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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, or Cri-
tical Journal. No. XCI.

CONTENTS,. —R ise,:Progress, Present State and Prospects
of the British Cotton ManufaCture—Memoirs of the
Emperor Baber—History of the Democratical Constitution
of Venice—Scottish Parochial Schools--English Law—
George 111. and the Catholic Question—Jean Paul F.
Richter—Ellis's Original Letters, illustrative of English
History—Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge—
The Present Administration, &c. &c.

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PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on
STRICTURES of the URETHRA and RECTUM,
recommending an improved System fur their Treatment
and Cure, illustrating its efficacy by numerous remarkable
and highly important Cases, in some of which Strictures
of from ten to twenty years' duration have been totally re-
moved in a few weeks, and .its superiority thereby fully
established over every other method hitherto practised.
By C. B. COURTENAY, M.D.
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ments on Gleet, Seminal Weakness, and the Miseries oc-
casioned by Self-abuse, for • the cure of which a mode
of 'Treatment, the result of long and successful practice,
and at once safe, speedy, and effectual, is adopted by the
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nent talents, and very extensive experience. We entertain
the highest opinion of Dr. Courtenay's professional skill,
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Magazine.

LITERATURE.

THE LIFE, POLITICAL AND.. OFFICIAL, OF
JOHN. EARL OF ELDON. LONDON, 1827.
Lord Eldon has Of.late years occupied so.dis-
tingnished a place in the legal and political
annals of England,; he has put himself forward
on certain momentous occasions, with such un-
compromising tenacity of purpose, gaining point
after point with slow but steady perseverance,
and,: like a cautions rather than an intrepid Ge 7
ral, never advancing to new conquests till he
had previously secured the. old ; he has played
his part, in short, with such unwearied zeal,
that :he has secured for himself no insignificant
-niche in the temple of his country's history. Of
course it. was not to be expected that he could
move forward on his career without encountering
at every step the most inveterate hostility. _Envy
and self-interest—those sleepless foes to great-
ness—would naturally be at work to assail him,
and he has•accordinglyibeen as undeservedly cem
sured as eulogized. The inducements, however,
Co praise or blame, have now in a great degree
passed away, his Lordship has retired into -the
' vale of private life, content henceforth with con-
fining his abilities' it) the destruction of game .
in Devonshire. His claims therefore on his
country's gratitude, may be canvassed with greater
impartiality.. He started in life an unflinching Tory
of the old school, the protege of Lord Thurlow,
the obsequious Attorney-General of Pitt, and
from that hour to the present has moved
along in his course, looking neither to the right
nor the left, neither before nor behind, adopting,
from first to last, one particular undeviating line
Of conduct. The improvements of the . age,
whether in, point of thought or action, which.have
spread themselves every where over society, have
not yet reached him : his mind is cast in the
mould of other times ; it is fixed, impassive, and
cannot adapt itself to the exigencies of the age.
Hence he -is out of his'place among our present
enlightened politicians. Different periods demand
different men; and the Attorney-General, who
shone, with such brilliancy in 1797, glimmers but
feeblvas a Chancellor in 1827. As a lawyer, Lord
Eldon is distinguished by patience, acuteness,and
extensive legal information ; he has, however, done
little either for the present or future times ; he
has introduced no successful innovations, pro-
jected no improvements, corrected no old ab-
surdities ; it was enough for him that an
absurdity was mildewed with age ; that hallowed
it in his mind. In his politics, Loid Eldon has
been equally cautious and narrow-minded ; in
no one sense, has he kept pace with the advan-
cing spirit of the age ; he is at least sixty fears
behind it in liberality ; is slow and sceptical in his
turn of mind, and vacillates every where but in his
tis hatred
Lordshipto reform. e These
well
detailed,me
ntapeculiarities
iian of
amusing
little pamphlet, which suggested the present slight
notice. The author seems to have been long
and intimately acquainted, with Lord Eldon 's
character (" political and official," as he calls it),
and has drawn it—with what -success ; those
will see who will turn to the very interesting
and diversified pages of his pamphlet.