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VI. The Round Table: a Collection of Essays on Litera-
ture, Men and Manners. By William Hazlitt

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VII. Travels in various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, by Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Part the SecondGreece, Egypt and the Holy Land. Sections Second and Third. To which is added a Supplement, respecting the Author's Journey from Constantinople to Vienna, containing his Account of the Gold Mines of Transylvania and Hungary

VIII. Paris in 1815. A Poem

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IX. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, exécuté
sur les Corvettes Le Géographe, Le Naturaliste, et la
Goëlette Le Casuarina, pendant les Années 1800-1804 229

X. The Tragic Drama.-The Apostate; a Tragedy, in Five
Acts. By Richard Sheil, Esq.

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XI. France. By Lady Morgan

New Publications

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TO THE READER.

The GENERAL INDEX, announced in a former Number, is deferred till the Publication of the NINETEENTH VOLUME,-and it will form Nos. XXXIX. and XL.

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No. XXXIV.

ART. I. Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in
Africa. By the late John Leyden, M. D.; enlarged
and completed to the present time, with Illustra-
tions of its Geography and Natural History, as well
as of the Moral and Social Condition of its Inha-
bitants. By Hugh Murray, Esq. F. R. S. E.
II. The Personality and Office of the Christian Com-
forter asserted and explained, in a Course of Ser-
mons on John xvi. 7. preached before the Univer-
sity of Oxford in the year 1815, at the Lecture
founded by the late Rev. John Bampton, M. A.,
Canon of Salisbury. By Reginald Heber, M. A.,
Rector of Hodnet, Salop, and late Fellow of All
Souls College

III. 1. Geschichte Andreas Hofer.

2. Beiträge zur neucren Kriegsgeschichte von Fried-
rich Forster

IV. Au Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a View
of its past and present Effects on Human Happi-
ness; with an Inquiry into our prospect respecting
the future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils
which it occasions. By R. T. Malthus, A. M.,
late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and
Professor of Political Economy in the East India
College, Hertfordshire

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2. A Journey to Lake Manassawara in Undés, a Pro-
vince in Little Thibet. By William Moor-

croft, Esq.

3. On the Height of the Himilaya Mountains. By
H. T. Colebrooke, Esq.

VI. Les Théatres. Par un Amateur

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VII. A Series of Discourses on the Christian Revelation.
By T. Chalmers, D. D., one of the Ministers of
Glasgow

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QUARTERLY REVIEW.

APRIL, 1817.

ART. I. 1. A Chronological History of the Voyages and Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean; illustrated with Charts and other Plates. By James Burney, Captain in the Royal Navy. 5 vols. 4to. 1813 and 1816.

2. An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, with an original Grammar and Vocabulary of their language. Compiled and arranged from the extensive Communications of Mr. William Mariner, several years resident in those islands. By John Martin, M.D. 2 vols. 8vo. 1817. 3. Transactions of the Missionary Society.

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HE first of these works is a masterly digest of the voyages in the South Sea, previous to those celebrated expeditions of discovery performed during the present reign. For such an undertaking the author possessed every requisite of local knowledge, as well as practical and theoretical acquirements. He accompanied Capt. Cook in his last two voyages, and the pupil was not unworthy of such a master. His book displays a rare union of nautical science and literary research; the manner is plain and seaman-like, as it should be; there is no affectation of any kind, and the liberal and humane spirit which it breathes is honourable to his profession and his country. The second work is one of the most interesting narratives which we have ever perused.

In one of our early Numbers* we noticed the narrative of a four years' residence at Tongataboo; collected from the communications of a quondam missionary, by the Rev. Mr. Pigott. Mr. Mariner has been fortunate in meeting with a more competent editor, and being himself an observant as well as a respectable man, his recollections, aided by the well-directed curiosity and indefatigable diligence of his friend, have produced the fullest and most satisfactory account of a savage or semi-savage people ever laid before the public.

William Mariner, in the fourteenth year of his age, engaged as captain's-clerk in the Port au Prince privateer and whaler, going under the immediate protection of the captain, who had served his apprenticeship to the sea under Mariner's father. The lad's education had been better than is usually bestowed on those who are designed for this of life: he had learnt some Latin and more

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French, and had made much progress in history and geography for his age. His spirit was adventurous, mind susceptible, active and eager for knowledge, and his disposition good. In February, 1805, he sailed for the South Seas. After many of those buccaneering adventures which aggravate the evils of war, without, in the slightest degree, affecting its decision or accelerating its end, the captain died, and the ship, not being permitted to enter the close harbour at Owhyhee, because there was a sick man on board, and the natives were apprehensive of contagion, bore away for Otaheite-taking on board eight of the Sandwich islanders, as she was in want of hands on account of a leak. The leak increased alarmingly they missed Otaheite by reason of an adverse current, steered therefore for the Friendly islands, and at the end of November, 1806, anchored at the N. W. point of Lefooga-where Captain Cook had anchored in May, 1777.

The natives came immediately on board with a present of provisions: a Sandwich islander was with them, who spoke English. He had sailed in an American to Manilla and from thence to these islands, where he had taken up his abode. This man endeavoured to convince them that the natives were disposed towards them in the most friendly manner. One of his countrymen on board thought otherwise, declared his opinion that treachery was intended, and advised Mr. Brown, the whaling master, who had succeeded to the command of the vessel, to send all the natives out of the ship, except a few chiefs. Brown was an imperious, wrong-headed and wronghearted man, and instead of attending to this prudent counsel, threatened to flog the poor fellow who gave it. The next day was Sunday, and the men, as they had been accustomed on Sunday, at whatever place they had touched, asked leave to go on shore. Brown replied that they might go to hell if they pleased, but that they should not go on shore till the work was done on board, for he had ordered them to careen the vessel. Presently nineteen of the men went ashore in defiance of him, and some of them took their clothes, meaning never to return to the ship,-for Brown had made himself greatly disliked by his tyrannical and brutal conduct. The day did not pass over without danger, but as the men took the alarm in time, Brown was roused to some little exertion: he objected to have so many armed natives on board: two chiefs, who were at that time preparing to massacre the crew, exerted themselves to clear the ship at his remonstrance, and the devoted victims thus obtained one night's respite from their fate. On the following morning about 300 natives came on board, and Tooi Tooi, the Sandwich islander, who was the main agent in the conspiracy, invited Brown to go on shore: he complied immediately, and went unarmed. About half en hour afterwards, Mariner, who was writing in the steerage,

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