its completion should be such as to warrant this application of the funds of the Society.

The preceding details comprehend the result of the more important Foreign transactions of your Committee; and what further remains connected with this subject may be more briefly mentioned.

The Society will recollect the instructions given to Dr. Knapp, and stated in the last Report, to send a number of Bibles and Testaments for the use of the German Colonies on the Wolga. It now remains to report the arrival and distribution of them. A Correspondent of your Committee, who undertook a laborious journey for the purpose of conveying them to the place of their destination, and who himself distributed a considerable number of copies, speaks of the joy and gratitude with which they were received.

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most judicious precautions were adopted by him, that they should be given free of all expense, and to those only among the poor who could read. In each copy distributed by the Correspondent alluded to, the following inscription was inserted by him:-"This Bible is the precious Gift of the English Bible Society; never to be sold, but to be made a good use of."

After the preceding detail, the Members of the Society will be much gratified in learning that a further supply of Bibles and Testaments has been required for the use of the German Colonies on the Wolga. Your Committee have accordingly directed 250 copies of each to be sent from Halle.

The types and paper presented by the Society to the Missionaries at Karass, for an edition of the Scriptures in Turkish, have escaped the casualties to which they were so peculiarly exposed, and have also reached the place of their destination.

Copies of the Scriptures, either in whole or in part, granted by your Committee for the accommodation of their countrymen in distant lands, or of foreigners, have been very numerous. They have been sent for sale, or gratuitous distribution, as might be expedient, to the East In

dies; the coast of the Mediterranean; to Quebec, Halifax, and Prince Edward's Island, in North America; to the West Indies and Spanish Main; to Gibraltar; to the Cape of Good Hope; to Madeira; and to Stockholm. Your Committee will not detain the Society by a specification of the number of copies sent to each particular place, as it will appear in the Appendix to their Report.

Your Committee, having been informed that there were many refugees from Finland at Stockholm, who had no means of procuring the New Testament in their own peculiar dialect, directed a number to be purchased for their use; and have now the satisfaction to report, in the words of their correspondent, that they were received by them with indescribable joy.

It may also be proper to notice the safe arrival of the Bibles and Testaments sent by your Committee to Steniack in Nova Scotia, for sale or distribution, as connected with the intelligence, that the recommendation of your Committee to form a Bible Society in that province has been adopted; and that measures are now taking for carrying it into complete execution.

(To be concluded in our next.)

AT a meeting of The Bible Society of Massachusetts, July 13, 1809, the following officers were elected, viz. William Phillips, Esq President; Mr. Samuel H. Walley, Treasurer; Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster, Corresponding Secretary; Rev. John Pierce, Recording Secretary; and Rev. John Lathrop, D.D. Rev. Joseph Eckley, D.D. Rev. James Freeman, Rev. Eliphalet Porter, D. D. Rev. Abiel Holmes, D. D. Rev. Thomas Bald. win, D. D. Samuel Salisbury, Esq. Hon. William Brown, Francis Wright, Esq. Hon. Isaac Parker, Hon. Peter C. Brooks, John Tucker, Esq. Joseph Hurd, Esq Dr. Redford Webster, Samuel Parkman, Esq. Joseph May, Esq. Mr. Joseph Sewall, and Heary Hill, Esq. as Trustees.

INSTALLED over the Congrega tional Church and Society of the North Parish in Thomastown, the

eral substances in general. By Frederick Accum, teacher of Practical Chymistry, Pharmacy, and Mineralogy. First American, from the third London edition. Philadelphia, Kimber and Conrad, and B. and J. Kite, 1809. The United States' Spelling Book, with appropriate Reading Lessons. Being an Easy Standard for Spelling, Reading, and Pronouncing the English Language, according to the Rules established by John Walker, in his Critical and Pronouncing Dictionary. By sundry experienced Teachers. Pittsburgh (Penn.) Zadok Cramer. 1809.

Statement of Duties on American and other produce imported from the United States into Great Britain, agreeably to the provisions of Act 48th, Geo. III. cap. 85. N. York, E. Sargent. 1809.

Select Reviews and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, No 7, and Vol. 2, for July, 1809. ByE. Bronson, and others. Philadelphia, Hopkins and Earle, and Farrand, Mallory, and Co. Boston.

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia: with Select cases, relating chiefly to points of Justice decided by the Supreme Court of Chancery for the Richmond District. The Second edition, revised, and corrected by the authors. Vol. I. By W. W. Hening and William Munford. Flatbush, N.Y. I. Riley, 1809.

NEW EDITIONS.

A General View of the Doctrines of Christianity; designed more especially for the edification and instruction of families. Boston, Has tings, Etheridge, and Bliss. 1809.

Memoirs of Mrs Elizabeth Carter, by the Rev. Montague Pennington, M. A. Vicar of Nathborn. Boston, O. C. Greenleaf. 1809.

Reliques of Robert Burns, consisting chiefly of Original Letters, Poems, and Critical Observations on Scottish Songs, now first published by R. C. Cromeck. Philadelphia, Bradford and Inskeep, and O. C. Greenleaf, Boston. 1809.

University of Edinburgh, &c. Philadelphia, F. Nichols. 1809.

The Life of Petrarch, collected from Memoires Pour la vie de Petrarch, by Mrs. Dobson. The first American, from the seventh London Edition. Embellished with two handsome engravings. Boston, Farrand, Mallory, and Co. 1809.

Considerations on the Nature and Efficacy of the Lord's Supper, by the Rev. Vicesimus Knox. To which are added, Prayers composed and used by Samuel Johnson, LL. D. New York, J. Shedden, 1809.

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery in Ireland, during the time of Lord Redesdale. First Volume. Containing the Cases from the Beginning of Easter term, 1802, to the end of Easter term, 1804. By John Schoales, and Thomas Lefroy, Esq. Barristers at Law. N. York, I. Riley. 1808.

The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, Minister of the Gospel in Northampton, Massachusetts, and afterwards President of the college in New Jersey. In 8 volumes. Worcester, Isaiah Thomas, Jun. 1809.

Letters from a late eminent Prelate to one of his Friends. First American Edition. Boston, Mun. roe, Francis, and Parker. 1809.

A Farewell Sermon, preached May 28, 1809, at Newark, New-Jersey, by Edward D. Griffin, D. D. Second Edition. Thomas and Whip. ple, Newburyport. 1809.

Universal Biography, containing a copious account, critical and historical, of the life and character, labors and actions of eminent persons of all ages and countries, conditions, and professions, arranged in alphabetical order. By J. Lempriere, D. D. Author of the Classical Dictionary.

John Morgan, and Thomas S. Manning, Philadelphia, propose repub Aishing Dr. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, in 2 vols. quarto,into which will be introduced Mason's Supplement, and Walker's Pronunciation.

Mathias James O'Conway, Philadelphia, proposes to publish by subscription, a Practical Anglo Spanish Grammar, wherein will be exhibited the whole variety of Spanish Construction,illustrated with copious ex

amples, consisting of familiar and commercial phrases.

Hopkins and Earle, Philadelphia, propose to publish immediately Helps to Composition, or Skeletons of Sermons. By the Rev. Charles Simeon, M. A. in 5 volumes, 8vo.

Munroe, Francis, & Parker, of this town propose to print a third edition of the plays of William Shakspeare: with notes by Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, andother Annotators. THEwork will contain the same number of pages as the Second Boston Edition of Shakspeare's Plays, in nine duodecimo volumes, fine wove paper. The volumes will be published monthly, bound in extra boards, at one dollar per volume. Those who subscribe for eight copies, and are accountable for the pay, will be entitled to a ninth set gratis.

DIED at Keene, (N. H.) on Saturday 13th of May, 1809. DANIEL NEWCOMB, M.D. late of Boston, aged 24. The death of this young man, science and religion unite in deploring. His father, the Hon. Daniel Newcomb of Keene, (N. H.) early inspired his son with a taste for letters, and formed his mind to usefulness. Strength of intellect and independence of character were his most distinguishing traits from the schoolboy to the bachelor of arts. Harvard University admitted him among her alumni, when he was but eighteen years old. The interval between his leaving the university and the dayof his death was whollydevoted to the profession of medicine. Such was his industry, and so judiciously directed were all his labors, that few young men in this part of our country have made so much progress to wards usefulness and eminence in the same space of time as had Dr. Newcomb. After having availed himself of the first advantages afforded by our country to the medical student, and received the degree of Doctor in Medicine at the University of Penn

sylvania, he settled in the practice of medicine at Portland; but soon relinquished that place for the metropolis. He removed to Boston during the January of 1807. Here he had determined to wait, resting entirely upon his personal merits and exertions for an introduction to the prac tice of the healing art. His mind be. gan to turn upon religious concerns more than it had done, soon after he came to Boston; although he had ever been distinguished for, correctness of conduct and an integrity ney. er to be scrupled. He began to realize that his hopes for salvation must rest on a different basis than his own merits or exertions, that the dy ing love of a crucified Redeemer was his only safety, and that he must cheerfully take up the cross and obey the gospel. Of these sentiments and principles he made public profession. The symptoms of consumption first appeared about two years before his death. Notwithstanding his debility and expectations of soon leaving this world, like the sincere Christian and the calm philosopher, he doubled his diligence to be found doing when