Om denne bog
Min samling
Bøger på Google Play
THE
QUARTERLY REVIEW.
APRIL & JULY, 1817.
VOL. XVII.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1817.
CONTENTS
TO
No. XXXIII.
ART. I. 1. A Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries
in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean; illustrated with
Charts and other Plates. By James Burney, Captain
in the Royal Navy.
2. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the
South Pacific Ocean, with an original Grammar and
Vocabulary of their language. Compiled and arranged
from the extensive Communications of Mr. William
Mariner, several years resident in those islands. By.
John Martin, M.D.
3. Transactions of the Missionary Society
-
II. Dissertation prefixed to the Supplemental Volumes of
the Encyclopædia Britannica, exhibiting a General
View of the Progress of Metaphysical, Moral and
Political Philosophy in Europe, from the Revival of
Letters. By Dugald Stewart, F.R.S. &c.
III. The History of Java. By Thomas Stamford Raffles,
Esq. late Lieut.-Governor of that Island and its Depen-
dencies, F.R.S. and A.S. &c.
Note relative to the conduct of the Dutch
IV. Comic Dramas, in Three Acts. By Maria Edgeworth,
Author of Tales of Fashionable Life, &c. &c.
, 1
39
72
- 287
V. 1. Statements respecting the East India College, with an
Appeal to Facts, in refutation of the Charges lately
brought against it in the Court of Proprietors. By the
Rev. T. R. Malthus, Professor of History and Political
Economy in the East India College, Hertfordshire, and
late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge.
2. Minute of the Marquis Wellesley, relative to the Col-
lege of Fort William, dated the 18th August, 1800
96
- 107
VI. The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Litera-
ture, Men and Manners. By William Hazlitt
VII. Travels in various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa,
by Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Part the Second-
Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land. Sections Second
and Third. To which is added a Supplement, respect-
ing the Author's Journey from Constantinople to Vi-
enna, containing his Account of the Gold Mines of
Transylvania and Hungary
VIII. Paris in 1815. A Poem
- 154
160
- 218
IX. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, exécuté
sur les Corvettes Le Géographe, Le Naturaliste, et la
Goëlette Le Casuarina, pendant les Années 1800—1804 229
X. The Tragic Drama.-The Apostate; a Tragedy, in Five
Acts. By Richard Sheil, Esq.
248
XI. France. By Lady Morgan
New Publications
- 260
- 290
TO THE READER.
The GENERAL INDEX, announced in a former Number, is
deferred till the Publication of the NINETEENTH VOLUME,-and it
will form Nos. XXXIX. and XL.
ΤΟ
No. XXXIV.
Page
ART. I. Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in
Africa. By the late John Leyden, M. D.; enlarged
and completed to the present time, with Illustra-
tions of its Geography and Natural History, as well
as of the Moral and Social Condition of its Inha-
bitants. By Hugh Murray, Esq. F. R. S. E. - 331
II. The Personality and Office of the Christian Com-
forter asserted and explained, in a Course of Ser-
mons on John xvi. 7. preached before the Univer-
sity of Oxford in the year 1815, at the Lecture
founded by the late Rev. John Bampton, M. A.,
Canon of Salisbury. By Reginald Heber, M. A.,
Rector of Hodnet, Salop, and late Fellow of All
Souls College
III. 1. Geschichte Andreas Hofer.
IV. An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View
of its past and present Effects on Human Happi-
ness; with an Inquiry into our prospect respecting
the future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils
which it occasions. By R. T. Malthus, A. M.,
late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and
Professor of Political Economy in the East India
College, Hertfordshire
V. 1. Narrative of a Survey for the purpose of disco-
vering the Sources of the Ganges,
2. A Journey to Lake Manassawara in Undés, a Pro-
vince in Little Thibet. By William Moor-
croft, Esq.
3. On the Height of the Himilaya Mountains. By
H. T. Colebrooke, Esq.
VI. Les Théatres. Par un Amateur
338
347
369
403
· 441
VII. A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation.
By T. Chalmers, D. D., one of the Ministers of
Glasgow
431