CONTENTS PAGE. IV. 1. Observations du General Clauzel sur quelques actes de 2. Alger sous la domination Française, son état présent et son avenir. Par M. le Baron Pichon, Conseiller d'Etat. 3. M. de Rovigo, et M. Pichon. Par M. Carpentier. 4. Mémoire sur les moyens d'assurer la securité du terri- toire de la Colonie d'Alger. Par le Général Brossard. 5. Mémoire sur la Colonisation de la Regence d'Alger. Par 6. Voyage dans la Regence d'Alger, ou description du pays 2. Précis historique de la destruction du corps des Janis- saires par le Sultan Mahmoud en 1826. Traduit du Turc par A. P, Caussin de Perceval. ART. I. I. Noticia de los Quadros que se hallan colocados en la 2. Dictionnaire des Peintres Espagnols, par F. Quilliet. 3. Diccionario Historico de los mas illustres Profesores de las Bellas Artes en España, por Don J. A. Cean II. 1. Sur la Mortalité Proportionelle de quelques populations, considérée comme mesure de leur aisance et de leur civilisation. Par Sir F. D'Ivernois. III. Mémoires et Correspondance de Duplessis-Mornay, pour servir à l'Histoire de la Réformation, et des Guerres Civiles et Religieuses en France, depuis l'an 1571 IV. Swea. Tidskrift för Vetenskap och Konst. 4. Commentatio de Esoce Lucio neurologice descripto et -1 1 Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Commit- tee of the House of Commons on the Judicial Affairs -olqib ni of the East India Company, dXI. Voyage dans la Macedoine, par M. E. M. Cousinéry, an➡9) alio cieno Consul-Général à Salonique. bus 19 Teutonischen Mundarten. Von Heinrich Meidinger. 451 ǝesit to sendt tent si quinatban lekes XIII. Faereyinga Saga, eller Faeröboernes Historie, i den Is- yoy landske Grundtext, &c. Udgiven af C. C. Rafn. to cul2Faereyinga Saga, oder Geschichte der Bewohner der sto son Faröer,&c. Herausgegeben von Rafn und Mohnike. 453 ebuit ad bime soo broile and tuos aid die no XIV Mémoires sur la Révolution d'Italie en 1831. Par Henriet Miscellaneous Literary Intelligence, No. XXV., from Denmark, THE FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.-Traité complèt de Diplomatie, ou Théorie générale des relations extérieures des Puissances de l'Europe, d'après les plus célèbres autorités. Par un ancien Ministre. Paris, 1833. 3 vol. 8vo. THERE may be some doubt whether the author of this work has not assumed a character a little beyond that which properly belongs to him, when he tells us that he has been engaged as a minister in the diplomatic service of his court. But whatever may be his rank, position, or country, it is certain that he has presented the diplomates of Europe with a most useful précis of their functions. We wrong him, indeed, when we confine the utility of his book to those who are actually engaged in diplomacy. It is in truth calculated to be a more popular compendium than any that Germany has produced, of the principles of international law. We say Germany, because it is from German writers that the received epitomes have proceeded. In English, there is not one original treatise of note, or authority, either on diplomacy or on the law of nations. The authors of pamphlets and speeches on foreign policy use Martens's Précis* as a book of reference, and quote Grotius and Puffendorff, Vattel and Bynkershoek. But, however systematically the first three of these works are arranged, we doubt whether any German jurist or English civilian sits down to read either of them, as a young lawyer reads Blackstone: and we are certain that no diplomatist from Downing Street looks to them for the general principles on which his business is to be conducted. For the defence of a measure on which his court has already determined, he finds, perhaps, by the help of an index, a passage which he triumphantly quotes; but the matter at issue must be one of an unusual character, if an equally judicious selection and ingenious application will not enable his antagonist to cite another, perhaps indeed the same passage differently construed, in support of the other side of the question. The enormous bulk, and the pedantic display * Précis du Droit des Gens Moderne de l'Europe, fondé sur les Traités et l'Usage. Par G. F. von Martens. 3me édit.; révue et augmentée. Gottingne, 1821. There is an English translation by Mr. Cobbett, originally published at Philadelphia in 1795, and reprinted, with additions, in London, in 1802. VOL. XIII. NO. XXV, B |