BBÉ and Abbot, difference between, v. 639. Abingdon, James Bertie, Earl of, i. 462. Deprived of the Lord Lieutenancy of Oxfordshire, ii. 131. Proposed for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford, 206. Joins William of Orange, 266
Abjuration Bill, iii. 248, 249. Debate upon, in the Lords, 251, 252. Absalom and Achitophel of Dryden, cha- racter of it, v. 120.
Absolute Government, theory of, v. 310. Absolute Rulers, v. 280.
Academy, character of its doctrines, vi. 207. Academy, the French, its services to litera- ture, vii. 577.
Act of Grace, iii. 252. Exceptions to, 253. Was the act of William III. alone, 253, 254.
Adam, Robert, court architect to George III., vi. 231.
Adda, Ferdinand, Count of, Papal Nuncio
in England, i. 538. Advises James II. to proceed legally, and with modera- tion, 563 and note. Consecrated at St. James's Palace, ii. 87. Procession in honour of, at Windsor, 88. His report of the acquittal of the bishops, 179 note. His escape from England, 316. Addington, Henry, formation of his ad- ministration, vii. 399. His position as Prime Minister, 399. Resigns, 404. Raised to the peerage, 406.
Addison, Joseph, i. 374 note. His picture
of a Dissenting minister, ii. 475 note. Review of Miss Aikin's life of him, vii. 52-122. His character, 53, 55. Sketch of his father's life, 54. His birth and early life, 55, 56. Appointed to a scholarship in Magdalene College, Ox- ford, 56. His classical attainments, 56, 58. His Essay on the Evidences of Christianity, 58, 115. Contributes a preface to Dryden's Georgics, 61. His intention to take orders frustrated, 62, 64. Sent by the government to the Conti- nent, 65. His introduction to Boileau,
Leaves Paris and proceeds to Venice, 69. His residence in Italy 69-72. Composes his Epistle Montague (then Lord Halifax), 72. His prospects clouded by the death of William III., 72. Becomes tutor to a young English traveller, 73. Writes his Treatise on Medals, 73. Repairs to Holland, 73. Returns to England, 73. His cordial reception and introduction into the Kit Cat Club, 73. His pecu- niary difficulties, 73. Engaged by Go dolphin to write a poem in honour of Marlborough's exploits, 75. Is appointed to a commissionership, 76. Merits of his "Campaign," 76. Criticism of his Travels in Italy, 57, 79. His opera of Rosamond, 79. Is made Under Secre- tary of State, and accompanies the Earl of Halifax to Hanover, 81. His election to the House of Commons, 81. His failure as a speaker, 81. His popularity and talents for conversation, 82, 84. His timidity and constraint among strangers, 84. His favourite associates, 84-87. Becomes Chief Se. cretary for Ireland under Wharton, 87. Origination of the Tatler, 89, 90. His characteristics as a writer, 89-92. Compared with Swift and Voltaire as a master of the art of ridicule, 90, 91. His pecuniary losses, 93. Loss of his Secretaryship, 95. Resignation of his Fellowship, 95. Encouragement and disappointment of his advances towards a great lady, 95. Returned to Parlia- ment without a contest, 95. His Whig Examiner, 93. Intercedes with the Tories on behalf of Ambrose Phillipps and Steele, 96. His discontinuance of the Tatler and commencement of the Spectator, 96. His part in the Spec- tator, 96. His commencement and dis- continuance of the Guardian, 100. His Cato, 69, 100. His intercourse with Pope, 102, 104. His concern for Steele, 104. Begins a new series of the Spec- tator, 104. Appointed Secretary to the
Lords Justices of the Council on the death of Queen Anne, 105. Again ap- pointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, 106. His relations with Swift and Tickell, 106, 108. Removed to the Board of Trade, 108. Production of his Drummer, 109. His Freeholder, 109. His estrangement from Pope, 109, 111. His long courtship of the Countess Dowager of Warwick and union with her, 115. Takes up his abode at Holland House, 115. Ap- pointed Secretary of State by Sunder- land, 116. Failure of his health, 116, 120. Resigns his post, 116. Receives a pension, 116. His estrangement from Steele and other friends, 117. Advocates the bill for limiting the number of Peers, 118. Refutation of a calumny upon him, 119. Entrusts his works to Tickell, and dedicates them to Craggs, 119. Sends for Gay on his death-bed to ask his forgiveness, 120. His death and funeral, 121. Tickell's elegy on his death, 121. Superb edition of his works, 121. His monument in Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, 122. Addison, Dr. Lancelot, sketch of his life, vii. 54.
Adiaphorists, a sect of German Protest- ants, v. 591, 608.
Adultery, how represented by the drama- tists of the Restoration, vi. 560. Advancement of Learning by Bacon, its publication, vi. 172.
schines, compared by Mr. Mitford to Demosthenes, vii. 696, 697. Eschylus and the Greek drama, v. 11-19. Eschylus, his works, how regarded by Quintilian, vii. 661.
Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous
to that of England in the 16th century, v. 600. Bravery of its inhabitants, vi. 563, 566. The English the only army in India which could compete with them, 564. Their devastations in India, 390.
Agesilaus, depressed by the constitution of Lycurgus, vii. 690. Aghrim, battle of, iii. 437-439. Agriculture, state of, in 1685, i. 243-247. Reform of, 320.
Agricultural and manufacturing labourers, comparison of their condition, v. 338,
Agujari, the singer, vii. 6.
Aikenhead, Thomas, condemned to death, iv. 309. Executed, 309.
Aikin, Miss, review of her life of Addison, vii. 52, 122.
Ailesbury, Countess of, her death from terror, iv. 297.
Ailesbury, Earl of, his account of Charles
II.'s death, i. 343 note. Takes the oath of allegiance to William, ii. 423. Takes part in Jacobite plots, iii. 260. His protest against the rejection of the Place Bill, 629. His connexion with Ja- cobite conspirators, iv. 158. Sent to the Tower; his dealings with Porter, 255. Aix, its capture, vi. 70.
Ajax, the prayer of, in the Iliad, vii. 662. Akbar Khan, his death and power, iii. 467. Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, vi. 28. Albemarle, George Monk, Duke of, his character, i. 115. Marches to London, 115. Declares for a free Parliament, 116. His sea service, 255. Albemarle, Christopher Monk, Duke of, son of the above, i. 450. Marches against Monmouth; his retreat, 451. Proclaimed a traitor by Monmouth, 458. Chancellor of Cambridge University, ii.
Albemarle, Arnold Van Keppel, Earl of, his character, iv. 389. Becomes a fa- vourite of William III.; his elevation to the Peerage; Portland's jealousy of him, 389. Forfeited Irish property bestowed on him, 522. Dispatched with William's last instructions to the Hague, 552. His return, 555. Present at the King's death-bed, 555. Albeville (White), Marquis of, i. 559. His meanness and corruption, ii. 65. James II.'s envoy at the Hague, 230, 238. Insulted by the populace at the Hague, 348.
Albigensians, vi. 462, 463; their move- ment premature, i. 35.
Aldrich, Henry, Dean of Christchurch, i. 259. A member of the Ecclesiastical Commission, iii. 172. His mode of in- structing the youths of his college, vii. 284. Employs Charles Boyle to edit the Letters of Phalaris, 284. Alexander the Great, compared with Clive,
Alexander VIII., Pope, iii. 148. James's embassy to, 149.
Alfieri, Vittorio, character of his works,
vii. 605. Comparison between his works and those of Cowper, v. 406.
Alford, Gregory, Mayor of Lyme, gives the alarm of Monmouth's landing, i. 450.
Allahabad, vi. 561-562.
Allegiance, oath of, difficulties in regard to, ii. 476-482. The houses of Parlia- ment differ, 486.
Allegories of Johnson and Addison, v. 446. Allegory, difficulty of making it interest- ing, v. 446.
Allegro and Penseroso, v 10.
Alleine, Joseph, i. 456.
Allibone, Richard, a Roman Catholic;
raised to the Bench, ii. 91. One of the judges at the trial of the bishops, 169. Delivers his opinion, 176. Alphabetical writing, the greatest of hu- man inventions, vi. 216. Comparative views of its value by Plato and Bacon,
Alsatia. See Whitefriars.
Alsop, Vincent, a Nonconformist of the Court party, ii. 49, 148. America; Puritan settlements in, i. 72. Trade with, from Bristol, 263. British Colonies in, their alleged piratical con- duct, iv. 509. Acquisitions of the Ca- tholic Church in, 455. Its capabilities, vi. 455.
America, Spanish, hatred of the Spaniards in, iv. 400.
American colonies, British war with them, vi. 582. Act for imposing stamp duties upon them, vii. 248. Their disaffec- tion, 256. Revival of the dispute with them, 272. Progress of their resist- ance, 275.
Amsterdam, meeting of British exiles at,
i. 421. The authorities connive at Ar- gyle's expedition, 428, 445. Opposition in, to William of Orange, ii. 80, 200. Disputes with Lewis XIV., 216. The Bank of, iv. 87. Commercial prosper- ity of, 479.
Anabaptists, their origin, v. 588.
Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the pot- ter's wheel, vi. 205.
Anatomy Bill, Mr. Warburton's speech on the, viii. 77.
Anaverdy Khan, governor of the Carnatic, vi. 392, 394.
Anderton, keeper of a secret Jacobite press, iv. 30. Tried for treason, 32. Executed, 33.
Angria, his fortress of Gheriah, reduced by Clive, vi. 404.
Angus, Earl of, raises the Cameronian regiment, iii. 76.
Annandale, Earl of, a member of the Club at Edinburgh, iii. 40, 84. Goes to London, 333. Arrested; his confession, 346.
Ann Hyde, Duchess of York, Talbot's slanders against, i. 38.
Anne, Princess, afterwards Queen; educated a Protestant, i. 165. Married to Prince George of Denmark, 213. Her attach- ment to the Duchess of Marlborough, ii. 76. Scheme for inducing her to be- come a Roman Catholic, 117. Her absence at the birth of the Prince of Wales, 161, 239. Her disbelief of his legitimacy, 239. Her flight, 281. Con- sents to William's election to the throne, 381. Gives birth to a son, iii. 115. Provision made for, by Parliament, 240, VOL. VIII.
245. Her subserviency to Lady Marl- borough, 240. Her bigotry, 243. Her letter to her father, 489. Her interview with Mary on Marlborough's treason, 494. Her rupture with her sister, 496, 497. And reconciliation, iv. 118. Her reconciliation with William, 143. Her political and religious inclinations as Queen, v. 676. Changes in her govern- ment in 1710, 676. Relative estima- tion by the Whigs and the Tories of her reign, 677, 680, 684. State. of parties at her accession, vii. 74, 75. Dismisses the Whigs, 94. Change in the conduct of public affairs consequent on her death, 106.
Anne's, Queen, Bounty, ii. 459. Anselm, Archbishop, i. 18. Antinomian barn preacher, story of the,
Antioch, Grecian eloquence at, vi. 455. Antrim, Alexander Macdonnell, Earl of,
marches on Londonderry, ii. 570. Flight of his division at the Boyne, iii. 295. Apocrypha, question of lessons taken from, iii. 187.
Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone claims it for the Church of England, vi. 361-380,
Approbation, love of, v. 268. Aquinas, Thomas, vi. 233.
Arab fable of the Great Pyramid, vi. 487. Arbuthnot, his satire on the first Parti-
tion Treaty, iv. 427. His Satirical Works, vii. 91.
Archangel, founded by British adven- turers, iv. 382, 383. Secret trade in tobacco, 383.
Arches, Court of, i. 591.
Archidiaconal Courts, i. 591.
Archimedes, his slight estimate of his inventions, vi. 214.
Archytas, rebuked by Plato, vi. 214. Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with Eng- land, i. 394, 398, 452. His claims recognised by the English, 394. Areopagitica, Milton's allusion to, v. 44. Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Marquess of, i. 418. His power, iii. 54. Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Earl of, son of the above, i. 418. Sentenced to death; escapes to Holland, 419. His power, 420. Appointed commander of the expedition to Scotland, 423. Lands in Scotland, 429. His proclamation; raises his clan, 429. His plan of operations; thwarted by his followers, 430, 433. Marches on Glasgow, 434. His troops dispersed, 434. Taken pri- soner, 435. His fortitude, 437. His last sayings, 438. His execution, 439. His unpopularity in Scotland, iii. 55. Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Earl of, son
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