An elegiac poem on the death of General George Washington, commander in chief of the armies of the United States . Who died at Mount Vernon, Virginia, 14th December, 1799, aged 69 years. Dedicated to the citizens of the United States.

An eulogium to the memory of Dr. Samuel Cooper , delivered, by appointment, before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the fourth day of March, 1799. By Charles Caldwell, A.M. M.D. a member of the Society.

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