4713 The seventh anarchy after Heli, 1160 1140 4733 Samuel governs 20 years alone and 18 with Saul, 4748 The twenty-first Egyptian dynasty of seven kings lasted 130 years, 1129 1125 1120 4751 The third imperial Chinese family named Chevad.-38 kings, 1122 4753 The reign of Saul for 20 years of which Samuel lived 18 4773 The reign of David 7 years over Juda, and 33 over all the tribes, 1100 4774 Aletes establishes the kingdom of Corinth, 1099 4778 Medon the son of king Codrus, 1st governor of Athens 4813 Solomon reigns 80 years and not 40 1095 1060 The FIFTH Age of the World. 4816 Foundation of the Temple of Solomon, 1057 Sesostris, 995 4893 The kingdom of Israel by Jeroboam.-Roboam reigns in 4987 MONARCHY OF THE MEDES.-The Assyrian Empire de stroyed by Arbose, and tranferred to the Medes after lasting 1460 years under 41 kings, Lycurgus gives laws to Lacedemon 180 years before the first Olympiade, 4988 Ochiosas king of Juda after his father Joram, 4989 Iphitus establishes the Olympic games, (Athalia the mother of Ochosias and widow of Joram usurps 4995 the throne over Joas.)-Joas regains the throne, 4998 The 23d. Egyptian dynasty, 892 $86 885 $84 878 875 5011 Ninus the young establishes at Nineveh the kingdom of Assyria, $69 5015 Manduneus second king of the Medes, 858 5034 Amasias reigns in Juda after his father Joas, 839 5048 Jeroboam the 2d reigns over Israel, 895 5063 Anarchy in Jerusalem after the murder of king Amazias, 5OC4 Ozias king of Juda one year after the death of his father, 5065 Artycus 4th king of the Medes, 50S8 24th Egyptian dynasty under Boccharis, 5083 Arbianes 5th king of the Medes, 785 734 5097 The first Olympiade, 5101 Zacharias king of Israel put to death after a reign of six years, 776 772 5102 Sellum Age of the World: 5012 Sellum reigns over Israel after killing Zacharias, 5103 Manahem murders Sellum and reigns in his place, 110 Arteus 6th king of the Medes, Before Jesus Christ. 771 770 763 5115 Phacear king of Israel after his father Manahem, 758 757 753 5126 Ora of Nabonassor.-He establishes the new kingdom of Babylon, 747 5131 The 25th Egyptian dynasty under Ethiopian or Arabian kings, 742 5132 Achaz reigns in Juda, 741 5135 Phares king of Israel put to death by Osee.-Anarchy for 9 years, 738 5144 Osee reigns over Israel, 729 5147 Ezekias reigns over Juda, 726 5153 Destruction of the kingdom of Israel by Salmonazar king Assyria after lasting 260 years since Jeroboam. 720 5158 Senacherib succeeds Salmonasar at Ninaveh, 715 5160 Senacherib enters Juda the 14th year of Ezekias, 713 5162 Senacherib defeated by an Angel of the Lord, is killed by his sons 711 5164 Assaradon succeeds him.-Dejoces reigns amongst the Medes, 709 5176 Manasses reigns in Juda, Pedicas establishes the kingdom of Macedonia.-1st year of 697 5188 The Egyptians establish 12 lawchiefs who govern 15 years, 685 5189 Governors of one year established at Athens.-Creon the 1st, 684 5193 Assaradon king of Nineveh seizes Babylon 680 5197 The king of Assyria and Babylon yields the Chuleens in Sa maria, who henceforward were called Samaritans, 676 5203 The 26th Egyptian dynasty, 670 5206 Saosdochin reigns over Nineveh and Babylon. This is the 5226 Ciniladon the last king of the Assyrians, 5231 Amon king of Juda, 5233 Josias king of Juda, 5239 Cyazares king of the Medes, 5218 Nineveh destroyed, and the 2d kingdom of the Assyrians re-established by Ninus the young, after lasting 237 years, is entirely destroyed Cyaxares king of the Medes, assisted by Nabopolatsor Satrop of Chaldee, who revolts against Ciniladon his king burned in the conflagration of Nineveh, Nabopolassar obtains from the kings of the Medes, the throne of Babylon possessed by the Assyrian king since the time Assaradon.. 5257 Necad the 2d. reigns in Egypt after his father Promine. ahicus, Anecdote of Descartes. DESCARTES, a famous French philosopher of the seventeenth century, was early in life an officer in the army; and, in course of nine years, went through a great deal of hard service. During this time the army was once encamped near an university town, and the young officer strolling about saw several persons, and among them a starch sort of a gentleman, with a long band and a black gown, reading an inscription on the wall. He went up, and found it was a question in Latin, which after he had read he copied out with a pencil on the leaves of his pocket-book, and was going away, when he was stopped at a little distance from the place by the reverend gentleman, and accosted in these words: Do you think, young gentleman, that you can answer that question? I did not know that young gentlemen of your profession troubled themselves with such studies.' Sir,' answered Descartes with great diffidence, I do not see why we should not amuse ourselves in a camp with our books, as well as students in their chambers; I am sure we have many hours which would bear very heavy on us, if we could not divert our minds with something of the sort, and this question seems to me likely to enable me to pass away this evening without any fatigue or ennui.' The elder then gave the young officer his address, and begged to see him when he had solved the question; but what was his surprise, when the young gentle man brought him, the next afternoon, completely solved, the question, which had puzzled, and was then puzzling, the whole university? Starch manners, a great wig, a black dress, and a solemn strut, are not proofs of wisdom: not are a red coat and a sword, and a sprightly address, inevitable tokens of folly. NEW PUBLICATIONS. A new Work from the erudite pen of Counsellor Clinch, against the meditated measure of transfer ring the appointment of the bishops from his Holiness to the King, will be published in a few days by COYNE, Capel-street. From the distinguished talents and very eminent rank, which Mr. Clinch stands in as a literary man, the public may expect the most satisfactory reasoning on the extraordinary subject which employs his pen. Grammar of the Gaelic or Irish We are happy to have seen published a work so interesting to the long neglected and elegant lan guage of Ireland, a complete and systematic Gaelic Grammar. This we trust will remove all difficulty in acquiring an intimacy with the mellifluous cadence of Irish poetry, as well as in the developement of the many hidden and valuable trea sures of our history and laws. In short we are authorized to pro nounce this the best practical Grammar extant of this now interesting language, and of equal merit with that of any other language with which we are acquainted. In a work, however, of such erudition and which must so vastly redound to the credit of its learned author, it appears to us rather an ill-timed modesty to conceal his name. MATHEMATICS. 4TH QUESTION. QUESTION, by Mr. T. Dillon, Teacher of Mathematics, Poo:seg street. Whoever sends a true solution to this Question before the 1st of November 1808, will be entitled to six Irish Magazines. IN the Castle of Konigstein situated on the river Elbe. in latitude 50o 54' N. there is the largest wine cask in the world, in form of the lower frustrums of two equal cones, the difference between the bung and head diameters being 18 inches; and on a certain day in the summer of the year 1807, at the celebration of a grand festival, there was a flagstaff erected perpendicularly in the centre of its head, whose length was to the height of the Cask in the ratio of 1 to 1; and the shadow of the staff at six o'clock in the morning exceeded its meridian shade by 59,06 yards, it was also known that the time from noon to the sun being due west, exceeded the time from sunrise to his being directly east by lh. 35m. 3sec. Admit the cask to be full, and three equidistant holes to be made close to the bottom, one circular, whose circumference is 6 inches, the second a quare, whose perimeter is also 6 inches, and the third a parabola, whose base is 13, and the length of the curve 4 inches; and sup pose the three holes were opened at the same time, and continued running until the vessel was totally exhausted; it is required to determine the dimensions, and the exact time of emptying the cask; the true quantity of wine discharged through each aperture, the day of observation, the sun's meridian altitude, and the moment of his rising at Konigstein on said day; when the distance between the vertex of the flagstaff and the greatest curvature of the cask measured 50,96 feet. This cask was begun in the year 1722, and finished in 1725, under the direction of General Kyaw, it is railed in at the top, and affords room sufficient for twenty persons to regale themselves; several large goblets called welcome cups, are presented to those who delight in such honours. Before this cask was finished, the famous tun in Heidelberg was reckoned the largest in the world, but according to computation, this at Konigstein contains upwards of 600 hogsheads more than that of Heidelberg. Upon the uppermost head of this stupendous cask, there is a Latin inscription, which in English is as follows: "Welcome traveller, and ad"mire this monument dedicated to festivity, in the year 1725, "by Frederick Augustus, King "of Poland, and Elector of Sax3 C |