the public means of grace, as well as family worship, in a more than ordinary degree.

The day before her confinement, viz. Sunday, June 14, she was very unwell, and could not attend public worship in the morning: but, being considerably better in the evening, we went to St. Mary Woolnoth, to hear our esteemed friend, Mr. Pratt. She very much enjoyed this opportunity; and on our return home, we spent about three quarters of an hour together, in mutual prayer and singing several hymns; we then called our family to prayer. Just before retiring to rest, she said that, although she had not been able to attend the house of God in the morning, her soul had been greatly refreshed throughout the day.

"The following morning, June 15, she was sensible that the time of trial was approaching. She was very cheerful; and several times expressed her confidence that God would be with her, and support her. A little after midnight, she was safely delivered of a fine boy: there was nothing attending the labour to give any ground of alarm; and through the whole of Tuesday she was as well as could be expected: but in the evening dangerous symptoms appeared. The best medical advice was obtained as soon as possible: but from this night she thought she should not recover; she said to her nurse, I shall die; who replied, 'If it should be the will of God. I hope you are not afraid of death.' She answered,' O no! On Sunday morning she altered so much for the worse, that scarcely any hope remained. As the strictest injunctions were laid upon us by the physicians, to keep her as quiet as possible, I had very little conversation with her affer her confinement; but she appeared to be in a comfortable and resigned state.

On Monday morning, June 22, perceive ing there was no human probability of her recovery, I thought it my duty to enquire the state of her mind; and after praying with her, (in every petition she heartily joined,) I said, 'What a mercy it is, my love, that we have a God to look to in all circumstances.' 'Yes,' she replied, and I have not far to go; he is very near to me,' I said, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in time of trouble; do you find him so She answered,' Yes, I do. At another time she said, I am very happy, I have no fear. I asked, Is Christ precious to you? do you find him near! She said, Yes, very near to bless; he eays to me, I am thine, and thou art mine.' Having left the room, in a short time she said to my sister Mary, "Tell my

dear husband to come here." When I weat she said again, "I am very happy."

What makes you happy? "My Jesus," she replied; and then repeated,

"This life's a dream, an empty show;
But that bright world to which I go,
Hath joys substantial and sincere ;
When shall I wake and find me there ?»

"Jesus is the Rock of ages; He is my Rock. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless His Holy Name." When the nurse enquired if she recollected a Psalm sbe had been repeating, she immediately said, "The Lord is my Light and my Salvation; whom shallTM fear The Lord is the strength of my heart; of whom shall I be afraid ?"

When I returned I found her in the same happy state of mind, saying, "CHory be to God in the highest; Glory be to God in the highest: I have experienced a glorious elevation of mind! It is all over." Afterwards, to my sister she said, "O Mary, can we ever doubt such a Saviour?" and added, "Come unto me all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what he hath done for my soul!" and then turning to her sister, said, "You can praise God; cannot you, Mary?"

She was continually repeating the promises of God, and obseved, "What a promise-keeping God we have ?——————Be not faithless, but believing." When ber sister enquired, if she found the Lord to be her refuge and strength in this time of need, she answered, with much ferven-1 cy, "O yes!" and then putting her hands together, and fixing her eyes upwards, she said, Clap your hands, all ye people; come and let us exalt His name together." She then began to pray in great earnestness, often saying, "Bless the Lord, O my soul." She afterwards repeated some lines from the hymns of Dr. Watts, among which the following were nearly the last words she uttered:

"My flesh shall slumber in the ground,

Till the last trumpet's joyful sound;
Then burst the chains with sweet sur
prise,

And in my Saviour's image rise."

She was then seized with that convul sion which deprived her of her senses; and in a little time, her happy spirit, freed from its earthly tabernacle, ascended to that Saviour in whom she believed, and in communion with whom, for several years of her life, her chief happiness con

sisted.

She fell asleep in Jesus, on Monday, June 22, 1812, at a quarter past two in the afternoon, in the twenty-sixth year of her age."-pp. 247-251.

We had intended to make some.

observations upon the importance of doctrinal knowledge, to eminence in piety. The extracts which we have made will, however, only permit us to observe that distingnished as was the subject of these memoirs for piety of feeling and of conduct; an enlarged view of the perfections of Jehovah, and of his requirements, of the state of man by nature, and the mode of his recovery by Jesus Christ, would have been attended with a corresponding growth in grace. We would not insinuate that Mrs. Cooper was entirely ignorant of these, but it is impossible to suppose that any one who believes that christians in this life become perfect in holiness, can have any adequate conceptions of the requirements of that law, which is 'exceeding broad,' or of the corruption of that heart, which keeps "evil present with us.

Those parts of Mrs. Cooper's diary, in which she eulogizes the doctrines and practice of the communion to which she is attached, are again and again placed in full view of the reader. We shall not be loud in our censures upon Dr. Clarke for this, but his admirers must excuse us if we do not perinit another

very obvious fact to pass without notice. Dr. Clarke as a comment ator of great renown, must surely be acquainted with the precept, "let another praise thee and not thine own mouth, a stranger and not thine own lips." In the careful selection of particular passages, in which Mrs. Cooper says the most flattering things of him, his preaching and his writings he may perhaps suppose that he is yielding a strict and conscientious observ ance of the precept. We however, think it pretty certain that he has violated the letter and the spirit of the injunction. When Dr. Clarke's preaching is mentioned, "edifica tion and profit" follow as matters of course; his commentary is not on ly several times referred to, but Mrs. Cooper, from the inspection of the first part of that work only, does not hesitate to say, "it will be, I have no doubt, the best that ever appeared." There is no evidence in the work before us that she ever saw any other commenta: ry, and this may account for ber having no doubt upon the subject. It is singular that Dr. Clarke should copy and print such remarks con cerning his own writings.

In the state of Ohio, there are, at the present time, thirty seven newspapers published, of which three are in Cincinna ti, three in Chillicothe, two in Columbus, two in Zanesville, and one in each of the following places, viz. Circleville, Wor thington, Delaware, Mansfield, Cleveland, Warren, Canton, New-Philadelphia, New Lisbon, Steubenville, Mount Pleasant, St Clairsville, Lancaster, Marietta, Gallipo lis, Portsmouth, West-Union, Williams burgh, Lebanon, Hamilton, Eaton, Piqua, Troy, Dayton, Xenia, Springfield, and Urbana.

The annual commencement of YaleCollege, was held in this city, on the 13th inst. The degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on the following gentlemen, Alumni of the College.

Leonard Bacon, Abraham Baldwin, George N. Bigelow, Cornelius R. Bogert, John H. Brockway, Mason Brown, J. Mortimer Catlin, Henry A. Chesebrough, John T. Collis, Theodore C. Cone, Chas. C. Darling, Francis B. Deshon, Daniel N. Dewey, J. Gilbert Dow, Walter Edwards, Horace Foote, Jared Foote, Philip Gadsden, George C. Goddard, Charles Hooker, William J. Hubbard, Joseph Hyde, Chester Isham, Henry Jones, Edward McCrady, James McElhenney, Samuel B. Mead, Matthew E. Mitchell, Washington Murray, Robert Orr, Seth B. Paddock, John P. C. Peter, Jeremiah H. Pierson, James S. Prather, Nathaniel A. Pratt, Z.R. Rogers, Francis H. Rutledge, P. P. Sanford, George A. Shelton, Elisha N. Sill, Samuel B. Sneed, S. William Starkey, John M. Sterling, Thomas S. Sterling, Solomon Stoddard, E. Pomroy Terry, William W. Tudor, Alexander C. Twining, Daniel Van Matre, R. G. F. Wheeler, Chauncey Whittlesey, John P. Williston, John L. Wilkins, Theodore D. Woolsey.

Ezra Stiles Gannett, A. B. of Harvard University, was admitted ad eumdem. The degree of Master of Arts was conferred on the following gentlemen, Alumni of the college.

Augustus Alden, Ebenezer Bailey, Nehemiah Brown, Chauncey Bulkley, Robert Chesebrough, Willard Child, Joseph L. Coit, Lyman Coleman, William D. Lancey, Baxter Dickinson, Joseph Fowler, William C. Gay, Horace Gridley, Robert Hartshorn, Loammi Hoadley, James Linsley, Peter Lockwood, David N. Lord, Daniel Lord, Judah Lord, Geo. Marvin, Jared Reid, Edward Rutledge, John Pierpont, Jonathan Silliman, Rufus Spalding, Lewis Starr, William Titus, Hezekiah G. Ufford, Thomas Whittlesey, John Titsworth, Samuel B. Ingersoll, John M. Woolsey, Jared Griswold, and John

Walsh.

The degree of Master of Arts was likewise conferred on George W. Jacobs, and Nicholas R. Morgan, of Princeton College, Samuel Wells, of Dartmouth College, Alexander B. Converse, of Union College, and Oren Hyde, of Middlebury College The honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred on the Rev. Jonathan Judd, The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on the Rev. John Owen, and the Rev. Joseph Hughes, of England.

The degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred on David E. Hall, William H. Morgan, Elisha Harwood, James G. PerVol. 2-No. IX.

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The honorary degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the recommendation of the Medical Society, was conferred on Joseph Palmer, jr. and Samuel Rockwell.'

On the day preceding Commencement, an Oration was pronounced before the Connecticut Alpha of the Phi Beta Kap pa, by Professor Fisher.

The Commencement at Cambridge University, was celebrated Aug. 30th, when fifty-six gentlemen received the de gree of Bachelor of Arts, and sixty-three that of Master of Arts. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on the Rev. Asa Messer, President of Brown University, and the Rev. William E. Channing, of Boston.

At the Commencement at Dartmouth College, twenty-four were admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and twentyone to that of Master of Arts. The de gree of M. D. was conferred on sixteen persons. The degree of Doctor of Divins ity was conferred on the Rev. SAMUEL WOOD, of Boscawen. The Rev. Dr. Dana, of Newburyport, has been chosen

President of this institution.

Ireland, and the Rev. THOMAS M'CULLOCH, of Pictou, Nova-Scotia.

The Rev. WALTER MONTEITH, of Schenectady, was elected Professor of Languages.

At the Commencement of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 30th of July, Seventeen were admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and six to that of Master of Arts.

The annual Commencement at Bowdoin College, (Maine,) was held on the 6th instant. The degree of A. B. was conferred on eleven young gentlemen, and that of A. M. on the same number. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on the honorable Prentiss Mellen.

The British government, on the recommendation of the Board of Longitude, has determined to erect an Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, upon the same scale with the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Mr. Fellows, of Cambridge, has been appointed Astronomer.

The University of Cambridge, England, has granted £5000, for building and furnishing an Observatory, which will be commenced when an additional sum of £5000 shall be raised by subscription.

The Royal Humane Society, in Eng land, has, since 1774, the year of its establishment, restored to life 4889 persons

in London and its neighbourhood. The Society has two objects: one, relating to persons rescued from drowning; the other, to those who are in a state of suspended animation from whatever cause.-Within forty-years, more than twenty thousand persons have received the rewards of the society.

Variation of the Magnetic Needle.-By the statements of Colonel Mark Beaufoy, of Middlesex, England, it appears that the magnetic variation to the westward of the true north uniformly increased, on taking the means monthly, until the be ginning of the last year, after which it fuctuated, but gave a mean variation of 24 deg. 37 min. in the first three months of 1819. Since the beginning of April in that year, this variation has uniformly decreas ed. Col. Beaufoy also further states, that the western variation had been on the increase through 162 years, or since 1657: it was only 77 years before this period that the first authentic observations on the variation can be found, when the needle at London, varied to the east 11 deg. 15 mio.

Egypt.-The Pacha of Egypt maintains several young Egyptians at Milan, for the purpose of learning the sciences and arts of Europe. These persons are directed to translate the Gazette of Milan into Arabic, for the inspection of the Pacha, who thus readily obtains much lite rary and political intelligences

AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY.

Continuation of speeches delivered at the Anniversary.

The motion of thanks to the Treasurer and Secretaries was made by the Rev. Mr. Stansbury of Albany, and seconded by the Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D. of Litchfield, Connecticut.

Mr. Stansbury made the following remarks:

Mr PRESIDENT,

We are perpetually receiving blessings from God, but none surely that may be compared with the privilege of blessing others. This exalted power associates us (if the expression may be allowed me) with God himself, whose glorious prerogative it is to be the greatest of all givers. There is a bliss about its exercise which makes its way into the deadest and coldest of bosoms. Even the miser feels it, when he has by some happy fortuity broken through the dull monotony of getting and boarding, and has ventured for once to give. A men feel it when the call of 1ome blessed charity brings heart to heart and hand to hand: when a purse is to be made up for the widow, or the little orphan is to be fed, or clad, or schooled. But, sir, to day this bliss of heaven, (I may justly call it such, for nothing less than heaven sent it into the heart of man, nor is any thing wanting but enough of this to make a heaven below,) this heavenly bliss of giving takes a higher form and exerts a more elevating power. Were we met to provide no better thing for our fellow-man than a perishing weed to cover his flesh, or the perishing food that sustains its life, we might rejoice indeed, but it would be with none of that mixture of sublime emotion that is thrilling at this moment through so many hearts in this assembly. No, sir: ours is a higher charity. We meet to make a gift to the immortal mind: to give to sorrow a more than mortal solace, and to want a more than earthly supply. We are met to spread the Bible of God: a book it is now too late to eulogise. There was indeed a day, sir, (we have none of us forgotten it,) when those who yet held fast their belief in that book were called to contend for its value and to vin dicate its truth: but that day is past; past, sir, I trust for ever. A day has succeeded it, such as neither you, sir, nor any of us ever expected to see; in which the honouring of this book has become the employment of nations and the strife of kings. No, sir, I will not attempt to

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praise it. The eulogy of the Bible is în the tears of the penitent whom it has subdued; in the ardent vow of the profigate it has reclaimed: in the meek forti tude of the suffering, whom it has sustain ed; in the triumphant songs of the dying it has saved. Its monuments are in the

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laws, whose spirit it has enlightened and purified; in the national sentiment, which it has raised and refined; in the national light which it has sent down to the habitation of the lowest poor; in the national morals, whose tone it has elevated and established; in the national institutions, whos, genius it has prevaeded with equity and freedom in the national charities, which owe their very being to its power. The hand of culture cannot be more distinctly traced on the face of wild and desert nature than the effect of this book on the moral condition of man. Look at man without it. Look, sir, at those immortal republics, the glory and perfection of the pagan world. What were morals there? Morals! where the most rigid of exactors suffers me to steal, and commends me if I cover the theft by falshood: where the highest public authority tells me if my child is feeble or deformed, to bring it to the public officer that it may be destroyed: where another instructor allows me to murder my mother when she is old: where another permits me to marry my daughter or my sis ter and another informs me it is a virtue to become my own destroyer. From morals do we turn to religion? The darkness deepens. I ask the same masters of reason what I must worship? And one tells me to worship the sun and moon: another sends me to deified men and heroes: another builds me an altar to winds and storms; another to famine and pestilence : deities multiply at every step, and take new forms at every turn, till at length they start from every bush, and swarm in every pool, and I am bowed down to apes and crocodiles, to dogs and serpents, to "birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things." I ask them once more, How I must worship? and a priestess of Diana brings me a naked boy, and binding the little trembler to the altar, puts a Scourge into my hand and tells me to whip him to death: the Druid brings me a hurdle of reeds, and inclosed within a fellow man, made in my own image: he takes the scourge out of my hand and supplies its place with a torch: another shows me Moloch sculptured in brass and surrounded with flalmes, and asks me to take the babe out of my bosom and lay it within