THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

OCTOBER, 1842 .... JANUARY, 1843.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR.

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. LXXVI.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES,

FOR LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS, LONDON;

AND ADAM AND CHARLES BLACK, EDINBURGH.

CONTENTS OF No. CLIII.

Page ART. I. History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French

Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons
in 1815. By Archibald Alison, Esq., F.R.S.E., Advo-
cate,

1

II. The Life of Augustus Keppel, Admiral of the White, and

First Lord of the Admiralty in 1782–3. By the Hon.
and Rev. Thomas Keppel,

61

III. Edwin the Fair: an Historical Drama. By Henry Taylor,

Author of Philip Van Artevelde,'

97

IV. Souvenirs de M. Berryer,

121

.

V. The Laws relating to India, and the East India Company :

with Notes and an Appendix,

171

VI. Madame de Sévigné and her Contemporaries,

203 VII. The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,

237

VIII. 1. Financial Statement of Sir Robert Peel, made 11th

March 1842.
2. Speech of Charles Wood, Esq., M.P., on the Duty on

Foreign Wool. 1942.
3. Speeches of Viscount Palmerston on Wednesday 10th
May, and 21st July 1842,

241

List of New Publications,

275

CONTENTS OF No. CLIV.

Page Art. 1.-1. History and Practice of Photogenic Drawing, or the

true Principles of the Daguerreotype. By the Inventor,

L. J. M. Daguerre, translated by J. S. Memes, LL.D.
2. Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing, or

the Process by which Natural Objects may be made to
Delineate themselves without the aid of the Artist's

Pencil. By Henry Fox Talbot, Esq., F.R.S.
3. Die Calotypische Portraitirkunst. Von Dr F. A. W.

Netto.
4. Ueber der Process des Sebens und die Wirkung des

Lichts auf Alle Korper. Von Ludwig Moser, Poggen-
dorff Annalen der Physik und Chemie, Band LVI., 309

II.-Speeches of Lord Campbell, at the Bar, and in the House

of Commons; with an Address to the Irish Bar as Lord
Chancellor of Ireland,

345

III.-Introductory Lectures on Modern History. By Thomas

Arnold, D.D., Regius Professor of Modern History in
the University of Oxford, and Head Master of Rugby
School,

357

IV.-1. Mémoire en Faveur de la Liberté des Cultes. Par

Alexandre Vinet.
2. The Articles treated on in Tract Ninety reconsidered,

and their Interpretation vindicated ; in a Letter to the
Rev. R. W. Jelf, D.D., Canon of Christ Church. By
the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D.,

382