Universities, their principle of not
withholding from the student
works containing impurity, iv.
351, 352; change in the relations
to government of Oxford and
Cambridge in Bute's time, vi. 37;
their jealousy of the London Uni-
versity, 331, 348; religious differ-
ences in, 338; their moral condi-
tion, 339, 340; their glorious asso-
ciations, 341; radical defects of
their system, 342; their Wealth
and Privileges, 343, 344; charac-
ter of their studies, 344; objected
to by Bacon and others, 345; evils
of their system of education, 354;
their prizes and rewards, 355; idle-
ness of their students, 355, 356;
character of their graduates, 357;
their fitness for real life, 358, 359.
Usage, the law of orthography, i.
173.

Uses, statute of, ii. 87.

Usurper (a), to obtain the affection
of his subjects must deserve it, vi.
14, 15.
Utilitarians, ii. 5-8, 50, 52, 55, 67,
78, 79; their theory of govern-
ment criticised, 92-131; their
mental characteristics, 92; the
faults of their philosophy, 93, 128-
130; its inutility, 79-87, 90; their
impracticability, 100; the inaccu-
racies of their reasoning, 119, 120;
their summum bonum, 123; their
disingenuousness, 130, 131.
Utility, the key of the Baconian doc-
trine, iii. 436.

Utrecht, the treaty of, exasperation

of parties on account of it, iii. 135,
136; dangers that were to be ap-
prehended from it, 137; state of
Europe at the time, 136; defence
of it, 139, 141.

Vendome, Duke of, takes the con
mand of the Bourbon forces in
Spain (1710), iii. 127.
Venice, republic of, next in antiquity
to the line of the Supreme Pontiffs,
iv. 300.

Venus, the Roman term for the high-
est throw on the dice, i. 13, note.
Vergniaud, v. 452, 457, 473, 474.
Verona, protest of Lord Holland
against the course pursued by
England at the Congress of, iv
413.

Verres, extensive bribery at the tria
of, iii. 421.

Verse, occasional, i. 350; blank, 360;
reasoning in, 366.

Versification, modern, in a dead lan-
guage, i. 212.

Veto, by Parliament, on the appoint-

ment of ministers, i. 487; by the
Crown on acts of Parliament, 488.
"Violet Crown, city of," a favorite
epithet of Athens, i. 36, note.
"Vicar of Wakefield" (the), vi. 159,

161.

Vigo, capture of the Spanish galleons
at, in 1702, iii. 108.
"Village, Deserted" (the), Gold-
smith's, vi. 162, 163.

Villani, John, his account of the
state of Florence in the 14th cen-
tury, i. 276.

Villa-Viciosa, battle of, 1710, iii. 128.
Villiers, Sir Edward, iii. 412.
Virgil not so "correct" a poet as
Homer, ii. 337; skill with which
Addison imitated him, v. 331;
Dante's admiration of, i. 329.
Vision of Judgment, Southey's, ii.

145.

oltaire, the connecting link of the
literary schools of Lewis XIV. and
Lewis XVI., ii. 355; Horace Wal-
pole's opinion of him, iii. 155; his
partiality to England, i. 412, iv.
294; meditated a history of the
conquest of Bengal, 294; his char-
acter, and that of his compeers.
294; his interview with Congreve,
iv. 407; his genius venerated by
Frederic the Great, v. 160; his
whimsical conferences with Fred-
eric, 176, seq.; compared with Ad-
dison as a master of the art of
ridicule, 376, 377; his treatment
by the French Academy, i. 231
failed to obtain the poetical prize.

24; was the product of his age,
323.

Voters, qualifications of, ii. 32-36.

W.

Wages, effects of attempts by gov-
ernment to limit the amount of, iv.
362; their relations to labor, vi.
383-385, 400.
Waldegrave, Lord, made first Lord
of the Treasury by George II., iii.
242; his attempt to form an ad-
ministration, 243.

Wales, Frederic, Prince of, joined
the opposition to Walpole, iii. 208.
his marriage, 209; makes Pitt his
groom of the bedchamber, 216;
his death, 222, 223; headed the
opposition, vi. 7; his sneer at the
Earl of Bute, 20.

Wales, Princess Dowager of, mother

of George III., vi. 18; popular
ribaldry against her, 42.
Wales, the Prince of, generally in
opposition to the minister, iii. 208.
Walker, Obadiah, vi. 112, 113.
Wall, Mr., Governor of Goree, vi.
318.

Waller, Edmund, his conduct in the
House of Commons, iii. 303; sim-
ilarity of his character to Lord
Bacon's, 385, 386.
Walmesley, Gilbert, vi. 177.
Walpole, Lord, ii. 400, 404.
Walpole, Sir Horace, review of Lord
Dover's edition of his Letters to
Sir Horace Mann, iii. 143; eccen-
tricity of his character, 144, 145;
his politics, 146, 148; his affectation
of philosophy, 149; his unwilling-
ness to be considered a man of let-
tors, 149; his love of the French
language, 152; character of his
works, 156, 158; his sketch of
Lord Carteret, 187.
Walpole, Sir Robert, his retaliation
on the Tories for their treatment of
him, iii. 136; the "glory of the
Whigs," 165; his character, 166,
seq.; the charges against him of
corrupting the Parliament, 171;
his dominant passion, 171, 173; his
conduct in regard to the Spanish
war, 173; his last struggle, 178;
outcry for his impeachment, 179;
formidable character of the oppo-
ition to him, 175, iii. 206; his con-

Walsingham, the Earl of (16th cen-
tury), iii. 36.
Wanderer, Madame D'Arblay's, v.
311.

War, the Art of, by Machiavelli, i
306.

War of the Succession in Spain, Lord
Mahon's, review of, iii. 75-142 ; see
Spain.

War, in what spirit it should be
waged, i. 187, 188; languid, con-
demned, 495; Homer's description
of, v. 356, 357; descriptions of by
Silius Italicus, 357; against Spain,
counselled by Pitt and opposed
by Bute, vi. 29, 30; found by Bute
to be inevitable, 32; its conclu-
sion, 37; debate on the treaty of
peace, 49.

War, civil See Civil War.
Ward, John William, Lord Dudley
vi. 288.

Warburton, Bishop, his views on the
ends of government, iv. 122; his
social contract a fiction, 182; his
opinion as to the religion to be
taught by government, 188.
Warning, not the only end of punish-
ment, i. 464.

Warwick, Countess Dowager of, iv.
411, 412; her marriage with Ad-
dison, 412.

Warwick, Earl of, makes mischief
between Addison and Pope, iv.
469; his dislike of the marriage
between Addison and his mother,
411; his character, 412.
Watson, Bishop, i. 425.
Way of the World, by Congreve, its
merits, iv. 403.

Wealth, tangible and intangible, ii.
150, 152; national and private,
153, 180; its increase among all
lasses in England, 180, 187; its
diffusion in Russia and Poland
as compared with England, 182,
its accumulation and diffusion n

England and in Continental states,
182.
Wedderburne, Alexander, his able
defence of Lord Clive, iv. 292;
his urgency with Clive to furnish
Voltaire with the materials for his
meditated history of the conquest
of Bengal, 294.
Weekly Intelligencer (the), extract
from, on Hampden's death, ii. 495.
Weldon, Sir A., his story of the
meanness of Bacon, iii. 407.
Wellesley, Marquis, his eininence as
a statesman, iv. 65; his opinion
as to the expediency of reducing
the numbers of the Privy Council,
65; Pitt's friendship for him, vi.
295.

Wellington, Duke of, v. 96, 357; vi.
408, 409, 420; Pitt's estimate of
him, vi. 296.

"Wellingtoniad" (the), an imagi-
nary epic poem, i. 158-171.
Wendover, its recovery of the elec-
tive franchise, ii. 443.

Wentworth. See Strafford, Earl of.
Wesley, John, Southey's life of, ii.

137; his dislike to the doctrine of
predestination, iv. 176.

West Indies (the), slavery in, vi.
303-330; its origin and legal con-
dition there, 303-310; state of re-
ligion in, 311-313; state of man-
ners, 314, 316; public opinion in,
315, 317, 318, 319; despotic char-
acter of the inhabitants, 320-322;
commerce of, 323-325; character
of the proprietors, 326-329; sla-
very in, approaching its end, 328,
329; their system of cultivation,
378-381, 403.

Westminster Hall, v. 42; the scene
of the trial of Hastings, 124.
Westphalia, the treaty of, iv. 314,
338.

Wharton, Earl of, lord lieutenant of
Ireland, v. 371; appoints Addison
chief secretary, 371.
Wheler, Mr., his appointment as
Governor-General of India, v. 54;
his conduct in the council, 57, 62,
74.

Whigs (the), their unpopularity and
loss of power in 1710, iii. 130; their
position in Walpole's time, 206,
207; their violence in 1679, 299;
the king's revenge on them, 301;
revival of their strength, 304; their

conduct at the Revolution, 319,
320; after that event, 330; doc-
trines and literature they patron
ized during the seventy years they
were in power, 332; Mr. Courte-
nay's remark on those of the 17th
century, 272; attachment of lit-
erary men to them after the Revo-
lution, v. 337; their fall on the ac-
cession of Anne, 351, 361; in the
ascendant in 1705, 361, 362; Queen
Anne's dislike of them, 381; their
dismissal by her, 381; their suc-
cess in the administration of the
government, 381; dissensions and
reconstruction of the Whig gov-
ernment in 1717, 436; enjoyed all
the public patronage in the reign
of George I., vi. 4, 5; acknowl-
edged the Duke of Newcastle as
their leader, 8; their power and
influence at the close of the reign
of George II., 10; their support of
the Brunswick dynasty, 15; divi-
sion of them into two classes, old
and young, 72; superior charao-
ter of the young Whig school, 73;
see Tories.

Whig and Tory, inversion of the
meaning of, iii. 131.

Whigs and Tories after the Revolu-

tion, i. 530; their relative condition
in 1710, iii. 130; their essential
characteristics, vi. 2; their trans-
formation in the reign of George
I., 3; analogy presented by France,
4; subsidence of party spirit be-
tween them, 5; revival under
Bute's administration of the ani-
mosity between them, 38.
Whitgift, master of Trinity College,
Cambridge, his character, iii. 353;
his Calvinistic doctrines, iv. 175-
177; his zeal and activity against
the Puritans, 330.
Wickliffe, John, juncture at which he
rose, iv. 312; his influence in Eng-
land, Germany, and Bohemia, 313.
Wieland, v. 341.
Wilberforce, William, travels upon
the Continent with Pitt, vi. 242;
opposes Fox's India bill, 245, 246;
reelected to Parliament, 249; his
efforts to suppress the slave-trade,
269; his intimate friendship with
Pitt, 287, 297; his description of
Pitt's speech against Hastings, ▼
120.

Wilkes, John, conduct of the gov-
ernment with respect to his elec-
tion for Middlesex, i. 535; his
comparison of the mother of
George III. to the mother of Ed-
ward III., vi. 42; his persecution
by the Grenville administration,
56; description of him, 56; his
North Briton, 56; his committal
to the Tower, 56, 57; his discharge,
57; his Essay on Woman laid be-
fore the House of Lords, 59; fights
a duel with one of Lord Bute's de-
pendents, 60; flies to France, 60;
his works ordered to be burnt by
the hangman, and himself expell-
ed the House of Commons, and
outlawed, 60; obtains damages in
an action for the seizure of his pa-
pers, 61; returns from exile and is
elected for Middlesex, 100; com-
pared to Mirabeau, iii. 72.
Wilkie, David, recollection of him at
Holland House, iv. 425; failed in
portrait-painting, v. 319.
William III., low state of national
prosperity and national character
in his reign, i. 529; his feeling in
reference to the Spanish succes-
sion, iii. 102; unpopularity of his
person and measures, 101, suffered
under a complication of diseases,
101; his death, 102; limitation of
his prerogatives, 103; compact
with the Convention, iii. 320; his
habit of consulting Temple, iv.
103; coalition which he formed
against Lewis XIV. secretly fa-
vored by Rome, 339; his vices not
obtruded on the public eye, 392;
his assassination planned, 394;
Addison's Lines to him, v. 333;
reference to him, vi. 67.
Williams, Dean of Westminster, his
services to Buckingham, and coun-
sel to him and the king, iii. 411,

416.

Williams, John, his character, v.
139, 270: employed by Hastings
to write in his defence, 139.
Williams, Sir William, his character
as a lawyer, iii. 378; his view of
the duty of counsel in conducting
prosecut.ons, 378.
Wimbledon Church, Lord Burleigh
attended mass at, iii. 6.
Windham, Mr., his opinion of Sher-
idan's speech against Hastings, v

122; his argument for retaining
Francis in the impeachment
against Hastings, 123; his appear-
ance at the trial, 128; his adher
ence to Burke, 136.

Wine, excess in, not a sign of ill
breeding in the reign of Queen
Anne, v. 367.
"Wisdom of our ancestors," proper
value of the plea of, iii. 272.
Wit, Addison's compared with that
of Cowley and Butler, v. 373.
Witt, John de, power with which he
governed Holland, iv. 32; his in-
terview with Temple, 36; his man-
ners, 36, 37; his confidence in
Temple and deception by Charles'
court, 47; his violent death, 51
Wolcot, v. 270, vi. 258.
Wolfe, General, Pitt's panegyric
upon, iii. 213; his conquest of Que-
bec and death, 244; monument
voted to him, 244.

Woman, source of the charm of her
beauty, i. 74; her different treat-
ment among the Greeks and the
Romans, 83, 85; in the middle
ages, 85; and among civilized na-
tions generally, ii. 33-35.
Women as agricultural laborers, vi.
394, 385.

Women (the) of Dryden's come-
dies, i. 356; of his tragedies, 357,
358.

Woodfall, Mr., his dealings with Ju
nius, v. 38.
Wordsworth, relative "correctness"
of his poetry, ii. 338; Byron's dis-
taste for, 352; characteristics of his
poems, 356, 362; his egotism, i.

82.

Writing, grand canon of, iii. 76.
Wycherley, William, his literary
merits and faults, iv. 368; his
birth, family, and education, 369,
370; age at which he wrote his
plays, 370, 371; his favor with the
Duchess of Cleveland, 372, 373;
his marriage, 376; his embarrass
ments, 377; his acquaintance with
Pope, 381-383; his character as a
writer, 384, 387; his severe hand-
ling by Collier, 399; analogy be
tween him and Congreve, 410