86 Intelligence in Literature, Science, and the Aris. very Rembrandt on copper; and the Dutch Courtship, C. Rolls, is a wor thy companion to it, both in design and execution. Antony Von Corlear setting off for the wars, (A. W. Warren,) completes a trio of as entertaining prints as could adorn any entertaining story. W. Klieft's New Punishment is clever, but not so much to our taste: the sentimental subjects have nothing remarkable: and the conclusion 'Peter Stuyvesant rebuking the Cobler,' is most commendable for character. Upon the whole, nothing more worthy of the author could have been produced; and Mr. Leslie has fortunately linked his name for posterity to that of Washington Irving. The plates are about three inches by two and a half, suitable to bind with the works. London Lit. Gazelle. We received from Canada, last summer, the first number of a new Miscellany, entitled "The Canadian Magazine," but we have heard no more of it since. We hope it has not failed for want of patronage; indeed we cannot entertain the conjecture, since the specimen afforded promise of excellence, and our neighbours in the British colony, are liberal and intelligent. Novel Presentment!--A printer in South Carolina is said to have been presented by a Grand Jury for refusing or omitting to publish pieces in favour of any other Presidential Candidate than Mr. Calhoun. Washington Irving has issued another volume. Forty poetical addresses have been presented to the managers of the New Orleans Theatre, for the premiums lately offered. They are mostly from the northern states. A New Greek Lexicon.-John Pickering, Esq. an eminent classic scholar, and celebrated as a philologist, has completed a new Greek and English Dictionary, founded on the basis of the Lexicon of Schrevelius, but much improved. A specimen of this work is in our bands, and as it tends to promote our favourite plan of recommending the Greek language to be taught in schools before the Latin, we feel much pleasure in bringing this addition to the stores of American literature before the Canadian public. We have the honour of a personal acquaintance with Mr. Pickering, who is a son of the Hon. Timothy Pickering, the friend and associate of Washington. Quebec Gazelle. The rumour that Mr. Milman had succeeded Mr. Gifford, as the editor of the London Quarterly Review, and which had been contradicted, is revived. It is now understood that Mr. Murray has been corresponding with a celebrated northern writer on the subject of a new editor for this journal, whose voice is decidedly in favour of Mr. Milman. There is a great rage at present in the English reading public for German tales of "Ghosts and Goblins." Three different works of this description have been lately published. The first is entitled "German popular stories by Grimm;" the second, "Ghost Stories," published by The Port Folio. BY OLIVER OLDSCHOOL, ESQ. VARIOUS; that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, may be indulged.—COWPEN. For the Port Folio. REMINISCENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. We insert, with great readiness, the following communication from one of our correspondents; and earnestly invite others to deposit in our Port Folio, the results of their inquiries or recollections on the same subject: I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes With the memorials, and the things of fame, MR. OLDSCHOOL, As human nature is said to be the same in every age and country, it is reasonable to expect that our infant stage should successively exhibit every character that has flourished in maturer regions. The antiquary, one might imagine, could find no food in our new world to regale his appetite. Yet even antiquaries are starting up amongst us; and our ancients are called upon to ransack their memories, and recite the tales of days long past. It is said to be the spirit of the times to neglect the aged, and give all honour to the young. Old men, and old women, will then be gratified by this unexpected summons, and will very probably bring out all their stores. America has no Druidical altars; no FEBRUARY, 1824.—No. 262 12 Harry Toulmin, Esq. late a Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of Mississippi. Mr. Toulmin was descended from a very ancient and respectable family in England. He was He was born at Taunton, in Somersetshire. His father, Dr. Joshua Toulmin, was as distinguished for his piety and benevolence, as for his literary and scientific endowments. Under such a father, and at one of the principal dissenting Seminaries of England, was the subject of this notice educated and trained for the Church. He was settled, for a number of years, as a dissenting minister, at Chowbert, Lancashire. About the commencement of the French Revolution, in the year 1793. he immigrated to this country. In 1794 he was appointed President of the Transylvania Seminary, in Kentucky, to which State he removed: he continued at the head of that Seminary between two and three years, after which he was chosen Secretary of State of the State of Kentucky, in which office he remained until 1804, when he was appointed Judge of the Federal Court for the Missisippi Territory, and removed thither the following year. He was chosen to digest the Laws of that Territory, and which task he completed in 1807. On the erection of the State of Alabama into a separate government, he served in the Convention, and assisted in the formation of the Constitution, and afterwards served in the Legislature of the State as a Representative. During the last year he was appointed to digest the Laws, which service was performed. On the 19th of Oct. at his house in Fitzwilliam square, Dublin, Thomas Penn Gaskell, Esq. of Shannegarry, in the county of Cork, a lineal descendant of the celebrated William Penn. EXPLANATION OF THE EMBELLISHMENT. This Number of the Port Folio is embellished with a scene from "The Pioneers." The artist has selected the moment when LeatherStocking, in an interview with Edwards and his young bride, refuses the invitation of the happy couple to spend his old age with thein, and declares his intention to penetrate still deeper into the forest. Edwards then offers him some Bank Notes which he declines, observing,-"This then is some of the new-fashioned money that they've been making at Albany out of paper! It can't be worth much to they that hasn't larning! No, no, lad, take back the stuff; it will do me no sarvice I took kear to get all the Frenchman's powder afore he broke up, and they say lead grows where I am going. It isn't even fit for wads, seeing I use none but leather." ERRATA. Page 1, for Hon. Charles Nisbet, read Hon. Alexander Nisbet. In the Latin inscription, page 4, the diareesis i has been several times inserted instead of i i. The Port Folio. BY OLIVER OLDSCHOOL, ESQ. VARIOUS; that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, may be indulged.-COWPER For the Port Folio. REMINISCENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. We insert, with great readiness, the following communication from one of our correspondents; and earnestly invite others to deposit in our Port Folio, the results of their inquiries or recollections on the same subject: I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes With the memorials, and the things of fame, MR. OLDSCHOOL, As human nature is said to be the same in every age and country, it is reasonable to expect that our infant stage should successively exhibit every character that has flourished in maturer regions. The antiquary, one might imagine, could find no food in our new world to regale his appetite. Yet even antiquaries are starting up amongst us; and our ancients are called upon to ransack their memories, and recite the tales of days long past. It is said to be the spirit of the times to neglect the aged, and give all honour to the young. Old men, and old women, will then be gratified by this unexpected summons, and will very probably bring out all their stores. America has no Druidical altars; no FEBRUARY, 1824.-No. 262 12 incomprehensible Stonehenge; no circle of Dendara, to elicit her lore. Every thing with us is young; all is within the memory or the attainment of her citizens. Some ancient monuments have indeed been discovered in our western states, and their origin and design have hitherto baffled the investigations of our philosophers. We have then, no subjects of inquiry but the gradual progress of our settlements, and the ever-changing manners of their inhabitants; and if man be the proper study of man, these topics may not be without interest to the curious. There are yet living in Philadelphia many who can tell of incredible revolutions since they played in her streets. They well remember when this wide-spread metropolis was comparatively a village, and had the simple manners of a village. The impressions of childhood are too deep to be effaced. The language of that day, when they said of a person who was about to make a voyage to England, that he was going home, seems to them but of yesterday; and the peal of Christ-church bells, for the king's birthday, or the discovery of the gunpowder plot, still rings in their ears. The revolution made a change in all these matters of homage to the mother-country, not more remarkable than that which it quickly produced upon the appearance of the city and the manners of the people. Previous to the occupation of Philadelphia, by the British troops, in 1777, Water, Front, and Third, were the only streets, parallel with the Delaware river, that were closely built. Many houses in these days, which are not now thought sufficiently genteel or convenient for a second-rate tradesman, were then inhabited by the rich and honourable of the land. The cross streets frem Pine to Vine extended from the river to Fourth street. A large double house in Market street,* between Fifth and Sixth, stood alone, and was considered out of town. It was afterwards Occupied successively by the two presidents, Washington, and Adams. The house now tenanted by the Schuylkill Bank, is the only one besides, recollected in this quarter. This belonged to Joseph Galloway, Esq. and was confiscated, in consequence of his adherence to the king in the revolutionary war. The state house, a jail, a court house, an hospital, and almshouse,t and a city library, and about a dozen churches, constituted the amount of our public buildings. The jail, and library, have been long since removed. The former, together with its yard, (enclosed by a stone wall,) and the jailer's house, occupied about one third of the west side of Third, from the corner of Market street: and the latter, a mean one story tenement of stone, stood in a muddy lane-which is now Fifth street-and near to the corner of Chestnut-a spot now Built by William Masters, Esq. whose eldest daughter was the lady of the governor, Richard Penn. Then called the bettering house; |