Safety, 475; his part during the
Reign of Terror, 482-485, 486; his
cruelties, 485, 486; his pleasan-
tries, 487, 488; his proposition to
murder English prisoners, 490-
492; his murders, 495-497; his
part in the quarrels of the Com-
mittee, 497-500; moves that Robes-
pierre be put to death, 499, 500;
cries raised against him, 501; a
committee appointed to examine
into his conduct, 505; his defence,
505, 506; condemned to imprison-
ment, 507; his journey to Ole-
ron and confinement there, 507-
609; removed to Saintes, 510;
his escape, 510; elected a member
of the Council of Five Hundred,
511; indignation of the members
and annulling of the election, 511,
512; writes a work on the Liberty
of the Seas, 512; threatened by
the mob, 512, 513; his relations
with Napoleon, 514-518, 521–527;
a journalist and pamphleteer, 523,
524; his literary style, 525; his
degradation, 527; his treachery,
528; becomes a royalist, 529; elect-
ed to the Chamber of Representa-
tives, 529; banished from France,
531; his return, 531; involved in
lawsuits with his family, 531;
pensioned, 532; his death, 532; his
character, 534, 535, 537, 539; his
ignorance of England and her his-
tory, 536; his religious hypocrisy,
538.

Baretti, his admiration for Miss Bur-
nev, v. 271.

Barillon, M., his pithy words on the
new council proposed by Temple,
iv. 67, 76.

Barlow, Bishop, iv. 370.
Barré, Col., vi. 233, 248.
Barrington Lord, vi. 13.
Barwell, Mr., v. 35; his support of
Hastings, 40, 54, 55, 62.
Bastile, Burke's declamations on its
capture, v. 113.
Bathos, perfect instance of, to be
found in Petrarch's 5th sonnet, i.
93.

Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies,
Addison's, v. 331.
Bavaria, its contest between Protes-
tantism and Catholicism, iv. 326.
Baxter's testimony to Hampden's ex-
Hez i 430.

Bayle, Peter, iv. 300.
Beatrice, Dante's, i. 66.
Beauclerk, Topham, vi. 204.
Beaumarchais, his suit before the
parliament of Paris, iii. 430, 431.
Beckford, Alderman, vi. 96.
Bedford, Duke of, vi. 11; his views
of the policy of Chatham, 26, 41;
presents remonstrance to George
III., 71.

Bedford, Earl of. invited by Charles
I. to form an administration, ii. 472.
Bedfords (the), vi. 11; parallel be-
tween them and the Rockinghams,
73; their opposition to the Rock-
ingham ministry on the Stamp
Act, 79; their willingness to break
with Grenville on Chatham's acces-
sion to office, 89; deserted Gren-
ville and admitted to office, 110.
Bedford House assailed by a rabble,
vi. 70.

Begums of Oude, their domains and
treasures, v. 86; disturbances in
Oude imputed to them, 87; their
protestations, 88; their spoliation
charged against Hastings, 121.
Belgium, its contest between Prot-
estantism and Catholicism, iv. 326,
336.

Belial, iv. 355.

Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen against,

ii. 353.

Bellasys, the English general, iii.
107.

Bellingham, his malevolence, v. 309.
Belphegor (the), of Machiavelli, i.

299.

Benares, its grandeur, v. 74; its an-
nexation to the British dominions,
84.

"Benefits of the death of Christ,"
iv. 325.

Benevolences, Oliver St. John's op

position to, and Bacon's support of,
iii. 389.

Bengal, its resources, iv. 228, seq.
Bentham and Dumont, iii. 38-40,
153.

Bentham and his system, ii. 53, 51,
59, 80, 87-91, 115, 116, 121, 122-
his language on the French revo
lution, iii. 264; his greatness,
38-40.

Benthamites, ii. 5, 89, 90.
Bentinck, Lord William, his memo
ry cherished by the Hindeos, iv
298.

Blackstone, iii. 334.

Blasphemous publications, policy of
Government in respect to, ii. 171.
Blenheim, battle of, v. 354; Addison
employed to write a poem in its
honor, 355.
Blois, Addison's retirement to, v. 339.
'Bloombury Gang," the denomina-
tion of the Bedfords, vi. 11.
Jedley, Sir Thomas, founder of the
Bodleian Library, iii. 388, 433.
Bohemia, influence of the doctrines
of Wickliffe in, iv. 313.
Boileau, Addison's intercourse with,
v. 340, 341; his opinion of modern
atin, 341; his literary qualities,
343; his resemblance to Dryden,
i. 373.
Bolingbroke, Lord, the liberal patron

of literature, ii. 400; proposed te
strengthen the royal prerogative
iii. 171; his jest on the occasion of
the first representation of Cato, v.
392; Pope's perfidy towards him,
v. 408; his remedy for the disease
of the state, vi. 23, 24.
Bombast, Dryden's, i. 361, 362
Shakspeare's, 361.

Bombay, its affairs thrown into con-
fusion by the new council at Cal-
cutta, v. 40.

Book of the Church, Southey's, i
137.

Books, puffing of, ii. 192-198.
Booth played the hero in Addison's
Cato on its first representation, v.

392.

Borgia, Cæsar, i. 301.
Boroughs, rotten, the abolition of, a
necessary reform in the time of
George I., iii. 180.

Boswell, James, his character, ii.
391-397; vi. 204, 205.

Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Cro-
ker, review of, ii. 368-426; charac-
ter of the work, 387.
Boswellism, i. 265.

Bourbon, the House of, their vicissi-
tudes in Spain, iii. 106-130.
Bourne, Vincent, v. 5, 342; his Latin
verses in celebration of Addison's

restoration to health, 413.
Boyd, his translation of Dante, i. 78.
Boyer, President, vi. 390-392.
Boyle, Charles, his nominal editor-

ship of the Letters of Phalaris, iv.
108; vi. 113-119; his book on
Greek history and philology, v. 331.
Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry, v. 355.
"Boys" (the) in opposition to Sir
R. Walpole, iii. 176.

Bracegirdle, Mrs., her celebrity as an
actress, iv. 407; her intimacy with
Congreve, 407.

Brahmins, iv. 306.
"Breakneck Steps," Fleet Street, vi.
157, note.

Breda, treaty of, iv. 34.
Bribery, foreign, in the time ot
Charles II., i. 525.
Brihuega, siege of, iii. 128.
"Broad Bottom Administration"
(the), iii. 220.

Brothers, his prophecies as a test of
faith, iv. 305, 306.
Brown, Launcelot, iv. 284.
Brown's Estimate, iii. 233.

Bruce. his appearance at Dr. Bur-

ney's concerts, v. 257.
Brunswick, the House of, vi. 14, seq.
Brussels, its importance as the seat
of a vice-regal Court, iv. 33.
Brydges, Sir Egerton, v. 309.
Buchanan, character of his writings,
iii. 447.

Buckhurst, iv. 353.

Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenie"

of James I., ii. 442; Bacon's early
discernment of his influence, iii.
396, 397; his expedition to Spain,
398; his return for Bacon's patron-
age, 399; his corruption, 402; his
character and position, 402-408;
his marriage, 411, 412; his visit to
Bacon, and report of his condition,
414.

Buckingham, Duke of, one of the
Cabal ministry, iv. 374; his fond-
ness for Wycherley, 374; anecdote
of, 374.

Budgell Eustace, one of Addison's
friends, v. 368, 369, 371.
Runyan, John, Life of, vi. 132–150,

ii. 252-264; his birth and early
life, vi. 132; mistakes of his biog-
raphers in regard to his moral
character, 133, 134; enlists in the
Parliamentary army, 135; his mar-
riage, 135; his religious experi-
ences, 136-138; begins to preach,
139; his imprisonment, 139-141;
his early writings, 141, 142; his
liberation and gratitude to Charles
II., 142, 143; his Pilgrim's Prog-
ress, 143-146; the product of an
uneducated genius, i. 57, 343; his
subsequent writings, vi. 146; his
position among the Baptists, 146,
147; his second persecution, and
the overtures made to him, 147,
148; his death and burial-place,
148; his fame, 148, 149; his imita-

rs, 149, 150; his style, ii. 266;
his religious enthusiasm and im-
agery, iv. 333; Southey's edition
of his Pilgrim's Progress reviewed,
ii. 250-267; peculiarities of the
work, 266; not a perfect allegory,
257, 258; its publication, and the
number of its editions, vi. 145,
146.

Buonaparte. See Napoleon.
Burgoyne, Gen., chairman of the
committee of inquiry on Lord
Clive, iv. 292.

Burgundy, Louis, Duke of, ¡grandson
of Louis XIV., iii. 62, 63.
Burke, Edmund, his characteristics,
i. 133; his opinion of the war with
Spain on the question of maritime
right, iii. 216; resembles Bacon,
489; effect of his speeches on the
House of Commons, iv. 118; not
the author of the Letters of Junius,
v. 37; his charges against Hast
ings, 104-137; his kindness to Miss
Burney, 288; her incivility to ha
at Hastings' trial, 289; his early
political career, vi. 75; his first
speech in the House of Commons,
82; his opposition to Chatham
measures relating to India, 96; his
defence of his party against Gren-
ville's attacks, 102; his feeling
towards Chatham, 103; his treat-
ise on "The Sublime," i. 142; his
character of the French Republic,
402; his views of the French and
American revolutions, iii. 51, vi
268; his admiration of Pitt's maid-
en speech, 233; his opposition to
Fox's India bill, 245; in the oppo-
sition to Pitt, 247, 249; Geserts
Fox, 273.

Burleigh and his Times, review of
Rev. Dr. Nares's, iii. 1-36; his
early life and character, 3-10; his
death, 10; importance of the times
in which he lived, 10; the great
stain on his character, 31, 32; char-
acter of the class of statesmen he
belonged to, iii. 343; his conduct
towards Bacon, 355, 365; his apol
ogy for having resorted to torture,
393; Bacon's letter to him upon
the department of knowledge he
had chosen, 483.
Burnet, Bishop, iv. 114.
Burney, Dr., his social position, v.
251, 255; his conduct relative to
his daughter's first publication,
267; his daughter's engagement
at Court, 281.
Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay,
Madame.
Burns, Robert, vi. 261.
Bussy, his eminent merit and cordact
in India, iv. 222.

Bute, Earl of, his character and ed
ucation, vi. 19, 20; appointed Sec-
retary of State, 24; opposes the
proposal of war with Spain on so
count of the family comp act, 30

bis unpopularity on Chatham's
resignation, 31; becomes Prime
Minister, 32; his first speech in the
House of Lords, 33; induces the
retirement of the Duke of New-
castle. 35; becomes first Lord of
the Treasury, 35; his foreign and
domestic policy, 37-52; his resig-
nation, 52; continues to advise the
King privately, 57, 70, 79; pen-
sions Johnson, vi. 198, 199.
Butler, i. 350; Addison not inferior
to him in wit, v. 375.
Byng, Admiral, his failure at Mi-
norca, iii. 232; his trial, 236; opin-
ion of his conduct, 236; Chatham's
defence of him, 237.
Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, ii.
325; his character, 326, 327; his
early life, 327; his quarrel with,
and separation from, his wife, 329-
331; his expatriation, 332; decline
of his intellectual powers, 333; his
attachment to Italy and Greece,
335; his sickness and death, 336;
general grief for his fate, 336; re-
marks on his poetry, 336; his ad-
miration of the Pope school of
poetry, 337; his opinion of Words-
worth and Coleridge, 352; of Peter
Bell, 353; his estimate of the poe-
try of the 18th and 19th centu-
ries, 353; his sensitiveness to crit-
icism, 354; the interpreter between
Wordsworth and the multitude,
356; the founder of an exoteric
Lake school, 356; remarks on his
dramatic works, 357-363; his ego-
tism, 365; cause of his influence,
336, 337.

C.

Cabal (the), their proceedings and
designs, iv. 46, 54, 59.
Cabinets, in modern times, iv. 65,
vi. 235.

Cadiz, zploit of Essex at the siege
of, iii. 107, 367; its pillage by the
English expedition in 1702, iií. 108.
Cesar Borgia, i. 307.

Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of
James I. to, ii. 440.
Cæsar compared with Cromwell, i.
504; his Commentaries an incom-
parable model for military de-
spatches, i. 404.

Cæsars (the), parallel between them

and the Tndors, not applicable, ii

21.

Calcutta, its position on the Hoog.
ley, iv. 230; scene of the Black
Hole of, 232, 233; resentment of
the English at its fall, 235; again
threatened by Surajah Dowlah,
239; revival of its prosperity, 251;
its sufferings during the famine,
285; its capture, v. 8; its suburbs
infested by robbers, 41; its festivi
ties on Hastings's marriage, 56.
Callicles, i. 41, note.
Calvinism, moderation of Bunyan's,
ii. 263; held by the Church of
England at the end of the 16th
century, iv. 175; many of its doc-
trines contained in the Paulician
theology, 309.
Cambon, v. 455.

Cambridge, University of, favored
by George I. and George II., vI.
36, 37; its superiority to Oxford
in intellectual activity, iii. 344;
disturbances produced in, by the
Civil War, iv. 15.
Cambyses, story of his punishment
of the corrupt judge, iii. 423.
Camden, Lord, vii. 233, 247.
Camilla, Madame D'Arblay's, v.

314.

Campaign (the), by Addison, v. 355.
Canada, subjugation of, by the Brit-
ish in 1760, iii. 244.
Canning, Mr., ii. 45, 46; vi. 286, 411-
414, 419.

Cape Breton, reduction of, iii. 244.
Caraffa, Gian Pietro, afterwards Pope
Paul, IV. his zeal and devotion, iv
318, 324.

Carlisle, Lady, ii. 478.
Carmagnoles, Barère's, v. 471, 472,
490, 491, 498, 499, 502, 505, 529.
Carnatic, (the), its resources, iv. 211
212; its invasion by Hyder Ali, v
71, 72.

Carnot, v. 455, 505.

Carnot, Hippolyte, his memoirs of

Barère reviewed, v. 423-539; failed
to notice the falsehoods of his au
thor, 430, 431, 435, 557; his chari-
tableness to him, 445, 485; defends
his proposition for murdering pris.
oners, 490; blinded by party spirit,
523; defends the Jacobin adminis
tration, 534; his general charac
teristics, 538 539.
Carrier, v. 404.

Carteret, Lord, his ascendency at
the all of Walpole, ii. 184; Sir
Horace Walpole's stories about
him, 187; his defection from Sir
Robert Walpole, iii. 202; succeeds
Walpole, 219; his character as a
statesman, 218, 219; created Earl
Granville, 220.

Carthagena, surrender of the arse-
nal and ship of, to the Allies, iii.
119.

Cary's translation of Dante, i. 68,
78, 79.

Casina (the), of Plautus, i. 298.
Castile, Admiral of, iii. 109.
Castile and Arragon, their old insti-
tutions favorable to public lib-
erty, iii. 86.

Castilians, their character in the 16th
century, iii. 81; their conduct in
the war of the Succession, 121;
attachment to the faith of their
ancestors, iv. 316.
Castracani, Castruccio, Life of, by
Machiavelli, ii. 317.

Cathedral, Lincoln, painted window
in, i. 428.

Catholic Association, attempt of the
Tories to put it down, iv. 413.
Catholic Church. See Church of
Rome.

Catholicism, causes of its success,
iv. 301, 307, 318, 331-336; the
most poetical of all religions, i.

Catholics and Protestants, their rel-
ative numbers in the 16th cen-
tury, iii. 26.

Catholic Queen (a), precautions
against, i. 487.

Catholic Question (the), vi. 413-
419.

Catiline, his conspiracy doubted, i.
405; compared to the Popish Plot,
406.

'Cato," Addison's play of, its mer-
its, and the contest it occasioned,
iii. 333; its first representation, v.
891; its performance at Oxford,
392; its deficiencies, i. 365, 366.
Cato, the censor, anecdote of, vi. 354.
Catullus, his mythology, i. 75.

Cavaliers, their successors in the

reign of George I. turned dema
gogues, vi. 4.

Cavendish, Lord, his conduct in the
new council of Temple, iv. 96 lús
merits, vi. 73.

Cecil. See Burleigh.

Cecil, Robert, his rivalry with Fran-
cis Bacon, iii. 356, 365; his fear
and envy of Essex, 362; increase
of his dislike for Bacon, 365; his
conversation with Essex, 365; his
interference to obtain knighthood
for Bacon, 384.

Cecilia, Madame D'Arblay's, v. 309,
311; specimen of its style, 315,
316.

Censorship, existed in some form
from Henry VIII. to the Revolu
tion, iii. 329.
Ceres, i. 54, note.
Cervantes, iii. 81; his celebrity, i.
80; the perfection of his art, 328,
329; fails as a critic, 329.
Chalmers, Dr., Mr. Gladstone's
opinion of his defence of the
Church, iv. 122.

Champion, Colonel, commander of
the Bengal army, v. 32.
Chandemagore, French settlement,
on the Hoogley, iv. 230; captured
by the English, 239.

Charlemagne, imbecility of his suc-
cessors, iv. 205.

Charles, Archduke, his claim to the
Spanish crown, iii. 90; takes the
field in support of it, 109, accom-
panies Peterborough in his expe-
dition, 112; his success in the
north-east of Spain, 117; is pro-
claimed king at Madrid, 119; his
reverses and retreat, 123; his
re-entry into Madrid, 126; his
unpopularity, 127; concludes a
peace, 131; forms an alliance with
Philip of Spain, 138.

Charles I., lawfulness of the resist
ance to, i. 235, 243; Milton's de-
fence of his execution, 246, 249;
his treatment of the Parliament of
1640, 457; his treatment of Straf
ford, 468; estimate of his character,
469, 498-500, ii. 443; his fall, i.
497; his condemnation and its
consequences, 500, 501; Hamp
den's opposition to him, and its
consequences, ii. 443-459; resist-
ance of the Scots to him, 460; bia
increasing difliculties 461; bir