The Westminster Review January-July 1825

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Review founded in 1824 by Jeremy Bentham as the official organ for radicals in response to conservative journals. Articles: recollections of the life of Lord Byron 1808-1814; proje ct of a new penal code for the state of Louisiana (Edward Livingstone); selection of Irish melodies; contagion and sanitary laws (plague, evils of quarantine laws); the Book of the Church by Robert Southey; liberty of the press; Friedrich von Schlegel; magnetism; Italy; prison and prison discipline; emigration (Australia, Van Diemen's Land, Upper Canada); etc. Show more