VIII.-A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, K. T., President of the Society of Antiquaries, on the Expediency of attaching a Museum of Antiquities to Note to the Article on Mr. Markland's proposal for a Na- 578 X.-A Narrative of the Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans, under Generals Ross, Packenham, and Lambert, in the years 1814 and 1815. By the Author of The Subaltern.' XI.-Narrative of an Attempt to reach the North Pole, in Boats fitted for the purpose, and attached to His Ma- jesty's Ship Hecla, in the year 1827, under the com- mand of Captain William Edward Parry, R.N., F.R.S., and Honorary Member of the Imperial Academy of THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.-Two Years in New South Wales; a Series of Letters, comprising Sketches of the actual State of Society in that Colony; of its peculiar Advantages to Emigrants; of its Topography, Natural History, &c., &c. By P. Cunningham, Surgeon, R.N. 2 vols. 12mo. London. 1827. THE HE days are gone by when an author, to beget the serious attention of his readers, deemed it a matter of indispensable necessity to procure the meretricious aid of laudatory epistles,' or 'commendatory verses,' from his very good friends and patrons. All that an author of the present time feels himself called on to do, is to state, in a brief preface, his claims to be considered competent to the task he has undertaken. Mr. P. Cunningham has modestly and satisfactorily acquitted himself of this duty he has, it seems, made no less than four voyages to New South Wales, as surgeon-superintendant of convict ships, in which were transported upwards of six hundred convicts of both sexes,-whom he saw landed at Sydney without the loss of one single individual ;— a fact of itself quite sufficient to attest his judgment and ability in the treatment and management of a set of beings not easily kept in order. He has besides resided two years, at occasional intervals, in the colony, and has travelled over a considerable portion of it; he has enjoyed, he tells us, the society of the most thriving and respectable inhabitants of Sydney;—and, lastly, he has had the fortune to be brought into contact, in a variety of ways, with the aboriginal natives. With such opportunities of acquiring knowledge, and the talent of observation which he obviously possesses, it would have been difficult for Mr. Cunningham to produce any other than an amusing and instructive book. We do not pretend to say that the perusal of his performance has added much to the knowledge of this colony which we had previously obtained from Commissioner Bigge's reports, and Wentworth's recent volumes; but the information is conveyed in a more agreeable manner than in either of those collections, and in somewhat better taste than the latter of these gentlemen has thought proper to adopt :-not that we think there is much to be said in favour of Mr. Cunningham's style, which constantly sins against good taste and the sober march of narrative, by the too frequent introduction VOL. XXXVII. NO. LXXIII. B I. Two Years in New South Wales; a Series of Letters, comprising Sketches of the actual State of Society in that Colony; of its peculiar Advantages to Emigrants; of its Topography, Natural History, &c. &c. By P. II.-Lucian of Samosata, from the Greek: with the Comments and Illustrations of Wieland and others. By William III.-History of the Progress and Suppression of the Reforma- 3. The Forget Me Not.-The Literary Souvenir.—The Amulet. The Bijou.-The Pledge of Friendship.- V. Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay. By the late Reginald Heber, D.D., Lord Bishop of Calcutta VI.-1. Report on the Criminal Law of England. 2. A Treatise on Crimes and Indictable Misdemeanors. By William Oldnall Russell, Esq., of Lincoln's-Inn, 3. A Treatise on Criminal Pleading. By Thomas Starkie, Esq., of Lincoln's- Inn, Barrister-at-Law. 4. A Supplement to all the Modern Treatises on the Cri- minal Law; containing the Alterations by Statute to Vis-Tia Constational History of England, from the Acces- son of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. By 1 Pena Narrative of Travels in the United States and Canada. in 1826, illustrated by Plates; with Re- marter on the Present State of the American Navy. By Litenant the Honourable Fred. Fitzgerald de |