between, 184.

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.

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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,

214.

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

2 G

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

467

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,

120.

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.

469

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.

of Utrecht, 244.

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,

120.