The Daily Advertiser

THE London Reviewers, in the European Magazine for June, began to review the "memoirs of the American academy of arts and sciences, vol. I, printed at Boston, by Adams and Nourse," and went thro' the first part, to page 186. In the same Magazine for July, they continued their review of the memoirs, and began with part II, or Mr. Bowdoin's observations on light and the electric fluid; but they gave the works a new title, calling it "Transactions of the American philosophical society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge." In the same magazine for August, they go on to review the second volume of the transactions of the philosophical society in Philadelphia, and suppose it a continuation of the memoirs of the American academy in Massachusetts, expressing their surprise that none of Dr. Franklin's papers were found in the first volume of these memoirs.

These are the same reviewers who read Dr. Dwight's Conquest of Canaan, and supposed it all designed to allegorize the late revolution in America.

Such awkward blunders come with a very ill grace from the learned philological society in London. Mr. Childs' please to send these reviewers one of your papers, and inform them that Boston and Philadelphia are not the same town—that the memoirs of the American academy of arts and sciences in Massachusetts, are not the same things as the "transactions of the philosophical society held in Philadelphia;" and that they would save their reputation in some measure, by studying more attentively the geography of their quondam colonies, or by making their secretary copy title-pages with more accuracy.

HECTOR.