A Topographical Defcription of the Weftern Territory of North America: containing a Succinct Account of its Soil, Climate, Natural History, Population, Agriculture, Manners, and Cuftoms. With an ample Description of the fe. veral Divifions into which that Country is partitioned. By George Imlay, a Captain in the American Army during the War, and Commiffioner for laying out Lands in the Back Settlements. Illuftrated with correct Maps, and a Plan of the Rapids of the Ohio. The Second Edition, with confiderable Additions. 8vo. 6s. boards. Debrett. FROM this Work we fhall give the following Interefting Account of Col. Daniel Boon the first settler in Kentucky. "Ir was on the firft of May, in the year 1769, that I refigned my domeftic happiness for a time, and left my family and peaceable habitation on the Yadkin River, in North Carolina, to wander through the wilderness of America, in queft of the country of Kentucky, in company with John Finley, John Stewart, Jofeph Holden, James Monay, and William Cool. We proceeded fuccefsfully, and after a long and fatiguing journey, through a mountainous wilderness, in a west ward direction, on the feventh day of June following, we found ourfelves on Red River, where John Finley had formerly been trading with the Indians, and, from the top of an eminence, faw, with pleasure, the beautiful level of Kentucky. Here let me obferve, that for fome time we had experienced the most uncomfortable weather, as a prelibation of our future fufferings. At this place we encamped, and made a fhelter to defend us from the inclement feafon, and began to hunt and reconnoitre the country. We found every where abundance of wild beafts of all forts, through this vaft foreft. The buffalo was more frequent than I have feen cattle in the fettlements, browzing on the leaves of the cane, or croping the herbage on thofe extenfive plains, fearlefs, because ignorant, of the violence of man. Sometimes we faw hundreds in a drove, and the numbers about the falt fprings were amazing. In this foreft, the habitation of beafts of every kind natural to America, we prac tifed hunting with great fuccefs, until the twenty-fecond day of December following. This day John Stewart and I had a pleafing ramble, but fortune changed the fcene at the clofe of it. We had paffed through a great foreft, on which ftood myriads of trees, fome gay with bloffoms, others rich with fruits. Nature was here a series of wonders and a fund of delight. Here the difplayed her ingenuity and induftry in a variety of flowers and fruits, beautifully coloured, elegantly fhaped, and charmingly flavoured; and we were diverted with innumerable animals prefenting themselves perpetually to our view. In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we afcended the brow of a fmall hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prifoners. The time of our forrow was now arrived, and the scene fully opened. The Indians plundered us of what we had, and kept us in confinement seven days, treating us with common favage ufage. During this time we discovered no uneafinefs or defire to escape, which made them lefs fufpicious of us; but in the dead of night, as we lay in a thick cane-brake by a large fire, when fleep had locked up their fenfes, my fituation not difpofing me for reft, I touched my companion, and gently awoke him. We improved this favourable opportunity, and departed, leaving them to take their reft, and fpeedily directed our courfe towards our old camp, but found it plundered, and the company dispersed and gone home. About this time my brother, Squire Boon, with another adventurer, who came to explore the country fhortly after us, was wandering through the foreft, determined to find me, if poffible, and accidentally found our camp. Notwithstanding the unfortunate circumftances of our company, and our dangerous fituation, as furrounded with hoftile favages, our meeting fo fortunately in the wilderness, made us reciprocally fenfible of the utmoft fatisfaction. So much does friendfhip triumph over misfortune, that forrows and fufferings vanish at the meeting, not only of real friends, but of the moft diftant acquaintances, and substitute happiness in their room. Soon after this, my companion in captivity, John Stewart, was killed by the favages, and the man that came with my brother returned home by himfelf. We were then in a dangerous, helpless fituation, expofed daily to perils and death amongst favages and wild beafts beafts, not a white man in the country object of government is, to produce the but ourselves. Thus fituated, many hundred miles from our families in the howling wildernefs, I believe few would have equally enjoyed the happinefs we experienced. I often obferved to my brother, you fee now how little nature requires to be fatisfied! Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philofophy to make a man happy in whatsoever ftate he is: This confifts in a full refignation to the will of Providence; and a refigned foul finds pleafure in a path ftrewed with briars and thorns."> The Origin of Duty and Right in Man confidered. 8vo. 25, 6d, R. White. SOME political writers have derived all civil power from God, and fome moralifts have traced all moral obligation up to the will and command of God. It appears to be the design of the writer of this trt to unite these two fyftems, and thence to deduce a new theory of civil rights. The author's ideas on the fubject of government, we fall give in his own words: THE object of government being (as has been fhown) to obtain the difcharge of duty among difcharge of those duties in each, which fhall enfure to all the enjoyment of what they denominate their natural right. Thefe duties, forming a part of that ab folute and indefeafible obligation with which man is born, each one brings them with him into fociety; nor can any artificial or incidental circumstance of focial life whatever, exonerate any one from that condition, to obtain the performance of which in all, is the very effence of affociation, the immutable purpofe of all government. Because if any are exempted from the neceffity of the obligation, in that proportion the fuccefs of the fcheme of government is rendered abortive. Every contrivance of government, every artificial regulation that focieties may introduce, is to be estimated by its tendency to produce this general refult. To devife an arrangement that might produce that refult, was left to the labour and industry of man in. every feparate fociety. Different were the modes that each adopted, and accordingly as they were more or lefs apt to gain the purposed end, they fucceeded or failed, they were continued or changed. The progrefs of experience improved the progrefs of civil polity; experimental good or evil guided each fociety in correcting or varying that which had proved in able to acquire mankind, in order to be efficient to, or deftructive of, the great intereft of the union; and in proportion as any fyftem improved, the difcharge of duty in every member of the fociety, be came more extended and more effectual, the happinefs that can only be obtained by that procefs; if in any given country, whofe internal polity has contrived artificial ranks and claffes of fubordination, it be queftioned, whe-ly enfured. ther fuch a contrivance invades the na tural right of man; we are not to put the iffue upon a general affent to, or diffent from the terms of the queftion, (which is the very matter in debate) but we are to examine and determine whe ther in that given country, the government established defends and fecures the natural right of man; which if it does, the particular regulations of a country, in which the natural right of man is fo secured, cannot, confiftently with 'cours mon fente, at the fame time endanger them. For, if the means employed are fuch as evidently produce the end of government, and therefore fecure man's natural right, it is quite impoffible they hould be at the fame time deftructive of the right they fecure. We cannot too often enforce, that the In the great comprehenfive scheme of God, the difcharge of duty is the end for which man was created; it is the right of God's fovereignty, which overrules and determinesevery other confideration. The happiness to which, by God's goodnefs, that discharge leads, is anticipated by the heart of man, and is a powerful means contrived by the all-wife Creator, to allure him to that difcharge. But in the partial feheme of government, the operation appears to be reverted. The happinefs to which the nature of man tends; that happiness which is provided to be the refult of the performance of duty, and to which he is entitled by the difpenfation of the divine bounty; is the end defigned by the inftitution; and the means employed to attain that end, are means calculated to produce the " discharge of duty, as inftrumental to that happiness. Here again we difcover the neceffary fubordination of man's happinefs, to which he alleges a right, to God's purpose, in which he is confcious of an obligation. The perfect and entire discharge of duty, cannot be produced by the operation of any fecondary and external caufes. Near approximations are all that either wisdom expects, or nature allows. He who would be at the labour of fearching for abfolute perfection in human affairs, would resemble the fimple boy who chafed the rainbow; a meteor, the laws of whose being have nothing in common with the laws of fubftantial existence. Perfection in government, muft ever be relative to the ability' of procuring the most attainable degree of happiness among mankind, by means of the moft practicable neceffity to the discharge of duty. NEW PUBLICATIONS. LONDON. Obfervations on the Increase of Infidelity. By Jofeph Priestley, LL. D. F. R. S. &c. &c. Svo. 2s. 6d. Printed at Northumberland Town, America. Jobnfon, London. The prefent increase of infidelity, Dr P. is of opinion, may he fuffi iently explained from circumftances independent of the evidences of revelation; fuch, for example, as the fpecious analogies and fuperficial maxims, by which many perfons fuffer their judgment to be determined on a question of historical fact, without giv. ing themselves the trouble of an accurate in-. vestigation; refpect for popular names; the want of an habitual fenfe of religion; inattention to moral fubje&s, and the interests of a future life; vicious propenfities; and prejudice. The objections which have been commonly made to divine revelation, Dr P. thinks to be fuch as fhew no great degree of attention to the fubject, and as are inconfiftent with that accurate examination which hiftorical evidence neceffarily requires. Among the Doctor's illuftrations of this obfervation, we meet with the following judicious remarks on Mr Gibbon : "The only unbeliever who appears to have had any idea of the true ftate of the question between believers and unbelievers, is Mr Gib bon. Being acquainted with history, he faw no reason to entertain any doubt with refpe&t to the circumstances in which Chriftianity is faid to have been promulgated in the Gospels, and the Acts of the Apostles, and confequently the rapidity with which it fpread through the maft diftant provinces of the Roman emVOL. LVIII. pire. He could not deny the remarkable fact, that a few unlearned men, of a despised nation, conceived fuch ideas refpecting the enlightening and reforming of the world, as had never occurred to the greatest philofophers of the most celebrated nations, and that they fucceeded in the bold defign, having propagated the new religion with unexampled fuccefs in the learned and civilized as of the world, and this notwithstanding the well as the unlearned and uncivilized parts greatest fufferings to which they and their followers were univerfally exposeď; so that there could not have been wanting any motive to the most rigorous examination of the facts on which it was founded, and while they were all recent. He therefore thought it neceffary to give his ideas of the causes of this wonderful event; for he could not but be fenfible, that every effect requires an adequate caufe. 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THRO the ftillness of the night Hark!- -a horfe―he this way bends. Now his foot the step afcends. "Doft thou laugh or doft thou weep?" William! Thou ?-From forrow's power I have learn'd to weep, and wake.. Whence in midnight's gloomy hour, Whence his courfe does William take? We can only ride by night. "From Bohemia's plains I come, Late, ah late I come! but dight "To hear thee to thy distant home.' William! William! hither hafte. Thro' the hawthorn blows the wind, In my glowing arms embrac'd Reft, and warmth, my love fhall find. "Thro' the hawthorn let the winds Keenly blow with breath fevere, "Come, my love!-behind me fpring. To your bride-bed fhall thee bring." Many a mile o'er diflant ground Ere our nuptial couch we reach? The iron bells of midnight found, Soon the midnight fiends will forecch. See how clear the moon's full ray, "Soon the dead's fwift courfe is fped. Long, O long ere dawn of day "We fhall reach the bridal bed. 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