by Newcastle, 301; made Secretary of
State, 301; defends Admiral Byng, 304:
coalesces with the Duke of Newcastle, 302;
success of his administration, 302-309; his
appreciation of Clive, 525, 537; breach be-
tween him and the great Whig connection,
637; review of his Correspondence, 775; in
the zenith of prosperity and glory, 775;
his coalition with Newcastle, 777; his
strength in Parliament, 780; jealousies in
his cabinet, 785; his defects, 786; proposes
to declare war against Spain on account of
the family compact, 787; rejection of his
counsel, 787; his resignation, 787; the
king's gracious behaviour to him, 787;
public enthusiasm towards him, 788; his
conduct in opposition, 789-795; his speech
against peace with France and Spain, 795;
his unsuccessful andiences with George III.
to form an administration, 799; Sir William
Pynsent bequeaths his whole property to
him, 801; bad state of his health, 802; is
twice visited by the Duke of Cumberland
with propositions from the King, 804, 805;
his condemnation of the American Stamp
Act, 807, 808; is induced by the King to
assist in ousting Rockingham, 811; morbid
state of his mind, 811, 812, 815; under-
takes to form an administration, 812, 813;
is created Earl of Chatham, 813; failure of
his ministerial arrangements, 813-817; loss
of his popularity, and of his foreign in-
finence, 813-817; nis despotic manners,
812, 814; lays an embargo on the exporta-
tion of corn, 815; his first speech in the
House of Lords, 815; his supercilious con-
duct towards the Peers, 815; his retire-
ment from office, 815; his policy violated,
816-818; resigns the privy seal, 817; state
of parties and of public affairs on his re-
covery, 817, 818; his political relations,
819; his eloquence not suited to the House
of Lords, 819; opposed the recognition of
the independence of the United States, 821;
his last appearance in the House of Lords,
820; his death, 821; reflections on his fall,
821; his funeral in Westminster Abbey,
821

Cherbourg, guns taken from, 307
Chesterfield, Lord, his dismissal by Walpole,

290

Cheyte Sing, a vassal of the government of
Bengal, 627; his large revenue and sus-
pected treasure, 629; Hastings' policy in
desiring to punish him, 629-631; his treat-
ment made the successful charge against
Hastings, 644

Chillingworth, his opinion on apostolical
succession, 488; became a Catholic from
conviction, 545

Chinsurah, Dutch settlement on the Hoogley,
512; its siege by the English and capitula-
tion, 525

Chivalry, its form in Languedoc in the 12th
century, 545, 546
Cholmondely, Mrs., 710

Christchurch College, Oxford, its repute after
the Revolution, 460; issues a new edition
of the Letters of Phalaris, 461
Christianity, its alliance with the ancient phi-
losophy, 392; light in which it was regarded
by the Italians at the Reformation, 548
Church (the), in the time of James II., 88

Church (the), Southey's book of, 100
Church, the English, persecutions in her
name, 55, 56; High and Low Church
parties, 749

Church of England, its origin, and connection
with the state, 59; its condition in the
time of Charles I., 113; endeavour of the
leading Whigs at the Revolution to alter
its Liturgy and Articles, 340, 490; its con-
test with the Scotch nation, 341; Mr. Glad-
stone's work in defence of it, 466, 467; his
arguments for its being the pure Catholic
Church of Christ, 483, 4×5; its claims to
apostolical succession discussed, 485-491;
views respecting its alliance with the state,
491-496; contrast of its operations during
the two generations succeeding the Refor.
mation, with those of the Church of Rome,
551, 556

Church of Rome, its alliance with ancient phi-
losophy, 392; causes of its success and vi
tality, 542, 543; sketch of its history, 544-
563

Churchill, Charles, 87, 792
Cicero, partiality of Dr. Middleton towards,
348; the most eloquent and skilful of ad-
vocates, 348; his epistles in his banishment,
357; his opinion of the study of rhetoric,
405

Cider, proposal of a tax on, by the Bute ad-
ministration, 796

Civilisation, England's progress in, due to the
people, 121

Civil privileges and political power identical,

141

Civil war, its evils the price of our liberty,
18; conduct of the Long Parliament in
reference to it, 66, 77

Clarendon, Lord, his character, 88, 89; his
testimony in favour of Hampden, 199, 208,
209, 217, 219; his literary merit, 347; his
position at the head of affairs, 13, 14-17;
his faulty style, 22; his opposition to the
growing power of the Commons, 31; his
temper, 32

Clarke, Dr. Samuel, 543
Clarkson, Thomas, 726

Classical learning, love of, in Italy in the 14th
century, 33

Clavering, General, 610; his opposition to
Hastings, 612, 615; his appointment as Go-
vernor-General, 617; his defeat, 619; his
death, 619

Cleveland, Duchess of, her favour to Wy-
cherley and Churchill, 572, 573
Clifford, Lord, his character, 434; his retire-
ment, 439; his talent for debate, 445
Clive, Lord, review of Sir John Malcolm's
Life of, 497-541; his family and boyhood,
498, 499; his shipment to India, 498; his
arrival at Madras, and position there, 499;
obtains an ensign's commission in the
Company's service, 501; his attack, capture,
and defence of Arcot, 505-508; his subse-
quent proceedings, 509, 510; his marriage
and return to England, 510; his reception,
510; enters Parliament, 510; returns to
India, 511; his subsequent proceedings,
511-520; his conduct towards Omichund,
519; his pecuniary acquisitions, 621, 522;
his transactions with Meer Jaffir, 521, 522 :
appointed Governor of the Company's pos
sessions in Bengal, 523; his dispersion of

Shah Alam's army, 524; responsibility of
his position, 521; his return to England,
625; his reception, 525, 526; his proceedings
at the India House, 526, 529; nominated
Governor of the British possessions in
Bengal, 529; his arrival at Calcutta, 529;
suppresses a conspiracy, 529-531; success of
his foreign policy, 532; his return to Eng-
land, 533; his unpopularity, and its causes,
534-538; invested with the Grand Cross of
the Bath, 538; his speech in his defence,
and its consequence, 539; his life in re-
tirement, 540; reflections on his career,
540; failing of his mind, and death by his
own hand, 540

Clizia, Machiavelli's, 41

Clodius, extensive bribery at the trial of, 382
Club room, Johnson's, 190

Coalition of Chatham and Newcastle, 302,
788

Cobham, Lord, his malignity towards Essex,

365

Coke, Sir E., his conduct towards Bacon, 355,
376; his opposition to Bacon in Peacham's
case, 369, 370; his experience in conducting
state prosecutions, 370; his removal from
the Bench, 876; his reconciliation with
Buckingham, and agreement to marry his
daughter to Buckingham's brother, 376;
his reconciliation with Bacon, 377; his be-
haviour to Bacon at his trial, 385
Coleridge, relative "correctness"

of his
poetry, 153; Byron's opinion of him, 159
Coligni, Gaspar de, reference to, 803
Collier, Jeremy, sketch of his life, 581, 584;
his publication on the profaneness of the
English stage, 583, 586; his controversy
with Congreve, 584 et seq.

Colloquies on Society, Southey's, 98; plan of
the work, 102, 103

Colonies, 239; question of the competency of
Parliament to tax them, 807, 808
Comedy (the) of England, effect of the
writings of Congreve and Sheridan upon,

40

Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, 563-
589; have exercised a great influence on the
human mind, 564

Comines, his testimony to the good govern-
ment of England, 193
Commerce and manufacture, their extent in
Italy in the 14th century, 32, 33; condition
of, during the war at the latter part of the
reign of George II., 309

Commons, House of, increase of its power, 93,
94; increase of its power by and since the
Revolution, 342
Commonwealth, 571
Comus, Milton's, 6, 8

Condé, Marshal, compared with Clive, 541
Conflans, Admiral, his defeat by Hawke, 307
Congreve, sketch of his career at the Temple,
579, 580; success of his "Love for Love,"
581; his "Mourning Bride," 581; his con-
troversy with Collier, 583, 586; his "Way
of the World," 586; his position among
men of letters, 587; his attachment to Mrs.
Bracegirdle, 588; his friendship with the
Duchess of Marlborough, 588; his death
and capricious will, 588; his funeral in
Westminster Abbey, 588; cenotaph to his
memory at Stowe, 589; analogy between
him and Wycherley, 589, 590

Congreve and Sheridan, effect of their works
upon the comedy of England, 40; con-
trasted with Shakespeare, 40

Conquest of the British arms in 1758-60, 307,

308

Constance, council of, put an end to the Wick-
liffe schism, 548

Constitution (the) of England, in the 15th and
18th centuries, compared with those of other
European states, 69; the argument that it
would be destroyed by admitting the Jews
to power, 140; its theory in respect to the
three branches of the legislature, 772
Constitutional government, decline of, on the
Continent early in the 17th century, 71, 72
Constitutional History of England, review of
Hallam's, 51-98

Constitutional Royalists in the reign of Charles
I., 210, 214

Conway, Henry, 801; Secretary of State under
Lord Rockingham, 806; returns to his
position under Chatham, 813-816; sank
into insignificance, 817

Conway, Marshal, his character, 525
Ccoke, Sir Anthony, his learning, 352
Co-operation, advantages of, 471
Coote, Sir Eyre, 621; his character and con-
duct in council, 621, 622; his great victory
of Porto Novo, 626

Corah, ceded to the Mogul, 606
"Correctness" in the fine arts and in the
sciences, 153-155; in painting, 155; what
is meant by it in poetry, 153-155
Corruption, parliamentary, not necessary to
the Tudors, 275; its extent in the reigns of
George I. and II., 784, 785
Corsica given up to France, 817
Cossimbazar, its situation and importance, 598
Council of York, its abolition, 205
Country Wife of Wycherley, its character and
merits, 474; whence borrowed, 478
Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of his Me-
moirs of Sir William Temple, 415-464; his
concessions to Dr. Lingard in regard to the
Triple Alliance, 433; his opinion of Temple's
proposed new council, 442, 443; his error as
to Temple's residence, 456
Cousin hood, nickname of the official members
of the Temple family, 420
Covenant, the Scotch, 204
Covenanters (the), their conclusion of a treaty
with Charles I., 205
Coventry, Lady, 706
Cowley, dictum of Denham concerning him,
2; deficient in imagination, 5; his wit, 272,
755; his admiration of Bacon, 413
Cowper, Earl, Keeper of the Great Seal, 749
Cowper, William, 158; his praise of Pope,
159; his friendship with Warren Hastings,
597

Cox, Archdeacon, his enlogium on Sir Robert
Walpole, 277

Coyer, Abbé, his imitation of Voltaire, 756
Craggs, Secretary, 300; succeeds Addison,
772; Addison dedicates his works to him,
773

Cranmer, Archbishop, estimate of his charac
ter, 57

Crebillon, the younger, 269
Crisis, Steele's, 766

Crisp, Samuel, his early career, 705; his tra-
gedy of Virginia, 705; his retirement and
seclusion, 707, 708; his friendship with the

Burneys, 708: his gratification at the suc-
cess of Miss Burney's first work, 709; his
advice to her upon her comedy, 711; his
applause of her "Cecilia," 712
Criticism, remarks on Johnson's code of, 186
Critics, professional, their influence over the
reading public, 125

Croker, Mr., his edition of Boswell's Life of
Dr. Johnson, reviewed, 165–190
Cromwell, Oliver, his elevation to power, 80;
his character as a legislator, 81; as a gen
eral, 82; his administration and its results,
83, 84; embarked with Hampden for Ame-
rica, but not suffered to proceed, 204; his
qualities, 220; his administration, 325, 328;
treatment of his remains, 327; his abilities
displayed in Ireland, 425, 426; anecdote of
his sitting for his portrait, 595

Cromwell and Charles, choice between, 78
Cromwell and Napoleon, remarks on Mr. Hal-
lam's parallel between, 81-84
Cromwell, Henry, description of, 421
Cromwell, Richard, 781

Crown (the), veto by, on Acts of Parliament,
74; its control over the army, 74; its power
in the 16th century, 226; curtailment of its
prerogatives, 275, 276; its power predomi-
nant at the beginning of the 17th century,
444; decline of its power during the Pen-
sionary Parliament, 444, 445; its long con-
test with the Parliament put an end to by
the Revolution, 448. See also Prerogative
Crusades (the), their beneficial effect upon
Italy, 32

Culpeper, Mr., 210

Cumberland, the dramatist, his manner of ac-
knowledging literary merit, 710
Cumberland, Duke of, 525; the confidential
friend of Henry Fox, 793; confided in by
George III., 803; his character, 803; me-
diated between the king and the Whigs, 804

D

Dacier, Madame, 739
D'Alembert, Horace Walpole's opinion of him,

269

Dallas, Chief Justice, one of the counsel for
Hastings on his trial, 649
Danby, Earl, 275; his connection with
Temple, abilities, and character, 439, 440;
impeached and sent to the Tower, 441;
owed his office and dukedom to his talent
in debating, 445

Danger, public, a certain amount of, will war-
rant a retrospective law, 209
Dante, his Divine Comedy, 9, 33; comparison
of him with Milton, 9, et seq.; "correct-
ness" of his poetry, 153; story from, illus.
trative of the two great parties in England
after the accession of the House of Hanover,
776

D'Arblay, Madame, review of her Diary and
Letters, 700-731; wide celebrity of her
name, 701; her Diary, 701, 702; her family,
701; her birth and education, 703, 704; ber
father's social position, 705; her first lite.
rary efforts, 705; her friendship with Mr.
Crisp, 705, 708; publication of her "Eve-
lina," 708, 709; her comedy "The Witlings,"
711; her second novel, "Cecilia," 712;

death of her friends Crisp and Johnson, 712;
her regard for Mrs. Delany, 712; her inter-
view with the king and queen, 713, 714;
accepts the situation of keeper of the robes,
714; sketch of her life in this position, 715-
717; attends at Warren Hastings' trial, 717;
her espousal of the cause of Hastings, 718;
her incivility to Windham and Burke, 718;
her sufferings during her keepership, 718,
721-723; her marriage, and close of the
Diary, 723; publication of "Camilla," 723;
subsequent events in her life, 723; her
death, 724; character of her writings, 724-
729; change in her style, 728-729; speci-
mens of her three styles, 729, 730; failure
of her later works, 730; service she rendered
to the English novel, 731

Dashwood, Sir Francis, Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer under Bute, 790; his inefficiency,
796

Davies, Tom, 172

Davila, one of Hampden's favourite authors,
200
Daylesford, site of the estate of the Hastings
family, 596; its purchase and adornment by
Hastings, 655, 656

De Augmentis Scientiarum, by Bacon, 368-388
Debates in Parliament, effects of their publi.
cation, 95

Debt, the national, effect of its abrogation,
107; England's capabilities in respect to it,
121

Declaration of Right, 338, 339
"Declaration of the Practices and Treasons

attempted and committed by Robert Earl
of Essex," by Lord Bacon, 362
Dedications, literary, more honest than for-
merly, 123

De Guignes, 704

Devonshire, Duchess of, 649
Devonshire, Duke of, forms an administration
after the resignation of Newcastle, 803;
Lord Chamberlain under Bute, 791; dis-
missed from his lord-lieutenancy, 794; his
son invited to court by the king, 805
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, re-
viewed, 700-731

Dionysius, his inconsistency of character, 656
Disenssion, free, its tendency, 113
Dissent, cause of, in England, 556; avoidance
of in the Church of Rome, 557; its extent
in the time of Charles L., 113. See also
Church of England

Dissenters (the), examination of the reasoning
of Mr. Gladstone for their exclusion from
civil offices, 476–480 -

Disturbances, public, during Grenville's admi-
nistration, 804

Divine Right, 16

Division of labour, its necessity, 467; illus
trations of the effects of disregarding it, 467
Dodington, Bubb, 780

Donne, John, comparison of his wit with Ho.
race Walpole's, 272

Dorset, the Earl of, the patron of literature in
the reign of Charles II., 179
Double Dealer, by Congreve, its reception, 580;
his defence of its profaneness, 585
Dover, Lord, review of his edition of Horace
Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, 264-
285. See Walpole, Sir Horace
Dowdeswell, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer
under Lord Rockingham, 806

Drama (the), its origin in Greece, 7; causes
of its dissolute character soon after the
Restoration, 570

Dramas, Greek, compared with the English
plays of the age of Elizabeth, 154
Dramatic art, the unities violated in all the
great master-pieces of, 154

Dramatic literature shows the state of con-
temporary religious opinion, 232
Dramatic Works (the) of Wycherley, Con-
greve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, review of
Leigh Hunt's edition of, 563-589
Dramatists of the Elizabethan age, manner in
which they treat religious subjects, 232
Drogheda, Countess of, her character, ac-
quaintance with Wycherley, and marriage,
575; its consequences, 575
Drummond, Mr., 545

Dryden, the original of his Father Dominic,
41; his merits not adequately appreciated
in his day, 123; alleged improvement in
English poetry since his time, 157; the
connecting link of the literary schools of
James I. and Anne, 160; his poetical genins,
563; his excuse for the indecency and im.
morality of his writings, 565; his generous
admiration for the talents of others, 580;
censure on him by Collier for his language
regarding heathen divinities, 584; compli-
mentary verses to him by Addison, 736;
obtained from Addison a critical preface to
the Georgics, 737

Dublin, Archbishop of, his work on Logic, 406
Dumont, M., his opinion that Burke's work

on the Revolution had saved Europe, 316;
the interpreter of Bentham, 268
Dundas, Mr., his character, and hostility to
Hastings, 641

Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry, his gigantic
schemes for establishing French influence
in India, 500, 503, 504, 508, 511

ceded to it, 627; its financial embarrass-
ments, 629

Ecclesiastical commission (the), 226
Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dramatists
for the character of, 232

Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles, 155; painting
of, by a gifted master, 155

dinburgh, comparison of with Florence, 559
Education in England in the 16th century,
354; duty of the government in promoting
it, 493

Education in Italy in the 14th century, 32
Egerton, his charge of corruption against
Bacon, 379; Bacon's decision against him
after receiving his present, 386
Egotism, why so unpopular in conversation,
and so popular in writing, 164
Elephants, use of, in war in India, 507
Eliot, Sir John, 199, 200; his treatise on Go-
vernment, 200; died a martyr to liberty, 200
Elizabeth (Queen), fallacy entertained re-
specting the persecutions under her, 53, 54;
her penal laws, 54; condition of the work-
ing classes in her reign, 116, 195; her rapid
advance of Cecil, 223; character of her
government, 227, 228, 230, 234; a persecutor,
though herself indifferent, 233, 234; her early
notice of Bacon, 353; her favour towards
Essex, 357; factions at the close of her
reign, 352, 353, 366; her pride and temper,
361; and death, 366; progress in know-
ledge since her days, 543; her Protestant-
ism, 554

Ellenborough, Lord, counsel for Hastings,
649

Elphinstone, Lord, 541
Elwes, 726

Elwood, Milton's friend, allusion to, 28
Emigration of Puritans to America, 204
Emigration to Ireland under Cromwell, 426
Empires, extensive, often more flourishing
after a little pruning, 239

England, her progress in civilisation due to
the people, 121; her physical and moral
condition in the 15th century, 193, 194;
never so rich and powerful as since the loss
of her American colonies, 239; conduct of,
in reference to the Spanish succession, 247,
248; successive steps of her progress, 322,
323; influence of her revolution on the
human race, 323, 340; her situation at the
Restoration compared with France at the
restoration of Louis XVIII., 324, 325; her
situation in 1678, 327, 329, 331; character
of her public men at the latter part of the
17th century, 418, 419; difference in her
situation under Charles II. and under the
Protectorate, 428; her fertility in heroes
and statesmen, 497; her language, 545
English (the), in the 16th century a free
people, 227, 228; their character, 328, 331
English plays of the age of Elizabeth, 154
"Englishman," Steele's, 766
Enlightenment, its increase not necessarily
unfavourable to Catholicism, 542
Enthusiasts, dealings of the Churches of Rome
and of England with them, 555-557
Epicureans, their peculiar doctrines, 392
Epicurus, the lines on his pedestal, 392
Epitaphs, Latin, 186

Ercilla, Alonzo de, a soldier poet, 238
Essay on Government. Sir W. Temple's, 436
Essays, Lord Bacon's, 359, 368, 388, 408, 418

Essex, Earl of, 235; his character, popularity,
and favour with Elizabeth, 357, 36, 372;
his political conduct, 358, 359; his friend-
ship for Bacon, 358, 359, 362, 372; his con-
versation with Robert Cecil, 359; pleads
for Bacon's marriage with Lady Hatton,
360, 376; his expedition to Spain, 359; his
faults, 360, 361, 372; decline of his fortunes,
361; his administration in Ireland, 360;
Bacon's faithlessness to him, 361; his trial
and execution, 362; ingratitude of Bacon
towards him, 360–365, 373; feeling of King
James towards him, 367; his resemblance
to Buckingham, 372, 373

Essex, Earl of (temp. Ch. I.), 217, 218
Etherege, Sir George, 564
Euripides, Milton's admiration of him, 7;
emendation of a passage of, 171, note
Europe, state of, at the peace of Utrecht,
262; want of union in, to arrest the de-
signs of Louis XIV., 459; the distractions
of, suspended by the treaty of Nimeguen,
440; its progress during the last seven cen-
turies, 725

Evelina, Madame D'Arblay's, specimens of
her style from, 729, 730

Evelyn, 458

Evils, natural and national, 109

Exchequer, fraud of the Cabal ministry in
closing it, 437

Fable (a) of Pilpay, 122

Fairfax, reserved for him and Cromwell to
terminate the civil war, 217

Falkland, Lord, his conduct in respect to the
bill of attainder against Stratford, 65; his
character as a politician, 72; at the head of
the Constitutional Royalists, 211
Family Compact (the) between France and
Spain, 262, 789

Favourites, royal, always odious, 791
Female Quixote (the), 731

Fénelon, his morality in Telemachus, 567
Ferdinand II., devoted to Catholicism, 554
Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and
Charles 1. of England, 216
Fictious, literary, 28

Fidelity of the sepoys towards Clive, 506
Fielding, his contempt for Richardson, 706;
case from his "Amelia," analogous to Ad-
dison's treatment of Steele, 753
Filicaja, Vincenzio, 748

Finance, Southey's theory of, 106-108
Finch, Chief Justice, 203; flies to Holland,
208

Fine arts (the), in Italy in the 14th century,
33; decline in England after the civil war,
270; government should promote them,

492

Fletcher, the dramatist, 566, 571

Florence, state of, in the 14th century, 32, 33;

its History, by Machiavelli, 50; compared
with Edinburgh, 559

Foote, Charles, his stage character of an
Anglo-Indian grandee, 534; his mimicry,
725; his inferiority to Garrick, 725

Forde, Colonel, 523, 525

Forms of government, 184, 185
Fox, the House of. See Holland, Lord
Fox, Charles James, comparison of his His-

tory of James II. with Mackintosh's His
tory of the Revolution, 310; his style, 311;
characteristic of his oratory, 312; his
bodily and mental constitution, 591, 592 ;
his championship of arbitrary measures,
and defiance of public opinion. 592; his
change after the death of his father, 593;
clamour raised against his India Bill, and
his defence of it, 641; his alliance with
Burke, and call for peace with the Ameri.
can republic, 642; his powerful party, 644:
his conflicts with Pitt, 644; his motion on
the charge against Hastings, 645; his ap-
pearance on the trial, 649; his rupture with
Burke, 653

Fox, Henry, sketch of his political character,
294, 300; accepts office, 302, 303; directed
to form an administration in concert with
Chatham, 303, 306; applied to by Bute to
manage the House of Commons, 793, 794;
his private and public qualities, 793; be-
comes leader of the House of Commons,
794; obtains his promised peerage, 797
France, illustration from the history of, since
the Revolution, 85; her condition in 1712
and in 1832, 260; her state at the restora-
tion of Louis XVIII., 324; enters into a
compact with Spain against England, 373;
recognises the independence of the United
States, 405

Francis, Sir Philip, councillor under the Re-
gulating Act for India, 610; his character,
610; probability of his being the author of
the Letters of Junius, 610, 611; opposes
Hastings, 612, 619; his patriotic feeling,
and reconciliation to Hastings, 621; op-
poses the arrangement with Impey, 624;
renews his quarrel with Hastings, 624; duel
with Hastings, 625; returns to England,
626; his entrance into the House of Com-
mons and character there, 642, 645; his
speech relating to Cheyte Sing, 645; ex-
cluded from the impeachment committee,

648

Francis, the Emperor, 781

Franklin, Benjamin, 543; his admiration for
Miss Burney, 711

Franks, rapid fall of their dominion after the
death of Charlemagne, 502
Frederic I., 658

Frederic II., 663

Frederic the Great, review of his Life and
Times, by Thomas Campbell, 658-700;
notice of the House of Brandenburgh, 658;
birth of Frederic, 660; his father's conduct
to him, 660; his taste for music, 660; his
desertion and imprisonment, 661; his re-
lease, 661; his favourite abode and amuse-
ments, 661; his education, 661; his exclusive
admiration for French writers, 662; his
veneration for the genius of Voltaire, 663;
his correspondence with him, 663; his ac-
cession, 664; his character little understood,
665; his true character, 666; he determines
to invade Silesia, 666; prepares for war,
666; commences hostilities, 667; his per-
fidy, 667; occupies Silesia, 667; his first
battle, 668; his change of policy, 669; gains
the battle of Chotusitz, 669; Silesia ceded
to him, 669; his whimsical conferences
with Voltaire, 670; recommences hostilities,
670; his retreat from Bohemia, 670; his
victory at Hohenfriedberg, 671; his part