THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

JUNE 1818..... SEPT. 1818.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR.

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. XXX.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by David Willison,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH:
AND LONGMAN, Hurst, rees, ORME AND BROWN,

LONDON.

ART. I. 1. The Possibility of approaching the North Pole
Asserted. By the Hon. D. Barrington.

2. On the Greenland, or Polar Ice. By William

Scoresby, junior, Esq.

3. A Description of Greenland. By Hans Egede, a

Missionary in that country for twenty-five years.

4. A Voyage to Spitzbergen; containing an Account

of that Country; of the Zoology of the North; of

the Shetland Isles; and of the Whale Fishery. By

John Laing, Surgeon.

5. Greenland, the Adjacent Seas, and the North-West

Passage to the Pacific Ocean. By Bernard O'Reil-

ly, Esq.

p. 1

II. Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. By

David Ricardo, Esq.

59

III. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth. By

Lord Byron

87

IV. Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of

Virginia to the Territory of the Illinois. By Mor-

ris Birkbeck

120

V. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages.

By Henry Hallam, Esq.

140

VI. Lyon en Mil Huit Cent Dix-Sept. Par le Colonel

Fabvier, ayant fait les Fonctions de Chef de l'Etat

Major du Lieutenant du Roi dans les 7me et 19me

Divisions Militaires

VII. 1. Remarks on the recent State Trials, and the Rise

and Progress of Disaffection in this Country. By

William Frith, Esq. Sergeant-at-Law.

2. A Bill of Rights and Liberties; or an Act for a

Constitutional Reform of Parliament. By Major
Cartwright

172

181

ART. VIII. Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson, Bishop

of Landaff; written by Himself at different inter-

vals, and revised in 1814. Published by his Son,

Richard Watson, LL.B. Prebendary of Landaff

and Wells

p. 206

234

257

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IX. Women; or Pour et Contre: A Tale. By the Au-

thor of Bertram, &c.

Quarterly List of New Publications

CONTENTS OF No. LX.

ART. I. Considérations sur les Principaux Evénémens de la

Révolution Françoise. Ouvrage Posthume de Mad.

la Baronne de Staël. Publié par M. le Duc de

Broglie et M. le Baron A. de Staël

p. 275

II. 1. Osservazioni Intorno alla Questione sopra la Origi-

nalita del Poema di Dante. Di F. Cancellieri.

2. Observations concerning the Question of the Origi-

nality of the Poem of Dante. By F. Cancellieri

III. Mélanges d'Histoire et de Litterature

IV. 1. Observations on the Geology of the United States

of America. By William Maclure.

317

351

2. An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geo-

logy. By Parker Cleaveland, Professor of Mathe-

matics and Natural Philosophy, and Lecturer on

Chemistry and Mineralogy, in Bowdoin College 374

V. 1. Voyage of H. M. Ship Alceste along the Coast of

Corea, to the Island of Lewchew; with an Account

of her subsequent Shipwreck. By John M'Leod,

Surgeon of the Alceste.

2. Naufrage de la Fregate la Meduse, faisant Partie de

l'Expedition du Senegal en 1816; Relation conte-

nant les Evenemens qui ont eu lieu sur le Radeau,

dans le Desert de Sahara, à St Louis, et au Camp

de Daccard; suivi d'un Examen sous les Rapports

Agricoles de la Partie Occidentale de la Cote d'Af-

rique, depuis le Cap Blanc jusqu'à l'Embouchure de

la Gambie. Par Alexandre Correard, Ingenieur-

Geographe, et J. B. Henri Savigny, Ex-Chirurgien

de la Marine

VI. An Account of Experiments for Determining the

Length of the Pendulum Vibrating Seconds in the

Latitude of London. By Captain Henry Kater,

F. R. S.

VII. Mémoires pour Servir à l'Histoire des Evénémens de la

Fin du Dix-Huitième Siècle. Par Feu M. L'Abbé

Georgel

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