ABBÉ AND ABBOT, difference | Athenians (the), Johnson's
Adiaphorists, a sect of German
Protestants, 153, 176. Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous to that of England in the sixteenth century, 166.
Aix, its capture, 347. Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, 288.
Allegories of Johnson and Addison, 63. Allegory, difficulty of making it interesting, 64. Anabaptists, their origin, 157. Anne, Queen, her political and religious inclinations, 237; changes in her government in 1710, ib. ; relative estima- tion by the Whigs and the Tories of her reign, 238 ff. Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's administration, 308.
Arms, British, successes of, against the French in 1758- 1760, 347-349. Army (the), danger of a stand- ing army becoming an in- strument of despotism, 138 f. Arragon and Castille, their old institutions favourable to public liberty, 194. Assemblies, deliberative, 344.
opinion of them, 53 f. Attainder, an act of, warrant- able, 121.
BANIM, Mr., his defence of James 11. as a supporter of toleration, 406. Barcelona, capture of, by Peter- borough, 221 ff.
Baxter's testimony to Hamp-
den's excellence, 82. Bedford, Earl of, invited by
Charles 1. to form an ad- ministration, 123.
Bellasys, the English general,
Bentham, his language on the
French revolution, 368. Bentham and Dumont, 259. Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the
state of religion in England in the sixteenth century, 171. Berwick, Duke of, 216; held the Allies in check, 217; his retreat before Galway, 226.
Blackstone, 435. Bolingbroke, Lord, the liberal patron of literature, 35; proposed to strengthen the royal prerogative, 276. Boroughs, rotten, the abolition
of, a necessary reform in the time of George 1., 285 f. Boswell, James, his character, 26-31.
Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Croker, review of, 3 ff.; character of the work, 26. Bourbon, the House of, their vicissitudes in Spain, 211 ff. 'Boys' (the), in opposition to Sir R. Walpole, 281. Brihuega, siege of, 234 f. 'Broad Bottom Administra- tion' (the) 323. Browne's Estimate, 336. Buckingham, Duke of, the 'Steenie' of James I., 93,96 f. Bunyan, John, his history and character, 70ff.; his style, 77. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, review of Southey's edition of, 61 ff.; peculiarity of the work, 63,70 ff.; not a perfect allegory, 68 f. Buonaparte, 82, 339. See also Napoleon.
Burke, Edmund, his opinion of the war with Spain on the question of maritime right, 319 f. Burleigh and his Times, review of Rev. Dr. Nares's, 147 ff.; his early life and character, 149-155; his death, 155; importance of the times in which he lived, 155 f.; the great stain on his character, 176 f. Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca, 336; his trial, 339; opinion of his con- duct, ib.; Chatham's defence of him, 340.
CADIZ, exploit of Essex at the
siege of, 215; its pillage by the English expedition in 1702, 214 f. Calvinism, moderation of Bun- yan's, 74.
Canada, subjugation of, by the British in 1760, 348. Cape Breton, reduction of, 347. Carlisle, Lady, 129. Carteret, Lord, his ascendency after the fall of Walpole, 289 f.; Sir Horace Wal- pole's stories about him, 292; his defection from Sir Robert Walpole, 306; suc- ceeds Walpole, 322; created Earl Granville, 323. Carthagena, surrender of the arsenal and ships of, to the Allies, 226.
north-east of Spain, 224; is proclaimed king at Madrid, 226; his reverses and retreat, 229 ff.; forms an alliance with Philip of Spain, 244.
Charles 1., Hampden's oppo- sition to him, and its con- sequences, 96 ff.; resist- ance of the Scots to him, 112; his increasing diffi- culties, ib.; his conduct towards the House of Com- mons, 128 ff.; his flight, 133; review of his conduct and treatment, 135 ff.; re- action in his favour during the Long Parliament, 403. Charles II., his situation in 1660 contrasted with that of Louis XVIII. 385 ff. his character, 391; his position towards the king of France, 398; consequences of his levity and apathy, 400 ff. Charles 11. of Spain, his un- happy condition, 195, 201 ff. his difficulties in respect to the succession, 196 ff. Chatham, Earl of, character of his public life, 300 f.; his early life, 302; his travels, 303; enters the army, ib; obtains a seat in Parliament, ib; attaches himself to the Whigs in opposition, 310; his qualities as an orator, 314 ff.; dismissed from the army, 318; is made Groom of the Bed-chamber to the Prince of Wales, 319; de- claims against the ministers, 321 f.; his opposition to Carteret, 322; legacy left him by the Duchess of
Marlborough, 323; supports the Pelham ministry, 324; appointed Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, 325; overtures made to him by Newcastle, 334; made Secretary of State, ib. defends Admiral Byng, 340; success of his administration, 347 ff. Cherbourg, guns taken from, 347.
Chesterfield, Lord, his dis- missal by Walpole, 308. Church of England, endeavour of the leading Whigs at the Revolution to alter its Liturgy and Articles, 423; its contest with the Scotch nation, 424. Clarendon, Lord, his testimony in favour of Hampden, 99, 119, 123, 140, 144 f. Club room, Johnson's, 59 f. Coalition of Chatham and Newcastle, 334 ff.
Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of James 1. to, 91. Cæsars (the), parallel between them and the Tudors, not applicable, 167. Colonies, 191. Comines, his testimony to the good government of Eng- land, 86. Commerce and manufactures, conditions of, during the war at the latter part of the reign of George II., 350. Commons, House of, increase of its power by and since the Revolution, 426. Conflans, Admiral, his defeat by Hawke, 348. Conquests of the British arms in 1758-1760, 347 ff.
Constitutional Royalists in the reign of Charles 1., 125, 132. Corruption, parliamentary, not necessary to the Tudors, 273. Council of York, its abolition,
Covenant, the Scotch, 111. Covenanters (the), their con- clusion of a treaty with Charles 1., 112. Cowley, his wit, 267. Coxe, Archdeacon, his eulogium on Sir Robert Walpole, 278 f. Craggs, Secretary, 330. Crébillon, the younger, 261. Criticism, remarks on Johnson's code of, 52 ff. Croker, Mr., his edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, reviewed, I ff. Cromwell, Oliver, embarked with Hampden for America, but not suffered to proceed, III; his qualities, 146; his administration, 388, 394; treatment of his remains, 392. Crown (the), its power in the sixteenth century, 161 f.; curtailment of its preroga. tives, 274 f. See also Pre- rogative. Culpeper, Mr., 125.
D'ALEMBERT, Horace Wal- pole's opinion of him, 261. Danby, Earl, 274. Danger, public, a certain amount
of, will warrant a retrospec- tive law, 121. Davies, Tom, 19.
Davila, one of Hampden's
favourite authors, 102. Declaration of Right, 419 f. Democracy, violence in its ad-
vocates induces reaction, 157.
Devonshire, Duke of, forms an administration after the re- signation of Newcastle, 338. Donne, John, comparison of his wit with Horace Walpole's, 267 f.
Dover, Lord, review of his edition of Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, 249 ff. See Walpole, Sir
Horace. Dramatic literature shows the state of contemporary re- ligious opinion, 174-6. Dramatists of the Elizabethan age, manner in which they treat religious subjects, 175. Dumont, M., the interpreter of Bentham, 259; his opinion that Burke's work on the Re- volution had saved Europe, 367 f.
EAST INDIA COMPANY, its abso- lute authority in India, 349. Ecclesiastical commission (the), 161.
Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dramatists for the char- acter of, 175. Eliot, Sir John, 99 ff.; his Treatise on Government, 101; died a martyr to liberty, 102. Elizabeth (Queen), her rapid advance of Cecil, 154 f.; character of her govern- ment, 161 ff., 180; a perse- cutor though herself indif- ferent, 177.
Emigration of Puritans to America, 110.
Empires, extensive, often more flourishing after a little prun- ing, 191.
England, her physical and moral condition in the 15th century, 85 ff.; never so rich and powerful as since the loss of her American colonies, 191; conduct of, in reference to the Spanish succession, 209 f.; succes- sive steps of her progress, 381-3; influence of her revolution on the human race, 384, 423; her situation at the Restoration compared with France at the restora- tion of Louis XVIII., 385 £; her situation in 1678, 392 ff. English (the), in the sixteenth
century a free people, 163, 166; their character, 394 f., 402. Epitaphs, Latin, 52. Ercilla, Alonzo de, a soldier as well as a poet, 189. Essex, Earl of, 181. Essex, Earl of (temp. Ch. 1.), 140, 142 f. Euripides, emendation of a passage of, 16, note.
Fine Arts (the), causes of their decline in England after the civil war, 262 f. Forms of government, 47. Fox, Charles James, compari- son of his History of James II. with Mackintosh's History of the Revolution, 355 ff.; his style, 357 f.; character- istic of his oratory, 358 f. Fox, Henry, sketch of his political character, 327 f.; accepts office, 333 f.; di- rected to form an adminis tration in concert with Chatham, 338.
France, her condition in 1712 and in 1832, 241; her state at the restoration of Louis XVIII., 385 f. French Revolution (the), and the Reformation, analogy between, 156 ff.
GALWAY, LORD, commander of the allies in Spain in 1704, 217, 226; defeated by the Bourbons at Almanza, 232.
Europe, state of, at the peace Garrick, David, his acquaint-
FAIRFAX, reserved for him and Cromwell to terminate the
civil war, 141. Falkland, Lord, at the head of the Constitutional Royalists, 125. Family Compact (the), between
France and Spain, 245. Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and Charies 1. of England, 138 f. Finch, Chief Justice to Charles I., 107; fled to Holland,
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