THE

NORTH AMERICAN

REVIEW.

VOL. XXV.

New Series.

VOL. XVI.

BOSTON,

FREDERICK T. GRAY,-74 WASHINGTON STREET.

1827.

From the University Press-By Hilliard, Metcalf, & Co.

CONTENTS

OF

No. LVI.

NEW SERIES, NO. XXXI.

ART.

I. KRUSENSTERN'S VOYAGE AND RESEARCHES

1. Voyage round the World.

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2. Vocabularies of the Languages of some of the

Tribes of Eastern Asia, and on the Northwest Coast of

America. By A. J. Krüsenstern.

3. Recueil de Mémoires Hydrographiques.

II. GREECE AND THE GREEK FRIGATES

1. Vindication of H. D. Sedgwick.

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2. A Narrative of the Material Facts in Relation to

the Building of the Two Greek Frigates. By Alexander

Contostavlos.

3. Report of the Evidence, and Reasons of the Award

of the Arbitrators.

4. Exposition of the Conduct of the two Houses in

New York respecting the Greek Frigates. By William

Bayard.

5. Refutation of the Reasons assigned by the Arbi-

trators. By H. D. Sedgwick.

6. An Examination of the Controversy between the

Greek Deputies and two Mercantile Houses in New
York. By John Duer and Robert Sedgwick.

III. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD

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Proceedings of sundry citizens of Baltimore respect-

ing the most efficient Means of Improving the Inter-

course between that City and the Western States.

IV. MILTON'S ENGLISH PROSE WORKS

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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John

Milton.

V. INSURRECTION OF PAEZ IN COLOMBIA

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1. Manifiesto que el Poder Ejecutivo de Colombia

presenta a la Republica.

2. Documento Curioso sobre los Acontecimientos de

Venezuela.

3. Respuesta del Jeneral Paez a la Carta Confiden-

cial, que le dirigio el Vicepresidente de la Republica.

4. Ejecucion del Decreto del Poder Ejecutivo.

VI. M' CULLOCH'S POLITICAL ECONOMY

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The Principles of Political Economy, with a Sketch

of the Rise and Progress of the Science.

VII. SPOLIATIONS OF THE FRENCH PRIOR TO 1800.

153

1. Message of the President of the United States.

2. A Sketch of the Claims of sundry American Citi-

zens.

3. Report of a Select Committee of Congress.

VIII. AMERICA

169

America; or a General survey of the Political Situ-

ation of the several Powers of the Western Continent,

with Conjectures on their Future Prospects. By a

Citizen of the United States.

IX. NOVEL WRITING

1. Almack's. A Novel.

2. Vivian Grey. Part I. and Part II.

X. MORTON'S NEW ENGLAND'S MEMORIAL

New England's Memorial, by Nathaniel Morton.

Fifth Edition, with large Additions in Marginal Notes,
and an Appendix, by John Davis.

XI. CRITICAL NOTICES.

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1. Gadsden's Address to the Florida Institute

2. Dwight's Oration on the American Revolution 221

3. Tillinghast's Discourse on Domestic Industry 222

4. Common Schools in New York

223

5. Jackson's New Method of Teaching Languages 225

6. Exhibition of Pictures at the Boston Athenæum 227

7. Memoirs on Adams and Jefferson

QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS

230

235

The Debates, Resolutions, and other Proceed-

ings, on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution,

as recommended by the General Convention at

Philadelphia, on the 17th of September, 1787.

Collected and revised by Jonathan Elliot. Vol. I.

Containing the Debates in Massachusetts and

New York.

II. WHO WROTE GIL BLAS?

1. Observations Critiques sur le Roman de Gil

Blas de Santillane; par J. A. Llorente.

2. Aventuras de Gil Blas de Santillana, robadas

á España y adoptadas en Francia por Monsieur

Lesage, restituidas á su Patria y á su Lengua nativa

por un Español zeloso que no sufre se burlen de

su Nacion. (J. F. de Isla.)

III. RUSSIAN EMBASSY TO BUKHARIA

Voyage d'Orenbourg à Boukhara, fait en 1820,

à travers les Steppes qui s'étendent à l'est de la

Mer d'Aral, et au delà de l'ancien Iaxartes; ré-

digé par M. le Baron George Meyendorff.

IV. M KENNEY'S TOUR TO LAKE SUPERIOR

Sketches of a Tour to the Lakes, of the Charac-

ter and Customs of the Chippeway Indians, and of

Incidents connected with the Treaty of Fond du

Lac. By Thomas L. M'Kenney.

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