692, 
viction of its preferablenefs to the fmall- 
pox is fo prevalent as greatly to gratify 
the feelings of thofe benevolent perfons 
who have ftepped forth and exerted them- 
felves in its fupport. 
Mr. SABATIER’S * Hints towards pro- 
moting the Health and Cleanlinefs of the 
city of New York,’ though not ftrictly 
a medical perfermance, may properly be 
noticed under this head. The author con- 
fiders water and lime as the two princi- 
pal agents in the deftruStion and removal 
of noxious effuvia and filth. And he 
earneftly calls the attention of the police 
of the city to common-fewers, kennels in 
the ftreets, drains above-ground from 
houfes, drains below-ground from houlfes, 
vaults, docks, lodging-houfes, burying- 
grounds, cleanfing the ftreets, watering 
the ftreets, and paving the ftreets. There 
is fo much goed fenie, experience, and 
wiidom exhibited in this brief perform- 
ance, that we cannot withhold our tribute 
of praife, nor omit to recommend it to the 
perulal and attention of the community. 
Drs. CurRRIz and CaTHRALL’S 
“‘ Fads and Obfervations on the Yellow 
Fever,’ exhibit a train of arguments to 
eftablith the contagioufnefs and importa- 
tion of the Yellow Fever. 
LAW. 
To Mr. Martin, of Newborn, in the 
State of North Carolina, the public are 
indebted for an Englith tranflation of 
M. Pothier’s “* Treatife on Obligations, 
confidered in a moral and Jegal view.” 
The excellent reputation of this work, 
now fo well fettled by the almoft unani- 
mous opinion of lawyers, makes it necef- 
jary here to offer any obfervations on the 
fubject. 
Joun Louis Taytor, one of the 
Judges in the Superior Court of Law and 
Equity, in the State of North Carolina, 
has prefented to the public a volume of 
‘* Cafes determined in that Court.” 
The Cafes here reported are, in general, 
fuch as refult from the mere practice of 
the Courts of that State, or are founded 
on the peculiar manners or municipal re- 
gulations of that portion of the American 
Republic. Little, therefore, is to be col- 
jected trom them, that can be ufeful to the 
practifing lawyers in other States of the 
Union. The reporter feems, however, to 
have difcharged his duty in this work 
with a very laudable degree of diligence, 
attention, and judgment. 
«* The Hiftory cf Land-Tithes in Maf- 
fachufett’s,” by JamMts SULLIVAN, 
Retrofpect of American Literature.—Theology, Morals, Se. 
L.L.D. Attorney General of that Com- 
monwealth, is a work of confiderable im- 
portance, in the execution of which the 
author feems to have employed a good 
deal of induftry and refearch. After a 
“« Piefatory Addrefs; or, Differtation 
on-the Principles of the Common Law,”’ 
the author proceeds to treat of the pro- 
perty of the Aborigines—of the acquired 
right of the Europeans, and their convey- 
ances to the firft fettlers—of the ‘laws 
which governed the lands when the Eu- 
ropeans transferred their right to the firft 
fettlers—of fee-fimple eftatéS’, and then 
fucceffively of the various other kinds of 
eftate, as underftood and recognized by 
the Conftitution of the State of Maffachu- 
fett’s. And he concludes the work with 
fome general obfervations on the princi- 
ples of law and government in Maflachu- 
fett’s, and in the government of the United 
States of America. 
An American edition has lately appear: 
ed from a Philadelphia prefs, of **A 
Treatife of the Law relative to Merchant 
Ships and Seamen”; in four parts, by the 
Right Hon. Cuaries ABBOT, of the In- 
ner Temple, Barrifter at Law, and {peaker 
of the Houfe of Commons. This work 
is fuppofed juitly to merit the approba- 
tion beftowed upon it by the lawyers and 
merchants of Great Britain. ‘The differ- 
ence between the London and American 
editions confifts in the additions made to 
the latter, of the laws of the United States 
relative to the fame fubjeéts. hele are 
digefted and arranged under the proper 
titles ; and the value of the American edi- 
tion is thereby confiderably enhanced. 
«s American Precedents of Declara- 
tions,”’ being chiefly intended for the ufe 
of profeffional men in the New England 
States, will then be found a very conve- 
nient and ufeful work, But in other 
States, where a clofer adherence to the 
common law forms of proceedings of the 
Englifh courts is maintained, this collec- 
tion can afford little or no affiftance. 
THEOLOGY, MORALS, SERMONS, &c. 
Under this head it will be proper to 
mention ** The Age of Revelation; or, 
the Age of Reafon fhown to be an Age of 
Infidelity,” by Exras BenpincT, L.L.D, 
This volume is intended as an anfwer to 
Mr. Paine’s Age of Reafon; the greater 
part of it having been written, as the au- 
thor ftates, foon after the appearance of 
that work in this country. We doubt 
whether Dr. Bendinét’s performance has 
added any thing to the ftrength or clear- 
nels of Divine Revelation, In all refpeéts 
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