CONTENTS OF No. XXXIII. ART. I. Substance of the Speech of Sir John Cox Hippisley, Bart. on Seconding the Motion of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan, to refer the Petition of the Roman Catholics of Ireland to a Committee of the House of Commons, on Friday, the 18th of May, 1810 Page 1 II. Mémoires du Prince Eugène de Savoie, Generalissème des Armées Autrichiennes. Ecrits par lui-même III. Tracts on the Education of the Poor IV. Code d'Instruction Criminelle; Edition conforme à l'edition originale du Bulletin des Lois; suivi des Motifs exposés par les Conseillers d'Etat, et des Rapports faits par la Commission de Legislation du Corps Legislatif, sur chacun des Lois qui com- V. The American Mineralogical Journal, for January, February, and March 1810, conducted by Archi- bald Bruce, M. D., Professor of Mineralogy in the VI. A Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. By Robert Woodhouse, A. M. F. R. S. Fellow of VII. A View of the antient and present State of the Zet- land Islands, including their Civil, Political, and Natural History, Antiquities, and an Account of their Agriculture, Fisheries, Commerce, and the &c. Χ. ΑΙΣΧΥΛΟΥ ΠΡΟΜΗΘΕΥΣ ΔΕΣΜΩΤΗΣ. Æschyli Prometheus Vinctus. Ad Fidem Manuscriptorum emendavit, Notas et Glossarium adjecit, Carolus 167 THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, NOVEMBER, 1810. No. XXXIII. ART. I. Substance of the Speech of Sir John Cox Hippisley, Bart. on seconding the Motion of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan, to refer the Petition of the Roman Catholics of Ireland to d Committee of the House of Commons, on Friday, the 18th of May, 1810. With an Appendix, greatly enlarged, and additional Notes. The Second Edition, corrected. pp. 320. 8vo. London, 1810. WH THAT ought to be the religion of a country, where two thirds of the people are Catholic, and only one third Protestant ? -where two thirds profess that form of Christianity which still prevails over the greatest part of civilized Europe, the remaining third professing what they think a purer form of Christianity? If this be too bold, or too general a question for the taste of some of our readers, it will serve our purpose equally well, if they will only ask themselves the following-Was it just or reasonable, while Ireland continued a distinct kingdom, that two thirds of her inhabitants should be subjected to pains and civil disabilities on account of their religion? and, if the Union, by which she ceased to be a distinct kingdom, was negotiated on a footing of equality, and brought about partly by promises to remove these pains and disabilities, is it just or reasonable that they should still be continued? We shall not add another word on the justice of the claims now made by the Irish Catholics, considered with a reference to Ireland only; but, forgetting that she ever had a separate political existence, and regarding her merely as an integral portion of the British empire, we shall be satisfied with asking, Whether it be salutary and expedient for the whole state, that the Irish Catholics should be kept under the disabilities to which they are still subjected? VOL. XVII. NO. 33. A To |
