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Extra of a letter from a gentleman in Cambridge Univerfity (England) to one of the editors of the Anthology, dated February 6, 1806. I AM glad, that you are actively employed in promoting a fpirit and tafte for polite literature. In encouraging and effecting this object, I am certain that in your country in particular, men of letters will conduce more to the real happiness and comforts of fociety, than in acrimonious difquifitions on theology or politicks. You cannot too often inculcate to your countrymen a truth, of which too many of them appear regardlefs : 66 Didiciffe fideliter artes, emollit mores nec finit effe feros." From thefe we may hope that the thrifty economy of the fpeculator and merchant may in time be exacted into the liberality of the gentleman and scholar. Herbert Marth has not published his fermons in which he perhaps acts wifely, as the clamour would be very great, and fuch is the nature of the champions in the oppofite caufe that St. Paul himfelf could not quiet them. I am glad that the great learning of H. Marsh has at length met fome reward in a place on the civil lift of £.500 per annum. Your complaint on the exceffive dearness of books is very juft, and much felt in England. The printers and bookfellers confider nothing but themselves, and have the power to do as they please. I do not at prefent recollect any late work which I have read with fo much pleasure, as "The Lay of the laft Minstrel," a poem defcriptive of Border manners, which in many places feems to me to contain the true spirit of fong. The author is a gentleman, whofe ancestors were the actors, and who himself now lives on the fcene of his ftory. Mr. Hayley, with that active philanthropy which marks every action of his life, has addressed the following circular letter to the perfons who have honoured the intention of raifing a publick monument to Cowper by entering their names on the lift of subscribers: "Gratitude and integrity feem to require from me, at this time, an addrefs to the favourers of a plan, which I propofed to the publick, as a tribute dne to a departed object of national esteem and affection. To publih a Milton in three quarto volumes (including all the Manufcripts of Cowper relating to Milton, at the price of fix guineas, was a propofal, that, with extenfive encouragement, might have gratified the wishes of Cowper's ar dent admirers, and, in rendering a fignal and juft honour to him, might alfo have honoured the tafte of an enlightened and a liberal nation. Though the fignature of feveral most respectable names feemed to afford an honourable fanction to my first idea of a publick Monument for my literary friend, yet I am now difpofed to relinquith that idea; and I zealously folicit, not only thofe who have befriended it, but the publick at large to co-operate with me in a new, and different, mark of regard to the memory of the poet, on a plan, which I haften to explain, and to recommend to their favour. "Since the publication of my firft propofal, a favourite g. dion and namefake of Cowper has had the misfortune to become an orphan at an early age. It has occurred to me, that I may improve the tribute of general refpect to the memory of the poet, by converting his manufcripts, relating to Milton, not into marble, but into a little fund, to affift the education and future citablithment of this interefting orphan. I am confident that no tribute of respect to Cowper's me mory could be more truly acceptable to his pure and beneficent mind than what I now propofe; and I feel a pleature in believing, that I may grat ify many of his admirers by affording them an opportunity of purchafing the pofthumous poetry of my friend, and ef indulging, at the fame time, their feelings of tenderness and benevolence towards an orphan particularly endeared to the departed poet. "It is therefore my prefent intention to print, not a Milton in three volumes, but the Latin and Italian poems of Milton tranflated by Cowper (with all that remains of his projected differtations on Paradife Leit) in one handfome quarto, at the price of two guineas. "I cherith a fanguine hope that the liberality of the publick, and a general with to testify affectionate refpect to Cowper's memory, in a manner, that will appear, I truft, peculiarly fuited to the tenderness and the beneficence of his character, may render fuch a fubfcription as I have now propofed, in fome degree adequate to the defirable object in view. "To thole who have honoured me with their names for higher fums on my former plan, it is my duty to fay, that the perfons who have paid their money to the refpective bookfellers mentioned in the first propofal, are at liberty to refume the whole, or what portion of it they think proper. "If, on the contrary, they generously devote the whole fum fubfcribed towards a Monument for Cowper) to the orphan god child of the poet, I think it right to affure them, that, whatever may be raised by the prefent application to their liberality, will be vetted in two truftees, Samuel Smith, and John Sargent, efquires, members of parliament, for the benefit of the Orphan, whom, I have mentioned. Feb. 4, 1806 W. HAYLEY. "Cowper's tranflations from the Latin and Italian poems of Milton are already tranfcribed for the prefs, from the copy that includes his lateft corrections. "All perfons inclined to befriend the publication here recommended to their favour, for the benefit of the poet's orphan god-child. are refpectfully requested to pay their intended contributions to Mr Johnfon of St. Paul's Church Yard, or to Mr. Evans, Pall-Mall. "Thofe, who have made their refpective payments, in confequence of a different propofal, are now gratefully defired either to recall or confirm them at pleasure." Mr. Carr, who has already favoured the world with his Stranger in France, and with his Travels round the Baltic, has lately made the Tour of Ireland, and is now preparing an account of that almost unknown country which he intends to publish under the title of THE STRANGER IN IRELAND. The work will make one elegant volume quarto, fimilar to the Northern Summer, and will be embellished with a variety of engravings by MEDLAND from drawings by Mr. CARR. Mr. Walter Scott, author of the Poem of the Lay of the laft Minstrel, is preparing an edition of the long neglected works of John Dryden. The following details relative to the arts at Rome are given by one of the moft diftinguished fcientifick men of that city." We cannot boaft of many literary productions, but, to make amends, great pains are taken for clearing, cleanfing, and better preferving, the ancient monuments of architecture. His Holiness has greatly promoted this part of the art, one of the most interefting of antiquity. The architect and the antiquary will acquire new fubjects of erudition, and new works and new engravings will be rendered neceflary. The Works of Desgodetz, a new edition of which is about to be published by M. Carlo Fea, will derive an immenfe advantage from thefe labours, and will become almost entirely new. How different from what we have been accustomed to behold it, will appear that celebrated Pantheon, hitherto almost unknown, though the most beautiful of ancient edifices, and in the best prefervation! The Flavian Amphithea tre, or Coliseum, will be cleanfed, and the publick will have access to it, as to a museum. The Temple of the Sybil at Tivoli has been repaired; and the two arches of Septimius Severus and of Conftantine have been cleared of the earth which covered them. The column of Antoninus has been cleaned,and is no lon ger covered with duft. The fuppofed Temple of Vesta at Rome, on the Tiber, as well as the neighbouring one of Fortu na Virilis, will be cleared of the rubbish in which they have been as it were bur ied; and the interior of them will be cleanfed. Thus by the exertions of his Holigefs, ancient Rome will be expofed to view, and modern Rome will be embellifhed. Nor has the Holy Father for gotten the most celebrated of the modern buildings, the fmall circular temple erect ed in 1502, after the defigns of the illuftrious Bramante Lazzeri, under the aufpices of Ferdinand the Catholick King of Spain. It fell into ruins fome years fince, not from age, but in confequence of the late troubles. It was fold, in order that its precious materials might be removed but his holinefs has refolved to repair it in a ftyle of great elegance. In a fhort time M. Carlo Fea will fpeak of all these new undertakings in the fecond volume of Mifcellanies, which he has particularly devoted to what relates to the researches now carrying on, exclufive of what will be faid in his Illuftrations of Desgodetz.M. Guattani will likewife treat of them in a new journal which M. Carlo Fea is about to undertake. The former gentleman is at prefent engaged on the Sequel to the Unpublished Monuments, in which will be found many interesting particulars. The Museum of the illuftrious Cardinal Borgia has paffed into hands by which it will not be neglected. His nephew, the prefent poffeffor, is a man of information, and has a deep fenfe of the glory which the Cardinal acquired for his family by this unique collection. He continues the engravings which his uncle intended to have executed from drawings of the most remarkable objects in the Mufeum. He has communicated the Mexican Manufcript to M. Alexander von Humboldt, and has permitted him to make use of it for his werk: but he is thwarted in his noble defigns by the pretensions of the Propaganda. The Cardinal made that fociety his Heir, but bequeathed the Museum and other legacies to his family. He unfortunately made ufe of the expreflion, My Museum which is at Velletri ;" and the Propaganda claim a right to every thing that happened to be at Rome at the moment of the Cardinal's death, though the articles inconteftibly formed part of the Museum.— By a fecond fatality the Coptic inftruments, for which M. Zoega has just completed the defcription, were among the objects that had been brought to Rome. This important work cannot therefore be published till after the decifion of the procefs, unlefs the two parties come to a previous arrangement.Two learned Sicilians, the Chevaliers Landolini and Serrini, have refided for fome time at Rome. The former, who has already evinced fuch zeal for the antiquities of his country, is ftill engaged in refearches at the Theatre of Syracufe; and we are indebted to him for the recent difcovery of two fine statues, an Æfculapius and a Venus, which, however, are not fo beautiful as has been afferted. He is at this moment writing a Memoir on fome infcriptions found at the Theatre of Syracufe. The Chevaliar Sirini is endeavouring to difpofe of his collection of volcanick productions, and is preparing for a tour in the north M. LARTIGUE has at length completed a large and beautiful map of America in relief. The mountains, illands, and the tints of the fea, are all exhibited in a manner most capable of interesting those who make geography their study. Lev. Ifrael Worfley, who has lately efcaped from France, is about to publish in one volume, fmall octavo, an Account of the State of France and its Government during the laft Three Years, particularly as it has Relation to the Belgic Provinces and the Treatment of the English. Mr. Duppa has in the prefs, and will publish early in the fpring, a life of Michael Angelo Buonaroti, comprising his character as a poet, painter, sculptor, and architect. Mr. Bigland has in the prefs, and nearly ready for publication, Letters on Natural History. The object of this work is to exhibit the view of the wifdom and goodness of the Deity, fo eminently displayed in the formation of the univerfe, and the various relations of utility which inferiour beings have to the human fpecies. It is calculated particularly for the use of schools, and for youth in general of both fexes, and will be illustrated by upwards one hundred engraved subjects. The fame writer has recently published a second edition of his Letters on Ancient and Modern Hiftory, in octavo, which forms a handfome library-book, with an elegant engraving of the author. A variety of Lives of Lord Nelfon have been announced, from the price of fixpence to one hundred guineas. The three moft confiderable are, that by Meffrs. ARTHUR and CLARKE, and that under the patronage of the new Earl, and another from the house of Mr. BoWYER of Pall Mall. Each of them claims the recommendation of original materials; and as far as the subject itself is susceptible of novelty of illustration, they all appear to be entitled to the patronage of the publick. A most valuable collection of Eastern MSS., the property of Major Oufeley, brother of Sir William Oufeley, was brought to England by the last Bengal fleet. The number of Arabic, Perfian, and Sanfcript books, amounts to nearly fifteen thousand volumes. Besides thefe there are vaft collections of natural hiftory and mineralogy, and a great many botanical paintings executed in the most accurate manner. The quantity of additional curiofities and monuments is very great. There are many portfolios of immenfe fize, containing mythological paintings of great antiquity, fplendidly illuminated, and collected from all parts of Hindoftan, from Thibet, Tartary, China, Ceylon, Ava, &c. To these are added several idols of stone, metal, wood, and other materials. There is alfo a cabinet of the most rare medals, gems, and other antiques. The treasure is ftill farther enriched with a complete feries of the coins ftruck by Mahometan princes fince the reign of Timour, and with fpecimens of armour, horse furni ture, fwords, fpears, bows and arrows, and all the weapons used in Perfia, India, and other countries of the Eaft. The Major has also executed, on the spot, in various parts of India, original drawings. He has alfo brought home mufical inftruments, and feveral hundred tunes fet to mufick by himself, from the voice of Perfian, Caflimerian, and Indian fingers. The fituation of Major Oufeley, as Aid-de-Camp to the Nabob of Oude, gave him great advantages for procuring fuch commodities; and his acquifitions, added to thofe of his brother, Sir W. Oufeley, who already poffeffes eight hundred Arabic, Perfian, and Turkish MSS., will form a more fplendid collection than any that is poffeffed in Europe. Mr. Kidd propofes to publifh a new edition of Homer, with collations of many manufcripts never before examined. One of the most intimate friends of Winkelmann, the celebrated German antiquary, named Berendis, lately deceased, left among his papers feveral letters of that celebrated man. Thefe have been publified by Göthe, who has added various pieces of his own compofition, in which he endeavours to place the character of Winkelmann in a new light as a writer and as a man, by delineating him in the most remarkable circumstances of his life. Counseller Wolfe, of Halle, has enriched this volume with a very curious piece on the literary and philolo gical studies of Winkelmann. Lastly, profeffor Meyer has contributed a well written Hiftory of the Arts in the laft Century, which concludes the work, te which Göthe has thought fit to give the title of " Winkelmann and his Age." M. Schonberger, of Vienna, one of the first landfcape-painters of the age, has recently been engaged in a tour of the most picturefque parts of Switzerland and Italy. His productions are principally diftinguished for the happy arrangement of the objects, for the effects of the perspective, and the beauty of the colouring. This able artist is as well known in France as in Germany, by his beautiful pieces, in the exhibition of 1804. These were, a View of the Environs of Baix, near Naples, at fun-rife; the fall of the Rhine, near Schaffhaufen; and the Cafcades of Tivoli, by moonlight performances in which the touch and the native graces of Claude le Lorain were discoverable. : A new and complete edition of the Works of the celebrated Franklin will fpeedily make its appearance in England. It will embrace not only all that is contained in former editions, but likewife much new matter tranfmitted exprefsly for the work from America, Befide a correct likenefs of the venerable philofopher, it will contain eight engravings of fcientifick fubjects,executed by Mr. Lowry. STATEMENT OF DISEASES, From March 20 to April 20. THE weather during the latter part of March was cold and tempeftuous. The winds most commonly north-eafterly, and often accompanied with fnow. The commencement of April brought milder weather and fome eaft winds. Afterward the wintry north-west returned, and prevailed to the end of the month. On the whole, the east wind has exifted lefs frequently than ufual, and the weather has been colder. An epidemic catarrh attended with fevere febrile fymptoms, of fhort duration, has been quite common. Slight inflammatory affections of the throat, and violent ones of the lungs, have appeared; and theumatism has occafionally occurred. Toward the clofe of March an uncommon difeafe appeared at Medfield, the fymptoms of which we shall record with as much accuracy, as our information will admit. Any thing further on this Thofe, who fubject will be received with pleasure from thofe, who have feen the difeafe. It is faid that one or two cafes of the fame nature appeared in Boston. The fubjects were children between the ages of eighteen months and two years. could explain their feelings, faid they were attacked with a numbnefs in one arm, fucceeded by violent pain in the head, naufea and vomiting, throbbing of the carotid arteries, and rednefs of the eyes. In fome of the cafes, there was great pain in the ftomach and bowels, back, and limbs. The tongue was white, the pulfe, in this ftage, very hard and quick. After these actions had continued a few hours, they gradually fubfided. The arterial action efpecially became very feeble, fo that the pulfe in the wrist could fcarcely be felt; though the vibration of the carotids ftill appeared. Slight fpafms took place in fome inftances. Petechiæ appeared on various parts of the body. At last the vital and morbid actions disappeared one after the other, the pulfe became imperceptible, a deathlike torpor fucceeded and lafted fome hours, after which the patient funk into the arms of death. The duration of the dif eafe was generally from 18 to 36 hours. Of eight or nine patients affected, only one recovered, though the most active practice was employed. Inspection of the bodies of 4 of the difeafed difcovered nothing very remarkable. The veffels of the brain and its membranes, efpecially the pia mater, were fomewhat turgid with blood; the ftomach and intestinal canal flightly inflamed. Medfield is a village 18 miles from Boston. It contains 800 in habitants, and is confidered healthful. In the last autumn, many cafes occurred of the autumnal fever, but it was not un ufually fatal. No peculiar local caufe has been detected, which can poffibly be confidered the fource of this difeafe. The patients were within a space of two miles; but there was no reafon to think the disease was communicated from one to another. In one inftance, two of the affected were of the fame family. We have related the facts, and leave others to fpeculate upon them. The appearance of small pox, in this town and a neighbouring one, during this month, has produced a large number of cafes of vaccination; fo that there is fcarcely a physician in town, who has not, at prefent, fome patients with the difeafe. |