The British Review, and London Critical Journal (Volume 10) - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1817 Excerpt: ... Painful on every'other ground, in this respect alone the study of these valuable reports has been gratifying to our minds: and we gladly look forward to a time when the interest taken by the landed proprietors in the welfare of their peasantry, by the manufacturers in the prosperity of their workmen, by the magistrates in the complaints of the distressed, and by the clergy in the general melioration of the temporal and spiritual condition of their flocks, will be less opposed and frustrated by laws which give additional force to all the depraved corruptions of our nature; which offer an incentive to vice, an encouragement to improvidence, and a bounty to pauperism. Art. XVIII.--LORD SELKIRK'S COLONY, AND THE NORTH-WEST COMPANY. 1. A Sketch of tfie British Fur Trade in North America, with Ob" servations relative to the North-west Company of Montreal. By the Earl of Selkirk. London, 1816. 2. A Narrative of Occurrences in tlw Indian Countries of North America, since the Connection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Selkirk with tlw Hudson's Bay Company, and his Attempt to establish a Colony on tlw Red River: with a detailed Account of his Lordship's Military Expedition to, and subsequent Transactions at, Fort William, in Upper Canada. London, 1817 3. Statement respecting tlw Earl of Selkirk's Settlement upon the Red River, in North America: its destruction in 1815 and 1816; and the Massacre of Governor Semple and his Party. With Observations upon a recent Publication, entitled "A Narrative of Occurrences in the Indian Countries, &c." London, 1817. 1 He name of Lord Selkirk is closely connected with the history of emigration from these kingdoms to North America; and whilst his zeal in this cause has been put to his credit on the one hand, as patriotism and hum...