ascension. This results from a mean between two observations, taken one by me, and the other by Mr. Charles D.Leech, of Bury, and which differ only 20' in right ascension, and 1o in declination. Right ascension at eight last night, 24° 5° north declination 19°. Comet 1° nearly below Herculis." On the 25th Mr. Lofft communidated some further observations: "There was no opportunity of observing the Comet here on Thursday or Friday night. A very fine one Saturday night. Tolerable this night. Yesterday evening it appeared in forty-eight hours to have advanced more than 10 deg. in declin. and about 3 in right ascension. Nucleus very brilliant, and train exceedingly so. Fully 4° in length, about 1 broad, fanning out and incurvated upwards, with a shorter branch extending on the upper side. A fine meteor was visible in the field of the telescope on Saturday, with the Comet for a second or two. This night it appears nearly stationary in N.declination, and retrogade in right as cension. It seems by these and all circumstances, to be turning round in its orbit, and to be passing its perihelion. Position,Sunday night, 25th of October, W. of Herculis, and above it about 1°." We have singular satisfaction in being able to announce the prospect of the immediate establishment of a third Publick Library, or grand literary depot, in the metropolis. Its site will be the vicinity of Blackfriar's-bridge, and it will be especially calculated to accommodate the centre of the metropolis, as it is considered that the Royal and the London Institutions adapt themselves more particularly to the west and east ends of the town. It is intended to include a valuable and extensive library, an arrangement for lectures on the different branches of philosophy and science, and commodious rooms for reading the foreign and domestick Journals, and other periodical works. The number of proprietors is to be twelve hundred; and their subscription, twenty guineas. The number of life-subscribers to be six hundred; their subscription, ten guineas; and that of annual subscribers, two guineas. The Jews in London have lately printed a small volume in Hebrew and English containing a collection of their prayers, and the service used in the synagogues. It appears than the Hebrew language is on the decline among the English Jews, and that they cultivate a study of the langaage of the country in which they live, considerably more than formerly. When the late Mr. Gilbert Wakefield, published his Proposals for a Greek and English Lexicon, a gen tleman who had for a considerable time been employed on a similar work, desisted from his labour, on the supposition that Mr. Wakefield's work was ready for the press. But as it appears from Mr. Wakefield's Memoirs, that he had not proceeded much further in the collection of materials than his interleaved Hedericus, which has been destroyed by fire, that gentleman has now resumed his own work, and will in a short time present the publick with a copious and accurate Greek and English Lexicon. Mr. Carpenter, author of Observations addressed to Grand Juries, has nearly ready for publication, Refiections, that have suggested themselves from the Journal of Messrs. Whitbread, Malthus, Rose, Weyland, and Colquhoun's Plans and opinions on the Subject of the Poor Laws, with outlines of a new Plan for bettering the condition of the Poor, &c. Dr. Carey has in the press, a new edition of his Latin Prosody made Easy, with considerable additions and improvements, particularly in the part which treats on the different species of verse. An Abridgement, for the use of schools, will be published at the same time with the larger work. The love of literature seems to be gaining ground daily in Ireland, and particularly that class of it which will tend ultimately to make its provinces more frequented and better known, which will not only excite the attention of the stranger, but point out natural beauties and curiosities, unexplored even by the native. The general topography of the country has received partial illustration from the Statistical Surveys of the counties of Dublin, Wicklow, Kilkenny, Queen's County, Cayan, Armagh, Monaghan, Meath, Down, Londonderry, Tyrone, Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, and Mayo, which have been already published, and the recent writings of Sir John Carr, Miss Owenson, and Sir Richard Hoare, have augmented our knowledge of the sister island in no inconsiderable degree. Denmark. The learned have long doubted the existence of a printing-office, said to have been established by the celebrated astronomer Tycho Brahé, in the island of Huen, or Ween, in the Sound, in the Observatory of Uranienburgh, erected for him on that island by Frederic II. of Denmark. The existence of this printing office is now proved by the following titles of two works, which Tycho Brahé caused to be printed at Uranienburg. They are both in quarto, and one it entitled, "De Mundi Ætherei recentioribus Phænominis, liber secundus. Uraniburgi in Insula Hellesponti Danici Huena, imprimebat auctoris Typographus Christephorus Weida, Anno Domini, 1588." The title of the other is "Tychonis Brahé Dani Epistolarum Astronomicarum liber primus. Uraniburgi ex officina Typographica auctoris. Anno Domini 1596." In the last work, are found many letters from Tycho Brahé to the Landgrave William of Hesse, wherein he mentions the printing office, and the paper mills, he had established at Uranienburgh; and in the latter work is an engraving on wood, of the house in which this printing office was established. CATALOGUE OF NEW PUBLICATIONS FOR JANUARY. Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plura.-MART. NEW WORKS. The Columbiad, a poem, in ten books. By Joel Barlow. 1 vol. royal 4to. Illustrated with a portrait of the author, painted by Fulton and engraved by Arthur Smith, and eleven engravings on the following subjects, painted by Smirke, and engraved by English artists. 1. Hesper appearing to Columbus in prison. 2. Capac and Oella instructing the savages in agriculture and the domestick arts. 3. Camor killed by Capac. 4. Inquisition. 5. Cesar passing the Rubicon. 6. Cruelty presiding over the prison ship. 7. Murder of Lucinda. 8. Cornwallis resigning his sword to Washington. 9. Rape of the Golden Fleece. 10. Initiation to the Mysteries of Iris. 11. Final Resignation of Prejudices. Philadelphia, C. & A, Conrad & Co. Select Sermons on doctrinal and practical subjects. By the late Samuel Stillman, D.D. Comprising several sermons never before published. To which is prefixed a biographical sketch of the author's life. 8vo. pp. 408. Price $2 bound. Boston, Manning & Loring. 1808. The Pharmacopeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Published by E. & J. Larkin. Greenough & Stebbins printers. 12mo. Price $1. Tables of the Pharmacopeia of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Containing, 1st. Table of the proportion of Antimony, Opium, and Quicksilver in some compound medicines. 2d. Posological and Prosodial Tables. 3d. Two Tables of ancient and of systematick names. Also, a Sheet Table of ancient and systematick names. Published by E. & J. Larkin. Price 25 cts. The Boston collection of sacred and devotional Hymns, intended to accommodate christians on special and stated occasions. Boston, Manning & Loring. Price 62 cents bound. Unitarian pieces and tracts, No. 1. A discourse on the right, duty, and importance of free inquiry in matters of religion. Delivered Nov. 1, 1807. By a member of the first society of Unitarian Christians in Philadelphia. 8vo. Philadelphia, Thomas Dobson. The Mercuriad, or Spanish practice of physick, a tragi-comedy in five acts, in prose: being a burlesque on the exGessive use, and an exposition of the malignant effects of mercury, introduced into the modern practice of physick. By a friend of mankind. Lansingburgh, N. Y. The Lady's Cabinet of Polite Literature, containing a selection of the most delicate and refined airs, songs, poems, and various other miscellaneous productions, in verse and prose. Vol. I. The Lute, consisting of songs. Boston, Russell & Cutler. Price $1. On the worth, and loss of the soul: a sermon, delivered at Ipswich, on a day of prayer, August 4, 1807. By Joseph Dana, D.D. one of the ministers of that town. Newburyport, E. W. Allen. 8vo. 1808. A Sermon preached at Northampton before the Hampshire Missionary Society, at their annual meeting, Aug. 27. 1807. By the Rev. Samuel Taggart, A. M. Pastor of the presbyterian church in Colrain. Northampton, W, Butler. Worlds Displayed, for the benefit of young people, by a familiar history of some of their inhabitants. Boston, Lincoln & Edmands. 1807. The Approved Minister. A sermon preached October 28, 1807, at the ordination of the Rev. Enoch Pratt, to the pastoral care of the West Church and Society in Barnstable. By Thaddeus Mason Harris, Minister of Dorchester. Boston, Lincoln & Edmands. A Thanksgiving Sermon, delivered before the Second Society in Plymouth, November 26, 1807. By Seth Stetson, minister in that place. Boston, Lincoln & Edmands. A Sermon preached at Hatfield October 20, 1807, at the opening of Hatfield Bridge. By Joseph Lyman, D.D. pastor of the church in Hatfield. Northampton. William Butler. A Sermon preached July 22, 1807, at the funeral of the Rev. Alexander Macworter, D.D. senior pastor of the Presbyterian church, in Newark, N. Jersey. By Edward D. Griffin, A. M. surveying pastor of said church. New-York. S. Gould. A sermon on the subject of Sanctification. By John Peak, minister of the gospel in Newburyport. 8vo. pp. 32. Newburyport, W. & J. Gilman. 1808. Six Essays on the subject of laying a tax on dogs; addressed to the legislature of Pennsylvania. By Joseph H. Fleming. Philadelphia. Catalogue of masters and misses, who have, at any time, belonged to the academy in Portsmouth, N.H. kept by the Rev. Timothy Alden, jun. Portsmouth, William Treadwell. pp. 12. 1808. NEW EDITIONS. The 3d and last volume of Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1st American, from the 5th London edition. 8vo. Boston, Andrews & Cummings and L. Blake. No. X. and Vol. V. of Shakespeare's Plays, containing the three parts of King Henry VI. and King Richard III. 12mo. Boston, Munroe, Francis, & Parker. Self-knowledge: a treatise, shewing the nature and benefit of that important science, and the means to attain it: intermixed with various reflections and observations on human nature. By John Mason, M.A. To which is now prefixed, for the first time in an American edition, Memoirs of the author. 12mo. 75 cents. Boston, Munroe, Francis, published in any of his works. 12mo. 81,25. Boston, E. & J. Larkin. ing the antiquity of the Hebrew nation and church of God-Forming a sacred commentary; a body of scripture history, chronology, and divinity; and serving in a great measure as a Concordance to the Bible-in two volumes. WORKS IN THE PRESS. Mr. Charles Pierce of Portsmouth New Hampshire, has put to press and will speedily publish Religious Cases of Conscience answered in an evangelical manner at the Casuistictal Lecture, in Little St. Helen's, Bishop-gate-street. By S. Pike & S. Hayward. To which is added, the Spiritual Companion, or pofessing Christian tried at the bar of life is perfixed to this Edition. God's word. By S.Pike. Messrs. Belcher & Armstrong, of this town, have in the press Poems by Robert Treat Paine jun. Dr. Samuel Bard, who has been long known as an able and learned practitioner in New-York, and who has for some years past retired from the active duties of his profession, has now in the press of Messrs. Collins and Perkins, of that city, an interesting work entitled, " A Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, containing practical Instructions for the Management of women during Preg. nancy, in Labour and in Child-bed; calculated to correct the Errours and improve the Practice of Midwives, as well as to serve as an Introduction to the Study of this Art, for Students and young Practitioners." Isaiah Thomas jun. of Worcester has in the press the following works: The complete works of the late Rev. Jonathan Edwards, President of the College of N. Jersey-This work will be comprised in eight octavo volumes; it is publishing on an entire new type, and fine wove paper. Whiston's genuine works of Flavius Josephus, the learned and authentick Jewish Historian, and celebrated WarFior. This work be published in three octavo volumes, from the last Edinburgh Edition, printed in 1804. Schrevelii's Greek Lexicon. This work will be completed in the course of the winter. Brown's Genuine Dictionary of the Holy Bible; containing an historical account of the persons; a geographical and historical account of the places; a literal, critical and systematical descrip tion of other objects, whether natural, artificial, civil, religious or military; and the explanation of the appellative terms mentioned in the writings of the Old and New Testament; the whole comprising whatever is known concern This valuable work has just been printed in Edinburgh under the immediate direction of Mr. Brown's sons, and has many valuable additions and corrections made by the Author previons to his death. A sketch of Mr. Brown's WORKS ANNOUNCED. W. Wells of this town, and W. Hilliard of Cambridge, propose publishing by subscription, “ NovumTestamentum Græce e Recensione Jo: Jac: Griesbachii; cum selecta lectionum varietate." This edition of the Greek Testament will be an exact copy of that lately published at Leipsic, by G.J.Goschen, in two volumes small octavo. It will contain the Greek text as edited by the celebrated Griesbach, with a selection at the bottom of the page of all the various readings, which affect the sense or construction. This edition will be printed in one handsome volume octavo, The price to subscribers will be two dollars in boards; or it will be delivered in any kind of binding with the customary additional charge. A few copies will be struck off upon fine paper, royal octavo; price $3,50 in boards. John West, No. 75, Cornhill, is about. putting to press, a Greek Grammar, in which the declensions of nouns and the conjugations of verbs are reduced to their most simple forms; the rules of contraction made concise, and the syntax and prosody complete with an appendix subjoined. By John Smith, S.T.D. professor of Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and other Oriental languages, at Dartmouth College. Snelling & Simons, and J. W. Armstrong, of this town, propose publishing by subscription, in a duodecimo volume, the dramatick works of Joseph Addison, consisting of Cato, Rosamond, and the Drummer. Price $1 bound. promotion, read formation ;', p. 48, 15th line ERRATA. Page 47, 2d line from bottom, for from bottom, read 'demonstration." The following should have been subjoined to the piece on the use of printed discourses : "In the former essay we wish to correct the following errours: Page 454, 2d column, line 14 from top, for one's,' read 'one;' p. 455, 1st col. line 11 from top, for 'of,' r. or; p. 457, 1st col line 4 from bottom, for engaged' r. 'regarded.! THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY, FOR FEBRUARY, 1808. For the Anthology. THE unhappy descendants of those warlike ancestors, who once exercised the just rights of sovereignty over the soil we inhabit, until superiour craft in the first place, and superiour force in the second, compelled them to surrender their inheritance, and to seal the conveyance with their blood, seem peculiarly entitled to our commiseration and regard. We We invaded the quietude of their forests, corrupted the simplicity of their manners, and left to their posterity all the curses of civilization, without one of its benefits. The Indian is now (if I may be allowed the expression) little more than the shadow of his departed With an insatiable appetite for glory, and a magnanimous contempt of danger in its acquisition, their onset was terrible, and their expiring agonies breathed defiance. We have been taught to look with reverence on antiquity; but it may be made a very serious question, whether all the records of past ages can produce examples of more heroick contempt of death, than the forests of America have furnished? Ingenuity had already been taxed to its full competence to devise tortures more exquisite; yet indisputable tradition relates that the Vol. V. No. 2. I ancestors. forests of America have exhibited the spectacle of a captive, while slowly expiring at the stake amidst the horrible variety of his torments, coolly suggesting modes of suffering more acute for his own body to endure. We are almost induced to believe, that the contempt of death influenced their physical nature, and, by removing all susceptibility from their nerves, enabled them to suffer in a manner congenial to their wishes. The descendants of these gallant souls we now behold dissipating, as civilized life invades the recesses of their forests; and one or two centuries will probably allow them little more than historical existence. A sort of chivalry in reformation is one of the distinguishing features of the present age. Every artifice has been employed to tempt the Indian from his wilderness; but the experiment has so often unsuccessfully encountered the recurrence of former habits, that we may venture to pronounce it incompetent. Naturalists have observed of the beaver, that, when domesticated, he gives no evidence of that shrewd sagacity and calculating judgment, that distinguishes him in the society of his fellows; but, on the contrary, he is sluggish and inert, and dozes. away a |