THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

VOL. XXI.

JANUARY & APRIL.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1819.

LIBRARY

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

DAVIS

London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar.

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ART. I. The Resources of the United States of America; or,

a View of the Agricultural, Commercial, Financial,

Political, Literary, Moral, and Religious Character

of the American People. By John Bristed, Counsel-

lor at Law, Author of The Resources of the British

Empire.'

No. XLI.

II. The Civil Architecture of Vitruvius, containing those

Books of this Author relating to the Public and Pri-

vate Edifices of the Ancients. Translated by William

Wilkins, A. M. late fellow of Caius College, Cam-

bridge.

III. The Testimony of Natural Theology to Christianity.

By Thomas Gisborne, A. M.

IV. Narrative of a Journey in the Interior of China, and of

a Voyage to and from that Country, in the Years

1816 and 1817; containing an Account of the most

interesting Transactions of Lord Amherst's Embassy

to the Court of Pekin, and Observations on the Coun-

tries which it visited. By Clarke Abel, F. L. S.

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V. Fairy Tales, or the Lilliputian Cabinet, containing

Twenty-four choice pieces of Fancy and Fiction, col-

lected by Benjamin Tabart.

VI. Select Pieces in Prose and Verse, by the late John

Bowdler, Junior, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at

Law.

VII. Sketches of America. A Narrative of a Journey

of Five Thousand Miles through the Eastern and

Western States of America; contained in Eight

Reports, addressed to the Thirty-nine Families by

whom the Author was deputed, in June 1817, to

ascertain whether any, and what part of the United

States would be suitable for their Residence with

Remarks on Mr. Birkbeck's Notes,' and 'Letters.'

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VIII. Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism examined:

preceded by Strictures on the Exclusionary System,

as pursued in the National Society's Schools: inter-

spersed with parallel views of the English and Scottish

Established