THE Eclectic Review, VOL. IX. FROM JANUARY ΤΟ JUNE 1813, INCLUSIVE. Φιλοσοφίαν δε ου την Στωικην λεγω, ουδε την Πλατωνικην, η την Επικουρειον τε LONDON: PRINTED FOR GALE, CURTIS, AND PENNER, PATERNOSTER-ROW. CONTENTS OF VOL. IX. Balfour's Collection of Treatises on the effects of the Sol-Lunar Influence Belsham's Calm Inquiry into the Scripture Doctrine of the Person of 428 153, 305 Broadhurst's Funeral Orations, translated from the Greek 424 Grattan's Speeches, including a brief review of Irish Affairs 201 Halliday's Present State of Portugal, and the Portugueze Army Hall's Address to the Public on the subject of Christianity in India Lambert's Sermon on the death of Dr. Williams Lichtenstein's Travels in Southern Africa in 1803, 4: translated from the Life of a Dissenting Minister, written by himself List of Works recently published, Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences Morell's Excursions of Vigilius Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century 165 Objections to the Project for creating a Vice Chancellor 182 Observations on Objections to the appointment of a Vice Chancellor 182 Symmons's Poems Tighe's (Mrs.) Psyche and other Poems Wakefield's Statistical and Political Account of Ireland Raffles's Memoirs of the Life and Ministry of Spencer Reasons against the Bill for the appointment of a Vice Chancellor Smeaton's Reports made on various occasions in the course of his employment as Civil Engineer 108, 213, 343, 447, 561, 676 53 Walker's Economical History of the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland Wardrop's History of James Mitchell, a boy born deat and blind Wilson's Isle of Palms, with other Poems 22 Young's Evangelical Principles of Religion vindicated, in answer to Watson's 200 Zollikofer's Serinons on the prevalent Errors and Vices 326 THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JANUARY, 1813. Art. I. Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield, Earl of Charlemont, Knight of St. Patrick, &c. By Francis Hardy, Esq. Member of the House of Commons in the three last parliaments of Ireland. 4to. pp. 443. Cadell and Davies. 1810. WE are of opinion that Ireland is one of the most important subjects which, at the present juncture, can engage the attention of British politicians, -and that this biographical performance is one of the very few instructive books which have been written on the subject of Ireland. It is also, we think, an entertaining book; on which account, we should hope, it s:ands a good chance of being generally read, and of helping strongly to diffuse that acquaintance with Irish affairs, which the relation of the two countries, at the present epoch, renders of so much importance. For these reasons we make no scruple of assigning a conspicuous place to this volume in the present number of our journal, notwithstanding that Ireland formed a prominent topic of discussion in our last. In attending to Mr. Dewar moreover, we had chiefly to consider him as a reporter of facts, relating to the "manners and customs" of the irish. Mr. Hardy, on the other hand, conducts us into a wide field of political speculation. Having, therefore, laid before our readers the remarks of a sensible observer on the actual condition of our sister conntry, we may with the greater propriety invite their attention to some of those leading circumstances which have been the means of placing it in that condition. Mr. Hardy's book may be not unaptly termed the gossiping history of Ireland during all that period in which, to any good purpose, Ireland can be said to have had a history. When we say gossiping we use the word, however, in the best sense. We We use it to express those historical topics which most naturally, that is, most frequently, form the subject of conversation VOL. IX. B |