apparent zeal for the cause of order and
humanity, 150. His motion for punish-
ing the Jacobins, 151. Defeat of the
Girondists, 151. Retains his seat at
the Board of the Triumphant Moun-
tain, 152. His infamous motion against
the chiefs of the Girondists, 154. Moves
that the Queen be brought before the
Revolutionary Tribunal, 155. Regales
Robespierre and other Jacobins at a
tavern on the day of the death of the
Queen, 156. Formation of his peculiar
style of oratory, 156. His Carmag-
noles, 157. Effect produced by his dis-
courses, 157. Seconds Robespierre's
atrocious motion in the Convention, 158.
Becomes one of the six members of the
Committee of Public Safety, 159. The
first to proclaim terror as the order of
the day, 163. Recommends Fouquier
Tinville to the Revolutionary Commit-
tee of Paris, 164. His proposal to de-
stroy Lyons and Toulon, 164. His op-
position to the personal defence of
Danton, 164, 165. His support of the
wretch Lebon, 165. His war against
learning, art, and history, 165. His
sensual excesses, 166. Becomes a really
cruel man, 167. His morning audiences
and mode of treating petitions, 167.
His orders against certain head-dresses,
167. Nicknames given to him, 169.
Obtains a decree that no quarter should
be given to any English or Hanoverian
soldier, 169. M. Carnot's defence of
this barbarity, 169 note. Barère's sup-
port of Robespierre's fiendish decree,
174. His panegyric on Robespierre,
175. His motion that Robespierre and
his accomplices should be put to death,
175. Destruction of the power of the
Jacobins, 177. Report on his conduct
voted by the Convention, 180. Con-
demned to be removed to a distant
place of confinement, 181. His perilous
journey, 181. Imprisoned at Oléron,
182, 183. Removed to Saintes, 183.
Escapes to Bordeaux, 184. Chosen a
member of the Council of Five Hun-
dred, which refuses to admit him, 184.
His libel on England, 184. The Liberty
of the Seas, 185. His flight to St.
Ouen, 185. Sends a copy of his
work to the First Consul, 185. Allowed
by Buonaparte to remain in Paris, 186.
Refuses; becomes a writer and a spy
to Bonaparte, 188. Sends his friend
Demerville to the guillotine, 191. Spies
set to watch the spy, 191. Ordered to
quit Paris, 192. Employed in the low-
est political drudgery, 192. His Mé-
morial Antibritannique and pamphlets,
192. His fulsome adulation of the Em-
peror, 193. Causes of his failure as a
journalist, 193. Treated with contempt
by Napoleon, 194. His treachery to
his Imperial master, 196. Becomes a
royalist on the return of the Bourbons,
197. Compelled to leave France, 198.
Returns in July 1830, 198. Joins the
extreme left, 198. His last years and
death, 199. Summary of his charac-
ter, 201. His hatred of England, 202.
His MS. works on divinity, 203.
Baretti, his admiration for Miss Burney,
vii. 17.
His account of
His interview
Informs Lewis
Barillon, M., French ambassador; his
intrigues with the Country Party, i.179.
His part in procuring a Romish priest
to confess Charles II., 340. His letter
to Lewis XIV., 362 note. Tries to
embroil James II. with Parliament, 538.
His report of Mordaunt's speech, 548
note. Assists the Roman Catholic fac-
tion in the Court, 561.
England (1686), 608.
with Rochester, 151.
XIV. of James II.'s intention towards
the Dissenters, ii. 36. Sees the true
temper of the country, 105. Advises
the bringing over of Irish troops, 209.
Deluded by Sunderland, 228. His house
visited by rioters, 312. Ordered by
William III. to leave England, 339.
Passed over by Lewis XIV. in the choice
of an envoy to Ireland, 528. His pithy
words on the new council proposed by
Temple, vi. 292.
Barlow, Bishop, vi. 504.
Barnardistone, Sir Samuel, Director of the
East India Company, an Exclusionist,
iii. 471. Retires from the direction,
472.
Barnstaple, the corporation of, resists the
Regulators, ii. 141.
Barré, Colonel, joins the Whig opposition,
vii. 365. Appointed by Pitt Clerk of
the Pells, 375.
Barrington, Lord, vii. 212.
Barrow, Isaac, i. 259.
Bart, John, a French privateer, iii. 590.
Bartholomew Fair, Jacobite farce repre-
sented at, in 1693, iv. 34.
Barwell, Mr., his support of Hastings, vi.
567, 570, 580, 585.
Bastile, Burke's declamations on its cap-
ture, 620.
Bateman, trial and execution of, i. 520.
Bates, a dissenting minister, ii. 147.
Bates, an agent of the Duke of Leeds, his
evidence before the Committee of the
two Houses, iv. 136, 137.
Bath, i. 271.
Bath, John Granville, Earl of; at Charles
II.'s death-bed, i. 341. Attempts to in-
fluence the Western counties for James
II., ii. 133. His adhesion to William
III., 274.
Battiscombe, Christopher, executed, i. 503.
Battle of the Cranes and Pigmies, Addi-
son's, vii. 59.
Bavaria, its contest between Protestantism
and Catholicism, vi. 473, 481.
Bavaria, Elector of, iii. 373. Made Go-
vernor of the Spanish Netherlands, 571.
Bavaria, Francis Joseph, Prince of;
grounds of his claim to the Spanish
throne, iv. 403. Designated by Charles
II. as his successor, 435. His death,
Baxter, Richard; his political works
burned at Oxford, i. 212. His mode-
ration, 381. Proceedings against; Jef-
frey's behaviour to, 383, 384. His con-
viction and sentence, 385. Liberated;
refuses to be a tool of the Court, ii.
50. Takes the lead in the coalition of
Dissenters with the Church, 147–154.
Complies with the Toleration Act, 467.
His testimony to, the excellence of
Hampden, v. 541.
Bayle, Peter, vi. 459.
Beachy Head, battle of, iii. 277.
Bearbaiting, i. 127.
Bearn, the constitution of, vii. 134.
Beatrice, Dante's love of, vii. 609.
Beauclerk, Topham, a member of the
Literary Club, vii. 345.
Beaufort, Henry Somerset, Duke of, i.
461. Commands in Bristol against
Monmouth, 464. His failure to obtain
support for James II.'s policy, ii. 133.
Takes Lovelace prisoner, 266. Sub-
mits to William III., 423. Entertains
William at Badminton, iii. 329.
Beaumarchais; his suit before the Parlia-
ment of Paris, vi. 200.
Beaumont, Lieut.-Col., protests against the
admission of Irish recruits, ii. 213. At
the Boyne, iii. 289.
Becket; cause of his popularity, i. 19.
Beckford, Alderman, vii. 269.
Bedford, Earl of, ii. 73. Raised to the
dukedom, iv. 98. Invited by Charles
II. to form an administration, v. 570.
Bedford, John, Duke of, vii. 211.
views of the policy of Chatham, 221,
231. Presents remonstrance to George
III., 252.
Bedfordshire, contested election for (1685),
i. 373.
Bedloe, witness in the Popish Plot, i. 186.
His death, 375.
Beer, consumption of, i. 251.
Begums of Oude, their domains and tres-
sures, vi. 602. Disturbances in Oude
imputed to them, 602. Their protesta-
tions, 604. Their spoliation charged
against Hastings, 626.
Belfast, iii. 282.
Belgium, its contest between Protestant-
ism and Catholicism, vi. 472, 480.
Belhaven, Lord, iii. 84. His support of
Paterson's Darien scheme, iv. 484, 488.
Belial, vi. 504.
Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen against, v. 408.
Bellamont, Richard Coote, Earl of; ap-
pointed Governor of New York and
Massachusets, iv. 510. His measures
for the suppression of piracy in the
Indian seas, 510. Employs William
Kidd, 510. Arrests him at New York,
Bellasys, the English general, v. 660.
Bellasyse, John, Lord, a moderate Roman
Catholic, i. 558. Made a Privy Coun-
cillor by James II., 587. Made First
Lord of the Treasury, 645.
Bellefonds, Marshal, appointed to com-
mand the French invasion of England,
iii. 536.
Bellingham, his malevolence, vii. 43.
Belphegor, The, of Machiavelli, v. 68.
Benares, its grandeur, vi. 594. Its an-
nexation to the British dominions, 601.
"Benefits of the Death of Christ," vi. 472.
Benevolences, Oliver St. John's opposition
to, and Bacon's support of, vi. 171.
Bengal, its resources, vi. 405 et seq.
Bentham, Jeremy, his defence of Mr. Mill,
v. 272. His merits and shortcomings,
273, 274. Examination of his views,
277. His account of the manner in
which he arrived at the greatest
happiness principle," 292. Testimony
to his merits, 497. His language on
the French Revolution, vi. 85.
Bentham and Dumont, vi. 8.
Bentinck, William. See Portland.
Bentinck, Lord William, his memory
cherished by the Hindoos, vi. 453. In-
scription on his statue at Calcutta, viii.
489.
Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the state of re-
ligion in England in the 16th century,
v. 604.
Bentley, Richard, his quarrel with Boyle,
and remarks on Temple's Essay on the
Letters of Phalaris, vi. 320, 322. His
edition of Milton, vii. 50, 285, 286.
His notes on Horace, 323. His recon-
ciliation with Boyle and Atterbury, 323.
His answer to the attack of Atterbury,
287. His fine apophthegm, 351.
Berkeley, Earl of, commands the squadron
against Brest, iv. 100. His operations
in the Channel, 170.
Berkeley, Lady Henrietta, i. 411.
Bernardi, Major John; his share in the
assassination plot, iv. 210. Arrested,
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 flight
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.
Bible, cost of (14th century), i. 36. The
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.
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.
ployed to write a poem in its honour, 75.
Blois, Addison's retirement to, vii. 65.
Bloody, Assizes, 1. 500-505.
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.
Fodley, 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.
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.
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.
Character of the work, v. 524. Becomes
a member of the Club, vii. 346.
Boswellism, v. 45.
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
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
Britain under the Romans: under the
Saxons, i. 4. Barbarism of, 4.
Brixham, ii. 254.
"Broad Bottom Administration" (the), vi.
Brook, Lord, entertains William at War-
wick Castle, iv. 179.
Brothers, his prophecies as a test of faith,
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.
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.
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. His
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
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