THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

MARCH 1821: ....JULY 1821.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR.

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. XXXV.

EDINBURGH:

Printed by the Heirs of David Willison,
FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY, EDINBURGH!
AND LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME AND BROWN,

LONDON.

ART. I. Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An Historical Tra-

gedy, in Five Acts, with Notes ; and the Prophecy

of Dante, a Poem. By Lord Byron - p. 271

II. 1. Thoughts on the Criminal Prisons of this Country,

occasioned by the Bill now in the House of Com-

mons, for Consolidating and Amending the Laws re-

lating to Prisons ; with some Remarks on the Prac-

rice of looking to the Task-Master of a Prison rather

than to the Chaplain for the Reformation of Offend-

ers; and of purchasing the Work of those whom the

Law has condemned to Hard Labour as a Punish-

ment, by allowing them to spend a Portion of their

Earnings during their Imprisonment. By George

Holford, Esq., M. P.

2. Gurney on Prisons.

3. Report of Society for Bettering the Condition of

Prisons - - - - - - - 286

III. Substance of Lectures on the Ancient Greeks, and on

the Revival of Greek Learning in Europe. By the

late Andrew Dalzel, A. M. F. R. S. E. Professor of

Greek in the University of Edinburgh - 302

IV. Report of the Select Committee on Criminal Laws :

Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed,

July 19th, 1819 - - - - 314

v V. Melmoth, the Wanderer, By the Author of Bertram 353

VI. An Inquiry concerning the Power of Increase in the

Numbers of Mankind. Being an Answer to Mr

Malthus's Essay on that Subject. By William God

362

VII. Traité des Grandes Opérations Militaires, contenant

l'Histoire critique des Campagnes de Frédéric II.,

comparées à celles l'Empereur Napoleon ; avec un

Recueil des Principes généraux de l'Art de la

Guerre. Par le Général Baron de Jomini - 377

VIII. Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court

of King's Bench, in Hilary Term, 60th Geo. III.

1820. By Richard V. Barnewall, of Lincoln's Inn,

Esq. Barrister-at-Law, and Edward H.. Alderson,

of the Inner-Temple, Esq. Barrister-at-Law. Vol.

III. Part II.

410

win

ART. IX. A Vision of Judgment. By Robert Southey, Esq.

LL. D. Poet-Laureate

X. 1. Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Wil-

liam Pitt. By George Tomline, D. D. F. R. S.

Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most

Noble Order of the Garter.

2. Two Letters from Mr Adair to the Bishop of Win-

chester, in Answer to the Charge of a High Trea-

sonable Misdemeanour brought by his Lordship a.

gainst Mr Fox and Himself.

3. A Reply to the Charges of R. Adair Esq., against

the Bishop of Winchester

437

XI. 1. Numbers I and II. of Essays on Money, Exchange

es, and Political Economy. By Henry James.

2. Speech of Matthias Attwood Esq., M. P., on the

Bank Cash Payment Bill, April 9. 1821.

3. A Series of Tables, exhibiting the Gain and Loss

to the Fundholders, arising from the late Fluctua-

tions in the Value of the Currency, from 1800 to

1821. By Robert Mushet Esq. .

- 468

XII. Histoire des Français. Par T. C. L. Simonde de Sis-

mondi

- 488

XIII. A Letter to a Member of Parliament, showing (in these

days of infidelity and sedition) the serious and dan-

gerous Defects of the British and Foreign School,

and of Mr Brougham's Bill for the General Educa.

tion of the Poor. By Richard Lloyd, A. M., Rec-

tor of St Dunstan in the West - . ..

509

Quarterly List of New Publications - - 515

Index . . . . . 533

ERRATUM.
p. 272, lipes 29, 30, for “ it is original,” read “ it is not original."

ART. I. Report from the Lords' Committees appointed to

search the Journals of the House, Rolls of Parlia-

ment, and other Records and Documents, for all

matters touching the Dignity of a Peer of the Realm,

&c. &c.

II. 1. Almanach des Gourmands; Servant de Guide dans

les moyens de faire excellente Chère.

2. Chimie du Gout.

3. Manuel des Amphytrions.

4. L'Almanach Comestible.

5. Cours Gastronomique.

6. La Gastronomie, Poëme didactique. Par Berchoux.

7. Dictionnaire de la Cuisine.

8. Apicius Redivivus, or the Cook's Oracle.

9. Peptic Precepts.

10. Tabella Libaria

III. Monthly Repository. Vol. XIV. . . 62

IV. Sketch of the late Revolution at Naples. By an Eye

witness

. - 72

V. Anastasius; or Memoirs of a Greek, written in the

18th Century - -

- - 92

VI. The Opinions of Messrs Say, Sismondi, and Malthus,

on the Effects of Machinery and Accumulation,

Stated and Examined

102

VII. The Shooter's Guide. By J. B. Johnson - 123

✓ VIII. The View, and other Poems. By Chandos Leigh 134

IX. Three Months passed in the Mountains East of Rome,

during the Year 1819. By Maria Graham - 140

X. 1. Tableau Historique de l'Etat et des Progrès de la

Littérature Française depuis 1789. Par Marie-

Joseph de Chenier.

2. Fragment d'un Cours de Littérature fait à l'Athenée

de Paris en 1806 et 1807, par M. J. de Chenier ;

Suivis d'autres Morceaux littéraires du même

Auteur

158