"An able work from the pen of perhaps our ablest statist. Mr. Martin, who was early convinced of the error this country committed in planting her footsteps on the barren rock of Hong-Kong, when the fruitful island of Chusan was at her disposal, sacrificed his position to urge his views on the Home Government. His style is clear and unembarrassed, if not brilliant.- -Tail's Magazine. "One of the most valuable gifts which English literature has of late received.”Reading Mercury.

Mr. Martin hopes for moral results from the investigation which he has pursued with so much diligence; he aims at the establishment of a truly friendly intercourse between the civilization of the West and the East to their mutual advantage. A more laborious work there is not in our language, nor one where so much varied information is to be found.-Critic.

From

"Mr. Martin takes a statesmanlike view of the whole of our affairs in China. long experience he has gained the power of communicating his ideas, which leaves him without an equal in statistical and commercial matters, no less than in statesmanship.” -Indian News.

"Worthy of Mr. Martin's high reputation."

-Exeter Flying Post.

"There is no living writer so capable of doing justice to the vast subject of China as Mr. M. Martin. His official situation, his previous literary training, the character of his mind, which can grasp large facts and complicated statistics with remarkable ease, eminently fit him for the task he has undertaken."- -Gloucester Chronicle.

"As a statistician, and particularly as an expositor of the rise and progress of the Colonies, Mr. Martin is justly deemed a high authority. His reputation is a guarantee for the usefulness of the present work."- -Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper.

"No point is left unsifted, no field untouched, but with his well-known talent in every thing that concerns England, this celebrated writer gives us a work that must adorn the cabinet of the statesman as well as the library of the merchant."- -Bradford Gazette.

"The writer is not a mere dry detailer of statistics, but places his facts before the reader in the most agreeable form. The book is, from this peculiarity, almost as entertaining as a new novel. Mr. Martin is moved by a spirit of religion and humanity to deal honourably and kindly by the Chinese."- -Gloucester Journal.

"A truly splendid Magazine of information; an invaluable treasure for the statesman, scholar, merchant, missionary, and philosopher."-Edinburgh Register.

"As a writer upon statistical, commercial, and especially Colonial subjects, Mr. Montgomery Martin has achieved, by his ability, industry, and intelligence, a very high reputation. Appointed to a high official situation, for which his talents peculiarly fitted him, in connection with the Government of Hong-Kong, he made a voluntary surrender of his office, in order to place himself in a position to be able to return to this country, and to press personally upon the Home Government the adoption of a line of policy, which he believed to be essential to the maintenance and extension of our commercial relations with the Chinese Empire. The book is extremely valuable and interesting." -Exeter Western Luminary, 22nd Dec. 1846.

"Four hundred millions of people yet to be introduced into communication with the rest of mankind! What a prospect for the merchant, the manufacturer, and ship-owner! But there is still a higher and holier prospect. Four hundred millions of active and intelligent human beings have to be brought within the pale of Christianity! Wary stepping too it will require to enable us to succeed in realizing either of these objects. To assist us, an abler man for the task could not be found than the author of the work before us."- Liverpool Standard, 22nd Dec. 1846.

"An important exposé of the present state of the resources, population, &c., of the whole of China, which must doubtless prove highly satisfactory and important to all parties connected with the history of that yet almost unknown country."- -Sun, 11th Dec. 1846.

"A work which will be read with great interest; it abounds in materials which illuminate what has hitherto been a dark page in the topography of nations; in reading it we gain an intelligent view into the seeming chaos of that immense social fabric which myriads of human beings have been labouring for innumerable ages to construct, to improve, and to mar, in pertinacious isolation from the common family of nations." Journal of Commerce, London, 19th Dec. 1846.

"The official position of the Author of this work, must have conferred upon him peculiar advantages in obtaining authentic information as far as possible respecting the internal condition of the Chinese Empire. Of these advantages, Mr. Martin appears to have availed himself with his accustomed industry and acumen.- -Edinburgh Evening

Post, 16th Dec. 1846.

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The character of the far interior of Australia had long been a most interesting geographical problem, many imagining the centre to be occupied by a large inland sea, others conjecturing that it was an arid desert, which opinion was further strengthened by Mr. Eyre's unsuccessful endeavour to penetrate higher than the 29th degree of latitude in his expedition during the years 1840 and 1. Captain Sturt, so appropriately denominated the "Father of Australian Discovery," in consequence of being the first traveller to explore the rivers Murray, Murrumbidgee, Bogan, and Castlereagh, volunteered to conduct a party into the interior to determine this important question. With the approbation of Lord Stanley, the Colonial Minister, he accordingly started in the year 1844, and, after a series of unparalleled privations, succeeded in reaching the centre of the Continent in a line direct north of Adelaide. The journal of this perilous Expedition gives an account of the remarkable Stony Desert, the bed of Lake Torrens, descriptions of the Natives and their villages, and the discovery of several small rivers, &c.; added to which, his observations and collections on the Natural History have since been arranged by R. Brown, Esq. and J. Gould, Esq. in the form of an Appendix.

"The details of this romantic and perilous Expedition are replete with iuterest. From the numerous and lengthened expeditions he has undertaken, and the general intelligence and scientific skill he brings to bear upon the question, we know of no recent traveller in Australia whose opinions arc entitled to more weight. The portion of the work which refers to the Colony of South Australia is particularly valuable to intending emigrants."-Morning Herald.

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"It is not with the slightest hope of satisfying curiosity, or to anticipate the interest which the public in general, and geographers especially, always feel in enterprises of this nature, but merely to give such a sketch of the principal features of the expedition as may serve to direct those who are desirous of obtaining information respecting a portion of this remarkable country-hitherto only visited by Tasman, Dampier, Baudin, and King, and never before, we believe, penetrated by an European-to look forward to the detailed journals of the spirited officers who had the conduct of the expedition." From Geographical Transactions.

A great portion of the country described in this Journal has never before been visited by any European. The Eastern coast of Short's Bay was for the first time seen and explored during the progress of these expeditions.

"We have rarely seen a more interesting book; it is full of splendid description and startling personal adventure; written in a plain, manly, unaffected style."-Examiner. "It is impossible to have perused these highly interesting and important volumes without being inspired with feelings of warm admiration for the indomitable perseverance and heroical self-devotion of their gallant and enterprising author. Setting aside the vastly important results of Captain Grey's several expeditions, it is hardly possible to conceive narratives of more stirring interest than those of which his volumes are for the most part composed."- United Service Gazette.

"We have not read such a work of Travels for many years; it unites the interest of a romance with the permanent qualities of an historical and scientific treatise.”—Atlas. "We recommend our readers to the volumes of Captain Grey, assuring them they will derive both amusement and instruction from the perusal."-Times.

"This is a work deserving high praise. As a book of Travels it is one of the most interesting we remember to have met with."-Westminster Review.

"A book which should be in every lending library and book-club."

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"These narratives are replete with interest, and blend information and amusement in a very happy manner."-Australian Magazine.

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"A work of unquestionable merit and utility, and its author's name will justly stand high upon the honourable list of able and enterprising men, whose courage, perseverance, and literary abilities have contributed so largely to our knowledge of the geography and productions of our distant southern colonies.”—Blackwood's Mag.

"For the courage with which this lengthened and perilous journey was undertaken, the skill with which it was directed, and the perseverance with which it was performed, it is almost unrivalled in the annals of exploring enterprise. It richly deserves attention."-Britannia.

"The narrative in which he relates the results of this remarkable journey, and the extraordinary fatigues and privations endured by himself and his fellow travellers, is not merely valuable for its facts, but full of absorbing interest as a journal of perilous adventures."-Atlas.

"The volume before us comprises the narrative of one of the most remarkable enterpriscs ever planned by man's sagacity and executed by man's courage and endurance. To our minds there is in every point of view an inexpressible charm in such a book as this. It not merely narrates to us the opening of a new material world for human enterprise and scientific investigation, but it makes more clearly known to us the wondrous powers aud capacities of human nature. We recommend it to our readers as a work scarcely less remarkable for the extraordinary enterprise recorded in it, than for the simplicity and modesty with which it is related.”—Morning Herald.

"The result of his enterprise was thoroughly successful. It has added not a little to our existing stock of knowledge in the various departments of natural history, and has made discovery in districts before untrodden, of an almost boundless extent of fertile country."-Examiner.

"The most striking feature in the expedition is its successful accomplishment, which is of itself sufficient to place Dr. L. in the first rank of travellers. How much Dr. L. has added to geographical discovery can only be felt by an examination of the admirable maps which accompany the volume. These have been deduced on a large scale from the traveller's sketches by Mr. Arrowsmith, and engraved with a distinctness of execution, and a brief fulness of descriptive remark which leave nothing to be desired."

Spectator.

Lord Hobart, Lord Sidmouth, Lord Collingwood, Lord Melville, Lord Eldon, Lord Grenville, Lord Hood, Lord William Gordon; the Hon. Nicholas Vansittart, the Hon. H. Addington, the Hon. Hugh Elliot, the Hon. General Sir W. Stewart, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Sir T. M. Hardy, Sir Richard Keats, Sir J. T. Duckworth, Sir John Orde, Sir Hercules Ross, Sir Brooke Boothby, Sir Sidney Smith, Sir Alexander Ball, Sir Evan Nepean, Sir Edward Berry, Sir George Rose, Sir A. S. Hamond, Sir William Hoste, Sir Henry Blackwood, Sir Pulteney Malcolm, Sir James Crawford, Sir Thomas Louis, Sir Benjamin Hallowell, Sir J. Sutton, Sir Manley Dixon, Sir J. Hillyar, Sir Thos. Staines, General Sir John Acton, General Dumouriez, Admiral Tchitchagoff, Count Bernstorff, Count Panin, Adjutant-General Lindholm, Governor Balaschoff, Captain Lloyd, Captain Parker, Captain Langford, Rev. A. J. Scott (Chaplain to Lord Nelson), John Scott, Esq. (Secretary), William Beckford, Esq., R. Payne Knight, Esq., Richard Bulkeley, Esq., William Hayley, Esq., Alexander Davison, Esq., John Tyson, Esq., Perkins Magra, Esq. (ConsulGeneral at Tunis), Lambton Este, Esq., Rev. C. Este, Abbé Campbell, Dr. Baird, &c. Rev. Edmund Nelson (the father of Lord Nelson), Lady Nelson, Josiah Nisbet (her son), Rev. William afterwards Earl Nelson, Mrs. Matcham (Lord Nelson's sister), Maurice Nelson, Esq. (his brother), &c. &c.

The light thrown upon the transactions which took place from the battle of the Nile, August 1, 1798, to that of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805, in the course of this extensive correspondence will be found most interesting; so also will the minute particulars relating to the conduct and flight of the Neapolitan Royal Family, the surrender of the Castles of Uovo and Nuovo, the Blockade of La Valetta, the Convention of El Arish, &c. &c.

UPWARDS OF SIX HUNDRED LETTERS AND DOCUMENTS, WHICH HAVE NEVER BEFORE BEEN PRINTED, and the existence of which were scarcely known, will appear in these Memoirs, which have been written with the view of completing the History of one of the bravest and most patriotic Admirals that ever adorned the British Navy. It was originally the intention of the author simply to have edited the Correspondence, and published it as Supplementary Volumes to those which have already appeared; but upon examination the documents were found to be too numerous and too interesting to be disposed of in that manner. They embrace such a variety of topics, private and public-correct so many errors and misconceptions that have gone forth and been very generally believed-enter so unreservedly into the subjects to which they refer-and altogether render such a complete picture of Lord Nelson's mind and character-that it has been adjudged most proper to arrange them as a distinct publication, in the form of a New Memoir, illustrative of the career of the Hero. Although it has been necessary in this view to describe the various actions and incidents in which Nelson was concerned, it has been thought proper not to enter upon minute details which have already appeared, and which by those who may be professionally interested in such a matter will readily be found in the previously published Lives; but rather to endeavour to combine, in the form of a Narrative, the Correspondence alluded to with the particular events to which they apply, and which form so interesting a portion of our Naval History.

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