THE Eclectic Review, VOL. X. FROM JULY TO DECEMBER 1813, INCLUSIVE. Φιλοσοφίαν δε ου την Στωικην λεγω, ουδε την Πλατωνικήν, η την Επικούρειον τα LONDON: PRINTED FOR GALE, CURTIS, AND FENNER, PATERNOSTER.ROW. EDINBURGH. CONTENTS OF VOL. X. Page. Bennet's Star of the West, being Memoirs of the Life of Risdon Darracott Berzelius's View of the Progress and present State of Animal Chemistry; translated by Dr. Bruunmark 243 Ellis's Farther Inquiries into the Changes of the Atmospheric Air, &c. 479, 622 Trend's Evening Amusements 67 Grant's Sketch of the History of the East India Company 383 Letters to the Rev. Herbert Marsh, in refutation of his opinion that the 152 152 109, 214, 318, 437, 542, 655 Lloyd's Characteristics of Men, Manners, and Sentiments Mant's Sermons for Parochial and Domestic Use Marsh's Reply to the Strictures of the Rev. Isaac Milner Milner's Strictures on some of the Publications of the Rev. Herbert Marsh, intended as a Reply to his Objections against the British and Foreign THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1813. Art. I. An Appeal to the Imperial Parliament upon the Claims of the ceded Colony of Trinidad, to be governed by a Legislature and Judicature, founded on Principles sanctioned by Colonial Precedents and long Usage, with Observations thereon, intimately connected with the Political and Civil Interests of all the British West India Colonies. By John Sanderson, Esq. Barrister at Law. 8vo. Richardson. 1813. THE Island of Trinidad is a spot which a painter might select as the scene of inexhaustible beauties, where a naturalist would find the subject of endless admiration, and which a politician, ignorant of its history, might mark out as the probable centre of some future commercial empire. Whatever might be the surmises of a mere speculative philosopher, as to the future destiny of this great country, its present history tells of nothing but wretchedness, confusion, and bad government. In the year 1782, M. de Chacon, at that time the Spanish Governor of this colony, in order to supply the deficiency which then existed in the number of settlers, was induced to issue a proclamation, holding out a full indemnity and protection against the claims of their creditors, as a boon to all who would reside within the limits of his government. The object of those by whom this flagrant violation of the law of nations was concerted, appears to have been fully answered. From all the neighbouring European settlements, crowds of insolvent debtors poured into this asylum, and there received grants of lands which could not, by any judicial process, he brought to sale for the satisfaction of the demands of their prior creditors. He must have been sanguine indeed, who could have expected the social virtues to flourish in a population so constituted. Even the West Indians (who have not the reputation of being more fastidious than the rest of mankind in the selection VOL. X. B |