MR.

ADAMS' MULTIPLIED ATTAINMENTS--VISITED BY SOUTHERN GENTLEMEN--HIS REPORT ON WEIGHTS AND MEASURES--HIS POETRY--ERECTS A MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF HIS PARENTS--ELECTED MEMBER OF CONGRESS--LETTER TO THE BIBLE SOCIETY--DELIVERS EULOGY ON DEATH OF EX-PRESIDENT MONROE.
Few public men in any country have possessed attainments more varied than were those of Mr.Adams.Every department of literature and science received more or less of his attention--every path of human improvement seems to have been explored by him.

As a statesman, he was unrivalled in the profundity of his knowledge.

His state papers--given to the world while Minister, Secretary of State, President, and Member of Congress--his numerous addresses, orations, and speeches, are astonishing in number, and in the learning they display.

[Footnote: Aside from his state papers, official correspondence, and speeches, which would make many volumes, the Literary World gives the following list of the published writings of Mr.
Adams:-- "1.