THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

OCTOBER, 1842 . . . . JANUARY, 1843.

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND HUGHES,

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

AND ADAM And charleS BLACK, EDINBURGH.

1843.

CONTENTS OF No. CLIII.

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,

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,

Page

1

61

6

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 Diffu-

sion 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. 1842.

3. Speeches of Viscount Palmerston on Wednesday 10th

May, and 21st July 1842,

List of New Publications,

241

275