unjust. M. de Warville's language is forcible, his arguments are strik- 1786. 15 RECHERCHES sur la constitution des naturels de Saint Quarto. Cap François. 16 ESSAI SUR LES ETATS UNIS; par M. Démeunier, secrétaire ordinaire de Monsieur, Frère du Roi, et censeur-royal. Quarto, Paris. 17 DICCIONARIO GEOGRÁFICO historico de las Indias Occidentales An English translation, by Thompson, was published in 1812. Madrid. 18 HISTORIA DE LA CONQUISTA DE MEXICO, poblacion y progresos de la America Septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España. Segunda parte. Escribiale Don Ignacio de Salazar y Olarte. Segunda edicion. Folio. The first edition was printed in 1743. Madrid. MDCCLXXXVII. Cadell, 1 A HISTORY of the campaign of 1780 and 1781 in the southern provinces of North America. By Lieut. Col. Tarleton, commandant of the late British legion. Quarto, pp. 518, map and four plans. "Colonel Tarleton's history commences with D'Estaing's fruitless attack on Savannah, in the autumn of 1779, and then proceeds to give a minute detail of all the military operations in both the Carolinas and part of Virginia, until the surrender of Yorktown and Gloucester, Oct. 19, 1781, when Lord Cornwallis, with his whole army, fell into the hands of the Americans that memorable event which crowned the military toils of the American Fabius with final success, and gave INDEPENDENCE to America! The volume is handsomely printed, and enriched with some explanatory maps and plans, especially those relating to the battles of Camden and Guildford, and the sieges of Charlestown and Yorktown, besides a large general map of the country." M.R. General Sir Banastre Tarleton (the author of this work,) died, Jan. 23, 1833, in his 79th year, without issue. He was colonel of the 8th Dragoons, and governor of Berwick. He sat in Parliament several years. 2 A HISTORY of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America, by Lieut. Col. Tarleton, commandant of the late British legion. Dublin. 8vo. pp. 534. 3 STRICTURES on Lieutenant Colonel Tarleton's History of the campaigns of 1780 and 1781, in the southern provinces of North America. Wherein military characters and corps are vindicated from injurious aspersions, and several important transactions are placed in their proper point of view. By Roderick Mackenzie, late lieutenant in the 71st regiment. 8vo. Faulder, Mr. Mackenzie defends Lord Cornwallis, gives his own account of the battle of the Cowpens, and a curious journal of the siege of fort Ninety-six. He is very severe on Lieut. Col. Tarleton's work, "in which," he says, "some facts have been withheld, and some mutilated, while others are raised to a pitch of importance, to which, if historical justice had been the author's object, they are by no means entitled. Prejudice and party spirit are also some of its most important features." 4 TRAVELS IN NORTH AMERICA in the years 1780, 1781, and By the Marquis de Chastellux, one of the forty 1782. members of the French academy, and major-general in the 1787. lator. 8vo. 2 vols. "This performance of the Marquis de Chastellux is a heterogeneous and multifarious account of every thing that caught the lively traveller's eager eye and minute attention; and, as nothing escaped his active investigation, his work abounds not only with observations which are of importance, but with details of even the most trifling incidents that bad roads, inconvenient inns, and distracted times usually afford. The translator is, in political principles, a violent American, and, as such, he gives to the national reputation of poor old England many a stab, and to that of her troops no quarter." M.R. 5 REMARKS on the travels of the Marquis of Chastellux in North America. 8vo. Wilkie, This writer accuses the Marquis of misrepresentations and exaggerations, 6 OBSERVATIONS on some parts of Natural History, to which is Dilly. This part, the only one ever published, relates entirely to antiquities, giving an account of the Indian ruins in the Mushingum, and remarks on the first peopling of America, &c. 7 POLITICAL SKETCHES, inscribed to H. E. John Adams, Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to the court of Great Britain. 8vo. Dilly, "These sketches are written with much spirit, and that zeal for America and its cause, which has animated her numerous authors and defenders." Critical Review. 1787. 8 A DEFENCE of the constitution of government of the United States of America. By John Adams, LL.D., and Member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences at Boston. 8vo. 3 vols. Dilly, The third volume was published in 1788. The Monthly Reviewer says that this work "is not, as its title states, a defence of the American constitution, but a warm defence of the constitution of Great Britain. It is the best anti-democratic treatise that we have seen; for Dr. Adams appears to dread that that is the extreme to which his countrymen will naturally lean, and he has exerted his best endeavour to obviate that evil." 9 THE VISION OF COLUMBUS; a poem, in nine books. By Joel Barlow, Esq. 8vo. pp. 258. Hartford, Con. First edition of the Columbiad, (see 1807.) The list of subscribers at the end contains the King of France, 25 copies; Gen. Washington, 20 copies; Gen. La Fayette, 10 copies, &c. 10 NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. Written by Thomas Stockdale, See No. 1 of 1782. This is, apparently, a reprint from an American edition, printed in the same year, to which was prefixed the following ADVERTISEMENT: "The following Notes were written in Virginia, in the year 1781, and somewhat corrected and enlarged in the winter of 1782, in answer to Queries proposed to the author, by a foreigner of distinction, then resident among us. The subjects are all treated imperfectly; some scarcely touched on. To apologize for this by developing the circumstance of the time and place of their composition, would be to open wounds which have already bled enough. To these circumstances some of their imperfections may with truth be ascribed; the great mass to the want of information and want of talents in the writer. He had a few copies printed, which he gave among his friends; and a translation of them has lately appeared in France (No. 11, 1786), but with such alterations as the laws of the press in that country rendered necessary. They are now offered to the public in their original form and language. Feb. 27, 1787." 11 THE PRESENT STATE of Nova Scotia; with a brief account of Canada, and the British islands on the coast of North America. The second edition, corrected and enlarged, and illustrated with a map. Edinburgh. By Mr. S. Hollingsworth. "The account here given of the rapid growth of the infant settlement of 1787. Nova Scotia, especially since the termination of the war with our late colonists, is really astonishing, and leaves us no room to doubt the very great advantages which will, in all human probability, accrue to the mother country from the welfare and prosperity of this her youngest child." M. R. 12 THE PRESENT STATE of Maryland. By the Delegates of the Stockdale, people. 8vo. pp. 28. First printed in Baltimore. 13 THE HISTORY OF MEXICO. Collected from Spanish and Mexican historians, from manuscripts and ancient paintings of the Indians. Illustrated by charts and other copper-plates. To which are added, critical dissertations on the land, the animals, and inhabitants of Mexico. By Abbé D. Francesco Clavigero, Translated from the original Italian, by Charles Cullen, Esq. Robinsons, Quarto, 2 vols, 26 plates and map. First printed in Italian in 1780. The translator, who was a son of the 14 A COMPARATIVE VIEW of the Russian discoveries with those Quarto. 15 HYDRAULIC AND NAUTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the currents in the Atlantic Ocean, forming an hypothetical theorem for investigation: addressed to navigators. By Governor Pownall, F.R.S., [&c. To which are added, some notes by Dr. Franklin. Quarto. Sayer, 16 PLAN of the new constitution for the United States of America, agreed upon in a Convention of the States. 8vo. Debrett, "As the sudden rise of a new empire in the world, constituted on principles of government essentially different from the old, cannot fail to draw the notice of European politicians, every circumstance relating thereto must necessarily become interesting and important." Preface. |
