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OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, FOR OCTOBER, 1808.

Sunt bona, sunt quædam mediocria, sunt mala plure.——MART.

NEW WORKS. The History of Don Francisco de Mivanda's attempt to effect a revolution in South America, in a series of Letters. By a gentleman who was an officer under that general, to his friend in the United States. To which are annexed, sketches of the life of Miranda, and geographical notices of Caraccas. Boston. Oliver & Munroe. 12mo. pp. 300.

An Enquiry into the chymical charace ter and properties of that species of Coal, lately discovered at Rhode Island to gether with observations on the useful application of it to the arts and manufactures of the castern States. Boston. Printed by Snelling and Simons. Devonshire Street. 12mo. pp. 21.

An address to the citizens of Massa chusetts, on the causes and remedy of our National Distresses. By a Fellow Sufferer. Boston, printed at the Repertory-Office. pp. 13.

A new literary paper has been issued by Messrs. Oliver & Munroe, of this town, entitled the "Boston Mirror." The establishments of "The Emerald," and "The Times" are united in this publication, price 3 do'ls. per ann.

The constitution and associate statutes of the Theological Seminary in Andover; with sketches of its rise and progress. Published by order of the trustees. Boston. Published by Farrand, Mallory, and Co. Belcher and Armstrong, printers. 8vo..

A Sermon preached at the opening of the Theological Institution in Andover: and at the ordination of Rev. Eliphalet Pearson, LL. D. Sept. 28, 1808. By Rev. Timothy Dwight, D. D. president of Yale college. Boston. Printed by Belcher and Armstrong 8vo. pp. 56.

Three Dissertations on Boylston Prize Questions for the years 1806 and 1807.

By George Cheyne Shattuck, M. D.---Being the Dissertations to which the Boylston Prize Medals were adjudged. To which is prefixed, the Publick Account of their Adjudications. Published by Farrand, Mallory & Co. and Hastings, Etheridge & Bliss, Boston; by Hopkins & Bayard, New-York; and Hopkins & Earle, Philadelphia. Belcher & Armstrong, Printers. 8vo. pp. 196.

NEW EDITIONS.

The Middlesex Collection of Church Musick; or, Ancient Psalmody revived. Containing a variety of plain psalm tunes, the most suitable to be used in divine service; to which is annexed, a number of other pieces of a more delieate and artificial construction, proper to be performed by a choir of good Musicians occasionally, in Schools and Pub lick Religious Assemblies. Second edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. Boston, printed and sold by Manning & Loring, No. 2, Cornhill.

Begone Dul! Care; or, How will it end? a comedy, in five acts; as performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden. By Frederick Reynolds. Boston, published by E. Larkin, No. 47, Cornhill. Greenough & Stebbins, printers.

The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthagenians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians. By Mr. Rollin, late principal of the University of Paris, professor of eloquence in the royal college, and member of the royal academy of inscriptions and belles lettres. Translated from the French; in eight volumes. Vol. V. The twelfth edition, illustrated with maps. Boston, published and sold by Hastings, Etheridge and Bliss.

The sixth and last volume of the Fam

ily Expositor; or, a paraphrase and version of the New Testament; with critical notes, and practical improvement of each section, in six volumes. Containing the epistle of Paul the apostle to the Hebrews, James, 1. Peter, 11. Peter, 1 John, 11. John, 111. John, Jude, Revelations. By P. Doddridge, D. D. To which is prefixed, a life of the author, by Andrew Kippis, D. D. F. R. S. and S. A. From the eighth London edition. 8vo. pp. 622. S. Etheridge, printer, Charlestown.

WORKS ANNOUNCED.

Doctor Ramsay, (the celebrated Historian) has issued Proposals for publishing a History of South-Carolina, from its first settlement in 1670, to 1808. The work will be put to press in November

next.

Wm. Hilliard, of Cambridge, (Mass.) has issued proposals for publishing by, Subscription, An American Biographical and Historical Dictionary, contain ing an account of the Lives, Characters, and Writings of the most ancient persons in North America, from the first discovery of the country to the present time, and a Summary of the History of the several Colonies, and of the United States. The work to be printed in one vol. 8vo. containing 500 pages. Price tó Subscribers,two dollars and fifty cents. George W. Woodman, of New-Bedford, proposes publishing that valuable and scarce book, entitled, "Thoughts on Religion, and other Important Subjects; newly translated from the French of Blaise Pascal. To which are added, memoirs of his life and writings. To be comprised in one vol. 8vo. of about 400 pages, on a fine wove paper, and delivered to subscribers at two dollars.

Hopkins and Earle, Philadelphia, and

Farrand, Mallory, and Co. Boston, have issued proposals for publishing a system of exchange operations between the prin cipal places of Europe Containing the names and divisions of the different monies; the usances of Bills; the times of grace, payment, protest, and the course of exchange between relative pla ces in Europe, as respectively establish. ed; the manner in which their respective accounts are kept, and the manner of reducing bank to current money; with a reciprocal deduction of the different monies calculated upon the order of exchange, &c. In the manner of the French system of Joseph Rene Ruelle,by Peter Kuhn, jun. Esq late consul of the United States of America, near the republick of Liguria. To which will be added, the weights, qualities, and names of all current coins, foreign and ancient, &c. &c. It will appear on a fine wove paper, in an 8vo. size of between 3 and 400 pages, and delivered to subscribers, in boards at 4 dollars.

Proposals are issued by E. Bronson and others, Baltimore, for publishing a new periodical work, to be entitled, Select Reviews, and the Spirit of the Foreign Magazines.

Manning & Loring intend publishing, by Subscription, a new and improved edition of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, sung at the Chapel of Lock Hospital. This work, (compiled by the celebrated MADAN,) comprised in about 200 royal quarto pages, printed on a fine and thick paper, and on a page of the size of the fast London edition; and no alteration of any kind in the Musick shall be permitted. The price to subscribers, stitch ed in a printed paper covering, will be two dollars fifty cents.

NOTE.

[** We regret that our readers are deprived of the Retrospective Reviews for this number, by the accidental loss of the manuscript; and hope that the following abstract will not be without interest.

FOREIGN LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Abridgement of the Trial, in an action, in which Sir John Carr, Knt. was Plaintiff, and Messrs. Hood and Sharpe, Defendants: damages laid at £1000. The trial took place in Guildhall, on the 25th of July, 1808, before Lord Ellenborough anđ a special Jury: taken down in short hand, by Thomas Jenkins.

THIS abridgement shall contain all that is material. The reader will find in it every principal point touched upon by Mr. Garrow, the leading counsel for the plaintiff, the whole of what was said by the Judge, and by the Attorney General, who was the leading counsel for the defendants, with the sole exception of what the latter said by way of return for the trade-like compliments paid him by Mr. Garrow, and which interchange of compliments I omit for the sake of decency.

The case, as stated by Mr. Garrow, was this. That Sir John Carr (whom hereafter I shall call Carr, not perceiving that he has any right to claim the cramming up of my pages with his lengthened name) was the author of several works which he had sold for considerable sums of money; that he was about to publish a new work of the nature of his former works, which had hitherto been well received by the publick; that, at this juncture the defendants published the libel in question, called, "My Pocket Book ;" that the evident object of this work was utterly to destroy Carr as an author, in which object it must succeed, unless censured by the verdict of the jury; that the "Pocket Book," besides ridicule in words,

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ed as a stupid writer, a gleaner of
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as so nearly like a mere vagabond,
as to carry about his wardrobe in a
pocket handkerchief; that the de-
fendants had said, that they had a
rod in pickle for Carr, and that they
would do for him; that the effect of
all this had been a clearly prov-
ed damage to Carr; that Sir
Richard Phillips had, merely from
the effect of this attack, been deter
red from purchasing the intended
new work, for which, otherwise, he
would have given £700; and that
there must necessarily have arisen to
the plaintiff other damages, of which
it would be impossible to estimate
the amount.

The evidence first given, was to prove the publication of the "Pocket Book," and then evidence was produced of a continuation of the publication after notice of action, which evidence in aggra. vation having been objected to by the Attorney General, the following conversation took place between the Judge and Mr. Garrow.

Mr. Garrow. The ground on which I offer it, is this: I say, that these defendants meant to publish to the world, a work, the object of

which is, to render Sir John Carr ridiculous. I say, this publication of these defendants, is false and scandalous. Can it be doubted that I may prove, that the defendants have continued that publication, to shew the extent of the injury, and the spirit of the offending party?

Lord Ellenborough. But we must allow a latitude to the free discussion of the merits and demerits of authors and their works; otherwise we may talk indeed of the liberty of the press, but there will be in reality an end of it.

Mr Garrow-Suppose I had a wen on my neck, or had any other deformity. Am I to be held up to ridicule, to gratify the malice of an individual, who chooses to be my enemy, and is that individual to continue to expose me, after notice given to him of his misconduct ?. That notice is given to him by the service of a process, which is the commencement of the action.

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Mr. Attorney General.The an swer to all this, is, that you can bring another action, if you are dam nified by any subsequent publication.

Lord Ellenborough We must really not cramp observations upon authors and their works. They should be liable to exposure; to criticism, and ever. to ridicule, if their works be ridiculous; otherwise, the first who writes a book up on a subject will maintain a monopoly of sentiment, and opinion upon it. You must never shew the absurdity of it, although it be absurd, that is, you can never do it with effect. This would tend to the perpetuity of errour. A bad book might appear, it would propagate errour, and so we should go on to the end of time. How any body could conceive that an action is maintainable, for publishing a work, exposing another work to ridicule,is Vol. V. No. X.

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Mr. Garrow.-I am not contending that the defendants may not endeavour to shew, that the plaintiff's book is a ridiculous one; but, they must not endeavour to destroy the plaintiff altogether, as an author.

Lord Ellenborough-I do not know that. Suppose a person publishes a book containing sentiments that are injurious to publick morals; of infinite mischief to the publick taste or bad maxims of government ; or any thing else that ought to be de cried; are we not to be at liberty to expose that work; aye, and expose the author of it too, as far as he is connected with that work, and that, in the most pointed language of wit, humour, or ridicule; the more point ed and forcible, the better? He who does so, if the work be ridiculous, dr a bad one, confers a favourion, by producing a benefit to, the pub lick. That it destroys the repu tation of an author, and puts an end to the circulation of his works, is nothing, if his works be worthless. Mr. Locke published an answer to sir. Robert Filmer ; would any body give twopence, after that, for the works of sir Robert Filmer? What then was Mr. Locke to be made the subject of an action, for destray ing the reputation of sir Robert Fil mer? Not at all. It was a reputa tion that ought to have been destroyed, and was destroyed; for which the world has been greatly indebted to Mr. Locke. I really do not know where we are going to. To talk of the, liberty of the press, if one man may not write freely, on the work of another, lest he should destroy the reputation of that other, would be idle. Shew me an attack on the moral character of this plaintiff, or any attack on his character unconnected with his books, and I shall

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Evidence was then given to prove that Carn was the author of other works... Lord Valentia was called to prove, that the Pocket Book," was intended, in his opinion, to ex pose Carr's Irish: Tour to ridicule Lord Mountnorris, under whose mamy a letter has been published, stating that he attended solely and conscientiously on behalf of sir John Carr, "soul, upon his oath, that he had read the Pocket Book, and also the Stranger in Ireland; that he had compared them both, chapter and chapter; that he considered the former as intended to ridicule. the lattér; that the caricatures are so strongly drawn, that it was impossible to mistake their applications to sir John Carr and, finally, that he should have bought the Stranger in Ireland, but would not after reading the Pocket Book, the latter having depreciated, the former so much in his opinion." In a cross-examina

tion, which appears to have been gone into by the Attorney General, for the purpose of obtaining a repetition of this evidence so complimentary as well as useful to his clients, Lord Mountnorris said, in terms, if possible, still more explicit, that after a most attentive perusal of both the work and the criticism, he was induced, by the impression produced on his mind by the latter, not to purchase the former, though he was before disposed to make that purchase.

Sir Richard Phillips's Examination might have been very short; but owing to his own indiscretion, it was rendered very long; and as he appears to have been considered as the real cause of the action against Messrs. Hood and Sharpe, the whole of this Examination shall be given. He was examined by Mr. Dampier, and cross-examined by the Attorney General.

Q Did you, sir Richard Phillips, purchase of sir John Carr, a book, called, "The Northern Summer; or, a Tour round the Baltic ?" A. I did.

Q. And also a Tour through Ireland and another along the Rhine ?? A. I did...

Q. They are all in quarto, I be lieve? A. They are.

Q What was the purchase money for each? A.The price of the first was fixed by Mr. Hayley, who introduced sir John Carr to me.

Q. Will you state the sums which you paid for these books? A. Four hundred pounds for " The Northern Summer gor, Tour round the Balfic," and in consequence of a small increase in the quantity, I added another 1001 of my own accord.

Q. So that he had 5001. for his book?. A. Yes, he had. Mr. Hayley, of whom I have a high opinion, settled the price of that book.

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