The CENSUS of MASSACHUSETTS, as returned by the District Marshal, taken August 1, 1810.

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68930 34964 45018|45854|34976||66881|33191|46366|19229|38894| N. B. The last column are negroes and people of colour, say 6737.

MARSHAL'S OFFICE, BOSTON, JAN. 29, 1811.

CATALOGUE,

OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.

FOR MARCH, 1811.

Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura. Mart.

NEW WORKS.

Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society, for promoting Agriculture, containing communications on various subjects, in husbandry and rural affairs; to which is added, at the request of the society, "Inquiries on Plaister of Paris." Vol. II. Price $3. Philadelphia; Johnson and Warner. * "Road to Happiness." By Elias R. Sabin. Price 87 1-2 cents. Boston; E. Oliver.

Chaplet of Comus, being a collection of anecdotes and bon mots, culled from the best sources of wit and humour, accessible to the compiler; uniting the feast of sentiment, and festival of wit. Boston; the Booksellers.

* Call for scripture evidence that Christ is the "Self existent eternal God." A letter to Rev. Samuel Spring, D.D. Newburyport. By Thomas Worcester, A. M. pastor of a church in Salisbury, N. H. Boston; D. Mallory and Co.

Thomas' modern practice of Physick, exhibiting the characters, causes, symptoms, prognosticks, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating the diseases of all climates. New York; Collins and Co.

A narrative of Mr. Joshua Davis, an American citizen, who was pressed, and served on board of six ships of the British navy. Boston; C. Bingham.

Essays of Howard; or Tales of the Prison, originally printed in the New York Columbian, and supposed to be written by a debtor, who has been confined for sixteen years in the New York debtor's jail. Price 50

oents.

* A new Universal and Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Languages, containg above fifty thousand terms and names not to be found in the Dictionaries of Boyer, Perry, Nugent, Focquet, or any other lexicographer. To which is added, a vast fund of other information, equally beneficial and instructive, never before published in any work of this kind. For the benefit of all who may consider a knowledge of either language an acquisition in their respective situations in life. By N. G. Dufief, author of Nature Displayed in her mode of teaching language to man, applied to the French language. Price $10. Boston; W. Wells.

NEW EDITIONS.

* Hortus Elginensis: or a catalogue of Plants, indigenous and exotick, cultivated in the Elgin Botanick Garden, in the vicinity of the city of New York, established in 1801. By David Hossack, M.D. F.L.S. Professor of Botany and Materia Medica, in Columbia College, Member of the Ameri can Philosophical Society, &c. Second edition, enlarged. New York; T. and J. Swords. 1811.

Knowledge for Infants, or a form of oral instruction for the use of parents and teachers. By A. Lindley. Philadelphia; Johnson and Warner.

* Such books, pamphlets, etc, as are designated by this mark (*) may be found at the Boston Athenaeum.

Nature Displayed, in her mode of teaching language, to man; or a new and infallible method of acquiring a language in the shortest time possi ble, deduced from the analysis of the human mind, and consequently suited to every capacity, adapted to the French. By N. G. Dufief. Third edition, highly improved, and much enlarged. Two vols. 8vo. price $5. Boston; William Wells,

Sermons to Children. By a Lady. With new cuts, designed and engraved in Philadelphia. Philadelphia; Johnson and Warner.

Life and character of Miss Susanna Anthony, who died at Newport, R. 1. June 23, 1791, in the 65th year of her age, consisting chiefly in extracts from her writings, with some brief observations on them. Compiled by Samuel Hopkins, D. D. Second edition.

A series of Letters to a man of property on the sales, purchases, leases, settlement, and devise of estates. By Edward Burtershaw Sugden, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law. Boston; D. Mallory and Co.

*The Sequel to the Sketch of the denominations of the Christian World; being testimonies in behalf of christian candour and unanimity; by divines of the Church of England, Kirk of Scotland, and among the Protestant Dissenters; to which is prefixed, an essay on the right of private judgment in matters of religion. By John Evans, A. M. Boston.

WORKS PROPOSED AND IN PRESS.

T. B. Wait and Co. propose to publish, by subscription, a Geographical and Historical View of the World: exhibiting a complete delineation of the natural and artificial features of each country; and a succinct narrative of the origin of the different nations, their political revolutions, and progress in arts, sciences, literature, commerce, &c. The whole compris. ing all that is important in the geography of the globe and the history of mankind. By John Bigland, author of Letters on Ancient and Modern History, Essays on Various Subjects, &c. &c. in five volumes.

W. Wells and T. B. Wait and Co. have in press, The Four Gospels, translated from the Greek, with Preliminary Dissertations, and Notes Critical and Explanatory. By George Campbell, D.D. F.R.S. Edinburgh. Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen. In four volumes, 8vo. This work will be completed in four or five weeks.

J. Simson and Co. of New Brunswick, N. J. propose publishing The History of Ancient Greece, its colonies, and conquests, from the earliest accounts till the division of the Macedonian empire in the east. Includ. ing the history of literature, philosophy, and the fine arts. By John Gillies, L.L.D.

NEW-YORK

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MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY,

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APRIL, 1811.

FOR THE ANTHOLOGY.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF A GENTLEMAN ON A

VISIT TO LISBON.

(Continued from page 155.).

DINED yesterday at Belem with a friend of mine, Major B of the 20th dragoons, who is very agreeably quartered there. The situation of the house he lives in is extremely pleasant. It stands on the banks of the river, and commands a fine prospect. His quarters are contiguous to the Prince Regent's palace. Before dinner we strolled into the gardens. The walks are tolerably pleasant. There is however in them nothing very remarkable, excepting some admirable statues said to have been dug up a few years since in this kingdom. They are of white marble as large as life, and consist of two groups, each containing two figures. One represents a daughter nursing her father. The other represents a woman fainting in another's arms. These statues, though very injudiciously exposed to the air, are yet in good preservation: possibly they may, from the excellence of the climate, continue uninjured for ages. They are indeed exquisitely beautiful, and

"Seemed to breathe

"And soften into flesh beneath the touch

“ Of forming art, imagination flush’d.”

There are several aviaries at the entrance of the garden, also the royal menagerie which contains a number of very fine beasts. Among others are some zebras. We visited the mu

seum and the king's hot-houses in the neighbouring botanical garden of Nossa Senhora de Ajuda. They are well worth attention. The ceilings of the latter are painted in fresco. The museum contained the richest collection of birds in Europe before the French arrived. It has been plundered by Junot, but there are still left a great number. Their plumage exceeds any thing I have ever seen before. Most of them were brought from South America. The palace belonging to the Duke de Aveiro, who was executed for attempting the life of the late king, once stood near this place.* A column in commemoration of the event is now erected on the site. The palace was razed to the ground, and the ground on which it was situated was sown with salt. His majesty, in grateful remembrance of his escape, caused a church to be built on the spot where he was shot at, dedicated to Nossa Senhora do Livramento, (our lady of the deliverance.) The first stone was laid in great state by his royal hands. The plot for the assassina

tion was well conducted, and had the assassins acted as was previously concerted, could not but have been effectual. Three parties were stationed at a short distance from each other. It was agreed that the first should permit him to pass uninjured, and that the second should fire upon him. By this means whether he retreated or proceeded, the assassins would have a second chance of killing him. The precipitation of the first party rendered the scheme abortive. Their impatience induced them to fire as the coach passed. The coachman immediately turned round and drove back; thus the king's life was saved, though he was severely wounded.

The royal church and monastery of Bethelem, or Belem, from which the suburb takes its name, stands near this spot. This magnificent and noble old structure was founded in 1499 by King Emanuel for the monks of the order of St. Jeronymo,

The column contains this inscription:

"Aqui foraon as cazas arazadas e salgadas de Joze Mascarenhas, exauthorado das honras de Duque de Aveiro e outras ; e condemnado por sentenza proferida na suprema junta da inconfidencia, en 12 de Janeiro de 1759 justizado como hum dos chefes do barbaro e execrando desacato, que na noite de 3 de Setembro de 1758, se havia commullado contra a real e sagrada pessoa de el rey nosso senhor Don Joze I. neste terrenó infame se naon podera edificar em tempo algum."