that he could not move his left hand. The mercury continuing to descend, marked eight inches and a half, and a violent detonation was heard from the balloon, which then descended with great rapidity, and M. Brioschi awoke. The aeronauts alighted safely on the hill of Euganea, not far from Petrarch's tomb and the city of Argua, about twelve miles from Padua. The voyage lasted from half past three until half past eight o'clock.

DR. BREWSTER, of Edinburgh, has invented an instrument for determining distances at one station, without measuring a base, without a portable base being attached to the instrument, or without know. ing the magnitude of the object, the distance of which is to be ascertained. A long base is actually created by the instrument, without measuring it; and the distance is obtained upon a principle, which, as far as we know, has never been employed in tri. gonomical instruments.

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Sermons on Various Subjects, Evangelical, Devotional and Practical, adapted to the Promotion of Christian Piety, Family Religion, and Youthful Virtue. By the Rev. Joseph Lathrop, D. D. Pastor of the First Church in Westspringfield. By Farrand, Mallory & Co. Besten, republished,

The Scripture Doctrine of Atonement Examined-First, in relation to Jewish Sacrifices-and then, to the sacrifice of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ By John Taylor, of Norwich.

To which are added-Candid Remarks upon the Rev. Mr. Taylor's Discourse, entitled, The Scripture Doctrine of Atone ment. By George Hampton, M. A.

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the novel and interesting views which they afford, of the countries northwest of the Canadas, their inhabitants and natural history. In Lower Canada, a prominent ob ject of inquiry was the commerce in furs; and every detail of this commerce necessarily connects itself with the actual history of the North American nations, involving accounts of their numbers, habits, and condition. These subjects, so well calculated to fix the attention of philoso phers and statesmen, Mr. Kendal has been enabled, by the aid of original documents, and much oral communication, to treat of, in a manner full of novelty, and peculiarly satisfactory. The arts, the poetry, and the mythology of these tribes of hunters, are each found to invite attention, and even to possess attractions not unworthy of the walks of polite letters. Besides other engravings, this work is to be accompanied by a splendid series of coloured plates, exhibiting the military costume of the Kinistinoes of the plains. In that part of the travels which relates to Upper Canada, the memory of Brandt, the Iroquois chief, is preserved, by a portrait, drawn from the life, and by some biographical memoirs. The agriculture, trade, resources, and political and moral state of Lower and Upper Canada, are illustrated by a multitude of important facts, and the work abounds with anecdote. The work is expected to form one large volume 4to. and will be published in England about the time of its appearance in America.

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At New-York,

Proposals are issued, without a name, to publish a work, to be entitled, Theophi. anthropist; to be published by a Society in monthly numbers.

{The object of this work to us, appears to be to promote the cause of infidelity and atheism. The professed object is "to promote the progress of reason, and to increase the sum of human happiness."] H.A. Kendal, of NewYork, has in the press, Travels in Lower and Upper Canada. A very high degree of importance attaches itself to these Travels, as well for the recent and authentick information which they Contain, concerning two provinces of so 11uch value to the British empire, as for

compendious system of universal Geogra phy," &c. &c.; ornamented with maps. Though geography is an earthly subject, it is a heavenly study."

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A work upon the principles and plan of Celebs, by a clergyman of the first respectability, is now in preparation, and will shortly be published. It is intended as a counterpart to that popular work, and to form a standing companion for it, when the rage for ephemeral productions is past.

A Translation of the Voyage of d'Entrecastreaux in search of La Perouse is in the press.

Some facts, however, relative to this period, have escaped his industry. Budgell declares, that 20,000 of the Spectators have been sold in one day. They penetrated even to the Highlands, and were read with the news of the week, by the grave politicians who met after church on Sundays, to arrange national affairs. They were soon imitated, and their very titles copied, throughout Europe. The lethargick Hollander awoke to a Spectator, by Van Effen; the French had their Babillard; and the Germans their Guardian. This last, printed at Hamburgh, found a heavy sale, till the writers inserted translations of the English Spectators, when the demand for it rapidly and widely increased. At that time, it was a tribute paid to wit, somewhat unexpected from Germany.

The bold feature in this new manner of writing," as it was called, is the dramatick plan which Addison adopted with all the felicity of genius, and which has become the despair of his imitators! By the invention of a dramatis persona, of opposite humours and pursuits, as in the club of the Spectator, and the feigned characters of his correspondents, he poured all the colours of life into this moving scene. These personages served as vehicles for exhibiting the domestick manners of the nation, at a time when there was a decisive originality among our countrymen, now so equalized and flattened by artificial uniformity. As some of his foreign imitators copied this invention, they exhibit an interesting contrast of national manners. In the Spectator of Miravaux, for instance, we find the portraits of his Parisians; the lively Frenchman plays with their levities, but weeps over their serious distress es. The letter of a father on the ingratitude of his son, is an eloquent appeal to the feelings; while with

equal power and pathos, he describes the tyranny of patrons, the torments of avarice, and the perfidy of friends, by those incidents, and touches of character, which he discovered in his own country. In the Spectator of Van Effen, the manners and feelings of the Hollanders are given, like copies after life, by Heemskirk. The members of his literary club share the ponderous gravity of the natives, while the boorish pride of the monied Dutchman is at once the coarsest and the truest of portraits. Van Effen has given a voluminous love-story; but in a country where that romantick pas sion does not appear above once in a century, with more truth than taste. His Laura is a maid servant, his Petrarch a carpenter of Amsterdam. The first interview takes place as she stands on the steps of her door, holding one of those stoves of lighted turf which the women carry to warm themselves. The youth, who has long watched for the auspicious moment, requests to light his pipe at her stove; but as every puff closes with a sigh, the pipe of love is to be perpetually renewed. The dialogue is artless. The Dutch maid is coy, and even coquettish. The boor delicate—at a certain period of the history, he actually exhibits somewhat like a symptom of despair!

That the lucubrations of Addison had such an influence on the popular writings of foreigners, is which seems to have escaped notice. Dr. Drake, does not allude to it, though he gives accounts of foreign works, which preceded Addison, with some congeniality of character. Such are the " Cortigiano," of Castilione, and the "Galateo" of De la Casa; the former, which the Italians emphatically term, "the golden book," displays the politeness which reign. ed among the higher ranks of society during the sixteenth century. The latter was the domestick code of civility throughout Europe, and con tains the art of living in the world, addressed to all ranks of society.