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The Edinburgh Review
Or
Critical Journal
Published
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown.
List of articles/reviews of publications
concerning and/or from Central America, the Caribbean and South America.
(Key: Volume: Issue Number )
Note: the page numbers of articles vary with
different editions. Spellings, publication and other details are given
as they appear in the Edinburgh Review.
1:1 (October, 1802)
Article XXVII. pp. 216-237. The Crisis of the Sugar Colonies; or, an
Inquiry into the Objects and profitable Effects of the French Expedition
to the West Indies, and their connexion with the Colonial Interest of
the British Empire: to which are subjoined, Sketches of a Plan for settling
the Vacant Lands of Trinidada. In Four Letters to the Right Honourable
Henry Addington, Chancellor of the Exchequer, &c. London: Hatchard.
pp. 222. 1802.
2:4 (July, 1803)
Article VIII. pp. 376-91. The History of the Maroons, from their Origin
to the Establishment of their Chief Trade at Sierra Leone; including the
Expedition to Cuba, for the purpose of procuring Spanish Chasseurs; and
the State of the Island of Jamaica for the last ten years; with a succinct
History of the Island previous to that period. By R. C. Dallas, Esq.
Two vols. 8vo. pp. 987. London. Longman and Rees. 1803.
Article XIX. pp. 484-91. Memorial addressed to the Sovereigns
of Europe and the Atlantic. By Governor Pownall. London. Debrett.
1803.
5:9 (October, 1804)
Article XVI. pp. 209-241. A Defence of the Slave Trade, on the grounds
of Humanity, Policy, and Justice. 8vo. pp. 90. London. Highly. 1804.
7:13 (October, 1805)
Article XVI. pp. 244-48. The Horrors of the Negro Slavery existing
in our West India Islands, demonstrated from official Documents recently
presented to the House of Commons. 8vo. Hatchard. London. 1805.
8:15 (April, 1806)
Article III. pp. 52-64. An Historical Account of the Black Empire of
Hayti: comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution
of Saint Domingo, with its Antient and Modern State. By Marcus Rainsford,
Esq. Late Captain, Third West India Regiment, &c. &c. 4to. pp.
501. London, Cundle & Chapple. 1805.
8:16 (July, 1806)
Article IX. pp. 358-365. A Letter to William Wilberforce, Esq. M. P.
on the Justice and Expediency of Slavery and the Slave Trade, and on the
best means to improve the Manners and Conditions of the Negroes in the
West Indies. By Robert Heron, Esq. London. Maxwell & Jordan. 1806.
Article XI. pp. 378-399. Voyage à la Partie Orientale
de la Terre-Firme, dans l'Amerique Meridionale, fait pendant les Annéees
1801, 1802, 1803, et 1804. Par F. Depons, Ex-agent du Gouvernement
Français à Caracas. En 3 tomes. 8vo. à Paris. 1806.
9:17 (October, 1806)
Article XI. pp. 168-176. Travels from Beunos Ayres, by Potofi, to Lima.
By Anthony Zachariah Helms. With Notes by the Translator. 12mo. pp. 287.
London. Phillips. 1806.
9:18 (January, 1807)
Article III. pp. 304-319. Notes on the West Indies, written during
the Expedition under the Command of the late General Sir Ralph Abercromby;
including Observations on the Islands of Barbadoes, and the Settlements
captured by the British Troops upon the Coast of Guiana; likewise Remarks
relating to the Creoles and Slaves of the Western Colonies, and the Indians
of South America; with occasional Hints regarding the Seasoning or Yellow
Fever of hot Climates. By George Pinckard, M. D. of the Royal College
of Physicians, Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals to his Majesty's
Forces, and Physician to the Bloomsbury Dispensary. 3 vol. 8vo. pp. 1440.
London. Longman. 1806.
Article XII. pp. 433-458. Mercurio Peruvano de Historia,
Literatura y Noticias publicas. 12 vol. Lima, 1791-1794.
Article XII. pp. 458-462. A Letter to the Right Honourable
Charles James Fox, one of his Majesty's Principla Secretaries of State,
on
the
Importance of the Colonies situated on the Coast of Guiana. By a
British Merchant. pp. 19. London. Richardson. 1806.
11:21 (October, 1807)
Article IX. pp.145-167. The West
India Common-place Book, compiled from Parliamentary and Official Documents;
showing the Interest of Great
Britain in the Sugar Colonies, &c. &c. By Sir William Young,
Bart. F.R.S. M.P. 4to. pp. 280. Phillips. London. 1807; A letter to
W. Manning Esq. M.P. on the Causes of the Rapid and Progressive Depreciation
of West India Property. By Charles Bosanquet Esq. 8vo. pp. 54. Richardsons.
London, 1807; Thoughts on the Value to Great Britain of commerce in
general, and on the Value and Importance of the Colonial Trade in particular.
By Charles Bosanquet Esq. 8vo. pp. 83. Richardsons. London, 1807; An
Inquiry into the State of the British West Indies. By Joseph Lowe
Esq. 8vo. pp. 180. Baldwin. London, 1807.
12:24 (July, 1808)
Article V. pp. 355-379. The History of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
By T. Clarkson, M.A. 2 vol. 8vo. pp. 1060. London. 1808.
Article IX. pp. 410-416. A Voyage to the Demerary; containing
a Statistical Account of the Settlements there, and of those of the Essuquibo,
the Berbice, and other contiguous Rivers of Guiana. By Henry Bolingbroke,
Esq. Deputy Vendue Master at Surinam. Richard Phillips. London. 1808.
13:26 (January, 1809)
Article II. pp. 277-311. Lettre aux Espagnols-Americains. Par un
de leurs Compatriotes. A Philadelphie. 8vo. pp. 42.
Article VII. pp. 382-413. The
Radical Cause of the present Distress of the West Indian Planters
pointed out, and the Inefficiency
of the Measures which have been hitherto proposed for relieving them
demonstrated. &c. &c. By William Spence, F.L.S. Second Edition. 8vo. pp.
105. London. Cadell & Davies. 1808; An Inquiry into the Policy
and Justice of the Prohibition of the Use of Grain in the Distilleries,
including Observations on the Nature and Uses of a Vent to superfluous
Land-Produce, and Situation of the Colonial Interests. By Archibald
Bell Esq. Advocate. 8vo. pp. 116. Edinburgh, Constable & Co. London,
Murray. 1808.
13:27 (April, 1809)
Article VIII. pp. 95-106. A Permanent and Effectual Remedy suggested
for the Evils under which the British West Indies now labour; in a letter
from a West India Merchant to a West India Planter. London. Richardsons.
8vo. pp.48. 1809.
14:28 (July, 1809)
Article IV. pp. 333-53. The Geographical,
Natural, and Civil History of Chili, by Abbé Don J. Ignatius Molina;
with Notes from the Spanish and French Versions; and an Appendix, containing
copious Extracts from
the Araucana of Don Alonzo de Ercilla. Translated from the Original
Italian, by an American Gentleman. 2vol. 8vo. Middletown (Conn.) 1808.
16:31 (April, 1810)
Article IV. pp. 62-102. Essai politique sur le Royaume de la nouvelle
Espagne. Par Alexandre de Humboldt; les trios premiers livraisons,
en 4to.; avec un Atlas geographique et Physique, en fol. Paris. 1808-9.
Article X. pp. 223-253. Tableau
Physique des Regions Equatoriales, &c. Par Alexandre de Humboldt. 4to. Paris, 1807.
17:34 (February, 1811)
Article VI. pp. 372-381. Present
State of the Spanish Colonies, including a particular Report of Hispaniola,
or the Spanish Part of St. Domingo.
By William Walton junior, Secretary to the expedition which captured
the City of Santo Domingo from the French, and the resident British
Agent
there. 2 vol. 8vo. Longman & co. London. 1810.
19:37 (November, 1811)
Article V. pp. 129-49. The West Indians defended against the Accusations
of their Calumniators; or, Facts versus Prejudices. By a Gentleman.
pp.40 Bath. London. Mawman. 1811; The present Ruinous Situations of
the west India Islands, submitted to the People of the British Empire;
with a few Brief Remarks upon the Imposition and Oppressions under which
the Merchants and Planters of those Islands have long suffered. By
a Native of Jamaica. 8vo. pp. 42. London. Sherwood. 1811; The Trial
of Arthur Hodge esq. (late one of the Members of his Majesty's Council
for the Virgin Islands) at the Island of Tortola, on the 25th April 1811,
and adjourned to the 29th of the same Month, for the Murder of his Negro
Man Slave, named Prosper. Stereographically taken by A. M. Belisario
esq., one of the Grand jury who found the Bill of Indictment; and certified
to be impartial and correct, by Richard Hetherington esq., President of
the Virgin Islands, and president of the Court on the Trial. pp. 190.
London. Harding. 1811.
Article VII. pp. 164-98. Essai Politique sur le Royaume
de la Nouvelles Espagne. Par Alexandre de Humboldt; les quatre derniers
livraisons, en 4to; avec un atlas Geographique et Physique. En folio.
Paris. 1809-10-11.
20:40 (November, 1812)
Article III. pp. 305-315. Travels into the Interior of Brazil.
By John Mawe, Author of the Mineralogy of Derbyshire. 4to. Longman &
co. London.
22:43 (October, 1813)
Article II. pp. 32-50. Poems; By Samuel Rogers: Including Fragments
of a Poem called the Voyage of Columbus. London. 1812.
23:45 (April, 1814)
Article VI. pp. 131-50. The
History of Toussaint L'Ouverture. A New Edition.
8vo. pp. 93. London, Butterworth. 1814.
24:47 (November, 1814)
Article VI. pp. 106-33.
1. Lettre à Son Excellence Monseignuer le Prince de Talleyrand
Perigord, Ministre et Secretaire d'Etat de S. M. T. C. au Departement
des Affaires Etrangeres, et son Plenipotentiare au Congrès de
Vienne, au Sujet de La Traite des Negres. Par W. Wilberforce, Ecuyer, Memre
du Parlement Britannique. Traduite de l'Anglais. 8vo.pp. 98. A Londres,
Schulze. Paris, Le Normand. 1814.
2. The Speech of Sir Samual Romilly in the House of Commons on the
Twenty-eighth June 1814, on that Article in the Treaty of Peace which
relates to the Slave Trade. Cadell & Davis. London. 1814.
3. Remarks on the Ordonnance issued at Paris, 29th August 1814, for
the Reestablishment of the French Slave Trade, and on the Proposition
submitted to the Chamber of Deputies by Genreal Desfourneaux, on the Subject
of St. Domingo; with Notices respecting the present State of that Island.
Extracted from the Christian Observer for September 1814. London, Hatchard,
1814.
4. De l'Intérét de la France à l"Egard
de la Traite des Negres. Par J. C. L. Simonde de Sismondi. 8vo. pp. 59
A Geneve, Paschond. Peris, Paschond. 1814.
5. Refutations d'un Ecrit, intituled, 'Resumé du Temoignage
touchant 'la Traite des Negres, adressé aux differents Puissances
de la 'Chretienté.' Par M. Palisot, Baron de Beauvois, Avocat
à la Cour Royale de paris; Ancien Conseiller au Conseil Superieur
du Cap Français, Ile St. Domingue; Membre de l'Institut de France.
8vo. pp. 56. Paris, Blanchard. 1814
6. Considerations Importants
sur l'Abolition de la Traite des Negres. Adressèes aux Negotiateurs des Puissances Continentales qui devient
assister au Congrès de Vienne. Par un Portugais. 8vo. pp.31
Paris, Baillent. 1814.
7. Des Colonies; et particulierement de celle de St. Domingue, Memoire
Historique et Politique. Par le colonel Malenfant, Sous-Inspecteur
aux Revues, Chevalier de la Legion d'Honeur. Proprietaire à St.
Domingue, Ex-delegué du Gouvernement Français à Surinam.
8vo. pp. 334. A Paris, Audibert. 1814.
Article VI. pp. 133-57. Researches concerning the Institutions
and Monuments of the ancient Inhabitants of America; with descriptions
of the most striking Scenes in the Cordilleras. Written in French,
by Alexander de Humboldt; and translated into English by Helen Maria Williams.
London. 1814.
25:49 (June, 1815)
Article IV. pp. 86-111. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctal
Regions of the New Continent during the Years 1799 - 1804. By Alexander
de Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland. Written in French by Alexander de
Humboldt, and translated into English by Helen Maria Williams. London.
1814.
25:50 (October, 1815)
Article II. pp. 315-345. Reasons for Establishing a Registry of Slaves
in the British Colonies: Being a Report of a Committee of the African
Institution. Published by Order of that Society. 8vo. pp. 118. Hatchard.
London. 1815.
27:53 (September, 1816)
Article V. pp. 99-102. Voyage
de Humboldt et Bonpland. Quatrième
Partie Astronomie. 2 vol. 4to. Paris. 1810.
28:56 (August, 1817)
Article IV. pp. 340-71. Medical and Miscellaneous Observations
relative to the West India Islands. By John Williamson, M.D. Fellow
of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and late of Spanish-Town,
Jamaica. 2vol. 8vo. pp. 840. Edinburgh, Oliphant. 1817.
With thanks to Dr. Susan Oliver, who compiled
and generously provided this bibliography.
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