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201. A review of the report of a Select Committee of the House of Commons, on the state of the West India colonies, ordered to be printed, 13th April, 1832; : or, The interests of the country and the prosperity of the West India planters mutually secured by the immediate abolition of slavery..

204. Argument of Franklin B. Gowen, Esq. : before the Joint Committee of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, appointed to inquire into the affairs of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, at Atlantic City, New Jersey, July 29th and 30th, 1875, on behalf of said Company / specially reported by D.F. Murphy.

206. Argument of Hon. Roscoe Conkling, June 26, 1866, before a special committee of the House of Representatives, raised to investigate the administration of the Bureau of the provost marshal general, and also the act of James B. Fry, the head of the said bureau, in sending to the House a letter libelling the character of one of its members, and also the truth of said letter.

232. A treatise on adulterations of food, and culinary poisons: exhibiting the fraudulent sophistications of bread, beer, wine, spirituous liquors, tea, coffee, cream, confectionery, vinegar, mustard, pepper, cheese, olive oil, pickles, and other articles employed in domestic economy : and methods of detecting them

237. A True and Faithful Relation of What passed for many Yeers between Dr. John Dee (A Mathematician of Great Fame in Q. Eliz. and King James their Reignes) and some spirits: Tending (had it succeeded) to a general alteration of most States and Kingdomes in the world. His private Conferences with Rodolphe Emperor of Germany, Stephen K. of Poland, and divers other Princes about it. The Particulars of his Cause, as it was agitated in the Emperors Court; by the Popes intervention: his banishment, and restoration in part. As also the letters of Sundry Great Men and Princes (some whereof were present at some of these Conferences and Apparitions of Spirits:) to the Said D. Dee. Out of the original copy, written with Dr. Dees own hand, kept in to library of Sir Tho. Cotton. With a Preface confirming the Reality (as to the Point of Spirits) of This Relation: and shewing the several good Uses that a Sober Christian may make of All. By Meric Causaubon, D. D.

240. Authentic and impartial narrative of the tragical scene : which was witnessed in Southampton County (Virginia) on Monday the 22d of August last, when fifty-five of its inhabitants (mostly women and children) were inhumanly massacred by the blacks! Communicated by those who were eye witnesses of the bloody scene, and confirmed by the confessions of several of the blacks while under sentence of death.

243. A voice from the South : comprising Letters from Georgia to Massachusetts, and to the Southern states : with an appendix containing an article from the Charleston Mercury on the Wilmot Proviso, together with the fourth article of the Constitution, the law of Congress, the nullification law of Pennsylvania, the resolutions of ten of the free states, the resolutions of Virginia, Georgia and Alabama, and Mr. Calhoun's resolutions in the Senate of the United States.

244. A voyage from Calcutta to the Mergui Archipelago, lying on the east side of the Bay of Bengal; describing a chain of islands, never before surveyed... also, an account of the islands Jan Sylvan, Pulo Pinang, and the port of Queda; the present state of Atcheen; and directions for sailing thence to Fort Marlbro' down the south-west coast of Sumatra; to which are added, an account of the island Celebes; a treatise on the monsoons in India; a proposal for making ships and vessels more convenient for the accommodation of passengers; and thoughts on a new mode of preserving ship provision: also, an idea of making a map of the world on a large scale

252. Battle of Young's branch; or, Manassas plain, fought July 21, 1861. With maps of the battle field made by actual survey, and the various positions of the regiments and artillery companies placed thereon, with an account of the movements of each, procured from the commanding officer, or an officer of the regiment. Also, an account of the battle. Also, the battle ground of the 18th July, 1861, with General Beauregard's report of said battle.

270. Britain and America united in the cause of universal freedom : being the third annual report of the Glasgow Emancipation Society : containing important information relative to the working of the apprenticeship system in the West Indies; progress of the emancipation cause in the United States; history of the revolution in Texas; interesting movements of religious bodies in Great Britain, during the past year; the speeches delivered at the annual meeting, &c. &c. &c. 1837.

280. Case of Passmore Williamson : report of the proceedings on the writ of habeas corpus, issued by the Hon. John K. Kane, Judge of the District court of the United States for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania, in the case of the United States of America ex rel. John H. Wheeler vs. Passmore Williamson, including the several opinions delivered; and the arguments of council