9 THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, OR CRITICAL JOURNAL: FOR APRIL 1814..... SEPT. 1814. TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY. JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR. PUBLIUS SYRUS. VOL. XXIII. EDINBURGH: Printed by David Willison, FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. EDINBURGH AND WHITE, COCHRANE & CO. FLEET-STREET, LONDON. CONTENTS OF No. XLVI. ART. I. The Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight, late Presi- p. 263 II. Correspondance Litteraire, Philosophique et Critique; Adressée à un Souverain d'Allemagne; Depuis 1753 jusqu'en 1769. Par le Baron De Grimm, et IV. A Voyage round the World, in the Years 1803, 4, 5, & 6: Performed by Order of his Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, Emperor of Russia, in the Ship Neva. By Urey Lisiansky, Captain in the V. Teoria de las Cortes, ó Grandes Juntas Nacionales de los Reinos de Leon y Castilla. Monumentos de sa Constitucion politica y de la Soberania del Pueblo. Con algunas observaciones sobre la lei fundamental de la Monarquia Española, sancionada por las Cortes Generales y Extraordinarias y promulgada VI. An Inquiry into the Probability and Rationality of Mr Hunter's Theory of Life; being the subject of the first Two Anatomical Lectures, delivered before the Royal College of Surgeons, of London. By John VII. The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton; with a Supplement of interesting Letters, by distinguish- ed Characters VIII. Poems on Several Occasions. Moonlight, a Poem, with several Copies of Verses. 441 ART. IX. Sermons, chiefly on Particular Occasions. By Archi- bald Alison, LL. B. Prebendary of Sarum, &c. p. 424 X. Some Inquiry into the Constitutional Character of XI. Paris in Eighteen Hundred and Two and Eighteen XII. Some Experiments and Observations on a New Sub- stance, which becomes a Violet-coloured Gas by XIII. Reflections on the present State of Affairs on the ERRATA. p. 445. last line, for 4. Crown Law, read 4. Comm. p. 446. line 12. for East, read 1. East. p. 450. line third from bottom, for the Report, read The Reports. P. 459. line 13. from bottom, for st. Fr. read St. Tr. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, APRIL, 1814, No. XLV. ARTICLE 1. A Song of Triumph. By W. SOTHEBY Esq. Svo, London, 1814. L'Acte Constitutionnel, en la Séance du 9 Avril, 1814. 8vo, Londres, 1814. Of Bonaparte, the Bourbons, and the Necessity of rallying round our legitimate Princes, for the Happiness of France and of Europe. By F. A. CHATEAUBRIAND. 8vo. London, 1814. IT T would be strange indeed, we think, if pages dedicated like ours to topics of present interest, and the discussions of the passing hour, should be ushered into the world at such a moment as this, without some stamp of that common joy and overwhelming emotion with which the wonderful events of the last three months are still filling all the regions of the earth. In such a situation, it must be difficult for any one who has the means of being heard, to refrain from giving utterance to his sentiments: But to us, whom it has assured, for the first time, of the entire sympathy of all our countrymen, the temptation, we own, is ir resistible; and the good-natured part of our readers, we are persuaded, will rather smile at our simplicity, than fret at our presumption, when we add, that we have sometimes permitted our selves to fancy that, if any copy of these our lucubrations should go down to another generation, it may be thought curious to trace in them the first effects of events that are probably destined to fix the fortune of succeeding centuries, and to observe the impres sions which were made on the minds of contemporaries by those mighty transactions, which will appear of yet greater moment in the eyes of a distant posterity. We are still too near that great image of Deliverance and Reform which the Genius of Europe has just set up before us, to discern with certainty its just linea |
