amounting to a thousand pounds, for the purpose of publishing this original, was raised among the officers and others of the Highlands, in India, and remitted to Mr. Macpherson. His fon and heir (who had himself made a large fortune in the capacity of British Agent, for ten or twelve years, at the Court of the Nizam,) Mr. Macpherson of Bailiville in Invernessshire refufes or declines to give up the money fo fubfcribed. An action has been inftituted against him, for the purpose of compelling him to give up the thousand pounds, in the Court of Seffions in Scotland, by Sir John Murray, in whofe hands the money was placed, and by whom it was remitted to the elder Mr. Macpherson. Mr. Mackenzie, whether trusting wholly to this fund, or actuated merely from motives of patriotism, and regard for the memory of his friend, had begun and made fome progrefs in the printing of the original Offian, with the literal Latin Verfion. All expenfes were defrayed by Mr. Mackenzie from his own funds. His death, of course, fufpended the work; and whether it will ever be resumed, is thought a matter, that will depend on the iffue of the fuit, inftituted by Sir John Murray against the son and heir of the Offian Mr. Macpherson.

THE celebrated KALKBRENNER, Member of the Philotechnic Society of Paris, the Royal Academy of Stockholm, and the Philoharmonic Academy of Bologna, has lately published a book entitled "Hiftoire de la Mufic;" of which an English Critic gives the following account.

"This work is the production of a diftinguished member of the Mufical Confervatory. The author remarks, that fince the death of the celebrated Ramau, mufical literature has been greatly neglected in France, and that but few are at present acquainted either with the theory or the mathematical principles, on which the art is founded. According to him, all the productions of the eighteenth century confist entirely of compilations from thofe of the fixteenth and feventeenth.

"M. Kalkbrenner also presents the reader with a history of his art. In his account of the inftrumental music of the Hebrews, he affirms that it was extremely imperfect, and supports his opinions by the teftimony of Profeffor Pfeiffer, who has maintained

the fame doctrine in a celebrated work written by him some time fince. After this, he proceeds to examine the mufic of the Greeks; and although M. Buretto has published a variety of learned and curious observations on the same subject, those, made by the author now before us are not destitute of intereft. It is his defign upon this occafion, to demonftrate that the mufic of the ancient Greeks had not attained a high degree of perfection; but he remarks, at the fame time, that they have transmitted an infinite variety of precious inventions, on which the moderns have only improved. As for the Romans, we are told that every thing they knew, was borrowed from the Greeks, whom they imitated, but could not furpass, or even equal, more especially in the mufical art.

“M. Kalkbrenner confiders pofterity as greatly indebted to St. Ambrose for having introduced a suitable manner of finging the praises of and adoring the Divinity, by the introduction of church-mufic; he also does juftice to the fcience of Pope Gregory, who improved the art, and had studied the poets and muficians of Greece with uncommon care. He laments, that, anterior to the Reformation, mufic was entirely monopolized by the clergy, against whom he, on many occafions, exhibits the most implacable refentment, and he rejoices greatly to think, that the laity are now admitted to a participation in this elegant amusement.”

THE University of Copenhagen lately propofed the following queftion: "Whether it would be advantageous to the literature of the North to substitute the use of the mythology of the North to that of the Greek mythology." Three memoirs on this fubject have appeared, all very interefting, and worthy to be taken into confideration. That which has been adjudged the best, demonstrates the neceffity of retaining the Greek mythology, as the most cultivated and the most ingenious; the two others give the preference to the mythology of the North, as more proper to produce chef d'auvres than the other, which has already produced fo many, and which feems to be exhausted.

A GREEK Poem has lately been published at Vienna, by Father AMBROSE POMPERY, confifting of 506 verfes, which have the fame meaning, when read either backwards or forwards.

ACADEMY OF ARTS.

THE New-York Academy of Arts is now open. The gentlemen, under whose liberal patronage the inftitution has been established, must be pleafed to find, though but at present in its infancy, that it exhibits a ftately and elegant collection of statuary and painting, at once useful and ornamental; useful to the ftudent, folicitous regularly to cultivate the fine arts, and ornamental to the city, which has given it birth.

It is furely in an infant country a very interefting exhibition, not only to artifts, but to Americans at large.

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In the rotunda of the Pantheon, the ftudent may pass his hours in uninterrupted study, cultivating his tafte by contemplating the moft correct models of ancient fculpture. Inftitutions like this have, in the opinion of philofophers and statesmen, a tendency to foften and humanize the mind, and they have therefore made them the repofitory of materials, on which genius may exercife its powers to advantage, and without which, the strongest intellect may be fruitlessly and deviously employIt is their opinion, that by studying these authentic models, that idea of excellence, which is the refult of the accumulated experience of past ages, may at once be acquired. The student here receives at a fingle glance the correct principles, which many artifts have spent their whole lives in afcertaining; and satisfied with their effect, he is fpared the painful investigaIn addition tion, by which they came to be known and fixed. to the statues and bufts, which at prefent adorn the Pantheon, will be shortly added correct copies of those works of art, which formerly adorned the Italian galleries.

THE indefatigable Dr. MORSE has again fent his AMERICAN GAZETTEER to the prefs of Meffrs. Thomas & Andrews in Boston. This new edition of that highly important work, we hear, is much amended, and enriched with many additional defcriptions. The total fale of the first edition, which was published in 1797, and which confifted of many thousand copies, requires no other comment on its value and general estimation.

PRINTED AND SOLD BY E. LINCOLN, WATER-STREET.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE Editor wishes, that thofe correspondents, who find their com munications admitted, would always understand, that his fincere grati tude for their favours, will be ever implied by his acceptation.

The Effay, entitled "THE MORAL EFFECTS OF A WELL MANAGED THEATRE," by Euripides, is a judicious and elegant performance; but the liberty however of referving its publication, for a few months, is refpe&fully folicited.

The author of what he terms, "Heraldric Mottos for the prefent Dramatic Company in Bofton.-No. I." may spare himself the trouble of continuing his fubje&. Many of his Mottos are inappropriate, and fcandalous.

Theatrical Criticisms must be deferred, till the contemplated enlargement of this publication is effected.

The poetical trifles of "Xerxes," and of "Hefper," are too rude to gain a welcome reception.