majority volunteer for France, 450. Question regarding the treaty, 462-
Lime Street, Roman Catholic chapel in, i.
"Limp," a Jacobite sign; its signification, iv. 35.
Lincoln, William III.'s visit to, iv. 178. Lincoln Cathedral, story of the painted window of, v. 158.
Lincoln, Edward Clinton, Earl of, ii. 385. Lincoln's Inn Fields, houses in, i. 278.
A resort of beggars and mountebanks, 280. Franciscan establishment in,
Lindsay, Lieutenant, his part in the mas-
sacre of Glencoe, iii. 526, 528. Lines written on the night of the 30th of
July, 1847, at the close of an unsuc- cessful Contest for Edinburgh, viii. 590. Lingard, Doctor, his account of the con-
duct of James II. towards Lord Ro- chester, vi. 98. His ability as a his- torian, 274. His strictures on the Triple Alliance, 274.
Lisle, Alice, harbours fugitive rebels, i.
496. Her trial, 498, 499. Put to death, 500. Her attainder reversed, iii. 105.
Lisle, John, assassinated, iii. 199. Literary men more independent than formerly, v. 371, 372. Their influ- ence, 374, 376. Abjectness of their condition during the reign of George II., 521, 523. Their importance to con- tending parties in the reign of Queen Anne, vii. 82. Encouragement afforded to, by the Revolution, 63.
Literary Magazine, Johnson's contribu- tions to the, vii. 339.
Literature, on the Royal Society of, vii.
Literature, ancient, proper examination
of, vii. 669. State of literature as a calling, in the last century, 329. Literature of the Roundheads, v. 23. Of the Royalists, 24. Of Italy in the 14th century, 53, 54. Of the Elizabethan age, 611. Of Spain in the 16th cen- tury, 641. Splendid patronage of, at the close of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries, 519, 520. Dis- couragement of, on the accession of the House of Hanover, 520. Importance of classical, in the 16th century, vi.
Literature, British, speech on, viii. 377. Literature, German, little known in Eng-
land sixty or seventy years ago, vii. 66. "Little Dicky," a nickname for Norris the actor, vii. 119. Littlecote Hall, ii. 299.
Littleton, Sir Thomas, ii. 361. His speech
on William III.'s use of the veto, iv. 80. Supports Fenwick's attainder, 278 Made Lord of the Treasury, 304. Cho- sen Speaker of the House of Commons, 438. Appointed Treasurer of the Navy,
Liturgy, Laud's, for Scotland, i. 74. Pro-
posed revisal of the Liturgy of the Church of England, ii. 484; iii. 175, 176. Liverpool, i. 269.
Livingstone, Sir Thomas, surprises the Highlanders under Buchan, iii. 334. Livy, Discourses on, by Machiavelli, v. 75. Compared with Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, 78. Livy's faults and merits as a historian, 140.
Lloyd, David, a Jacobite emissary, iii. 410.
Lloyd, William, Bishop of Norwich, ii. 149. A nonjuror, iii. 159. His con- versation with Sir John Trevor, 394. Lloyd, William, Bishop of St. Asaph, ii. 149, 150. (See Bishops, the Seven.) Assures William III. of his support, 222. His disbelief of the legitimacy of the Prince of Wales, 246. Assists at the coronation of William and Mary, 490. A member of the Ecclesiastical Commission, iii. 173. Translated to the see of Worcester, iv. 461. Loans, government, antiquity of, i. 226. Lobb, Stephen, ii. 49.
Lochbuy, Maclean of, iii. 65.
Lochiel. See Cameron, Sir Ewan. Locke, John, keeps aloof from the plots of the British refugees on the Continent in 1685, i. 424. Ejected from his fel- lowship; his letter on Toleration, 425. Excepts Roman Catholics from claim to Toleration, 529. His dedication to the Earl of Pembroke, iii. 232. His alleged part against renewing the Li- censing Act, iv. 125 note. Takes part in the discussions on the currency, 192. His paper in answer to Lowndes; his proposed expedient, 195. Lockhart, Sir George, Lord President of the Court of Session, i. 612. Resists James II.'s policy, 615, 619. Lord President of the Court of Session; his murder, iii. 34.
Lockhart, Sir William, iii. 39. Logan, Mr., his ability in defending Hastings, vi. 639.
Lollards, their movement premature, i.
Lollardism in England, v. 604.
London, indignation in, against Charles I., i. 85. The Plague and Fire, 151. Proceedings against the corporation, 177. Disfranchised, 211. Consump- tion of coal in, 249. The London clergy, 259. London in the time of
Charles II., 272-290. Population; customs, 273. The city, 274. Archi- tecture; the streets, 274. The mer-
chants; subsequent change in their habits, 275. Festivities, 276. Power of the city, 277. The trainbands, 278. Fashionable part of, 278. Shop signs, 282. By night; police; lighting, 283. Coffee-houses, 288. Sanitary improve- ment, 320, 330. Fails to support Mon- mouth, 460. Roman Catholic estab- lishments in (1686), 598. Agitation against them, 599. The Corporation; dismissal of officers, ii. 139. Meeting of the metropolitan clergy, 148. They refuse to read the Declaration of Indul- gence, 149. Illumination for the ac- quittal of the bishops, 180. Restoration of the Charter, 241. Disturbances in, 263, 264. Agitation against the Papists, 290. Transactions after the flight of James II., 308, 309. Riots, 312, 315. The "Irish night," 316. Raises a loan for William, 342. Returns Whig re- presentatives to the Convention, 349. Illuminated for the Proclamation of William and Mary, 399. Election of 1690, iii. 220. Alarm on the news of the defeat off Beachy Head, 278. Offers assistance to the Queen, 280. Effect of the news of the battle of the Boyne, 305, 306. The Jacobite press, 313. Excitement in, on the loss of the Smyrna fleet, iv. 29. Jacobite agita- tion, 30, 33. Various reports during the siege of Namur, 87. Wagers on the event of the war, 164. Election (1695), 180. Rejoicings for the Peace of Ryswick, 324, 325. Attempted Pro- clamation of James III. in, 546. Elec- tion of the Whig candidates (1701), 550. The city in the 17th century, v. 575. Devoted to the national cause, 576, 577. Its public spirit, 598. Its prosperity during the ministry of Lord Chatham, vi. 73. Conduct of, at the Restoration, 102. Effects of the Great Plague upon, 267. Its excitement on occasion of the tax on cider proposed by Bute's ministry, 237. Blessing of the great fire, v. 150. Riots of (1780), vii. 363.
London Bridge, Old, i. 274. Londonderry, history and description of,
ii. 509. Its gates closed against Lord Antrim, 511. Protestants take refuge there, 525. Defences of, 545. Suc- cours arrive from England, 546. At- tempted betrayal by the governor; de- fence taken up by the inhabitants, 516. Character of the inhabitants, 548, 549. Measures for the defence, 550. Com- mencement of the siege, 552. Assault
Long Parliament (the), controversy on its merits, v. 27, 29. Its first meeting 178, 566. Its early proceedings, 187, 189. Its conduct in reference to the civil war, 188. Its nineteen proposi- tions, 199. Its faults, 201-205. Cen- sured by Mr. Hallam, 203. Its errors in the conduct of the war, 204. Treat- ment of it by the army, 206. Re- capitulation of its acts, 567. Its at- tainder of Strafford defended, 569. Sent Hampden to Edinburgh to watch the king, 570. Refuses to surrender the members ordered to be impeached, 576. Openly defies the king, 577. Its con- ditions of reconciliation, 580.
Lonsdale, Earl of (Sir John Lowther), i.
545. Made first Lord of the Treasury, iii. 225. His speeches on the Revenue, 238, 239. One of the Council of Nine, 269. Abuse of, by the Whigs, 361. Parliamentary attack upon, 460. Ap- pointed Lord of the Admiralty, 508. Speaks in defence of Lord Nottingham, 600. Resists the Triennial Bill, 630. Appointed Lord Privy Seal, iv. 465. Joins in the resistance of the Peers to the Resumption Bill, 530.
Loo, William III.'s mansion at, ii. 17. Negotiations at, between William III. and the Count of Tallard on the Spanish Succession, iv. 426. The treaty signed, 433.
Lope, his distinction as a writer and a soldier, v. 642.
Lords Lieutenant, duties expected from,
by James II., 125. Many of them dis- missed, 126.
Lords, the House of, its position previous to the Restoration, vi. 101. Its condi- tion as a debating assembly in 1770,
Lorenzo de Medici, state of Italy in his time, v. 54.
Lorenzo de Medici (the younger), dedica- tion of Machiavelli's Prince to him, v. 75.
Loretto, plunder of, vi. 486.
Louvois, French Minister of War, ii. 231. Advises the devastation of the Palati- nate, 494. His jealousy of Lauzun, 527, iii. 259. His advice to James II., ii. 540. Provides means for the siege of Mons, iii. 379. His death, 533. His talents as War Minister; adverse to the plan of invading England, 534. His plot for the assassination of Wil- liam, 584.
Love, honourable and chivalrous, unknown
to the Greeks, vii. 621. The passion as delineated in the Roman poets, 621. What is implied in the modern sense of the word love, 621. Change under- gone in the nature of the passion of love in the middle ages, 622. "Love for Love," Congreve's, vi. 518. Its moral, 535.
"Love in a Wood," when acted, vi. 504. Lovelace, John, Lord, ii. 265. Rises for William, 266. Made prisoner, 266. Liberated by the people of Gloucester; marches to Oxford, 293. His threat to the Lords, 379.
Low Church party, ii. 434-456. Lowick, Edward, his share in the assassina-
tion plot, iv. 211. Executed, 232. Lowndes, William, his mistaken views of the currency, iv. 194. Locke's refuta- tion of, 195.
Lowther, Sir John. See Lonsdale, Earl of. Loyola, his energy, vi. 468, 479.
Lucas, Charles, character of his Irish patriotism, iii. 455.
Lucas, Lord, appointed Lieutenant of the Tower, ii. 310.
Ludlow, Edmund, refuses to take part in
the Whig plots, i. 416. His Swiss re- tirement, iii. 199. Returns to London, 200. Proclamation for his apprehen- sion, 201. His flight; his tomb at Vevay, 201.
Lumley, Richard, Lord, i. 462. Pursues Monmouth, 479. Joins the revolu- tionary conspiracy, ii. 196. Signs the invitation to the Prince of Orange, 197. Seizes Newcastle for William, 292. Lundy, Robert, appointed Governor of Londonderry by Mountjoy, ii. 513. Professes his adherence to the Govern- ment of William and Mary, 524. Re- pulsed by Hamilton at Strabane, 543. His treachery, 545, 546. His flight, 547. Sent to the Tower, 574. Lunt, turns informer against Lancashire Jacobites, iv. 107. His evidence at Manchester, 111.
Luther, his declaration against the an-
cient philosophy, vi. 211. Sketch of the contest which began with his preaching against the Indulgences, and terminated with the treaty of West- phalia, 464-481.
Luttrell, Colonel Henry, ii. 557. His intrigues at Limerick, iii. 424. De- puted to St. Germains, 425. Opens a correspondence with the English, 442. Deserts James; assassinated, 450. Luttrell, Colonel Simon, ii. 557. Ejects the Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, 571. Governor of Dublin for James, iii. 283. A member of the deputation from Limerick to St. Germains, 425. Remains faithful to James, 450. Luttrell, Narcissus, his diary, ii. 400
Luxemburg, seized by Lewis XIV., i. 217. Luxemburg, Francis Henry, Duke of, gains the battle of Fleurus, iii. 278. Commands at the siege of Mons, 379. His cam- paign against William III. in Flanders, 417. Covers the siege of Namur, 573. His personal peculiarities, 577. Receives information of the Allies' plans, 578. Surprised by William at Steinkirk, 580. Retrieves the day, 582. Advises Lewis XIV. to give battle, iv. 18. Threatens Liege, 19. Gains the battle of Landen, 21-23. His inactivity after the battle, 25. His campaign of 1694, 106. His death, 123.
Lycurgus, his mistaken principles of legis- lation, vii. 692. His system of domestic slavery, 77.
Lyme Regis, Monmouth lands at, i. 446. Lyons, cruelties of the Jacobins at, vii.
161. Barère's proposal to utterly an- nihilate it, 164.
Lysander, depressed by the constitution of Lycurgus, vii. 690.
Lysias, anecdote by Plutarch of his speech for the Athenian tribunals, vi. 327. Lyttelton, Lord, vi. 77.
Macburney, original name of the Burney family, vii. 3. Macclesfield, Charles Gerard, Earl of, ii. 258. Opposes the Abjuration Bill, iii. 251. Macdonald, Mac Ian, of Glencoe, iii. 65, 513. His quarrel with the Earl of Breadalbane, 515. Takes the oaths to the Government after the appointed day, 516. The fact of his having taken the oaths suppressed, 523. Slain at Glencoe, 528.
Macdonald of Glengarry, iii. 65. His quarrel with Sir Ewan Cameron, 73.
At the battle of Killiecrankie, 87. His quarrel with a Lowland gentleman, 335. At the conference at Glenorchy, 513. Takes the oaths to William III.'s Government, 516. Examined by the Glencoe Commissioners, iv. 150. Macdonald, Colin of Keppoch, iii. 61. Threatens Inverness, 62. Joins Dun- dee, 63. Examined by the Glencoe Commissioners, iv. 150.
Macdonald of Sleat, iii. 65. Retires from
the Highland army, 98.
Macdonalds, their ancient ascendency in the Highlands, iii. 54. Their claim to be Lords of the Isles, 59. Their feud with the citizens of Inverness, 61. Macflecnoe of Dryden, character of the, v. 120.
Machiavelli, his Works, by Périer, v. 46.
General odiousness of his name and works, 46, 47. Suffered for public liberty, 47. His elevated sentiments and just views, 47. Held in high esti- mation by his contemporaries, 48. State of moral feeling in Italy in his time, 50. His character as a man, 63. As a poet, 64. As a dramatist, 65. As a statesman, 62, 69, 76, 78, 80. His Prince, 75. Excellence of his precepts, 76. His candour, 78. Comparison between him and Montesquieu, 78. His style, 79. His levity, 80. His his- torical works, 80. Lived to witness the last struggle for Florentine liberty, 81. His work and character misrepresented, 82. His remains unhonoured till long after his death, 82. Monument erected to his memory by an English nobleman, 82. Character of his history, 145. Mackay, General Andrew, ii. 254. His skirmish with the Irish troops at Win- canton, ii. 277. Sent by William III. to Scotland, iii. 29. His campaign in the Highlands, 67. His plan for a fortress at Inverlochy, 68. Suspends operations, 75. Marches northwards, 84. Arrives at Killiecrankie, 86. De- feated by Dundee, 88. His retreat, 90, 91. Reorganises his force, 95. Defeats the Highlanders at St. Johnston's, 96. Thwarted by the Scotch administration, 98. Supported by William, 98. Builds Fort William, 335. Serves under Ginkell in Ireland, 428. Forces the passage of the Shannon at Athlone, 433. Turns the Irish flank at Aghrim, 438. At the battle of Steinkirk, 581. His fall, 582. Mackenzie, Mr., his dismissal insisted on by Grenville, vii. 252. Mackenzie, Henry, his ridicule of the Nabob class, vi. 442.
Mackenzie, Sir George, Lord Advocate, i. 616. Dismissed, 616. Hated by the
Covenanters, iii. 24. His speech in the Scotch Convention against the deposi- tion of James II., 31. Mackintosh, Sir James, his collection of Newsletters and other documents, i. 305 and note, 344 note. His opinion on the Roman Catholic question, ii. 61. Review of his History of the Revolution in England, vi. 76-134. Comparison with Fox's History of James II., 76. Character of his oratory, 79. His con- versational powers, 80. His qualities as a historian, 81. His vindication from the imputations of the editor, 84, 88-95. Change in his opinions pro- duced by the French Revolution, 84. His moderation, 87, 88. His historical justice, 94. Remembrance of him at
Holland House, 542. Mackintoshes (the), iii. 60.
Maclachlan, Margaret, murder of, i. 391. Maclean, Colonel, agent in England for Warren Hastings, vi. 572, 580. Macleans (the), iii. 56, 66. Macnaghtens (the), iii. 56, 65. Macpherson, his forgery of Fingal, vii. 350. Threatens Dr. Johnson, 350. Madras, description of it, vi. 384. capitulation to the French, 386. Re- stored to the English, 387.
Madrid, bread riots in, iv. 470. Capture of, by the English army, in 1705, v. 668. Magdalene College, Cambridge, MSS. at,
i. 239 note. See Pepysian Library. Magdalene College, Oxford, ii. 99. Its loyalty, 100. Its wealth; vacancy of the Presidency, 101. The Fellows cited before the High Commission, 103. In- terview of the Fellows with James II, 107. Penn's negotiations with, 108, 109 and note, 110 and note. Special commissioners sent to, 111. Bishop Parker installed President, 112. The Fellows ejected, 114, vii. 55. Turned into a Popish seminary, ii. 115. Con- cessions of James in regard to, 241. Announced restoration of the Fellows, 243. Addison's connection with it, 56. Mahommed Reza Khan, his character, vi. 555. Selected by Clive, 557. His capture, confinement at Calcutta, and release, 557, 559.
Mahon, Lord, review of his History of the War of the Succession in Spain, v. 638, 684. His qualities as a historian, 638, 640. His explanation of the financial condition of Spain, 645. His opinions on the Partition Treaty, 648, 650. His representations of Cardinal Porto Car- rero, 658. His opinion of the peace on the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession, 677. His censure of Harley, 677; and view of the re-
semblance of the Tories of the present day to the Whigs of the Revolution, 677, 678.
Mahrattas, sketch of their history, vi. 390,
583. Expedition against them, 584. Maine, Duke of, a natural son of Lewis
XIV., iv. 156. His cowardice, 160. Maintenon, Madame de, saves Trêves from destruction, ii. 495. Uses her influence with Lewis XIV. to recognise James III., iv. 540. Her boast as to religion in her time, vi. 500.
Malaga, naval battle near, in 1704, v. 662.
Malcolm, Sir John, review of his Life of
Lord Clive, vi. 381-453. Value of his work, 382. His partiality for Clive, 410. His defence of Clive's conduct towards Omichund, 418.
Malkin, Sir Benjamin Heath, epitaph on, viii. 590.
Mallet, David, patronage of, by Bute, vii. 231.
Maloney, an Irish bishop, i. 642 note. Malthus, Mr., attacked by Mr. Sadler, v.
Manilla, capitulation of, vii. 225.
Manley, John, his speech against the at- tainder of Fenwick, iv. 277. Mannerism of Johnson, v. 536. Mansfield, Lord, vii. 227. His character
and talents, vi. 56. His rejection of the overtures of Newcastle, 64. His elevation, 64. Character of his speeches, vii. 265. His friendship for Hastings, vii. 616.
Manso, Milton's Epistle to, v. 8. Mansuete, Father, ii. 47.
Manufactures and commerce of Italy in
the fourteenth century, v. 52, 53. Manufacturing system (the), Southey's opinion upon, v. 338. Its effect on the health, 340.
Manufacturing and agricultural labourers,
comparison of their condition, v. 340,
Manufactories, wages in, i. 326. Ballads regarding, 326 note. Children's labour in, 327.
Marat, his bust substituted for the statues of the martyrs of Christianity, vi. 486. His murmurs against Barère, vii. 152. His death, 153 note.
Marcet, Mrs., her Dialogues on Political Economy, v. 4.
Marcellus, the counterfeit oration for, vii. 284.
March, Lord, a persecutor of Wilkes, vii. 244.
Marie Antoinette, Queen, Barère's account of the death of, vii. 129. Brought be- fore the Revolutionary Tribunal on the motion of Barère, 155. Her execution, 155.
Marino, San, visited by Addison, vii. 69. Marlborough, mound at, i. 227 note. The Duke of Somerset's house at, iii. 329.
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of; his rise and character, i. 358, v. 221. Ambassador extraordinary to France, i. 360. His operations against Mon- mouth, 462. At the battle of Sedge- moor, 474. His pity for the convicted rebels, 504. Sits on the trial of Lord Delamere, 552. His communications with Dykvelt; his motives for deserting James II., ii. 74. His letters to Wil- liam III., 78, 222. Conspires against James, 267. Attends James, 270. His desertion, 279. Commands the English brigade under Waldeck; re- pulses the French at Walcourt, iii. 147. Complaints of his avarice, 148. His relations with the Princess Anne, 241. Supports the Abjuration Bill, 252. One of the Council of Nine, 269. Advises the sending reinforce- ments to Ireland, 318. His expedi- tion to Ireland, 330. His dispute with the Duke of Wurtemberg; takes Cork, 331. Takes Kinsale, 331. His re- ception by William on his return, 332. Hated by the Jacobites; his ties to William, 412. Seeks an interview with Colonel Sackville; his pretended repentance for his desertion of James II., 412. His treasonable betrayal of secrets, 413. His promises to James, 414. Receives a written pardon from James, 415. Accompanies William to the Continent, 415. His correspond- ence with James, 416. His plot for the restoration of James, 489. Cal- culates on the army's jealousy of fo- reigners, 491. Distrusted and betrayed by the Jacobites, 492, 493. Disgraced,
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