THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. XXXVII.

PUBLISHED IN

JANUARY & MARCH, 1828.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1828.

CONTENTS

OF

No. LXXIII.

ART.

I. Two Years in New South Wales; a Series of Letters,

comprising Sketches of the actual State of Society in

that Colony; of its peculiar Advantages to Emigrants;

of its Topography, Natural History, &c. &c. By P.

Cunningham, Surgeon, R.N.

II.-Lucian of Samosata, from the Greek: with the Comments

and Illustrations of Wieland and others. By William

Tooke, F.R.S., Member of the Imperial Academy, and

of the Free Economic Society of St. Petersburgh

III.-History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reforma-

tion in Italy, in the Sixteenth Century; including a

Sketch of the History of the Reformation in the Gri-

sons. By Thomas M'Crie, D.D.

IV.-1. May Fair: a Poem, in Four Cantos.

2. Whitehall; or the Days of George IV.

3. The Forget Me Not.-The Literary Souvenir.-The

Amulet. The Bijou.-The Pledge of Friendship.-

The Friendship's Offering.-The Keepsake. -The

Christmas Box.-The Winter's Wreath

V.-Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of

India, from Calcutta to Bombay. By the late Reginald

Heber, D.D., Lord Bishop of Calcutta

VI.-1. Report on the Criminal Law of England.

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2. A Treatise on Crimes and Indictable Misdemeanors.

By William Oldnall Russell, Esq., of Lincoln's-Inn,

Barrister-at-Law.

3. A Treatise on Criminal Pleading. By Thomas Starkie,

Esq., of Lincoln's- Inn, Barrister-at-Law.

4. A Supplement to all the Modern Treatises on the Cri-

minal Law; containing the Alterations by Statute to

the Prorogation of Parliament in 1827. By F. A.

Carrington, Esq., Barrister-at-Law

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ART.

VII. The Constitutional History of England, from the Acces-

sion of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. By

Henry Hallam

VIII.-1. Personal Narrative of Travels in the United States

and Canada, in 1826, illustrated by Plates; with Re-

marks on the Present State of the American Navy.

By Lieutenant the Honourable Fred. Fitzgerald de

Roos, Royal Navy.

2. North America and the United States as they are

Note on the Geology of Central France

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CONTENTS

OF

No. LXXIV.

ART.

I.-The Planter's Guide; or, a Practical Essay on the best

Method of giving immediate effect to Wood, by the re-

moval of large Trees and Underwood; being an attempt

to place the Art on fixed Principles, and to apply it to

general purposes, useful and ornamental. By Sir Henry

Steuart, Bart., LL.D., F.R.S.E., &c.

II.-Report from the Select Committee on the Salmon Fish-

eries of the United Kingdom, June 17, 1824. Ditto,

March 30, 1825. Ditto, June 3, 1825. Ditto, May

31, 1627.

III.-A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence

of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, interspersed with

Memoirs of his Life. By G. L. Newnham Collingwood,

Esq., F.R.S.

IV.-Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries. By Leigh

V.-1. Corn Trade, Wages, and Rent. By Edward Cayley,

Esq.

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303

345

364

402

426

2. Observations on the Corn Laws. Addressed to W.

W. Whitmore, Esq., M.P..

VI.-A Pilgrimage in Europe and America, leading to the Dis-

covery of the Sources of the Mississippi and Bloody

River, with a Description of the whole Course of the

former, and of the Ohio. By J. C. Beltrami, Esq., for-

merly Judge of a Royal Court in the ex-Kingdom of

Italy
448

VII.-Eighth Report of the Commissioners of Irish Education

Inquiry, with the Appendix-Roman Catholic College

of Maynooth. London, June 2nd, 1827. Ordered by

the House of Commons to be printed, June 19th, 1827. 459