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grants to New England; gives a fhort 
account of the dangers and difficulties 
they fuffered ; and then proceeds to 
compute the increafe of the national 
power, wealth, and profperity, during 
the laft century. 
But the moft remarkable fermon 
which comes under our notice, is ** A 
Difcourfe delivered on the annual Faft 
in Maflachufetts, April 9, 1801,” by 
Dr. EMMONS, paftor of the church in 
Franklin. T’he charaéter of Jeroboam 
forms the fubjecét of the difcourfe, 
which is drawn from 2 Kings, Xvil. 25. 
—** And they made Jeroboam, the fon 
of Nebat, King, and Jeroboam drove 
Ifrael from following the Lord.” The 
ufirpation, impiety, tyranny, and in- 
humanity of that atrocious monarch, 
are reprefented in the ftrongeft light ; 
and, after every effort to render thefe 
colours as dark and hateful as poffible, 
the author, very modefily, applies them 
to pourtray the character of Mr. Jef- 
ferfon, the Prefident of: the United 
States. It has feldom ‘failen in our 
way.to obferve an inftance of clerical 
indecency more fhameful,. or of party-: 
rancour more inveterate. - 
MORALS. 
Mr. ELisHA PALMER’s ‘ Principles 
of Nature; or, a Developement of the 
Moral Caufes of Happinefs and Mifery 
among the Human Species,” is defigned 
to combat every fyitem of morality 
and religion founded upon divine re- 
velation, as exhibited in the Scriptures. 
The author expects much from the 
operation of the light of nature, 
and the gradual expanfion: and im- 
provement of the reafoning faculties 
of man. He labours to prove, that 
great mifchief has arifen from the in- 
troduction and fpreading of the doc- 
trines of Chriftianity through fo large 
a portion of the worid as they now pof- 
felts. The principles and reafonings of 
this writer will probably make no im- 
preffion on the public mind; for he 
only once more retails cavils and ob- 
jections to the Chriftian religion, which 
have been an hundred times before 
anfwered and refuted. 
LAW. 
The American public have lately 
been favoured, by Mr. THomas:Cqo- 
PER, of Northumberland, Pennfy!va- 
nia, with ** The Bankrupt-law of Ame- 
rica compared with the Bankrupt-iaw 
of England.”” The ftriking analogy 
between the law of the United States 
and that of Great Britain on this fub- 
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je&t, will naturally induce American. 
lawyers, accuftomed-always to regard 
with veneration the adjudications of 
Britifh courts, to look to them for pre- 
cedents by which to interpret the law 
of their own country, and to guide 
them in the decifion of cafes which 
arife under it. But, notwithttanding 
the general refemblance which the 
American bankrupt-law bears to that 
of England, there are many important 
points of difference between them. A 
treatife that fhould exhibit, with/accu- 
racy and precifion, the fimilarities and , 
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differences between the fyftems of the ‘| 
two countries, muft be of very obvious 
utility. To fupply the American law- 
yer and merchant with fucha work, 
is the principal defign of the author of 
this volume; and he feems to have 
executed the tafk with a confiderable 
degree of judginent and ability, . 
MEDICINE. 
«© The. Medical Repofitory, and Re-- 
view of American Publications on Me- 
dicine, Surgery, and the auxiliary 
Branches of Philofophy,” publithed in 
quarterly numbers, fo as to form annus’ 
ally an octavo volume of common tize, 
continues to be one of the principal 
vehicles of publication on medical and 
philofophical fubjeéts in the United 
States. Fourcomplete volumes of that 
work are now before the public; and 
two quarterly numbers of the fifth 
volume have been publithed fince the 
laft Retrofpect of American Literature. 
The editors ftill continue, with una- 
bated zeal, to collect facts and commu. 
nications from every proper fource con- 
cerning the American peftilence, which 
has occafioned fuch ravages, within a 
few years, on that continent, and in 
the Welt Indies; and is fuppofed by 
many, whofe information on the fub- 
je has not been correétly obtained, to 
threaten the fafety of Europe. Every 
feafon more and more ftrongly confirms 
the domeftic origin and non-contagi- 
oufnefs of that difeafe, and proves-that 
it may be the product of every region 
on the globe, where there are tufficient 
accumulations of animal and vegetable 
filth, a&ted upen by atmofpheric heat 
adequately high, efpecially when a mor- 
bid conttitution of the air favours the 
operation of the other caufes. 
In the fir. number of the fifth vo- 
lume of the Medical Repofitory, we 
obferve an interefting paper on Hydro- 
phobia by Dr. Puysick, of Philadel- 
phia. Ina fatal cafe of that’ difeafe, 
car which 
