THE

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

AND

LITERARY MISCELLANY;

A NEW SERIES

OF THE

SCOTS MAGAZINE.

JULY-DECEMBER, 1820.

Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat.

VOL. VII.

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1820.

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

LITERARY MISCELLANY,

BEING A NEW SERIES OF

The Scots Magazine.

THE

AND

JULY 1820.

On the Causes of the Excellence of ear-

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coran

ly Poetry

Remarks on Marcian Colonna 7

Anecdotes of the late King and Queen 14 Verses by a young Lady .................................................ib.

Observations on the Literature of Scot-

CONTENTS.

land in the Age of A. Melville.............17

Remarks on Maturin's Sermons............ 21

Remarks on Crawfurd's History of the

32

Indian Archipelago................................................26

Correspondence of the De Coverley Fa-

mily

Extracts from Southey's Life of Wesley..36

Extract from Mr Wordsworth's last Vo-

lume-Memoir of the Rev. Robert

Walker

.................38

Letter from the Author of Essays on

Phrenology........................ .................................43

Account of the Years of Scarcity in Scot-

land from 1694 to 1700..................46

Canzone of Tasso.....................

Dante's Letter................................................

Lines descriptive of a Moonlight Scene,
from the Hill above Greenock

Extracts from Dr Chalmers's Third

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Number of the Christian and Civic

Economy of Large Towns

ib.

Extension of the Slave Trade in Ameri-

~57

The Bystander. No. V. ~~~..............59

Peter Bell v. Peter Bell. By Peter Cor-

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