Dallas, Chief Justice, one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial, vi. 630. Dalrymple, Sir James, of Stair, his life and character, iii. 14, 15. President of the Court of Session, 39. Dalrymple, Sir John (Master of Stair), agent of William III., at Edinburgh, iii. 16. Appointed Lord Advocate, 39. Opposes Montgomery in the Scotch Parliament, 338. Appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, 511. His hatred to the Macdonalds of Glencoe, 519. His probable motives; his policy to- wards the Highlanders, 520-522. Ob- tains William's signature for the extir- pation of the Macdonald's of Glencoe, 523. His arrangements, 525, 526. His disappointment at the incompleteness of the massacre, 533. Accompanies William to Holland, 654. jealousy of him, iv. 149.
the cause of the Glencoe massacre, 151. Address of Scotch Parliament to the King regarding him, 151. Dismissed by William, 154.
Dalrymples, the, disliked by the Scotch aristocracy, iii. 79.
Daly, an Irish judge, ii. 500. His cen- sure of the proceedings of the Jacobite Irish Parliament; summoned to the bar of the House; discharged, 560. Danby, Earl of. See Leeds, Duke of. Danby, Earl of, son of the above. See Caermarthen.
Danes, their struggle with the Saxons, i. 8. Danish troops in William's army at the Boyne, iii. 290.
Danger, public, a certain amount of, will
warrant a retrospective law, v. 569. Dangerfield, a witness in the Popish plot, i. 202. His trial, 380. His death from flogging, 381. His narrative published by Williams, ii. 144. See Williams. Dante, his Divine Comedy, v. 14, 53. Comparison of him with Milton, 14 et seq. "Correctness" of his poetry, 38. Story from, illustrative of the two great parties in England after the accession of the House of Hanover, vii. 205. Dante, criticism on, vii. 601. His first adventure in the popular tongue, 601. Influences of the times in which he lived upon his works, 604, 605. His love of Beatrice, 609. His despair of happiness on earth, 609. Close con- nection between his intellectual and moral character, 610. Compared with Milton, 611. His metaphors and com- parisons, 611, 612. Little impression made by the forms of the external world upon him, 613. Fascination revolting and nauseous images had for his mind, 614. His use of ancient mythology in
his poems, 615. His idolatry of Virgil, 616. Excellence of his style, 616. Re marks upon the translations of the Di. vine Comedy, 617. His veneration for writers inferior to himself, v. 88. How regarded by the Italians of the four- teenth century, 89, 90.
Danton, character of, vii. 125. His death, 163.
Danvers, an English refugee in Holland, i. 409. A follower of Monmouth, 424. His cowardly conduct, 460. D'Arblay, Madame, review of her Diary and Letters, vii. 1-51. Wide celebrity of her name, 2. Her Diary, 2, 3. Her family, 3. Her birth and education, 4, 7. Her father's social position, 8. Her first literary efforts, 8. Her friendship with Mr. Crisp, 8, 13. Publication of her "Evelina," 14, 15. Her comedy "The Witlings," 18. Her second novel,
Cecilia," 19. Death of her friends Crisp and Johnson, 20. Her regard for Mrs. Delany, 20. Her interview with the king and queen, 21, 22. Ac- cepts the situation of keeper of the robes, 22. Sketch of her life in this position, 24-28. Attends at Warren Hastings' trial, 28. Her espousal of the cause of Hastings, 29. Her in- civility to Windham and Burke, 29. Her sufferings during her keepership, 30, 35-37. Her marriage, and close of the Diary, 38. Publication of “Ca- milla," 38. Subsequent events in her life, 38. Her death, 39. Character of her writings, 39-48. Change in her style, 45-48. Specimens of her three styles, 47, 49. Failure of her later works, 50. Service she rendered to the English novel, 51.
Darcy, Colonel John, i. 542. Dare, Thomas, a follower of Monmouth, i. 446. His quarrel with Fletcher of Saltoun; is slain, 449.
Darien, Scottish colonisation of, proposed
by William Paterson, iv. 480-482. The Company, 482. Number of small shareholders, 484. The violation of the rights of Spain overlooked, 485, 486. Impolicy of the scheme, 486. Certain hostility of other powers, 487. favourable opinions in England, 488. The scheme persisted in, 490. De- parture of the expedition, 490. Arrival at the Isthmus, 492. Establishment of the colony; dealings with the native chieftains, 492. Internal government, 493. Hostility of the neighbouring settlements, 493. Rumours of disaster reach London, 495. Strange inatten- tion to considerations of climate, 496. Mortality among the settlers, 497. Dis-
astrous flight; a remnant arrives at New York, 497. Arrival of the second expedition at Darien, 498. Internal
quarrels, 499. Besieged by a Spanish force; capitulate, 499. Dartmouth, George Legge, Lord, receives Monmouth into his custody, i. 482, 484. The commander of James II.'s fleet, ii. 238. Detained in the Thames by the wind, 251, Driven into Portsmouth by weather, 255. Refuses to send the Prince of Wales to France, 289. Re- moved from the command of the fleet, 342. Takes the oath of allegiance to William III., 423. Takes part in Jaco- bite plots, 260, 363. Furnishes Preston with information for Saint Germains, 365. Informed against by Preston, iv. 383. His denial of his guilt, 385. Dies in the Tower, 385.
Dashwood, Sir Francis, Chancellor of the Exchequer under Bute, vii. 228. His inefficiency, 238.
Davenant, Charles, his calculations of agricultural produce, i. 246. Of mine- ral produce, 248 note. His estimate of clerical incomes, 254. Davenant, a French partisan, found at supper with the French ambassador; pretends that the meeting was acci- dental, iv. 547. Loses his seat in Par- liament, 550.
David, M., d'Angers, the sculptor, his part in the Memoirs of Bertrand Barère, vii. 123.
Davila, one of Hampden's favourite au- thors, v. 555.
Daylesford, site of the estate of the Hastings family, vi. 544. Its pur- chase and adornment by Hastings, 639,
De Augmentis Scientiarum, by Bacon, vi. 171, 202.
Debates in Parliament, effects of their publication, v. 234.
Debt, the National, effect of its abroga- tion, v. 344. England's capabilities in respect to it, 368.
Declaration of Indulgence. See Indul- gence.
Declaration of Right ii. 388; vi. 121, 122. "Declaration of the Practices and Trea-
sons attempted and committed by Robert Earl of Essex," by Lord Bacon, vi. 160. Dedications, literary, more honest than formerly, v. 371.
Defoe, Daniel, his "True-born English-
man," ii. 444 note. Effect of his Robinson Crusoe on the imagination of the child and the judgment of the man,
Delamere, Henry Booth, Lord. See War- rington, Earl of.
Delany, Dr., his connection with Swift, vii. 21. His widow, and her favour with the royal family, 21.
De la Rue, his share in the assassination plot, iv. 212. Informs against his con- federates, 218. His evidence, 224. Delaval, Sir Ralph, destroys French ships at Cherburg, iii. 549. Placed over the navy, 651. His mismanagement in the matter of the Smyrna fleet, iv. 27. Delegates, Court of, i. 591. Delft, residence of the French envoys during the negotiations at Ryswick, iv.
Delhi, its splendour during the Mogul Empire, vi. 388.
Delium, battle of, vi. 259. Demerville, the Jacobin, betrayed by his friend Barère, vii. 191.
Democracy, a pure, vii. 688, 689. Mr. Mill's view of a pure and direct, v. 244. Reaction induced by the violence of its advocates, v. 594.
Democritus, reputed the inventor of the arch, vi. 205. Bacon's estimate of him, 206.
Demosthenes, vi. 198.
Demosthenes, compared by Mr. Mitford to Eschines, vii. 696, 697. His irre- sistible eloquence, 700.
Denham, Sir John, dictum of, concerning Cowley, v. 2. Character of his poetry, v. 101.
Denis, St., Abbey of, laid waste by Barère, vii. 165.
Denmark, its jealousy of England and Holland, iii. 564. Its progress con- trasted with the retrogression of Por- tugal, vi. 482.
Dennis, John, Pope's narrative of his Frenzy, vii. 103. His attack on Addi- son's Cato, 103.
"Dennis, St., and St. George in the Water, some Account of the Lawsuit between the Parishes of," vii. 633. Derby, i. 265.
Derby, James, Earl of, ii. 131.
Derby, William, Earl of (grandson of the above), ii. 131.
Derbyshire, roads in, i. 292.
De Ruyter, i. 150.
De Vere, Captain, his reply to Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury, iv. 341. Devonshire, wages in, i. 324. Muster
of, in expectation of a French landing after the battle of Beachy Head, iii. 310.
Devonshire, William Cavendish, Earl of, i. 546, ii. 70. His quarrel with Cole- pepper, 70. Fined exorbitantly; im- prisoned, 71. Released, 72. Joins the revolutionary conspiracy, 193. Signs the invitation to William of Orange, 197. Heads the rising in Derbyshire, 276. Meeting of peers at his house, 376. Appointed Lord Steward, 416. Made a Knight of the Garter, 492. Inquiry into his case, iii. 106. One of the Council of Nine, 269. Accompanies William to Holland, 369. Involved in Preston's confession, 383. William's magnanimity to him, 384. Raised to the dukedom, iv. 98. Appointed one of the Lords Justices, 141. Transmits Fenwick's confession to William, 260. His part in the debate on Fenwick's attainder, 290, 292. At the death-bed of William III., 555. Devonshire, Duke of, forms an adminis-
tration after the resignation of New- castle, vi. 64. Lord Chamberlain under Bute, vii. 229. Dismissed from his lord-lieutenancy, 235. His son invited to court by the king, 252. Devonshire, Duchess of, vi. 630. Devonshire, Countess Dowager of, ii. 72. De Witt, John, Grand Pensionary of Holland, i. 159. Murdered, 171.
Diary and Letters of Madame d'Arblay, reviewed, vii. 1–51.
Dieppe, bombardment of, iv. 103. Dies Iræ, viii. 562.
Digby, Edward, his letters from the Tower, i. 527.
Dionysius, his inconsistency of character, vi. 642. His criticisms, vii. 661. Diplomatic language used by the French Convention, vii. 156.
Directory, the Executive, of France, for- mation of, vii. 184.
Discussion, free, its tendency, v. 355. Dispensing power, i. 25. Questions as to the extent of, 174. James II.'s claim to, 585. Recognised by the Court of King's Bench, 587. James's exercise of, 588.
Dissent, secret (time of Charles I.), i. 70. Cause of, in England, vi. 478. Avoid-
ance of, in the Church of Rome, 479. Its extent in the time of Charles I., v. 354. See also Church of England. 'Dissenter, Letter to a," ii. 46. Dissenters (the), examination of the rea-
sening of Mr. Gladstone for their ex-
clusion from civiì offices, vi. 346–353. Persecution of the Dissenters by the Cavaliers, vii. 302. Relieved by Charles II., 304. Prosecutions consequent on the enterprise of Monmouth, 305. The Dissenters courted by the government of James II., 307.
Dissenters' Chapels Bill, speech on the, viii. 270.
Disturbances, public, during Grenville's administration, vii. 251.
Divine Comedy of Dante, the great source of the power of the, vii. 610. Remarks on the translations of the, 611. Divine Right, v. 25.
Division of labour, its necessity, vi. 331. Illustrations of the effects of disregard- ing it, 332.
Djezzar Pasha, his cruelty, vii. 162. Dockwray, William, his penny post, i
Doddington, Bubb, vii. 212. His kind-
ness to Samuel Johnson, 337. Dodwell, Henry, his Jacobitism, in- cluded in the Act of Attainder, ii. 568. A nonjuror, iii. 165. His strange theories, 166.
Dolben, Gilbert, ii. 365.
Domains, royal, i. 23; iv. 354.
Don Quixote, delight with which it is read, v. 88.
Donelagh, Captain, a Jacobite agent, iv.
Donne, Johu, comparison of his wit with Horace Walpole's, vi. 14.
Donore, James II.'s head-quarters at, iii.
Dorchester, Jeffreys at, i. 500.
Dorchester, Countess of (Catharine Sed- ley), i. 574, 576. Her power over James II., 576, 578. Retires to Ire- land, 578. Returns to London, 637. Her letter to James, iii. 725. Dorset, Charles Sackville, Earl of, ii. 128. Dismissed from the Lord-Lieutenancy of Sussex, 130. Assists the flight of the Princess Anne, 281. Appointed Lord Chamberlain, 416. His conduct towards Dryden, 416. One of the Council of Nine, iii. 269. Accompanies William III. to Holland, 369. Involved in Preston's confession, 383. William's magnanimity to him, 384. Appointed one of the Lords Justices, iv. 141. His part in the debate on Fenwick's at- tainder, 290, 292. Resigns the office of Chamberlain, 304. His poetry, v. 103. The patron of literature in the reign of Charles II., 520. Dort, Synod of, i. 60, 63. Double Dealer, by Congreve, its reception, vi. 517. His defence of its profaneness,
Douglas, Andrew; his part in the relief of Londonderry, ii. 582. Douglas, James, commands the Scotch foot-guards at the battle of the Boyne, iii. 289, 293. Falls at Steinkirk, iv. 582. Dover, treaty of, i. 164.
Dover, Henry Jermyn, Lord, i. 558. Made Privy Councillor, 588. His ad- vice to James II., 634. At the Board of Treasury, 645. Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, 133. Sent to Ports- mouth to aid the Prince of Wales's escape, 288. Attends James to Ireland, 528. Makes his submission to William III., iii. 357.
Dover, Lord, review of his edition of Horace
Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, vi. 1, 35. See Walpole, Sir Horace. Dowdeswell, Mr., Chancellor of the Ex- chequer under Lord Rockingham, vii. 254.
Drama (the), its origin in Greece, v. 11. The old English drama, 98. Compared with that of Athens and France, 99. Causes of the excellence of the English drama, 99. Superiority of dramatic to other works of imagination, 99. Extinc- tion of the drama by the Puritans, 101. The drama of the time of Charles II., 102. Causes of its dissolute character soon after the Restoration, i. 314; vi. 501. Dryden's plays, v. 106. Dramas, Greek, compared with the Eng-
lish plays of the age of Elizabeth, v. 399. Dramatic art, the unities violated in all the great master-pieces of, i, 399. Dramatic literature shows the state of contemporary religious opinion, v. 606. Dramatic works (the) of Wycherley, Con- greve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, review of Leigh Hunt's edition of, vi. 490, 532. Dramatists of the Elizabethan age, manner in which they treat religious subjects, v. 606.
Drogheda, iii. 287. Surrenders to William III., 300.
Drogheda, Countess of, her character, ac- quaintance with Wycherley, and mar- riage, vi. 508. Its consequences, 509. Dromore, skirmish at, ii. 525. Drumlanrig, Earl of, deserts James II., ii.
Drummond, Captain; his part in the massacre of Glencoe, iii. 528. De- nounced by the Scotch Parliament, iv.
Drummond, General, a Scotch Privy Councillor, i. 612. Resists the measures of James II., 615. Drummond, Mr., vi. 460. Dryden, John, his sneers at the militia, i.
229 note. His testimony to Archbishop Tillotson, 260 note. At Will's Coffee
House, 288. His Fables; price of the copyright, 315. His Absalom and Achitophel, i. 316; v. 118. His Annus Mirabilis, i. 318.; v. 105. Converted to Popery, ii. 29, 30. His Hind and Panther, 31; v. 118. Literary attacks on, ii. 32. Regrets James II.'s violent measures, 124. Dismissed from the laureateship, 416. His dedication to Halifax, iii. 313. His Aurungzebe, 468. His trans- lation of Virgil; price of the copyright, iv. 113. His complaints of bad money sent by Tonson, 190. The original of his Father Dominic, v. 66. His merits not adequately appreciated in his day, 371. Alleged improvement in English poetry since his time, 404. The con- necting link of the literary schools of James I. and Anne, 410. His poetical genius, vi. 490. His excuse for the in- decency and immorality of his writings, 493. His generous admiration for the talents of others, 517. Censure on him by Collier for his language regarding heathen divinities, 523. Complimentary verses to him by Addison, vii. 59. Ob- tained from Addison a critical preface to the Georgics, 62. Place assigned to him as a poet, v. 83. His merits and defects, 86, 117. Influence exercised by him on his age, 104. Two parts into which his life divides itself, 104. His small pieces presented to patrons, 105. His rhyming plays, 106. His impos- sible men and women, 107, 109. His tendency to bombast, 110. His attempts at fairy imagery, 113. His incompara- ble reasonings in verse, 114, 116. His art of producing rich effects by familiar words, 115. Catholicity of his literary creed, 116. Causes of the exaggeration which disfigure his panegyrics, 117. And of his Absalom and Achitophel, 119. Compared with Juvenal, 120. What he would probably have accomplished in an epic poem, 120. Compared with Milton, 120.
Duart, Maclean of, iii. 66. Dublin, James II.'s entry into, ii. 533. Its appearance in 1689, 534. Factions in the Court at, 536, 540. Irish Par- liament at, 556. James II.'s Court at, iii. 256. Excitement in, on the news of William III.'s landing, 283. Return of James's army after the battle of the Boyne, 300. Evacuated by the Jacobite troops, 302. William's entry into, 303. Dublin, Richard Whately, Archbishop of his work on logic, vi. 232.
Dubois, Cardinal, his mode of dealing with public petitions, vii. 167. Dudley, Guilford, i. 488.
Dugdale, a witness against Lord Stafford,
i. 204. Against College, 208. His death, 375.
Du Guay Trouin, a French privateer,iii.591 Dumbarton's regiment, i. 470, 473. Dumblane, Peregrine Osborne, Lord. See Caermarthen.
Dumont, an accomplice in the plot for assassinating William, iii. 585. Betrays Grandval, 585.
Dumont, M., review of his Souvenirs sur Mirabeau, v. 612. Services rendered by him to society, 612. His interpretation of Bentham's works, 613. His view of
the French Revolution, 615. His efforts to instruct the French in political knowledge, 618. Sketch of the cha- racter of Mirabeau, 635. Of Sieyes and Talleyrand, 637. And of his own character, 637. His opinion that Burke's work on the Revolution had saved Europe, vi. 85. The interpreter of Bentham, 8.
Dumourier, General, his Girondist sym- pathies, vii. 143. His defection, 151. Duncombe, Charles, a banker, purchases Helmsley, iv. 191. A partisan of Sunderland, 344. Attacks Montague in Parliament, 357. Convicted of fraud and forgery, 338. Bill of Pains and Penalties against him passed by the Commons, 360. The mode of procedure an objectionable one, 362, 363. His judges interested in his condemnation, 363. Objections raised in the House of Peers, 364, 365. The Bill thrown out, and the prisoner released, 365. Again arrested, 366.
Duncombe, William, his long annuity, iii. 616 note.
Dundalk, Marshal Schomberg's camp at, iii. 138-142.
Dundas, Henry, Lord Advocate, commence-
ment of his friendship with Pitt, vii. 366. His character and hostility to Hastings, vi. 617.
Dundee, John Graham, Viscount of (Cla- verhouse), i. 388. His cruelties, 389. His presence in England during the Revolution, iii. 17. His interview with James II.; returns to Scotland under William III.'s protection, 19. At Edinburgh, 19. Threatened by the Covenanters, 23. His flight, 26. His interview with the Duke of Gordon, 27. His threatened arrest; joins Macdonald of Keppoch, 63. His design for a coalition of clans, 64. Muster of his supporters, 65, 66. Quarrels in his army, 73. Applies to James for assist- ance, 74. Hatred of, in the West of Scotland, 75. Marches into Athol, 84. Arrives at Blair; holds a council of war, 85. Gives battle at Killiecrankie,
86. His death, 89. Buried at Blair Athol, 93.
Dunfermline, James Seton, Earl of, iii. 72. Conduct of James II. to, at St. Germains, iv. 4.
Dunkeld, battle of, iii. 99, 100. Dunkeld, James Galloway, Earl of, iii. 72. Dunkirk, sale of, by Charles II., i. 149 Privateers of, iii. 590. Naval attack upon, in 1694, iv. 103.
Dunlop, a Scotch Presbyterian minister, iii. 345.
Dunning, Richard; his tract on the con- dition of the poor in Devonshire, i. 324. Dunning, Mr., joins the Whig opposition, vii. 365.
Dunton; his Athenian Mercury, iv. 171. Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry, his gi
gantic schemes for establishing French influence in India, vi. 386, 391, 393, 399, 404.
Durant; his share in the assassination plot, iv. 213.
Duras, Duke of, takes Philipsburg, ii. 231
French commander in the Palatinate
Durfey, Thomas; his Political Odes, i. 374. Duroc, General, his letter to Barère, vii. 192.
D'Usson, commands the defence of Ath- lone, iii. 431. Trampled upon in the retreat, 434. Besieged in Galway, 439. Capitulates; returns to Limerick, 440. Dutch (the), jealousy of, in the English army, 491. Animosity to, in 1698, iv. 422. Departure of William III.'s Dutch guards, 461.
Duval, Claude, the celebrated highway- man, i. 299.
Dyer; his newsletters, iv. 109. Dykvelt, Everard Van, Dutch envoy; his
conversation with James II., i. 426. His second mission to England, ii. 67. His communications with English statesmen, 67. Returns to the Hague, 78. Sent by the States General to con- gratulate William on his success, 349. Arrests Boufflers, iv. 167. His negotia- tions with Callières, 252, 254, 269.
FACHARD, John, on the condition of
the clergy, i. 257 note 259 note. Eady, Dr., his advertisements, v. 274. Education, the, of the Athenians, vii. 666.
Defects of their conversational educa- tion, 666, 667.
Egotism, the pest of conversation, vii. 619.
Zest given by it to writing, 620. East India Company, incorporation of, iii. 467. Its growing trade, 469. Its great profits, 469. Assailed by inter- loping traders 471. Political changes
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