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Rev. JOHN LORD. Introductory prayer by the Rev. John R. Cutting, of Waldoborough; Sermon by Rev. Josiah Webster, of Hampton, N. H. from 1 Tim iii. 16. Inducting prayer by Rev. Jonathan Huse, of Warren;

Charge by the Rev. Mr. Johnson, of Belfast; Right hand of Fellowship by Rev Thomas Cockran, of Camden; and concluding Prayer by Rev. Henry True, of Union.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.
ORIGINAL.

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Reports of Cases argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the U-trict court of Pennsylvania; in the nited States,in the years 1807and1808. Vol. 4. By William Cranch, Chief Judge of the circuit court of the District of Columbia. Flatbush, N. Y. 1. Riley. 1809.

An Oration, pronounced at Watertown, July 4th, 1809. At the request of the Republicans of Watertown, and the adjacent towns, in commemoration of the anniversary of Amer. ican Independence, by Timothy Fuller, Esq. Boston, J. Belcher, 1809.

The Mystery of Godliness, a Sermon, delivered at Thomastown, June 15, 1809, at the Installation of the Rev. John Lord, to the Pastoral Office in that place, by Josiah Webster, Pastor of the Church in Hampton. Newburyport, Thomas and

Whipple. 1809.

An Oration, pronounced July 4th, 1809, at the request of the Selectmen of the town of Boston, in commemoration of the anniversary of American Independence. By William Tudor, jr. Esq. Boston, J. Belcher, 1809.

An Oration in commemoration of the anniversary of American Independence; delivered in Boston, July 4th, 1809, at the request of the Bunker Hill Association. By William Charles White, Esq. To which is added, an Introductory Address, by David Everett, Esq. Boston, J. Belcher, 1809.

A Report of the whole trial of Gen. Michael Bright, and others; be fore Washington and Peters, in the Circuit court of the United States, in and for the District of Pennsylvania, and in the third circuit; on an Indictment for obstructing, resisting,

case of Gideon Olmsted and others, against the surviving Executrices of David Rittenhouse deceased. By Thomas Lloyd; the arguments of Counsel, and charge of the Judge revised by each, respectively. Philadelphia, P. Byrne. 1809.

American Ornithology, or the Natural History of the Birds of the United States, comprehending those resident within our territory, and those that migrate hither from other regions, among which will be found a great number of land and water birds hitherto undescribed, &c. &c. By Alexander Wilson. Philadelphia, Bradford and Inskeep. 1809.

The American Register, or General Repository of History, Politics, and Science, part 2, for 1808. Philadelphia. 1809.

The New York Medical Repository, No. 48, completing the second hexade. E. Cotton, agent, Boston, 1809.

The Letters and a Sermon of the Rev. William Romayn, M. A. to a friend on the most important religious subjects, during a correspondence of twenty years. N. York, J. Shedden. 1809.

Letters supposed to have passed between St. Evremond and Waller. To which is prefixed a biographical sketch of St. Evremond, Waller, and several of their cotemporaries. By a gentleman of Baltimore. Baltimore, Cole and Thomas. 1809.

A practical Essay on the Analysis of Minerals, exemplifying the best methods of analysing Ores, Earths, Stones, Inflammable fossils, and Min

eral substances in general. By Frederick Accum, teacher of Practical Chymistry, Pharmacy, and Mineralogy. First American, from the third London edition. Philadelphia, Kimber and Conrad, and B. and J Kite, 1809.

The United States' Spelling Book, with appropriate Reading Lessons. Being an Easy Standard for Spelling, Reading, and Pronouncing the English Language, according to the Rules established by John Walker, in his Critical and Pronouncing Dictionary. By sundry experienced Teachers. Pittsburgh (Penn.) Zadok Cramer. 1809.

Statement of Duties on American and other produce imported from the United States into Great Britain, agreeably to the provisions of Act 48th, Geo. III. cap. 85. N. York, E. Sargent. 1809.

Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, No 7, and Vol. 2, for July, 1809. ByE. Bronson, and others. Philadelphia, Hopkins and Earle, and Farrand, Mallory, and Co. Boston.

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia: with Select cases, relating chiefly to points of Justice decided by the Supreme Court of Chancery for the Richmond District. The Second edition, revised, and corrected by the authors. Vol. I. By W. W. Hening and William Munford. Flatbush, N.Y. I. Riley, 1809.

NEW EDITIONS.

A General View of the Doctrines of Christianity; designed more especially for the edification and instruction of families. Boston, Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss. 189.

Memoirs of Mrs Elizabeth Carter, by the Rev. Montague Pennington, M. A. Vicar of Nathborn. Boston, O. C. Greenleaf. 1809.

Reliques of Robert Burns, consisting chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical Observations on Scottish Songs, now first published by R. C. Cromeck. Philadelphia, Bradford and Inskeep, and O. C. Greenleaf, Boston. 1809

Elements of General History, ancient and modern, By Alex. F. TytRr, late professor of History in the

University of Edinburgh, &c. Philadelphia, F. Nichols. 1809.

The Life of Petrarch, collected from Memoires Pour la vie de Petrarch, by Mrs. Dobson. The first American, from the seventh London Edition. Embellished with two handsome engravings. Boston, Farrand, Mallory, and Co. 1809.

Considerations on the Nature and Efficacy of the Lord's Supper, by the Rev. Vicesimus Knox. To which are added, Prayers composed and used by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. New York, J. Shedden, 1809.

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, during the time of Lord Redesdale. First Volume. Containing the Cases from the Beginning of Easter term, 1802, to the end of Easter term, 1804. By John Schoales, and Thomas Lefroy, Esq. Barristers at Law. N. York, I. Riley. 1808.

The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, Minister of the Gospel in Northampton, Massachusetts, and afterwards President of the college in New Jersey. In 8 volumes. Worcester, Isaiah Thomas, Jun. 1809.

Letters from a late eminent Pre

late to one of his Friends. First American Edition. Boston, Munroe, Francis, and Parker. 1809.

A Farewell Sermon, preached May 28, 1809, at Newark, New Jersey, by Edward D. Griffin, D. D. Second Edition. Thomas and Whip. ple, Newburyport. 1809.

WORKS PROPOSED.

A. Finley, Philadelphia, proposes republishing a History of the Apostles and Evangelists, writers of the New Testament. By Nathaniel Lardner, D. D.

E and E. Hosmer, Albany, propose by subscription, a work entitled the Testimony of Christ's Second Appearing containing a general statement of all things pertaining to the faith and practice of the Church of God in this latter day. Published by order of the Ministry in union with the church.

Ezra Sargent of New York, and Munroe, Francis, and Parker, of Boston, propose to republish

Universal Biography, containing a copious account, critical and historical, of the life and character, labors and actions of eminent persons of all ages and countries, conditions, and professions, arranged in alphabetical order. By J. Lempriere, D. D. Author of the Classical Dictionary.

John Morgan, and Thomas S. Manning, Philadelphia, propose repub lishing Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in 2 vols. quarto,into which will be introduced Mason's Supplement, and Walker's Pronunciation.

Mathias James O'Conway, Philadelphia, proposes to publish by subscription, a Practical Anglo Spanish Grammar, wherein will be exhibited the whole variety of Spanish Construction,illustrated with copious ex.

amples, consisting of familiar and commercial phrases.

Hopkins and Earle, Philadelphia, propose to publish immediately Helps to Composition, or Skeletons of Sermons. By the Rev. Charles Simeon, M. A. in 5 volumes, 8vo.

Munroe, Francis, & Parker, of this town propose to print a third edition of the plays of William Shakspeare: with notes by Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, andother Annotators. THE work will contain the same number of pages as the Second Boston Edition of Shakspeare's Plays, in nine duodecimo volumes,fine wove paper. The volumes will be published monthly, bound in extra boards, at one dollar per volume. Those who subscribe for eight copies, and are accountable for the pay, will be entitied to a ninth set gratis.

OBITUARY.

DIED at Keene, (N. H.) on Saturday 13th of May, 1809. DANIEL NEWCOMB, M.D. late of Boston, aged 24. The death of this young man, science and religion unite in deploring. His father, the Hon. Daniel Newcomb of Keene, (N. H.) early inspired his son with a taste for letters, and formed his mind to usefulness. Strength of intellect and independence of character were his most distinguishing traits from the schoolboy to the bachelor of arts. Harvard University admitted him among her alumni, when he was but eighteen years old. The interval be. tween his leaving the university and the day of his death was whollydevoted to the profession of medicine. Such was his industry, and so judiciously directed were all his labors, that few young men in this part of our country have made so much progress to wards usefulness and eminence in the same space of time as had Dr. Newcomb. After having availed himself of the first advantages afforded by our country to the medical student, and received the degree of Doctor in Medicine at the University of Penn

sylvania, he settled in the practice of medicine at Portland; but soon relinquished that place for the metropolis. He removed to Boston during the January of 1807. Here he had de. termined to wait, resting entirely upon his personal merits and exertions for an introduction to the prac tice of the healing art. His mind began to turn upon religious concerns more than it had done, soon after he came to Boston; although he had ever been distinguished for correctness of conduct and an integrity never to be scrupled. He began to realize that his hopes for salvation must rest on a different basis than his own merits or exertions, that the dying love of a crucified Redeemer was his only safety, and that he must cheerfully take up the cross and obey the gospel. Of these sentiments and principles he made public profession. The symptoms of consumption first appeared about two years before his death. Notwithstanding his debility and expectations of soon leaving this world, like the sincere Christian and the calm philosopher, he doubled his diligence to be found doing when

his Lord should come. He not only faithfully attended those, who resign. ed their health to his skill, but he was active in storing his mind with all knowledge suited to extend the sphere of his usefulness. While he saw the king of terrors aiming at him the fatal blow he collected the materials and wrote a Dissertation on Caner; which the Boylston Medical Committee of Harvard Universityhonered by awarding to it the premium; before the completion of which he was forced by his disease to leave Boston for the country. During his

whole sickness, his mind continued unimpaired. Religion and science buoyed up his sinking spirits. The Bible and Euclid made him forget for a while his pains, and he died as he had lived, the humble and intelligent Christian.

* During his last illness Dr. Newcomb read the principal part of Euclid's Elements of Geometry, "that he might," as he used to express it, “preserve his mind free from impair, and leave the world with his reason unclouded."

DIED, on Friday, the 28th inst. the REV. JONATHAN FRENCH, pastor of the South Church in Andover, in the 70th year of his age, and 37th of his ministry.

HEAV'N gives us friends to bless the present scene;
Resumes them, to prepare us for the next.
All evils natural are moral goods;
All discipline, indulgence, on the whole.
None are unhappy; all have cause to smile,
But such as to themselves that cause deny.
Our faults are at the bottom of our pains;
Error, in act, or judgment, is the source
Of endless sighs: we sin, or we mistake,
And nature tax, when false opinion stings.
Let impious grief be banish'd, joy indulg'd;
But chiefly then, when grief puts in her claim.
Joy from the joyous, frequently betrays,

Oft lives in vanity, and dies in woe.

Joy, amidst ills, corroborates, exalts;

'Tis joy, and conquest; joy, and virtue too.

A noble fortitude in ills delights

Heav'n, earth, ourselves; 'tis duty, glory, peace.
Affliction is the good man's shining scene;
Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
Heroes in battle, pilots in the storm,

And virtue in calamities, admire.

YOUNG.

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POETRY.

A RURAL MEDITATION.

WHAT Soft delight the peaceful bosom warms,
When nature, drest in all her vernal charms,
Around the beauteous landscape smiles serene,
And crowns with every gift the lovely scene!
In ev'ry gift the donor shines confest,

And heav'nly bounty cheers the grateful breast.
Now lively verdure paints the laughing meads,
And o'er the fields wide-waving plenty spreads.
Here woodbines climb, dispensing odors round;
There smiles the pink, with humble beauties crown'd;
And while the flowers their various charms disclose,
Queen of the garden, shines the blushing rose.
The fragrant tribes display their sweetest bloom,
And every breezy whisper breathes perfume.

But this delightful season must decay;
The year rolls on, and steals its charms away.
How swift the gaily transient pleasure flies!
Stern winter comes, and ev'ry beauty dies.
The fleeting bliss while pensive thought deplores,
The mind in search of nobler pleasure soars ;
And seeks a fairer paradise on high,

Where beauties rise and bloom, that never die.
There winter ne'er invades with hostile arms,
But everlasting spring displays her charms :
Celestial fragrance fills the blest retreats,
Unknown to earth in all her flow'ry sweets.
Enraptur'd there the mind unwearied roves
Through flow'ry paths, and ever-verdant groves:
Such blissful groves not happy Eden knew,
Nor fancy's boldest pencil ever drew.
No sun, departing, leaves the scene to mourn
In shades, and languish for his kind return;
Or with short visits cheers the wintry hours,
And faintly smiles on nature's drooping pow'rs.
But there the Deity himself displays
The bright effulgence of his glorious rays;
Immortal life and joy his smile bestows,
And boundless bliss for ever, ever flows.

STEELE

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The "Further Particulars" of the Rev. Mr. Newton, communicated by a correspondent, to whom we are under many obligations, came too late for this number, they shall have a place in our biographical department next month. Several other communications have been received, some of which will ap pear in our future pages.

The account of the transactions of the General Association, promised

Min our last, was not received in season for this number.

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