Berar occupied by the Bonslas, vi. 583.
Berry, Lieut.-Colonel, sent to support the
Enniskilleners, ii. 586. His action
with Anthony Hamilton, 587.
Berwick, James Fitzjames, Duke of; Lord
Lieutenant of Hampshire, ii. 135.
His
attempt to enlist Irish recruits, 213.
Accompanies James II. in his fight
from Rochester, 339. Attends James
to Ireland, 528. His affair with the
Enniskilleners, 586. Remains in Ire-
land as commander-in-chief, iii. 328.
Weakness of his government at Limer-
ick, 424. Recalled to France, 426. At
the battle of Steinkirk, 581. Taken
prisoner at Landen; his meeting with
William, iv. 21. Heads a plot for a
Jacobite insurrection, 207. Proceeds
to London, 209. Failure of his plot,
213. His privity to the assassination
plot, 214. Returns to France; his
interview with Lewis XIV., 214, 215.
His removal from Paris demanded on
the ground of his connexion with the
assassination plots, 396. Holds the
allies in check; his retreat before Gal-
way, v. 661, 668.

Beveridge, William, i. 259. A member of
the Ecclesiastical Commission, iii. 174.
His sermon before Convocation, 186.
Receives the offer of the Bishopric of
Bath and Wells; his irresolution, 401.
The
Bible, cost of (14th century), i. 36.
English translation of the, regarded as
a specimen of the beauty and power of
the English language, v. 101.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, the astrologer, vii. 89.
Billaud, M., becomes a member of the

Committee of Public Safety, vii. 159.
Opposes Robespierre, 176. Himself
brought to trial, 179, 180. Condemned to
be removed to a distant place of con-
finement, 181. Transported to Guiana,
183. His subsequent life, 183.
Billop, arrests Jacobite emissaries in the
Thames, iii. 367.

Biographia Britannica, refutation of a
calumny on Addison in, vii. 119.
Biography, tenure by which a writer of, is
bound to his subject, vi. 317.
Birch, Colonel John; his origin, ii. 362.
His speech for declaring the Convention
a Parliament, 422. His advice in the
matter of the Scotch mutineers, 429.

BOI

Urges sending relief to Londonderry,

573.
Birmingham, i. 268.

Birminghams; a nickname of Whig
leaders, i. 201-268.

Bishops, claims of those of the Church of
England to apostolical succession, vi.
361-368.

Bishops, the Seven, consultation of, at
Lambeth, ii. 150. Their petition to
James II., 151. Their examination
before the Privy Council, 157. Sent to
the Tower, 158. Brought before the
King's Bench, 164. Liberated on bail,
165. Their trial, 171-177. Rejoicings
at their acquittal, 177. Rejoicings in
the camp, 179. And throughout the
country, 181. Concurrence of parties
in favour of, 182.

Black Hole of Calcutta described, vi. 407,
408. Retribution of the English for its
horrors, 409, 411, 414, 416.
Blackhead, agent of Young, hides a forged
treasonable paper at Bishop Sprat's,
iii. 556. Confesses his villany, 560.
Blackmore, Sir Richard, his Prince Ar-
thur, ii. 416 note. His attainments in
the Ancient Languages, vii. 59.
Blackstone, Sir William, vi. 133.
Blair Castle, iii. 82. Besieged, 83.
Blake, Robert, i. 255. His defences of
Taunton, 455.

Blasphemous publications, policy of Go-
vernment respecting, v. 358.

Blathwayt, witness for the crown against
the bishops, ii. 172.

Blenheim, battle of, vii. 79. Addison em-

ployed to write a poem in its honour, 75.
Blois, Addison's retirement to, vii. 65.
Bloody Assizes, 1. 500-505.

66

Bloomsbury Square, houses in, i. 279.
Bloomsbury Gang," the Bedfords so-
called, vii. 21.

Blount, Charles, his principles and wri-
tings, iii. 636, 637. Attacks the re-
strictions on the press, 638. His at-
tacks on Edmund Bohun, 638. Circum-
stances of his death, 644 and note.
Blue Posts, a Jacobite tavern; supper
party at, iv. 548, 550.

Blues, regiment of, its origin, i. 231.
Lodley, Sir Thomas, founder of the Bod-
leian library, vi. 202.

Bohemia, influence of the doctrines of
Wickliffe in, vi. 464, 465.

Bohun, Edmund, licenser of the press,
iii. 634. His principles, 635. His un-
popularity, 635. Attacked by Charles
Blount, 638. Brought to the bar of the
House of Commons, 639.

Boileau, his Ode on the Siege of Namur,
iii. 576. Burlesqued by Prior, iv. 170.
Addison's intercourse with, vii. 65, 67.

BOI

His opinion of modern Latin, 66, 67.
His literary qualities, 67.
"Boilman, Tom," i. 493.

Boisseleau, left in command of James
II.'s forces at Limerick, iii. 322.
Bolingbroke, Lord, the liberal patron
of literature, v. 520. Proposed to
strengthen the royal prerogative, vi. 20.
His pretence of philosophy in his exile,
225. His jest on occasion of the first
representation of Cato, vii. 101. Pope's
perfidy towards him, 111. His remedy
for the diseases of the state, 219, 220.
Bombay, disturbances at (time of James

II.), iii. 472. Its affairs thrown into
confusion by the new council at Cal-
cutta, vi. 570.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, v. 211; vii. 77. Com-
pared with Philip II. of Spain, v. 640.
Devotion of his Old Guard surpassed by
that of the garrison of Arcot to Lord
Clive, vi. 396. His early proof of talents
for war, 451. Protest of Lord Hol-
land against Bonaparte's detention, 533.
His detestation of the cruel decree of the
Convention respecting English prisoners
vii. 172. His return from Egypt, and
assumption of absolute power as First
Consul, 185. His policy at this period,
185. Allows Barère to reside in Paris,
186. Employs Barère as a writer and
spy, 187, 192. Establishes the Imperial
government, 193. His opinion of Ba-
rère's journalism, 193. His defeat and
abdication, 197. His hold on the affec-
tions of his subjects, 213.

Bonrepaux, French envoy to England, his
report on the English navy, i. 234. His
ability, 561. His low estimate of James
James II., 562. His despatch concern-
ing Ireland, ii. 119 and note Sent to
offer naval assistance to James, 228.
Coldly received, 230.

Book of the Church, Southey's, v. 333.
Books, scarcity of, in country places (1685),

i. 307. Puffing of books, v. 375, 376.
Booksellers' shops (London), i 307.
Booth, the actor, plays Cato in Addison's
tragedy, on its first representation, vii.
100.

Borgia, Cæsar, v. 70.

Borland, John, his narrative of the Scot-
tish expedition to Darien, iv. 495, 500.
Boroughs, rotten, the abolition of, a ne-
cessary reform in the reign of George
I, vi. 27.

Boscobel, James II.'s visit to, ii. 107.
Bossuet, his reply to Burnet, ii. 13. His
advice on the subject of James II.'s De-
claration, iv. 11.

Boswell, James, his character, v. 514, 518;

vii. 346. Review of his Life of John-
son by Croker, v. 498, 538; vii. 346.

BRE

Character of the work, v. 524. Becomes
a member of the Club, vii. 346.
Boswellism, v. 45.

At the

Throws

Surren-

Bothwell Bridge, battle of, i. 202.
Boufflers, Marquess of, ii. 231.
battle of Steinkirk, iii. 581.
himself into Namur, iv. 159.
ders the town, 162. His defence of the
castle, 165. Surrenders, 167. His de-
tention by William III.'s orders, 167.
Returns to Paris, his reception by Lewis
XIV., 168. His meetings with Port-
land, 316, 318. His conversations with
Portland on his demand for the remo-
val of James II.'s court from St. Ger-
mains, 395, 396.

Bourbon, Baths of, James II.'s visit to, iv.
540.

Bourbon, Duke of, character of the go-
vernment of the, v. 632.

Bourbon, House of, its growing power, i.
149. Its vicissitudes in Spain, 658,
675.

Bourbon, Lewis, Duke of, at the battle of
Steinkirk, iii. 581. At the battle of
Landen, iv. 22.

Bourne, Vincent, vi. 103.

Bow Street, whiggery of, v. 288, 289.
Boyd, his translation of the Divine Co-
medy of Dante, vii. 617.

Boyle, Charles, his nominal editorship of
the Letters of Phalaris. vi. 320; vii.

285. His book on Greek history and
philology, vii. 59. Bentley's answer
attributed to Boyle, 286.

Boyle, Robert, his chemical experiments,
i. 320.

Boyle, Right Hon. Henry, vii. 75.

Boyne, battle of the, iii. 293, 297. Flight
of James II., 297. Loss in the two
armies, 299.

Boyne, Gustavus Hamilton, Lord, Gover-

nor of Enniskillen, ii. 508. At the siege
of Athlone, iii. 433.

"Boys," the, in opposition to Sir R. Wal-
pole, vi. 24.

Her celebrity
Her intimacy

Boyse, the poet, his friendship with Dr.
Johnson, vii. 333.
Bracegirdle, Anne, iii. 604.
as an actress, v. 531.
with Congress, 531, 532.
Bradgate, iv. 179.
Brahmins, vi. 458.

Brandenburg, Duke of; his conduct in the
Coalition, iii. 569.

Bradenburgers at the battle of the Boyne,
iii. 290.

Brasidas, great only when he ceased to be
a Lacedæmonian, vii. 690.
Bray, Thomas, Life of, i. 260 note.
Breadalbane, John Campbell, Earl of, iii.
512. Negotiates for William III. with
the Jacobite chiefs, 513. His quarrel

BRE

with Macdonald of Glencoe, 515. Joins
in the plan for the extirpation of the
Macdonalds of Glencoe, 523. His self-
reproaches, 532.

Breakspear, Nicholas, his elevation to the
Papacy, i. 19.

Breda, treaty of, vi. 270.

Breton, Cape, reduction of, vi. 71.

Brest, James II.'s departure from, for
Ireland, ii. 530. Disastrous attack upon,
in 1694, iv. 101, 102.

Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles
I., v. 226.

Bridgewater, Earl of, ii. 131. Appointed
First Lord of the Admiralty, iv. 465.
Presides in the House of Peers in the
debate on the Resumption Bill, 530.
Bridport, skirmish at, i. 449.
Brighton, i. 270.

Brihuega, siege of, v. 674..

Briscoe, John; his project of a Land Bank,
iv. 88, 89 and note.

Brissot, the Girondist leader, vii. 143. His
trial, 158.

Brissotines, the. See Girondists.
Bristol, capture of, by the Royalists, i. 91.

Its appearance and trade in the time of
Charles II., 262. Kidnapping at, 263.
Threatened by Monmouth, 464. Riots
at, 599.

Britain under the Romans: under the
Saxons, i. 4. Barbarism of, 4.
Brixham, ii. 254.

"Broad Bottom Administration" (the), vi.

54.

Brook, Lord, entertains William at War-
wick Castle, iv. 179.

Brothers, his prophecies as a test of faith,
vi. 458.

Brown, John, murdered by Graham of
Claverhouse, i. 388.

Brown, Launcelot, vi. 443.

Brown, Tom; his "Amusements," ii. 475
note.

Brown's Estimate, vi. 63.

Browne, Sir Thomas, his botanical gar-
den at Norwich, i. 264.
Browning, Micaiah, breaks the boom
across the Foyle; killed, ii. 582.
Bruce, Lord, his appearance at Dr. Bur-
ney's concerts, vii. 7.

Brunswick, the House of, vii. 214.
Brunswick Lunenburg, Duke of, iii. 569.
Made Elector of Hanover, 570.
Brussels, bombarded by the French, iv.
163. Its importance as the seat of a
viceregal court, vi. 268.

Bryce, John, military execution of, i. 389.
Brydges, James (afterwards Duke of
Chandos) his motion designed against
Somers, iv. 518, 519.
Brydges, Sir Egerton, vii. 43.
Buccaneer, the Last, viii. 591.

BUN

Buccleuch, Dukes of, i. 490.

Buccleuch, Anne Scott, Duchess of, married
to Monmouth, i. 196.

Buchan, appointed commander for James
II. in Scotland, iii. 334. Surprised and
defeated by Livingstone, 334.

Buchanan; his political works burned at
Oxford, i. 212. Character of his writ-
ings, vi. 212.

Buckhurst, vi. 492, 493.

Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenie" of
James I., v. 549, 551. Bacon's early
discernment of his influence, vi. 176,
178. His expedition to Spain, 178. His
return for Bacon's patronage, 178. His
corruption, 180. His character and po-
sition, 180, 185. His marriage, 187.
His visit to Bacon, and report of his
condition, 189.

Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of, his

character, i. 167. His intrigues with
the democratical party, 176. Opposes
Danby's government, 177. His income,
242. His house in Dowgate, 278. His
chemical pursuits, 319. His death
at Helmsley, iv. 191. His fondness for
Wycherley, vi. 506. Anecdote of his
versatility, 506, 508. See Cabal.
Buckingham, attempt to intimidate the
corporation of, ii. 141.

Buckinghamshire, contested election for
(1685), i. 373, 374. Election for (1701),
iv. 559.

Budgell, Eustace, one of the friends of
Joseph Addison, vii. 85, 87.
Buffs, regiment of, i. 231.
Bulkeley, a Jacobite, his dealings with
Godolphin, iii. 411.

Bull, Bishop, i. 259.

Bunyan, John, ii. 51. His writings, 52.
Refuses to join the Court party, 53.
His attack upon Fowler, 148 note; vii.
303. Age in which he produced his
Pilgrim's Progress, v. 98. His birth
and early life, vii. 297. His notions of
good and evil, 298. Enlists in the Par-
liamentary army, 299. Returns home
and marries, 299. His fantasies and
internal sufferings, 299, 302. Thrown
into gaol, 302. His prison life,_302.
His intimate knowledge of the Bible,
303. His early writings, 303. His
abhorrence of the Quakers, 303.
controversies, 303. His answer to Ed-
ward Fowler, 303. His dispute with
some of his own sect, 303. His libera-
tion from prison, 304. His Pilgrim's
Progress, 305. His Holy War, 307.
Difficulties of 1685, 308. His death
and burial-place, 308. Fame of his Pil-
rim's Progress, 308, 309. Peculiarity of
the work, v. 446, 451, 453, 456.
Not a
perfect allegory, 450, 451. His history

His

BUN

and character, 452, 455.

His style,

456. His religious enthusiasm and
imagery, vi. 478.

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, review of
Southey's edition of, v. 445.
Burford, William III., at, iv. 179.
Burgoyne, Gen., chairman of the com-
mittee of inquiry on Lord Clive, vi. 449.
Burgundy, Duke of, his theory of good
government, v. 629.

Burke, Edmund, his opinion on the Na-
tional Debt, iii. 617, 620 note. His
character of the first French republic,
v. 140. And of the French National
Assembly, 619. His vindication of
himself from the charge of inconsis-
tency, 621. His part in The Club, vii.
345. His position in the Whig oppo-
sition, 365. His characteristics, 331.
His opinion of the war with Spain on
the question of maritime right, vi. 51.
Resembles Bacon, 212. Effect of his
speeches on the House of Commons, v.
327. Not the author of the Letters of
Junius, 568. His charges against
Hastings, 616; vii. 88. His kindness
to Miss Burney, 30. Her incivility to
him at Hastings' trial, 30. His early
political career, 254-259. His first
speech in the House of Commons, 259.
His opposition to Chatham's measures
relating to India, 268. His defence of
his party against Grenville's attacks,

273. His feeling towards Chatham 274.
Burleigh, William III.'s visit to, iv. 177.
Burleigh and his Times, review of Rev.

Dr. Nares's, v. 587. His early life and
character, 588-593. His death, 593.
Importance of the times in which he
lived, 593. The great stain on his cha-
racter, 608. Character of the class of
statesmen he belonged to, vi. 144.
Classical acquirements of his wife, 144.
His conduct towards Bacon, 148, 149,
156. His apology for having resorted
to torture, 174. Bacon's letter to him
upon the department of knowledge he
had chosen, 236.

Burley on the Hill, iv. 126.

Burnet, Gilbert, preacher at the Rolls
Chapel, i. 259. His merit as a writer
and preacher, ii. 12. His History of
the Reformation, 13. Retires from
England, 14. His residence at the
Court of the Prince of Orange, 14.
Brings about a good understanding be-
tween William and Mary, 15. Enmity
of James II. to, 65, 66. His conversa-
tion with William at Torbay, 255.
Sent forward to Exeter, 257. Preaches
at the cathedral, 261. Draws up a
paper for the signature of William's
followers, 274. His conduct in Salis-

BUT

bury cathedral, 297.

His friendship

for Halifax, 298. Conversation with
Halifax at Littlecote, 302. Commis-
sioned to protect the Roman Catholics,
343. Preaches before the House of
Commons, 377. Declares the Princess
Mary's intentions, 381. His zeal for
Mary, 383. His memoirs, 413 and
note. His generous conduct to Roches-
ter, 424. Made Bishop of Salisbury,
456. His zeal and liberality in his
diocese, 459. His speech on the Com-
prehension Bill, 485. His Coronation
Sermon, 491. His plan for a union of
the Church and Dissenters, iii. 10. Pro-
poses placing the Princess Sophia in
the succession, 115. His friendship
for Tillotson, 185. Proposer of the
clause in the Bill of Rights against the
sovereign marrying a Papist, 194. Re-
monstrates against the use of bribery,
230.

His sermon on the general Fast
Day (1690), 234. His interview with
William, 271. His explanation of
Marlborough's disgrace, 496 note. His
alleged advice for the establishment of
the National Debt, 615. His Pastoral
Letter, 640. Which is ordered to be
burned by the Commons, 641. His
mortification, 642 and note. Supports
Fenwick's attainder, iv. 290. His
Thanksgiving Sermon, 327. His visits
to the Czar Peter at Deptford, 386.
Attack upon, in the House of Com-
mons, 516. Its defeat, 517. His share
in passing the Resumption Bill, 535.
Attends William III. on his deathbed,
555. His accusations against Sir Wil-
liam Temple, vi. 323.

Burnet, Thomas, Master of the Charter-
house, his resistance to the admission of
a Roman Catholic, ii. 104.
Burney, Dr., his social position, vii. 4–7.
His conduct relative to his daughter's
first publication, 14. His daughter's
engagement at Court, 22.

Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame.
Burns, Robert, age in which he produced
his works, v. 98.

Burrington joins William, ii. 265.
Burt, Captain, his description of the
Scottish Highlands, iii. 43.

Burton, James, a fugitive conspirator,
concealed by Elizabeth Gaunt, informs
against his benefactress, i. 518.
Bussey, his eminent merit and conduct in
India, vi. 400.

Bute, Earl of, his character and education,
vii. 216. Appointed Secretary of State,
220. Opposes the proposal of war with
Spain on account of the family compact,
223. His unpopularity on Chatham's
resignation, 225. Becomes Prime Mi-

nister, 225.

BUT

His first speech in the
House of Lords, 225. Induces the re-
tirement of the Duke of Newcastle, 227.
Becomes First Lord of the Treasury,
228. His foreign and domestic policy,
230-238. His resignation, 240. Con-
tinues to advise the King privately, 242,
244, 257.

Butler, Samuel, i. 313.

His satire on the
Character of

Royal Society, 319 note.
his poetry, v. 103. Addison not inferior
to him in wit, vii. 90.
Butler, Captain, leads an assault on Lon-
donderry, ii. 553.
Buxton, i. 270.

Buyse, Anthony, i. 446. Accompanies

Monmouth's flight, 478. Taken, 480.
Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca, vi.
63. His trial, 65. Opinion of his con-
duct, 65. Chatham's defence of him, 66.
Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, v. 388.

His character, 389. His early life,
390. His quarrel with and separation
from his wife 391-393. His expatria-
tion, 394. Decline of his intellectual
powers, 394. His attachment to Italy
and Greece, 395. His sickness and
death, 396. General grief for his fate,
396. Remarks on his poetry, 397. His
admiration of the Pope school of poetry,
408. His opinion of Wordsworth and
Coleridge, 408. Of Peter Bell, 408.
His estimate of the poetry of the 18th
and 19th centuries, 408. His sensitive-
ness to criticism, 409. The interpreter
between Wordsworth and the multitude,
410. The founder of an exoteric Lake
school, 410. Remarks on his dramatic
works, 410-415. His egotism, 415.
Cause of his influence, 415-417.

NABAL, the, i. 166. Its measures, 169;

Cabinet, the; its origin and nature, i. 166.
Cabinets in modern times, vi. 290.
Cadiz, exploit of Essex at the siege of, v.

660; vi. 158. Its pillage by the British
expedition in 1702, v. 660.
Caermarthen, Marquess of. See Leeds,
Duke of.

Caermarthen, Peregrine, Marquess of, son
of the above; joins the Prince of Orange
at the Hague, ii. 234. Assists in the
arrest of Preston and his accomplices,
iii. 367. Takes part in the attack on
Brest, iv. 100. Becomes a favourite with
the Czar Peter, 386. Disappointed of
the Auditorship of the Exchequer, 448.
Cæsar, Julius, accounts of his campaigns,
regarded as history, v. 141. Compared
with Cromwell, 211.
Cæsar Borgia, v. 70.

CAM

Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of James I.
to, v. 548.

Cæsars (the), parallel between them and
the Tudors, not applicable, v. 601.
Caillemonte, Count of, colonel of regi-
ment of French Huguenots, iii. 128.
Slain at the Boyne, 295.
Calais, bombardment of, iv. 104.
Calcutta, its position on the Hoogley, vi.
406. Scene of the Black Hole of, 407,
408. Resentment of the English at its
fall, 409. Again threatened by Surajah
Dowlah, 412. Revival of its prosperity,
420. Its sufferings during the famine,
444. Its capture, 548. Its suburbs
infested by robbers, 570. Its festivities
on Hastings' marriage, 581.
Calderwood, George, iii. 352 note.
Calliares; his negotiations with Dykvelt,
iv. 252, 254, 269. French negotiator at
Ryswick, 312.

Calvinists, their principle of resistance to
rulers, i. 46. Moderation of Bunyan's
Calvinism, v. 462. Calvinism held by
the Church of England at the end of
the 16th century, vi. 367. Many of its
doctrines contained in the Paulician
theology, 461.

Cambon, Colonel, iii. 128.
Cambridge University, eminent divines at,
i. 259. Decline of Greek learning at,
in the time of Charles II., 309 and note.
Address from, to James II., 371. Loy-
alty of the University, ii. 93. Attacked
by James II., 94-96. Election for
(1690), iii. 222. Election for (1701),
iv. 550. The University favoured by
George I. and George II., vii. 228. Its
superiority to Oxford in intellectual
activity, vi. 140 Disturbances produced
in, by the Civil War, 256.
Cambyses, story of his punishment of the
unjust judge, vi. 195.

Camden, Lord, joins the Whig opposition,
vii. 365.

At

Cameron, Sir Ewan, of Lochiel, iii. 57.
His character, 57. His reputation for
loyalty, 58. Meeting at his house, 65.
His advice to Dundee, 73, 86, 87.
the battle of Killiecrankie, 88. Retires
from the Highland army, 97. Keeps
up the war in the Highlands, 334.
Wounded in separating a quarrel, 335.
Takes the oaths to William III.'s Go-
vernment, 516.
Cameronian regiment, iii. 76. Stationed
at Dunkeld, 98. Repulses an attack of
Highlanders, 99.

Camerons, the, iii. 57.

Camilla, Madame D'Arblay's, vii. 44, 45.
Campaign, The, by Addison, vii. 76.
Campbell, Archibald. See Argyle.
Campbell, Captain, of Glenlyon, com