The value that was set upon his life is sufficiently indicated by the prevailing sentiment of sorrow at his decease. Every day was enlarging the sphere of his benevolence; and, as is always the case with those who have the means and disposition to do good, his satisfaction increased as the opportunities of bounty multiplied. He was remarkably free from those weaknesses and hidden vices of the mind, which too often attend on the possession of great wealth. His manners were not only those of a man who had seen the world; but they indicated a spirit of real kindness and generosity, which enhances pecuniary relief, and gives a lasting value to politeness. He carried into private life, not merely the deportment of a gentleman, but the same princi ples of integrity and sense of truth and right, which we are confident governed his publick conduct. He was a man of letters, and particularly fond of those studies which contributed to the improvements in which he was engaged. One of his latest employments was the transla tion of Daubenton's work on the management of sheep, the first edition of which he printed at his own expense. The value of this work is much increased by many additions which he made to it from a comparison of several English writers on the same subject. A second edition has just appeared; and we presume it will al

ways be a standard work on this subject, since it has been recommended by the Agricultural Society of Massachusetts. His library, his collection of paintings, and his valuable collections in Mineralogy and Crystallography make a part of the donation which he has left to the college at Brunswick. This institution bears the name of his family, and has always been an object of his patronage.

In short, though in the latter years of his life he was not much seen out of the circle of his family, the number is very great of those in the community who feel that they have lost a benefactor; and, if the will of Heaven had not other, wise determined, the voice of the publick would gladly recal him from the tomb.

Mr. Bowdoin spent a few months of every summer at the island of Naushaun, which he owned. He resided a few years st Dorchester, five or six miles from Boston, the estimation in which he was held there, may be judged of by the sermon preached by the minister, the Rev. Thaddeus Mason Harris, from which sermon and from a biographical memoir by the late Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster, the chief of this sketch is taken. We shall close our account of this worthy man in the words of Mr. Buckminster who says that he never was more actively engaged than during the few last years of his

life, in employments of which every man will acknowledge the utility, and of which his country will reap the benefit. He was finding in the pursuits of agriculture, and in the intellectual as well as active exertions of a very industrious life, a degree of satisfaction, which is often sought in vain in the pleasures of sense, the tumults of faction, the career of publick life, or the retreats of solitude and luxurious indolence. If God had been pleased to spare him longer, every day, I doubt not, would have rendered his life more valuable and desirable, as it does that of every man who lives in the exercise of a conscientious and willing beneficence. Now his days are past, his purposes are broken off, may God so order it that his worthy designs shall be promoted; his good intentions be carried into complete effect; and all that blessing be diffused, which himself would have been desirous to see, and to which he would have been ready and happy to contribute !”

Mr. Bowdoin died at Naushaun island, (which is situated between Martha's Vineyard and the continent) on the 11th of October, 1811, in the sixtieth year of his life. Having no children, he bequeathed this island, and the bulk of his estate to his nephew, James Temple Bowdoin, Esq. second son of Sir John Temple, Bart. whose lady was the only sister of the subject of these me

moirs. The engraving which accompanies this is from a portrait by Mr. Stewart, and is recognized as a good likeness.

THE EXAMINER....No. VI.

MUSICAL REVIEW.

Harmonia Sacra: being a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, selected and adapted from the Works of Handel, Luther, Ravenscroft, J. Clark, Drs. Croft, Arnold, Howard, Boyce, e. Fe. With which are interspersed a num ber of new Tunes, composed expressly for this work. The whole arranged for three and four Voices, by J. Hewitt, organist of Trinity. Church. Jubilate Deo omnes. No. 1, 2, 3. Boston, J. T. Buckingham.

THE force of Harmony has its desired effect, and makes the animal happy, when the effort is unauthorised by the understanding; and the influence of music over our affections is a truth established both by sacred and profane history, and confirmed by its constant use in all religious rites where the passions are most deeply interested. If this art has the power to direct the emotions of the heart, does it not deserve our most earnest attention to preserve its proper influence, and direct it to the good purposes in

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tended by the wise and kind Author of ali blessings and this can only be done by preventing the art itself from being corrupted by the caprice and absurdity of human frailty, and by directing the power of its purity to assist us in the habits of virtue and religion. Plutarch tells us, that a man who has learned musick from his infancy, will ever after have a sense of right and wrong, and an habitual persuasion to decorum; this is undoubtedly true, if we consider the ancient manner of inculcating the laws of their country; the great actions of heroes; the praises of their deities; not to mention its mathematical principles, which made a part of the Greek education, and induced the youth to serious inquiry and led them to noble truths; and, that the manners of any people are best denoted by their national musick, is certainly true, as the mind will always seek its repose and delight, in pursuits the most similar to its general tendency and direction.

We are further told by ancient authors, that all laws whether human or divine, exhortations to virtue, the knowledge and actions of gods and heroes, the lives and achievements of illustrious men, were written in verse, and sung publickly, by a choir to the sound of instruments; and it appears by the scriptures that such from the earliest times was the custom among the Israel