winter season, and the children are all of them required to attend. Thus, while relieved from labour, endeavours are made to render them useful citizens. The committee find that the exertions of colonel Humphreys for the extension of literary, moral and religious instructions, have not been limited to those who are placed under his immediate care. He has for several months employed a schoolmaster, at his own expense, for the education of poor children, residing in the neighbourhood of his establishment; and has been at a moiety of the charge of supporting a respectable minister of the gospel, in that vicinity. On the preceding facts and observations, the committee are unanimously of opinion, that the Merino race of sheep is a valuable acquisition to this state, and that colonel Humphreys, for his patriotick exertions in importing them, is entitled to a publick testimony of the respect of his native state. The committee are also of opinion, that publick encouragement is due to the various important manufactures carried on in his establishment. To effectuate those objects, the committee have prepared sundry resolutions, which they respectfully recommend to the legislature for their adoption. All which is submitted and signed by order of the committee. ELIZUR GOODRICH. (Signed) October session, 1808. In the house of representatives, the foregoing report is accepted and approved. Test. Concurred in the upper house. (Signed) (Signed) L. LAW, Clerk. Test. SAMUEL WYLLYS, Secretary. At a General Assembly of the state of Connecticut, holden at New Haven, on the second Thursday of October, A. D. 1808. It appeared to this assembly, on report of committee, and a careful attention to facts, that the importation of the Merino race of sheep into this state, is a valuable acquisition; and it being not only a tribute of gratitude due to a distinguished citizen, to preserve a memorial of the event, but also greatly promotive of the publick interest, to inspire others with an emulation of patriotick exertions; Resolved, That the thanks of this assembly be presented to the honourable DAVID HUMPHREYS, a native citizen of this state, and late minister from the United States to the court of Madrid, as a testimony of respect for his patriotick exertions in importing into the state one hundred of the Merino breed of sheep, to improve the breed of that useful animal in his own country. Resolved, That this assembly approve of the wise and well-concerted measures adopted by colonel Humphreys, in establishing and conducting the manufacture of cotton and woollen fabricks, at Humphreysville, in the town of Derby; and that, to encourage his valuable exertions in the arts of peace, his superintendants, foremen, and apprentices, in these branches of manufacture, be exempt from the poll tax and assessment, from military duty, and working at highways, and his cotton and woollen establishment from taxes and assessments, for the term of ten years, from the rising of this assembly. Resolved, That his excellency the governour be requested to cause an authenticated copy of the foregoing resolutions to be communicated to colonel Humphreys. A true copy of record, examined by SAMUEL WYLLYS, Secretary. CATALOGUE OF NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, Sunt bona, sunt quaedam mediocria, sunt mala plura. MART. NEW WORKS. N. B. 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Russell and Cutler propose to publish, at 25 cents per No. to subscribers, a new and interesting work, to be called the Political Telescope. THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY. FOR FEBRUARY, 1809. REMARKS ON ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE ROMAN POETS. No. 2. Tityrus, et segetes, Aeneïaque arma legentur, OVID. AMOR. THESE essays would be enlarged much beyond the length which is intended, were I to attempt analysis of the several original authors that fall under consideration; an estimate of the comparative excellence of the different works of the same writer; an examination of his claims to the praise of invention, or an exposure of his imitations; and a parallel between authors whose productions are similar in kind. Any thing of this nature, therefore, when offered, must be considered as offered gratuitously, and be received for what it is worth; and, as it will certainly be superficial, it must be remembered, that it was not intended to be profound. No ancient classick has, probably, been so much read as Virgil ; and Ovid might have extended his prediction in my motto to the duration of the world, with more propriety than merely to that of Roman grandeur. Virgil wrote at a period, when the language in which his works are composed was in its highest state of purity and refinement. He was stimulated by the most influential of all excitements, the praise of the great and powerful; not excepting his sovereign, whose commendation he repaid by incorporating his character with that of the hero of his principal poem. Under imperial patronage, and removed far above the cravings of poverty, he rose from pastoral to georgick, from georgick to epick verse; and left nothing imperfect which he lived long enough to finish. For an account of the works ascribed to Virgil, the genuineness of which is in dispute, his editors, Burman and Heyné, may be consulted; where the most important authorities are cited. English translations have been made chiefly from the Bucolicks, the Georgicks, and the Eneid; which are the only poems of Virgil printed in the Delphin and other editions intended for common use. The occasion of the first Eclogue, I shall relate in the words of Dryden: "When Augustus had settled himself in the Roman K |