Portland Gazette, And Maine Advertiser

Brunswick Commencement.
We were happy to see so large and respectable a company assembled on this literary anniversary. The weather, though warm, was fine; and adapted to obliterate the remembrance of that rainy commencement, which many of our western friends appear not to have forgotten.
A procession composed of the Senior Class, immediate Government, Trustees, Overseers, and Strangers of distinction, moved about 11 o'clock, from the College Chapel to the Meeting-house, where the exercises of the day commenced.
The compositions of the young gentlemen evinced the attention which had been paid to the cultivation of their minds. A critical discussion of their respective merits is not the design of this communication. We cannot refrain from noticing, however, the unusually happy talent at picturesque description exhibited by Derby, and the spirit with which he delivered his Poem-the pleasing elocution of MERRILL, and the appropriateness of his Salutatory Addresses-the pertinency, which marked the forensic disputation, in which LITTLE sustained a part-the clear and perspicuous style of the English oration by Repington-and the vigorous sentiments and original figures, which characterised that by JOHNSON. On the other hand we cannot but express regret, that some of the performances were not delivered in a more audible voice, especially the forensic. The address by the President to the senior class was appropriate and impressive, marked by that precision of language, accuracy of discrimination; and depth of thought which characterize his performances. The order observed throughout the day, both in the Meeting-house and on the common, demands our highest praise. Though the concourse was great, we do not remember that a single riot or disturbance of any kind occurred.
We cannot conclude this article without expressing our pleasure at the recent donation to Bowdoin College of a large tract of land by the liberal founder of the institution; and reminding the inhabitants of the District of Maine of the peculiar interest they are bound upon every principle to take in the prosperity of that seminary, whose advantages are particularly offered to them, and whose respectability is so naturally identified with that of the country, in which it is established.