American Congress, see Congress;
Journals of, see Journals of the
American Congress.
American financiers, 39, 109.
American imports, duties on, see
import duties.
American love of freedom, lii, lx,
19-25.
American Mutiny Act, 107.
American revenue impossible, see
American Revolution, John Fiske,
see Fiske.
American Taxation, Speech on, see
Speech, etc.
Americans, descendants of Eng-
lishmen, 19-21.
Analogy, Butler, see Butler.
Anarchy is found tolerable, 98.
ancient commonwealths, 92.
And the rude swain, etc., see rude
swain.
Andrews, E. B., History of the
United States, xiv, lxix.
Anglesey, 114.
Anne, Queen, xiii, 87.
Annual Register, viii, xv, xxii, lxx,
79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 88, 89, 94, 98,
108, 113, 114, 120; Burke's con-
nection with, xxiv, lxiv, lxviii,
lxix.
Anstey, Christopher, New Bath
Guide, xiii.
antechamber of the noble lord, 124.
Anti-Jacobin, lxvii.
Antiquarian Society, American, see
American, etc.
anti-slavery movement, xiii.
Antoinette, Marie, Burke's de-
scription of, li, lv.
Appalachian Mountains, 29, 99.
Appeal from the New to the Old
Whigs, xxxix, xliv, lxvii, 112,
117.
Arabia, liii, 25.
Arbuthnot, Dr., 102.
archers, 113.
Arcot, Speech on the Nabob of
Arcot's Debts, see Speech, etc.
Arginusae, battle of, 101.
Argumentation, Principles of, see
Baker.
Aristophanes, IOI.
Aristotle, 63, 81, 123.
arm is not shortened, 115.
Armada, III.
as broad and general as the air,
93.
as great and as flagrant, 120.
Asia, li.
assemblies, colonial, dissolved, xxi,
26, 107; form of, 21, 92, 93;
their competency, 53.
atheism, Burke's dread of, xxix,
Athenaid, Glover, 87.
attack upon judiciary, see judi-
ciary.
attorney-general, 119.
auction of finance, lix, 8, 65, 84,
see also ransom by auction.
auspicate, 126.
auspicious, 88.
austerity of the Chair, 79.
Austrian family, III.
aversion from, 93.
Bacon, Francis, lvi, 95; Essay on,
Macaulay, see Macaulay.
Baker, G. P., Principles of Argu-
mentation, lviii.
Bancroft, George, History of the
United States, viii, xiv, lxix, 79,
86, 99, 101, 102, 110, 113, 120,
Barclay, David, 124.
Barré, Colonel, xviii.
Barrington, Daines, 48, 114.
Barry, James, befriended by Burke,
xlii.
barter and compromise, see com-
promise.
Bath Guide, New, Christopher
Anstey, see Anstey.
Bathurst, Lord, 14, 87.
Beaconsfield, 1; Burke's pur-
chase of, xxvi, lxv; Lord, title
to have been given to Burke,
xli.
Bee, Goldsmith, lxiv.
before the committee, 124.
beggar subjects into submission,
31.
Bengal, 1, 71; famine, 125.
Bentham, Jeremy, xlvi.
Bible, 81, 87, 88, 95, 99, 100, 107,
108, 113, 115, 116, 117, 123, 126,
127; Burke's quotations from,
lv.
Birmingham, xvi.
Birrell, Augustine, Obiter Dicta,
Second Series, xxiv, lxix.
Black Hole of Calcutta, Ixiv.
Blackstone, Sir William, Commen-
taries, lxv, 23, 94.
Blake, William, lxiv, lxvi.
blind usages, 92.
blown about by every wind of
fashionable doctrine, see wind.
blue ribbon, 84.
Bolingbroke, Lord, lxiii, lxiv.
Bonaparte, Napoleon, Italian cam-
paign, lxvii; puts down rising
of 13th Vendémiaire, lxvii.
Book of Common Prayer, see
Common Prayer.
books of curious science, 31, 100.
Boston, xx, 94, 98; Massacre,
xx, lxv; motion to withdraw
troops from, see Chatham; Port
Bill, xx, lxv, 58, 59, 68, 102,
106, 120; Tea Party, see Tea
Party.
Boswell's Life of Johnson, xi, xxv,
xliii, lxvii, lxix.
boundaries, 83.
Brazil, 17.
break the American spirit, 91.
Breton, Cape, see Cape.
Brissot's Address, Preface to, see
Preface, etc.
Bristol chooses Burke as repre-
sentative, xxx, lxv; refuses to
reëlect Burke, xxxii, lxvi.
British Eloquence, Select, C. A.
Goodrich, see Goodrich.
British strength, 91.
broad and general as the air, see
as broad.
Brougham, Lord, Inquiry into the
Colonial Policy of the European
Powers, liii; Statesmen of the
Time of George the Third, lxix,
84.
Bryce, James, American Common-
wealth, 93.
Buckle, H. T., History of Civiliza-
tion in England, lxix.
Bunker Hill, battle of, lxv.
burgesses, 46, 50, 51, 114.
Burgoyne, General, 90, 91.
Burke, Edmund, a troublesome
colleague, xxxv; accused of dis-
honesty, xxv, xxvi, xxxv; ac-
quaintance with literature, lv,
lvi; acquaintance with the clas-
sics, lvi; advocates economical
reform, xxxiv; advocates reform
in India, xxxv-xxxvii, xl, xliv;
agent for New York, xxxii, lxv,
lxix; aim at utilitarian effect,
xlvi, xlvii; appeals to love of
right, xliv; arrival in London,
lxiii; attitude in the Wilkes
contest, xxvi, xxvii; attitude
toward America, xxxii-xxxiv,
xl; attitude toward Ireland, xxxi,
xl, xli, xliv; attitude toward
parliamentary reform, xxviii,
xxxiv; attitude toward the
French Revolution, xxxviii,
xxxix, xl; birth, xxii, lxiii; col-
lege life, xxii, xxiii, lxiii; com-
mended by Chatham, xxv; con-
servatism, xxviii, xxix, xxxiv,
xxxvi, xxxix, xlvii, xlviii, 51, 117;
Correspondence, xxii, xxiii, xxiv,
xxvii, xxviii, xxix, xxx, xlii, xliv,
lxviii, 79, 96; dies, xli, lxvii;
dread of atheism, xxix, xxx; ef-
forts to keep the Rockingham
Whigs united, xxviii, xxix;
elected member for Bristol,
xxx, lxv; elected to Parliament,
xxv, lxv, 80; enthusiasm for
study, xxiii; establishes school
for children of French émigrés,
xlii; excluded from cabinet,
XXXV; failure to control temper,
XXXV; faults, xliii; friendship
with Dr. Johnson, xi, xlii, xliii;
graduation from college, lxiii;
grief over death of son, xliii;
improvidence, xxvi; in Ireland,
xxiv, lxiv; in London, xxiii, xxiv,
xxxv; in the Literary Club, xii,
xxiv, lxv; indebted to Rocking-
ham, xxvi; independent of con-
stituents, xxxi, xxxii; liberality,
xlv, xlvi; life of, xxi-xliii; loses
seat at Bristol, xxxii, lxvi; love
of justice, xliv; marriage, xliii,
lxiv; member for Wendover,
xxv, lxv, 80; method of con-
structing paragraphs, lvi, lvii;
method of quoting, Ivi; offered
Indian commissionership, xxviii;
opposed to commercial restric-
tion, xxxi; opposed to theories,
xxxiv, xxxvi, xlvi, xlvii, 9, 57;
opposed to use of force, xxvii,
xxxii, xxxvi, lx, 17, 18, 31, 32,
100, 101; oratory, xlviii-li; Pay-
master of the Forces, xxxv, lxvi;
personality, xli, xlii; philan-
thropy, xlii; political tracts,
xxv; power of his imagination,
xliv, 1, lii, liv; prosecution of
Hastings, xxxvii, xxxviii, xli, xlv,
xlix, lxvi, lxvii; purchase of
Beaconsfield, xxvi, lxv; quarrels
with Fox, xxxviii, lxvii; quar-
rels with Hamilton, xxiv; quar-
rels with Sheridan, lxvii; re-
ceives a pension, xli; relations
with Richard and William
Burke, xxvi, xxxv; reliance on
experience, xlvii, lvi, lix, 18, 41,
57, 65; religion, xxii; retires
from Parliament, xli, lxvii;
school days, xxii; secretary to
Lord Rockingham, xxv, lxv;
Select Works, edited by E. J.
Payne, vii, xlviii, liii, lxviii, 81,
92, 93, 95, IO1; speaks against
the Stamp Act, xxv; Speeches,
edited by F. G. Selby, viii, xiv,
Ixviii, 95; statesmanship, xliii-
xlviii; study of Irish history,
xxiii; study of law, xxiii; style,
li-lvii; substantial reputation,
xxx; success on entering Parlia-
ment, xxv; supported by mer-
cantile organizations, xxx; sus-
pected of being Junius, xxvii;
travels, xxiii; use of connectives,
lvi; visit to France, xxix, xxx,
lxv; work on Annual Register,
xxiv, lxiv, lxviii, lxix.
Burke, Morley, xxii, xxiv, xxvii,
xxviii, xl, xliii, xlviii, lxviii.
Burke, Richard, brother of Ed-
mund, xxvi, xxxv.
Burke, Richard, son of Edmund,
dies, xli, xliii, lxiv, lxvii; un-
popularity, xliii.
Burke, William, xxvi, xxxv.
Burns, Robert, lxiv, lxvi.
but three ways, 99.
Bute ministry, lxiv.
Butler's Analogy, lxiii.
Byron, Lord, born, lxvi.
Calcutta, Black Hole of, see Black
Hole.
Cambridge arsenal, 113.
Camden, Lord, 85.
Canada, xviii.
Candide, Voltaire, lxiv.
Cannae, IOI.
Canute, 95.
Cape Breton, 54, 119.
capital, 85.
Carlyle, Thomas, birth, lxvii.
Carnarvon, 114.
Carnatic, lii.
Carolinas, effects of slavery there,
Casius, Mount, 37.
Castle of Otranto, Walpole, lxv.
Castlereagh, Lord, 84.
Castor, 113.
Catholic Question, Letters on, see
First Letter, Second Letter, etc.
Catholics, disabilities of, xli, xliv.
Cato, Addison, 107.
Cause of the Present Discontents,
Thoughts on, see Thoughts, etc.
cautions us, 123.
Century Dictionary, 83.
Chair, 79.
Chair of the American Committee,
81.
changed the people, 112.
character and circumstances of
people, see temper and cir-
cumstances.
chargeable, 100.
charity, Roman, see Roman char-
ity.
Charles the Fifth, III.
Charles the First, 112.
Charles the Second, 112, 122.
Charleston, xx.
Charlestown, 113.
Charter of Massachusetts abro-
gated, see Massachusetts.
Chatham, Earl of, xiii, xviii, xix,
lxvi, lxx, 95, 122; advocates
American cause, 61; commends
Burke's speeches, xxv; leader
of the New Whigs, see New
Whigs; motion to withdraw
troops from Boston, 109, 124;
Essay on, Macaulay, Ixix.
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