THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. AUGUST & NOVEMBER, 1810. VOL. IV. LONDON PRINTED. NEW-YORK: REPRINTED FOR EZRA SARGEANT, No. 86 Broadway, opposite Trinity Church. SOLD BY WM. WELLS AND O. C. GREENLEAF, BOSTON; WM. HILLIARD, CAMBRIDGE, Printed by D. & G. Bruce CONTENTS The Borough; a poem. In Twenty-four Letters. By The Natural Defence of an Insular Empire, earnestly re- commended; with a Sketch of a Plan to attach real Seamen to the Service of their Country. By Philip Patten, Admiral of the White Squadron of His Ma- III. A Description of the Feroe Islands, containing an Ac- IV. Caledonia: or an Account Historical and Topographical of North Britain, from the most ancient to the present Times; with a Dictionary of Places chorographical and V. The Conquest of the Miao-tsé; an Imperial Poem, by Kien-Lung, entitled, A Choral Song of Harmony, for the first Part of the Spring. By Stephen Weston, VI. Essays on the Picturesque, as compared with the Sub- lime and the Beautiful; and on the Use of studying Pictures for the purpose of improving real Landscape. VII. Musæ Cantabrigienses; seu Carmina quædam Numis- VIII. A Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry. By Robert Woodhouse, A. M. F. R:6. Fellow of Caius IX. The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, Knight Banneret, edited by Arthur Clifford, Esq. To which is added, A Memoir of the Life of Sir Ralph Sadler, with Historical Notes by Walter Scott, Esq. X. The Question concerning the Depreciation of our Cur- |