THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. LIII.

PUBLISHED IN

FEBRUARY & APRIL, 1835.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

LONDON:

Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES and SONS,

Stamford-Street.

ART.

CONTENTS

OF

No. CV.

Page

I.-Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast,

Singapore, and China; being the Journal of a Natu-

ralist during 1832, 1833, and 1834. By George

Bennett, Esq, F.L.S., Fellow of the Royal College

of Surgeons, &c.

II.-Correspondance de Victor Jacquemont, avec sa Famille

et plusieurs de ses Amis, pendant son Voyage dans

l'Inde, 1828-1832.

The same translated

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III.-1. Abstract of the Answers and Returns made pursuant

to an Act passed in the eleventh year of his Majesty

King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for the

taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain,

and the increase or diminution thereof.' Ordered by

the House of Commons to be printed, 2d April, 1833.

2. Abstract of Returns under the Irish Population Acts

-Enumeration, 1831. Ordered by the House of

Commons to be printed, 7th August, 1833.

3. Sur la Population de la Grande Bretagne. Par L. R.

Villermé, 1834.

IV. Specimens of the Table-Talk of S. T. Coleridge

V.-1. Topography of Thebes and General View of Egypt.

By I. G. Wilkinson, Esq.

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2. I Monumenti dell' Egitto e della Nubia, disegnati

dalla Spedizione Scientifico-Literaria Toscana in Egitto.

- Dal Dottore Ippolito Rosellini.

3. Lettres écrites d'Egypte et de Nubie, en 1828, 1829.

- Par Champollion le Jeune.

4. Materia Hieroglyphica. 4 Parts. By I. G. Wilkin-

son, Esq.

5. Examen Critique des Travaux de feu M. Champollion

sur les Hieroglyphes. Par M. J. Klaproth.

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6. Des principales Expressions qui servent à la Notation

des Dates sur les Monumens de l'Ancienne Egypte

d'après l'Inscription de Rosette. Par François Sal-

volini

VI.-Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, derived

from the literal fulfilment of Prophecy-particularly

as illustrated by the History of the Jews, and by the

Discoveries of recent Travellers. By Alexander

Keith, D.D.

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VII.-1. An Essay, Religious and Political, on Ecclesiastical

Finance, as regards the Roman Catholic Church in

Ireland. By the Rev. David O. Croly, Parish Priest

of Ovens and Aglis.

2. Autobiography of a Dissenting Minister.

3. Letters to a Dissenting Minister of the Congrega-

tional Independent Denomination, containing Remarks

on the Principles of that Sect, and the Author's Rea-

sons for leaving it and conforming to the Church of

England. By L. S. E.

4. Ecclesiastical Establishments not inconsistent with

Christianity, with a particular view to some of the

leading objections of the modern Dissenters. By'

William Hall.

5. Letter to the Right Hon. Earl Grey, containing a

Vindication of the Established Church. By a Dis-

senting Minister.

6. The Uses of a Standing Ministry and an Established

Church. Two Sermons. By Charles James Blom-

field, D.D., Bishop of London.

7. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of

London at the Visitation in July, 1834. By Charles

James, Lord Bishop of London.

8. A Charge delivered in the Autumn of 1834, at the

Visitation in Hampshire. By W. Dealtry, D. D.,

Chancellor of the Diocese

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VIII. Zur Geschichte der Neueren Schönen Literatur in

Deutschland, von Henri Heine

IX.-England, France, Russia, and Turkey

215

X.-Sir Robert Peel's Address to the Electors of the Bo-

rough of Tamworth

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CONTENTS

OF

No. CVI,

ART.

I.-1. Marie, ou l'Esclavage aux Etats-Unis, Tableau de

Mœurs Américaines, par Gustave de Beaumont, l'un

des Auteurs de l'ouvrage intitulé Du Systême Péni-

tentiare aux Etats-Unis.

2. The Stranger in America. By F. Lieber, Editor of

the Encyclopædia Americana.

3. New England and her Institutions, by One of her

Sons

II.—Reise um die Erde, ausgeführt auf dem koniglich Preus-

sischen Seehandlungs-Schiffe Prinzess Louise, com-

mandirt von Capitain W. Wendt, in den Jahren 1830,

1831, und 1832. Von Dr. F. J. F. Meyen -

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289

313

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III.-A History of Architecture. By Thomas Hope, Esq. 338

IV. Correspondence d'Orient, 1830, 1831. Par M. Michaud,

de l'Académie Française, et M. Poujoulat

V.—Letters of J. Downing, Major, Downingville Militia,

Second Brigade

396

VI.-Principles of Geology: being an Inquiry how far the

former changes of the Earth's Surface are referable

to causes now in operation. By Charles Lyell, Esq.,

F.R.S., President of the Geological Society of London. 406

VII.-The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most Eminent

Persons who have flourished in Great Britain from the

Accession of George the First to the Demise of George

the Fourth

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