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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.

Dislike and
Proved to be

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

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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

Un-

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-

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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.

Davies, Tom, v. 509.

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,

641.

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,

T. 90.

De Guignes, vii. 7.

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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.

313.

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.

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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-

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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

302.

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.

255.

Donne, Johu, comparison of his wit with
Horace Walpole's, vi. 14.

Donore, James II.'s head-quarters at, iii.

288.

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,

526.

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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.

218.

Drummond, Captain; his part in the
massacre of Glencoe, iii. 528. De-
nounced by the Scotch Parliament, iv.

152.

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

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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,

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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,

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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

493.

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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