter of Mr. Morris. In the private relations of life paramount to all reasoning, has diffused through and it is this consciousness, which, previous and quired by them both. At length, not having more than thirty france in ho was admirable, of which we give a beautiful the whole human race, and impaessed on the the world, he returned to M. de Montesquieu, who proof in the annexed letter to his mother, written heart of each individual, the same conviction of his afforded him relief, and found a place for him as a from amid the busy scenes of the New York Con. own existence, and the existence of God. Yes, we professor in a collage, where he taught Geometry in feel and it is in the strict accordance between our the German language, without its ever being known, vention, then deliberating on framing a Constitution finest feelings, and the principles of the religion either to the masters or scholars, who he was. So we profess, that this stands demonstrated by their much was he beloved in this situation, that M. de FISHKILL, DEC. 19th, 1776. evidence to be of divine origin.' Salis, a violent aristocrat, of great influence in Dear Madam,-It is with inexpressible concern, Referring, at a subsequent period, to some other Switzerland, and who would have driven him away that I am this day informed of the death of my sis We all sustain in her a great loss, but you in French emigrants whom he met at Vienna, and to if he had known him, was struck with the deport ment of the young professor, and offered him the particular, who are thus bereft of the companion of their embittered feelings and violence of expression place of protector to his children. When I spoke your age, must feel it most severely. Would to towards Lafayette, and others who had an agency to him of this retreat, he said to me, that he would God it were in my power to alleviate the pangs of in bringing about the revolution, Mr. Morris shrewd. willingly die for his mother and brothers, and he a sorrowing parent. But this is not my lot. My believed the more he kept himself concealed, the friend Wilkins will, I am sure, on this occasion do often the unforgiving temper and san. ly remarks, greater would be the chance of their safety. I am the duties of a child and a friend. There is one guinary wishes which they exhibit, make me almost well persuaded, if he had pursued any other conduct, Comforter, who weighs our minutes, and numbers believe that the assertion of their enemies is true, the horrible Robespierre would have massacred them out our days. It is fle, who has inflicted upon us viz: that it is the success alone, which has deter. all. In his manner of dress, he adopts the habit of the weight of public and private calamities, and Ho mined on whose side should be the crimes, and on! his ancestors, Henry the Fourth. He is melanchobest knows when to remove the burthen. I am sorry ly, but gentle and unassuming, and his whole am. it is not in my power to see you at present. I know whose the misery." bition is to go to your America, there to forget the it is your wish, that I were removed from public Mr. Morris, while in France, was charged with grandeur and sufferings of his youth. But he has afairs; indeed, as far as relates to my own ease and being opposed to the people, and in favor of the nothing in the world. Can you not render him the enjoyments, I wish so too. But I know it is the double service of acquainting his mother with his duy of every good citizen or man to preserve that Court. We annex, on that head, an entry in his conduct, his veneration for her and his hatred of post, in which by a superior order he is placed.-Diary, which explains his own views. The States Madame de Sillery, who ruined his father, (qui a Where the happiness of a considerable part of our General were then sitting at Versailles, in 1789. perdu son père ;) and also of informing him whether fellow creatures is deeply concerned, we soon feel June 23d.-Go to Versailles and call on Monsieur his mother has the means of subsistence, where are the insignificancy of an individual. And whatever de la Luzerne, but both he and his lady are out of his brothers, and any little details respecting the lot that individual shall experience, while a conscious town. Thence to Madame Tessé's, who gives me a situation of them all? He remembers having seen rectitude of conduct inspires and supports him, cordia! reception, complaining, however, of my po. you, and says he was then so completely under the though he may be unfortunate, he cannot be mise-litics. The King has this day, in his Séance royale, control of the false principles and prejudices of his pleased the Nobility, and very much displeased the governess, that you could not judge of him, but that for the State. ter. rable. What may be the event of the present war, it is not Tiers. I find it difficult to learn exactly what has he hopes so excellent a friend of his mother will not in man to determine. Great revolutions of empire passed, but it seems to me that the Nobility have refuse to be his! Do you know that Madame de are seldom achieved without much human calamity; less cause for exultation than they imagine. At dia. Sillery is at Hamburg, with M. de Valance and her but the worst, which can happen, is to fall on the ner sit next to Monsieur de Lafayette, who tells me niece?. Adieu. The Countess de FLAHAUT. last bleak mountain of America, and he who dies that I injure the cause, for that my sentiments are March 1st.-Sup with Madame de la Suse. A there, in defence of the injured rights of mankind, is continually quoted against the good party. I se ze small party absorbed in Quinze. Monsieur de B. for happier than his conqueror, more beloved by man- this opportunity to tell him that I am opposed to want of something else to do, asks me many ques. kind, more applauded by his own heart, democracy from regard to liberty. That I see they are tions about America, in a manner which shows he · a manner of thinking peculiar to themselves. This shoemaker would reply; Sir, I am very glad of the opportunity to make you a pair of shoes. It is my duty to make shoes, and I love to do my duty. Does your King do his ?" This manner of thinking and speaking, however, is too masculine for the climate I am now in. a cares little for the information. By way of giving] The Shade of a body is that portion of its surface portion of their time to literary pursuits; and this hin some adequate idea of our people, when he men from which the light is excluded by the body itself. at such irregular periods, that, while it does not pretioned the necessity of fleets and armies to secure us The indefinite Shadow of a body is that part of vent them from finding a vent for their abilities in against invasion, I tell him that nothing would be more difficult than to subdue a nation, every individ. space from which the body excludes the light; and occasional essays of thirty or forty pages, forbids the ual of which, in the pride of freedom, thinks him the shadow on a body is that portion of its surface idea of their embarking in the composition of work self equal to a king; and if, Sir, you should look from which the light is excluded by an opaque body of any magnitude. Again, even the time thus devotdown on him, would say, "I am a man, are you any between it and the source of light. ed is too valuable to be appropriated to the exclusive thing more?" "All this is very well, but there must The manner of finding the shadows of objects, study of particular subjects, unless the research and be a difference of ranks, and I shonld say to one of these people, You, Sir, who are equal to a king, and the common methods of perspective being de- preparatory labor necessary to ensure success in make me a pair of shoes," "Our citizens, Sir, have pendent on mathematical principles, it follows, that treating them, be compensated far otherwise than to architects, draftsmen, &c. this work explaining merely by the satisfaction arising from the inves those principles should recommend itself. tigation. Periodical writing, in short, must be paid for like any other exercise of the abilities to create WESTERN QUARTERLY REVIEW.-A new literary periodical is about to be started at Cincinnati. The supply of it, and it must be paid well to render that supply good. Talent, though it may be called undertaking is commenced with views so liberal in into life by aspirations for distinction alone, will ' March 3d.-Monsieur le Comte de Nenni does themselves, and so creditable to those engaged, that ultimately, with the mass, always seek an outlet me the honor of a visit, and detains me till 3 o'clock. we cannot do them justice better than by republishthrough those channels which render it a source of I then set off in great haste to dine with the Coming the prospectus in which they are unfolded : tesse de B. on an invitation of a week's standing. personal independence to the possessor. There is The editorial department wil be confided to three Arrive at about a quarter past three, and find in the undoubtedly a respectable capital of literary ability drawing room some dirty linen and no fire. While gentlemen already known to the public by their copa waiting-woman takes away one, a valet lights ibutions to the Eastern Reviews. The first literary in the country, but it is now either bound up in the up the other. Three small sticks in a deep bed of alent of the West will aid the enterprise: and it learned professions or dissipated where floating in Confidently expected that the eminent scholars and dis ashes give no great expectation of heat. By the inguished writers of the East and South will ant with. those flimsy productions which are flung of as caresmoke, however, all doubts are removed respecting old their contributions, Anxious to enlist for the work lessly as one would pen a newspaper paragraph. the existence of fire. To expel the smoke, a window he best efforts of the most gifted and thoroughly in- The creation of a market for literary production, is opened, and, the day being cold, I have themed minds, throughout our whole country, the pub while it ensures strenuous competition, and induces benefit of as fresh air as can reasonably be expected shers offer what they deem an adequate remunera in so large a city. For each accepted article they will pay THREE those elaborate efforts which as yet are very unTowards four o'clock the guests began to assem-DOLLARS PER PAGE—a rate of compensation for literary common in this country, is the only thing that can ble, and I begin to expect that, as Madame is a poet-abor, unusual, they believe on this side the Atlantic. give a vigorous and steady growth to our literature. ess, I shall have the honor to dine with that exalted On these terms the Editors will reject without scrupart of the species, who devote themselves to the le, whatever they think unfit for the pages of the A better site for the present undertaking could hardly Muses. In effect, the gentlemen begin to compli Review. Indeed, they wish it distinctly understood have been chosen than Cincinnati. Society, while ment their respective works, and as regular hours hat absolute independence will characterize its entire it is there sufficiently advanced and cultivated to incannot be expected in a house where the mistress is management. It will be the steady friend of Religion; It will be devoted spire confidence in the ability with which the project occupied more with the intellectual, than the mate.ut it will acknowledge no sects. I tion. rial world, I have a delightful prospect of a continu-to the Federal Union and the American Constitutio; will be sustained, is still of so recent formation as ance of the scene. Towards five, Madame steps in but it will own no parties. It will be alike fearless D to give a peculiar interest to writings which reflect its to announce dinner, and the hungry poets advanced the exposure of error, and in the promulgation of truth. la the department of criticism it will aim to be frank tastes and opinions. As Europe begins to look with to the charge. As they bring good appetites, they have certainly reason to praise the feast. And just, and candid. It will neither show ner withhole hope to our shores for the development of originality avor on the score of private or party connexion. in our young literature, so there is a disposition in console myself with the persuasion, that, for this Where high praise is merited it shall be given without day at least, I shall escape an indigestion. A very stint; and where censure is deserved it shall be dealt our Atlantic cities to turn our eyes westward for narrow escape too, for some rancid butter, of ut unhesitatingly. Articles purporting to be reviews those exhibitions of national character in the prowhich the cook had been liberal, puts me in bodily of books shall be such, and not merely general disqu-ductions of the mind, which shall give them a comfear. If the repast is not abundant, we have at itions; while articles which are in fact essays, shall plexion of their own. "A Voice from the West," least the consolation, that there is no lack of con- ppear as essays. versation. Not being perfectly master of the lan. Besides these general objects, which should be if it be not the mere echo of the East, if it come gnage, most of the jests escaped me. As for the common to all American Reviews, it is intended that charged with tones of its own, will be listened to alrest of the company, each being employed in saying this Periodical shall be a voice from the West most like the voice of posterity. Opinion travelling a good thing, or in studying one to say, it is no lardly will it be fairly established, when the inhabi wonder if he cannot find time to applaud that of his tants of the Mississippi Valley will outnumber all the out from so fresh a region will reach us here like the neighbor. They all agree, that we live in an age rest of the Union. It will be a prominent object of breeze that comes tempered by the atmosphere of the alike deficient in justice and in taste. Each finds in the proposed work to collect and declare the opinion green forest through which its scorching wings the fate of his own works numerous instances to of this immense population. When two more States have flown. We will be willing to believe, whejustify this censure. They tell me, to my great sur shall have been carved out of the wide domain on ther justly or not, that the mind is capable of freer prize, that the public now condemn theatrical com- the Northwest-and that must be very soon-the positions, before they have heard the first recital. city where this work is to be published, will be the efforts when unfettered by local prejudices; and it And to remove my doubts, the Countess is so kind exact geographical centre of the United States. In ranges, as it were, in a new field of action. While as to assure me, that, this rash decision has been the mean time the tide of emigration is flowing hith each new fact relating to the history or resources made on one of her own pieces. In pitying modern erward from every quarter with unexampled power, of this wonderful region will be a theme upon degeneracy, we rise from the table. and there is no region of the earth respecting which I take my leave immediately after the coffee, accurate information is so eagerly sought. To meet which to descant, political speculation will derive which by no means dishonors the precedent repast; this demand-to disclose the history, physical char- a new interest, if not value, from originating in a and Madame informs me, that on Tuesdays and acter and resources of the vast region between the quarter where the continual fabrication of commu. Thursdays she is always at home, and will always Alleghany Mountains and the Pacific Ocean-will nities affords abundant opportunities to study the be glad to see me. While I stammer out some re- be another prominent object of this Review. Yet turn to the compliment, my heart, convinced of my another-the last and not the least important, par. progress of society in its early stages. Nor need unworthiness to partake of such attic entertainments, ticularly in a country where new states are so fre. we dwell upon the importance to themselves of makes me promise never again to occupy the place quently organized-will be to discuss matters con- having a safe oracle upon these matters in a part from which, perhaps, I had excluded a worthier nected with the formation of new constitutions and of the country where legislation is so vacillating, personage. with legislation. The value of such discussions will that people's ideas about codes and constitutions are A TREATISE ON SHADES AND SHADOWS AND LINEAR be readily apprehended by those who have felt and PERSPECTIVE, by CHARLES DAVIES, Professor of Ma. now feel the manifold evils of a fundamental law de- in some danger of becoming irreparably confused fective in its original frame, and of a legislation un-jand unstable. And for others-let us hope that in thermatics of the Military Academy, Westpoint: 1der it perpetually vacillating. whatever section of the Union they may be, the provol. 8vo. 157 pp.: New York; J. & J. Harper. Holding faithfully in view, and faithfully pursuing This is, we do not doubt, an able Treatise, and is these objects, with no guides other than truth and mulgation of the original principles of our Federal published in a manner worthy of an able work. We justice, and with no ends, save the diffusion of valu. constitution, by this organ of Western sentiment, able knowledge and of sound opinion, and the ad will have new force with them, when coming from congratulate the Harpers on such a publication from vancement of the highest interests of the country, a state, which, though not in existence at the estabtheir press. Professor Davies, who is charged with the Publishers trust that the Western Quarterly Re. lishment of those principles, is now, owing to the instructing the Cadets in the subjects illustrated by view will deserve, what they confidently ask for it, this work, has here furnished, as we presume, the the liberal patronage of an enlightened community."wonderful results of their operation within and far beyond its happy borders, among the first in the substance of the lectures by which alone, in the ab. And that we are convinced they will gain; for we Confederacy. sence of any fitting text book, his instructions have cannot conceive any publication better adapted to heretofore been communicated. meet the literary wants of the Union, than one con The work will be published by Messrs. Hubbard It will occur to many of our readers, we dare ducted agreeably to the above plan. In the first & Edmands, of Cincinnati, who promise that it will say, to ask what the mathematical distinction is place, the talent and acquirement of the country is, be printed in the best manner, on the best paper. between Shades and Shadows. We therefore give with very few exceptions, in the hands of those "Each number will contain at least two hundred the definition, as here laid down. who, being men of business, can devote but a small and fifty pages. The first number will be published on the first day of next November. The price will prosperity, and through every scene of his wonder-jand Sir James Mackintosh, make one of the most valuable books that has for some time come under our be five dollars a year, payable on the delivery of the ful career! second number. The amount due contributors will! In all the walks and relations of private and do- notice. The half which we have perused of the premestic life he shone with a beauty and splendor pealways be remitted one month after the publication culiarly his own. He was eninently rich in good sent volume consists of discourses upon the most im. of the number containing their articles." We shall works-and envy dared not hate or revile him. He portant subjects, written in a clear, nervous and manly be happy to receive the names of subscribers at this was the able, judicious and unwearied advocate of style; utterly free from all cant and mistification, and every useful enterprize and institution--of religion, abounding in passages of the most forcible eloquence. office, and forward them to the publisher. order, morals, science and universal education. * He was American in all his feelings, senti They exhibit that symmetry and strength of mind THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, Commander. He belonged to no party-which is the result of superior faculties improved by in-Chief of the American Forces during the Warments and policy. but to his country. Nor was his patriotism selfish cultivation, and so trained, that while each is deveof Independence, and first President of the United or exclusive. His benevolence extended to the loped in its just proportion, the united power of all States, by JOHN MARSHALL; second edition, 2 vols. whole family of mankind. Though sternly just in 8vo., pp. 500 each: Philadelphia, James Crissy.-all his intercourse with foreign nations-he exacted may be brought to bear upon a given subject: an orThis is a most welcome and well timed republica. nothing which he was not heartily disposed to reaider of understanding more useful, and, it might be procate. He observed the strictest neutrality to- added, more rare than genius itself; for while one tion of a work which worthily exhibits the noblest wards the European belligerents, and labored to con-man possesses stores of erudition that are measurecareer that it was ever the fortune of man to run, vince his fellow citizens and the world that this was less, and another has an inventive faculty equal to and which holds forth lessons of patriotism, disin. and ever must be the genuine policy of the American any emergency, the learning of the first, if profound, government. terestedness, lofty motives, and aims purely public, In him was no blemish which requires the obvi. must be limited in its range and its application, and that, at no time more than the present, should ad- ous mantle of charity from the partial biographer or the last may languish in inactivity for the want of dress themselves to the respect and emulation of all from a greatful posterity. His entire life, from the occasions to call it forth. The former, to use the cradle to the grave, is before the world-and it may language of an acute observer, of men, is frequently Our readers need not be told that the biogra- boldly challenge the severest scrutiny. His is a life to be studied, not merely by the war-possessed by those who have taken out their brains pher of Washington is the Chief Justice of the Uni-rior, the politician, the statesman, the philosopher-to make room for it; and the latter, like a meteor, ted States,-one who, in purity of character, is well but by the humblest citizen of the republic. He pos- too often bewilders and misleads upon the brilliant fitted to unfold that which he undertakes to pour-sessed virtues and excellencies which all may imitate and capricious path of light it describes. But the tray. The work was originally composed and pub. though, in majesty and grandeur, none may ever approach him. mind that, expanded by general knowledge, is char. lished soon after the death of its illustrious subject, He was born in humble obscurity-but in him were acterized by soundness and precision in all its acquire. and then extended through five volumes. Of these blended all the elements which will ever ensure proments; that is ardent in the pursuit of truth, but the first, comprizing a sketch of the Colonial His. eminence under any circumstances. He would have been great and good-had the revolution, which made arrives at it with soberness; that is zealous in its Americans. tests. tory of the United States, has been since detached him the greatest and the best, never occurred. He promulgation, but judicious in the means thereof; is from the main work and published separately; the would have been, as he was, the most skilful, scienti-above all others calculated in an advanced state of other four volumes are embodied in the two now fic and successful farmer in Virginia. And he would have been, as he was, respected, beloved and honored society to promote its best interests. Such altogebefore us, "without discarding any essential infor- by his fellow citizens. It seems ever to have been ather, from a want of familiarity with his works, we mation." "The language," says the author in his maxim with him, that there is nothing worth doing a are not prepared to say that Mr. Hall's was, but preface to this edition, "has been in some instances all which is not worth doing well. Add another no less important, that time is invaluable, and that every judging from those we have read, with such we altered-he trusts improved; and the narrative, moment must be improved. Whatever he did, there would class his well disciplined and energetic un. especially that part of it which details the dis- fore was well done-and he never passed an idle o derstanding. tresses of the army during the war, relieved from unprofitable hour. He resolved, while yet poor to be The reader is probably aware that we avoid as edious repetition of the same suffering." These independent-that he might be honest and useful. Ho therefore applied himself diligently to business, and to much as possible theological as well as political disvolumes are very handsomely printed-the paper is the acquisition of such knowledge as would ensure him cussions in these notices, and will therefore require no white and good; and they are accompanied by an success and reputation. He was industrious and eco noinical, not to amass wealth for its own sake, but excuse for our not entering into a particular examina. atlas in the same form, presenting accurate colored that he might be virtuous, just and generous. It was tion of the volume before us, or complain that we limaps of the regions in which the American cam- this truly noble spirit of honorable independence, cher mit the few observations that we have to make to an paigns were performed, and plans of the relative po-shed from early youth, which preserved him from pe occasional comment upon several passages we have cuniary embarrassment throughout the long period of sition of the armies in some of the principal con his public services, and which enabled him to decline thought suited to quotation. One of the most dishearall pecuniary renumeration from his grateful country tening tenets of the Utilitarian school is the belief The Life of Washington, during the period here and finally to manifest a princely hospitality and that human actions, however brilliant and noble, included, is the history of his country; and no Ame-unificence, without a particle of princely parade, whether of high emprize and gallant daring, of extravagance or ostenation. rican, studious of accurate information as to the Washington never flattered the great nor courted heroic sacrifice or philosophic fortitude, must be He never solicited office, He was tested in value by the standard of immediate utility; eventful times which gave us a name and a nation, the multitude. and willing to ascertain and acknowledge the vast ver ready to serve his country, but he never sough to govern it. He never resorted to artifice, intrigu must be stripped of all romantic beauty, all prospecdebt of gratitude we owe to those who were foremost or management for any selfish purpose whatever. If tive benefit from the examples of human excellence in the acts and sufferings of those days, should fail he was ambitious, it was to deserve the esteem of the they afford to posterity, and, measured in the scales wise and good-not to acquire power, wealth, honor of interest like a marketable commodity; just as the to read and meditate upon these volumes. or fame. With him character-moral character-was every sublimest productions of the human mind, collected AN ADDRESS, delivered at the request of the Citizens of Nashville, Tenn., on the Centennial Anning from the beginning. He always acted from prin in an ancient library, were once measured by the eiple-from the highest, holiest, religious principle.versary of the birth of Washington-by Philip Linds. And by the force of character, he rose in the confidence square foot, and exposed to sale. The following ley, D. D. President of the University of Nashville, admiration, and affections of his countrymen. Neither passage which we find illustrating a different subCalled upon unexpectedly, and at a late day, to birth, nor fortune, nor family alliances contributed, inject in the work before us, we quote as a forcible the least to his exaltation. It was all the result of comment upon this: deliver an address on this anniversary, incapacitated his own good conduct, sound sense, indefatigable diliby illness from study or sustained application, Pre-gence, uniform kindness, invincible integrity, devoted sident Lindsley was yet unwilling to disappoint the patriotism, moral courage, christian magnanimity and of that determined resolution, which is ever the wishes of his fellow citizens, and though unable to attribute of superior genius and real greatness, to be elaborate an oration, he has spoken eloquently and come equal to every occasion, emergency and enterto the purpose. From his rough notes was the dis-prise which he was providentially summoned to encourse before us printed. We have only room for the passages with which it closes. The age of Washington is the classic age of American history. It is a resplendent, a glorious, a gold en age. The character of Washington may, without even the semblance of hyperbole, be pronounced in a single word-PERFECTION! So far, at least, as per. fection may be justly predicated of any mere mortal man. counter or to direct. Though it is confessed great and splendid actions are not the ordinary employment of life, but must, from their nature, be reserved for high and eminent occasions; yet that system is essentially defective which leaves no room for their production. They are important, both from their immediate advantage and their remoter influence. They often save, and There have been many ambitious Cæsars-illustri- always illustrate the age and nation in which they ous patriots-many talented demagogues—many splen appear. They raise the standard of morals; they did traitors-whose glory and whose infamy are re-arrest the progress of degeneracy; they diffuse a corded in the everlasting page of history. Our coun- lustre over the path of life: monuments of the greattry has produced a noble band of heroic warriors and ness of the human soul, they present to the world gifted ages and accomplished statesman-but, hither the august image of virtue in her sublimest form, to, no Cesar, and but one Arnold. OUR WORLD HAS PRODUCED BUT ONE WASHINGTON. THE WORKS OF THE REV. ROBERT HALL, A. M. ; in Among the great personages whom mankind have delighted to honor, not one can be designated as 3 vols.; vol. 1; Harpers.-The writings of this dis. worthy of being adjudged his peer. How lovely and tinguished preacher and theologian, as here publish. docile and dutiful in childhood-how nobly good ed under the superintendence of Olinthus Gregory, animons, philanthrophic, dignified, unostentatious, with the accompanying memoir and sketch of Mr. and brave in youth and manhood-how wise, mag from which streams of light and glory issue to re pure and single-hearted in all his unparalleled Hall's life and character, by the Rev. Jao. Foster dition of indigent females, is as applicable to this |