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Review Of New Publications.
and seventy feet , by seventy , fronting the street . A square has from twenty to thirty lots in it . The value of each lot is from forty pounds to two hundred pounds sterling . ' There is to be a national University erected there , as well as the Mint , Pay-office , Treasury , Supreme Courts of Justice , Residences for the Ambassadors ; in short , all the Public Offices . The city is to be built after a plan laid down for every street , of a fine white stone found in the neigh
hood , equal to Portland . Each house is to be forty feet from the ground to thc roof , in all the principal streets , which are to be from seventy to one hundred feet wide . The first street , was formed upon an cxaft meridian line , drawn for the purpose , by a Mr . Ellicot , which passes through the C . pitol , the seat of the Legislature , on an eminence , from whence flic streets diverge into radii in every direction . It has , therefore , the full command of every quarter of the city . From it you can see every vessel that comes in or goes out of the
harbour , and every carriage or horseman that enters the city by the bridge . One of tbe streets ( Pennsylvania ) is marked out to be four miles long . ' The President ' s house will also stand on a rising ground , possessing a eJelighful water prospeel , together with a commanding view of the Capitol , and tbe most material parts of the city , being likewise the centre of other radiate streets . All the grand avenues , and such streets as lead immediately to public places , are from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and sixty
fe ; -t wide ; this isto admit room for a walk , planted with trees on each side , and a paved way for carriages . Every street is laid down according to aftual measurement , governed by the first meridian line . Commissioners are appointed to see all these regulations carried into execution . The question still with me is , whether the scheme is not too magnificent for the present state of things . ' The original projector of this city , the author adds , was the great Wash- - ,
ing-on himself . Manufactures advance but sloAvly in the American States ; for which we may account , by observing- tbe superior attention given to the cultivation of land , and which in their present circumstances is found by much the mo-:, profitable . In an appendix is g iven a list of sovas of the English books which the Americans have reprinted , and likewise of the most reil . arkr . ble of their own original publications . <
{ Fives as they Were , and Maids as they Ai ' e . A Comedy , in Five Acts : perfirmed at the Theatre-Royct , Covent-Garden . By Mrs . Inchfaald . S .-u . Pages < j 0 . Price 2 f . Robinsons . MRS . Inchbald is already well-known to the world for a ' variety of dramatic productions , which have been stamped with public approbation . 'Fhe present play , though certainly not equal to some of the fair authoress ' s performances , possesses considerable merit . The dialogue is , in general ,
flowing and elegant , and the p ictures of life well chaWn . if " there beany fault in the conduct of the story , it is in the concealment of Sir William jOorrillon so long from his daughter . . We cannot think itposssible that the affection of a parent would let him suffer an only child , and that child a daughter , to endure for a moment the horrors of a prison . The piece is intended to contrast opposite characters—a Wife as Wives Wire , and two Maids as Maids Are . The following dialogue gives us the character of Lady Prior }' , the
Wife as Wives Were . ' Lord Priory . I have novv been married eleven years , and during all that time I h : ue made it a rule never to go on a visit , so as to domessicate , in the house of 2 married man . -
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Review Of New Publications.
and seventy feet , by seventy , fronting the street . A square has from twenty to thirty lots in it . The value of each lot is from forty pounds to two hundred pounds sterling . ' There is to be a national University erected there , as well as the Mint , Pay-office , Treasury , Supreme Courts of Justice , Residences for the Ambassadors ; in short , all the Public Offices . The city is to be built after a plan laid down for every street , of a fine white stone found in the neigh
hood , equal to Portland . Each house is to be forty feet from the ground to thc roof , in all the principal streets , which are to be from seventy to one hundred feet wide . The first street , was formed upon an cxaft meridian line , drawn for the purpose , by a Mr . Ellicot , which passes through the C . pitol , the seat of the Legislature , on an eminence , from whence flic streets diverge into radii in every direction . It has , therefore , the full command of every quarter of the city . From it you can see every vessel that comes in or goes out of the
harbour , and every carriage or horseman that enters the city by the bridge . One of tbe streets ( Pennsylvania ) is marked out to be four miles long . ' The President ' s house will also stand on a rising ground , possessing a eJelighful water prospeel , together with a commanding view of the Capitol , and tbe most material parts of the city , being likewise the centre of other radiate streets . All the grand avenues , and such streets as lead immediately to public places , are from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and sixty
fe ; -t wide ; this isto admit room for a walk , planted with trees on each side , and a paved way for carriages . Every street is laid down according to aftual measurement , governed by the first meridian line . Commissioners are appointed to see all these regulations carried into execution . The question still with me is , whether the scheme is not too magnificent for the present state of things . ' The original projector of this city , the author adds , was the great Wash- - ,
ing-on himself . Manufactures advance but sloAvly in the American States ; for which we may account , by observing- tbe superior attention given to the cultivation of land , and which in their present circumstances is found by much the mo-:, profitable . In an appendix is g iven a list of sovas of the English books which the Americans have reprinted , and likewise of the most reil . arkr . ble of their own original publications . <
{ Fives as they Were , and Maids as they Ai ' e . A Comedy , in Five Acts : perfirmed at the Theatre-Royct , Covent-Garden . By Mrs . Inchfaald . S .-u . Pages < j 0 . Price 2 f . Robinsons . MRS . Inchbald is already well-known to the world for a ' variety of dramatic productions , which have been stamped with public approbation . 'Fhe present play , though certainly not equal to some of the fair authoress ' s performances , possesses considerable merit . The dialogue is , in general ,
flowing and elegant , and the p ictures of life well chaWn . if " there beany fault in the conduct of the story , it is in the concealment of Sir William jOorrillon so long from his daughter . . We cannot think itposssible that the affection of a parent would let him suffer an only child , and that child a daughter , to endure for a moment the horrors of a prison . The piece is intended to contrast opposite characters—a Wife as Wives Wire , and two Maids as Maids Are . The following dialogue gives us the character of Lady Prior }' , the
Wife as Wives Were . ' Lord Priory . I have novv been married eleven years , and during all that time I h : ue made it a rule never to go on a visit , so as to domessicate , in the house of 2 married man . -