to enlarge upon the importance of such an institution. Should the mathematicians in the different parts of the United States contribute their exertions to its support, not only the present, but future generations will reap the advantage. Animated with these views, the committee of correspondence address the several mathematicians in the United States, with a display of the general outline of the constitution of the society, and most cordially solicit their co-operation in promoting the object of the society, and invite them to attend the next stated meeting.

EUROPEAN.

The designs of Mr. Flaxman from the Italian poet Dante, which were originally composed in Italy, for Mr. Thomas Hope are at length preparing for publication, they consist of one hundred and nine subjects, of a smaller size than his compositions from Homer. Mr. Flaxman has also thoughts of publishing his compositions from the Lord's Prayer and acts of Mercy, the result of many years study. He also is employed upon compositions from

the Greek poet Hesiod. This eminent artist has in hand the following pieces of sculpture. A great national monument of Earl Howe for St. Paul's Cathedral, and a statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds for the same place; a statue of Mr. Pitt for the city of Glasgow ; a publick monument to the late Josiah Webb, Esq. for India; with several inferior commissions both publick and private. He has just completed a magnificent statue of the Raja of Tanjore, for that Prince, and a monument to the Rev. F. Swartz a missionary, who died in the Raja's dominions.

Mr. Northmore has nearly completed an Epick Poem, of ten books, upon which he has been engaged for a considerable time it is entitled, Washington, or Liberty Restored, and, exclusive of the Imagery, is entirely founded upon historical records.

Mr. Janson who has lately returned from America, has brought with him many interesting materials towards furnishing a complete survey of the state of society and manners in that country: which will speedily appear in one 4to. volume, accompanied with a number of engravings.

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STATEMENT OF DISEASES, &c.

from March 20 to April 20. HIGHEST station of the barometer 30.2, on the 18th day of April. Lowest, 28.7. on the 31st day of March.

Greatest heat, on the 20th day of April, 70°.

Least heat, on the 1st day April, 30°.

Prevalent winds from the east Little disease has been seen during this month, compared to those, which preceded. The most prevalent complaint has been pneumonic. inflammation; with this disorder children particularly have been affected. Reliques of the influenza, which has prevailed, are now and then seen, and they sometimes have constituted an obstinate and formidable disease.

The cow-pock inoculation has been generally resumed.

EDITORS' NOTES.

ALTHOUGH it is contrary to the general rules which we have prescribed to ourselves to admit controversial discussions as to the merit of opinions and principles, advanced in any speculations which we publish, because the zeal and animosity of the disputants would soon fill our publication and thus exclude more useful matter; yet, as the letter from a Roman Catholick is written in a liberal and gentlemanly style, and as the author of the letters, which he attacks, is perfectly willing that an explanation should take place, we think proper in this instance to depart from our general rule, most devoutly wishing, that it may he the end of the controversy.

In justice however to our correspondent, whose letters we are publishing, and at his request, we add, that he is happy to find so respectable a Roman catholick denying, that indulgences, either in their origin or in their abuse, have ever been applied to the encouragement of crimes, by affording cheap and certain modes of obtaining remission of sins, and that he feels fully copvinced, that the personal character of the gentlemen, at the head of the Catholick establishment in Boston, is a sufficient pledge that no such misapplication of the power will ever take place

here.

But that the Roman Catholick' may be convinced, that our correspondent,

although so ignorant that even the beggars of Loretto might have taught him better,' is not singular in his ignorance, we take the liberty to make a quotation from the British Encyclopedia, omitting the most bitter and severe passages, which might justly offend the Roman Catholick. See article Indulgences. Indulgences are a remission of the punishment due to sins, granted by the Romish church, and supposed to save a sinner from purgatory. The form of one of them, quoted in the Encyclopedia, is as follows,

May our Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on thee, and absolve thee by the merits of his most holy passion; and I by his authority and that of his blessed apostles Peter and Paul, and of the most holy pope, do absolve thee, first from all ecclesiastical censure, which thou mayest have incurred; then from all thy sins how enormous soever they may be, even from such as are reserved for the cognizance of the holy see. I remit to you all punishment which you deserve in purgatory on their account,'

&c. &c.

It is not perceived, that there is any material distinction between licenses to commit offences, and pardons and remissions after they are committed; provided these pardons are granted of course, and for certain fixed and stated prices. Now that these indulgences were sold and at certain fixed rates, we are informed by many writers; but it may be as well to consult the standard work above quoted, which states, 'that the terms in which the retailers of indulgences described their benefits, and the necessity of purchasing them, are so extravagant, that they are almost incredible. The popes are now more sparing of this favour, but they still carry on a great trade with them to the Indies, where they are sold at two rials a piece, and sometimes more.'

The author of the letters from Rome might perhaps make an answer equally. satisfactory, or at least adduce author ties equally respectable, for all the opinions which he has advanced; but it would lead to a discussion exceeding the limits, which we have prescribed to ourselves. He would probably find very little difficulty in proving the intolerance and spirit of persecution, which prevailed in the Roman catholick church in its days of prosperity; nor would he think this practice in any de

gree justified by the conduct of the protestants in any country, who, stimulated by revenge, and other passions equally opposed to the true spirit of christianity, may have sometimes imitated, though very humbly, this very bad example of the ancient catholicks. With respect to the catholicks in this country, though it might be thought a little ridiculous in them to boast of their not exhibiting here a spirit of persecu. tion, yet we are authorised by the au thor of the letters from Italy to declare, that he has the highest respect for the learned, pious, and respectable gentlemen, at the head of that church in Boston; that he is convinced of the utility and importance of their labours, and that he is sorry that any free and gencral remarks, applicable to certain abuses in the church of Rome, should be thought by them to bear, in the smallest degree, upon the opinions and principles of men, whom he wishes to believe incapable of countenancing all the errours and absurdities, which have crept into the practice of the catholicks in some countries.

ERRATA.

As a number of errours escaped us in the first impression, we hope our readers will excuse the repetition of the following latin lines :

Nox erat illunis, cælique ex culmine fuxlt
Nix, Boreafque ferox turbine late ruit.
Fœmina quum, infelix, callifque ignara patentis,
Infantem amplectens triftia verba dedit.
Sævus erat genitor, qui me chara æde repulfit ;
Sic venti, qui plent pectora mæfta gelu.
Sævior is longe qui uxoris brachia liquit ;

Hei mihi, pro dira pellice blanda fui.
Tu puer infelix fove membra in pectore trifti
Nam fatis ett fluvii, grandinis atque feræ.
Frigore væ! torpent concreto parvula membra;
Oh! renovent lacrymæ quæ matris ora rigant.
Infelix! infans obiit; genitorque recufat
Et virfat fævus deferuiffe torum.
Dein cecidit ! plorans ex imo corde dolorem
Fatalifque cito corpora languor habet
Atque infaufti juxta infantis membra ponebat;
Atque cubans obiit. (Sic facra Mufa canit.)

In the latin poetry by L. M. Sargent, published in the Anthology for March, line 16, for miserus read miseris; line. 39, for Horrens read Horrificans; line 41, for Deu read Dea.

Page 158, middle of the first column, for seldom read sold or.

Page 164, for cume read cam; and for voriamur read moriamur.

ADDENDUM.

Page 152, 2d column, line 14 from bottom, before bodies insert white.