THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

APRIL .. .. JULY, 1839.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR.

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. LXIX.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES,
FOR LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMAN, LONDON ;

AND ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH.

1839.

EDINBURG II : PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES, PAUL'S WORK, CANONGATE.

CONTENTS OF No, CXXXIX.

Page

Art. I. The Biographical Treasury: containing Memoirs, Sketches,

or Brief Notices of the Lives of Eminent Persons,

1

II. Essai sur la Statistique de la Population Française, con-

sidérée sous quelques uns de ses Rapports Physiques et

Moraux. Par le Comte A. D'Angeville, Ancien Officier

de Marine, Membre de la Chambre des Députes,

49

III. 1. An Architectural Tour in Normandy; with some Re-

marks on Norman Architecture. By Henry Gally Knight,

Esq., M.P.

2. The Normans in Sicily; being a Sequel to an Architec-

tural Tour in Normandy. By Henry Gally Knight, Esq.,

M.P.

3. Illustrations of the Normans in Sicily; being a Series of

Thirty Drawings of the Saracenic and Norman Remains

of that Country,

74

IV. An Answer to the Misrepresentations contained in an Ar-

ticle on the Life of Clarendon in No. CXXIV. of the

Quarterly Review. By T. H. Lister, Esq.,

104

V. The Life of George Lord Anson, Admiral of the Fleet,

Vice-Admiral of Great Britain, and First Lord Commis.

sioner of the Admiralty, previous to, and during the Seven

Years' War. By Sir John Barrow, Bart., F.R.S., 126

VI. Reports of the Commissioners appointed to consider and

recommend a General System of Railways for Ireland.

Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of

her Majesty,

156

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ART.VII. Memoirs of the Life and Adventures of Colonel Mace.

roni, late Aide-de-Camp to Joachim Murat, King of

Naples,

188

VIII. Ancient Scotish Melodies, from a Manuscript of the Reign

of King James VI. With an Introductory Enquiry, il-

lustrative of the History of the Music of Scotland. By

William Dauney, Esq., F.S.A. Scot.,

192

IX. Remarks on the Character and Writings of John Milton.

By William Channing, LL.D.,

214

X. The State in its relations with the Church. By W. E.

Gladstone, Esq., Student of Christ Church, and M.P.

for Newark,

231

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ART. I. The Despatches of Field-Marshal the Duke of Welling-

ton, during his various Campaigns in India, Denmark,

Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France, from

1799 to 1818. Compiled from Official and Authentic

Documents. By Lieut.-Colonel Gurwood,

297

II. A Tour in Sweden in 1838; comprising Observations on

the Moral, Political, and Economical State of the Swedish

Nation. By Samuel Laing, Esq., Author of A Journal

• of a Residence in Norway,'

349

III. Recueil des Dépêches, Rapports, Instructions, et Mé.

moires des Ambassadeurs de France en Angleterre et

Ecosse pendant le XV1o. siècle, conservés aux Archives

du Royaume, et publiés pour la premiere fois sous la direc-

tion de M. Charles Purton Cooper,

365

ly. The Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum; or, the Trees

and Sbrubs of Britain, Native and Foreign, Hardy and

Half-hardy, Pictorially and Botanically Delineated, and

Scientifically and Properly Described. By J. C. Loudon,

F.L.S.,

384

V. Elements of Geology By Charles Lyell, Esq., F.R.S.,

Vice-President of the Geological Society of London,

Author of Principles of Geology,'

406

VI. Narrative of the Voyages of H. M. S. Adventure and

Beagle ; detailing the various Incidents which occurred

during their Examination of the Southern Shores of South

America, and during the Beagle's Circumnavigation of

the Globe. By Captains King and Fitzroy, R.N., and

Charles Darwin, Esq., Naturalist of the Beagle,

467