Anglo-Indian grandee, vi. 442. His
mimicry, vii. 41. His inferiority to
Garrick, 41.
Forde, Colonel, vi. 423.
Forms of government, v. 528, 530.
Fort William, iii. 335.
Fortune, remedies for Good and Evil,
Petrarch's, vii. 630.
Fowler, Dr. Edward, i. 259. His refusal
to read the Declaration of Indulgence,
ii. 148. A member of the Ecclesiastical
Commission, iii. 172, 174. Made Bishop
of Gloucester, 400. John Bunyan's
answer to, vii. 303.
Fox, house of.
Fox, Charles, opposes James II.'s govern-
ment, i. 541. Dismissed from the Pay
Office, 549.
Fox, George, his doctrines, i. 129.
early life, iii. 386. His visions, 387.
His tenets, 387. His wanderings, 388.
His doctrines and writings, revised by
his followers, 390. His death and fu-
neral, 390.
Fox, Sir Stephen, elected for Westminster,
iv. 181. His competition with Montague
for the office of First Lord of the Trea-
sury, 304.
Fox, Charles James, comparison of his
History of James II. with Mackintosh's
History of the Revolution, vi. 76. His
style, 77. Characteristic of his oratory,
79. His bodily and mental constitution,
vi. 536, 537. His championship of ar-
bitrary measures, and defiance of public
opinion, 538. His change after the
death of his father, 539. Clamour raised
against his India Bill, and his defence
of it, 617. His alliance with Burke,
and call for peace with the American
republic, 619. His powerful party, 621.
His conflicts with Pitt, 622. His mo-
tion on the charge against Hastings,
624. His appearance on the trial, 631.
His rupture with Burke, 637.
character, vii. 365. His great political
error, 368. The King's detestation of
him, 370. Becomes Secretary of State,
under the Duke of Portland, 371. His
India Bill, 373. His speeches, 381.
Fox, Henry, sketch of his political cha-
racter, vi. 51, 60. Accepts office, 62, 64.
Directed to form an administration in
concert with Chatham, 64, 69. Applied
to by Bute to manage the House of
Commons, vii. 233, 234. His private
and public qualities, 234. Becomes
leader of the House of Commons, 235.
Obtains his promised peerage, 240.
Foyle, boom thrown across the, by the
besiegers of Londonderry, ii. 554. The
passage forced by the relieving squad-
ron, 581, 582.
Fragments of a Roman Tale, viii. 562.
Frampton, Bishop of Gloucester, a non-
juror, iii. 159.
France, the conquest of, would have been
ruinous to England, i. 12. English
wars in, 14. Successful resistance of,
16. Papal authority in, limited, 38.
State of, under Lewis XIV., 155, 156;
v. 626. War with Spain, i. 157. Power
of, under Lewis XIV., 217, 310.
Ascendency of (1685), ii. 498. Coa-
lition against (1689), iii. 146. Finan-
cial distress of (1693), iv. 39. Eng-
lish relations with, in 1698, 388. The
English embassy in, see Portland. Illus-
tration from the history of, since the
Revolution, v. 217. Her condition in
1712 and in 1832, 678. Her state at the
restoration of Louis XVIII., vi. 98.
Enters into a compact with Spain
against England, 178. Recognizes the
independence of the United States, 230.
Character of French poetry, v. 97.
Characteristics of the personifications
of the drama of, 99. Spirit excited in
France at the time of the Revolution
by some of the ancient historians, 139.
Burke's character of the French Re-
public, 140. Population of, 481. Con-
dition of the government of, in 1799,
615. Strictures of M. Dumont on the
National Assembly, 619. Infancy of
political knowledge of the French at
the period of the Revolution, 619.
The English Revolution compared with
the French, 620. Arguments against
the old monarchy of France, 620. The
first compared with the second French
Revolution, 622. Causes of the first
Revolution, 625. Condition of France
for eighty years previous, vii. 135.
Causes which immediately led to
that event, 135. Difficulties of the
Constitution of 1791, 139. The war
with the continental coalition, 140.
Effect of the League of Pilnitz on the
position of the King, 141. Formation
and meeting of the Convention, 141.
The two great parties of the Conven-
tion-the Girondists and the Moun-
tain, 143, 145. Death of the King,
146, 147. Policy of the Jacobins, 148.
The new crime of federalism, 148. De-
fection of Dumourier and appointment
of the Committee of Public Safety, 159,
163. Irruption of the mob into the
palace of the Tuileries, 152. Destruc-
tion of the Girondists, 158. Establish-
ment of the Reign of Terror, 159.
Condition of France during the reign
of Louis XV., v. 627. Fénélon's views
incomprehensible to his countrymen,
628. Loss to France on the death of
the Duke of Burgundy, 629. The Re-
gency of Philip of Orleans, 630. The
Duke of Bourbon, 632. Downward
course of the monarchy, and indications
of the forthcoming revolution, 632,633.
The Greek and Roman models of the
French legislators, 635. Victories of
France in 1794, vii. 173. The memo-
rable ninth of Thermidor, 175. Exe-
cution of Robespierre and his accom-
plices, 177. End of the Jacobin do-
minion, 177, 183. Condition of the
nation at this period, 178. Forma-
tion of the Constitution of 1795, 184.
Bonaparte's return from Egypt and as-
sumption of absolute power, 185. Po-
litical spies in France, 190. Defeat
of Napoleon at Waterloo, 197. The
Chamber of Representatives, 197. The
Royalist Chamber under the Bourbons,
198. Review of the policy of the Ja-
cobins, 199. War declared by England
against, 403.
Franche Comté, retained by France, i. 180.
Francis, assaults Dangerfield; tried and
executed for murder, i. 380.
Francis, Sir Philip, councillor under the
Regulating Act for India, vi. 567. His
character, 567. Probability of his being
the author of the Letters of Junius,
567, 568. Opposes Hastings, 570, 581.
His patriotic feeling, and reconciliation
to Hastings, 585. Opposes the arrange-
ment with Impey, 590. Renews his
quarrel with Hastings, 590. Duel with
Hastings, 590. Returns to England,
593. His entrance into the House of
Commons and character there, 618, 623.
His speech relating to Cheyte Sing,
624. Excluded from the impeachment
committee, 628.
Francis, the Emperor, vii. 213.
Francis, Alban, a Benedictine monk, ii.
Franciscans, in London, i. 598.
Franklin, Benjamin, vi. 457.
miration for Miss Burney, vii. 18.
Franks, rapid fall of their dominion after
the death of Charlemagne, vi. 389.
Fraser, licenser of the press, his resigna-
tion, iii. 634.
Frederic I., King of Prussia, iii. 373.
Frederic II., ii. 549.
Frederic the Great, review of his Life
and Times, by Thomas Campbell, vi.
645,714. Notice of the House of Bran-
denburgh, 645. Birth of Frederic, 648.
His father's conduct to him, 648. His
taste for music, 649. His desertion and
imprisonment, 650. His release, 651.
His favourite abode and amusements,
651. His education, 651. His exclu-
sive admiration for French writers
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651. His veneration for the genius of
Voltaire, 653. His correspondence
with him, 654. His accession, 655.
His character little understood, 656.
His true character, 658. He deter-
mines to invade Silesia, 658. Pre-
pares for war, 658. Commences hosti-
lities. 659. His perfidy, 660. Occu-
pies Silesia, 660. His first battle, 661.
His change of policy, 663. Gains the
battle of Chotusitz, 663. Silesia ceded
to him, 663. His whimsical conferences
with Voltaire, 664. Recommences hos-
tilities, 665. His retreat from Bohe-
mia, 665. His victory at Hohenfried-
berg, 666. His part in the treaty of
Aix-la-Chapelle, 666. Public opinion
respecting his political character, 666.
His application to business, 667. His
bodily exertions, 668. General princi-
ples of his government, 668. His eco-
nomy, 669. His character as an admi-
nistrator, 670. Labours for cheap and
speedy justice, 671. Religious perse-
cution unknown under him, 671. Vices
of his administration, 671. His com-
mercial policy, 672. His passion for
directing and regulating, 672. His
contempt for the German language, 672.
His associates at Potsdam, 673. His
talent for sarcasm, 675. Invites Vol-
taire to Berlin, 677. Their singular
friendship, 679 et seq. Union of
France, Austria, and Saxony, against
him, 689. He anticipates his ruin, 690.
Extent of his peril, 692. He occupies
Saxony, 692. Defeats Marshal Brown
at Lowositz, 693. Gains the battle of
Prague, 694. Loses the battle of Kolin,
696. His victory at Leuthen, 700. Its
effects, 702. His subsequent victories,
703-714.
Frederic William I., vi. 646. His cha-
racter, 647. His ill-regulated mind,
647. His ambition to form a brigade
of giants, 647. His feeling about his
troops, 647. His hard and savage
temper, 648. His conduct to his son
Frederic, 648, 650. His death, 655.
Free inquiry, right of, in religious mat-
ters, vi. 358, 360.
"Freeman, Mrs.," name assumed by the
Duchess of Marlborough, ii. 77; iii.
240.
French Academy, its services to litera-
ture, 10.
French language and literature, influ
ence of, i. 310.
French Revolution (the), and the Refor-
mation, analogy between, v. 593, 595.
Friend, Sir John, iv. 158. His privity to
Barclay's assassination plot, 211. Ar-
rested, 213. His trial and conviction,
227. Refuses to betray his confede-
rates; executed, 230.
Froissart, character of his history, vii. 145.
Frome, rises in favour of Monmouth, dis-
armed, i. 467.
Fullarton, Major, i. 431.
to save Argyle, 435.
Fuller, William, a Jacobite emissary, his
double treachery, iii. 263. His extra-
vagant habits, 500. His connexion
with Oates, 502. Announces his dis-
covery of a plot, 503. His statement
before the House of Commons, 504.
His falsehood detected; his prosecution
and punishment, 505.
Funding, system of; its effects, iii. 620.
See National Debt.
Furstemburg, Cardinal, candidate for the
Archbishopric of Cologne, ii. 218. His
cause supported by Lewis XIV., 228.
ABRIELLI, the singer, vii. 6.
Gafney, irregular execution of, at
Dublin, iii. 421.
Gainsborough, Edward Noel, Earl of, ii.
Gall, Monk of St., Paraphrase in a Pas-
sage of the Chronicle of the, viii. 598.
Gallican Church, distractions in, ii. 149.
"Gallienus Redivivus," pamphlet, why so
called, iii. 530 note.
Galmoy, Lord, ii. 554.
Galway, siege of, iii. 439. Capitulation,
Galway, Earl of (Marquess of Ruvigny),
leader of French refugees, iii. 127.
Joins the English army in Ireland,
428. Turns the Irish flank at Aghrim,
438. His interview with Sarsfield, 445.
Takes part in the expedition from St.
Helen's, 588. At the battle of Landen,
iv. 22. English envoy at Turin, 253.
Grant of forfeited Irish lands to, 528.
Commands the allies in Spain in 1704,
V. 662, 668. Defeated at Almanza,
Ganges, highway of commerce, vi. 405.
Garden of Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles,
v. 401. Painting of, by a gifted master,
402.
Garraway's Coffee House, i. 289.
Garrick, David, his acquaintance with
Johnson, v. 519; vii. 336. His power
of amusing children, 6. His advice as
to Crisp's tragedy of Virginia, 10. His
power of imitation, 41. A member of
the Literary Club, 345.
Garth, Samuel, his evidence at the trial of
Spencer Cowper, iv. 503. His epilogue
to Cato, 101. Insults Bentley and ex-
tols Boyle, viii. 287.
Gascoigne, Sir Thomas; his trial for trea-
son, ii. 137.
Gastanaga, Marquess of, attends the Con-
gress at the Hague, iii. 373. Gover-
nor of the Spanish Netherlands, 568.
Recalled, 571.
Gauden, the author of Icon Basilike, iii.
634.
Gaudet, the Girondist, his execution, vii.
159.
Gaunt, Elizabeth; her trial and execution,
i. 518, 519.
Gay attends Addison on his deathbed, vi.
"Gazette, the London," in the reign of
Charles II.; its ordinary contents, i.
304. The only printed newspaper in
1694, iv. 109. Deficiencies of, 171.
Geneva, Addison's visit to, vii. 72.
Genoa, Bank of, St. George at, iv. 87. Ad-
dison's admiration of, vii. 68. Its decay
owing to Catholicism, vi. 481.
Gensonné, the Girondist leader, vii. 113.
His trial, 158. His death, 158.
"Gentleman Dancing Master" produced,
vi. 507. Its best scenes suggested by
Calderon, 514.
Geologist, Bishop Watson's description of
Geometry, comparative estimate of, by
Plato and by Bacon, vi. 212.
George, Prince, of Denmark, marries the
Princess Anne, i. 211. Deserts James
II., ii. 280. Made Duke of Cumber-
land, 492. Offers to accompany Wil-
liam III. to Ireland, iii. 271.~ His offer
declined, 271.
George I., his accession, v. 680.
George II., political state of the nation in
his time, v. 231. His resentment
against Chatham, vi. 54. Compelled to
accept him, 55. His efforts for the pro-
tection of Hanover, 59, 61. His rela-
tions towards his ministers, 67-72.
Reconciled to Chatham, vii. 212. His
death, 213. His character, 214.
George III., his accession the commence-
ment of a new historic era, v. 231; vii.
204, 213. Cause of the discontents in
the early part of his reign, 231. His
partiality to Clive, vi. 448. Bright
prospects at his accession, 582; vii. 204,
214. His interview with Miss Burney,
21. His opinions of Voltaire, Rousseau,
and Shakspeare, 21. His partisanship
for Hastings, 31. His illness, 31, 32.
The history of the first ten years of his
reign but imperfectly known, 204. His
characteristics, 215, 216. His favour
to Lord Bute, 217. His notions of go-
vernment, 217. Slighted for Chatham
at the Lord Mayor's dinner, 225. Re-
ceives the resignation of Bute. and ap.
points George Grenville, 239, 241. His
treatment by Grenville, 244. His aver-
sion to his ministers, 245, 386. His
illness, 248. Disputes on the regency
question, 249. Inclined to enforce the
American Stamp Act,256. The "King's
friends," 257, 258. His unwilling con-
sent to the repeal of the Stamp Act, 259–
262. Dismisses Rockingham, and ap-
points Chatham, 264.
George IV., vi. 629.
Georgics, Addison's translation of the, vii.
60.
Gerard of Brandon, Charles Lord, trial of,
i. 550.
Germaine, Lord George, vii. 366.
German nobles at the Congress of the
Hague, iii. 373.
German princes; their mean and rapa-
cious dealings with England and Hol-
land, iii. 567.
Germany, the literature of, little known
in England sixty or seventy years ago,
vii. 65. Addison's ramble in, 380.
Gerona taken by the French, iv. 104.
Ghizni, peculiarity of the campaign of, vi.
Ghosts, Johnson's belief in, v. 527.
Gibbon, Edward, his alleged conversion
to Mahomedanism, v. 503, 504.
success as an historian, vi. 77. His
presence at the trial of Hastings, 629.
Unlearned his native English, vii. 47.
Charges brought against him as a his-
torian, v. 153. His part in The Club,
vii. 345.
Gibbons, Grinling, i. 323.
Gibraltar, capture of, by Sir G. Rooke, v.
662.
Giffard, Bonaventura, i. 637. Popish Pre-
sident of Magdalene College, 115.
Giffard, Lady, vi. 270, 272, 315. Her
death, 323.
Gifford, Byron's admiration of, v. 408.
Gildon, a follower of Charles Blount, i.
276.
Gillies, Peter, military execution of, in
Scotland, i. 389.
Ginkell, General See Athlone, Earl of.
Girondists, or Brissotines, Barère's ac-
count of the proceedings against the,
vii. 131. Sketch of the political party
so called, 143. Its struggles with the
Mountain, 148. Accusation brought
against the leaders of the party, 148.
Defeated by the Mountain, 152. Im-
peached by their late colleague Barère,
154. Their trial, 157. Their fate,
158.
Givet, surprised by Athlone and Cohorn,
iv. 241.
Gladstone, W. E., review of "The State
in its relations with the Church," vi.
326-380. Quality of his mind, 328.
Grounds on which he rests his case for
the defence of the Church, 330. His
doctrine that the duties of government
are paternal, 332. Specimen of his ar-
guments, 334, 335. His argument that
the profession of a national religion is
imperative, 336, 338, 341. The conse-
quence of his reasoning, 345–353.
Glasgow, riot in, iii. 5.
Glasgow, Archbishop of, iii. 30, 31.
Glasgow College, inaugural speech at, viii.
406.
Gleig, Rev. G. R. review of his Life of
Warren Hastings, vi. 543-644.
Glencoe, situation of, iii. 513. Character. of
the people, 514. Massacre of, planned
by Sir John Dalrymple, 522, 526. Pre-
parations for, 526, 527. The massacre,
528. Sufferings of the fugitives, 529,
530. The massacre excites little at-
tention at the time, 530, 532. Silence
in the Scotch Parliament regarding,
580. Inquiry into, iv. 148. Report of
the commissioners, 150. Proceedings
of the Scotch Parliament regarding, 151.
The officers engaged declared murder-
ers, 152.
Glencoe, Macdonald of. See Macdonald.
Glengarry, Macdonald of, See Macdo-
nald.
Gloucester, siege of, i. 91. Its population
in 1685, 265.
Gloucester, Duke of, anecdote of his child-
hood, iv. 176. Arrangement of his
household, 418.
Gloucestershire, contest for (1701), iv.
Godden, a Roman Catholic priest, i. 637.
Godfrey, Sir Edmondsbury, murder of,
i. 184.
Godfrey, Michael, supports the plan for a
national bank, iv. 91. His death before
Namur, 162.
Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, Earl of, his
character, i. 200. A commissioner of
the Treasury under Charles II., 201.
Recommends the passing of the Ex-
clusion Bill, 203. His conduct in office,
217. Appointed chamberlain to the
Queen, 349. Conforms to Roman Ca-
tholic observances, 367. Sits on the
trial of Lord Delamere, 552. His posi-
tion at court, 574. Made a commis-
sioner of the Treasury, 645. One of
James II.'s Council of Five, ii. 272.
His administration of the Treasury,
414, 449. Retires from office, iii. 232.
Recalled to the Treasury as First Com-
missioner, 361. William III.'s confi-
dence in, 410. His treachery, 411.
Influenced by Marlborough, 412.
His
communications with Middleton, iv. 9.
Appointed one of the Lords Justices,
141. Implicated in Fenwick's confes-
sion, 260. His demeanour on the read-
ing of Fenwick's confession, 262.
signs office, 271. His speech in the
House of Lords, 288. His conversion
to Whiggism, v. 675. Engages Addison
to write a poem on the battle of Blen-
heim, vii. 75.
Godolphin and Marlborough, their policy
soon after the accession of Queen Anne,
vii. 73.
Goëzman, his bribery as a member of
parliament of Paris by Beaumarchais,
vi. 200.
Golden Square, i. 279.
Goldsmith, Oliver, his dislike to Scotch
scenery, iii. 43. His birth and early
life, vii. 310. His first schoolmaster,
310. His personal appearance, 311.
His college life, 311. Death of his
father, 312. His attempts at the
church, law, and physic, 312. His
rambles on foot through Flanders,
France, and Switzerland, 312. His dis-
regard of truth, 313. His return to
England, and desperate expedients to
obtain a living, 313. His literary
drudgery, 314. Character of his works,
314. Introduced to Johnson, 315.
One of the original members of The
Club, 315. Removes from Breakneck
Steps to the Temple, 315. Story of the
publication of the Vicar of Wakefield,
316. His Traveller. 316. His Dramas,
316. His Deserted Village, 317. His She
Stoops to Conquer, 318. His Histories,
318, 319. His arts of selection and con-
densation, 319. His intimacy with the
great talkers of the day, 320. His con-
versational powers, 320. How regarded
by his associates, 320. His virtues and
vices, 321. His death, 322. His ceno-
taph in Westminster Abbey, 323.
biographers, 323. His part in The
Club, 345. Unjust to estimate him by
his History of Greece, vi. 559.
Gomer Chephoraod, King of Babylon,
apologue of, vii. 578.
Goodenough, Richard, a Whig refugee, i.
411. Taken after the battle of Sedge-
moor; pardoned, 514. His evidence
against Cornish, 517. A witness in the
trial of Lord Delamere, 552.
Goodman, Cardell, a Jacobite adventurer,
iv. 146. Heads a Jacobite riot, 159.
His flight, 273.
Goodnatured Man (the), of Oliver Gold-
smith, viii. 317.
Goordas, son of Nuncomar, his appoint-
ment as treasurer of the household, vi.
559.
Gordon, Duke of, Governor of Edinburgh
Castle in 1689, iii. 6, 20. Summoned
to surrender by the Scotch Convention,
22. Returns an evasive answer, 23.
His interview with Dundee, 27. Re-
fuses to fire on the city, 29. Surrenders
the castle, 78.
Goree, conquest of, vi. 71.
Gorhambury, the country residence of
Lord Bacon, vi. 185.
Government, various forms of, v. 528,
529. Change in its form sometimes not
felt till long after, 644. The science of,
experimental and progressive, 677; vi.
89, 91. Examination of Mr. Glad-
stone's Treatise on the Philosophy of,
326, 367. Doctrines of Southey on the
duties and ends of, stated and examined,
v. 348-357. Its conduct in relation to
infidel publications, 357. Its proper
functions, vi. 499, 501. Proper con-
ditions of a good, vii. 687. Review of
Mr. Mill's Essays on, &c., v. 239. His
chapter on the ends of government,
243. And on the means, 243. His
view of a pure and direct democracy,
244. Of an oligarchy, 244. And of a
monarchy, 244. Deduction of a theory
of politics in the mathematical form,
Government, according to Mr.
Mill, only necessary to prevent men
from plundering each other, 249. His
argument that no combination of the
three simple forms of government can
exist, 249. His remarks on the British
Constitution, 253. His hope for man-
kind in the government of a represen
tative body, 257. The real security of
men against bad government, 258. Mr.
Mill's views as to the qualifications of
voters for representatives, 260. The
desire of the poor majority to plunder
the rich minority, 261. Effects which
a general spoliation of the rich would
produce, 264. Method of arriving at a
just conclusion on the subject of the
science of government, 270. Mr. Ben-
tham's defence of Mr. Mill's Essays, 272.
Deduction of the theory of government
from the principles of human nature,
289. Remarks on the Utilitarian theory
of government, 301. Mode of tracking
the latent principle of good government,
302. Checks in political institutions, 307.
Power, 309. Constitution of the English
government, 311.
Grævius, his share in arranging the re-
joicings at the Hague for William III.'s
entrance in 1691, iii. 372.
Grafton, Duke of, repulsed by the rebels
at Philip's Norton, i. 466. Attends the
meeting of the officers with James II.;
his answer to the King, ii. 270. De-
serts James, 279. Takes the oath of
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