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THE
EDINBURGH REVIEW,
OR
CRITICAL JOURNAL:
FOR
OCTOBER, 1830.... JANUARY, 1831.
TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.
JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR.
PUBLIUS SYRUS.
VOL. LII.
EDINBURGH:
PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY,
FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, LONDON; AND ADAM BLACK, EDINBURGH.
1831.
CONTENTS OF No. CIII.
ART. I. Reflexions sur la France; vices de son Gouvernement;
causes de Mécontentement des Français sous le
Ministère de Polignac, &c. Par M. St Maurice,
II. A Narrative, by John Ashburnham, of his attendance
on King Charles I. from Oxford to the Scotch Army,
and from Hampton Court to the Isle of Wight,
never before published; to which is prefixed, a Vin-
dication of his Character and Conduct from the Mis-
representations of Lord Clarendon. By his lineal
descendant and present representative (The Earl of
Ashburnham,)
III. Transactions of the Geological Society of London.
Second Series. Vols. I. II. III.
IV. Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys: Collected du-
ring his Travels in the East, by the late John Lewis
Burckhardt. Published by the authority of the
Association for the Discovery of the Interior of
Africa,
V. Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central
and Western Rajpoot States of India. By Lieute-
nant-Colonel James Tod, late Political Agent to the
Rajpoot States,
26
43
72
86
VI. Dialogues on Natural and Revealed Religion; with a
Preliminary Enquiry, an Appendix containing Sup-
plemental Disco ses, and Notes and Illustrations.
By the Reverend Robert Morehead, D.D. F.R.S.E. 109
VII. 1. The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton.
2. The Chelsea Pensioners, by the Author of The
'Subaltern.'
3. Tales of Military Life, by the Author of The
'Military Sketch Book."
4. Stories of Waterloo.
5. The Night-Watch, or Tales of the Sea.
6. Sailors and Saints, by the Authors of The Naval
Sketch Book.'
7. Tales of a Tar, by one of the Authors of The
Naval Sketch Book.'
8. The Naval Officer.
9. The King's Own, by the Author of The Naval
• Officer,'
Page.
119
ART. VIII. Enquiry into the Rise and Growth of the Royal Pre-
rogative in England. By John Allen,
IX. Euvres Complètes de Thomas Reid, chef de l'Ecole
Ecossaise. Publiées par M. Th. Jouffroy, avec des
Fragments de M. Royer-Collard, et une Introduc-
tion de l'Editeur,
X. 1. Memoir concerning the Origin and Progress of the
Reform proposed in the Internal Government of the
Royal Burghs of Scotland. By Archibald Fletcher,
Esq. Advocate.
2. Considerations submitted to the Householders of
Edinburgh, on the State of their Representation in
Parliament.
3. An Explanation of the Present State of the Case
respecting the Representation of Edinburgh in Par-
liament.
4. Letter to the Freeholders of the County of Dum-
barton, on Parliamentary Reform. By Alexander
Dunlop, Esq. Advocate,
XI. The National Library. Conducted by the Rev. G. R.
Gleig, M.A. Vol. I. The Life of Lord Byron, by
John Galt, Esq.
XII. 1. Translations from the German; and Original Poems.
By Lord Francis Leveson Gower.
2. Faust, a Drama, by Goethe; with Translations
from the German. By Lord F. L. Gower.
3. Wallenstein's Camp, from the German, and Ori-
ginal Poems. By Lord F. L. Gower,
XIII. 1. The Result of the General Election; or, What has
the Duke of Wellington gained by the Dissolution?
2. The Duke of Wellington and the Whigs.
3. Government without Whigs; being an Answer to
The Country without a Government,' and the Edin-
burgh Review,
139
158
208
228
231
261
ART. I. Reports from, and Minutes of Evidence taken before,
the Select Committees of the Houses of Lords and
Commons, on the Affairs of the East India Company, 281
II. 1. Specimens of the Russian Poets. Translated by
John Bowring, LL.D.
2. Batavian Anthology, or Specimens of the Dutch
Poets. By John Bowring, LL.D.
3. Ancient Poetry and Romances of Spain. Selected
and Translated by John Bowring, LL.D. and H. S.
Van Dyk.
4. Specimens of the Polish Poets. By John Bowring,
LL.D.
5. Servian Popular Poetry. Translated by John Bow-
ring, LL.D.
6. Poetry of the Magyars. By John Bowring, LL. D.
III. The Principles of Political Economy, with a Sketch of
the Rise and Progress of the Science. By J. R.
McCulloch, Esq. Professor of Political Economy in
the University of London,
IV. Statement of the Civil Disabilities and Privations affect-
ing Jews in England,
V. A Comparative View of the Social Life of England and
France, from the Restoration of Charles the Second
to the French Revolution. By the Editor of Madame
du Deffand's Letters,
VI. Essays on the Pursuit of Truth, on the Progress of
Knowledge, and on the Fundamental Principle of all
Evidence and Expectation,
337
363
374
388
VII. Anti-Draco; or, Reasons for abolishing the Punish-
ment of Death in Cases of Forgery. By a Barrister, 398