1925.] 
tlie South-Sea fisheries.” — The civiliza- 
tion, &c. of the islands in the Pacific 
Ocean.” —‘ A rapid improvement in the 
trade and population of Mexico, Guatimala, 
Colombia, Peru and Chili,” &e. &c. From 
~ all of which he anticipates also an immense 
extension to British commerce, whose 
“* products would become available to sa- 
tisfy the wants that would attend the 
general increase of wealth and population.” 
—‘ The characters of nations would be 
assimilated by intercourse, and the same 
spirit of active commerce that now covers 
the Atlantic, would be extended to the 
coasts and islands of the Pacifie Ocean, 
which, at no distant period of time, would 
present a splendid scene of communities 
rising into existence, knowledge and social 
order.” 
But, for the accomplishment of this vast 
undertaking, Mr. P. seems to think “ the 
concurrence of all the governments of 
Europe must be obtained.”’ In this we do 
not aecord. If nature herself present not 
insurmountable difficulties, the capital of 
England, and the co-operation, in the minis- 
tration of all practical facilities, on the part 
of the American States, must realize this 
“ dream sublime” of more than 300 years, 
without concurrence of the chiefs and 
vassal chiefs of the Holy Alliance, or it 
never will be realized at all. 
Narrative of an Expedition to the Source 
of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeeh, 
Lake of the Woods, &c. performed in the 
Year 1823, by Order of the Hon. F.C. Cal- 
houn, Secretary of War, under the com- 
mand of S. H. Long, U.S.T.E.; compiled 
Jrom the Notes of Major Long, Messrs. 
Say, Keating, and Colhoun. By W.H. 
Keatine, a.M., &c. 2 vols. 8vo.—In our 
January Supplement, we gave some yery 
interesting extracts from Mr. Halkett’s 
“ Historical Notes respecting the North 
American Indians.’’. The work now be- 
fore us is replete with still more interest, 
as it makes us acquainted with the present 
actual state of our North American fellow- 
beings, and tends to produce the same 
sympathy for, and admiration of that na- 
tion, which Christian solicitude and bro- 
_therly loye have so nearly exterminated. 
This work,though upon the same scale and 
topic of Mr. Halkett’s, bears its own stamp 
of originality and correctness, and becomes 
ee interesting, as it corroborates many 
the facts collated by the former gentle- 
man. It contains, also, many amusing 
anecdotes and sketches of Indian manners 
and customs, and points out more distinetly 
wherein they may be most benefited by 
the American government, with respect to 
their ultimate conversion and civilization ; 
if, indeed, it will be possible to civilize and 
Christianize:nations which, up to the pre- 
sent period, have shewn that they preter 
extermination to proselytism, civil or reli- 
gious, 
Domestic and Foreign. 
_excite our animadyersion. 
151 
A Journey into various Parts of Europe ; 
and a Residence in them, during the Years 
1818, 1819, 1820, and 1821; with Notes, 
Historical and Classical ; and Memoirs of. 
the Grand Dukes of the House of Medici ; 
of the Dynasties of the Kings of Naples ; 
and of the Dukes of Milan. By the Rev. 
THOMAS PENNINGTON, A.M., Rector of 
Thorley, Herts; late Fellow of Clare Hall, 
Cambridge, and Chaplain to the late Count- 
ess of Bath.— This work, so pompously set 
forth in the title-page, and comprizing two 
thick octavo volumes, will, we think, oc- 
cupy but little of our time or space, there- 
being but little, as far as we have yet per- 
ceived (having only looked through the 
first volume), of interest or information to 
The first. part 
is a mere journal, with here and there a 
few short historical remarks in the notes, 
such as any school-boy might make who 
was desirous of shewing his historical know- 
ledge ; but not in the style we should ex- 
pect from a travelled man and Fellow of 
Cambridge. The author seems particu- 
larly fond of calculations and admeasure- 
ments ; and his descriptions of public edi- 
fices comprize, in general, little more than 
their lengths and breadths. We, however, 
derive but little amusement from such de- 
scriptions, and find, moreover, the author’s 
“ interesting’ subjects to us very uninterest-- 
ing: for instance, his “ interesting Fe- 
male’ (meaning the Duchess d’Angeu- 
léme), his “ interesting Equipage,” and 
“interesting Inscriptions.””» We will, 
therefore, take our leave for the present of 
the Rey. Thomas Pennington, with a pro- 
mise that if our glance at his second volume 
should give us any reason to change our 
opinion of his talents and information, we 
will willingly make courteous atonement in 
our next Number for the slight manner in 
which we have passed him over inthe 
present. ; sdiily, 
East-India Company’s Records, founded 
on Official Documents, shewing a View of 
the past and present State of the British 
Possessions in India, as to their Revenue, 
Expenditure, Debts,. Assets, Trade, and 
Navigation : to which is added, a Variety 
of Historical, Political, Financial, Commer- 
cial and Critical Details, from the Period of 
the first Establishment (1600) of the Honour- 
able East-India Company to the present 
Time (July, 1825). The whole carefully 
compiled and arranged (the ancicnt Part 
from the most authentic Original Records of 
Parliament, the East-India Company, the 
Board of Trade, the Accounts.of the Cus- 
tom-house, and the ablest Writers, viz. Mann, : 
Purchas, Childe, Petty, Cary, Davenant, 
Gee, Deeher, Postlethwayte, Bolts, Raynal, 
Verelst, Anderson, Robertson, Playfair, 
Macpherson, Milburn, Colquhoun, Tuckey, 
Mill, Klaproth, Phipps, Prinsep, Malcoim, 
Thornton, and Staunton, and also from. the 
Memoirs and Transactions. of the. Societies 
connected 
