POR

for instructions, 408. His answer to
the French negotiators; his farewell
interview with Lewis XIV.; honours
paid to him, 410. His sullen behaviour
to William III., 417. Commissioner
for signing the Treaty of Loo, 433. His
continued hostility to Albemarle, 466.
Repels the King's advances, 467. Re-
tires from Court, 468. His presence at
the death-bed of William III., 555.
Portman, Sir William, takes Monmouth
prisoner, i. 480. Joins William Prince
of Orange, ii. 273.
Portocarrero, Cardinal, v. 651, 653. His
intrigues at Madrid in behalf of the
French; becomes Prime Minister, iv.
470. His infidelity and hypocrisy, 470,
471. Practises on the King's supersti-
tion, 472. Lewis XIV.'s opinion of him,
v. 658. His disgrace and reconciliation
with the Queen Dowager, 669.
Portrait-painting, compared with history,
V. 129.

Port Royal, destroyed by an earthquake,
iii. 591.

Port Royal, its destruction a disgrace to
the Jesuits and to the Romish Church,
vi. 484.

Portsmouth, James II. at, ii. 105.
Portsmouth, Duchess of, i. 164, 202, 335.

Her conduct during the last illness of
Charles II., 336, 340.

Portugal, its retrogression in prosperity
compared with Denmark, vi. 482.
Posidonious, his eulogy of philosophy as
ministering to human comfort, vi. 204.
Post Nati, the great case in the Exche-
quer Chamber, conducted by Bacon, vi.
170. Doubts upon the legality of the
decision, 170.

Post Office, profits of, assigned to James,
Duke of York, i. 226. Service of, under
Charles II., 301. Revenue of, 303.
Posterity, Epistle to, Petrarch's, viii. 632.
Poussin, French ambassador, ordered to
leave England, iv. 546, 547.
Powell, Sir John, ii. 71. One of the judges
at the bishops' trial, 169. Delivers his
opinion, 176. Dismissed, 204. Re-
stored to the Bench, 416. Presides on
Anderton's trial, iv. 32.
Power, political, religious belief ought
not to exclude from, v. 459. Senses in
which the word power may be used,
309. Dependence of the happiness of
nations on the real distribution of power,
311.

Powis, Sir Thomas, Solicitor General,
i. 586. Appointed Attorney General;
conducts the prosecution of the bishops,
169, 172, 176. Carries news of their
acquittal to Sunderland, 179. Counsel
for Fenwick, iv. 278.

PRI

Powis, William Herbert, Earl of, i. 558.
Made a Privy Councillor, 588. His ad-
vice to James II., 634. Attends James
to Ireland, ii. 528. Made a Knight of
the Garter at St. Germains, iii. 540.
Powle, Henry, ii. 341, 361. Chosen
Speaker of the House of Commons, 363.
Poynings, Lord Deputy of Ireland, statute
of, iii. 647, 648.

Pratt, Charles, vii. 212.

Chief Justice,
262. Created Lord Camden, and en-
trusted with the seals, 265.
Predestination, doctrine of, v. 465.
Prerogative, royal, its advance, v. 198.
In the 16th century, 597, 600. Its cur-
tailment by the Revolution, vi. 19. Pro-
posed by Bolingbroke to be strengthened,
20. See also Crown.
Prerogative of early English kings, i. 22.
How limited, 23. Stretched by Eliza-
beth, 49.
Presbyterianism, established by the Long
Parliament, i. 124.

Presbyterians, their mode of worship, i.

42. Favourable to Richard Cromwell,
87. Coalesce with the Royalists, 114.
Presbyterians, Scotch, their hostility to
other Protestant Churches, iii. 36 and
note. Disgust felt in England at their
intolerance, 510.

Press, censorship of, i. 454. Abolished, iv.

124, 125. Effect of its liberation, 170,
175. Milton's defence of its freedom, v.
42. Its emancipation after the Revo-
lution, 229. Remarks on its freedom,
356. Censorship of, in the reign of
Elizabeth, 597. Its influence on the
public mind after the Revolution, vii. 63.
Preston, Richard Graham, Viscount, his
letter to Lord Halifax from Paris, i.
217 note. Secretary of State for Scot-
land, 398. His moderate counsel to
James II., 555. Made Lord Lieutenant
of Cumberland and Westmoreland, ii.
131. Appointed Lord President of the
Council, 247. One of the Council of
Five, 272. The head of the Jacobite
conspiracy, iii. 262, 363. Entrusted
with papers from St. Germains, 365,
366, 366 note. Arrested, 367. His
trial and conviction, 381, 382. His
confessions, 383, 384. Pardoned, 392.
His translation of Boethius, 393.
Pretyman, Bishop of Lincoln, vii. 360.
His Life of William Pitt, 360.
Prideaux, Dr. Humphrey, i. 259. Dean
of Norwich, ii. 152.

Prideaux, Edmund, buys his liberation
from Jeffreys, i. 507.

Primogeniture, right of, not sanctioned
by Scripture, i. 55.

Prince (the), of Machiavelli, general con-
demnation of it, v. 46. Dedicated to

PRI

the younger Lorenzo de Medici, 75.
Compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of
Laws, 78.

Princes, royal, right of Parliament to

direct their education and marriage, v.
199.
Printing, invention of, i. 36. Rarity of
presses in the reign of Charles II.,
305 and note. Its inventor, and the
date of its discovery unknown, vii. 254.
Its influence on modern history, v.

146.

Prior, Matthew, his early intimacy with
Charles Montague, ii. 32. His ballad
against Coningsby, iii. 645 note. His
Ode on the taking of Namur, iv. 170.
His letter to Vernon, 269. Secretary
to the English Legation at Ryswick,
312. Secretary of Legation at Paris
under the Duke of Portland, 391.
Anecdote of his conversation with
Portland, 391. Attentions paid to
him in Paris, 394. Takes the part of
Albemarle against Portland, 466. His
intimacy with Bishop Atterbury, vii.
291.

Private judgment, Milton's defence of the
right of, v. 42. Mr. Gladstone's notions
of the rights and abuses of, vi. 358-

361.

Privileges of the House of Commons,

change in public opinion in respect to
them, v. 233. See also Parliament.
Privy Council, i. 166. Temple's plan for
its reconstitution, vi. 289. Mr. Cour-
tenay's opinion of its absurdity con-
tested, 290, 298. Barillon's remarks
upon it, 292.

Prize poems, character of, vii. 577.
Procopius, his marvellous account of
Britain, i. 4.

Progress of mankind in the political and
physical sciences, vi. 90, 93. In intel-
lectual freedom, 154. The key of the
Baconian doctrine, 204. How retarded
by the unprofitableness of ancient phi-
losophy, 206-217. During the last 250
years, 455.

Prosperity, national, v. 346.

Protector (the), character of his adminis-
tration, v. 34.

Protestant Nonconformists in the reign
of Charles I., their intolerance, v. 571.
Protestant party in Germany, vi. 474.
Its persecution of the Calvinists, 475.
Invasion, by the Catholic party in Ger-
many, 480.

Protestantism, its early history, v. 596.
Its doctrine touching the right of pri-
vate judgment, vi. 361. Light which
Ranke has thrown upon its movements,
454, 456. Its victory in the northern
parts of Europe, 464. Its failure in

PUR

Italy, 465. Effect of its outbreak in
any one part of Christendom, 465, 473.
Its contest with Catholicism in France,
Poland, and Germany, 473-476. Its
stationary character, 487, 488.
Protestants and Catholics, their relative
numbers in the 16th century, v. 603.
Provençal poets, their amatory composi
tions, vii. 622.

Provence, its language, literature, and
civilisation in the 12th century, vi. 460,
461.

Prussia, King of, subsidised by the Pitt
and Newcastle Ministry, vi. 72. In-
fluence of Protestantism upon her, v.
83. Mr. Sadler's law of population, as
illustrated by the census of Prussia,
488.

Prynne, v. 556, 561.

Psalmanazar, George, his account of high-
way robbery in the South of France, iv.
412 note. His friendship with Dr.
Johnson, vii. 333.

Public opinion, its power, vi. 21.
Public spirit, an antidote against bad go-

vernment, v. 600, 601. A safeguard
against legal oppression, 600, 601.
Publicity (the), of Parliamentary proceed-
ings; influence of, vi. 19.

Pulci, allusion to, v. 54.

Pulteney, William, his opposition to Wal-
pole, vi. 41. Moved the address to the
King on the marriage of the Prince of
Wales, 46. His unpopularity, 52. Ae-
cepts a peerage, 53. Compared with
Chatham, vii. 267.

Pulton, Andrew, a Roman Catholic di-
vine, i. 607 note.

Pundits of Bengal, their jealousy of
foreigners, vi. 610.

Punishment, warning not the only end
of, v. 184.

Punishment and reward, the only means
by which Government can effect its
ends, vi. 499.

Purgatorio, Dante's, the simile of the
sheep in the, viii. 613. Incomparable
style of the sixth canto of, 617.
Puritans, dissatisfied with the Reforma-
tion, i. 46. Become republican, 47.
Their strength, 48. Support Queen
Elizabeth, 49 and note. Their sepa-
ration from the Church widened, 59,
63. Their extreme attachment to the
Old Testament, 63. Their gloomy
fanaticism, 64. Their settlements in
America, 72; v. 561. Incur general
hatred and contempt, i. 126, 131. Their
austerity, 127. Hypocrites among
them, 131. Persecution of, 139. Their
antipathy to polite literature, 312.
Character and estimate of them, v. 37-
42. Hatred of them by James L., 177.

PUR

Effect of their religious austerity, 356.
Johnson's contempt for their religious
scruples, 527. Their persecution by
Charles I., 556. Blamed for calling in
the Scots, 566. Defence of them against
this accusation, 566. Difficulty and
peril of their leaders, 571. The aus-
terity of their manners drove many to
the royal standard, 581. Their posi-
tion at the close of the reign of Eliza-
beth, vi. 153. Violent outbreak of
public feeling against them at the Re-
storation, 441. Their oppression by
Whitgift, 475. Their faults in the day
of their power, and the consequences,
501, 502. Their prohibition of thea-
trical representations, v. 101.
Puritan soldiers, character of, i. 94-97.
Their objects, 104. Conspire against
Richard Cromwell, 112. Divisions
among them, 114. Their temper on
the eve of the Restoration, 117. Their
reception of Charles II., 118. Dis-
banded, 121.

Puritanism, effect of its prevalence upon

the national taste, vi. 498. The restraints
it imposed, 501. Reaction against it, 501.
Puritans and Papists, persecution of, by
Elizabeth, v. 166.

Pusignan, Brigadier, ii. 527. Killed be-
fore Londonderry, 553.
Pym, John, impeachment of, i. 85. His
influence, v. 567. Lady Carlisle's
warning to him, 574. His impeach-
ment ordered by the King, 573.
Pynsent, Sir William, his legacy to Chat-
ham, vii. 246.

Pyramid, the Great, Arab fable concerning
it, vi. 487.

Pyrenees, Treaty of the, iv. 402.

66

Pyrenees (the), have ceased to exist,"
v. 654.

UAKERS, original, i. 129.

QUA

Under

James II., 391-396. Provisions of
the Toleration Act respecting, ii. 463.
Their losses in the Irish outbreak, 523.
Origin and early history of the sect,
iii. 386, 390. Bunyan's abhorrence of
them, vii. 303. See Fox, George.
Quebec, conquest of, by Wolfe, vi. 71.
Queensbury, William Douglas, Duke of,
i. 609. His fall in James II.'s favour,
612, 614. Dismissed from his employ-
ments, 618. Arrives in Scotland, iii.
29. His proceedings in the Conven-
tion, 31, 32.

Quince, Peter, sense in which he uses the
word "translated," vii. 111.
Quintilian, his principles of criticism, vii.
661.

Quiros, Don Francisco Bernardo de,

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Spanish negotiator at Ryswick, iv. 312.
Discovers the provisions of the Treaty
of Loo, 435.

Quixote, the Spiritual, vii. 308.

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ABBINICAL learning, work on, by
Rev. L. Addison, vii. 55.
Racine, iii. 573. His Greeks far less
"correctly" drawn than those of Shaks-
peare, v. 398. His Iphigénie an ana-
chronism, 398. Passed the close of his
life in writing sacred dramas, vii. 64.
Radcliffe, Dr. John, i. 289, 414.
Radical War Song, A, viii. 545.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, v. 611. His varied
acquirements, 611. His position at
Court at the close of the reign of Eliza-
beth, vi. 154. His execution, 179.
Rambler, Johnson's, publication of the,
vii. 336.

Ramsay's regiment, iii. 84.

Ramsey, Court painter to George III., vii.

Ray, John, i. 320.

Reader, Steele's, vii. 109.

Reading, dismissal of magistrates at, ii.
139. Skirmish at, 297.

Rebellion, in Ireland in 1640, v. 570.
Rebellion, the Great, and the Revolution,
analogy between them, v. 25, 33.
Recoinage Act, iv. 201. See Currency.
Redbridge (the), affair of, iv. 73, 74.
Reform Bill, vi. 65. Conduct of its op-
ponents, 117. Mildness of the revolu-
tion of the, v. 623. Speeches on the,
viii. 11, 26, 39, 51, 63, 79.
Reform, Parliamentary, proposals for, in
1692, iii. 621. Reform in Parliament
before the Revolution, v. 235. Public
desire for, 236. Policy of it, 236; vii.
217.

Reform, the process of, often necessarily
attended with many evils, v. 595. Its
supporters sometimes unworthy, 595.
Reformation, early efforts for, i. 35. As-
sisted by the invention of printing, 36.
In England, 38. Dissatisfies the Puritans,
46. Its history much misrepresented,
v. 167-171. Party divisions caused by

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it, 231. Their consequences, 231. Its
immediate effect upon political liberty
in England, 544, 546. Its social and
political consequences, 595, 697. Its
effect upon the Church of Rome, 646.
Vacillation which it produced in Eng-
lish legislation, vi. 140. Auspices under
which it commenced, 464. Its effect
upon the Roman court, 470. Its pro-
gress not affected by the event of bat-
tles or sieges, 472. Analogy between
it and the French revolution, v. 595,
596. Milton's treatise of, 44.
Reformers, always unpopular in their own
age, vi. 91.

Reformers, English, i. 39, 40. Their
leaning towards Calvinism, 60, 62.
Refugees, vii. 37.

Regency, scheme of, debated by the Lords,
ii. 369. Its inconsistency, 370. And
inexpediency, 371. Rejected by a ma-
jority of two, 373.

Regent, the Prince, and the King, vii. 387.
Regicides of Charles I., disapproval of

their conduct, v. 33. Injustice of the
imputations cast on them, 33.
Regillus, Battle of the Lake, viii. 485.
Regium Donum, vi. 368.

Regulating Act, its introduction by Lord

North, and change which it made in
the form of the Indian government, vi.
567, 579, 586. Power which it gave
to the Chief Justice, 589.
Regulators of corporations, board of, ii.
139. Their ill success, 139, 140.
Religion, national establishment of, v. 350.
Its connection with civil government,
350 et seq. Its effects upon the policy
of Charles I. and of the Puritans, 355.
No disqualification for the safe exercise
of political power, 399. The religion of
the English in the 16th century, 606,
608. What system of, should be taught
by a government, vi. 375. No progress
made in the knowledge of natural reli-
gion since the days of Thales, 456.
Revealed, not of the nature of a pro-
gressive science, 457.
Remonstrance, the, i. 84.

Remonstrant, allusion to Milton's Animad-
versions on the, v. 44.

Rent, increase of, i. 249. Doctrine of,v. 85.
Representative government, decline of, v.
198. Value of representation as a
check on the governing few, v. 311.
Reresby, Sir John, ii. 275.
Restoration, the, i. 118. Changes under,
141-144. Degenerated character of
our statesmen and politicians in the
times succeeding it, v. 216, 217. Low
standard of political morality after it,
217. Violence of party and low state
of national feeling after it, 225. That
of Charles II. and of Lewis XVIII, con-

RIG

trasted, vi. 98, 100. Its effects upon
the morals and manners of the nation,
501, 502.
Resumption Bill, the, iv. 526. Tacked
by the House of Commons to the Land
Tax Bill, 529. The Lords' Amend-
ments rejected by the Commons, 531,
Conferences, 533. The Bill passed, 535.
Retrospective law, is it ever justifiable? v.
183, 185, 207. Warranted by a certain
amount of public danger, 568.
Revenue of England in 1685, i. 225.
Various heads of, 226, 227.
Revolution of 1688, effects of, i. 88. Its
peculiar character, ii. 392. Benefits
derived from, 393, 396. Its principles
often grossly misrepresented, v. 24.
Analogy between it and the "Great
Rebellion," 25, 32. Its effect on the
character of public men, 227. Freedom
of the press after it, 229. Its effects,
229. Ministerial responsibility since,
230. Review of Mackintosh's History
of, vi. 76-134.

Revolution, the French, its social and
political consequences, v. 593, 595; vi.
86, 87. Warnings which preceded it,
482-485. Terms in which it is spoken
of by M. Dumont, v. 615. The first
and second, 626. Compared with the
English, 620. And with the American,
621.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, vi. 630. His part
in The Club, vii. 345.

Rhynsault, story of, i. 495 and note.
Rice, Stephen, Irish Chief Baron, ii. 212,

500. His mission to James II. and
Lewis XIV., 518.

Rich: desire of the poor majority to plun-
der the rich minority, v. 261. Effects
which a general spoliation would pro-
duce, 264, 286.

Richard I., i. 11.

Richard III., his usurpation submitted to
by the Church, iii. 152.
Richardson, Samuel, vii. 10. His opinion
of the Rambler, 337. His kindness to
Johnson, 339.

Richelieu, vi. 481. Reduces the Hugue-
nots to submission, i. 532. Confirms
the Edict of Nantes, 533.

Richmond, Duke of, joins in the resist-
ance of the Peers to the Resumption
Bill, iv. 530.

Richmond, Duke of, vii. 277.
Riddell, captor of Argyle, i. 436.
Ridley, Bishop, i. 40.

Rigby, Secretary for Ireland, vii. 212.
Right, Petition of, i. 28.

Rights, Bill of, iii. 114. Rejected by the
Commons, 115.

Lost, 116.

clauses against Popery, 193.
the Dispensing Power, 195.
Rights, Declaration of, iii. 114.

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