So stalked he when he turned to flight, on that famed Picard field, Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Cæsar's eagle shield. So glared he when at Agincourt in wrath he turned to bay, And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho!strike the flagstaff deep Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salule: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pridė.
The freshening breeze of eve unfurled' that banner's massy fold; The parting gleam of sunshine kissed that haughty scroll of gold; Night sank upon the dusky beach, and on the purple sea, Such night in England ne'er had been, nor e'er again shall be. From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day;
For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone : it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire. The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves: The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves!
O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew :
He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from Bristol town, And ere the day three hundred horse
had met on Clifton down;
The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night,
And saw o'erhanging Richmond Hill the streak of blood-red light,
Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the deathlike silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke.
At once on all her stately gates arose the answering fires;
At once the wild alarum clashed from all her reeling spires;
From all the batteries of the Tower pealed loud the voice of fear; And all the thousand masts of Thames sent back a louder cheer;
And from the furthest wards was heard the rush of hurrying feet,
And the broad streams of pikes and flags rushed down each roaring street; And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din,
As fast from every village round the horse came spurring in:
And eastward straight from wild Blackheath the warlike errand went, And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent. Southward from Surrey's pleasant hills flew those bright couriers forth; High on bleak Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the north; And on, and on, without a pause, ‘untired they bounded still :
All night from tower to tower they sprang; they sprang from hill to hill: Till the proud peak unfurled the flag o'er Darwin's rocky dales,
Till like volcanoes flared to heaven the stormy hills of Wales, Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern's lonely height, Till streamed in crimson on the wind the Wrekin's crest of light, Till broad and fierce the star came forth on Ely's stately fane, And tower and hamlet rose in arms o'er all the boundless plain; Till Belvoir's lordly terraces the sign to Lincoln sent,
And Lincoln sped the message on on o'er the wide vale of Trent; Till Skiddaw saw the fire that burned on Gaunt's embattled pile, And the red glare on Skiddaw roused the Lurghers of Carlisle.
Abbé and abbot, difference between, 251. Academy, character of its doctrines, 414. Adam, Robert, court architect to George III., 831.
Addison, Joseph, review of Miss Aikin's life of, 769-814; his character, 770; his birth and early life, 771; appointed to a scholarship in Magdalene College, Oxford, 771; his Essay on the Evidences of Christianity, 773; his intention to take orders frustrated, 775; sent by the Government to the Conti- nent, 777; his introduction to Boileau, 779; composes his Epistle to Montague (then Lord Halifax) 781; becomes tutor to a young English traveller, 782; writes his Treatise on Medals, 782; engaged by Godolphin to write a poem in honour of Marlborough's exploits, 784; is appointed to a Commissionership, 784; merits of his "Campaign," 784; criticism of his Tra- vels in Italy, 786; his opera of Rosamond, 787; is made Under-Secretary of State, 788; his election to the House of Com- mons, 788; his failure as a speaker, 788; his popularity and talents for conversation, 789; his timidity and constraint among strangers, 789; becomes Chief Secretary for Ireland under Wharton, 791; origina- tion of the Tatler, 793; his characteristics as a writer, 793; compared with Swift and Voltaire as a master of the art of ridicule, 794; his pecuniary losses, 796; loss of his Secretaryship, 796; resignation of his Fellowship, 796; returned to Parlia ment without a contest, 797; his Whig Examiner, 797; his discontinuance of the Tatler and commencement of the Spec- tator, 797; his commencement and dis- continuance of the Guardian, 799; his Cato, 800; his intercourse with Pope, 802;
his concern for Steele, 802; begins new series of the Spectator, 803; appointed Secretary to the Lords Justices of the Council on the death of Queen Anne, 803; relations with Swift and Tickell, 805; removed to the Board of Trade, 805; production of his Drummer, 805; his Freeholder, 805; his long court- ship of the Countess Dowager of Warwick and union with her, 809; appointed Secretary of State by Sunderland, 810; resigns his post, 810; receives a pension, 810; his estrangement from Steele and other friends, 811; advocates the bill for limiting the number of Peers, 811; refuta- tion of a calumny npon him, 812; his death and funeral, 813; Tickell's elegy on his death, 813; superb edition of his works, 813; his monument, 814.
Adiaphorists, a sect of German Protestants, 238.
Adultery, how represented by the dramatists of the Restoration, 596.
Advancement of Learning, by Bacon, 391. Eschylus and the Greek drama, 8-12. Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous to that of England in the 16th century, 243; bravery of its inhabitants, 640.
Agricultural and manufacturing labourers, comparison of their conditions, 113. Agujari, the singer, 740. Aix, its capture, 326.
Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, 298. Alexander the Great, compared with Clive,
Allegories of Johnson and Addison, 197. Alphabetical writing, views of its value by Plato and Bacon, 420.
America, acquisitions of the Catholic Church in, 572; its capabilities, 572. American colonies, British, war with them, 653; act for imposing stamp duties upon them, 841; their disaffection, 846; revival of the dispute with them, 856. Angria, his fortress of Gheriah reduced by Clive, 540.
Anne, Queen, her political and religious in- clinations, 275; relative estimation by the Whigs and the Tories of her reign, 276- 278, 280; state of parties at her accession, 783; dismisses the Whigs, 796. Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone claims it for the Church of England, 512- 524.
Aquinas, Thomas, 431.
Arbuthnot's Satirical Works, 794-
Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with England, 532-535, 570.
Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's administration, 309.
Arithmetic, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, 418, 419. Arlington, Lord, 451.
Armies in the middle ages, how constituted, 36, 37, 75; a powerful restraint on the regal power, 75; subsequent change in this respect, 75.
Army, The, control of, by Charles I. or by Parliament, 79; its triumph over both, 83; danger of a standing army becoming an instrument of despotism, 230, 231. Arne, Dr., 787.
Arragon and Castile, their old institutions favourable to public liberty, 256. Arundel, Earl of, 411.
Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's new edition of the works of, 368-439; his early years, 375; his services refused by government, 376, 377; his admission at Gray's Inn, 377; sat in Parliament in 1593, 378; his conduct to Essex, 384-388; influence of King James on his fortunes, 388; his servility to Lord Southampton. 389; his distinction in Parliament and in the courts of law, 390; his works, 391; his work of reducing and recompiling the laws of England, 391; his tampering with the judges on the trial of Peacham, 391; his appointment as Lord Keeper, 396; his share in the vices of the administration, 396; his animosity towards Sir Edward Coke, 399; his titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, 400; report against him of the Committee on the Courts of Justice, 402; his admission of his guilt, 403; his sentence, 404; chief peculiarity of his philosophy, 412-417; his views compared with those of Plato, 417-422; his views as a theologian, 427; contemplation of his life, 438.
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character, 370-373. Baconian philosophy, 412.
Baillie, Gen., destruction of his detachment by Hyder Ali, 659.
Balance of power, interest of the Popes in preserving it, 588.
Bar, The, its degraded condition in the time of James II., 95.
Barcelona, capture of, by Peterborough, 270. Barillon, M., his pithy words on the new council proposed by Temple, 468, 472. Barlow, Bishop, 602.
Bavaria, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism, 583-588.
Bedford, Duke of, 818; his views of the
policy of Chatham, 825, 831; presents remonstrance to George III., 844. Bedfords, The, 818; their opposition to the Rockingham ministry on the St. m Act, 847.
Bedford House assailed by a rabble, 843. Begums of Oude, 666; their spoliation charged against Hastings, 681. Belgium, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism, 583-588.
Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen against, 163. Benares, its grandeur, 660; its annexation to the British dominions, 665.
Benevolences, Oliver St. John's opposition to, and Bacon's support of, 391. Bentham, his language on the French Revo- lution, 335.
Bentham and Dumont, 285.
Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the state of reli-
gion in England in the 16th century, 246. Bentley, Richard, his quarrel with Boyle, and remarks on Temple's Essay on the Letters of Phalaris, 487; his edition of Milton, 488, 768; his notes on Horace, 488; his reconciliation with Boyle and Atterbury, 489.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, astrologer, 793.
Bishops, claims of those of the Church of England to apostolical succession, 512- 515.
Black Hole of Calcutta described, 541-542. Black more, Sir Richard, his attainments in the ancient languages, 773. Blackstone, 366.
Blasphemous publications, policy of Govern- ment in respect to, 123. Blenheim, battle of, 783.
Blois, Addison's retirement to, 777. "Bloomsbury gang," the denomination of the Bedfords, 818.
Bodley, Sir Thomas, founder of the Bodleian library, 391, 411.
Boileau, Addison's intercourse with, 777. Bolinbroke, Lord, the liberal patron of literature, 184; proposed to strengthen the royal prerogative, 293; his pretence of phi, losophy ir. his exile, 426; his remedy for the diseases of the state, 823, 824. Book of the Church, Southey's, 107. Books, puffing of, 133-135.
Boroughs, rotten, the abolition of, a neces- sary reform in the time of George I., 297. Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Croker, review of, 170-196; character of the work, 180. Bourne, Vincent, 810.
Boyle, Charles, his nominal editorship of the Letters of Phalaris, 487; his book on Greek history and philology, 773.
Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry, 784.
Boys, The," in opposition to Sir R. Wal- pole, 295.
Bracegirdle, Mrs., her celebrity as an actress, 619.
Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles I.,
"Broad Bottom Administration, The," 315- Brunswick, the House of, 820.
Brydges, Sir Egerton, 763.
Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenie" of James I., 210, 394, 402.
Buckingham, Duke of, one of the Cabal ministry, 604; anecdote of his volatility, €04.
Bunyan, John, his history and character, 200-202; his style, 203.
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, review of Southey's edition of, 196.
Buonaparte, 86, 322, 785. See also Napoleon, Burke, Edmund, his characteristics, 106
not the author of Letters of Junius, 643; his charges against Hastings, 673, 688; his kindness to Miss Burney, 755; his early political career, 845; his opposition to Chatham's measures relating to India, 854; his defence of his party against Gren- ville's attacks, 857.
Burleigh and his Times, review of Rev. Dr. Nares's, 235; his early life and character, 236-239; his death, 239; importance of the times in which he lived, 239; the great stain on his character, 248; his conduct towards Bacon, 376-380; his apology for having resorted to torture, 393. Burnet, Bishop, 4o9.
Burney, Dr., his social position, 736-740; his conduct relative to his daughter's first publication, 745.
Bute, Earl of, his character and education; 822; appointed Secretary of State, 824; opposes the proposal of war with Spain on account of the family compact, 826; be- comes Prime Minister, 827; becomes First Lord of the Treasury, 829; his resig nation, 835; continues to advise the king privately, 838, 843, 847-
Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca, 320; his tria!, 322; opinion of his conduct, 322; Chatham's defence of him, 323.
Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, 151; his character, 152; his early life, 152, his quarrel with and separation from his wife, 153; his expatriation, 155; decline of his intellectual powers, 155; his attachment to Italy and Greece, 155; his sickness and death, 156; remarks works, 165-169; his egotism, 169; cause on his dramatic of his influence, 169.
Cabal, The, the proceedings and designs, 459, 460, 463. Calcutta, scene of the Black Hole of, 541; resentment of the English at its fall, 542; again threatened by Surajah Dowlah, 543: revival of its prosperity, 550; its sufferings during the fainine, 565; its capture, 630. Cambridge, University of, its superiority to Oxford in intellectual activity, 371; distur bances produced in by the Civil War, 445. Camilla, Madame D'Arblay's, 765. Canada, subjugation of, by the British, 328. Canning, Mr., 762.
Carnatic, The, its resources, 532, 539; its in- vasion by Hyder Ali, 658. Carteret, Lord, his ascendancy after the fall of Walpole, 299; his defection from Sir Robert Walpole, 307; succeeds Walpole, 314; created Earl Granville, 315. Carthagena, surrender of the arsenal and ships of, to the Allies, 271. Catholic Association, attempt of the Tories to put it down, 621.
Catholics and Jews, the same reasoning employed against both, 146.
Cato, its first representation, 80; its per formance at Oxford, Sor.
Cavaliers, their successors in the reign of George I. turned demagogues, 815. Cecil, See Burleigh.
Cecil, Robert, his rivalry with Francis Bacon, 376, 381; his interference to obtain knighthood for Bacon, 389.
Cecilia, Madame D'Arblay's, 764. Censorship, existed in some form from Henry VIII. to the Revolution, 364. Chalmers, Dr., Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church, 493. Charles, Archduke, his claim to the Spanish crown, 257; is proclaimed king at Madrid, 270; his reverses and retreat, 272; his re entry into Madrid, 274.
Charles I., lawfulness of the resistance to, 16-19; Milton's defence of his execution, 21; his treatment of the Parliament of 1640, 65; his treatment of Strafford, 70; estimate of his character, 71-83, 211; his fall, 83; his condemnation and its con- sequences, 84; resistance of the Scots to him, 219; his increasing difficulties, 219; his conduct towards the House of Com- mons, 226; his flight, 229; review of his conduct and treatment, 229-231.
Charles I. and Cromwell, choice between, 83.
Charles II., his foreign subsidies, 96; his situation in 1660 contrasted with that of Louis XVIII., 344; his position towards the king of France, 349; consequences of his levity and apathy, 351; his extrava- gance, 453; his subserviency to France, 455-465; his renunciation of the dispens- ing power, 463; his system of bribery of the Commons, 469-471; his social dispo- sition, 604.
Charles II., of Spain, his difficulties in re- spect to the succession, 257-261. Charles V., 578.
Charles XII., compared with Clive, 570. Chatham, Earl of, character of his public life, 303; his early life, 305; his travels, 305; enters the army, 305; obtains a seat in Parliament, 305; attaches himself to the Whigs in opposition, 309; dismissed from the army, 312; declaims against the ministers, 314; his opposition to Car- teret, 314; supports the Pelham minis- try, 315; appointed Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, 315; made Secretary of State, 320; defends Admiral Byng, 323; coalesces with the Duke of Newcastle, 325; review of his Correspondence, 813; his coalition with Newcastle, 817; his strength in Par- liament, 819; proposes to declare war against Spain on account of the family compact, 826; his resignation, 826; his speech against peace with France and Spain, 834; his unsuccessful audiences with George III. to form an administra- tion, 838; his condemnation of the Ameri- can Stamp Act, 847; is induced by the king to assist in ousting Rockingham, 850; undertakes to form an administra- tion, 851; is created Earl of Chatham, 852; failure of his ministerial arrangements, 852-855; lays an embargo on the exporta-
tion of corn, 854; his retirement from office, 854; his policy violated, 855; resigns the privy scal, 856; state of parties and of public affairs on his recovery, 856; opposed the recognition of the independence of the United States, 858; his last appearance in the House of Lords, 859; his death, 859. Cherbourg, guns taken from, 326. Chesterfield, Lord, his dismissal by Walpole, 308.
Cheyte Sing, 661; his treatment made the successful charge against Hastings, 680. Chivalry, its form in Languedoc in the 12th century, 575.
Cholmondely, Mrs., 747.
Christianity, its alliance with the ancient philosophy, 415; light in which it was regarded by the Italians at the Reforma- tion. 578.
Church, The, Southey's Book of, 107. Church, The English, persecutions in her name, 60; High and Low Church parties, 787.
Church of England, its origin and connec tion with the State, 64, 523; its condition in the time of Charles I., 122-124; endea- vour of the leading Whigs at the Revolu- tion to alter its Liturgy and Articles, 361, 518; its contest with the Scotch nation, 361; Mr. Gladstone's work in defence of it, 492, 493; his arguments for its being the pure Catholic Church of Christ, 510, 512; its claims to apostolic succession discussed, 512-519; views respecting its alliance with the State, 519-524; contrast of its operations during the two genera- tions succeeding the Reformation, with those of the Church of Rome, 584, 585. Church of Rome, its alliance with ancient philosophy, 416; causes of its success and vitality, 571, 572; sketch of its history, 575-593.
Churchill, Charles, 94, 831.
Cicero, the most eloquent and skilful of advocates, 370.
Cider, proposal of a tax on, 835.
Civil privileges and political power identical,
Civil war, its evils the price of our liberty, 19; conduct of the Long Parliament in reference to it, 71, 72, 83.
Clarendon, Lord, his character, 95; his posi- tion at the head of affairs, 451-455; his opposition to the growing power of the Commons, 471.
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, 573. Clarkson, Thomas, 764.
Clifford, Lord, his character, 459; his retire- ment, 463; his talent for debate, 470. Clive, Lord, review of Sir John Malcolm's Life of, 524-571; his attack, capture, and defence of Arcot, 533-535; his marriage and return to England, 538; enters Parlia ment, 539; returns to India, 539; ap- pointed Governor of the Company's pos sessions in Bengal, 551; his dispersion of Shah Alum's army, 552; nominated Governor of the British possessions in Benga!, 558; suppresses a conspiracy, 558-560; success of his foreign policy,
561; his speech in his defence, and its consequence, 568; his life in retirement, 569; his death, 570.
Club-room, Johnson's, 195.
Coke, Sir E., his conduct towards Bacon, 377, 399; his removal from the Bench, 398; his reconciliation with Bacon, 399; his behaviour to Bacon at his trial, 408. Coleridge, relative correctness of his poetry, 157; Byron's opinion of him, 163. Collier, Jeremy, his publication on the pro- faneness of the English stage, 614-617. Colloquies on Society, Southey's, 105-131. Colonies, 254; question of the competency of Parliament to tax them, 846.
Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, 593- 621.
Commons, House of, increase of its power, 100; increase of its power by and since the Revolution, 362. Commonwealth, 600. Congreve, sketch of his career at the Temple, 610; success of his Love for Love, 612; his Mourning Bride, 612; his controversy with Collier, 616; his Way of the World, 617; his death and capri- cious will, 620.
Congreve and Sheridan, effect of their works upon the comedy of England, 43; con- trasted with Shakspeare, 44.
Constance, Council of, put an end to the Wickliffe schism, 577.
Constitution, The, of England, in the 15th and 18th centuries, compared with those of other European States, 74; its theory in respect to the three branches of the legislature, 811.
Constitutional History of England, review of Hallam's, 55-105..
Cooke, Sir Anthony, his learning, 373. Coote, Sir Eyre, 654.
"Correctness in the fine arts and in the sciences, 157-160; in painting, 159; what is meant by it in poetry, 158.
Corruption, Parliamentary, not necessary to the Tudors, 292; its extent in the reigns of George I. and II., 823.
Council of York, its abolition, 222.
Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of his Memoirs of Sir William Temple, 439-490. Covenant, the Scotch, 219.
Covenanters, The, their conclusion of a treaty with Charles I., 219. Coventry, Lady, 743.
Cowper, Earl, Keeper of the Great Seal, 787. Cowper, William, 162; his friendship with Warren Hastings, 629.
Coyer, Abbé, his imitation of Voltaire, 794. Cranmer, Archbishop, estimate of his character, 61. Crebillon the Younger, Crisis, Steele's, 805.
Crisp, Samuel, his early career, 741; his tragedy of Virginia, 743 his retirement and seclusion, 744.
Criticism, remarks on Johnson's rode of, 191.
Croker, Mr., his edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, reviewed, 170-196.
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