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Such an account will be given of every article as will render it easily understood, and, in fuch a manner as to bring into a fmall compass the most valuable ideas and interesting facts, in every depart ment of science and the belles-lettres, and to make known to the people of the United States the productions of men of genius and talents in Europe. As a fuitable introduction to this work, the Editor proposes to give a Catalogue raifonné, of Greek, Latin, Englife, French, Spanife, and Italian books, felected from the best bibliographical and periodical works that have appeared in France, and which will present a brief retrofpect of the literature and fcience of past years. A good catalogue of books in foreign languages is much wanted by men of letters in America, many of whom are unable to make a proper felection from a want of a fuitable means to guide their choice. The Editor has fpared no pains in making a collection, with a particular view to the United States; and he indulges the hope, that the profeffors of univerfities, colleges, and academies, the members of learned focieties, and the lovers of literature and the arts, in general, will find in the numbers of the Continent of Europe, or the Paris Correfpondent, much useful bibliographical intelligence, and valuable information in all the various branches of human knowledge, and that they will honour the present undertaking with their patronage and support. The first work will be printed in English, and published every month, by Ifaac Riley & Co. of New York. Each number will contain at least 48 pages 8vo. price 50 cents. The materials neceffary to commence and carry on the work are already provided, and will in future be regularly furnished by H. Caritat from Paris. The publication will commence as foon as a fufficient number of fubfcribers are obtained to defray the expenfes of the undertaking The fecond work, entitled L'Amerique du Nord, ou Le Correfpondent des Etats Unis, is defigned to exhibit to the inhabitants of Europe an account of all the publica. tions, productions, difcoveries, and improvements, in the United States. It will contain the various articles in all the branches of literature and science, arranged under proper heads, with an analytical account of the fame, in the manner propofed as to the first parc. The prices of goods, publick stacks, and other

ufeful commercial information will be added. As this work will be published in the French language, by H. Caritat, at Paris, American authors and publishers will have an opportunity of having their productions made known throughout Europe for which purpose it will be neceflary to make early communications of them to Ifaac Riley & Co. at NewYork, by whom arrangements will be made relative to both works, for the conve nience of subscribers in every part of the United States. The fecond work will be comprised in numbers of about 32 pages octavo, and published monthly at Paris, at 25 cents each. Subfcriptions re ceived at the Anthology Office.

The long expected Tour of Colonel Thornton through various parts of France, a fplendid work, which has been nearly three years in hand, is now nearly ready for publication. It will be comprifed in two volumes imperial quarto, illuftrated by about eighty beautiful engravings in colours, by Mr. Scott and other artists, from original drawings, defcriptive of the country, cuftoms, and manners of the people, taken by the ingenious Mr. Bryant, who accompanied the Colonel exprefsly for that purpose. This tour was performed during the ceffation of hoftilities, toward the conclufion of the year 1802, and the route being entirely different from that usually taken by English travellers, no fmall degree of information and interest is expect❤ ed to refult from the perufal of the work. To the sportsman in particular it cannot fail to prove highly gratifying, as we have no account whatever of the state of fporting in that country. Another edition of the work will appear at the fame time in royal quarto, with the plates uncoloured.

Mrs. Opie's Simple Tales are in a state

of forwardness.

Letters to a Young Lady, from the pen of Mrs. Weft, have been published in England.

In the Electoral Library at Munich have been discovered the Four Gospels, and a Liturgy of the eleventh century, in small folio, on fine white parchment, written in a beautiful diftin& character, and in the highest state of prefervation. They are very fplendidly bound, and ornamented with precious ftones and pearls: the clafps are of gold, and they are lettered on the back with ivory.

A Secret History of the Court of St. Cloud, in a Series of Letters from a Gen

aleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London, will appear immediately.

The univerfal and heartfelt tribute of respect which has been paid to the memory of the late lamented Lord Nelfon, has communicated its influence to the painters and poets; and many, very mapy, have, ever fince we had the advice of his death, been exerting all their powers to perpetuate his praise and immortalize his fame. They began with mixing marks of their regret with the illuminations for his brilliant victory, in which the blazing windows bore testi mony to the feelings of the inhabitants, 4 In words that blaze, and thoughts that buru.” It must be acknowledged, however, that fome of the infcriptions were more hmilar to readings in Westminster-Abbey, than to the tranfparencies of a rejoicing-night.

Jean, the artift, of Newman ftreet, exhibited a tranfparency of Britannia, with the ufual infignia of Fame, the victories of the gallant Admiral, and on the weft fide an urn, with the following infcription :

"Pritannia, vidor, ever must deplore Her darling Hero, Nelson, now no more!" The infcription at the houfe of Mr. Abraham Goldsmid was peculiarly appropriate and intelligent. Between two cordons of lamps, in transparent letters,

"I rejoice for my country, but mourn for my friend.

But fetting afide thefe little effufions of the hour, we find that feveral great works are in hand on the occafion.

Meffrs. Boydells intend having a very capital picture engraved in the first ftyle in commemoration of the event, but we believe have not yet entirely arranged the plan, though it will be laid before the publick in a few days.

Mr. Weft and Mr. Heath have announced and advertised their plan.

Mr. Copley has stated that he intends painting a large picture on the fame fubject.

We have, befide thefe, many advertisements from other artifts who intend publishing memorials on a smaller feale.

Mr. Orme has advertised an engraving from a picture to be painted by Mr. Craig; and Mr. Ackermann, we have been told, will almost immediately pubith a highly-finished graphick record of the Admiral's victories, &c., furmounted with a paval trophy in honour of his memory,

The Honourable Mrs. Damer has prefented to the Corporation of the City of London a marble Buft of Lord Nelion, which is to be placed on an elegant marble pedestal, and depofited in the Coupcil-Chamber at Guildhall

In about a month's time Meffrs. Loydells will publish a portrait of Lord Ne fon, which is now engraving by Earlem, from a picture painted by Sir William Beechey, and prelented to the Corporation of the City of London by the late Alderman Boydeil.

We faw this picture foon after it was finished, and thought it one of the finest that Sir William Leechey ever painted — It is a molt fpirited and animalca pertrait, marked with mind and appropriate character, but not painted to be viewed upwards of twenty feet above the eye, and at that height we were very much mortified to fee it exhibited in the Council-Chamber at Guildhall, where it is placed immediately over the leat of the Lord Mayor. But juftice to the its removal to a fituation nearer the eye; of our lamented Hero demands memory for here the whole portrait appears of one tone of colour, and the boncurable fcar in the Admiral's forehead, which was a remarkable mark, is entirely loft. portrait of Lord Rodney, which is fo painted that it would admit of being placed at a greater height, is about twelve feet from the eye. The fituation of the two portraits might be changed, and Lord Nelfon put in the place now appropriated to Lord Rodney, and vice verfa.--Lond. Month. Retrefpecs.

The

Advices recently received from Naples contain further details relative to the unrolling of the manufcripts difcovered at Herculaneum. Eleven perions are at prefent employed in unrolling and copying. The manufcripts hitherto infpected amount to about 140, eight of which have already been interpreted and tranfmitted to the minifter Seratti, that they may be examined by the Academy, and ordered to be printed. Thefe manuscripts are, fix of Epicurus, entitled, g

ur, On Nature. Another is by Philodemus; its title is, wigi tes Ogy, On Anger. The eighth wants both the title and name of the author. It treats of nature and the worship of the gods. The next four are almost entirely explained; but they have not yet been tranfmitted, because Mr. Hayter and the Abbé Foti, of the order of St. Bafil, jointly are to fuperintend their publication.

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The Abbé Foti has firft to collate the The paffage which ferves for entrance copies with the originals, to fupply what is twelve palms long, and ren wide. It is neceffary, and to tranflate. Mr.Hayter leads to a court, the walls of which are collates after him, alters what he thinks covered with ftucco of various colours. proper in the fupplements and tranfla- The capitals and cornices are in good tions, and delivers the copy to M. Foti,to preservation; and I there observed a Be again tranfcribed. The delay occa rofe, which is a inafter-piece both of de foned by Mr. Hayter in his labours, is fign and execution. All the apartments the reafon why thefe manuscripts have are decorated with beautiful painting not yet been feat either to the Academy on a red, blue, and yellow ground. You or the Minifter Their titles are as fol- there fee likewife detached columns, with fow one on logick, entitled On the flowers, candelabras, and ornaments, in Strength of Arguments drawn from Anal- the best ftyle. To the left are two apart ogy-Tip Как Kai Tay artix ments, which were probably thofe of Apr, Treatife on Vices and the con- the mafter and miftrefs. The painter trary Virtues-139, On Death. gave a free scope to his imagination in Thefe three works are by Philodemus. all the pictures, which I beheld with in The author of the fourth is Poliftratus: expreffible delight. Nothing can be Περί αλογα κατα φρονησεως ο δε επιγραχυσί more pleafing, among others, than προς τις αλόγως κατά θρασυνόμενες 7:3V EV dance of perfons in masks; and nothing I works dože Torrvar, On unreafonable more graceful than a little bird pecking Contempt; that is, of those who defpife at a basket of figs. In the centre of the unjustly what others commend.-This eourt is a ciftern, the impluvium of the manufcript is the leaft damaged, and ma- Romans. On a marble pedestal is a ny paffages of it are abfolutely untouch- young Hercules feated on a hind of ed. The other papyri are in a great part bronze. Thefe two pieces, one of which by Philodemus; they treat of rhetorick, weighs about twenty pounds, and the of poetry, and of morality. The publi- other forty, are of the most finished cation of thefe manufcripts cannot take workmanship. The water fell from the place with all the expedition that could mouth of the hind into a beautiful couch be wifhed, as the originals are to be en- of Grecian marble. Behind the pedestal graved before they are prefented to the was a table, the yellow feet of which publick. This procefs requires much reprefent the claws of an eagle.These time and money, and the want of the lat- perfect works have likewife been ter will confiderably retard the publica- conveyed to the Museum. A lateral tion. M. Rofini, bishop of Puzzuoli, to corridor on the right leads to a fecond whom the publick is indebted for the court, which was furrounded by piazzas, fragment of Philodemus on Mulick, is as is proved by the octagonal columne the perfon appointed by the Court of covered with fucco. In one of the a Naples to fuperintend the engraving and partments are observed two Bacchantes the publication of these manuscripts. holding thyrft. Above the window, tó the right, is a painting of Europa, of great beauty; fhe is quite naked, and is feated on the buil, which is plunging into the fea. Beneath is a young man carrying a basket of fruits: he is raising himself on tiptoe; and this attitude required of the artist a ftrongly marked expreffion of the mufcular fyftem. On the oppofite fide a beautiful female dancer excites admiration: he is holding and ftriking two cymbals; her veil, which floats, behind her, produces a very fine effect. On proceeding into the ad joining hall, the first thing that ftruck me was a magnificent pavement of the moft precious African marbles. The ceiling reprefents Venus between Mars and Cupid. In this hall were found fmall idol of bronze, a gold vafe weighing three ounces, a gold coin, and twelve

A diftinguished man of fcience at Naples has published an account of a viit he paid to Pompeii fince the late researches ordered by the Queen of Naples. The principal particulars of his statement are as follow:-"In a fearch begun about feven years ago was difcovered the capital of a pilafter, which was fufpected to be the lateral front of a grand portico. Laft winter the works were refumed at that place, and the correfponding pilafter was found. The brafs hinges of the door have been removed to the Mafeum of Portici. The habitation into which it leads is large and commodious, and richly ornamented with paintings and mosaic-work. The Building is formed of fquare ftones, fo icely fitted and cemented, that the whole would be taken for a single mafs,

others of copper, with the effigy of Vespafian. In the hall to the left fragments of pictures, painted on wood, half car bonized, were distinguishable: they were inclosed in a kind of niches: this was the bed chamber; eight little columns by which it was fupported may ftill be feen: they are of bronze, and to their fummits fill adhere fome pieces of gilded wood, which probably formed a canopy. On the lateral wall were painted two priests with long beards, and clothed in robes of blue and green: they have been removed to the Museum.

The kitchen contained a great quantity of utenfils, moftly of iron inlaid with filver in inconceivable perfection.But what moft ftruck me were five candelabras painted in fresco on a ground of an extremely brilliant yellow : I fcarcely knew how to leave the room which contained this master-piece of tafte and elegance: they are fupported by fmall figures, whofe attitude, drefs, and drapery, are fo exquifitely graceful, that they might ferve as models to all the belles in the world. In this house, as in most others of the ancients, you find no window opening towards the Street. I was ftruck with the fragments of a chariot which is still remaining in the coach-house you may perfectly distinguish the wheels and the brass ornaments of the chariot itself.-Clofe to the habitation is feen a door that conducts to another, and which, to judge by its exterior, will not furnish fewer beauties whenever it shall be permitted to be opened."

Mifs Edgeworth will publish early in January a new work, in two volumes,entitled Leonora.-Lon. Montb. Mag.

DEATHS IN BOSTON, From Friday, Feb. 20, to Thursday, March 20, as reported to the Board of Health by the Sextons.

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From Feb. 20th to March 20th.

THE weather of the past month has been, for the most part, cold and unpleafant. This is to be attributed to the prevalence of rough north-easterly winds, which have exifted through the month, almost without intermiffion.

"No gently-breathing breeze prepares the spring;"

but nature has again invested herself with her wintry robe.

To the north-easterly winds may be afcribed innumerabie catarrhs, fome of

medical aid.

which have been fo fevere as to demand Pneumonic inflammation has been common, but not fatal. Befides thefe inflammatory diseases, there have been some cases of cynanche tonfillaris, and we are informed that the cynanche maligna exifts. Typhus mitior, which was prevalent in the autumn and did not entirely difappear during the winter, feems again to have become frequent.

Some time fince, we remarked" that vaccination was scarcely heard of.” It is with forrow that we repeat this remark.

People think that phyficians are eager to propagate this disease for their own advantage. This is a very mistaken notion; for the faculty rather receive injury, than profeffional emolument, from the vaccinating practice. A spirit of philanthropy has excited great exertions for the diffufion and preservation of this practice; yet the time may come, when that fpirit will be extinguished by the prejudices of fome, and the cold indifference of others.

Editors' Notes.

THE continuation of the review of the Transactions of the Academy unfortunately was not prepared in season for the present number.

We should be proud to number the Authors of the Essay on Method and the Character of Dr. Howard among the regular contributors to the Anthology. It makes us nobis carior to be allowed to unite with ours the productions of minds, stored as theirs are with the riches of ripened thought, and ample and digested knowledge. The verses of L. are classical and ingenious. We should be pleased to be frequently indebted to the writer of the beautiful lines on Shipwreck. We do not precisely understand A. B.'s design. If he means to quarrel with the Reviewer of the sermon in question, he takes an odd method, by coinciding with him in opinion ;...if with the Writer, he cannot expect that we should make our work the theatre of the dispute.

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Island of Nisida...lake of Agnano...grotto del Cane...baths of St. Germain.

THE lake of Agnano is one of the objects which is pointed out to the curiosity of a stranger. It is about four miles from Naples. After passing the grotto, there is a house on the road side, where a guide is taken to conduct him to the lake, and the grotto del Cane. The man was instantly ready, and was bringing as usual a torch and a dog. The poor animal was meagre and feeble, and was unwillingly dragged along. I had no wish to see him tortured, and in sisted upon his being released, and his actions seemed to me more expressive than words could have been. When the man let go the rope which was round his neck he did not immediately run away, but looked up at us and seemed to wonder how he had escaped his accustomed torture; he continued thus till we drove off, and then turned slowly round and returned to the house.

The guide got up behind the carriage and we soon turned off to the right. After passing for some time beautiful fields highly cultivated, we descended a hill and came in sight of the lake, surrounded by hills. It is a beautiful piece of water, about half a mile in Vol. III. No. 4. X

circumference.

There were various species of wild fowl sporting on its surface. They appeared to be conscious of the security they enjoyed, for they suffered me to come close to them without discomposing themselves. The surface of the lake is sometimes almost covered with them. It forms a part of the territory devoted to the hunting pleasures of the king, and no vulgar sportsman ever dares disturb the tranquillity of the place. As the king seldom hunts here, the birds live unmolested, and multiply continually. Nothing could be more picturesque than this lake surrounded by hills; its smooth surface was unruffled by the slightest breeze, the wild ducks were swimming and diving in perfect security; there were no houses to be seen, a few goats were reposing under the shade of some trees on one side, and except these there was nothing to interrupt this delicious solitude, which recalled to my mind the fabled tranquillity of the golden age.

On the side of one of these hills is situated the grotto del Cane. This is only a hole in the side of the hill, closed with a gate. It is

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