Alexandria Gazette & Advertiser

COLLEGE OF NEW-JERSEY.

Princeton, Sept. 27, 1822.

The Anniversary Commencement of this Institution was held in this Borough, on the 25th inst. The day was fair and well adapted to the feelings, of both the performers and the audience.

The church was thronged with a numerous and brilliant assembly, characterised as well for their talents as their beauty; we observed several distinguished strangers seated with the honorable board of Trustees on the stage. The greatest interest was excited by the masterly manner in which the young gentlemen acquitted themselves, of the several parts assigned them, while the most profound attention was manifested on the part of the audience. We wish that we could furnish you with a few extracts from several of the Orations delivered on that day: for really, the composition, would not have disgraced any orator of the present day. While we listened to these young Tullys lisping forth their eloquent harangues, we could not restrain our imagination. and as it wandered down the long vista of time, we beheld them taking their respective stations in society, as statesmen and as warriors, who were shortly to take upon themselves the burden of government—we have encroached upon your time and patience, more than we at first intended, but with such a theme, who would not feel inspired—one thing more and we have done the high wrought feeling and pathos with which the valedictory oration was delivered, did credit to the institution, and honoured the heart of him who composed it; as the young orator was about to bid a last adieu to his classmates—his friends—his voice faltered, and we observed a tear start in the eyes of his associates —but when about to bid "a last long—a sad farewell" to the President of the College, grief choaked his utterance, and the tears coursed each other down the furrowed cheek of the venerable old man—we are conscious the recital falls far below the reality, we therefore, refrain.

ORDER OF THE EXERCISES.
PRAYER BY THE PRESIDENT
Music
2. Edward D. Mansfield—Latin Salutatory.
3. Hugh Mearns—English Salutatory.
Music.
4. James A. Pearce On National Pride.
5. Albert B. Dod—On the comparative state of Slavery in ancient and modern time.
6. William P. Buchanan—On Popularity.
Music.
7. Jacoby Depui—On a Knowledge of the Bible, and What will be the state of Religion fifty years hence?
8. William W. Deneale. On the emancipation of Greece.
9. James W. Thomson—On the Philosophy of the Human Mind.
Music.
10. Thomas Clymer—On the Works of Nature,
Philemon Dickinson—On the Penal Code.
Samuel V. Disborough On Modern Greece.
Music.
13. John R. Livingston, jun. On the character and oppression of the Irish.
14. James Weatherby—On the comparative, pleasures of Memory and Anticipation,
15. William Littlejohn—On Duelling.
Music
CONFERRING OF DEGREES.
Music.
16. Edward D. Smith—Valedictory
Music.
PRAYER AND BENEDICTION.

The following gentlemen Alumni of the College, were admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, viz:
Wm. S. Buchanan, John B. Clemson, Jacoby Depui, Caleb Good, Samuel Holstien, John Lodor, James M'Cormich, John S Miercken, Jonathan Neely, Samuel H. Ralston, Edward D. Smith, James Weatherby, Pennsylvania.

Wm. Bussard, Wm. W. Deneale, District of Columbia.
Thomas W. Clymer, Henry F. Condiet, Philemon Dickinson, Samuel V. Disborough, Hugh Mearns, Christian Z. Paulison, George Richmond, Joseph Scudder, jun. Thompson Sharpe, Wm. H. Woodhull, New Jersey.
Albert B. Dod, John R. Livingston, jun. Edward D. Mansfield, New York.
Marius Gilliam, Wm. F. Smith, James W. Thomson, Wm. Washington, Virginia.
Christopher C. Greenup, Kentucky.
Thomas M. Littlejohn, William Littlejohn, North Carolina.
James A. Pearce; Michael Pue, George R. Kichardson, Maryland,
Manuel E. Robinson, Delaware.
Ad eundem—Wm. H. Collins, Maryland.

The honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred on the Rev. Wm. D. Snodgrass, Rev. Robert Hall Morrison, Rev. Robert G. Armstrong, Rev. John Summerfield, Mr. Robert Baird.

The following gentlemen Alumni of the College, were admitted to the second degree in the Arts, viz:
Holloway W. Hunt, Holloway W. Hunt, jr. Thomas Turner, James Ross, Wm. B. Randolph, George W. Neff, Geo. W. Smith, Elias B. D. Ogden, Abram Skillman, Benjamin C. Taylor, Wm. J. Armstrong, Hugh Wilson, Lemuel F. Leake, James V. Henry, John Breckinridge, John Chetwood, Jas: Boyd.

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on the Rev. John Codman, of Dorchester, Mass. and the Rev. Wm. Ferrier, of Paisley. Scotland,

The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on His Excellency James Monroe, President of the United States of America.
Hon. Charles Thompson, Secretary of Congress during the Revolutionary War and John Wells, Esq. of New York.—[Emporium.]