PRINTED BY D. WILLISON, CRAIG'S CLOSE,

FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH,

AND

CONSTABLE, HUNTER, PARK, & HUNTER,

LONDON.

1809.

CONTENTS OF No. XXV.

ART. I. Memoirs of the Life of Col. Hutchinson, Governor

of Nottingham Castle and Town, Representative

of the County of Nottingham in the Long Par-

liament, and of the Town of Nottingham in the

First Parliament of Charles II, &c.; with Origi-

nal Anecdotes of many of the most distinguished

of his Contemporaries. Written by his Widow,

Lucy, daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, Lieutenant

of the Tower, &c.

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p. 1

II. A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval, on a

Subject connected with his Bill, now under discus-

sion in Parliament, for improving the situation of

Stipendiary Curates

25

III. Essay on the Theory of Money and Exchange. By

Thomas Smith

35

IV. Fowling, a Poem in Five Books, descriptive of

Grouse, Partridge, Pheasant, Woodcock, Duck,

and Snipe Shooting

69

V. History of the Penal Laws against the Irish Catho-

lics, from the Treaty of Limerick to the Union.

By Henry Parnell, esq. M. P.

VI. A Journey from Madras, through the Countries of

Mysore, Canara and Malabar, performed for the

express purpose of investigating the state of A.

griculture, Arts and Commerce, and the Reli-

gion, &c. &c. in the Countries acquired by the

Honourable East-India Company, in the late and

former Wars, from Tippu Sultan. By Francis

Buchanan, M. D. F. R. S. &c.

VII. Observations on the Hypotheses which have been

assumed to account for the Cause of Gravitation

from Mechanical Principles. By the Rev. S. Vince,

A. M. F. R. S. &c.

77

82

101

ART.

ART. VIII. The Works of John Dryden, now first collected

in Eighteen Volumes. Illustrated with Notes,

&c. and a Life of the Author. By Walter

Scott, esq.

p. 116

IX. Speeches of the Rt. Hon. Philpot Curran, Mas-

ter of the Rolls in Ireland, on the late very

interesting State Trials, &c.

X. The Life of George Washington, Commander in

Chief of the American Forces during the War

which established the Independence of his

Country. By John Marshall, Chief Justice of

the United States, &c. And

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136

148

The Life of George Washington. By David

Ramsay, M. D. of Charleston, South Caro-

lina, and Author of the History of the Ame-

rican Revolution

XI. A Letter to the Livery of London, relative to the

Views of the Writer in executing the Office of

Sheriff. By Sir Richard Phillips, Knight 170

XII. An Historical Survey of the Foreign Affairs of

Great Britain, with a View to explain the

Causes of the Disasters of the late and present

Wars. By G. Francis Leckie, esq.

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XIII. An Inquiry into the State of National Subsist-

ence, as connected with the Progress of Wealth

and Population. By W. T. Comber

XIV. Exposition of the Practices and Machinations which

led to the Usurpation of the Crown of Spain,

and the Means adopted by the Emperor of the

French to carry it into execution. By Don

Pedro Cevallos, First Secretary of State and

Despatches to his Catholic Majesty Ferdinand

VII.

Quarterly List of New Publications

186

205

215

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THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OCTOBER 1808.

No. XXV.

ART. I. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Governor of Nottingham Castle and Town, Representative of the County of Nottingham in the Long Parliament, and of the Town of Nottingham in the First Parliament of Charles II, &c.; with Original Anecdotes of many of the most distinguished of his Contemporaries; and a Summary Review of Public Affairs: Written by his widow, Lucy, daughter of Sir Allen Apsley, Lieutenant of the Tower, &c. Now first published from the Original Manuscript, by the Rev. Julius Hutchinson, &c. &c. To which is prefixed, the Life of Mrs Hutchinson, written by herself, a fragment. pp. 446. Quarto. Longman & Co. London. 1806.

WE E have not often met with any thing more interesting and curious than this volume. Independent of its being a contemporary narrative of by far the most animating and important part of our history, it challenges our attention as containing an accurate and luminous account of military and political affairs from the hand of a woman; as exhibiting the most liberal and enlightened sentiments in the person of a puritan; and sustaining a high tone of aristocratical dignity and pretension, though the work of a decided republican. The views which it opens into the character of the writer, and the manners of the age, will be to many a still more powerful attraction.

Of the times to which this narrative belongs-times to which England owes all her freedom and all her glory-we can never hear too much, or too often: and though their story has been transmitted to us both with more fulness of detail and more vivacity of colouring than any other portion of our annals, every reflecting reader must be aware that our information is still extremely defective, and exposes us to the hazard of great misconception. The work before us, we think, is calculated in a good degree to supply these deficiencies, and to rectify these errors.

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