to the papers found in the writing of
Charles II., 638. Declares against
reading the Declaration of Indulgence,
ii. 149. A member of the Ecclesiastical
Commission, iii. 172. Made Bishop of
Worcester, 184. His claims for the
Primacy, iv. 113.
Stirling, plan of the Scotch Jacobites for
secession to, iii. 20, 26.
Stockjobbing, origin of, iii. 612, 613 and
note. Was anterior to the National
Debt, 614. Fluctuations in the Stock
Exchange, iv. 456.
Stoicism, comparison of that of the Ben-
galee with the European, vi. 555.
Stoics, their philosophy, vi. 209, 220,
224.
Storey, Samuel, i. 513.
Stories, good, fondness of the later ancient
Stout, Quaker family at Hertford, endea-
vour to fix a charge of murder on
Spencer Cowper, iv. 502, 504.
Cowper, Spencer.
Strabane, skirmish at, ii. 543.
Strabane, Claude Hamilton, Lord, ii. 551.
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, v.
180, 182. His character and policy, i.
68, 69; v. 180. Deprecates Charles I.'s
Scotch war, i. 74. Persists in his policy,
76. His impeachment and execution,
77; v. 180, 559. Precedent of his at-
tainder quoted, iv. 284, 286. Defence
of the proceedings against him, v.
Strafford, Earl of, included in the Irish
Act of Attainder, ii. 567.
Strasburg, retained by the French in the
Treaty of Ryswick, iv. 321.
Stratton, battle of, i. 91.
Strawberry Hill, vi. 4, 14.
Street, Baron; his collusive resistance to
James II. on the question of the Dis-
pensing Power, i. 587.
Stukeley's Itinerarium Curiosum, i. 227
"Sublime, Longinus on the," vii. 662.
Burke and Dugald Stewart's discussions,
662.
Subsidies, how raised; their diminished
productiveness, iii. 607 and note. In
the time of Charles II., v. 224. Pitt's
aversion to subsidising foreign powers,
vi. 60.
Succession. See Hereditary Right.
Succession in Spain, War of the, v. 638.
See Spain.
Suffolk, wages in, i. 325.
Suffrage, universal, v. 284, 286
Sugar duties, speech respecting the, viii.
284.
Sujah Dowlah, Nabob Vizier of Oude, vi.
561. His flight, 565, 601.
Sulivan, Mr., Chairman of the East India
Company; his character, vi. 430. His
relation to Lord Clive, 433.
Sumner, Rev. C. B., v. 227.
Sunderland, Countess of; her intrigue
with Henry Sidney, ii. 225. Her letters,
226.
Sunderland, Robert Spencer, Earl of; his
political character, i. 193, 194. Sup-
ports the Exclusion Bill, 203. His in-
trigues, 217. Retained in office by
James II., 349. Conforms to Roman
Catholic observances, 367. His letter
to Penn, 510 note. Encourages the
errors of James II., 571. His motives;
bribed by France, 572. Joins the Je-
suitical cabal; converted by James,
572. His intrigues against Rochester,
573. Made an Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioner, 596. Bribed by Tyrconnel, 643.
Anecdote of, ii. 124. Made Lord Lien-
tenant of Warwickshire, 135. His ad-
vice with regard to the Seven Bishops,
156. Recommends James II. to make
concessions, 167. Professes himself a
Papist, 168. Proves the publication
of the alleged libel by the bishops, 175.
His suspected treachery to James II.,
222. His official gains, 223. Alarmed
for his safety, 224. His secret corre-
spondence with the Prince of Orange,
225. Deludes James into security, 227,
230.
Disgraced, 246. His protesta-
tions of loyalty, 247. His secret ser-
vices to William, iv. 46. His flight to
Holland, 47. His return to England,
47. Ingratiates himself with William,
48. Advises the employment of Whig
ministers, 50. Promotes the reconcilia-
tion of William and the Princess Anne,
141. Receives William at Althorpe,
177. Induces Godolphin to resign
office, 271. Appointed Lord Chamber-
lain and one of the Lords Justices, 304.
Alarm at his appointment, 333, 335.
His political character, 333. Attacks
on him in the House of Commons; his
friends in the House, 344. Utterly
distrusted by his colleagues, 345. His
alarm at the clamour raised against him,
346. Resigns office, 346,
Sunderland, Earl of, vi. 41. Secretary of
State, vii. 80. Appointed Lord Lieute-
nant of Ireland, 106. Reconstructs the
ministry in 1717, 116.
Superstition, instances of, in the 19th cen-
tury, vi. 462.
Supremacy, Act of, i. 590. Curtailment
of its powers, 591.
Supremacy, oath of, difficulties in regard
to, ii. 476-481. The Houses of Parlia-
ment differ, 487.
Supremacy, royal, i. 43. Assertion of,
by Henry VIII. and Cranmer, 44. The
claim modified by Elizabeth, 45.
Supreme Court of Calcutta, account of, vi.
575.
Surajah Dowlah, Viceroy of Bengal, his
character, vi. 407. The monster of
the "Black Hole," 408. His flight and
death, 416, 420. Investigation by the
House of Commons into the circum-
stances of his deposition, 447.
Sutherland, Colonel Hugh, repulsed by
the Enniskilleners, ii. 575.
Sutherland, Earl of, iii. 339.
Sweden, a member of the Triple Alliance,
i. 159. Its jealousy of England and
Holland, iii. 564. Its part in the Tri-
ple Alliance, vi. 274. Its relations to
Catholicism, 474.
Swedish troops of William Prince of
Orange, ii. 258.
Swift, Jonathan, constancy of the Irish
populace to, i. 491. His patriotism con-
fined to the Saxon inhabitants of Ire-
land, iii. 455 and note. His birth and
early career, 649. Secretary to Sir
William Temple, 650. Bearer of a
letter to William III. on the Triennial
Bill, 651. His character of Somers,
iv. 55 note. Of Wharton, 62. His
position at Sir William Temple's, vi.
315. Instance of his imitation of
Addison, vii. 61. His relations with
Addison, 104, 106. Joins the Tories,
107.
Swiss troops in the army of William Prince
of Orange, ii. 259. Swiss soldiers in
the time of Machiavelli, their character,
v. 74.
Sydney, Algernon, v. 226. His reproach
on the scaffold to the sheriffs, vi. 129.
Sydney, Sir Philip, v. 611.
Syllogistic process, analysis of, by Aris-
totle, vi. 230.
AAFFE, the informer, an agent of
Trenchard, iv. 107. His proceedings
in Lancashire, 108. His evidence de-
feats the prosecution, 111. Sent to
prison by the Lords, 115.
Tacitus, his eminence as a historian, v.
143. As a delineator of character,
143.
Tallard, Count of, his embassy to England,
iv. 410. His instructions 411. Splen-
dour of his appointments, 411. Accom-
panies William III. to Newmarket, 411.
Discussions on the Spanish Succession,
413, 414. His impression of William's
firmness and good faith, 414. Renewed
negotiations at Loo, 426. The treaty
signed, 433.
Talleyrand, M. Dumont's sketch of the
character of, v. 637. His fine percep-
tion of character, v. 219; vi. 258. Pic-
ture of him at Holland House, 542.
Tallien, his attack on Robespierre in the
Convention, vii. 175.
Talmash, Thomas, serves under Marl-
borough at Walcourt, iii. 147. Serves
under Ginkell in Ireland, 428. At
Athlone, 433. His conduct in the battle
of Aghrim, 438. His high military
character, 598. At the battle of Lan-
den, iv. 23. Commands the attack on
Brest; attempts a landing, 101. Mor-
tally wounded, 102.
Tangier, garrisoned by the English, i.
150. Relinquished by Charles II., 207.
Colonel Kirke at, 492.
Tankerville, Ford Grey, Earl of (Lord
Grey of Wark); a political prisoner in
the Tower; escapes; his trial for the
seduction of Lady Henrietta Berkeley,
i. 412. Lands at Lyme with Monmouth,
446. His flight from Bridport, 449.
Resists Monmouth's design of deserting
his followers, 468. His cavalry routed
at Sedgemoor, 473. Accompanies Mon-
mouth's flight; taken, 479. His inter-
view with the King, 484. Ransomed,
513. His speech on the Association, iv.
233. Supports the Bill for Fenwick's
attainder, 290. His speech on the Bill
for disbanding the army, 454. Ap-
pointed First Lord of the Treasury; his
unhappy career, 507.
Tarbet, Viscount; plan recommended by
him for the pacification of the High-
lands, iii. 66. His plan adopted by
William III.'s government, 511.
Tasso, v. 408. Difference of the spirit of
his poem from that of Ariosto, vi. 472.
Specimen from Hoole's translation, vii.
63. Character of his "Secchia Rapita,"
vii. 605.
Tatler (the), its origination, vii. 89, 90.
Its popularity, 93. Change in its cha-
racter, 96. Its discontinuance, 96.
Taunton, prosperity of (1685), i. 455. Its
civil and religious politics, 456. Young
ladies of; their ransom assigned to the
Queen's maids of honour, 509. Favour
shown to, by James II., ii. 44.
Taxation, parliamentary consent necessary
to, i. 25. Importance of this right, 33.
The right involved in the question of
Ship-money, 71. The principles of tax-
ation, v. 345, 347.
Tea, consumption of (1691), iii. 469 and
note.
Teignmouth destroyed by the French, iii.
310. The sufferers relieved by church-
collections through England, 312.
Teignmouth, Lord, his high character and
regard for Hastings, vi. 614.
Telemachus, the standard of morality in,
vi. 496.
Telephus (the), of Euripides, vii. 593.
Tempest, a Jacobite emissary, arrested, iii.
264.
Tempest, the Great, of 1703, vii. 78.
Temple, Lord, First Lord of the Admi-
ralty in the Duke of Devonshire's ad-
ministration, vi. 64. His parallel be-
tween Byng's behaviour at Minorca and
the King's behaviour at Oudenarde, 65.
His resignation of office, vii. 223. Sup-
posed to have encouraged the assailants
of Bute's administration, 233.
suades Pitt from supplanting Grenville,
250. Prevents Pitt's acceptance of
George III.'s offer of the administra-
tion, 252. His opposition to Rocking-
ham's ministry on the question of the
Stamp Act, 257. Quarrel between him
and Pitt, 265, 267.
Temple, Sir William, negotiates the Triple
Alliance, i. 159; vi. 272-275. Em-
ployed in the negotiations with Holland,
i. 176. His character, 188. His scheme
of Government, 188, 189. His retire-
ment from public affairs, ii. 515. His
work on Holland, iii. 615. His house
at Moor Park, 649. Consulted by Wil-
liam III. on the Triennial Bill; sends his
secretary, Jonathan Swift, to the King,
649. Review of Courtenay's Memoirs
of, vi. 246-325. His character as a
statesman, 247-253. His family, 254.
His early life, 255. His courtship of
Dorothy Osborne, 256, 258. Historical
interest of his love-letters, 257, 259.
His marriage, 262. His residence in
Ireland, 262. His feelings towards
Ireland, 264. Attaches himself to Ar-
lington, 267. His embassy to Munster,
268 Appointed resident at the Court
of B.ussels, 268. Danger of his posi-
tion, 269. His interview with De Witt,
270. His fame at home and abroad,
£76. His recall and farewell of De
Witt, 277. His cold reception and dis-
missal, 278. Style and character of his
compositions, 280. Charged to con-
clude a separate peace with the Dutch,
284-287. Offered the Secretaryship of
State, 286. His audiences of the king,
287-290. His share in bringing about
the marriage of the Prince of Orange
with the Lady Mary, 287. Required to
sign the treaty of Nimeguen, 287. Re-
called to England, 287. His plan of a
new privy council, 289-300. His aliena-
tion from his colleagues, 311, 313. His
conduct on the Exclusion Question, 313.
Leaves public life and retires to the
country, 313, 314. His literary pur-
suits, 316. His amanuensis, Swift, 315.
His Essay on Ancient and Modern
Learning, 317. His Essay on the Let-
ters of Phalaris, 319. His death and
character, 323, 325. His essay in praise
of the ancient writers, vii. 285.
Temple, John (son of Sir William), em-
ployed by William III. in Irish affairs,
ii. 515. His suicide, 535.
Temple, Sir Richard, i. 540.
Ten Thousand, Xenophon's Expedition of,
the, its character, v. 134.
Ten Hours' Bill, speech on the, viii.
330.
Tenison, Dr., i. 259. Visits Monmouth,
486. Joins in the consultations of the
Bishops, ii. 149, 150. Appointed a
member of the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sion, iii. 172, 174. His examination of
the Liturgy, 175. Made Archbishop of
Canterbury, iv. 113. Attends Queen
Mary on her death-bed, 117, 118. His
funeral sermon, 120. Appointed one of
the Lords Justices, 141. Joins in the
resistance of the peers to the Resump-
tion Bill, 530. Withdraws his opposi-
tion at a critical moment, 535. Attends
William III. on his death-bed, 555.
Terror, Reign of, commencement of the, in
France, vii. 159. Members of the Com-
mittee of Public Safety, 159. Robes
pierre's fiendish decree, 174. End of
the Revolutionary Tribunal, 177.
Tessé, Marshal, v. 667.
Test Act, the, i. 175. Violated by Charles
II., 213. Also by James II., 531. Pro-
posed repeal of, ii. 475, 484.
Teutonic languages coincident with Pro-
testantism, i. 53.
Tewkesbury, proceedings of the Regula-
tors of Corporations at, ii. 141.
Thackeray, Rev. Francis, review of his
Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt,
Earl of Chatham, &c., vi. 36. His style
and matter, 36, 39, 51. His omission
to notice Chatham's conduct towards
Walpole, 51, 52.
Thanet, Thomas, Earl of, ii. 131.
Theatines, vi. 467.
Themistocles, his eloquence, vii. 668.
Theology, characteristics of the science of,
vi. 452-458.
Theo-philanthropy in France, vii. 156.
Thermidor, the memorable ninth of, vii.
175, 176.
Thomas, Bishop of Worcester, his death,
iii. 159.
Thomond Bridge, affair at, iii. 443.
Thoresby, Ralph, i. 292.
"Thorough" (the), of Strafford, i. 68, 70
Thrale, Mrs., v. 512. Her position and
character, vii. 16. Her regard for Miss
Burney, 16.
Thrales, Dr. Johnson's connection with
the, vii. 347, 354.
Thucydides, character of the speeches of
the ancients, as transmitted to us by
him, vii. 669. His historical short-
comings, 701. His history compared
with that of Herodotus, v. 128. Man-
agement of his perspective in history,
130. His speeches put into the mouths
of his characters, 130. His deficiencies,
131. School in which he studied, 133.
His style and philosophy, 133. Re-
garded as a delineator of character,
143.
Thurlow, Lord, vi. 449, 616, 633. His
weight in the government, 616. Re-
tains the Great Seal under Lord Rock-
ingham, vii. 367. Dismissed, 371.
Again Lord Chancellor, 375.
Tiberius Cæsar, Tacitus's delineation of
the character of, v. 143.
Tickell, Thomas, Addison's chief favourite,
vii. 87. His translation of the first
book of the Iliad, 110, 111. Character of
his intercourse with Addison, 110. Ap-
pointed by Addison Under-secretary of
State, 117. Addison entrusts his works
to him, 119. His elegy on the death
of Addison, 121.
Tillotson, Archbishop, i. 259. Dryden's
testimony to, 260 note. His sermon
against the Roman Catholics, 528. Ex-
cluded by James II. from the discus-
sion with Popish divines, 637.
share in the conversion of the Earl of
Shrewsbury, ii. 128. Attends consulta-
tions of the London clergy, 148, 150.
His influence over the Princess Anne,
381. His character as a preacher, iii.
170, 171. A member of the Ecclesi-
astical Commission, 172. Destined by
William III. for the Primacy; his re-
luctance, 184. His letters to Lady
Russell, 184 note. His evidence in
favour of Halifax, 204. Consecrated
Archbishop of Canterbury, 395. General
respect for; insulted by the Jacobites,
395, 396 and note Fuller's conduct to,
503. His death, iv. 112. His funeral,
112.
Tindal, Matthew, ii. 28.
Tindal, his character of the Earl of Chat-
ham's maiden speech, vi. 47.
Tinkers in the seventeenth century, vii.
Tinville, Fouquier, his introduction to the
Revolutionary Tribunal of Paris, vii.
164. Placed under arrest, 178.
Tirzah and Ahirad, Marriage of, viii. 564.
Titus, Silas, a Presbyterian, sworn of the
Privy Council, ii. 205. Deserts James
II., 328. His speeches in favour of
the Triennial Bill, iii. 630; iv. 77.
Tityre Tus," i. 282.
Toddington Church, i. 489.
Toledo, admission of the Austrian troops
into, in 1705, v. 670.
Toleration Bill (the), moved by the Earl of
Nottingham, ii. 461. Conditions an-
nexed to, 462, 463. Its inconsistencies
in theory, 465. And practical merits,
466. The Bill passed, 467.
Toleration, religious, the safest policy for
governments, v. 177. Conduct of James
II. as a professed supporter of it, vi.
112-120.
Torcy, minister of Lewis XIV.; his share
in the conversation with Portland on
the Spanish Succession, iv. 406-408.
Resists the recognition of James III.
by Lewis XIV., 541, 543. His excuses
to the British Ambassador, 545.
Tories; their enthusiasm for James II.
at his accession, i. 371. Their repug-
nance to a standing army, 526. Their.
zeal for Church and King, 554. Change
in their views on the subject of passive
obedience, ii. 185, 186. Their dissatis-
faction with the Revolution, 403-406.
Their joy at the dissolution of Parlia-
ment by William III. in 1690, iii. 219.
Their predominance in the new Parlia-
ment, 247. Their opinions on the war,
iv. 51. Chiefs of their party, 63-67.
Their popularity and ascendency in
1710, vi. 676. Description of them
during the sixty years following the Re-
volution, 683. Of Walpole's time, 44.
Mistaken reliance by James II. upon
them, 121. Their principles and con-
duct after the Revolution, 132. Con-
tempt into which they had fallen (1754),
404. Clive unseated by their vote; 404.
Their joy on the accession of Anne, vii.
72, 74. Analogy between their divi-
sions in 1704 and in 1826, 74. Their
attempt to rally in 1707, 80. Called
to office by Queen Anne in 1710, 93.
Their conduct on the occasion of the
first representation of Addison's Cato,
92. Their expulsion of Steele from the
House of Commons, 104. Possessed
none of the public patronage in the
reign of George I., 206. Their hatred of
the House of Hanover, 206, 207, 214.
Paucity of talent among them, 208.
Their joy on the accession of George
III., 215. Their political creed on the
accession of George I., 217. In the as-
cendant for the first time since the
accession of the House of Hanover, 228.
Tories and Whigs after the Revolution, v.
Torrington, Earl of (Admiral Arthur
Herbert), refuses to support James
II.'s policy; dismissed from his offices,
ii. 39. His communications with
Dykvelt, 73. Bearer of the invitation
to William of Orange, 197. Admiral
of William's fleet, 251. Appointed
First Commissioner of the Admiralty,
413. Attacks the French fleet in
Bantry Bay, 555. His maladminis-
tration of the navy, iii. 144, 145.
Threatens to resign the command of
the fleet, 232. Takes command of the
united English and Dutch fleet, 274.
Receives an order to fight, 276. Re-
solves to expose the Dutch ships, 276.
Defeated off Beachy Head, 277. Pro-
ceedings against him, 258. Tried by
court martial, 359. Acquitted; dis-
missed from the navy, 360.
Torture, never legal in England, i. 25.
Last infliction of, 75. In Scotland, 213;
iii. 34. The application of, by Bacon,
in Peacham's case, vi. 172, 173. Its
use forbidden by Elizabeth, 175. Mr.
Jardine's work on the use of it, 175.
Tory; origin of the term, i. 202. A modern
Tory, v. 678. His points of resemblance
and of difference to a Whig of Queen
Anne's time, 678.
Toulon, Barère's proposal to destroy it,
Toulouse, Count of, compelled by Peter-
borough to raise the siege of Barce-
lona, v. 668.
Tourville, Count of, enters the British
Channel, iii. 273. His victory off
Beachy Head, 277. Anchors in Tor-
bay; his galleys, 308. Contemplates
a landing, 309. Destroys Teignmouth,
310. Leaves the coast, 311. Collects
a fleet for the invasion of England, iv.
536. Defeated off La Hogue, 547-551.
His brave conduct, 548. His reception
at Versailles, 577. Intercepts the
Smyrna fleet, iv. 28. Sails for the
Mediterranean, 99. Effects a junction
with the Toulon fleet; retreats before
Russell, 114.
Tower Hamlets, i. 274.
Tower of London, cemetery of, i. 488.
Townshend, Lord, his quarrel with Wal-
pole and retirement from public life,
vi. 42.
Townshend, Charles, vii. 212. His ex-
clamation during the Earl of Bute's
maiden speech, 226. His opinion of
the Rockingham administration, 254.
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Pitt's
second administration, 265. Pitt's
overbearing manners towards him, 269.
His insubordination, 270. His death,
272.
Town Talk, Steele's, vii. 75.
Tragedy, how much it has lost from a
false notion of what is due to its dig-
nity, vi. 259.
Trainbands of the City (the), v. 577, 578.
Their public spirit, 598.
Transubstantiation, a doctrine of faith,
vi. 458.
Travel, its uses, v. 534. Johnson's con-
tempt for it, 534.
Traveller, Goldsmith's, publication of the,
vii. 316. Its noble and simple design,
316.
Treadmill, the study of ancient philoso-
phy compared to labour in the, vi. 208.
Treason, High, did the articles against
Strafford amount to? v. 182. Law
passed at the Revolution respecting
trials for, vi. 129.
Treason, Bill for regulating Trials for, iii.
484.
Treasurer, Lord, stipend of, i. 242.
Treby, Sir George, counsel for the bishops,
ii. 170. Heads the City deputation to
William of Orange, 333. At the con-
ference between the Houses on the
Settlement of the Kingdom, 384. Ap-
pointed Attorney General, 416. One
of the judges on Anderton's trial, iv.
31.
Tredenham, resists the Triennial Bill, iii.
630. Discovered at the supper party
at the Blue Posts, iv. 547. Elected for
the private borough of St. Mawes,
550.
Trelawney, Colonel Charles, assures Wil-
liam of Orange of his support, ii. 222.
Attends James II., 270.
Trelawney, Sir John, Bishop of Bristol,
ii. 150. (See Bishops, the Seven.)
Excitement in Cornwall in behalf of,
166. Assures the Prince of Orange of
his support, 222. Receives William's
troops in Bristol, 293.
Trenchard, John, made Secretary of State,
iii. 652. His activity against the
Jacobites, iv. 106. Apprehends the
Lancashire Jacobites, 108. Pamphlet
attacks upon, 109. Failure of his
health, 113. His death, 158.
Trenchard, John (son of the preceding),
his pamphlet in favour of disbanding
the army, iv. 335. One of the Com-
missioners for inquiring into the Irish
for feitures, 521. Violent report framed
by him, 521.
Trent, general reception of the decisions
of the Council of, vi. 474.
Trêves, threatened destruction of, ii. 495.
Saved by the influence of Madame de
Maintenon, 496.
Trevor, Sir John, a creature of Jeffreys;
elected speaker, i. 398. Lord Caermar-
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