DALLAS’s HISTORY OF THE MAROONS. 
wh intetcotirse with the long polished 
and luxurious Mediterranean nations, 
would have attracted a colony tutored 
in all the arts of industry, trade, and 
civilization, and would have matured 
in his single reign a higher growth of 
prosperity, than has taken place in a 
century on the banks of the Neva. The 
rivers of the Euxine branch far inland, 
and would have diffused the productions 
of interchange. And what to low am- 
bition and the pride of kings is perhaps 
ef more consequence, the strength of 
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empire being accumulated in the south, 
would far more speedily have blunted 
the horns of the crescent, and have re- 
stored Turkey to christian sway. 
Mr. Card has certainly furnished te 
the public a convenient and florid epi- 
tome of Russian history, which displays 
perhaps more talent than research, more 
brilliancy than judgment, more elo- 
quence than industry; but which still 
merits praise for extensive information, 
for instructive remark, and for splendid 
composition. 
Arr. XV. The History of the Invasion of Switzerland by the French, and the Destruction 
of the Democratical Republics of Schwitz, Uri, and Unterwalden. 
By Henry 
Zscuoxxe, National Prefect of the Canton of Basil. Translated from the French of 
J. B, Briatte, Secretary of Legation to the Helvetic Republic at Paris; with a Preface 
and Supplement by the Traaslator. 8vo. pp. 365. 
OF this very interesting narrative we 
Have already given an account in our 
former volume, p. 339; it only remains 
therefore for us to add, that the English 
version now before us is characterized 
_by its elegance and fidelity, and is en- 
Yiched by a short supplementary notice 
of the further proceedings in Switzer- 
land, till the election of the heroic 
Aloys Reding to the office of landamman 
of Schwitz, in March 1803. 
«* The publication of this work in Eng- 
lish,” observes the translator, ‘‘ at the pre- 
sent period was thought peculiarly calculated 
to promote that spirit of resistance to un- 
principled ambition, and the schemes of 
Bniversal domination, which is alone to be 
relied upon in the arduous contest in which 
the nation is now engaged. The history of 
the memorable struggle here recorded will 
show what a people very inconsiderable in 
oint of wealth and number was able to de 
in checking the progress of a host of in- 
vaders, by the mere force of native courage, 
and enthusiastic love of liberty and their 
country. It will show, that, stimulated by 
these motiyes, a band of peasants could be 
brought to charge with the bayonet, and en- 
tirely to defeat, battalions rendered formida- 
ble by their victories to the most. warlike 
troops in Europe. It will also afford much 
valuable instruction for avoiding the faults 
which frustrated the defensive plans of the 
most powerful part of the confederacy, and 
sdaced the final stake in the hands of a few 
half-armed herdsmen. Moreover, it caunot 
fail to impress every generous mind wil an 
indignant sense of the insolence of a lawless 
conqueror. and the degradation incurred by 
a vanquished and subjugated people.” 
Art. XVI. The History of the Maroons; from their Origin to the Establishment of their 
Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone: including the Expedition to Cuba for the Purpose of procur+ 
_ing Spanish Chasseurs. By R. C. Darras, Lsq. 
MR. BRYANT EDWARDS, the 
celebrated historian of the West Indies, 
published in 1796 a cursory narrative of 
the Maroon war, which this author has 
undertaken to treat at large, in.an epis- 
tolary form, but with much of the pomp 
and circumstance of regular history. 
The work is dedicated to a privy-coun- 
sellor of Jamaica, William Dawes Quar- 
rell, to whom the author represents 
himself as principally indebted (p. v) 
for the original and peculiar information 
contained in these letters; an information 
the more to be relied on, as he was the 
commissioner sent to Cuba for the Spa- 
Nish chasseurs. © 
Mr. Dallas differs somewhat from Mr, 
8vo. 2 vols. 
Edwards, respecting the origin of the 
hostilities, which he thus comments: 
** The whole cause of the Maroon revolt 
has been attributed to their resentment for 
the flogsing of two of their people. It ap- 
peared afterwards, that these were persons 
of no consideration among them, and that 
but for the occasion afforded them of a pre- 
tence for complaining, they would theme 
selves have hanged them without ceremony. 
The two men had been found guilty of theft, 
and punished before the slaves in the com- 
mon workhouse, by a runaway negro who 
had formerly been taken by them; an act 
certainly impolitic. As the culprits went 
through the town and plantations they were 
laughed at, hissed, and hooted by the slaves: 
the more discontented part of the Maroons 
