The reiterated proofs of your affection, I shall cherish as a spring of grateful recollection, while my memory retains her seat. Dissatisfaction with my people I have none: neither am I influenced by pecuniary motives. Your last unsolicited, unexpected addition to my income, notwithstanding the evils under which you la bour were not removed, is a pledge that you are ready to preclude all just uneasiness on that score. But my salary doubled, trebled, quadrupled, would not induce me to retract, or even to hesitate. The reasons of my present conduct would still operate with unabated force.

Nor have I been impelled by private chagrin or resentments. I have no personal quarrel with a man among you; and if I had, I should enjoy ineffable con. solation from the assurance, that the uniform tenour of my life, puts me above the suspicion of acting from such paltry passons.

In declaring my intention of resigning my charge, I am not to be understood as expressing any intention of abandoning the pulpit. To preach Jesus Christ, and him crucified, is my honour and my happiness; nor shall I desist from my loved employment, so long as I am permitted to abide in it; but shall continue to labour in the word and doctrine, as God in his providence shall appoint to me a proper scene of action. In the interim between this date and the meeting of the Presbytery in May, I shall perform, if the Lord will, my public functions as usual.

The respect which I owe to my more intimate friends, and especially to the members of Session, demands an explanation of my silence on this interesting subject, until the hour of my laying it before the congregation. It is not strictly a sessional business. Talking of it, while the facts to determine the issue were still in suspense, might have been interpreted as a threat, or at least as an inde corum toward the congregation. I also studied to shun the multitude of discussions to which it would have given rise; and thus to spare myself and my brethren much pain, which would otherwise have been unavoida ble. My feelings at this moment justify my precaution: they are sufficiently excruciating, without having been subjected to agony a thousand times repeated.

You will readily excuse me for not addressing you in person on this occasion. My heart tells me that I could hardly sustain the conflict. That heart is filled, and shall be filled, with affectionate remembrance of you, and with fervent supplications for your temporal and eternal felicity, while the hand which expresses its emotions, is able to subscribe the name of

Your Friend and Pastor,

New-York, March 12, 1810.

JOHN M. MASON.

NOTE-As both the Editors have been necessarily absent from the city during the greater part of the last month, it is hoped their subscribers will grant them a little indulgence for the want of original matter in this Number.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Memoirs of the Connecticut Acade-Feb. 24, 1810. By Henry Davis, A. M'. my of Arts and Sciences, Vol. I. part I. President of the Middlebury College. A Sermon, preached in Boston, Published by the request of the corpoApril 5, 1810, the day of the Public ration. Boston; Farrand, Mallory Fast; by William Ellery Channing, & Co. pastor of the church in Federal Street. Bibliotheque Portative; or, Elegant Boston; John Elliot, jun. French Extracts, No. 3. Boston.

A Sermon, preached at Trinity Rules and Regulations for the Field Church, April 6, 1810, being the day Exercise, and Manoeuvres of the of Publie Fast; by J. S. J. Gardiner, French Infantry; issued August 1, A. M. rector. Boston; Munroe and 1791; and the Manœuvres added, Francis. which have been since adopted by

Reports of Cases adjudged in the the Emperor Napoleon. Also, the District Court of South-Carolina. By Manœuvres of the Field Artillery with the Hon. Thomas Bee, Judge of that Infantry. By Col. Irenee Amelot court. To which is added, an Appen-de Lacroix. Late Chief of Brigade in dix, containing Decisions of the Admi-the French service. In three vols. ralty Court of Pennsylvania; by the the third volume consisting of plates. late Francis Hopkinson, Esq. and Cases Boston; T. B. Wait & Co. determined in other districts of the United States. Boston; Farrand, The Dyer's Assistant in the art of Mallory & Co. dying wool and woolen goods; exAn Inaugural Oration, delivered tracted from the philological and chy

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mical works of the most eminent au- Works Probosed, and in Press. thors, Ferguson, Dufoy, Hellot, Geof- Butterworth's Concordance is printfrey, Colbert; and that reputable ing by John Tiebout, New-York; 80, French dyer, Mons. de Juliene, trans-the History of the Jews, by Josephus, lated from the French, with additions 6 vols. 12mo.

and practical experiments, by James Hutton's Mathematics, Revised, 2 Haigh, late silk and muslin dyer, vols. 8vo. by the New-York association Leeds. Also, an Essay on Combus- of Booksellers.

tion, with a view of dyeing and print- The Prospectus of a new periodical ing, wherein the phlogistic and anti-work, to be entitled, The Americau phlogistic hypotheses are proved er-Medical and Philosophical Register; roneous, by Mrs. Fuhame." Boston; or Annals of Medicine, Natural History, Agriculture, and the Arts, con

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Dialogues concerning Eloquence in ducted by a society of Gentlemen; has general; and particularly that kind been issued by E. Sargeant, New-York which is proper for the pulpit. By This work, the 1st number of which M. De Fenelon, Archbishop of Cam-will be published on the 1st July next, bray. Translated from the French, will appear regularly every three and illustrated with Notes and Quo-months; printed on good paper, with tations. By W. Stevenson, M. Anew types, and occasionally enriched Rector of Morningthorp, in Norfolk with engravings. Each Number to Boston; Farrand, Mallory & Co. contain 100 pages. Price $2 per anu. and Lyman, Mallory & Co. Port- Birch and Small, of Philadelphia, are Jand, 1810. preparing for the press, the British A new literal translation, from the Cicero; or, a selection of the most aporiginal Greek, of all the Apostolical proved speeches in the English LanEpistles, with a Commentary and guage; arranged under three distinct Notes, Philological, Critical, Expla-heads of popular, parliamentary, and natory, and Practical. To which is judicial Oratory; with historical illusadded, a History of the Life of the rations; to which is prefixed, an inApostle Paul. By James M'Knight, troduction to the study and practice of D. D. to be comprised in 6 vols. 8vo. Eloquence. By Thomas Browne, L. L. Vols. 1, 2, and 5, are published. T.D. author of Viridarium Poeticum, the B. Wait & Co. Boston, and Williams Union Dictionary, &c. &c.

& Whiting, New-York.

John F. Watson, of Philadelphia,

The Force of Truth, an Authentic has in the press, to be published withNarrative, by Thomas Scott, D. D. out delay, a Journal of a Tour to the New-York, Williams & Whiting. Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L An Exposition of the Conduct of D. By James Boswell, Esq. France towards America, illustrated W. Wells, and T. B. Wait & Co. by Cases decided in the Council of propose to publish by subscription, Prizes in Paris. By L. Goldsmith Henry Blackstone's Reports of Case New-York, E. Sargeant. argued and determined in the Courts

An Abridgment of the Book of of Common Pleas and Exchequer Martyrs; to which are prefixed, the Chamber, from Easter Term, 28 living testimonies of the Church of George S. 1788, to Hil. Term, 36 God, and faithful Martyrs in different George 3. 1796, inclusive. First Ame ages of the World; and the corrupt rican, from the the third English edit. fruits of the false Church, in the time To render the work more useful to of the apostasy; to which is annexed, the American lawyer, it will be ac an account of the first judgments of companied with notes of reference to God on Persecutors, &c, Also, a Plea the subsequent Reports of English Law, against Persecution, for the Cause of and the principal adjudications of the Conscience. New-York, S. Wood, several United States.

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Memoirs of the Rev. Dr. JAMES LATTA, late Pastor of the Congregation of Chesnut Level, in the County of Lancaster, (Penn.)

DR. JAMES LATTA was born in Ireland, and

at the age of about six or seven years, came into this country with his parents. The vessel in which they sailed being wrecked upon the American coast, and the family records, as far as is known, destroyed, the time of his birth has not been precisely ascertained. From concurring circumstances, however, it appears, that he was born some time during the winter of the year 1732. When quite a child, he discovered a serious turn of mind; and so remarkable was his attachment to his bible, that during the three days and nights he remained aboard of the foundered vessel, before the family and passengers could be relieved, he kept it continually under his arms.

Not only his seriousness, but his thirst for improvement and promising talents, with the advice of Vol. III.-No. VII.

some friends, prompted his parents to give him a liberal education. Accordingly they put him under the care of the Rev. Dr. Allison, who has been so deservedly famed as a teacher and scholar, and who, at that time, kept a classical school at New London in the county of Chester, (Penn.) His application and proficiency here were remarkable; and the seriousness which he so early discovered, increas ing with his years, he improved much in religious knowlege and experience. Of his qualifications in this respect, and the esteem in which he was held by various people, there is a striking evidence in the religious duties he was called to perform; for families with whom he resided, looked up to him to lead their worship, when he was but fourteen years of age; and he did it with an understanding which charmed and astonished all who heard him.

Dr. Allison being chosen to the vice-presidency of a college in Philadelphia, then forming and bearing its name, and having removed in consequence from New London to take charge of it, his young pupil soon followed him; and under this able instructor having completed his collegiate education, he obtained a diploma at the first commencement that took place in this new seminary. On this occasion he had assigned to him the salutatory oration to be de livered in Latin, which is always an honorary exer cise, being assigned to the person reputed to be the best scholar.

His character and attainments being well known to the trustees of the college, he received an invitation to become one of its teachers; and through the influence of Dr. Allison, was induced to accept it., In this capacity he continued for several years, pursuing at the same time his favourite study, divinity, under the beloved instructor with whom he had received all his education. Living in Philadelphia, he put him