INTELLIGENCE. John Guyfe, D. D. 6 vols. 8vo. Price A Commercial Almanack for the year 1806, compiled after the manner of the French Almanac de Commerce. By Charles Alexis Daudet, editor of the Petit Cenfeur. 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The University and Royal Academy of away books, or to make researches. Sciences of Gottingen. (Translated from a late number of the Spectateur du Nord for the Monthly Anthology.) THE university of Gottingen has been known for a long time in the learned world, as a literary inftitution having the highest claims to celebrity and general attention, uniting among its profeffors the most rare talents in all the branches of science, and ornamented with many magnificent establishments. It poffeffes an obfervatory, provided with a telescope of Herschel; a fine botanick garden; a lying-in hofpital, which seems rather like a palace; a museum, enriched with every thing moft curious from all quarters of the globe; an immenfe library rich in the most valuable books (except perhaps in old editions and manufcripts,the latter of which are generally fuperfluities) fuperiour even to the much boasted ancient library of Alexandria, and inferiour perhaps only to the imperial This library is alfo library of Paris. established on the most liberal principles, fince every one, who is in the leaft known, may on his fimple fignature transport any of the books to the place moft commodious for their perufal. Every day, at the hours when this fuperb collection is opened, we may fee at the portico two uninterrupted lines of those who enter and of those who come out, either to return or to bring Vol. II. No. 11. 3F This interefting picture does not badly The object of an univerfity is to cul- ences. A Mr. Bünau first suggested the establishment of the royal academy of Gottingen. The Hanoverian minifter of Munichaufen, founder of the univer fity, feconded his exertions. The king of England, George II. patronized it, and the fociety was established the 23d February, 1751. The celebrated Haller, who drew up the regulations of the fociety, was the first president. It would be fufhcient only to men tion the names of the gentlemen, who have been members of this literary fociety, to judge of its importance. Princes and nobles, who have honoured themselves by being members, do not conftitute the principal ornament ;the names of Michaelis, Roederer, Lacaille, Franklin, Forfter, Pallas, Bonnet, Euler, have rendered themselves other wife illuftrious, they having extended the empire of human knowledge. Among the actual members we diftinguish the names of Kaeftner, Heyne (perpetual fecretary), Beckman, Lichtenberg, Meiners, Gmelin, Blumenback, Heeren;-among its foreign or correfponding members Schröter, Lalande, Niebuhr, Dionis, Banks, Herschel, Monti, Boffuet, Spallanzani, Villoifon, Fontana, Sommering, Bruce. It would be difficult to collect in all Europe a more illuftrious catalogue, without nam→→ ing an infinite number of other diftinguished learned men, whom for the fake of brevity I fhall decline mentioning. The royal fociety is divided into three claffes; first, into that of the phyfical sciences, which comprehends befides phyficks properly fo called, anatomy, chemistry, botany, and natural hiftory; fecondly, that of the mathematicks, including mechanicks and aftronomy; thirdly, into that of hiftory and philology. Their publick meetings are holden on the firft Saturday of ev ery month, at which time communications are read from the members prefent, and those, which are tranfmitted from the members abfent. These memoirs are collected and published under the title of Commentationes Societatis Regie fcientiarum Goettingenfis, to which are added a preliminary notice of the labours of the fociety, eulogies on deceafed members, &c. Three prizes are annually distributed by the Royal Society. The firft of fifty ducats alternately among the three claffes, on the first year appropriated to the folution of a phyfical, on the fecend of a mathematical, and on the third of a historical, difquifition. The two other prizes, of twelve ducats each, are always referved for economical inquiries. Mr. James Hardie of New-York, compiler of the new univerfal Biographical Dictionary and American Remembrancer, has announced to the publick that he has in his poffeffion a large num ber of manufcripts, which he contemplates publishing in a fhort time, of Mrs. Margaretta V. Faugeres, a lady of diftinguished literary accomplishments, daughter of John L. Bleecker, Efq. of New-York, and the celebrated Ann Eliza Bleecker, who alfo was an authorefs, and a part of whofe writings were callected and published in the year 1793, by Meffrs T. & J. Swords of New-York, under the title of the "pofthumous works of Ann Eliza Bleecker, in profe and verfe," to which is prefixed memoirs of her life written by her daugh ter above mentioned. Smyth's Map of Upper Canada. American geography has received another addition from the map of Upper Canada, compiled by David Wil liam Smyth, Efq. the Surveyor-General of that province. This performance was executed at the request of MajorGeneral John G. Simcoe, the first Lieutenant-Governour,and published at Loodon by Faden in 1800. Its fize is thirty-four inches by twenty-two: it includes the country as far as known between 41 and 48 deg. N. and between 71 and 85 deg. W. and its price is half a guinea. It is handfomely engraved, and embraces all the new settlements, townships, and discoveries in Canada, with the countries adjacent, especially. the State of New-York, from Quebec to Jake Huron. This inftructive map is accompanied with a topographical defcription. On this fheet the Ottawa river, from its fources in the wilderness north of lake Huron to its junction with the St. Lawrence at Montreal, is delineated; as is also the water-course by rivers and lakes between the bay of Quintè on lake Ontario, and Gloucesterbay in lake Huron, along Trent, Talbot, and Severn rivers, and through Rice, Shallow, and Simcoe lakes; and the Thames, which, running from N. E. to S. W. empties into lake St. Clair. The fituation and names of the numerous towns lying on the north-west, north, and weft fide of the St. Lawrence, Ontario, and Erie, are particularly marked, from their commencement below, near the lake St. Francis, up to the neighbourhood of Detroit and lake St. Clair. These extenfive British fettlements are contiguous to New-York, or are only separated by the intervening waters, the whole extent from the 45th degree of latitude to lake Erie. The remaining part of the distance they border on the States of Pennfylvania and Ohio, and the territory of Michigan. The refervation of the fix nations of Indians is on the river Oufe, which runs from the N. W. into lake Erie. The townships are comprehended in three districts, called the Home, Midland, and Eaftern diftricts; and these are divided into counties. In no part do the fettlements extend very far from the lakes; but their number and population rendered it neceffary for Congrefs to establish collection districts, to gather duties, and prevent smuggling on this whole northern frontier. Much information of the progress of the British fettlements, and their contiguity to the dominions of the United States, is contained in this map of Upper Canada. To the northward of these fettlements and of lake Huron, and all around lake Nippiffing, lie the vaft tracts of wilderness forming the hunting country of the Chippewas. Med. Rep. Vanderlyn's Prints of the Falls of Niagara. Two fine large prints of this cataract in the river, which feparates the State of New-York from the Province of Upper Canada, have been published in London. They are executed from original drawings of them done by Mr. Vanderlyn, a native of Kingston, in Ulfter county, and one of the most excellent artists, which his country has produced. The promifing genius of this young painter manifefted itfelf in feveral fine productions of his pencil, and befides gaining him a good share of celebrity, procured him the active friendship of Aaron Burr, Efq. Mr. Vanderlyn was afterwards encouraged to visit the schools of Europe,under the gufpices of the Academy of the Fine Arts, established in the city of NewYork: and in remembrance of this he has inferibed to that body this pair of engravings. One of them is executed by Merigot, and the other by Lewis. The first represents a diftant profpe& of the river Niagara, as it falls over the precipice on both fides of the intermediate island, from a point confiderably below, called "the Indian Ladder." It is a fublime view, embracing the picturefque fcenery of the adjacent shores. The second prefents to the eye the appearance of the western divifion of the river, or that branch which defcends on the Canada fide of the island. This is depicted, as it is beheld from "the Table Rock," and is a fuperb piece. It looks up the river over the rapids. Mr. V. has sketched the double rainbow, which the rays of the fun form in the fpray driven up by the dashing water. The fize of the prints is thirty inches by twenty-three; and when properly framed and glazed, they display, in an impreffive manner, the power of this able artift to copy one of the grandest natural fcenes, which this world contains.—Ib. Botanick Garden at Norfolk. The undersigned, late founder and proprietor of the Cabinet of Natural Hiftory, of New-York, prefuming on the favourable difpofition of the ladies and gentlemen of Norfolk, to promote useful institutions, and confident that they agree, with all intelligent perfons, in their opinion of Natural History, which freed from the obfcurity, in which it was heretofore involved, has acquired a high degree of importance, in the scale of eftimation, and confequently that an establishment, having for its object to promote the study thereof might be acceptable to them, makes bold to invite them to form a fociety, for the purpofe of providing their town with an Elementary Inflitution, connected with a Botanical Garden and a Myfeum Nature, which might serve at once as an ufeful school for the inftruction of their youth, in a valuable branch of fcience, and as an ornament to their place of refidence. To the learned and to the true friends of fcience, it is needlefs to ftate how much Commerce, Agriculture, Medicine and Arts, are aided and promoted by Natural History, and how nearly they are connected with all the concerns of human life; but as these preponderant confiderations may decide in favour of the propofed plan many of thofe, whose contributions are folicited, it has been thought expedient, to make this mention thereof. The spirit of liberality and the improved taste which characterise the inhabitants of the populous and wealthy State of Virginia, will, it is trusted, not be wanting at Norfolk, on an occafion, where an object, both useful and honourable to the fame is propofed. for the purpose of conftituting themfelves in a regular fociety; of framing rules and regulations for its government, and of appointing a committee charged with the general adminiftration. The fubfcribers to use their influence with the Corporation of the town, to obtain the grant, or, at least the use, for a length of time, of a fuitable lot of ground, on which a competent building might be erected, connected with a garden, furnished with green houses. The undersigned to lay before the Committee, as foon as it will be appointed, a plan for procuring, with all poffible economy, the fubjects, which are to compofe the collections, and to be bound to deliver Elementary Lectures on Zoology, Botany and Mineralogy, as foon as the collections will be extenfive en The fum neceflary for the formation of a Botanical Garden, and of a Mufeum Naturæ, and for defraying the expenfes attending the fame, may be obtained, if four hundred friends to fcience, of Norfolk and its vicinity,are will-ough to illuftrate the fame with speciing to subscribe 25 dollars each, towards mens of each class, order, genus, and the fund to be raised; for the only dif- fpecies. DELACOSTE. . bursement of fome import would be the erecting of the necessary buildings, and the providing of the first collection: fince it may be reasonably expected that the gratuities, which the lecturer would obtain from those who should at tend his lectures would be fufficient for his annual maintenance, and that the perquifites to be paid by the publick, for their admittance at the Garden and Museum, would not only be fufficient for defraying the expenses attending the fame, but even leave an overplus, which might ferve to augment, and fucceffive ly to complete the collections. Animated by the fanguine expectation that his propofition will meet with the approbation of the publick, the underfigned takes the liberty of fubmitting to them the following plan, and of offering his fervices for the execution thereof. A fubfcription to be opened by fhares of 25 dollars cach. The fhares to be faleable and transferable without reftric tion. The fund to confift of, at least, eight thousand dollars, and of as many more, over and above that fum, as may be obtained. The inhabitants of the State of Virginia, in general, to be invited to contribute to the fuccefs of the undertaking. The fubfcribers to the fund to be convened in a general meeting, as foon as the faid fum of eight thousand dollars fhail be fubfcribed; l'.. New edition of Adam's Latin Grammar. book will foon be iffued from the prefs As this edition is edited by the Rev. Doctor Fitch, Prefident of Williams's College, we feel confident that nothing will be expunged, which would be of a ny material ufe to the Latin tyro, nor any thing retained to fwell the fize of the book, which can be deemed fuperfluous. It is abridged from the third Edinburgh edition, and is recommended by the constituted authority of Williams's College to be used in the claffical exercifes of all who may repair to that flourishing feminary for inftruction. It is greatly to be wished that our academies and fchools would adhere to uniformity in the books ufed in any one fcience or language; and as this work in its original form had juftly acquired the preference before all Latin grammars, we cannot but anticipate, for an edition which will be every way competent to its object, a general and flattering reception. Among thofe acquainted with its editor's character, and among the lovers of claffical improvement, we are fure of its fuccefs.-Troy Gazette. Dictionary of Merchandize. Among the valuable publications which ingenuity and industry are furnishing to the world, we have feldom met with one of more real practical ufe, than that above mentioned, which Mr. James Humphreys has lately iffued from his prefs. The author profeffes that the object of his dictionary is to give an account of the origin, places of growth, culture, ufe, and the marks, by which the goodness and value of the principal articles of commerce may be afcertain ed; as well as the names, by which they are known in the different languages of Europe; and it is due to him to fay, that as far as we can judge, he has well executed his undertaking. If fo, there are few men, who will not be benefited by this book. To all who buy and fell it must be valuable. Every fuch man is interested that what he buys fhould be good, and as the opportunities of few men have given them a perfect knowledge of every article in the line of their bufinefs, it is wife to remedy the want by the experience of others, especially when obtained at so small expense. To thofe perfons, who trade in the produc tions of the West-Indies, and places beyond the Cape of Good Hope, the information it contains is particularly fuited, and to retail grocers, and thofe who are in the practice of buying at auction it is a moft valuable manual. We are alfo informed, by perfons better able to judge than we are, that it contains much useful instruction to druggifts, a pothecaries, and others who deal in chymical preparations; and we have the warrant of an eminent physician in recommending it highly to medical stydents and young practitioners of medicine, particularly those who refide in the country. 1. Riley & Co. of New-York, have in the prefs Powell on Devifes; the third edition of Democracy Unveiled, with large additions by the author, in two volumes duodecimo ; Buller's Nifi Prius, printed page for page from the laft London copy; Part III. Volume 3d of the New-York Term Reports; and Plowden's History of Ireland. The increase of printing in the United States has been confidered with aftonishment. American editions of valuable English works are no longer confidered as of inferiour execution. Much work at the press is well done, and the beft work may be expected upon far lefs encouragement,than fuch works ufually receive in Europe. Among the last no tices of works for the prefs, are those of Dalcho's Botanical Outlines, with nine plates, at the request of the Botanical Committee at Charleston, S. C.-Sal. Reg. be published in this town, entitled the A new periodical work will fhortly Polyanthos. Each number will be embellished with the portrait of fome diftinguished character; and is intended to contain biographical sketches (particularly of those who have diftinguish ed themselves in America), moral and literary effays, hiftory, theatrical notices, poetry, &c. The editor requests thofe literary gentlemen, who write on any of thefe fubjects, for their own relaxation, or the amusement of others, to fend a portion of their productions to the bookstore No. 45, Newburyftreet. The firft number will be ornamented Preble, from an original likeness taken with an elegant portrait of Commodore at Naples. A new periodical publication is promifed in Philadelphia to be entitled, The Theatrical Cenfor, at the commence. mencement of the opening of the Philadelphia theatre. A number, consisting of 8 pages 8vo. will appear every Sat urday during the performances. This work will be conducted by a fociety of gentlemen, who, by an unprejudiced r view of the performers and performan |