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the picture in the Government House at Calcutta, and never was there a more appropriate motto."

Page 176, line 13. bag, bag-wig. A wig with a bag to hold the back hair, fashionable in the eighteenth century.

Line 25. Fox. Charles James Fox, 1749-1806, statesman and orator. Burke called him "the greatest debater the world ever saw." His is a very interesting biography. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, dramatist, orator, and statesman, 1751–1816, a brilliant speaker, as Macaulay shows. He is the author of the plays The Rivals and School for Scandal.

Page 178, line 2. morning sun. The sittings of Parliament are opened at 4 P. M., and often last till "morning sun."

Line 4. Charles Earl Grey. Earl Grey, a great Whig leader in Macaulay's own days in Parliament. Prime Minister when the Reform Bill of 1832 was carried.

Page 179, line 9. taste and sensibility. See previous note for the novels that fostered this "sensibility."

between liberty and alone in Parliament.

Page 185, line 23. unpopular. Burke did not believe in the French Revolution. He said, "Whenever a separation is made justice, neither is safe." But he stood The Whigs followed Fox, and the Tories followed Pitt, in their approval of the Revolution. Later the country understood Burke's view, but it was too late to save the friendships of the great Whigs. Macaulay describes their attitudes toward each other in a subsequent paragraph.

Page 192, line 19. Anthony Pasquin, pasquinade, lampoon. Macaulay said of him, "The wretched Tony Pasquin, who first defended and then libelled him [Hastings]."

Page 195, 1. 3. Pitt retired. Pitt, the younger, resigned the premiership because the king refused his consent to the removal of the remaining civil disabilities of the Roman Catholics.

Line 8. Addington.

Prime Minister after Pitt resigned.

Line 9. resigning the Treasury, resigning the office of Prime Minister. The people regarded Mr. Addington as a weak and narrow-minded man.

INDEX TO NOTES

A government de facto, 218.
A new danger, 214.

About thirty years before, 215.

Addington, 224.

Algernon Sidney, 209.
Alguazils, 215.

Chancellor, 221.

Charles Earl Grey, 223.
Chiltern Hundreds, xxx.
Churchill, 204.
Clarkson, 220.

Clive, 205, 206, 208, 209, lv.

Allahabad and Corah, 208, 210, 1. Colman, 204.

Almost every question, 218.

Anthony Pasquin, 223.

Assumed the royal title, 211.

At present the Governor, 208,

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Thames, 215.

Corah and Allahabad, 208, 210, 1.
Cowper, 204.

Cumberland, 204.

Directors, 210.

Diwan, 208.

Doest thou well, 212.

Dotation, 218.

Double government, 208.

Downing Street, 219.

Dupleix, 205, lv.

East India Company, 205, 208,
210, 219, lii, lvii.

Edmund Burke, 220, 223.

Factories, 205.

Factors, 205.

Fall of the house of Tamerlane,

218, xliv.

Ferdusi, 207.

Chambers that overlook the First Lord of the Treasury, 221.

Fling his guns into the tanks, 217.

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Georgiana, Duchess of Devon- Leeds and Manchester, 212.

Genuine, 208.

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Letters of Junius, 212.

Living, 204.

Lloyd, 204.

Lord North, 214.
Lords of Benares, 217.

Maharajah, 209.

Mahommed Reza Khan, 209.
Mahrattas, 214, xlvii.
Meer Jaffier, 206, 209.
Mens aequa in arduis, 222.
Merchants, 205.
Mint at Oxford, 204.
Mohammedans, xli.
Morning sun, 223.
Mrs. Montague, 222.
Mucius, 209.

Munny Begum, 213.

Nizam, 208.

No connection with the Company,
219, lviii.

Oates, 213.

Old Sarum, 212, xix.
Ouse, 204.

Pagoda, 207.

Penal Code, xxvii.

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Superstitious Bengalees, 213, 217,

Xxxviii.

Surajah Dowlah, 206.

Sworn of the privy council, 221.

Tamer, xliv.

Taste and sensibility, 223.
Temptations, 204.
Teviotdale, 210.

The Company's territory, 215.
The Hastings, 204.
The prince, 206.

The Regulating Act, 211.
The triumph of Nuncomar, 213.
The war of the succession, 205.
There were two governments,
208.

Tippoo Sultan, 216, xxvi.
Tithes, 204.

Treason, 206.

Twenty-one guns, 212.

Uncovered, 204.

Unpopular, 223.

Vansittart, Mr., 207.
Vigor and genius, 214.

Woodfall, 212.

Writers, 205.

Writership in the East India
Company, 205.

Young minister, 220, 223.

Zemindars, 219.

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