world, which has been in a great measure effected in the course of the laft age.

"The frequent and mortal prevalence of the peftilential disease, called Yellow Fever, in the cities, and in fome parts of the country, in the United States, for the last ten years, forms a memorable event in the medical history of this country, during the century which is the subject of this Retrospect. The malignity and ravages of this epidemic impressed the public mind with the deepest apprehenfions, and undoubtedly gave a new impulse and vigour to medical investigation. The origin of this disease has been warmly contested in the United States, in the West-Indies, and in Europe. While many maintain that it is produced by the exhalations of putrefaction, whether fuch putrefaction be found in the filth of cities, of marshy grounds, or of veffels on the water; others, on the contrary, affert, that it is always produced by contagion emitted from the fick labouring under the disease, and fucceffively propagated from one person to another. The latter opinion seems to be fast losing ground among the better informed part of the medical profeffion, and of the public; while the evidence in fupport of the former is accumulated, and rendered more luminous and irresistible, by the occurrences of every epidemic feason.

(To be continued.)

MONTHLY CATALOGUE

OF

New Publications in the United States, for March, 1804.

NEW WORKS.

Difcourfes to Young Perfons, by the late Rev. JOHN CLARKE, D. D. minister of the First Church in Boston, 1 vol. 12mo.HALL and HILLER-Boflon.

Thefe Sermons, which are now first published, were in the courfe of his ministry, delivered by their author to his congregation. They are directed to a variety of practical and very important subjects; and in point of compofition, they are no way derogatory to the acknowledged learning and talents of that worthy preacher.

The Conflitutionalist; addressed to men of all parties in the United States; by an AMERICAN. Pamph. 8vo.-H. MAXWELLPhiladelphia.

Abridgment of the Laws of Pennsylvania, being a complete Digeft of all fuch Acts of Affembly as concern the Commonwealth at large, by COLLISON READ, Efq. Volume II.-H. MAXWELL.Philadelphia.

The public are refpectfully informed, that in addition to the general laws of the state, the prefent volume contains a complete digeft of all the acts now in force for the relief of infolvent debtors.

NEW EDITIONS.

A Commercial Didionary, containing the prefent ftate of Mercantile Law, Practice and Cuflom; by JOSHUA MONTEFIORE, Author of "Commercial Precedents," &c. The first American edition, with very confiderable additions relative to the Laws, Ufages and Practice of the United States. 3 vols. 8vo. J. HUMPHREYS.-Philadelphia.

In the preface, we are presented with the following account, and just observations on this valuable work. "The author has selected his materials from the enactments of the legislature, and the reporters and commercial writers of the most acknowledged authority. He has freely availed himself of the voluminous library of the lawyer, and the assistance of mercantile men; together with that great mass of information, which the increased commerce of this country has produced during the last twenty years of the eighteenth century, and which has never yet been presented to the public in such a systematic form, as reduces the general 'result of this combined intelligence into moderate compass, and adapting it to the use of the counting-bouse, as well as to the library of the Statesman and Scholar,

"His arrangement he conceives to be the best calculated for perspicuous communication and practice; the form of a Dictionary suggested itself as calculated to the end proposed; this mode has also the additional advantage of enabling him to treat more copiously on subjects of greater comparative interest. Hence it may perhaps be found, that the important heads of Bankruptcy, Bills of Exchange, Customs, Excise, Exports, Imports, Insurance, Law of Nations, Navigation, Plantations, and Shipping, are an incorporation of complete systems; for the length of which the compiler knows he needs no apology to his professional, and he trusts his commercial readers will not require any."

We may add, that these volumes will not only prove, in the highest degree, useful to the merchant and trader, but will be found a very interesting cyclopedia of economical and important information to every gentleman.

Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education, by ELIZABETH HAMILTON, author of "Memoirs of Modern Philofophers," &c. 2 vols. 12mo. B. JOHNSON.-Philadelphia.

Village Sermons, or plain and fhort Difcourfes on the principal doctrines of the Gofpel, intended for the ufe of families, Sunday schools, or companies affembled for religious inftruction in Country Villages; by GEORGE BURDER. 2 vols. 12mo. W. W. WOODWARD.-Philadelphia.

Philofophical and Critical Enquiries concerning Chriflianity, tranf lated from the French of C. BONNET. I vol. 12mo. W. W. WOODWARD.-Philadelphia.

Univerfal Hiftory, ancient and modern, from the earliest records of time to the general peace of 1801, by WILLIAM MAVOR, Vicar of Hurley and Chaplain to the Earl of Dumphries. 25 vols. 12mo.-S. F. BRADFORD-Philadelphia.

We learn, that only the fix firft volumes of this work are at prefent ready for fale. The American Gazetteer, exhibiting a full account of the Civil Divisions, Rivers, Harbours, Indian Tribes, &c. of the American Continent, alfo of the West India, and other appendant Islands ; and a particular defcription of Louifiana, compiled from the best authorities, by J. MORSE, D.D. A.A.S. S. H. S. author of the "American Univerfal Geography ;"-illuftrated with maps, -Second Edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged; 1 vol. 8vo. THOMAS & ANDREWS-Bofton.

Poems; viz. the Spleen, the Grotto, &c. by MATTHEW GREEN.1 vol. 12mo. H. SPRAGUE and others-Bofton.

The Temple of Nature; or the Origin of Society; a Poem, with Philosophical Notes; by ERASMUS DARWIN, M. d. 8vo.-T. & J. SWORDS.-New-York.

vol.

This is the fecond American impreffion of that pleafing and popular work, which, but a little more than three months ago, first arrived to this country.

The Review; or, the Waggs of Windfor; a Drama by G, COLMAN.-D. LONGWORTH.-New-York.

The Domeftic Encyclopedia; or, a Dictionary of Fa&s and Ùfeful Knowledge; comprehending a concife view of the latest Discoveries, Inventions, and Improvements, chiefly applicable to Rural and Domestic Economy; together with defcriptions of the most interesting objects of Nature and Art, the history of Men and Animals, in a state of Health or Disease; and practical hints respecting the Arts and Manufactures, both familiar and commercial.-Illuftrated with numerous Engravings and Cuts.-By A. F. M. WILLICH, M. D. Author of the Lectures on Diet and Regimen, &c. &c.-First American edition. With additions, applicable to the present situation of the United States; by JAMES MEASE, M. D.-T. & J. SWORDS-New-York,

LITERARY ADVERTISEMENTS.

THE lively zeal, which prevails among the Bookfellers of Philadelphia, for rivaling those of London in their beauty and excellence of printing, deferves our grateful attention and praise. They have lately produced feveral fpecimens of workmanship, which ftrongly evince their ability for accomplishing their worthy defign. It is to be earnestly hoped, that their example may become widely influential, and tend to enliven a similar emulation in the profeffors of other arts.

H. MAXWELL and T. S. MANNING will publish, in the course of the prefent month, the first volume of the works of Shakespeare. This edition they attempt under the patronage of fubscribers; and they propofe it, as the most complete and elegant, that has ever yet been undertaken in America. It will be copied from

the laft London edition, of 1803, comprifing the corrections and illustrations of various commentators, together with the notes of Dr. Johnson and G. Stevens, revised and augmented by I. Reid with a Gloffarial Index.-The following is a fummary of their

TERMS:

This edition of Shakespeare will be contained in fixteen crown-octavo vols. It will be printed in a style, eminently beautiful, on a fine cream-coloured woven paper, with a type entirely new, and caft for the purpose.

The proprietors pledge themselves, that it shall surpass the London edition in ncatness of mechanical execution, and rival it in fidelity and correct

nefs.

It will be printed under the immediate direction and superintendance of an Editor, affisted by several men of letters.

The price to fubfcribers will be 1 dollar 50 cents per volume in boards; to non-fubscribers 1 dollar 75 cents.

To suit the economy or the taste of different purchasers, an edition will be printed in a compressed, cheap and portable form, without the notes, in 8 vols. 12mo. price 1 dollar per vol. in boards..

It is contemplated to print one volume every month, from the time of commencement until the work be completed.

The proprietors sanguinely hope, that the liberality of the public will be conspicuous in the support of a work of a fingular magnitude, to which intense labour and great expense are neceffarily incident.

IT may be pleasing to the amateurs of literary History, who have not previously obtained this intelligence, to mention, that in November last the long expected elaborate work of GODWIN on the Life and Times of GEOFRY CHAUCER, was actually published. It comprehends views of the progrefs of fociety, manners and the Fine Arts, from the dawn of literature in modern Europe to the close of the fourteenth century, with characters of the principal perfonages in the courts of Edward, the third, and Richard, the fecond.

Meffrs. W. PELHAM, MANNING & LORING, and E. LINCOLN, of this town, purpose to publish a third volume of the Life and Pofthumous Writings of WILLIAM COWPER, which has been recently published in London, under the editorial direction of Mr. HAYLEY. This publication, confifting entirely of poems and letters heretofore unpublished, is probably the last that will be offered to the public, and it will be printed in a uniform manner with their preceding volumes.

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MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.

CONCLUSION

OF A SKETCH OF THE FORMER AND PRESENT STATE OF THE
COLUMBIAN MUSEUM.

(From page 192.)

Beside those beautiful paintings which were last mentioned, our notice is attracted to these elegant Prints-Providence, Happiness, Wisdom, Innocence, and Conjugal Affection, &c.

Elegant STATUARY lately received from Paris and Italy; Pope Gangenelli, Dr. Franklin, (elegant Marble bufts); Gen. Bonaparte, Gen. Moreau, (bronzed); Cato, Cicero, Demofthenes, Homer, Laocoon and Sors, Apollo, Diana, Vestal Virgin, Venus, &c.-well worthy the attention of the connoiffeur, and ladies and gentlemen of taste.

The Buft of Gangenelli is thought to be the fineft piece of Sculpture ever feen in this country, and is faid to have originally coft (in Rome) 1000 guineas. Elegant WAX-FIGURES-large as life, viz.-Roman Charity, represented by a beautiful Young Woman, nourishing her (venerable) Father in Prison; Peace and War, represented by a Figure of a young lady of Boston, holding an Olive Branch extending towards a large and elegant Painting of the late Gen. Washington, and an excellent Figure of Mars; Romeo and Juliet, from one of Shakespeare's celebrated tragedies, reprefented by four Figures, and Juliet seen rifing from a tomb; King Alfred, represented in a group of feven Figures, dividing a Loaf between his Queen, four Children, and a poor Pilgrim; the finding of Mofes by king Pharoah's daughter, reprefented by a group of five fig ures; Bonaparte is ftrikingly represented fixing his standard on the Bridge of Arcole, at the battle of Lodi ; the Irish Giant and Dwarf are very interefting Figures; the Giant is handsome and well proportioned, (8 feet 2 inches high); the Dwarf is a handfome little fellow, 3 feet high, and well proportioned. An excellent Figure and Likeness of the late Rev. Mr. Whitfield, dressed in the fame manner in which he appeared when he preached in this town-&c.

MAMMOTH !-The (carved) Skeleton of the Mammoth is 24 feet in length and 11 feet high!! Which may be justly ranked among the greatest Artificial Curiofities: It is an exact model from Mr. Peale's Original Skeleton.

Natural CURIOSITIES.-Among the numerous Collection of Natural Productions, are, Beafts, Birds, Fish, Serpents, (the skin of one is upwards of 20 feet long); Reptiles and Infects, in fine prefervation. Alfo, a large and elegant Collection of Shells, among which are some very curious: with a Collection of Live Birds, &c. &c.

Thus, then, (but few months having elapfed fince the re-establishment of the MUSEUM) we see the beginnings of Mr. BOWEN's industry and magnanimity again difplayed. Again, by the Public's liberality and support, Science and Art will here erect fupernal temples to Genius and Erudition; Here taste and refinement will expand their beauty, order, elegance and utility.-Something to admire, to imitate, to venerate, and to call forth our serious and useful contemplations, will here be found.-Liberality will be amply gratified; approbation will be commanded ;-and pleasure and profit derived to all.

With the Public, at large, it remains, to complete this PRIDE of MASSACHUSETTS; this EMULATOR of European EXHIBITIONS;-The honour of State and Country demands its fupport.

If the worthy and meritorious (who spare no exertion or expenfe to please) are deferving patronage; and the unfortunate entitled to affiftance; the Proprietor MARIANO. of the New COLUMBIAN MUSEUM will receive the most generous encouragement.