SOUTH CAROLINA.

obtaining subscriptions to erect a monument to the memory of the illustrious By a census recently taken, there are, Washington. in the city of Charleston, of resident inha At a meeting of the cultivators of the bitants, 11,229 whites, 1,200 free people of Lawler wheat, at New Baltimore, on the colour, 11,515 slaves; total, 22,944. The 27th of May, it was resolved, that in con- exports from Charleston, from the 1st Ocsequence of the exemption of the Lawler tober, 1816, to 1st April, 1817, werewheat from the ravages of the Hessian 44,030 bales Upland Cotton; 8,028 Sea Fly, well attested for many years, a com- Island, do.; 30,701 tierces Rice; 542 hhds. mittee be appointed to prepare such a state- Tobacco. Much of the produce of ment of facts on the subject, together with South Carolina is thrown into the Sasuch certificates of particular experi- vannah market, by means of the navigaments, as may be worthy of notice, and tion of Savannah river. This circumstance calculated to furnish important informa- will account for the difference of the quan tion to the public. tity of cotton exported from Savannah and

The wheat crops are like to be abund- this place. ant in Virginia. In the western parts of On the 17th May a large ball of fire, or the state, the Fly has not appeared, and meteor, was seen in the upper part of St. even where it has, the plentiful rains re- John's, Berkley, about fifty or sixty miles · cently have revived the drooping grain. from town. Soon after its first appearance, The population of Richmond, by a late it was heard to explode, with a noise, at computation, is 14,338. Increase since 1810 first, like the discharge of a heavy piece of from 4 to 5000. ordnance; and afterwards emitting a sound similar to a volley of musketry. The explosion was heard at a distance of 25 miles, and 80, and 100, and even at Abbeville, which is 200 miles distant.

Richmond Inspection, for six months, ending April 30th, 102,924 barrels, superfine flour; 340 half do. do; 12,035 bbls. fine do; 1796 do. X middlings; 213 do. do; 245 do. s. stuff; 255 do. condemnedtotal 17,809.

On the 17th inst. within 17 miles of Camden, there was a violent storm of thunMarried.] At Norfok, Butler Maury, der, lightning, rain, and hail; some of the Esq. to miss Frances Sawyer. Mr. Arthur hail as large as pigeon's eggs. The shower Taylor to miss Ann Saunders. Doctr. covered an extent of ten miles in circum. John C. Webb to miss Eliza Bressie. At ference. Alexandria, mr. George Carson, mer. to miss Eliza Knox. At Manchester, mr. David Sargent, of Marlboro, N. H. to mrs. Drusilla Lerowe, of Boston.

Died.] In Virginia, mr. Reuben Vaughan, aged 85. Mrs. Siddons, aged 70. She was so affected with her son's carry ing to market a favourite calf she had raised, that as soon as the calf was out of sight she hung herself.

NORTH CAROLINA.

GEORGIA.

Proclamation, directing that all vessels The Mayor of Savannah has issued a coming from Havannah or the islands of Barbadoes and St. Thomas, be brought to, at Fort Jackson, there to be examined by the Health Officer. This measure is adopted in consequence of the unusual sickness prevailing in those places.

The lands on the Alabama are in a flourishing state; and since the settlement In North Carolina, not the cut-worm, nor of the disputed claims, promise a rapid the fly,but the heavy rains, have done much increase of population and wealth. The damage to the crops. The May wheat has importation to Mobile, coastwise, during been very much injured. Such of it as was the last year, principally from Boston, ripe, has been rotted on the stalk. Great New-York, and New-Orleans, is estimated quantities of corn that had just begun to at a million of dollars.

grow, have been completely washed out of According to the Census just taken, the the ground, and the low lands where it was planted, inundated. If this flood has extended all over the state, a hard winter is anticipated.

population of Milledgeville exceeds 1700, being an increase of about a third since 1810. The mortality during the last year was but twenty-four; making the propor tion of annual deaths to the whole number of inhabitants one in seventy! In Russia, which is the healthiest part of Europe, Died At Wilmington, Doctor James tical writers, that one sixtieth of the inhait is estimated, by the best informed statisLaroque, aged 73.

Married.] At Wilmington, Hon. Wit. lis Alston, of Halifax, to miss Sarah M. Potts, of Smithville.

bitants die yearly-in Norway 1 to 48-in

The suits recently instituted in the United States' District Court, by the heirs of Livingston and Fulton, against certain individuals, for violating the patentee's exclusive privilege of navigating the river Mississippi by steam, was dismissed by the Hon. D. A. Hall, judge of said Court, on the ground that said Court had not competent jurisdiction.

The trade of Mobile is rapidly increasing. The importations of last year, chiefly coast-wise from Boston, New-York, and New Orleans, are estimated at $1,000,000.

ART. 13. MONTHLY CATALOGUE OF NEW PUBLICATIONS,
WITH CRITICAL REMARKS.

ATECHISM of Political Economy, or Fawhich Wealth is produced, distributed, and consumed in Society, by JEAN BAPTISTE SAY, Professor of Political Economy, in the ATHENEE ROYAL,' of Paris, &c. &c. Translated from the French, by John Richter. Philadelphia. M. CAREY and SON. New-York, KIRK and MERCEIN. 8vo. pp. 183.

condition of his own country. Indeed, the very

chism is, perhaps, the most convenient compend for those who love to arrive directly at conclusions. M. Say appears to have written for no no narrowness in his calculations. His premione meridian, nor any single exigency. There is shows no squeamishness in approaching any disses are broad and his inferences general. He cussion; and is evidently exempt from the dominion of prejudice.

tain has been placed, have called forth a multitude of pens intent upon their melioration, and given rise to an infinitude of political speculations embodying important facts, but all too closely connected with the occasion of their origin, not it. Ganihl's able work on political economy, has to lose much of their merit when detached from done much towards fixing the standard princiThis is a very sensible and useful work, as far ples of this science, and will interest all who do as it goes. It is, however, merely elementary, has, moreover, lessened that labour. not shrink from the labour of investigation; it and does not even touch upon many important very lately seen a popular treatise on this subWe have subjects, much less does it descend to minute ject, entitled Conversations on Political Ecoparticulars on any point. The author, frequent- nomy,' in form of familiar dialogues, the circulaly, refers in support of his positions to a more tion of which, as it must disseminate correct noextensive and elaborate work, which he has here- tions, and will tend to excite a wholesome spirit tofore published, under the title Traite d'Eco- of inquiry, we would gladly aid. This Catenomie Publique, and which from this specimen of his opinions and reasonings, we should be happy to see. We are glad, in the mean time, to meet with a brief and perspicuous treatise, in which topics, in regard to which the people, at large, have so great an interest in being well informed, are brought under their notice, and adapted to their comprehension. Many useful reflections will pass through every man's mind who peruses this book, and it is, perhaps, one of the best recommendations that it has, or that any work can possess, that it will set the reader to thinking. There are a multitude of useful truths within every one's reach, that are never converted to his use, merely because he does not turn his attention towards them. An author who will put us upon a right track, and give us an incentive to pursue the research to which he has invited us, often does us a greater benefit, by these means, than he possibly could by gratuitously imparting to us the results of his own labours. Habits of ratiocination are more valuable than any axiom, or collection of aphorisms, in the same proportion that the soil is more valuable than the crop it has yielded, or the loom, than the web it has wrought. The one is a capacity or power that may be made serviceable in various ways, and on any emergency,-the other is a product that has already received its limitation, both as to its mode and measure of applicability. It is very possible that Mr. Say's assertions are not all of them entitled to be received as dogmas;-certain we are, that all of fhem will not be so admitted. They are recominended, however, by a boldness that does credit to the author's sincerity, at the same time that it encourages us to a like independent exercise of our understandings.

The writings of Adam Smith are too abstruse to be easily comprehended by the unphilosophic mind,--besides, subsequent experience has elucidated much that was problematical or intricate in his day. Mr. Malthus has, more recently, written some ingenious, though rather theoretical essays, on national industry and population, but his views seem to have been, in a degree, restrained by considerations bearing upon tire pecuitar

We cannot refrain from remarking, however, on the incongruity of the style of publication, with the principle of the work.

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A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States, with Reflections on the Practicability of restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, without impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a CoIonial Asylum, for Free Persons of Colour, including Memoirs of Facts on the interior traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnapping. By Jesse Torrey, jun. Physician, Author of a Series of Essays on Morals and the Diffusion of Knowledge. Philadelphia. For the Author. New-York. KIRK & MERCEIN. 8vo. pp. 94.

lication is endeavouring, we hope with success, The subjects to which the Author of this pubto call public attention, is of immense importance to our country. Slavery, with retributive justice, has become a curse to those who have inflicted it. In the southern section of the Union, slaves compose nearly the whole agricultural population,the class that constitutes the bone and muscle of every community,-the class too, whose increase is most rapid. It requires but little reflection to comprehend the nature of the impending danger, though it surpasses the powers of ordinary prescience to define its extent, and baffles the skill of political wisdom to devise a remedy. Dr. Torrey is sensible of the impracticability of inducing the free blacks to emigrate, and the impolicy of emancipating those in bondage on any other condition. He proposes measures for the melioration of their present situation, and for their gradual entargement. He very justly, however

protests against the admission of freed-men to the of the Swedenborgians, that we consider them privileges of citizens, and against every measure rather a subject of philosophical speculation thair that tends to incorporate them into the mass of of religious controversy. In this light we must the people. We pretend not to have formed any confess, that the pamphlet before us, as far as one definitive opinion on a subject beset with so many of the uninitiated can understand it, has its difficulties as the one under consideration. We merit. It suggests some very fanciful and pleas are glad that it has excited discussion. The pre- ing analogies between the spiritual and material sent work is calculated to do good. It is written worlds, which amuse, at least, if they do not inwith the warmth of a patriot and a philanthropist, struct. Baron Swedenborg was a man of learn--though with more ardour of feeling than choice ing, equally conversant with nature and with of language. It is not confined merely to spe- books,-to such qualifications it needs but to add culating upon evils that exist in apprehension, a moderate degree of imagination to enable any -it unmasks atrocities daily practised upon man to form an ingenious theory that shall be the unoffending race whom rapine has dragged susceptible of many specious supports, without to our shores enough, not only "to harrow up calling in the aid of inspiration. If then it be, as the soul" of humanity, but to make "the very we believe it is, a rule no less to be observed in stones cry out." Whatever differences may exist philosophy than in poetry, on any other point, we trust there can be but one sentiment in regard to protecting those whom we have brought into subjection to our laws. We earnestly recommend this work to general perusal. Though we do not believe that oppression is the prominent feature in the character of the slave-holders of the United States, it ought not to

rest in their discretion to avenge offences against

themselves, with a severity which justice does not exercise in punishing any crime committed against society. Nor ought it to be left in the power of an individual, defiance of every principle of right, and every dictate of nature, to sever a tie sacred in the eye of religion, by whatever formality contracted.

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Melincourt, a Novel, by the Author of "Headlong Hall." Philadelphia, MOSES THOMAS. New-York, KIRK & MERCEIN, 2 vols. 12mo. pp. 484.

'Nec Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit:'

the credentials of the Baron's mission must be

severely scrutinized, and his authority admitted only on extrinsic evidence. For proofs of this kind we shall look in vain in this publication,—

nor do we, indeed, know where they are to be sought. This little Essay is well written, but contains more enthusiasm than argument, more of good feeling than of sound logic. It is, in fact, a distinctive feature of the professors of this religion, not less honourable than peculiar, that the most ardent attachment to their own sect enkindles no rancour against others, and that the most fervid zeal of proselytism is combined with per fect philanthropy.

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Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, late President of the Royal Academy; comprising Original Anecdotes of many distin This book has the worst of all faults, in a work guished persons, his cotemporaries, and a designed for amusement-that of being extremely brief Analysis of his Discourses. To which tedious. The Author has attempted to intro- are added, Varieties on Art. By JAMES duce various political, philosophical, and (if we NORTHCOTE, Esq. R. A. Philadelphia. Remay so speak) sentimental opinions, in the form printed, by M. Carey & Son. New-York: of a story; and in so doing he has produced a KIRK & MERCEIN. 8vo. pp. 496. jumble, from which the reader can extract no interest, and very little information. On this last point we would speak with some diffidence, for the work has an air of mystery, and may contain stores of recondite knowledge, which our vision, bedimmed by its powerful soporific influence, had not the keenness to detect. The writer certainly appears to be a man of some knowledge and talent, but he has learned nothing of the art of writing in a popular manner. His perpetual stateliness perpetually tires, and his manner of trifling, (which he frequently attempts,) reminds us of the mode in which Goldsmith said Doctor Johnson would write fables," His little fishes talk like whales."

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Religion and Philosophy United, or an attempt to show that Philosophical Principles form the foundation of the New Jerusalem Church, as developed to the world in the mission of the Honourable Emanuel Swedenborg. Boston, published for the subscribers. New-York. RILEY & ADAMS. 8vo. pp. 55. There is something so extravagant in the temets

This is a valuable as well as a very entertaining production, and is calculated to afford much gratification, not only to the artist and connoisseur, but to the lover of literary anecdote, aud to all who have been accustomed to take an interest in the memoirs of such men as Burke and Johnson, Goldsmith and Garrick, the early friends and intimate associates of the subject of the present volume. Mr. Northcote, who is himself an eminent painter, became a pupil of Sir Joshua in the year 1771, and resided in his house for five years; by which means he had very favourable opportunities of becoming well acquainted with the character and opinions of his distinguished friend, who, as Mr. Burke observes, "was on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time." Sir Joshua Reynolds, it is well known, maintained a familiar intercourse with the most eminent men of his day for genius and learning, and the situation of Mr. collect a number of anecdotes of these distinNorthcote, as above mentioned, enabled him to guished characters, which are not to be found in any other writer.

The celebrated Discourses on Painting, deliver

ed by Sir Joshua Reynolds, as President of the Chemist, Lecturer on Practical Chemistry, Royal Academy of Arts, have particularly Mineralogy, &c. &c. &c. Philadelphia, pubengaged the attention of Mr. Northcote in the lished by M. CAREY & SON. New-York.. present work, and he has taken occasion to ex- KIRK & MERCEIN. 12mo. pp. 204. hibita brief analysis and summary of the ingeni us principles, enlightened views, and critical instructions with which these Discourses so preeminently abound.

This book is a useful vade mecum for the chemical student. The experiments appear to be carefully made, and the results accurately stated.

Accompanying these Memoirs are several Essays or pieces of the Biographer himself, in which Poems, by Hannah Moore. From the Lonhe has undertaken "to give opinions in respect don edition. Boston. WELLS & LILLY. to the Arts, under a variety of views." In one New-York. KIRK & MERCEIN. of them, under the veil of a Dream, he presents to the imagination a splendid portraiture of the Hannah Moore, which make a pretty sort of This is a collection of minor Poems, by Miss most celebrated painters of Italy; and through reading enough, though they betray not a single the allegory of the "Slighted Beauty," another scintillation of genius. Miss M. is a useful and piece of considerable length, he gives a represen- not unpleasing writer on most subjects, but tation of the Fine Arts, as they were gradually in- she enjoys only a modicum of the inspiration of troduced into England in the various attitudes, the muses. costumes, and fashions of the different schools of fancy as Dr. Johnson, without his energy of dicAs a poet, she has about as much painting on the continent.

tion.

The style of these Memoirs is, we think, highly creditable to Mr. Northcote-chaste, neat, time in print. We are obliged, however, to the Most, if not all these pieces, have been some and unostentatious; and the reader will be publishers, for noting that they are reprinted from pleased to find the Biographer taking no pains to the London edition. It should always be disthrust himself forward in order to display his own tinctly stated, whether a literary production be powers as a critic or philosopher; whilst, at the indigenous or exotic. Miss Moore is, indeed, too same time, the remarks he occasionally intro- well known to the reading world, to make it parduces are always sensible and pertinent. We ticularly necessary to guard against any mistake have no hesitation in saying that this volume will as to her identity,—but we daily see publications be a highly acceptable present to the public, and issuing from our presses, from the pens of foreign will be regarded as a very interesting supplement authors of no very great distinction, every parto Hawkins and Boswell, independently of its merit as a body of valuable information and critical instruction relative to the noble art of painting. A.

The Life of Andrew Jackson, Major General in the service of the United States: com prising a history of the war in the south, from the commencement of the Creek campaign, to the termination of hostilities before New-Orleans. Commenced by John Reid, Brevet Major, United States' Army. Com pleted by John Henry Eaton. Published for the benefit of the children of John Reid. Philadelphia, M. CAREY & SON. New-York, KIRK & MERCEIN. 8vo. pp. 423.

ticular of intelligence in regard to whom, we are obliged to glean from extraneous sources, which are difficult of access exactly in proportion to the necessity of inquiry. We cannot too strongly inculcate it upon Booksellers, to use the means in their power to discriminate between our own and foreign literature, and to afford data to assist the bibliographer of after times.

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says.
Arator; being a Series of Agricultural Es-
County, Virginia. Baltimore. JOHN M. CAR-
By Col. John Taylor, of Caroline
TER.
12mo. pp. 220.
New-York. A. T. GOODRICH & Co.

The author of these essays is more accustomGenerally we dislike contemporaneous biogra- miliar with the logical process of either. His ed to thinking than writing, though not very faphy, because it is generally little else than a kind notions, as far as we can extricate them from the of covert panegyric. This book, however, forms intricacies of his style, are indicative of a natuan exception, and indeed corresponds to the lat- ral fund of good sense and habits of attentive obter part of its title more than to the former, being servation. He is correct, at bottom, in the posiless a biography than a history. It is a full and tion which he frequently and strenuously urges, explicit narrative of facts arranged with chrono- that premiums for the encouragement of manulogical accuracy, and set forth in a respectable factures are, in other words, premiums for the style. It makes no high pretensions, while, ne- discouragement of agriculture. It is inconsistvertheless, it bears every mark of fidelity. It ent with sound policy, ever to divert industry, by also throws much light upon the nature of militia artificial means, from its natural channels. If it operations, and though there be no set eulogium were allowable to hold out adscititious induceupon the illustrious subject of the memoir, yet ments to any particular species of labour, they the facts recorded will stand a noble and impe- should unquestionably be used to promote the culrishable monument of his military talents and de- tivation of soil. The great cause of the general voted patriotism. A Practical Essay on Chemical Re-Agents ral products, occasioned partly by the untowardpressure at this moment is a deficit of agricultuor Tests. Illustrated by a series of experi- ness of the seasons in the two years last past, but ments. By Frederick Accum, Operative principally by the rushing from their spheres

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