THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

APRIL, . . . . . JÚLY, 1835.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR.

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. LXI.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY,

FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMAN, LONDON; AND ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH.

1895.

CONTENTS OF No. CXXIII.

ART. I. Theory of the Constitution compared with its Practice,

in ancient and modern times. By James B. Bernard,

Esq., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge,

II. Selections from the American Poets,

III. Observations on the Motion of Sir Robert Heron,

M. P. in the late Parliament, respecting the Vacating

of Seats in Parliament on the acceptance of office. By

the Marquis of Northampton,

IV. Lectures on Intellectual Philosophy. By the late

John Young, L. L. D., Professor of Philosophy in

Belfast College. With a Memoir of the Author.

Edited by William Cairns, A.M., Professor of Logic

and Belles Lettres in Belfast College,

V. Thoughts upon the Aristocracy of England. By

Isaac Tomkins, Gent.,

VI. The Natural Son; a German tale, descriptive of the

age of the Emperor Rudolph II. Translated from

Spindler. By Lord Albert Conyngham,

VII. 1. Des Comètes en général, et en particulier de celles

qui doivent paraître en 1832 et 1835. Par M.

Arago, Membre du Bureau des Longitudes.

2. Notice sur la Comète de Halley et son retour en

1835. Par G. de Pontecoulant.

3. Observations on Bielas' Comet. By Sir J. F. W.

Herschel, K.G.H., F.R.A.S. (Memoirs of the Royal

Astronomical Society),

VIII. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor

Coleridge,

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ART. IX. 1. Historia Statisticæ Adumbrata.

Mone.

Scripsit F. J.

2. Reports and Minutes of Evidence of the Sect

Committee of the House of Commons on Public

Documents.

3. Abstract of Population Returns of Census of

1831,

X. Petition from the Inhabitants of the City of London

against the Newspaper Stamps,

XI. Mémoires Biographiques, Littéraires et Politiques de

Mirabeau; ecrits par Lui-même, par son Père, son

Oncle, et son Fils Adoptif,

XII. Adresse d'un Constitutionel aux Constitutionels,

XIII. Report from the Select Committee on Lighthouses,

with the Minutes of Evidence,

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. 186

. 216

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XIV. Speech of Henry, Lord Brougham, on the Address,
in the House of Lords, on Tuesday, 17th Feb. 1835, 242

List of New Publications,

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CONTENTS OF No. CXXIV.

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ART. I. History of the Revolution in England in 1668. Com-

prising a view of the Reign of James the Second, from

his Accession, to the Enterprise of the Prince of

Orange. By the late Right Honourable Sir James

Mackintosh; and completed to the Settlement of the

Crown, by the Editor. To which is prefixed, a Notice

of the Life, Writings, and Speeches of Sir James

Mackintosh,

II. The Acharnenses of Aristophanes, with Notes Critical

and Explanatory, adapted to the Use of Schools and

Universities. By T. Mitchell, A.M.,

III. A Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, performed

in His Majesty's Ships Leven and Barracouta, from

1822, to 1826, under the command of Capt. F. W. W.

Owen, R.N. By Capt. Thomas Boteler, R.N.,

IV. Deontology; or, the Science of Morality: in which the

Harmony and Coincidence of Duty and Self-interest,

Virtue and Felicity, Prudence and Benevolence, are

explained and exemplified. From the MSS. of Jeremy

Bentham. Arranged and edited by John Bowring,

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V. Journal by Frances Anne Butler,

VI. The Works of George Dalgarno, of Aberdeen,

VII. Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-

west Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic

Regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832,

1833. By Sir John Ross, C.B., K.S.A., K.C.S.,

&c. &c., Captain in the Royal Navy. Including the

Reports of Commander, now Captain James Clark

Ross, R.N., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., and the Discovery

of the Northern Magnetic Pole,

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