Elegy eleventh, from the 13th line. << Oft was I, while with doubting terror cross'd, By the dark storm-collecting Hædi toss'd, Excited by the Steropean star, Oft Ocean threaten'd with his billowy war; Or Auster's savage floods increas'd the Hyads' sway; Oft dash'd some wave within, yet still I plann'd My verse, such as is, with trembling hand; Ev'n now, by Boreas stretch'd, the ropes resound, And the bow'd sea heaves hillock-like around. The steersman's self, his hands tow'rds heav'n display'd, Unmindful of his skill, in pray'r asks aid. sway; More boist'rous than the ocean are their souls, Ev'n when with winter's billows, ocean rolls." "Sæpe ego nimbosis dubius jactabar ab Hædis: Nunc quoque contenti stridunt Aquilone rudentes; Inque modum tumuli concava surgit aqua. Ipse gubernator, tollens ad sidera palmas, Exposcit votis immemor artis opem. Quocunque adspicio, nihil est, nisi mortis imago: Quam dubiâ timeo mente, timensque precor. Attigero portum, portu terrebor ab ipso. Plus habet infestâ terra timoris aquà. Nam simul insidiis hominum pelagique laboro Et faciunt geminos ens unda metus. Ille meo vereor ne speret sanguine prædam: Hæc titulum nostræ mortis habere velit. Barbara pars læva est, avida succincta rapina, Quam cruor et cædes bellaque semper habent. Cumque sic hibernis agitatum fluctibus æquor; Pectora sunt ipso turbidiora mari.” ART. 9. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. DOMESTIC. cal parts of the New-Testament. In HE following original works have tended for the use of Sunday Schools in principal booksellers: The Battle of Niagara, without notes, and Goldan, or the Maniac Harper, by John O'Cataract, author of Keep Cool. Acts and Resolutions passed by the Fifteenth Congress of the United States, December, 1817-April, 1818, together with the Treaties concluded at the same period. A Grammar of the English Language, in a series of Letters, intended for the use of Schools, and of Young Persons, by Wm. Cobbett. Dwight's Theology, vol. 3. Wheaton's Reports, vol. 3. Serjeant's and Rawle's Reports, vol. 1. A new edition of Letters to Caleb Strong, Esq. on Capital Punishment and War. A second edition of the Cotton Planter's and Farmer's Companion. By BARNEVELL DEVEAUX, Esq. Questions and Answers on the Histori a The Commercial Swift Writer; or, Clerk's Sure Guide to Penmanship, &c. Written and Engraved by G. B. KING. This work contains a system for making figures; and a dissection of the two writing alphabets, to express the true system of writing by invention. Also, an Illustration, by the Rev. Mr. O. A. STANSBURY, Superintendent of the New-York Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. The Clergyman's Almanac, for 1819. Second edition of the New-York State Calendar, by ANDREW BEERS. Proposals are issued at Boston for publishing Elements of Chemical Science; in two volumes octavo, with Plates. By JOHN GORHAM, M. D. Professor of Chemistry, in Harvard University. A semi-weekly paper is to be published at the new city of BLAKELY, to be called the "Blakely Sun, and Alabama Advertiser." The following Works, some with Notes and Additions, by American authors, have been republished: A System of Chemistry, in 4 volumes, by THOMAS THOMSON, from the fifth London edition, with notes, by THOMAS CooPER, Professor in the University of Pennsylvania. An Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of the Vital Functions, with some observations on the nature and treatment of Internal Diseases, by A. P. WILSON PHILIP. The Principles of Midwifery, including the Diseases of Women and Children, by JOHN BURNS, with Improvements and Notes, by THOMAS E. JAMES, in 2 vols. The Dew Drop, or Summer Morning's Walk, by F. B. VAUX, author of Henry, &c. Deaf and Dumb, by Miss SANDHAM, author of the Twin Sisters, &c. Edwards on Religious Affections, Abridged by ELLERBY. Greenland, the adjacent Seas and the North West Passage to the Pacific Ocean. Illustrated in a voyage to Davis's Straits, during the summer of 1817, by BERNARD O'REILLY, Esq. Essays on some select parts of the Liturgy of the Church of England, the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered in the Parish Church of St. Werburgh, Bristol, by T. BIDDULPH, A. M. Deaf and Dumb, or the Abbe de L'Epee, an historical drama, founded upon very interesting facts, from the French of M. BOUILLY, with a Preface, by LAURENT CLERC, Professor of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. No. 4 of the Holy Bible, including the Old and New Testaments, and the Apoc rypha, according to the authorised version, with Notes explanatory and practical; taken principally from the most eminent writers of the United Church of England and Ireland; together with appropriate Introductions, Tables and Indexes. Prepared and arranged by the Rev. George D'Oyley, B. D. and the Rev. Richard Mant, D. D. Domestic Chaplains to his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, under the direction of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge. For the use of families. The first American edition, with additional Notes, selected and arranged by JOHN HENRY HOBART, D. D. Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the state of New-York. The proprietors of the American edition of Dr. REE's New Cyclopedia, announce to the subscribers, that vol. 39, Part I. being the 77th number, is ready for deVOL. III.-No. vi. 9 livery. This number contains a new and elegantly coloured Map of the United States, engraved expressly for this work, and compiled from the latest and best authorities, by JOHN MELISH. Travels of a Philosopher: or, Observations on the Manners and Arts of various Nations in Africa and Asia. By M. LE POIVRE. Originally read before the Royal Society of Agriculture at Lyons. Letters from Illinois, by MORRIS BIRKBECK, illustrated by a Map of the United States, showing Mr. Birkbeck's Journey from Norfolk to Illinois, and a Map of English Prairie and the adjacent country, by JOHN MELISH. The Edinburgh Review, No. 59. Memoirs relating to the Highlands, with Anecdotes of Rob Roy and his family. Le Telemaque des Ecoles ou les Aventures De Telemaque Fils D'Ulysse, Dedié a l' Enfance. The Identity of Junius, with a distinguished Living Character, established, including the supplement, consisting of fac similes of Hand-writing, and other IIlustrations. In press. Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and a Voyage to and from that country in the years 1816 and 1817, containing an Account of the most interesting Transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy to the Court of Pekin, &c. by CLARKE ABET. Proposals are in circulation for publishing a new edition of Delano's Voyages and Travels. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS. The Rev. Mr. HOLLEY of Boston, who has proceeded to Kentucky, to assume the government of the University of Transylvania, is accompanied by Mr. C. WALKER, jr. as Assistant Instructor in Ethics, and Mr. JOHN EVERETT, as Tutor in the Latin and Greek languages. They are both graduates of the University in Cambridge. At the meeting of the Trustees of Princeton College, on the 30th September JACOB GREEN, Esq. late of Philadelphia, was chosen Professor of Chemistry, Natural History, and Experimental Philosophy. ACADEMIC HONOURS. At the annual Commencement of Yale College, New-Haven, Con. on the 9th of September, the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts was conferred on Mr. EDWARD HITCHCOCK. of Deerfield, Massachusetts. The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Divinity on the Rev. Joshua RATES, President of Middlebury College, Vermont. The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, on the Hon. JOHN TRUMBULL. Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut. At the anniversary Commencement of the College of New-Jersey, held in Princeton on Wednesday the 30th September, the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts was conferred on JoHN B. BECK, Dr. CHARLES D. MEIGS, the Rev. ROBERT E. B. M'LEOD, the Rev. FREDERICK CHRISTIAN SCHAEFFER, the Rev. SAMUEL H. Cox, and JAMES S. GREEN, Esq. of New-York. The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on the Hon. JOSEPH HOPKINSON late of Philadelphia, the Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER of Boston, and Dr. DAVID HOSACK of New-York. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on the Rev. ROBERT G. WILSON, of Chilicothe, Ohio, and the Rev. JAMES KIDD, professor of Oriental Languages in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen, Scotland. UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. The College of Physicians and Surgeons, of the University of the state of New-York, commenced the annual course of lectures, for the ensuing winter, on the first Monday in this month, at the College in Barclay-street. Dr. HOSACK on the Theory and Practice of Physic, and on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children. Dr. Post on Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery. Dr. MACNEVEN on Chemistry, and the Materia Medica. Dr. MITCHILL, on Natural History, including Botany, Mineralogy, and Zoology. Dr. HAMERSLEY on the Clinical Practice of Medicine. Dr. MOTT on the Principles and Practice of Surgery. Dr. FRANCIS on the Institutes of Medicine and on Medical Jurisprudence. Dr. DE WITT on Natural Philosophy. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Anatomy, JOHN B. Davidge, M. D. Theory and Practice of Medicine, N. POTTER, M. D. Chemistry, E. DE BUTTS, M. D. Materia Medica, SAMUEL BAKER, M. D. Principles and Practice of Surgery, W. GIBSON, M. D. Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women and Children, R. W. HALL, M. D. Institutes of Physic, M. M'DOWEL. M. D. NEW-YORK LYCEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY. At a recent session of this society, the Rev. F. C. SCHAEFFER laid on the table specimens of quarter crystals, whose intermal cavities are filled with water and air. Minute dark substances, which he supposes to be bitumen, are observed He discovered floating on the water. these remarkable crystals in the fissures of a schistose rock at Hudson, Columbia county, New-York. They are probably the first crystals with such appearances, that have been discovered in the United States. NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY. The valuable library of this institution daily increases in importance. The society has now a plan in contemplation to render the library more generally accessible and useful to our citizens, and to strangers. ACADEMY OF ARTS. The Directors of the Academy of the Fine Arts, beg leave to submit to the public the following statement: That, the ultimate object of this Academy is, the gratuitous education of young men in the knowledge of the several arts of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving. That, the Academy possesses copies in plaster, of those celebrated works of the ancient sculptors, which have been always regarded as the highest efforts of human genius, and which form the basis of study in all the academies of Europe. That, it is their intention, as fast as The Medical Lectures commenced on their funds will permit, to procure also the first Monday in this month. Anatomy, Dr. DORSEY. Surgery, Dr. PHYSICK. Practice of Physic, Dr. CHAPMAN. UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND. The Medical Lectures were to commence on the last Monday in last month. specimens of the works of the most eminent painters, as well modern as ancient, to serve as examples to students. That, already nine young persons are admitted as students, who (without the payment of any fee) are occupied in drawing, under the direction of the keeper, at the hours prescribed by the rules of the academy; and that several of these students are making uncommon progress, That, all instruction is intended to be given gratis; and no qualification or recommmendation is requisite to procure the admission of a student, other than some previous elementary knowledge, a disposition to assiduous study, good moral character and obedience to the regulations of the Academy. That, the Academy possess, no other funds than what arise from voluntary contributions and from their exhibitions. That, these sources have hitherto proved inadequate to the construction of such apartments as are indispensably necessary to the successful accomplishment of their object. That, in conjunction with the other societies, to whom the corporation of the city have most liberally assigned the building now occupied by them, they have caused architectural plans to be prepared, showing the proposed improvements, in the exterior as well as the interior of the building-and which are calculated to render the whole an ornament to the city. That, whoever sees the painting of the Declaration of Independence in its present situation, will be immediately convinced that the exhibition room is utterly unfit for its purpose-the effect of the painting being obviously diminished by the badness of the cross lights, while the pier in the middle of the room occupies precisely that space which ought to be occupied by the spectators. The Directors have thought it right to avail themselves of this opportunity to call the attention of their fellow citizens to this subject, and to solicit from them such patronage as will enable them to execute the proposed improvements-to foster rising genius-and to render this school an honour to the city of New-York, and to the nation. attract their attention, and to which they invite the view of the public. 1. Our metals and minerals generally, including petrifactions. 2. Our indigenous animals, embracing the remains of those which are now extinct. 3. The relics of the unknown people who constructed the ancient works of the Western Country. 4. The various articles manufactured for ornament or use, by the present savage tribes. THE ROTUNDA. The reat edifice at the north-east corner of the Park in Chamber-street, in crowded with visitors. The present pathis city, is completed, opened, and noramic exhibition is a view of the interior of the city of Paris, by the celebrated Barker, taken from the south wing of the Palace of the Thuilleries, presenting a picturesque display of the magnificence and extent of that city, the View," we copy the following From the pamphlet "Explanation of ADDRESS. "Mr. VANDERLYN would have been happy to have opened the ROTUNDA with a production of his own pencil; but the Prompt support of the subscribers having contributed to raise the building before his utmost exertions could complete his picture, it was due to such liberality to occupy the building with some suitable subject until his own could be ready. A first attempt to organise the ramifications of such an establishment, necessarily contends with delays and difficulties, which we believe are now nearly surmounted, and its patrons may now count upon a continued succession of subjects for exhibition, calculated to delight the eye, and inform the mind. Unable at present to explain the plan this establishment embraces, suffice it to say, Mr. VANDERLYN will spare no pains or exertions to deserve encouragement; and hopes at least to manifest his lively sense of the munificence of the Corporation, and liberality of his fellow citizens, who have aided him in founding a PANORAMIC ROTUNDA." TRUMBULL'S GREAT NATIONAL PAINTING. A picture painted by Col. TRUMBULL, by order of the Government of the United States, and to be placed in the capitol; representing the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: and containing portraits of forty-seven of the Members present in Congress on that memorable occasion, is with permission of Government, now sub mitted to the view of the public. It is exhibited in the gallery of the New-Yerk Academy of Arts, at the Institution. The canvass measures eighteen by twelve feet. Of the forty-seven portraits, thirtyseven were painted from the life, by Col. Trumbull. This splendid painting represents the Congress at the moment when the Committee, THOMAS JEFFERSON, JOHN ADAMS, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ROGER SHERMAN, and ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, advance to the table of President HANCOCK, to make their report, which contained the Declaration of Independence. The colonel has issued proposals for publishing a Print from the original picture, to be engraved by one of the most eminent artists in Europe. The following is a list of the Portraits; the numbers opposite to the names refer to the outline of the Heads, which is placed under the Painting as a Key. 1. George Wythe, Virginia. 2. William Whipple, New-Hampshire. 3. Josiah Bartlett, do. 4. Thomas Lynch, jun. South-Carolina. 5. Benjamin Harrison, Virginia. 6. Richard Henry Lee, do. 7. Samuel Adams, Massachusetts. 8. George Clinton, New-York. 9. William Paca, Maryland. 10. Samuel Chase, do. 11. Lewis Morris, New-York. 12. William Floyd, 13. Arthur Middleton, South-Carolina. do. 40. Oliver Wolcott, do. 41. John Hancock, President, Mass. 42. Charles Thompson, Secretary, Penn. 43. George Read, Delaware. 44. John Dickerson, do. 45. Edward Rutledge, South-Carolina. 46. Thomas M'Kean, Pennsylvania. 47. Philip Livingston, New-York. Perpetual Motion. It appears that REDHEIFER has not yet relinquished his pretensions to the discovery of perpetual motion. He is engaged in preparing a very expensive and beautiful machine, by which he means to demonstrate the principles of his discovery. This fine was Steam-boat James Ross. specimen of naval architecture launched at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and is the largest boat that has appeared on the western waters. She measures 150 feet keel. Canals. Five thousand men, and two thousand oxen and horses, are now at work on the western and northern canals. Iron Foundry. In an iron foundry at Cincinnati, Ohio, eighty hands are employed. The iron work and engines for seven steam-boats are now making at this establishment. Chain Cable. Ninety fathoms of chain cable was completed at the Navy-Yard, Washington, in twenty days, for the frigate Congress. This was accomplished by the aid of a patent twisting machine, invented by Mr. BENJAMIN KING. One man worked the machine. American Canvass. By order of the Navy Commissioners, a fair test has been made of the comparative durability of American and Russia canvass, and it has resulted in a clear demonstration of the superiority of our own fabric. A preference is therefore given to our canvass for the public service. Important Expedition. An expedition under the command of Major LONG, is about to be despatched by our Government, to explore the head waters of the Missouri. A number of scientific gentlemen are to accompany the expedition. A steam-boat is preparing for their use at St. Louis. Navigation; Coal. Great progress has been made in improving the navigation of the river Lehigh. Coals from that river are expected to arrive at Philadelphia this season. Agricultural Societies; Cattle Shows. Agricultural Societies, in various parts of the United States, have recently had their anniversary meetings. From the results it appears that great attention is paid to rural economy; and that agricul |
