settlement of whose domestic affairs was the ostensible cause, of the loss to the British empire of the union of the greatest and most brilliant assemblage of talents, she had ever witnessed, united in one administration; required more than ordinary attention. To attempt to trace the causes of her present discontents to their true source, and point out the most probable means to remedy them, we hope we have exhibited in our chapter on that subject; which at least will have the merit (if no other can be found) of novelty to recommend it. Our colonial establishments, both in the East and West ladies, claimed a particular share of our attention, and which, to the utmost of our ability and extent of our information, we have bestowed upon those important subjects; nor will there, generally speaking, be found any matter which our "History of Europe" usually embraces, which we have not brought before our readers in their progressive and natural order, and with as much minuteness as consisted with the nature of the work. In our selections, we have been unusually attentive to what we conceived would be the taste and wish of our readers. Our "Chronicle" we have endeavoured to make more than usually interesting by the extent and variety of matter. In our extracts from the best works of the year, we have been particularly anxious to dwell on those which relate to Egypt, that very extraordinary country, which has been, from the remotest antiquity, the subject of |