good account as the other; viz. that any quantity of blank verse may be converted into a like quantity of prose, without suffering materially by the commutation, only by cutting down the initials of each line, and by filling out the width of a page, without paying any attention to the verse and measure; and the profit, according to the nicest calculation, will ever be in direct ratio to the flimsiness of the poetry. We regret extremely that the 'Grand Chaplain' had so

small a stock of this poetry on hand at the time of composing this address, since he has been under the necessity of introducing into it too great variety of style. This might have been owing partly to the limited period allowed him to prepare it if so, we trust the next edition will be much improved in this particular. We should hope likewise to see ten or twelve pages of additional notes, historical and masonick,' and the title-page more circumstantial.

NEW WORKS.

Reports of cases argued and determined in the supreme judicial court of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, during the year 1806. By Dudley Atkins Tyng, Esq. counsellour at law. Newburyport, E. M. Blunt. 8vo. pp. 268. Lectures on the Jewish Antiquities. By David Tappan, D. D. late Hollis professor of divinity in the university at Cambridge. 1 vol. 8vo pp. 364. W. Hilliard, and Lincoln & Edmands. Sermons on important subjects. By David Tappan, D.D. late Hollis professor of divinity in the university at Cambridge. To which is prefixed, memoirs of the life and character of Dr. Tappan, and Dr. Holmes' Discourse at his funeral. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 390. W. Hilliard and Lincoln & Edmands.

Pieces of Irish history, illustrative of the condition of the catholicks of Ireland, of the origin and progress of the political system of the United Irishmen, and of their transactions with the Anglo Irish government. By William James Mac Neven, and Thomas Addis Emmett. New-York, Bernard Dornin. 8vo. $2 in boards.

The Parnassian Pilgrim, or the posthumous works of the late Mr. William Lake, with a sketch of his life. Hudson, H. Croswel. 12mo. pp. 184.

A Philosophical Grammar of the English Language. By Noah Webster,

esq. New-Haven, O. Steele & Co. for Brisban and Brannan, New-York.

An Essay towards an exposition of the futility of Thomas Paine's Objections to the Christian religion, being a reply to a late pamphlet written by him, entitled, Examination of the passages in the New Testament, quoted from the Old, and called Prophecies concerning Jesus Christ,' &c. By John B. Colvin. 8vo. Baltimore.

The Female Enthusiast, a tragedy, in five acts. By a Lady. Charleston, S. C. printed for the author, by J. Hoff. 12mo. pp. 51. 1807.

An illustration of some difficult passages of scripture on the doctrine of absolute predestination; attempted in a sermon, by William Woodbridge, A.M. Middletown, J. & B. Dunning. 1805.

The Decrees vindicated, or reconciled with free agency and accountability. By John W. Smith. Poughkeepsie, Nelson & Son.

The Voice of Truth, or thoughts on the affair between the Leopard and Chesapeake. In a letter from a gentleman at New-York to his friend. NewYork, J. Osborn. 8vo. pp. 50.

Sentiments on Resignation, by Rosewell Messenger, pastor of the first church in York, Maine. Portsmouth, William Treadwell 1807.

A Journal kept at Nootka Sound, during a captivity of twenty-eight months.

By John R. Jewett, one of the surviving crew of the ship Boston, of Boston, John Salter, commander, who was massacreed on the 22d March, 1803. Interspersed with some account of the natives, their manners, and customs. Boston, Belcher & Armstrong, for the author. 12mo. pp. 48.

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An Oration, delivered at Northampton, July 4th, 1807, on the anniversary celebration of American Independence. By Jonathan H. Lyman. ton, T. M. Pomroy.

An Oration, delivered at Salisbury, N.H. July 4, 1807. By Ezekiel Webster. Concord, George Hough.

An Oration, pronounced at Groton, in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the Fourth of July, A. D. 1807, in commemoration of the Independence of the United States of America, before the Republican Citizens of the town of Groton and the vicinity; but principally the inhabitants of the towns of Chelmsford, Dunstable, Littleton, Lunenburg, Westford, Harvard, Townsend, Shirley, Pepperell, Ashby, and Boxborough. By Samuel Dana. Olim, hæc meminisse juvabit. 8vo. Amherst, N.H. Joseph Cushing.

A Discourse, delivered at the funeral of Mrs. Mary Woodward, consort of the late Hon. Professor Woodward, in the meeting-house near Dartmouth college, March 29, 1807. By Roswell Shurtleff, A.M. professor of divinity in Dartmouth college. Hanover, Moses Davis.

An Address, prepared to be delivered before the free and accepted Masons, in the city of New-York, on the 34th June, 1807, being the feast of St. John the Baptist. By Rev. Samuel A. Peters, Bishop elect of Vermont. New York, S. Gould.

A Discourse, delivered in the first church, Boston, on the anniversary of

the Massachusetts Humane Society, June 9, 1807. By Rev. William Emerson, pastor of the first church in Boston. Boston, Munroe & Francis. 8vo. pp. 40.

A Sermon preached in Putney, Vt. June 15, 1807, at the ordination of Rev. Elisha D. Andrews, over the congregational church and charitable christian society in that town. By Joseph Lathrop, D.D. pastor of the church in WestSpringfield. Brattleborough, William Fessenden.

A Sermon preached at the ordination of the Rev. David Thurston, over the

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Burlamaqui on Natural and Politick Law. 2 vols. 8vo. Fifth edition, cor rected. Cambridge, William Hilliard.

European Commerce, shewing new continent of Europe. By J. Jepson and secure channels of trade with the Oddy. Two volumes large octavo; published by J. Humphreys, Philadel phia.

Part 2d of Peake's Law of Evidence, containing the proofs required in those actions which most ordinarily occur in nisi prius. Philadelphia, P. Bryne.

litical. By Francis Bacon, baron of VeEssays, moral, economical, and porulam, viscount St. Albans, and lord First high chancellour of England. Boston, Joseph

American edition. Greenleaf.

United States of America, throughout the war which established their independence, and first president of the United States. By David Ramsay, M. D., author of The History of the Amer ican Revolution, 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 400. Ornamented with an engraved Head of Washington. Price to subscribers, in boards, $2,50. Providence, Rhodeisland, E. S. Thomas.

The second edition of President Webber's Mathemetical Text Book. Cambridge, William Hilliard.

A new novel entitled, Ira and Isabella, said to be the production of the late Mr. William Brown, of this town, author of West-Point preserved, &c. 12mo. Boston, Belcher & Armstrong.

WORKS ANNOUNCED. The Natural and Civil History of Vermont, by Samuel Williams, LL.D. The first volume of this work was published in the year 1794: it is now of fered in an improved and enlarged form, in two volumes octavo, each containing about 500 pages; to be handsomely printed, and to contain a new and accurate map of the state, and an elegant portrait of the author. It is meant that the whole shall be executed in a superiour style of correctness and elegance. The price of the two volumes, handsomely bound, to be $4,50. Burlington, Vermont, Samuel Mills.

Adams's Roman Antiquities, 1 large 8yo. vol. 640 pages, $3. To be pubTished in the fall, by Mathew Carey, Philadelphia.

Munroe & Francis intend to add another volume to their edition of Shake

speare's Dramatick Works, which will be the ninth volume, and contain all SHAKESPEARE'S POEMS and the Critical Essays of Professor Richardson.→ It will be printed to conform with their first edition, so that gentlemen desirous of adding it to that edition may be accommodated.

Proposals have been issued for publishing, at Albany, by subscription, a volume, entitled, Horrours of Slavery, or the American Tars in Tripoli,' containing an account of the loss and capture of the United States frigate Philadelphia; treatment and sufferings of the prisoners; description of the place; manners of the Turks, &c. &c. By William Ray. 12mo. pp. 200. $1.

The American Artillerist's Companion. To be printed by subscription, and offered to the patronage of the Federal government, the people of the United States, and to the artillerists of the army, navy, and militia. By Lewis Tousard. To be printed on good paper and pica type, and contain upwards of 600 pages, so as to form one or two volumes octavo, as shall be most convenient to the subscribers; the whole will be illustrated by upwards of thirty-six plates. The work will be published in five numbers, of from 120 to 150 pages each, accompanied with six or seven plates; the price two dollars per number, to be paid on delivery. Philadel phia, C. & A. Conrad and Co. scriptions received at the Boston book

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Mr. Pinkerton, whose celebrity as a geographer stands at present unrivalled, has undertaken to edit a work of considerable magnitude, nearly connected with the subject of his late publication, a General Collection of Voyages and Travels, forming a complete history of the origin and progress of discovery by sea and land from the earliest ages to the present time. The narratives of the traveller and the navigator have ever been found to hold

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out the highest attractions to every class and description of readers. The eagerness with which works of this description have been sought, has led at different periods to the compilation of collections in some measure resembling that which is now under our consideration. bare enumeration of the principal of these would form an extensive catalogue. The first was published by Grynæus, at Basel, in the early part of the 16th century

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Since that time many of real importance have appeared, and some of them have aspired to the character of general histories of this department of literature. The French Histoire Generale des Voy. ages, by the Abbé Prevost, is well known, and its merit universally acknowledged. But this, it ought to be observed, is little more than a translation of the general collection of voyages and travels published in London in 1745, by Thomas Astley. The Abbé Prevost added some matter to it, and improved the arrangement of the original materials. His work extended to sixteen quarto volumes, the first of which was published at Paris, 1746. La Harpe afterwards attempted a popular abridgment of this work, but did not succeed in making his labours as useful as his subject might have enabled him. Many other similar collections have appeared in Germany and in Spain, as well as in France and GreatBritain; but it may be observed of all of them, without any exception, that though frequently rich in materials, they have been lamentably defective in the arrangement, and too indiscriminate in their choice and selection of documents. The pleasure of perusal has been by such means greatly impaired; and the trouble of wading through such masses of incongruous matter has rendered the advantages of the information contained in them in many instances not worth the labour and fatigue of the attainment. In the new work which we have now the pleasure to announce as in preparation, every exertion of industry and taste will, we are assured, be employed to combine all the advantages of amusement and utility which can be united in any one publication on the subject. It is not intended merely to reprint the narratives which have already appeared, nor to adhere to the strict chronological order of the occurrences which they detail; but in most cases to class the subjects and consolidate the materials of different writers, so as to exhibit at one view all that is interesting or im

portant in their several publications, and to present the reader with a regular, succinct, and separate history of the progress of discovery in every great division of the globe. It is proposed, however, that the utmost care shall be taken not to destroy or weaken the interest which in a greater or less degree must always belong to the narrative of the voyager himself, by using, where it can be done with advantage, the language of the original authority. The first in the order of the divisions of this work, as most interesting to the great body of readers, will be Europe, comprising every thing valuable that has ever appeared in the form of voyages or travels relating to this portion of the earth; and, in the subsequent parts, the order of arrangement which Mr. Pinkerton has pursued in his great geographical work will be adopted. It is calculated that the work will be completed in ten or twelve volumes in quarto, which will be embellished with well executed prints, and a few of such maps and plans as may be desirable to supply the reader with an immediate view of the places under his consideration. Such is in general the plan of this work, and it must be confessed that the execution of it could not have been entrusted to an editor better qualified for the undertaking. There are few works of consequence connected with the subject which Mr. Pinkerton must not already, from the extent of his geographical inquiries, have had occasion to consult, or of which he must not have learned the character and the value. The libraries of this kingdom he has carefully explored; and it is known, that during the late interval of peace, he carefully examined the libraries of Paris, with the view of adding every attainable information to the new edition of his geography, which has since appeared. With such qualifications, supported by indefatigable literary industry, we may expect from his hands a work of the most instructive and amusing description.

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