amounting to a thousand pounds, for the purpose of publishing this original, was raised among the officers and others of the Highlands, in India, and remitted to Mr. Macpherson. His fon and heir (who had himself made a large fortune in the capacity of British Agent, for ten or twelve years, at the Court of the Nizam,) Mr. Macpherson of Bailiville in Invernessshire refufes or declines to give up the money fo fubfcribed. An action has been instituted against him, for the purpose of compelling him to give up the thoufand pounds, in the Court of Seffions in Scotland, by Sir John Murray, in whofe hands the money was placed, and by whom it was remitted to the elder Mr. Macpherson. Mr. Mackenzie, whether trusting wholly to this fund, or actuated merely from motives of patriotism, and regard for the memory of his friend, had begun and made fome progress in the printing of the original Offian, with the literal Latin Verfion. All expenses were defrayed by Mr. Mackenzie from his own funds. His death, of course, fufpended the work; and whether it will ever be refumed, is thought a matter, that will depend on the iffue of the fuit, instituted by Sir John Murray against the son and heir of the Offian Mr. Macpherson.

THE celebrated KALKBRENNER, Member of the Philotechnic Society of Paris, the Royal Academy of Stockholm, and the Philoharmonic Academy of Bologna, has lately published a book entitled "Hiftoire de la Mufic;" of which an English Critic gives the following account.

"This work is the production of a diftinguished member of the Mufical Confervatory. The author remarks, that fince the death of the celebrated Ramau, mufical literature has been greatly neglected in France, and that but few are at present acquainted either with the theory or the mathematical principles, on which the art is founded. According to him, all the productions of the eighteenth century confift entirely of compilations from thofe of the fixteenth and feventeenth.

"M. Kalkbrenner alfo prefents the reader with a history of his art. In his account of the inftrumental music of the Hebrews, he affirms that it was extremely imperfect, and supports his opinions by the testimony of Profeffor Pfeiffer, who has maintained

the fame doctrine in a celebrated work written by him fome time fince. After this, he proceeds to examine the mufic of the Greeks; and although M. Buretto has publifhed a variety of learned and curious obfervations on the fame fubject, thofe, made by the author now before us are not destitute of interest. It is his defign upon this occafion, to demonftrate that the mufic of the ancient Greeks had not attained a high degree of perfection; but he remarks, at the fame time, that they have transmitted an infinite variety of precious inventions, on which the moderns have only improved. As for the Romans, we are told that every thing they knew, was borrowed from the Greeks, whom they imitated, but could not furpass, or even equal, more especially in the musical art.

"M. Kalkbrenner confiders pofterity as greatly indebted to St. Ambrofe for having introduced a suitable manner of finging the praises of and adoring the Divinity, by the introduction of church-mufic; he alfo does juftice to the fcience of Pope Gregory, who improved the art, and had studied the poets and muficians of Greece with uncommon care. He laments, that, anterior to the Reformation, mufic was entirely monopolized by the clergy, against whom he, on many occafions, exhibits the most implacable refentment, and he rejoices greatly to think, that the laity are now admitted to a participation in this elegant amusement.”

THE University of Copenhagen lately proposed the following queftion: "Whether it would be advantageous to the literature of the North to fubftitute the ufe of the mythology of the North to that of the Greek mythology." Three memoirs on this fubject have appeared, all very interesting, and worthy to be taken into confideration. That which has been adjudged the best, demonstrates the neceffity of retaining the Greek mythology, as the most cultivated and the most ingenious; the two others give the preference to the mythology of the North, as more proper to produce chef d'auvres than the other, which has already produced fo many, and which feems to be exhausted.

A GREEK Poem has lately been published at Vienna, by Father AMBROSE POMPERY, confifting of 506 verfes, which have the fame meaning, when read either backwards or forwards.

ACADEMY OF ARTS.

THE New-York Academy of Arts is now open. The gentlemen, under whose liberal patronage the institution has been eftablished, must be pleafed to find, though but at present in its infancy, that it exhibits a ftately and elegant collection of ftat; useful to uary and painting, at once useful and ornamental the ftudent, folicitous regularly to cultivate the fine arts, and ornamental to the city, which has given it birth.

It is furely in an infant country a very interefting exhibition, not only to artists, but to Americans at large.

In the rotunda of the Pantheon, the ftudent may pafs his hours in uninterrupted ftudy, cultivating his tafte by contemplating the most correct models of ancient fculpture. Inftitutions like this have, in the opinion of philofophers and ftatesmen, a tendency to soften and humanize the mind, and they have therefore made them the repofitory of materials, on which genius may exercise its powers to advantage, and without which, the strongest intellect may be fruitlessly and deviously employed. It is their opinion, that by ftudying thefe authentic models, that idea of excellence, which is the refult of the accumulated experience of paft ages, may at once be acquired. The student here receives at a fingle glance the correct principles, which many artists have spent their whole lives in ascertaining; and fatisfied with their effect, he is fpared the painful investigation, by which they came to be known and fixed. In addition to the ftatues and bufts, which at prefent adorn the Pantheon, will be fhortly added correct copies of those works of art, which formerly adorned the Italian galleries.

THE indefatigable Dr. MORSE has again fent his AMERICAN GAZETTEER to the prefs of Meffrs. Thomas & Andrews in Bolton. This new edition of that highly important work, we hear, is much amended, and enriched with many additional defcriptions. The total fale of the first edition, which was publifhed in 1797, and which confifted of many thoufand copies, requires no other comment on its value and general estimation.

PRINTED AND SOLD BY E. LINCOLN, WATER-STREET.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE Editor wishes, that those correfpondents, who find their com munications admitted, would always understand, that his fincere grati tude for their favours, will be ever implied by his acceptation.

The Effay, entitled "THE MORAL EFFECTS OF A WELL MANAGED THEATRE," by Euripides, is a judicious and elegant performance; but the liberty however of referving its publication, for a few months, is respectfully folicited.

The author of what he terms, " Heraldric Mottos for the present Dramatic Company in Boston.—No. I." may spare himself the trouble of continuing his fubject. Many of his Mottos are inappropriate, and fcandalous.

Theatrical Criticisms must be deferred, till the contemplated enlargement of this publication is effected.

The poetical trifles of "Xerxes," and of" Hefper," are too rude to gain a welcome reception.