SWEDEN. The king of Sweden manifests great zeal in the establishment of a proper system of education in his dominions. A board, appointed for the purpose of superintending publick instruction in thatkingdom,has commissioned a young Swede, named BROOEMAN, who had distinguished himself by some critical pieces and a treatise on education, to make a tour through several parts of Europe in order to collect information on the subject. He had an audience of the king of Great Britain who pointed out to him several things, which he thought would prove of especial utility to Sweden; and enjoined him, above all, not to be too easily led away by untried novelties. Baron HERMELIN, who has already pablished maps of many of the Swedish provinces intends to publish a geographical and statistical description of Swedish Lapland, by Mr. WAHLENBURGH of the Cabinet of natural history at Upsal. RUSSIA. Several periodical works have very recently commenced in Russia. One, entitled notices of the North, is to be edited by M. MARTIGNORO, Well known for his translation of Longinus; and will exhibit the history of learning and civilization in Russia, with the lives of its most illustrious men. Another journal appears at Moscow under the direction of M. KUTOSOF, ancient curator of the university, entitled, the friend of illumination or journal of the sciences and arts. More accurate and complete details respecting GEORGIA, than the public at present possess, may be soon expected. Beside the expedition undertaken by order of the Russian government, and conducted by count PUSCHKIN, who was accompanied by several scientific men; the baron of BIBERSTEIN, who has already published a work relative to the west coast of the Caspian sea, is now travelling in Georgia, to examine every thing relative to the culture and cominerce of silk. Three engineers have like wise been recently dispatched into that country, to collect further information. FIRES. Oy the 11th of June, the town of Detroit was entirely consumed by fire. The houses, about 300 in number of wood and compact, stood chiefly on one handsome street. The fire caught in a stable from the pipe of a Frenchman, about 9 o'clock in the morning, at the windward end of the town, and in five hours, not a dwelling house remained standing. In the towns of Barnstead, Barring-, ton, Farmington, New Durham, Middleton and Milton, in Strafford co. (N.H.) from 30to40 miles N.W.of Portsmouth, the fires, the beginning of this month, (July) made dreadful ravages, consuming for many miles, fences, forests, and the various products of the earth. The cattle were much injured by the flame and smoke, and two cows perished. The buildings were preserved by the exertions of the inhabitants, except two dwelling houses and a barn, which were consumed. A timely shower on the 8th checked and it was hoped, had terminated the progress of the desolating flames. SINGULAR PHENOMENON. A GENTLEMAN of respectability and veracity,during his passage from Marti nico to Boston, on the 8th, 9th and 10th of July, 1805, being on soundings, alt 10 or 12 leagues to the southward and eastward of Cape Cod, observed on the surface of the water, small winged insects, vulgarly called Millars, in such numbers, as to discolour the water for a considerable distance. Advancing to-ward the coast, their numbers increased, and, apparently fatigued with the length of their flight, were every moment falling into the sea, where they perished. It was supposed by the gentleman, who gives the information, that the vessel ran the distance of 40 or 50 miles along the coast in a northerly direction, from the first to the last ap pearance of these insects. For a day or two previously, the wind had blown fresh from the S. W. which probably had blown them from the shore to this distance. Those on the wing came in a direction from the land, appeared extremely fatigued, and would frequently light on the rigging and sails of the vessel. We merely record these facts, as well attested, and leave it to others to account for them. N. B. The gentleman has left with the Editors one of these insects, found in the vessel several days after her arri val. HARVEST. WE cannot forbear mentioning, (says the Fredericktown Herald) that the hopes, which we expressed, in a former number of this paper, respecting the promising appearance of the fields, have been happily realized in the abundance of the harvest. The weather has been remarkably favouraable for the reapers and ingatherers; till within a few days, when it has been uncommonly warm. The mercury in Fahrenheit's thermometer having in the shade and current of air repeatedly risen up to 92 and 93 degrees. And we understand, that several labourers have fallen victims to the excessive heat. Nor have we been without some refreshing showers so necessary for the growing crops of corn. There is reason to hope, that this will be a most prosperous year for the husbandman. A retrospective view of three foregoing years and particularly the last, when in addition to indifferent crops, sickness made its ravages throughout the community generally, will make us gratefully sensible of these blessings of Providence, and enable us fully to estimate their value. The Hon. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, Rhetorick and Oratory in the UniversiEsq. is elected Boylston Professor of ty at Cambridge. ORDAINED. At Providence, R. I. on the 17th inst. Mr. HENRY EDES, over the first Congregational church in that town. The solemnities of the occasion were introduced with prayer, by the Rev. Mr. CHANNING; the Rev. Dr. ELIOT preached from Luke x. 18: the Rev. Mr. WILSON offered the ordaining prayer, and the Rev. Dr. LATHROP gave the charge. The Rev. Dr. KIRKLAND expressed the fellowship of the churches, and the Rev. Mr. GRAY made the concluding prayer. Sacred music was performed with skill and animation, and the several services appeared to engage the serious and interesting attention of a numerous audience. List of New American Publications. THEOLOGICAL. AN abstract of an apology for renouncing the jurisdiction of the synod of Kentucky, being a compendious view of the gospel, and a few remarks on the confession of faith, by Robert Marshal, John Dunlary, Richard M.N. Barton, W. Stone, and John Thompson. 1805. Three sermons preached at Northampton by Rev. Solomon Williams, A. M. 1805. Butler, Northampton. A discourse delivered at Haverhill, March, 1805, at the funeral of J. Kimball, A. M. To which is added a short memoir of his life. By John S. Popkin, A. M. Newbury Port. The importance of virtue and piety as qualifications of rulers; a discourse delivered March, 1805, by Daniel Dana, A. M. Newbury Port. Two discourses on Christ's selfexistence, preached at Newbury Port, March 3d, 1805, by Samuel Spring. The moral tendency of man's accountableness to God; and its influence on the happiness of society. A sermon preached on the day of the General Election at Hartford, Con. by Asahel Hooker, A. M. The kingdom of Christ, a missionary sermon preached at Philadelphia, May 23d, 1805, by Edward D. Griffin, A.M. The way of God vindicated, in a sermon preached September 16th, 1804, after the interment of his only child, Jonathan Homer, A. B. who died September 7th, 1805, aged 21. By Jonathan Homer, pastor of a church in Newton. A sermon on duelling preached at New Haven, September 9th, 1804, and at New York, January 21, 1805. By Timothy Dwight, D. D. A sermon preached before the Hampshire Missionary Society, August 4th, 1804, in Northampton, by Enoch Hale, A. M. The value of life and charitable institutions; a discourse delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at their semiannual meeting, June, 11, 1805, by Rev. Thomas Gray, A. M. A discourse to a society of young men in London; preached in the year 1719. By Rev. John Cumming minister of the Scots church, London. Boston reprinted Jan. 1805 The guilt, folly, and source of suicide; two discourses preached in the city of New York, Feb. 1805. By Samuel Miller, D. D. A discourse delivered in Haverhill Jan. 31st, 1805, at the interment of the Rev. Hezekiah Smith, D. D. late pastor of the Baptist society in that town. By Samuel Stillman, D. D. The characters, trials, and duties of a gospel minister delienated in a sermon delivered at Amherst, (Mass.) May 2, 1804, at the ordination of Rev. Thomas H. Wood, to the work of an Evangelist. By John Emerson, A. M. A sermon at the ordination of the Rev. Henry Lord, to the work of the ministry in Williamsburg, June 20, 1804. By Joseph Lyman, D. D. A Thanksgiving discourse, delivered at Chester, N. H. Nov. 1804. By Nathan Bradstreet, A. M. A discourse delivered at the opening for publick worship, of the Presbyteri an church, in the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia, April 7th, 1805. By Ashbel Green, D. D. Two occasional sermons preached at Hatfield, Nov. 4th and 29th, 1804. By Joseph Lyman, D. D. Pastor of the church in Hatfield. The close communion of the Baptists, in principle and practice, proved to be unscriptural, and of a bad tendency in the church of God; in seven letters, addressed to the friends of fundamental truth, and of practical religion. By Rufus Anderson, A. M. Salem, 1805. 20 cents. Two Treatises, wherein are contained several particular subjects, by Aaron Putman, A. M. MISCELLANEOUS. Report of the trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase; Baltimore, printed for Samu. el Butler and George Keatings, 1805. An address to the members of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society, by Peter Thacher, A. M. The Poetical Works of John Milton, from the text of Dr. Newton, with a critical Essay, by J. Aikin. S. Etheridge and C. Stebbins. This is a pocket edition in two vols. neatly printed on a nonpareil type, and good paper. An Abridgment of the History of New England, for the use of young persons, by Hannah Adams. PERIODICAL WORKS. RELIGIOUS. THE Connecticut Evangelical Maga-' zine, published at Hartford, monthly, 40 pages, 8vo. 12 1-2 cts. The Massachusetts Missionary Magazine, published at Boston, monthly, 40 pages, 8vo. 12 1-2 cts. The Piscataqua Evangelical Magazine, published at Portsmouth, once in two months, 40 pages, 8vo, 12 1-2 cts. The Assembly's Missionary Maga zine, or Evangelical Intelligencer, published at Philadelphia, monthly, 50 pages, octavo, 25 cts. The Massachusetts Baptist Missionary Magazine, published occasionally,' Boston, 12 1-2 cts. The Christian's Magazine, published in New York, once in three months, 120 pages, 8vo. 37 1-2 cts. N.B. The profits of the above works are devoted to missionary purposes. LITERARY. THE Literary Miscellany, published quarterly, at Cambridge, 100 pages, 8vo, 50 cts. The Monthly Anthology, published in Boston, 50 pages, 8vo, 37 1-2 cts. The Literary Magazine and American Register, published monthly, in Philadelphia. The Mathematical Correspondent, published at New York, by T. and J. Swords, 24 pages, 12mo, 18 1-2 cts. The Medical Repository, published quarterly in New York. The Collections of the Historical Society, published in Boston, generally a vol. once in a year. The Monthly Register and Review of the United States for January, 1805, by S. Cullen Carpenter, Charleston, S. Carolina, 6 dolls. per annum. Obituary. In England, May 6, WILLIAM PETTY, Marquis of Lansdown, Earl Wycombe, Viscount Calne, Baron Wycombe, in England, Earl of Shelburne, (the title he used to be known by in America) Viscount Fitzmaurice, Baron Dunkerson, in Ireland, Knight of the Garter, and a General of the Army, aged 69. He filled a large space in society as a statesman, an orator, an accomplished gentleman, a liberal patron of the arts, and a most amiable man in private life. At Paris, M.FRANCISTA NOISE,clerk in the French treasury, aged 88. He left behind him no less than ten widows, though he was a bachelor until 1792. In his will he declares he never intend. ed to marry, had not the National Convention passed the law for easy divorces. He leaves to each of his widows an annuity of 200 livres (501.) as he says they were all equally dear to him. Not one of them is yet thirty years of age. In Russia, March 20, the Right Rev. Father GABRIEL GRUBER, General of the Society of Jesuits. In Berlin, Feb. 25, FREDERIQUE LOUISA Queen of Prussia, of the House of Hesse d'Armstadt, and widow of Frederick William II.King of Prussia, born Oct. 16, 1751, aged 54. In Jamaica, Mrs. MILLS, aged 118; she was followed to the grave by 295 of her children, great grand children, and great great grand children, sixty of whom named Ebanks, belong to the regiment of militia for St. Elizabeth's parish. For 97 years she practised midwifery, during which period it is stated that she ushered 143,000 persons into the world! She retained her senses to the last, and followed her business till within two days of her death. At Brandon, (Ver.) of the Scarlet Fe. ver, alias CankerRash, onthe 2d of May, MATILDA HARRIS, aged 10 years. On the4th, NABBYHARRIS, in the 17thyear of her age. On the 9th, LUCINDA HARRIS, in the 14th year of her age. On the 21st, OTIS HARRIS, aged 19; children of Mr. Nathaniel Harris, of that town. The parents of the deceased appear to endure these afflicting dispensations of divine Providence, with the meekness and fortitude of Christians. In July, 1803, they buried two daughters who died of the dysentery. June 19th, Mr. GEORGE TUCKER, Of Milton, aged 56, in attempting to place himself on the tongue of a waggon, he was driving through Roxbury, accidentally fell before the wheels, which passed over his body, and instantly terminated his life. In Portsmouth, June 8th, Mrs. MARY, the amiable consort of the Rev. Dr. BUCKMINSTER, aged 39. She was in the enjoyment of her usual health about three hours previous to her death. In Mifflin county, (Penn.) the Rev. Mr. LOGAN. The manner of his death was remarkable: For a considerable time he had been ailing, but was still able to officiate in the pastoral office. On the 19th ultimo, he went to church as usual, performed divine service, and immediately afterward sunk down in the pulpit, and expired. At NEW HAVEN, (Con.) Mr. ELISHA Arwood, by the bursting of an overcharged musket, a piece of the barrel passing through his head. In Boston, the 15th inst. Mr. THOмAS BALDWIN, jun. aged21, the only son of the Rev. Dr. Baldwin. He was assistant instructor in one of the publick schools in this town, in which situation he gave general satisfaction. Open in his deportment, he possessed a mind truly generous, and a heart void of deceit. He bore a formidable operation and most afflictive disease with manly fortitude, and met the last enemy with that firmness and resignation, which consoles the bereaved parents and friends, and leaves them to sorrow, not as those without hope. Drowned, on Saturday afternoon, June 29, in the outer harbour, Mr. GEORGE SPRAGUE, of Boston; he was on a party of pleasure with a number of his friends, and was unfortunately knocked overboard by the shifting of the boom. He was a young man of most amiable character. In Cambridge, on Friday evening last, JACOB SHEAFE WILLARD, aged 17, son of the late President Willard, and student at the University. In Boston, suddenly, Miss ANN G. HINCKLEY, aged 20.-Miss HANNAH FENNO, aged 46. At Weston, July 25th, Mr. PHINEMAS UPHAM, aged 37. Poetry. ON READING THE LIFE OF COWPER. Addressed to Mr. H. PLUNG'D deep in sorrow, And dead to all those phantom forms of bliss, grasp, And bid it rise and glow with Virtue's fire ? I thank thee, Heaven, that earth is net so poor, THE DECALOGUE. I AM the Lord thy God, serve only me, heart; All false reports against thy neighbour hate, And ne'er indulge a wish for his estate. " Europ. Mag. CONVERSATION," OH I have seen (nor hope perhaps in vain, HYMN SACRED TO TRUTH. HAIL, Sacred Truth whose piercing rays Dispel the shades of night, Diffusing o'er the mental world The healing beams of light. Till THOU appear, the wounded sou!, The way of peace incessant seeks, Philosophy, and Moral Sense, With their officious pride, Whom they presume to guide. The banner of thy cross display, Dear signal of thy love : Till ev'ry tongue confess thy sway, And ev'ry heart approve. |