LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

already done, we were induced to finish the plan which he had laid out; and with great fatigue to ourselves we compofed a thick octavo volume of Index to the Works of Tacitus, and completed an edition of Livy, which he had but just begun."

Birch & Small, of Philadelphia, have announced to the publick, that they are preparing for the prefs The Hiftory of Great Britain from the Revolution in 1668 to the Treaty of Amiens in 1800, by W. Belfham, Efq. The profpeétus with conditions will fhortly be published.

Lexington, August 20. AS I am about paffing into Louifiana, and will probably be abfent from this ftate fome time, I think it neceffary to inform that portion of the publick which has kindly expreffed a folicitude for the appearance of my HISTORY of the INDIAN WARS, that the work is far from being relinquifhed. It compofes a part of the AMERICAN HISTORY, too important to remain unwritten, at a period when it may be completed with advantage to the community, and when time has left untouched the principal fources of correct information, The work will be suspended till the author's return to this state. But the country to which he is about to travel, will conftitute a point, from whence the moft valuable obfervations, on the prefent focial condition of the favage tribes can be made. As foon as the object of his miffion is accomplished, he will contemplate in perfon, the genius of a people, with whofe actions we have become acquainted by feeling their barbarous effects, but of whofe national character, we have very little fatisfactory intelligence. By this means, moft lively impreffions will be made upon the mind of the hiftorian, and he will be better enabled to give to his narrative the ftamp of original observation, than if it was fimply compiled from the cold details of ancient or cotemporary authors.

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As it is the intention of the author to pass from the Apelufas country, by the route of St. Louis, through the North-western tribes, he will have fome opportunity of acquiring the Indian acsaunt of many of thofe events, with

which the first fettlers here were fa-
miliar. Thefe accounts will of courfe
be rendered more authentick, by ob-
taining the feparate details of the par-
ties engaged in hostilities.

The documents already procured,
for the work in queftion, are numerous,
of the first authority, and highly eluci
dative of many important events, which
were rapidly paffing away from the no-
tice of the prefent generation. Many
remain yet to be acquired, both in the
philofophical and military departments
of the hiftory. Thofe already in the
poffeffion of the author, embrace a
great variety of matter appropriate to
the subject in view. They relate to the
genius, manners, and focial condition of
the Indians in different parts of the
continent of America, and in the Islands
of the Southern and Pacific Oceans.
They explain the general principles of
that policy, which from time to time
was adopted by the Cabinets of France
and England, in relation to Indian af-
fairs in America. They detail a con-
fiderable part of thofe early events
which gave rife to the connections be-
tween the French and Indians of Can-
ada, to render more formidable their
oppofition to the British Colonies; an
oppofition which generally grew out of
trans-atlantic politicks. They defcribe
the means and the motives from which
the French extended their fettlements
along the Northern Lakes, and on the
fhores of the Mifliflippi. Many of
thofe documents alfo, give very curious
and particular details of the Cherokee and
Muskogee operations, against the colo-
nies to the fouth, of the wars to the
northward, from the year 1750, to the
American revolution; and of those
bloody hoftilities which enfued during
the efforts of the Americans to fettle
the Western country.

With the materials now on hand, and with fome others, which a little diligence will enable him to procure, the author prefumes, that he will poffefs the means of ultimately prefenting to the world a fubject, in fome measure, worthy the contemplation of thofe ftatef men, who are in the habit of calculating the future destiny of nations through the medium of events that have paffed away.

ALLAN B. MAGRUDER,

MEDICAL REPORT.

October.

The diseases of children have generally given place to those of adults. Little is now seen of cholera, dysentery, or hooping cough; but during the month there have been some fatal terminations of protracted cases of these disorders.

William P. Farrand & Co. of Philadelphia, in connexion with the Rev. E. Williams, Rotherham, and E. Parfons, Statement of Diseases in Boston for Leeds, England, are publishing by sub. fcription, in ten volumes, royal octavo, the whole works of Philip Doddridge, D.D. with Orton's life and elegant portrait of the author. Several of the firft volumes of this work are now ready to be delivered to fubfcribers, and thofe remaining will probably be received in the courfe of the feafon. They are executed in a style highly elegant, on new type, and paper of a fuperiour quality. The price in boards is three dollars a volume on fine paper; and two dollars and fifty cents a volume, for thofe copies which are not hot-preffed.

Typhus mitior has been exceed ingly prevalent among adults, and it has been often marked by an uncommon regularity in the accession of the paroxysms; rarely has it proved fatal. Typhus gravior continues to show itself. Some cases of slight pneumonick affections have been remarked near the end of the

month.

On the whole, the season has become much more healthy, than in 3 the preceding months.

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Editors' Notes.

After some thought we have concluded not to publish the communication signed “A Chris tian," although it is entitled to respect, botly because its principles are just and because we presume it was written by one to whom we are 1 already highly indebted. But we confess we are fatigued with our contest. There are some men who are formidable from their perseverance, though their strength may not alarm us, men whose power consists not in the vigour of their muscles, but in the pertinacity of their grasp; who are never conquered, because they are never wearied.

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The political speculation with which we have been honoured came too late for the present number; we need not say how readily it will be inserted in the next.

We have likewise very gratefully received a letter from Sicily, which, with the observations of Historicus, are necessarily postponed till the number for November.

In the notes to the last Anthology we men1 tioned, that we had in our possession a life of Bentley. We are induced to defer it for the present, because our files are so rich in more original matter. We shall not be displeased to have our designs often interrupted in this way.

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Lues venerea

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MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY,

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BIOGRAPHICAL

NOVEMBER, 1805.

of Newport, Rhodeisland, late senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Doctor of Laws, King's Professor of Greek, Prime Sergeant at Law, Vicar General of the diocese of Kildare, and Member of Parliament for the University of Dublin, &c.

DR. ARTHUR BROWNE, who died a few months since in Ireland, was the son of the Reverend Marmaduke Browne, rector of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode island, and grandson of the episcopal clergyman of the same name at Portsmouth, Newhampshire. Arthur Browne distinguished himself while at school* by his talents, industry, and strong desire of improving his education

This was an excellent grammar school, founded by Dean Berkeley, afterward Bishop of Cloyne, but not wholly confined to children of Episcopalians; it was kept, for a series of years, by a German gentleman, learned and severe, Arthur Browne, Gilbert named Knotchel. Stewart, the painter, FB, and the au thor of this sketch, were of the same standing, and all of them inspired with the same ardent desire of visiting Europe; three of them attained their wishes; and two of them, Browne and Stewart, acquired celebrity.

"Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb
The steep, where Fame's proud temple stands
afar!

Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime
Has felt the influence of malignant star!
And waged with Fortune an eternal war!
Check'd by the scoff of pride, by envy's frown,
And poverty's unconquerable bar,

In life's low vale remote have pined alone," &c.
Beattie's Minstrel.
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in some European university. To
gratify this laudable ambition his
father obtained leave of his church
to go over to Ireland, the country
of his ancestors, in order to
make some provision for entering
his son at Trinity College, Dub-
lin. This he completely effect-
ed; and then embarked in a small
vessel to return to his anxious
Mr. Browne,
flock and family.
not being so well acquainted with
men in the sordid walks of life, as
with characters in higher stations,
allowed the skipper of the vessel
to put in the needful stores, with-
out ever examining their quanti-
ty. This man laid in scarcely
half enough for a short passage.
Unfortunately the barque was
more than three months on the
ocean; and the mariners, with
reduced for sev-
their passenger,
eral weeks to a short allowance of
their only remaining articles of
sustenance, salt-beef and water;
so that, when this worthy clergy-
man arrived at Rhodeisland, his
nearest connexions hardly knew
him. The distressing voyage