1794.

Cladera dignidad de Tesorero de la Santa Iglesia de Mallorca. Small 4to. Portraits.

Madrid. 27 DISERTACION sobre el aspecto, cultivo, comercio y virtudes de la famosa planta del Peru nombrada Coca, &c. Por el Dr. D. Joseph Hipolito Unanue. Lima. Small 4to. pp. 45, and plate.

The coca is a species of Erythroxylon, highly esteemed by the Peruvians, and used by them in the manner the betel is used in the East. Before the conquest by the Spaniards the trees were looked upon as something holy, the leaves being collected with religious ceremonies: these leaves were also used as a substitute for money.

28 CALENDARIO MANUAL y guia de forasteros de la isla de Cuba. Para el año de 1794. Havana.

Small 12mo. With a map of the island. 29 FLORE PERUVIANE ET CHILENSIS prodromus, sive novorum generum plantarum Peruvianarum et Chilensium descriptiones et icones.-Descripciones y Laminas de los nuevos generos de plantas de la flora del Peru y Chile por Don Hipolito Ruiz y Don Joseph Pavon, botanicos de la expédicion del Peru, &c. Madrid.

Folio, pp. 154, plates 37.

This work was reprinted at Rome in 1797, with remarks, by Gaspar Xuarez. The first volume of the Flora Peruviana, &c. of the same authors was published in 1798; the second in 1799; the third in 1802. These three volumes contain 325 plates. The plates for the fourth volume (No. 326 to 425) were engraved, but the text has not been printed. If the work were completed, it would form eight or ten volumes in folio.

MDCCXCV.

1 A JOURNEY from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean. Undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company, for the discovery of copper-mines, a NorthWest Passage, &c. in the year 1769-1772. By Samuel Cadell,

Hearne.

Quarto, pp. 458, plates.

Mr. Hearne's interesting journey was performed, after repeated trials, in the course of four years, and extended to the Copper-mine River. This river empties itself beyond the Arctic Circle into an extensive bay, which the author considers as an inland sea, about lat. 72 N. 120 W. long.

This publication has not entirely the merit of originality, several extracts 1795.
from the papers transmitted by him to his employers having been already
printed; but it contains, in a plain unadorned style, such a striking pic-
ture of the miseries of savage life, accompanied with so many minute in-
cidents, copied faithfully from nature, that it is impossible to read it with-
out feeling a deep interest, and without reflecting on, and cherishing
the inestimable blessings of civilized society. M. R.

2 AN HISTORICAL, geographical, commercial, and philosophical
View of the American United States, and of the European
settlements in America and the West Indies. By W.
Winterbotham.

8vo. 4 vols.

Ridgway,

Written while the author was a prisoner in Newgate. Meusel calls it a
very impudent compilation of extracts, made without any judgment,
from various authors.

3 A VIEW of the United States of America, in a series of papers,
written at various times between the years 1787 and 1794.
By Tench Coxe, of Philadelphia, Commissioner of the Reve-
nue. Interspersed with authentic documents. The whole
tending to exhibit the progress and present state of civil and
religious liberty, population, agriculture, exports, imports,
fisheries, navigation, ship-building, manufactures, and general
improvement.
Johnson,
8vo. pp. 512.

First printed in Philadelphia, in 1794.

4 THE POLITICAL REGISTER; or proceedings in the session of Congress, commencing November 3, 1794, and ending March 3, 1795. With an appendix, containing a selection of papers laid before Congress during that period. By James Thomson Callender. Vol. I. In two parts. Philadelphia.

8vo. pp. 548.

5 THE AMERICAN REMEMBRANCER; or an impartial collection of essays, resolves, speeches, &c. relative to, or having affinity to the treaty with Great Britain. Philadelphia.

8vo. 3 vols.

6 REPORTS of Alexander Hamilton, Esq. Secretary of the Treasury; read in the House of Representatives of the United States, Jan. 19, 1795; containing, 1. A plan for the further support. of public credit. 2. For the improvement and better management of the revenues of the United States. To which is an

1795.

nexed, an act for making provisions for the support of public
credit, and the redemption of the debt. Printed by order of
the House of Representatives.
Debrett,

Quarto.

"These authentic state papers of a rising Western empire will, we suppose, be considered by political readers as documents of no inconsiderable value; and an attentive perusal of them may possibly furnish useful hints of sound policy and national economy, to which European governments may attend with advantage." M. R.

7 OFFICIAL LETTERS to the Honourable American Congress, written during the war between the United Colonies and Great Britain; by H. E. George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Continental Forces, now President of the United States. 8vo. 2 vols.

Cadell, &c.

"Great men are commonly distinguished by a peculiar simplicity of style,
and this is eminently the character of these letters of Washington, which
afford an excellent specimen of the proper style for letters or papers on
public transactions. They are chiefly valuable on account of the impor-
tance of the affairs on which they were written, and for the abundance of
information which they afford respecting their progress and termination;
and in this view their value is inestimable. They cast light on the his-
tory of the American war, which could not be derived from any other
source; they exhibit a most interesting and wonderful example of the
firm intrepidity with which a great and honest mind, engaged in a noble
cause, can struggle with difficulties, and at last overcome them; and at
the same time they furnish an instructive lesson to the world, on the folly
of attempting to crush the rising spirit of freedom." M. R.-The New
York edition, from which this appears to have been taken, has the date of
1796. The London edition has an additional title-page, as follows:
"AMERICAN STATE PAPERS, being a collection of original and authentic docu-
ments relative to the war between the United States and Great Britain.
Published by special permission.

8 TREATY of amity, commerce and navigation, between H. B. M.
and the United States of America; by their President, with
the advice and consent of the Senate, November 19, 1794.
8vo.
Debrett,

Mr. Jay's celebrated treaty.

9 A LETTER from Pennsylvania to a friend in England: containing valuable information with respect to America. By L. J. Jardine, M.D.

8vo. pp. 31.

Dilly,

This pamphlet consists of comparative views of the several plans which

offer themselves to a new settler in America for the choice of a situation, 1795.
and an account of the expenses of living in some parts of Pennsylvania,
which state Dr. Jardine recommends above all the others, and Northum-
berland county as the most preferable county in Pennsylvania.

10 A LETTER descriptive of the different Settlements in the province
of Upper Canada.

12mo.

Egerton,

This pamphlet gives a very advantageous account of the country of Upper Canada, and of the settlers there, subjects to the British government; it also contains some particulars relative to the American native Indians. 11 AN ACCOUNT of the Black Charaibs, in the island of St. Vincent's; with the Charaib treaty of 1773, and other original documents. Compiled from the papers of the late Sir William Young, Bart.

8vo.

Sewell,

This pamphlet is valuable for its almost official authenticity, and curious on account of the people to whom it relates.

12 A NARRATIVE of the Revolt and Insurrection of the French

inhabitants in the island of Grenada.

8vo. pp. 166.

By an eye-witness.

Edinburgh. 13 AN ESSAY on the malignant pestilential Fever introduced into the West India islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794. By C. Chisholm, M.D. surgeon to H. M's. Ordnance in Grenada.

8vo. pp. 279.

Dilly,

The introduction contains a description of Grenada, with meteorological, mineralogical, and botanical observatious. Dr. Chisholm found large doses of calomel a specific in the pestilential fever here described. His practice was to give ten grains every three hours, until the salivary glands became affected.

14 A LETTER to Bryan Edwards, Esq.; containing observations on some passages of his history of the West Indies.

Quarto.

Johnson,

The author of this letter, William Preston, Esq. of Dublin, attacks Mr.
Edwards for being an apologist for slavery.

15 A CONCISE AND IMPARTIAL HISTORY of the American revo-
lution; by John Lendrum.

12mo. 2 vols.

Boston (Mass.)

16 THE HISTORY of the district of Maine; by James Sullivan.

8vo.

Boston (Mass.)

1795. 17 AN ENQUIRY how far the punishment of Death is necessary in Pennsylvania, &c. By William Bradford, Esq. Attorneygeneral of the United States.

8vo. pp. 114.

Johnson,

"It de

This work appears to have been printed in Philadelphia in 1793.
serves to be remarked, though it be a praise of a very inferior nature
compared with the other merits of this tract, that it is written with a
purity and elegance in English style, not very often observed in Ameri-
can productions: we find in it scarcely any of those licentious innovati-
ons, and unidiomatical combinations of words, by which the Anglo-Ame-
rican style has of late been too often disfigured; and which threaten, if
they be not checked, to convert the English which is written and spo-
ken on the different sides of the Atlantic into two different languages."
M.R.

18 PLAN OF ASSOCIATION of the North American Land Company,
established February 1795.
Philadelphia.

8vo. pp. 25.

19 RÉPONSE aux principales questions qui peuvent être faites sur les Etats-Unis de l'Amérique, par un habitant de la Pennsylvanie. Lausanne.

8vo. 2 vols.

An answer to the leading questions which apply to the United States of America; by an adopted citizen of Pennsylvania. "These two volumes undertake to answer 137 questions, for the information of those who think of migrating to North America." M. R. The author was the Abbé J. E. Bonnet, author of Etats Unis d'Amérique à la fin du XVIIIa siecle, 1802. 20 RENSEIGNEMENS sur l'Amerique. Rassemblés par Thomas Cooper, ci-devant de Manchester. Traduits de l'Anglois;

avec une carte.

Paris.

8vo.

A translation of No. 20 of 1794.

21 DESCRIPCION DE PLANTAS. Discurso que en la abertura del
estudio de botanica de 1 de Junio de 95, pronunció en el Real
Jardin de Mexico el Dr. D. Joseph Dionysio Larreátegui.
4to. pp. 48.

(Mexico.)

With a description and coloured plate of the Chiranthodendron. 22 MEMORIA en que setrata del insecto Grana ó Cochinilla, de su naturaleza y serie de su vida, escrita en Mexico en 1777, por D. Josef Antonio de Alzate.

8vo. pp. 226. 3 plates.

Madrid.