M

Macburney, original name of the Burney
family, 702

Machiavelli, his Works, by Périer, 28; general
odiousness of his name and works, 28, 29;
suffered for public liberty, 29; his elevated
sentiments and just views, 29; held in high
estimation by his contemporaries, 30; state
of moral feeling in Italy in his time, 31;
his character as a man, 39; as a poet, 39;
as a dramatist, 40; as a statesman, 38, 43,
47, 48, 49; his Prince, 46; excellence of his
precepts, 47; his candour, 48; comparison
between him and Montesquieu, 48; his style,
49; his levity, 49; his historical works, 49;
lived to witness the last struggle for Floren-
tine liberty, 50; his work and character
misrepresented, 50; his remains unho-
noured till long after his death, 51; monu-
ment erected to his memory by an English
nobleman, 51

Mackenzie, Mr., his dismissal insisted on by
Grenville, 804

Mackenzie, Henry, his ridicule of the Nabob
class, 534

Mackintosh, Sir James, review of his History
of the Revolution in England, 310-346;
comparison with Fox's History of James the
Second, 310; character of his oratory, 312;
his conversational powers, 313; his qualities
as historian, 313; his vindication from the
imputations of the editor, 315, 318-322;
change in his opinions produced by the
French Revolution, 315; his moderation,
317, 318; his historical justice, 322; remem-
brance of him at Holland House, 595
Maclean, Colonel, agent in England for Warren
Hastings, 613, 618

Madras, description of it, 499; its capitulation
to the French, 500; restored to the English,
501

Madrid, capture of, by the English army, in
1705, 254

Magdalen College, treatment of, by James II.,
734; Addison's connection with it, 734
Mahommed Reza Khan, his character, 602;
selected by Clive, 604; his capture, confine-
ment at Calcutta, and release, 604, 605
Mahon, Lord, review of his History of the
War of the Succession in Spain, 235-264;
his qualities as a historian, 236-237; his ex-
planation of the financial condition of Spain,
239; his opinions on the Partition Treaty,
242, 243; his representations of Cardinal
Porta Carrero, 248; his opinion of the peace
on the conclusion of the War of the Spanish
Succession, 259; his censure of Harley, 260;
and view of the resemblance of the Tories
of the present day to the Whigs of the
Revolution, 259, 260

Mahrattas, sketch of their history, 502, 620;
expedition against them, 621
Maintenon, Madame de, 569
Malaga, naval battle near, in 1704, 250
Malcolm, Sir John, review of his Life of Lord
Clive, 497-541; value of his work, 497; his
partiality for Clive, 515; his defence of
Clive's conduct towards Omichund, 520

Manchester. Countess of, 739

Manchester, Earl of, his patronage of Addison,
739, 744

Mandeville, his metaphysical powers, 4
Mandragola (the), of Machiavelli, 40
Manilla, capitulation of, 788
Mannerism of Johnson, 189
Mansfield, Lord, 790; his character and ta-
lents, 298; his rejection of the overtures of
Newcastle, 303; his elevation, 303; cha-
racter of his speeches, 813; his friendship
for Hastings, 640

Manso, Milton's epistle to, 5
Manufactures and commerce of Italy in the
14th century, 32, 33
Manufacturing system (the), Southey's opi-
nion upon, 103; its effect on the health, 104
Manufacturing and agricultural labourers,
comparison of their condition, 104, 105
Marat, his bust substituted for the statues of
the martyrs of Christianity, 561
Marcet, Mrs., her Dialogues on Political Eco-
nomy, 3

March, Lord, a persecutor of Wilkes, 800
Marino, San, visited by Addison, 742′
Marlborough, Duchess of, her friendship with
Congreve, 588; her inscription on his mo-
nument, 589; her death, 296

Marlborough, Duke of, 92; his conversion to
Whiggism, 259; his acquaintance with the
Duchess of Cleveland, and commencement
of his splendid fortune, 573; notice of Addi-
son's poem in his honour, 747

Marlborough and Godolphin, their policy, 745
Marsh, Bishop, his opposition to Calvinistic
doctrine, 489

Martinique, capture of, 788
Martin's illustrations of the Pilgrim's Pro-
gress, and of Paradise Lost, 132, 133
Marvel, Andrew, 734
Mary, Queen, 233

Masque, the Italian, 8

Massinger, allusion to his Virgin Martyr, 28;
his fondness for the Roman Catholic Church,
232; indelicate writing in his dramas, 565
Mathematics, comparative estimate of, by
Plato and by Bacon, 395, 396
Maximilian of Bavaria, 554
Maxims, general, their uselessness, 47
Maynooth, Mr. Gladstone's objections to the
vote of money for, 490
Mecca, 542

Medals, Addison's Treatise on, 735, 744
Medici, Lorenzo de. See Lorenzo de Medici
Medicine, comparative estimate of the science
of, by Plato and by Bacon, 397, 398
Meer Cossim, his talents, 528; his deposition
and revenge, 528

Meer Jaffier, his conspiracy, 514; his conduct
during the battle of Plassey, 518; his pecu-
niary transactions with Clive, 521; his
proceedings on being threatened by the
Great Mogul, 523; his fears of the English,
and intrigues with the Dutch, 524; deposed
and reseated by the English, 528; his death,
529; his large bequest to Lord Clive, 533
Melancthon, 223

Memmius, compared to Sir W. Temple, 462
Memoirs of Sir W. Temple, review of, 415-463;
wanting in selection and compression, 415
Memoirs of the Life of Warren Hastings, re-
view of, 595-699

ment, 93

Mercenaries, employment of, in Italy, 35; its
political consequences, 35; and moral effects,
36

Metaphysical accuracy incompatible with suc-
cessful poetry, 11

Metcalfe, Sir Charles, his ability and disin-
terestedness, 541

Methodists, their early object, 549
Mexico, exactions of the Spanish viceroys
exceeded by the English agents in Bengal,

527

Michell, Sir Francis, 374

Middle ages, inconsistency in the schoolmen
of the, 185

Middlesex election, the constitutional question
in relation to it, 817-820

Middleton, Dr., remarks on his Life of Cicero,
348; his controversies with Bentley, 462
Midsummer Night's Dream, sense in which
the word "translated" is therein used, 768
Milan, Addison's visit to, 742

Military science, studied by Machiavelli, 45
Military service, relative adaptation of dif-
ferent classes for, 34

Militia (the), control of, by Charles I., or by
the Parliament, 74

Mill, James, his merits as a historian, 321;
defects of his History of British India, 497;
his unfairness towards Clive's character,
515; his severity towards Warren Hastings,
595

Millar, Lady, her vase for verses, 710
Milton, review of his Treatise on Christian
Doctrine, Mr. Lemon's discovery of the MS.
of it, 1; his style, 1; his theological opi-
nions, 2; his poetry his great passport to
general remembrance, 3-5; power of his
imagination, 5; the most striking charac-
teristic of his poetry, 6; his Allegro and
Penseroso, 6; his Comus and Samson Ago-
nistes, 6; his minor poems, 8; appreciated
the literature of modern Italy, 8; his Para-
dise Regained, 8; parallel between him and
Dante, 9, et seq.; his Sonnets most exhibit
his peculiar character, 14; his public con-
duct, 14; his defence of the execution of
Charles I., 20, 21; his refutation of Salma-
sius, 21; his conduct under the Protector,
21; peculiarities which distinguished him
from his contemporaries, 22; noblest quali-
ties of every party combined in him, 25;
his defence of the freedom of the press, and
the right of private judgment, 26; his bold-
ness in the maintenance of his opinions, 27;
recapitulation of his literary merits, 27, 28;
one of the most "correct" poets, 153
Milton and Shakspeare, character of Johnson's
observations on, 186

Mogul, the Great, 606; plundered by Hastings,

627

Molière, 578, 579

Mompesson, Sir Giles, conduct of Bacon in re-
gard to his patent, 371; abandoned to the
vengeance of the Commons, 379
Monarchy, absolute, establishment of, in con-
tinental states, 71

Monarchy, the English, in the 16th century,
227, 228

Monjuich, capture of the fort of, by Peter-
borough, 253

Monmouth, Duke of, 331; his supplication
for life, 456

Monopolies, English, during the latter end of
Elizabeth's reign, 358; multiplied under
James, 374; connived at by Bacon, 374, 375
Monson, Mr., one of the new councillors under
the Regulating Act for India, 612; his op-
position to Hastings, 612; his death, and
its important consequences, 618
Montagu, Basil, review of his edition of Lord
Bacon's works, 346-414; character of his
work, 346-348; his explanation of Lord
Burleigh's conduct towards Bacon, 354; his
views and arguments in defence of Bacon's
conduct towards Essex, 363-366; his excuses
for Bacon's use of torture, and his tamper-
ing with the judges, 369, 370; his reflections
on Bacon's admonition to Buckingham, 375;
his complaints against James for not inter-
posing to save Bacon, 380; and for advising
him to plead guilty, 380; his defence of Ba
con, 381-387

Montagu, Charles, notice of him, 739; obtains
permission for Addison to retain his fellow-
ship during his travels, 739; Addison's
epistle to him, 740. See also Halifax
Montague, Lord, 179
Montague, Mary, her testimony to Addison's
colloquial powers, 751
Montague, Mrs., 649
Mont Cenis, 744

Montesquieu, his style, 48; Horace Walpole's
opinion of him, 269
Montesquieu and Machiavelli, comparison be-
tween, 48

Montgomery, Mr. Robert, his Omnipresence of
the Deity reviewed, 126; character of his
poetry, 127-132; his Satan. 131, 132
Montreal, capture of, by the British, in 1760,
308

Moore, Dr., extract from his Zeluco, 188
Moore's Life of Lord Byron, review of, 147-
165; its style and matter, 147; similes in
his Lalla Rookh, 404
Moorshedabad, its situation and importance,
598

Moral feeling, state of, in Italy in the time of
Machiavelli, 31

Morality, political, low standard of, after the
Restoration, 86

More, Sir Thomas, 544

Moses, Bacon compared to, by Cowley, 413
"Mountain of Light," 502

Mourad Bey, his astonishment at Buonaparte's
diminutive figure, 747

Mourning Bride, by Congreve, its high stand-
ing as a tragic drama, 581
Moylan, Mr., review of his Collection of the
Opinions of Lord Holland as recorded in

the Journals of the House of Lords, 589-|

595

Muhlberg, the success of the Protestant move-
ment not checked by defeat at, 553
Munny, Begum, 605, 613
Munro, Sir Hector, 626
Munro, Sir Thomas, 541
Munster, Bishop of, 428

Murphy, Mr., his knowledge of stage effect,
711; his opinion of "The Witlings," 711
Mussulmans, their resistance to the practices
of English law, 623

Mysore, 625; its fierce horsemen, 626

N

Nabobs, class of Englishmen to whom the
name was applied, 533-536
Names in Milton, their significance, 6
Napier, Col., 442
Naples, 743

Napoleon compared with Philip II. of Spain,
237; devotion of his Old Guard surpassed
by that of the garrison of Arcot to Clive,
506; his early proof of talents for war, 540;
protest of Lord Holland against his deten-
tion, 589; his hold on the affections of his
subjects, 781. See also Buonaparte
Nares, Rev. Dr., Review of his "Burleigh and
his Times," 220-235

National debt, Southey's notions of, 106, 107;
effect of its abrogation, 107; England's ca-
pabilities in respect to it, 122

National feeling, low state of, after the Re-
storation, 90

Natural history, a body of, commenced by
Bacon, 38

Natural religion, 543

Navy, its mismanagement in the reign of
Charles II., 574

Nelson, Southey's Life of, 100

New Atlantis of Bacon, remarkable passages
in, 411

Newbury, Mr., allusion to his pasteboard pic-
tures, 7

Newcastle, Duke of, his relation to Walpole,
279, 284; his character, 285; his appoint-
ment as head of the administration, 299;
his negotiations with Fox, 300, 301; at-
tacked in Parliament by Chatham, 301; his
intrigues, 303; his resignation of office, 303;
sent for by the king on Chatham's dismissal,
304; leader of the Whig aristocracy, 305,
777; motives for his coalition with Chat-
ham, 306; his perfidy towards the king,
306; his jealousy of Fox, 306; his strong
government with Chatham, 307; his cha-
racter and borough influence, 510; his con-
tests with Henry Fox, 511; his power and
patronage, 778; his unpopularity after the
resignation of Chatham, 789; he quits office,
789

Newdigate, Sir Roger, a great critic, 155
Newton, John, his connection with the slave-

trade, 383; his attachment to the doctrines
of predestination, 489

Newton, Sir Isaac, 3; his residence in Lei-
cester Square, 702; Malbranche's admira-
tion of him, 740
Niagara, conquest of, 308
Nichols, Dr., 597

Norris, Henry, the nickname "Little Dickey"
applied to him by Addison, 773
North, Lord, his change in the constitution of
the Indian government, 610; his desire to
obtain the removal of Hastings, 617; change
in his designs, and its cause, 619; his sense,
tact, and urbanity, 649; his weight in the
ministry, 780; Chancellor of the Exchequer,
817

Northern and Southern countries, difference
of moral feeling in, 36, 37

Novels, popular, character of those which pre-
ceded Miss Burney's Evelina, 731
November, fifth of, 20

Novum Organum, admiration excited by it
before it was published, 368; and after-
wards, 377; contrast between its doctrine
and the ancient philosophy, 390, 394-402;
its first book the greatest performance of
Bacon, 413

Noy, Attorney-General to Charles I., 203
Nugent, Lord, review of his Memorials of
John Hampden and his Party, 190
Nugent, Robert Craggs, 780
Nuncomar, his part in the revolutions in Ben-
gal, 603; his services dispensed with by
Hastings, 605; his rancour against Ma-
hommed Reza Khan, 605; his alliance with
the majority of the new council, 614; his
committal for felony, trial, and sentence,
614; his death, 616

Oates, Titus, remarks on his plot, 329-331
Oc, language of Provence and neighbouring
countries, its beauty and richness, 545
Ochino, Bernardo, his sermons on fate and
free will translated by Lady Bacon, 352
Odd (the), the peculiar province of Horace
Walpole, 272

Old Bachelor, Congreve's, 580
Old Sarum, its cause pleaded by Junius, 611
Old Whig, Addison's, 772
Omai, his appearance at Dr. Burney's con-
certs, 704

Omichund, his position in India, 516; his
treachery towards Clive, 517-520
Omnipresence of the Deity, Robert Montgo-
mery's, reviewed, 126

Opinion, public, its power, 275
Opposition, parliamentary, when it began to
take a regular form, 193

Orange, the Prince of, 434; the only hope of
his country, 436; his success against the
French, 437; his marriage with the Lady
Mary, 440

Oratory, its necessity to an English statesman,
636

Orloff, Count, his appearance at Dr. Burney's
concert ,704

497

Ormond, Duke of, 249, 250
Orsini, the Princess, 248

Orthodoxy, at one time a synonyme for igno-
rance and stupidity, 560

Osborne, Sir Peter, incident of Temple with
the son and daughter of, 421, 425
Oswald, James, 780
Otway, 123

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 384, 385

Ovid. Addison's Notes to the 2nd and 3rd
books of his Metamorphoses, 735
Oxford, Earl of. See Harley, Robert
Oxford, 717, 766

Oxford, University of, its inferiority to Cam-
bridge in intellectual activity, 349; its dis-
affection to the House of Hanover, 766,
790; rose into favour with the government
under Bute, 790
Owen. Mr. Robert, 101

Paper currency, Southey's notions of, 106
Papists, line of demarcation between them
and Protestants, 352

Papists and Puritans, persecution of, by Eliz-
abeth, 53

Paradise, picture of, in old Bibles, 155; paint-
ing of, by a gifted master, 155
Paradise Regained, its excellence, 8

Paris, influence of its opinions among the edu-
cated classes in Italy, 560
Parker, Archbishop, 233

Parliaments of the 15th century, their con-
dition, 70

Parliament (the), of 1640, sketch of its pro-
ceedings, 61-97

Parliament of James I., 196, 197; Charles I.,
his first, 197, 198; his second, 198, 199; its
dissolution, 199; his fifth, 205
Parliament, effect of the publication of its
proceedings, 276, 280

Parliament, Long. See Long Parliament
Parliamentary opposition, its origin, 193
Parliamentary reform, 784
Parr, Dr., 649

Parties, analogy in the state of, in 1704 and
1826, 745; state of, in the time of Milton,
25; in England in 1710, 259-262; mixture
of, at George II.'s first levée, after Walpole's
resignation, 777

Partridge, his wrangle with Swift, 754
Party, illustration of the use and abuse of,
806; power of, during the Reformation and
the French Revolution, 224
Pascal, Blaise, 459, 544

Patronage of literary men, 122; less necessary
than formerly, 123, 124
"Patriots" (the), in opposition to Sir R. Wal-
pole, 279; their remedies for state evils, 282

552

Paulet, Sir Amias, 354

Paulician theology, its doctrines and preva-
lence among the Albigenses, 546; in Bohe
mia and the Lower Danube, 547
Peacham, Rev. Mr., his treatment by Bacon,
369, 370

Peers, new creations of, 74; impolicy of limit-
ing the number of, 772

Pelham, Henry, his character, 284; his death,

299

Pelhams (the), their ascendancy, 283; their
accession to power, 297; feebleness of the
opposition to them, 297. See also Newcas-
tle, Duke of

Peninsular War, Southey's, 100
Penseroso and Allegro, Milton's, 6
People (the), comparison of their condition in
the 16th and 19th centuries, 116, et seq.;
their welfare not considered in partition
treaties, 242

Pepys, his praise of the Triple Alliance, 433,

note

Pericles, his distribution of gratuities among
the members of the Athenian tribunals,
382

Périer, M., translator of the works of Machia-
velli, 28

Persecution, religious, in the reign of Eliza-
beth, 53, 54; its reactionary effects upon
churches and thrones, 61; in England
during the progress of the Reformation, 226
Personation, Johnson's want of talent for,

189

Personification, Robert Montgomery's pen-
chant for, 130

Peshwa, authority and origin of, 620
Peterborough, Earl of, his expedition to
Spain, 250; his character, 250, 256, 257;
his successes on the north-east coast of
Spain, 252-254; his retirement to Valencia
thwarted, 256; returns to Valencia as a
volunteer, 256; his recall to England, 256
Petition of Right, its enactment, 198; viola-
tion of it, 198

Petrarch, 5; the first restorer of polite letters
into Italy, 32; interest excited by his loves,

164

Phalaris, Letters of, controversy upon their
merits and genuineness, 460-462
Philarchus for Phylarchus, 171
Philip II. of Spain, extent and splendour of
bis empire, 236, et seq.

Philip III. of Spain, his accession, 246; his
character, 246, 248; his choice of a wife,
248; is obliged to fly from Madrid, 254;
surrender of his arsenal and ships at Car-
thagena, 255; defeated at Almenara, and
again driven from Madrid, 257; forms a
close alliance with his late competitor, 262;
quarrels with France, 262; value of his
renunciation of the crown of France, 262,

263

Philip le Bel, 547

Philips, Sir Robert, 379

Philips, John, author of the Splendid Shilling,
747; specimen of his poetry in honour of
Marlborough, 747; the poet of the English
vintage, 796

Phillipeaux, Abbé, his account of Addison's
mode of life at Blois, 739
Phillipps, Ambrose, 752