own. The question is decided. My last hope of extricating both you and myself from our perplexed condition, and yet preserving our relation to each other, has vanished away. The higher duties which I owe to the church of God, leave no place for the details of a pastoral charge. I am at best but a nominal pastor, and there is no probability of my becoming a real one. I stand in the way of some one who might be such. I cannot consent to remain in a situation so affecting to myself, and so injurious to you. The only alternative is that which I have adopted, and am about to mention. An alternative, not hastily resolved upon; distinctly anticipated long ago as a possible event; put off by my utmost exertions to avoid it, until I am shut up to it; pondered with much tenderness and solemnity at various intervals, and under various states of mind; spread out, not once, nor twice, "with strong crying and tears," before the mercy seat; and not resorted to, after all, but from a deliberate and thorough conviction of duty as in the sight of God, and as one that must give account. Brethren, we must part. My agitation and my anguish in announcing this to you are extreme. But the die is east; the thing is inevitable. I have therefore to inform you, that it is my intention to resign my pastoral charge into the hands of the Presbytery of New-York, at their next stated meeting, to be held in the town of Newburgh, on Wednesday, the 16th day of May next ensuing. I give you this early notice, that you may appoint, if you shall judge it proper, commissioners to attend the Presbytery, to make any representations which you may desire, so as to save the Presbytery the trouble of a special meeting. At the same time candour requires me to state, that I have communicated to you my purpose, not as a matter on which my own mind is dubious or wavering; not as a manœuvre to accomplish by indirect means, views which I directly attempted without success. My resolution is fixed, and cannot be altered by any steps which may now be taken. I shall detain you no longer than to subjoin an observation or two for preventing mistakes. During the whole period of our connexion, the utmost harmony has subsisted between

ús. 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 labour 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 consolation 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 indecorum 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 unavoidable. 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 Manœuvres of the of Public 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 Manoeuvres 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.

New Editions.

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

mical works of the most eminent au-f Works Proposed, and in Press: thors, Ferguson, Dufoy, Hellot, Geof Butterworth's Concordance is printfrey, Colbert; and that reputable ing by John Tiebout, New-York; also, 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 American phlogistic hypotheses are proved er-Medical and Philosophical Register; roneous, by Mrs. Fuhame. Boston; or Annals of Medicine, Natural HisJames W. Burditt & Co. tory, Agriculture, and the Arts, con

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. A.new types, and occasionally enriched Rector of Morningthorp, in Norfolk. with engravings. Each Number to Boston; Farrand, Mallory & Co. contain 100 pages. Price $2 per ann. and Lyman, Mallory & Co. Port- Birch and Small, of Philadelphia, are land, 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 distinet 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 trations; 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 3, 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. Ls 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 Cases, 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 Ameages 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 acan account of the first judgments of companied with notes of reference to God on Persecutors, &c. Also, a Pleathe 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.

1 vol. 8vo. $250.

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.

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