Po DRT D R X X X I X HARYARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 1860, July 13. London: Printed by C. Roworth, CONTENTS ΤΟ 1. A statistical, historical and political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, and its dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land, with a particular enumeration of the Advantages which these Colonies offer for Emigration, and their superiority in many re- spects over those possessed by the United States of America. By W. C. Wentworth, Esq. a Native of the 2. Journals of two Expeditions into the interior of New South Wales, undertaken by order of the British Go- vernment, in the years 1817-18. By John Oxley, Surveyor General of the territory and Lieutenant of 1. Il Conte di Carmagnola: Tragedia, di Alessandro Page IV. Journal of a Tour through part of the Snowy Range of 3. Translations from Camoens and other Poets, with Original Poems. By Felicia Hemans. VI. 1. Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Exca- vations in Egypt and Nubia, and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in search of the Ancient Bere- nice; and another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. By G. Belzoni. London. With a Portrait. VII. An Inquiry into certain Errors relative to Insanity; and their Consequences, physical, moral and civil. By George Man Burrows, M.D. F.L.S. VIII. Report from the Select Committee on Criminal Laws, THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. OCTOBER, 1820. ART. I.-The Life of Wesley; and the Rise and Progress of Methodism. By Robert Southey, Esq. Second Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. London. 1820. FEW In EW more extraordinary persons have appeared in the Christian Church than Wesley, whether we consider his personal character, or the effects which he has produced amongst us. a space of time much less than a century, the Methodists have extended their principles and their discipline over a very considerable part of the population of Great Britain, Ireland, and America. In the South Sea islands their missions are advancing with a success scarcely inferior to that of the Jesuits in Paraguay; and they share with the Moravians the merit of having brought among the slaves in our West Indies whatever quantity of religious knowledge their masters will allow them to receive. In all the countries whither they have penetrated, they form, as Mr. Southey observes, a distinct people, an imperium in imperio-who, though (the Wesleyan Methodists at least) avowedly members of the English Episcopal Church, and differing in few particulars from the faith of the majority of their fellow-citizens, have yet their own seminaries, their own hierarchy, their own regulations, their own manners, their own literature, their own rapidly-increasing_population, who regard themselves as the peculiar people of God, and the remainder of their countrymen as, if not altogether worldly and profane, at most only half-believers. But it is not by the numbers of the professed Methodists alone, that the amount of their influence and the moral effect which they have produced is to be computed. Of their numbers, we confess we are inclined to think more moderately than the greater part of those who deplore or exult in their progress. If we were to admit, without qualification, those estimates of their increase and influence which their advocates, in the wantonness of partial success, and their antagonists in the alarm of watchful jealousy, have sometimes furnished, it would follow that the field of battle was already in their possession, that they were already the greater part of ourselves, and that the boast which Tertullian applied to the Christians under Pagan Rome, was as appropriate, in Protestant England, to the followers of Wesley and Whitefield :-' Ob VOL. XXIV. NO. XLVII. sessam |