Φιλοσοφιαν δε ου την Στωικην λέγω, ουδε την Πλατωνικην, η την Επικουρειον τη δικαιοσυνην CLEM. ALEX. Strom. Lib. 1. LONDON: PRINTED FOR GALE, CURTIS, AND FENNER, PATERNOSTER ROW. EDINBURGH. CONTENTS OF VOL. X. Page. Cheyne's Cases of Apoplexy and Lethargy Baillie's Joanna, Series of Plays on the Passions Bennet's Star of the West, being Memoirs of the Life of Risdon Darracott 456 523 55, 191 342 Clarkson's Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn Cresswell's Elementary Treatise on the Geometrical and Algebraical Inves- Custance's Popular Survey of the Reformation and Fundamental Doctrines Ellis's Farther Inquiries into the Changes of the Atmospheric Air, &c. 479, 622 Essays on the Sources of the Pleasures received from Literary Composi- Letters to the Rev. Herbert Marsh, in refutation of his opinion that the Dissenters aim to subvert the Religious Establishment of the Country Letter of Explanation by Dr. Marsh to a Dissenter and Layman 109, 214, 318, 437, 542, 655 Marsh's Reply to the Strictures of the Rev. Isaac Milner 580 519 Milner's Strictures on some of the Publications of the Rev. Herbert Marsh, intended as a Reply to his Objections against the British and Foreign Morell's Studies in History 264 THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1813. Art. I. An Appeal to the Imperial Parliament upon the Claims of the ceded Colony of Trinidad, to be governed by a Legislature and Judicature, founded on Principles sanctioned by Colonial Precedents and long Usage, with Observations thereon, intimately con nected with the Political and Civil Interests of all the British West India Colonies. By John Sanderson, Esq. Barrister at Law. 8vo. Richardson. 1813. THE Island of Trinidad is a spot which a painter might select as the scene of inexhaustible beauties, where a naturalist would find the subject of endless admiration, and which a politician, ignorant of its history, might mark out as the probable centre of some future commercial empire. Whatever might be the surmises of a mere speculative philosopher, as to the future destiny of this great country, its present history tells of nothing but wretchedness, confusion, and bad government. In the year 1782, M. de Chacon, at that time the Spanish Governor of this colony, in order to supply the deficiency which then existed in the number of settlers, was induced to issue a proclamation, holding out a full indemnity and protection against the claims of their creditors, as a boon to all who would reside within the limits of his government. The object of those by whom this flagrant violation of the law of nations was concerted, appears to have been fully answered. From all the neighbouring European settlements, crowds of insolvent debtors poured into this asylum, and there received grants of lands which could not, by any judicial process, he brought to sale for the satisfaction of the demands of their prior creditors. He must have been sanguine indeed, who could have expected the social virtues to flourish in a population so constituted. Even the West Indians (who have not the reputation of being more fastidious than the rest of mankind in the selection VOL. X. B |
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