retary of State has notified me, that the amendment,propofed during the last feffion of Congress to the Conftitution of the United States, has been ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the feveral States. The letter which contains this notification is filed in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and a tranfcript of it will be delivered to the Electors who are or may be chofen on the part of this State. The Quarter Master General informs me, that in the late violent ftorm, two buildings on Hofpital Ifland, the property of the Commonwealth, were blown down; and that he thinks it highly neceffary that others fhould be erected in their place as foon as may be. The appropriation made for his department for the prefent year, he fuppofes will be fufficient to defray the expenfe; but he doubts the propriety of his fetting up new buildings unless authorized by particular direction. I have nothing further to communicate to you, GENTLEMEN, which calls for the immediate notice of the Legiflature. But if in your opinion, any bufinefs of importance would fuffer by a delay until the winter feflion, I fhall cheerfully attend to whatever you may now propofe, and co-operate with you in fuch measures as the publick good may require. CALEB STRONG. November 16, 1804. ANSWER OF THE SENATE. May it pleafe your Excellency, It being the great object of the prefent feflion of the Legislature to determine and declare the choice of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, on the part of this Commonwealth; and if the choice is not perfected, by the votes of the people, to complete the fame; your Excellency may be affured, that in executing that truft the Senate will be governed by the Lingle motive of love to their country.. The letter of the Secretary of State, relative to the amendment in the Conftitution, and the communication of the Quarter Master General, touching the Buildings on Hofpital Island, fhall receive that attention, which they refpecsively merit. And thould any other bufinefs of importance during the prefent feffion occur, the Senate will cheerfully co-operate with your Excelleney, in all fuch measures as the publick good may require. ANSWER OF THE HOUSE. May it please your Excellency, laft meeting, being fenfible of the incon The House of Representatives, at their veniences, which would arife from a long feffion at this feafon of the year, referred most of the unfinished bufiness to the third feffion of the prefent General Court; it is therefore prefumed that few matters will at this time urgently claim the attention of the House. Should it appear that the people have not completed the choice of Electors for Prefident and Vice Prefident of the United States, the truft, which in that event is committed to the two branches' of the Legislature, we hope will be executed with a fingle view to the welfare and honour of the United States. We beg your Excellency to be affured that this Houfe will pay due attention to all matters, which you have been pleased to fuggeft for our confideration. A review of your Excellency's past conduct, gives us the fullest affurance of your Excellency's readiness to co-operate with us in all measures which the pub lick good may require. Literary Intelligence.-We under ftand that Dr. Caldwell, of Philadelphia, is about to engage in a new work, entitled MEDICAL THEses, which are to be selected from the inaugural differtations published by the Graduates in Medicine of the University of Pennfylvania,' and of other Medical Schools in the United States,and intersperfed with occafional remarks andnotes This work, from the refpectable talents of Dr. Caldwell, promifes to be of general utility, and will no doubt form, in a few years, a complete encyclopædia of medical difcoveries, made in the United States. Statement of DISEASES for OCTOBER, [Omitted last month.] The violent and extraordinary changes of the weather have confiderably affected the character of this month's difeafes. Hence we have had numerous pneumonick inflammations, fometimes difappearing in 2 or 3 days, fometimes terminating fatally, fometimes pailing off, fucceeded by an obitinate cough and laying the foundation for confumption. From the fame causes, there have been fevere catarrhs and rheumatifms. Some cafes of typhus have appeared, and a multitude of flow fevers; a few of dyfentery, cholera morbus, and flight but fufficiently decided enteritis. The difeafes of children have confifted chiefly of choleras, as is usual at this feafon. To thefe may be added catarrhs with and without fever, quinfies, and flight affections of the lungs. On the whole, there has been lefs disease among children during this than the preceding month, and much less than in common years. STATEMENT OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS Males... 43 Females...43 Total...86. M. F. Un. 2 1 6 Confumption, 29.37.59.35.34. 1 Convulsions, 33y. 14m. 48y. 10m. 2 1 Dropfy, 36 1 1 ) STATEMENT OF Diseases for NoverBER Autumnal difeafes have now become much lefs frequent, and those of winter begin to take place of them. In a few inftances we have feen dyfentery, flow fever, and typhus; lets of the acute, and more of chronick rheumatiim than in October. There have occurred fome cafes of erysipelas; many pneumonick inflammations; and very numerous, but commonly flight inflammations of the fauces, fometimes pervading a family fo generally as to feem infectious. There have also been fporadick cafes of colick, pleurodyne, and fcarlatina anginofa. The numerous buildings, raifing in this town, have occafioned frequeat and fometimes very diftrefling accidents during the fummer and autumn. It is neceffary to remark, that if this matter received the attention ufually given to it by the police of large cities, many ufeful lives might be faved to fociety, and many limbs preferved from perpetual lameness. Vaccination, which has languished during the fummer, begins to be refumed. We would take this opportunity of expreffing our thanks to the phyficians for their attention to the futement of births and deaths, Still born....4. To obtain a general view of the fatal difeafes in this town is confcffedly a very interefting object to the faculty, and to fociety in 1 general. This has been formerly attempted; and for a long period, from 1700 to 1775, we find an account of the deaths without the intermiffion of a single year. It is our 1 earnest wish to continue the flatement; and we hope that, with the affiflance of the metical gentlemen, we sball render it as accurate as poffible. Every bint from them tending to the perfection of this matter will be received with thanks. As it is intended for the information of all our readers, we have na adopted fo much the names that are frily proper, as thofe generally underflood; there fore we would remark, that by the note in 1 laft month's Anthology, we intended as well the names fanctioned by cuftom as these admitted into nofological books. Infantile complaints, 8d. 6d. Gravel, Jaundice, 36 Injury of the head, 37 Old age, 78, 73 Phagedenic ulcer, 8 Phrenitis, 8 Pulmonic fever, 11m. Quinfy, 15m. Scarlatina anginofa, 67 Tetanus, 19, 36 Unknown, 71. Sm. Total Wind. 229.7 49 8 29.5 37 W Hazy. Fa'r A.M. P.M. clouds. Fair and clear A.M Cloudy P.M. fnow in the evening. Rain laft night.-Fair to-day. Fair. Clear. Windy. 2 229,5 44 $3.29,6 NW 10,29,632 Little fnow in the 4 .29,434 wsw nikit. Fair day. Some 30,4 NW clouds. 10,294,32 8 29,4 32 W 29,638 Fair and clear A.M. 1029732 WNW Dull cloudy day.-To- Two or three inches of Moderate fnow ftorm L2 235 31 14 ss. 30 |10|35 830,1 14! 220,219 ss. 39.311 10,30,47 8 30.5 4 NW 2 30,415 W sa. 30,413 10 30,410 NW Fair and clear. Cloudy. Snow ftorm began 10 The mean ftate of the thermometer this month by the foregoing obfervations is 21,37. On the 14th, at funrise the thermometer ftood at 0. MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY. DECEMBER, 1804. FOR THE ANTHOLOGY. are derived from no other truths, and which otherwife could not THE THEOLOGIST-NO. II. poffibly be poffeffed. THE ADVANTAGES OF A REVELATION. WHILE in a state of infan cy, man prefents no indications of that ftrength of body or greatnefs of mind, which characterife his mature years. If left to himfelf, he would not probably difcover more fagacity, than the highest order of brutes. For his fuperiority he is principally indebted to education. And as, by this circumftance, we conceive our natural dignity to be in no degree diminished, neither becaufe we cannot, of ourselves, afcertain with certainty what is the character of God, nor what the duties and the destiny of man, are the truths relative to these lefs deferving of our implicit belief and affiduous obfervance? To receive a knowledge of them by revelation is only different in manner to the reception of faculties adequate to their difcovery; and with this is connected advantages which This, it is prefumed, has been fully evinced. See particularly an account of the favage of Avignon. The ftudent of natural philof ophy derives from his invefligations amufement and inftruction ; but in moft inftances his refearches do not extend beyond the regions of probability. In our inquiries after moral and religious truth, we demand, for fatisfaction, the moft abfolute certainty. The want of this was experienced and lamented by the wifeft of ancient fages; and till the advent of Chrift, it had not been enjoyed for centuries, except by a fingle nation. The molt confirmed unbeliever, if he was fenfible of his obligations to thofe books, the authority of which he denies, and would be perfuaded to compare the truths which they difclofe, with those which were received at the time when Jefus taught with the officers who were sent to upon earth, would acknowledge apprehend him, that never man fpake like this man, and with the centurion at the foot of the crofs, that he was truly the fon of God, If man had been capable, by his own exertions, of attaining fatisfaction on thefe fubjects, it would |