Allegro and Penseroso, 6
Alphabetical writing, the greatest of human
inventions, 396; comparative views of its
value by Plato and Bacon, 396, 397
America, acquisitions of the Catholic Church
in, 542; its capabilities, 542
American colonies, British war with them,
619; act for imposing stamp duties upon
them, 802; their disaffection, 807; revival
of the dispute with them, 817; progress of
their resistance, 819
Anabaptists, their origin, 221

Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the potter's
wheel, 390

Anaverdy Khan, governor of the Carnatic,
504, 505

Angria, his fortress of Gheriah reduced by
Clive, 511

Anne, Queen, her political and religious incli-
nations, 259; changes in her government
in 1710, 259; relative estimation by the
Whigs and the Tories of her reign, 260–262,
264; state of parties at her accession, 745,
746; dismisses the Whigs, 757; change in
the conduct of public affairs consequent on
her death, 765

Antioch, Grecian eloquence at, 542
Anytus, 382

Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone claims
it for the Church of England, 485, 496
Aquinas, Thomas, 407

Arab fable of the Great Pyramid, 562
Arbuthnot's Satirical Works, 756

Archimedes, his slight estimate of his inven-
tions, 395

Archytas, rebuked by Plato, 395

Arcot, Nabob of, bis relations with England,
505-508, 540; his claims recognised by the
English, 505

Areopagitica, Milton's allusion to, 27
Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's ad-
ministration, 290

Ariosto, compared with Tasso, 552
Aristodemus, 543

Aristophanes, 564

Aristotle, his authority impaired by the Re-
formation, 393

Arithmetic, comparative estimate of by Plato
and by Bacon, 394, 395

Arlington, Lord, his character, 427; his cold-
ness for the Triple Alliance, 430; his im-
peachment, 488

Armies in the middle ages, how constitnted,

35, 70; a powerful restraint on the regal
power, 70; subsequent change in this re-
spect, 71

Arms, British, successes of, against the French
in 1758, 807-309

Army (the), control of by Charles I. or by
the Parliament, 74; its triumph over both,
77; danger of a standing army becoming
an instrument of despotism, 216

Arne. Dr., set to music Addison's opera of
Rosamond, 749

Arragon and Castile, their old institutions
favourable to public liberty, 240

Art of War. Machiavelli's, 45

Arundel. Earl of, 388

Asia, Central, its people, 607

Asiatic Society, commencement of its career
under Warren Hastings, 637

Assemblies, dellberative, 306

Association See Catholic Association

Astronomy, comparative estimate of by Soc.
rates and by Bacon, 396
Athenian comedies, their impurity, 564; re-
printed at the two Universities, 564
Athenians (the), Johnson's opinion of them,

187

Attainder, an act of, warrantable, 209
Atterbury, Bishop, his reply to Bentley to
prove the genuineness of the Letters of Pha-
laris, 461; reads the funeral service over
the body of Addison, 774
Attila, 542

Attributes of God, subtle speculations touch-
ing them imply no high degree of intellec
tual culture, 543, 544

Aubrey, his charge of corruption against Ba-
con, 879; Bacon's decision against him after
his present, 386
Augsburg, Confession of, its adoption in Swe-
den, 555

Augustine, St., 542
Aurangzebe, his policy, 502
Austen, Jane, notice of, 726
Austin, Sarah, her character as a translator,
541, 563

Austria, success of her armies in the Catholic
cause, 551

Authors, their present position, 1^2-125
Avignon, the Papal Court transferred from
Rome to, 547

B

Baber, founder of the Mogul empire, 501
Bacon, Lady, mother of Lord Bacon, 352
Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's new
edition of the works of, 346-414; his mother
distinguished as a linguist, 352; his early
years, 353, 354; his services refused by go-
vernment, 355, 356; his admission at Gray's
Inn, 355; his legal attainments, 355; sat in
Parliament in 1593, 356; part he took in
politics, 356; his friendship with the Earl
of Essex, 359-363; examination of his con-
dnct to Essex, 362-368; influence of King
James on his fortunes, 366; his servility to
Lord Southampton, 367; influence his ta-
lents had with the public, 367; his distinc-
tion in Parliament and in the courts of law,
368; his literary and philosophical works,
368; his "Novum Organum," and the ad-
miration it excited, 368; his work of reduc-
ing and recompiling the laws of England,
369; his tampering with the judges on the
trial of Peacham, 369-372; attaches himself
to Buckingham, 372; his appointment as
Lord Keeper, 373; his share in the vices of
the administration, 374; his animosity
towards Sir Edward Coke, 376, 377; his
town and country residences, 376; his titles
of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans,
377; report against him of the Committee
on the Courts of Justice, 379; nature of the
charges, 879, 380; overwhelming evidence
to them, 380, 381; his admission of his guilt,
881; his sentence, 381; examination of Mr.
Montagu's arguments in his defence, 381-
387; mode in which he spent the last years
of his life, 388, 389; chief peculiarity of his
philosophy, 389-394; his views compared
with those of Plato, 394-399; to what his
wide and durable fame is chiefly owing, 400;

Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Croker, review
of, 165-190; character of the work, 175
Boswellism, 28

Bourbon, the House of, their vicissitudes in
Spain, 248-258

Bourne, Vincent, 827; his Latin verses in
celebration of Addison's restoration to
health, 357

Boyle, Charles, his nominal editorship of the
Letters of Phalaris, 461; his book on Greek
history and philology, 736
Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry, 746

"Boys" (the), in opposition to Sir R. Wal-
pole, 278

Bracegirdle, Mrs., her celebrity as an actress,
588; her intimacy with Congreve, 588, 589
Brahmins, 544

Breda, treaty of, 429

Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles I., 90
Brihuega, siege of, 258

"Broad Bottom Administration" (the), 297
Brothers, his prophecies as a test of faith,

544

Brown Launcelot, 535

Brown's Estimate, 302

Bruce, Lord, his appearance at Dr. Burney's
concerts, 704

Brunswick, the House of, 781

Brussels, its importance as the seat of a vice-
regal Court, 429
Brydges, Sir Egerton, 726

Buchanan, character of his writings, 394
Buckhurst, 564, 565

Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenie" of
James I., 197, 198; Bacon's early discern-
ment of his influence, 372, 373; his expedi-
tion to Spain, 373; his return for Bacon's
patronage, 373; his corruption, 374; his
character and position, 374-377; his mar-
riage, 378; his visit to Bacon, and report
of his condition, 380
Buckingham, Duke of, one of the Cabal
ministry, 573; his fondness for Wycherley,
573; anecdote of his versatility, 574
Budgell, Eustace, one of Addison's friends,
752, 753

Bunyan, John, his history and character, 136-
138; his style, 139; his religious enthusiasm
and imagery, 556

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, review of
Southey's edition of, 132; peculiarity of the
work, 133, 136, 138, 139; not a perfect alle-
gory, 135, 136

Buonaparte, 81, 304, 747. See also Napoleon
Burgoyne, Gen., chairman of the committee
of inquiry on Lord Clive, 539

Burke, Edmund, his characteristics, 98; his
opinion of the war with Spain on the ques-
tion of maritime right, 295; resembles
Bacon, 412; effect of his speeches on the
House of Commons, 464; not the author of
the Letters of Junius, 611; his charges
against Hastings, 640, 754; his kindness to
Miss Burney, 718; her incivility to him at
Hastings' trial, 718; his early political
career, 806-809; his first speech in the
House of Commons, 809; his opposition to
Chatham's measures relating to India, 815;
his defence of his party against Grenville's
attacks, 818; his feeling towards Chatham,
Burleigh and his Times, review of Rev. Dr.
Nares's, 220; his early life and character,

818

221-224; his death, 224; importance of the
times in which he lived, 224; the great
stain on his character, 233; character of
the class of statesmen he belonged to, 352;
classical acquirements of his wife, 352; his
conduct towards Bacon, 354, 355, 359; his
apology for having resorted to torture, 370;
Bacon's letter to him upon the department
of knowledge he had chosen, 409
Burnet, Bishop, 463

Burney, Dr., his social position, 702, 704; his
conduct relative to his daughter's first pub-
lication, 709; his daughter's engagement at
Court, 714

Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame
Bussey, his eminent merit and conduct in
India, 509

Bute, Earl of, his character and education,
782; appointed Secretary of State, 785; op-
poses the proposal of war with Spain on
account of the family compact, 787; his
unpopularity on Chatham's resignation,
788; becomes Prime Minister, 788; his first
speech in the House of Lords, 788; induces
the retirement of the Duke of Newcastle,
789; becomes First Lord of the Treasury,
790; his foreign and domestic policy, 791,
796; his resignation, 797; continues to ad-
vise the king privately, 799, 804, 808
Butler, Addison not inferior to him in wit,

755

Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca, 302;
his trial, 304; opinion of his conduct, 304;
Chatham's defence of him, 304

Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, 147; his
character, 148; his early life, 148; his quar
rel with and separation from his wife, 149-
150; his expatriation, 151; decline of his
intellectual powers, 151; his attachment to
Italy and Greece, 152; his sickness and
death, 152; general grief for his fate, 152;
remarks on his poetry, 153; his admiration
of the Pope school of poetry, 159; his
opinion of Wordsworth and Coleridge, 159;
of Peter Bell, 159; his estimate of the
poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries, 169;
his sensitiveness to criticism, 160; the in-
terpreter between Wordsworth and the
multitude, 160; the founder of an exoteric
Lake school, 161; remarks on his dramatic
works, 161-163; his egotism, 163; cause of
his influence, 163-165

Cabal (the), their proceedings and designs,
434, 436, 438

Cabinets, in modern times, 442
Cadiz, exploit of Essex at the siege of, 249,
360; its pillage by the English expedition
in 1702, 249
Caesar Borgia, 43

Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of James I. to,

196

Cæsar, Julius, compared with Cromwell, 81
Cæsars (the), parallel between them and the
Tudors, not applicable, 229
Calcutta, its position on the Hoogley, 512;
scene of the Black Hole of, 513, 514; re-
sentment of the English at its fall, 514;
again threatened by Surajah Dowlah, 5i6;

Canning, Mr., 725

Cape Breton, reduction of, 307

Caraffa, Gian Pietro, afterwards Pope Paul
IV., his zeal and devotion, 549, 552
Carlisle, Lady, 212

Carnatic (the), its resources, 504-510; its in-
vasion by Hyder Ali, 625, 626

Carteret, Lord, his ascendancy after the fall
of Walpole, 281, 282; Sir Horace Walpole's
stories about him, 283; his defection from
Sir Robert Walpole, 292; succeeds Walpole,
297; his character as a statesman, 297, 298;
created Earl Granville, 297

Carthagena, surrender of the arsenal and
ships of, to the Allies, 254
Casina (the), of Plautus, 41
Castile, Admiral of, 250

Castile and Arragon, their old institutions
favourable to public liberty, 240
Castilians, their character in the 16th century,
238; their conduct in the War of the Suc-
cession, 255; their attachment to the faith
of their ancestors, 549

Castracani, Castruccio, Life of, by Machiavelli,

Chalmers, Dr., Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his
defence of the Church, 466
Champion, Colonel, commander of the Bengal
army, 608

Chandernagore, French settlement on the
Hoogley, 512; captured by the English,

516

502

Charlemagne, imbecility of his successors,
Charles, Archduke, his claim to the Spanish
crown, 241; takes the field in support of
it, 250; accompanies Peterborough in his
expedition, 251; his success in the north-
east of Spain, 253; is proclaimed king at
Madrid, 254; his reverses and retre t, 256;
his re-entry into Madrid, 257; his unpopu-
larity, 257; concludes a peace, 259; forms
an alliance with Philip of Spain, 262
Charles I., lawfulness of the resistance to,
15, 18; Milton's defence of his execution,
20, 21; his treatment of the Parliament of
1640, 61; his treatment of Strafford, 66;
estimate of his character, 66, 79, 80, 197;
his fall, 78; his condemnation and its con-
sequences, 78-81; Hampden's opposition to
him, and its consequences, 197-204; resist-
ance of the Scots to him, 204, 205; his in-
creasing difficulties, 205; his conduct to-
wards the House of Commons, 212-214;
his flight, 214; review of his conduct and
treatment, 215, 217; reaction in his favour
during the Long Parliament, 331; cause of
his political blunders, 378; effect of the vic-
tory over him on the national character, 418
Charles I. and Cromwell, choice between, 78
Charles II., character of his reign, 22; his

foreign subsidies, 89; his situation in 1660
contrasted with that of Louis XVIII., 324;
his character, 327, 423; his position towards
the king of France, 329; consequences of
his levity and apathy, 331, 332; his court
compared with that of his father, 427; his
extravagance, 429; his subserviency to
France, 430-440; his renunciation of the
dispensing power, 438; his relations with
Temple, 439, 441,456; his system of bribery
of the Commons, 445; his dislike of Halifax,
453; his dismissal of Temple, 456; his social
disposition, 573

Charles II. of Spain, his unhappy condition,
241, 243-246; his difficulties in respect to
the succession, 241-246

Charles III. of Spain, his hatred of England,
787

Charles V., 549
Charles VIII., 409

Charles XII., compared with Clive, 541
Charlotte, Queen, obtains the attendance of
Miss Burney, 714; her partizanship for
Hastings, 719; her treatment of Miss
Burney, 720-723

Chatham, Earl of, character of his public life,
286, 287; his early life, 287; his travels, 288;
enters the army, 288; obtains a seat in Par-
liament, 288; attaches himself to the Whigs
in Opposition, 291; his qualities as an orator,
293, 294; is made Groom of the Bedchamber
to the Prince of Wales, 295; declaims against
the ministers, 296; his opposition to Car-
teret, 297; legacy left him by the Duchess
of Marlborough, 297; supports the Pelham
ministry, 297; appointed Vice-Treasurer of
Ireland, 297, 298; overtures made to him