THE ATTORNEY AND APOTHECARY. As two of these gentlemen were sitting together in a public house, the doctor began to reproach the attorney with the number of strange words which the law indulged in, viz. "Habeas Corpus, fieri facias," &c. &c. and amongst others, asked how, or what was meant by the words "Docking an entail?" "Why doctor," replied the attorney, "it is doing what you will not do with your patients-it is-suffering a recovery."

THE COSSACK. The Cossack and a Russian officer, who arrived in London on Friday last, made their appearance yesterday in the city, agreeable to notice given in some of the papers. They met the Lord Mayor at the mansion house, and after passing through Lloyd's, they were stationed in the balcony, looking into the Exchange. The Cossack's spear was ten feet long, and it was said, that he had killed thirtyseven Frenchmen with it.

On Tuesday the Cossack went to Banscombe's Lottery office, where he purchased several tickets. The crowd gathered immediately on his alighting to such an immensity, and so cager were all descriptions of persons to gain a sight of him and shake hands, that the coach door was actually torn from its hinges.

ANTIQUITY Last week some men employed in moving ground for the purpose of forming a road near Fair-mile Bottom, Arundel, discovered an entire Roman sepulchral urn, containing the ashes of a human body, and two fibula, or fastenings, used for the toga, or cloak, and a small brass coin of the emperor M. Aurelius Carus.

LIFE PRESERVER. On Tuesday an experiment was made of a newly invented Life-Preserver, in cases of shipwreck on a lee-shore. Two men with the covering on, threw themselves into the sea from the Admiral's tender stationed off the Platform battery, Portsmouth, and were floated upon the surface of the stream to the Old Salley Port. The experiment was made in the presence of Sir Richard Bickerton, Admiral Hargood, and a great number of officers, who were the most competent judges of its title; and the general impression was in favor of its great utility. The invention is in the form of a common seaman's mattras, and it is so simply and effectively constructed, that it requires only one man to adjust it on the body, and will preserve every part of the person from injury, by striking against pieces of wreck, rocks, &c. The buoyant principle of it is indisputable, being a preparation of cork, and which by its long continuance in the water, becomes the more buoyant.

A GANG OF TWENTY-THREE THIEVES were last month tried and convicted at the Court of Assizes in Paris. Many of them are said to have been singularly dexterous in their predatory avocations, requiring only a hook at the end of a long cord to scale the highest wall. One named Delzieye, by making use of his hands and feet only, could climb to the second and third stories of a house, and descend again with great expedition. Their dexterity increased with their audacity; scarcely any house in Paris was safe from their depredations; when disturbed they escaped out of the windows, and when unmolested, they penetrated to the bed-chambers, and, without disturbing those asleep, took off their rings and necklaces. Their depredations had been carried on near three years, during which time they had never committed murder. On the trial they said that they were forbidden this crime by the rules of their association. Their sentence was imprisonment for a number of years, and for life.

DOMESTIC.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

An Appeal to the Nations of Europe agsinst the continental system, published at Stockholm, by authority of Bernadotte, in March, 1813. By Madame de Stael Holstein. Boston, S. H. Parker.

The Life of the late General William Eaton; several years an officer in the United States' army, Consul at the regency of Tunis on the coast of Barbary, and commander of the Christian and other forces that marched from Egypt though the desert of Barca, in 1805, and conquered the city of Dern, which led to the treaty of peace between the United States and the regency of Tripoli: principally collected from his correspondence and other manuscripts. Brookfield, E. Merriam.

DIED,

In Virginia, Ralph Bresken, Esq. late speaker of the house of Assembly.

In Springfield, Mrs. Nancy Dickman, 44, wife of the editor of the Hampden Federalist. Mr. George Wright, 87. His descendants were 16 children, 70 grand children, 75 great grand children.

In Boston harbor, drowned, by the upsetting of a boat, sargeant Joseph L. Howe, corporal Shadrach Briggs, privates Gregory, Winchester, Rice, French, Ramsay, Nutten and Howe, soldiers on Fort Independence. The bodies were taken up and interred with military honors.

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In Boston, Mr. Abraham Adams, 23. His death was occasioned by the vapor, in descending a well.

In Windsor, Vt. JOHN H. PALMER, Esq. aged 34, a private soldier in the U. S. Army. Mr. P. was born at Framingham, Mass. and was educated to the profession of the law, under the Hon. Royal Tyler, chief justice of the state of Vermont. He possessed by nature a brilliant fancy, genius and talents, and from education derived a well cultivated taste, and literary acquirements, which might have done honor to the possessor. With such accomplishments he could not fail of procuring friends; and it may truly be said that he had not an enemy on earth, except his own frailty-a want of resolution to resist the allurements of vice. The Federal Galaxy, printed some years since at Brattleborough, and the Farmer's Museum, at Walpole, have frequently been decorated with the effusions of his glowing imagination; and many of his fugitive essays, in prose and verse, have been copied into most of the literary journals in the United States.

Correspondence.

A Portrait of COMMODORE ROGERS is in the hands of the engraver, and will shortly be completed. Also a head of the late GEN. LINGAN.

Our poetical department for this month bears only exotics. Our readers as well as ourselves have to regret the absence of our friend" ORLANDO," who so oft has given a charm to our pages; he is now in England: But where is "M. W. ?” He was not wont to neglect us for so long a time: And where can " ALPHESIBOEUS" have wandered, that we hear not the mellifluous notes of his enchanting lyre?

"SECULARIUS" is advised to read our motto.

We feel a degree of self approbation, that so many of our original and selected trifles are thought, by the Editor of the BOSTON GAZETTE, worthy of a place at the head of his columns. We only wish that he would in future set our " mark upon them."

ERRATUM. In the last number, page 159, motto, in a few copies, for " calebre,” read “ latebræ.”

THE

POLYANTHOS.

FOR AUGUST, 1813.

We shall never envy the honors, which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if we can be numbered among the writers who have given ardor to virtue and confidence to truth. Dr. Johnson.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF

HIS EXCELLENCY CALEB STRONG, LL. D.

GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS.

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In a period, and, we are sorry to add, in a country too, in which may be found in public characters many instances of turpitude, of gross misconduct, of profligacy of principle and practice, of contempt of the dictates of morality and justice, of open disregard of what is proper and honorable in public life, and what is decent and commendable in private; at such a time and in such a country, the human mind finds some consolation in discovering on the theatre of public service one example, at least, of modest virtue and correct deportment, of undeviating integrity and manly independence, of disinterested patriotism, of unblemished morals, and of cheerful and unaffected piety. Massachusetts is indebted to a benevolent Providence that she has been able to find such a character among her own citizens; and the state has done itself honor in calling to preside in its councils a persons who unites in himself so many worthy qualities.

If we survey the most eminent men bearing sway in the great nations of Europe; if we bring our eyes to our own shores and view the leading men in the state and general governments, neither in Europe nor in America shall we find a

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man, whose public and private conduct has been more just, correct, and exemplary in every respect, than has been that of the revered chief magistrate now presiding in this Commonwealth. He seems, indeed, to be one of the few remaining instances of public virtue, by whose life and conduct we may perceive what the patriots were in other nations and in former times, before morals were disregarded, and public good sacrificed to private emolument; before patriotism ceased to be a virtue and began to be a trade; before-is he just? is he honest ? were omitted in the inquiries relative to public candidates; and vulgar obloquy, and the malignant passions and vices and open rebellion to constituted authorities became the successful means of promotion, and the distinguished objects of reward.

His Excellency CALEB STRONG was born at Northampton early in the year 1745. His ancestors lived in Taunton in England. When the family emigrated to America, it first resided in Dorchester, afterwards in Windsor in Connecticut, from which place it removed to Northampton, in the year こ 1659. The governor now resides on the patrimonial estate, which has descended from father to son for several generations.

The parents of governor Strong discovered in him while very young a literary taste, which they cultivated; and he was placed at Harvard University as soon as his preparatory studies were completed. In college, he displayed that prudence and wisdom of conduct, that cheerful and correct morality, that manly firmness, that mild humility of manners, that undeviating rectitude of mind, and strict adherence to virtuous principles, which have since in every stage of his life uniformly distinguished him.

In 1764, he received the usual honors of the University, and began the study of the law under Major Hawley. The inhabitants of Northampton immediately perceived in him those excellent qualities and useful talents, that incorruptible integrity and unaffected and disinterested regard for the public good, which are the proper qualifications of a public offi