THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW:

MARCH & JUNE,

1812.

VOL. VII.

London:

Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar ;

FOR JOHN MURRAY, 32, FLEET STREET;
HATCHARD, PICCADILLY; RICHARDSON, CORNHILL;
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WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH;

AND J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.

CONTENTS

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No. XIII.

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ART. I. The Orders in Council, and the American Embargo, be-

neficial to the Political and Commercial Interests of

Great Britain. By Lord Sheffield,

Message of the President of the United States, commu-

nicated to Congress 5th Nov. 1811.

Report in part of the Committee, to whom was referred

that part of the President's Message which relates to

Foreign Affairs.

A View of the State of Parties in the United States of

America; being an Attempt to account for the pre-

sent Ascendancy of the French or Democratic Party

in that Country, in two Letters to a Friend

II. The Life of the Right Reverend Beilby Porteus, D. D.

late Bishop of London. By the Rev. Robert Hodg-

son, A. M. F.R. S. Rector of St. George's Hanover

Square, and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to his

Majesty. Second Edition.

The Life of Dr. Beilby Porteus, late Lord Bishop of

London; with Anecdotes of those with whom he lived,

and Memoirs of many living and deceased Charac-

ters. By a Lay-Member of Merton College, Ox-

ford

III. Travels in the Island of Iceland, during the Summer of

the Year 1810. By Sir George Steuart Mackenzie,

Baronet, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,

&c. &c. &c.

Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809.

By William Jackson Hooker, F. L. S. and Fellow of

the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh.

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IV. The