THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

FEB. 1823..... MAY 1823.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR.

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. XXXVIII.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by the Heirs of David Willison,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH:

AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND BROWN,

LONDON.

CONTENTS OF No. LXXVI.

ART. I. Reports of Cases argued and decided in the High

Court of Chancery. By F. Vesey, junior. Vol.

VII.-Dr Wolcot's Case, 1802. Mr Southey's

Case, 1817. Lord Byron's Cain, Feb. 1822.-

Mr Lawrence's Lectures on Physiology, March

1822.

II. Narrative of a Journey in the Morea. By Sir William

Gell, M. A., &c.

III. 1. Report from the Select Committee on Captain

Manby's Apparatus for saving the Lives of Ship-

wrecked Seamen. Ordered by the House of

Commons to be printed, 16th of May, 1823.

2. Papers relating to Captain Manby's Plan for af-

fording Relief in Cases of Shipwreck. Ordered

by the House of Commons to be printed, 30th of

May, 1816.

3. Papers relating to Captain Manby's Plan for saving

the Lives of Shipwrecked Mariners. Ordered by

the House of Commons to be printed, 7th of

December, 1813.

4. Report of the Committee of the House of Com-

mons on Captain Manby's Petition. Ordered to

be printed, 26th of March, 1810.

IV. The St James's Chronicle-The Morning Chronicle-

The Times-The New Times-The Courier, &c.—

Cobbett's Weekly Journal-The Examiner-The

Observer-The Gentleman's Magazine-The New

Monthly Magazine-The London, &c. &c.

V. 1. Annual Reports of the Trustees of the British Mu-

seum. 1822.

2. Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum.

1820.

3. Description of the Marbles, &c. deposited in the

British Museum. 1821.

VI. Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land. By William

Rae Wilson, Esq.

VII. 1. Essai Géologique sur l'Ecosse. Par A. Boué,

Docteur en Médecine, &c.

2. Voyage en Ecosse et aux Iles Hebrides. Par L.

A. Necker de Saussure

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ART. VIII. Observations relative to Infant Schools, designed to

point out their Usefulness to the Children of the

Poor, to their Parents, and to Society at large.

Calculated to assist those who may benevolently

incline to establish such Schools. By Thomas

Pole, M. D. &c.

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IX. Highways and By-ways, or Tales of the Roadside,

picked up in the French Provinces. By a Walk-

ing Gentleman

X. 1. De la Défense des Places Fortes, Ouvrage com-

posé par Ordre de sa Majesté Imperiale et

Royale, pour l'Instruction des Elèves du Corps

du Génie. Par M. Carnôt.

2. Observations on the Motives, Errors, and Ten-

dency of M. Carnôt's Principles of Defence;

showing the Defects of his New System of For-

tification, and of the Alterations he has propos-

ed with a View to improve the Defences of ex-

isting Places. By Colonel Sir Howard Douglas,

K. S. C. &c.

3. Memoire sur l'Effet des Feux Verticaux proposés

par M. Carnôt dans la Défense des Places

Fortes; suivi des deux Notes, l'une sur la Tra-

jectoire des Balles, l'autre sur le Tire à Rico-

chet. Par M. Angoyat

XI. 1. Observations on the Warehousing System and Na-

vigation Laws; with a detailed Account of many

of the Burdens to which Shipping and Trade

are subjected. By John Hall, Esq.

2. An Act for the Encouragement of Navigation

and Commerce, by regulating the Importation of

Goods and Merchandise, so far as relates to the

Countries or Places from whence, and the Ships

in which, such Importation shall be made. 3

Geo. IV. Cap. 43

XII. 1. Memorandum of Two Conversations between the

Emperor Napoleon and Viscount Ebrington at

Porto-Ferraio.

2. Memorial de Sainte Hélène. Journal of the Pri-

vate Life and Conversations of the Emperor

Napoleon at St Helena. By the Count de Las

Cases

Quarterly List of New Publications

Index

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CONTENTS OF No. LXXV.

ART. I. Reflections on the State of Ireland in the Nineteenth

Century; the progressive Operation of the Causes

which have produced it; and the Measures best

calculated to Remove some, and Mitigate others

of them

II. 1. Loves of the Angels. A Poem. By Thomas

Moore.

2. Heaven and Earth. A Mystery. By Lord

Byron

III. The Speeches of the Right Honourable Henry

Grattan, in the Irish and in the Imperial Parlia-

ment

IV. 1. Letter to Earl Bathurst, by the Honourable H.

Grey Bennet, M. P.

2. Report of the Commissioner of Inquiry into the

State of the Colony of New South Wales. Or-

dered by the House of Commons to be print-

ed, 19th June, 1822

V. Cottage Economy. By William Cobbett

VI. An Inquiry into the Principles of Beauty in Grecian

Architecture; with an Historical View of the

Rise and Progress of the Art in Greece. By

George, Earl of Aberdeen, K. T. &c.

VII. 1. Remarks on the Consumption of Public Wealth

by the Clergy of every Christian Nation, and par-

ticularly by the Established Church in England

and Wales, and in Ireland, with a Plan for alter-

ing its Revenues, &c. &c.

2. The Rights of the English Clergy Asserted,

and the Probable Amount of their Incomes Es-

timated, in a Letter to the Author of Remarks

on the Consumption of Public Wealth,' &c. By

Augustus Campbell, A. M. Rector of Wallasey,

in the County of Chester

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