verses in celebration of Addison's restoration to health, 436. Boyle, Charles, his nominal editor- ship of the Letters of Phalaris, ii. 369; his book on Greek history and philology 362.
Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry, iii. 384.
Boys" (the) in opposition to Sir R. Walpole, i. 286.
Bracegirdle, Mrs., her celebrity as an actress, iii. 52; her intimacy with Congreve, 52. Brahmins, ii. 544.
Breda, treaty of, ii. 301.
Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles I., i. 189. Brihuega, siege of, i. 544.
"Broad Bottom Administration" (the), ii. 24.
Brothers, his prophecies as a test of faith, ii. 544.
Brown, Launcelot, ii. 524. Brown's Estimate, ii. 36.
Bruce, his appearance at Dr. Bur- ney's concerts, iii, 296.
Brunswick, the House of, iii. 456.
House of Commons, 375; not the author of the Letters of Junius, iii. 101; his charges against Hastings, 161-190; his kindness to Miss Burney, 325; her incivility to him at Hastings' trial, 325; his early political career, 510-513; his first speech in the House of Commons, 517; his opposition to Chatham's measures relating to India, 529; his defence of his party against Grenville's attacks, 534; his feeling towards Chatham, 534.
Burleigh and his Times, review of Rev. Dr. Nares's, i. 465; his early life and character, 467-472; his death, 473; importance of the times in which he lived, 473; the great stain on his character, 492, 493, character of the class of statesmen he belonged to, ii. 134; his conduct towards Bacon, 145. 154; his apo- logy for having resorted to torture, 179; Bacon's letter to him upon the department of knowledge he had chosen, 259.
Brussels, its importance as the seat of Burnet, Bishop, ii. 372. a vice-regal Court, ii. 300. Brydges, Sir Egerton, iii. 343. Buchanan, character of his writings, ii. 227. Buckhurst, iii. 4.
Buckingham, Duke of, the " Steenie" of James I., i. 415; Bacon's early discernment of his influence, ii. 182, 183; his expedition to Spain, 183 ; his return for Bacon's patronage, 184; his corruption, 187; his cha racter and position, 187-192; his marriage, 195; his visit to Bacon, and report of his condition, 198. Buckingham, Duke of, one of the Cabal ministry, iii. 22; his fondness for Wycherley, 22; anecdote of his versatility, 22. Budgell, Eustace, one of Addison's friends, iii. 396 399.
Bunyan, John, his history and cha- racter, i. 281-291; his style, 293; his religious enthusiasm and ima- gery, ii. 568.
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, review of Southey's edition of, i. 279. 281. 290; peculiarity of the work, 293; not a perfect allegory, 285. 287. Buonaparte, i. 170., ii. 39, iii. 386. See also Napoleon.
Burgogne, Gen., chairman of the committee of inquiry on Lord Clive, ii. 531.
Burke, Edmund, his characteristics, i. 207; his opinion of the war with Spain on the question of maritime right, ii. 21; resembles Bacon, 266; effect of his speeches on the
Burney, Dr., his social position, iii, 291-295; his conduct relative to his daughter's first publication, 306; his daughter's engagement at Court, 318.
Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame.
Bussey, his eminent merit and con- duct in India, ii. 469.
Bute, Earl of, his character and edu- cation, iii. 460; appointed Secretary of State, 465; opposes the proposal of war with Spain on account of the family compact, 469; his unpopu- larity on Chatham's resignation, 472; becomes Prime Minister, 473; his first speech in the House of Lords, 478; induces the retirement of the Duke of Newcastle, 475; be- comes First Lord of the Treasury, 475; his foreign and domestic po- licy, 477-489; his resignation, 490 ; continues to advise the King pri- vately, 494. 505. 514.
Butler, Addison not inferior to him in wit, iii, 402.
Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca, ii. 35; his trial, 39; opinion of his conduct, 39; Chatham's defence of him, 40.
Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, i. 311; his character, 312, 313, his early life, 313; his quarrel with and separation from his wife, 314-317; his expatriation, 317; decline of his intellectual powers, 319; his at- tachment to Italy and Greece, 320; his sickness and death, 320; general NN 2
grief for his fate, 321; remarks on his poetry, 322; his admiration of the Pope school of poetry, 335; his opinion of Wordsworth and Cole- ridge, 335; of Peter Bell, 335; his estimate of the poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries, 336; his sen- sitiveness to criticism, 337; the interpreter between Wordsworth and the multitude, 338; the founder of an exoteric Lake school, 338; re- marks on his dramatic works, 339- 344; his egotism, 347; cause of his influence, 347, 348.
Cabal (the), their proceedings and designs, ii. 312. 315. 321. Cabinets, in modern times, ii. 329. Cadiz, exploit of Essex at the siege of, i. 527, ii. 354; its pillage by the English expedition in 1702, i. 527. Calcutta, its position on the Hoogley, ii. 476; scene of the Black Hole of, 478, 479; resentment of the English at its fall, 480; again threatened by Surajah Dowlah, 484; revival of its prosperity, 495; its sufferings during the famine, 525; its capture, iii. 75; its suburbs infested by robbers, 104; its festivities on Hastings' marriage, 118.
Calvinism, moderation of Bunyan's, i. 291; held by the Church of Eng- land at the end of the 16th century, ii. 426; many of its doctrines con- tained in the Paulician theology,
Cambridge, University of, favoured by George I. and George II., 739; its superiority to Oxford in intellectual activity, ii. 135; disturbances pro- duced in by the Civil War, 284. Cambyses, story of his punishment of the corrupt judge, ii. 206. Camilla, Madame D' Arblay's, iii. 346. Campaign, The, by Addison, iii. 384. Canada, subjugation of, by the British in 1760, ii. 46. Canning, Mr., iii. 340.
Cape Breton, reduction of, ii. 46. Caraffa, Gian Pietro, afterwards Pope Paul IV., his zeal and devotion, ii. 555.
Carlisle, Lady, i. 448. Carnatic (the), its resources, ii. 459-
472; its invasion by Hyder Ali, iii. 131, 132.
Carteret, Lord, his ascendency after the fall of Walpole, i. 593; Sir Ho- race Walpole's stories about him, 596; his defection from Sir Robert Walpole, ii. 9; succeeds Walpole, |
23; his character as a statesman, I 24, 25; created Earl Granville, 24. Carthagena, surrender of the arsenal and ships of, to the Allies, i. 536. Casina (the), of Plautus, i. 86. Castile, Admiral of, i. 527. Castile and Arragon, their old institu tions favourable to public liberty, i 507.
Castilians, their character in the 16th century, i. 502; their conduct in the War of the Succession, 538; their attachment to the faith of their an- cestors, ii. 553.
Castracani, Castruccio, Life of, by Machiavelli, i. 103.
Catholic Church. See Church of Rome.
Catholicism, causes of its success, ii. 540-567.
Catholics and Jews, the same reason- ing employed against both, i. 299. Catholics and Protestants, their rela tive numbers in the 16th century, i. 487. Catholic
Queen (a), precautions
against, i. 155. Cato," Addison's play of, its merits, and the contest it occasioned, ii. 125; its first representation, iii. 415; its performance at Oxford, 415. Cavaliers, their successors in the reign of George I. turned demagogues, iii. 448.
Cavendish, Lord, his conduct in the new council of Temple, ii. 356; his merits, iii. 508.
Cecil. See Burleigh. Cecil, Robert, his rivalry with Francis Bacon, ii. 145. 154; his fear and envy of Essex, 151; increase of his dislike for Bacon, 154; his conver- sation with Essex, 154; his inter. ference to obtain knighthood for Bacon, 170.
Cecilia, Madame D'Arblay's, iii. 945; specimen of its style, 348, 349. Censorship, existed in some form from Henry VIII. to the Revolution, ii.
531; his success in the north-east of Spain, 534; is proclaimed king at Madrid, 537; his reverses and re- treat, 540; his re-entry into Madrid, 542; his unpopularity, 543; con- cludes a peace, 547; forms an alli- ance with Philip of Spain, 553. Charles I., lawfulness of the resistance to, i. 31. 38; Milton's defence of his execution, 41. 43; his treatment of the Parliament of 1640, 128; his treatment of Strafford, 138; esti- mate of his character, 159. 165, 166, 167. 416; his fall, 164; his condem- nation and its consequences, 166- 170; Hampden's opposition to him, and its consequences, 416-430; re- sistance of the Scots to him, 431, 432; his increasing difficulties, 433; his conduct towards the House of Commons, 446-451; his flight, 451; review of his conduct and treatment, 453-457; reaction in his favour during the Long Parliament, ii. 96; cause of his political blunders, 194; effect of the victory over him on the national character, 277. Charles I. and Cromwell, choice be- tween, i. 162.
Charles II., character of his reign, i. 45; his foreign subsidies, 187; his situation in 1660 contrasted with that of Lewis XVIII., ii. 80, 81; his character, 87. 298. 304. 312. 314, 315. 342; his position towards the king of France, 92; consequences of his levity and apathy, 95, 96; his court compared with that of his father, 297; his extravagance, 301; his subserviency to France, 303-324; his renunciation of the dispensing power, 320; his relations with Tem- ple, 323. 327. 356; his system of bribery of the Commons 334; his dislike of Halifax, 351; his dismissal of Temple, 353.
Charles II. of Spain, his unhappy con- dition, i. 508, 513-519; his diffi- culties in respect to the succession, 508-519.
Charles III. of Spain, his hatred of England, 736. Charles V., ii. 553. Charies VIII., ii 260.
Charles XII., compared with Clive, ii. 535.
Charlotte, Queen, obtains the atten- dance of Miss Burney, 665; her partizanship for Hastings, 669; her treatment of Miss Burney, 670- 673.
Chatham, Earl of, character of his public life, ii. 3, 4; his early life, 5; his travels, 6; enters the army, 6; obtains a seat in Parliament, 6; at-
taches himself to the Whigs in op position, 13; his qualities as an orator, 17, 18; dismissed from the army, 20; is made Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, 20; declaims against the ministers, 22; his opposition to Carteret, 23; legacy left him by the Duchess of Marlborough, £4; supports the Pel. ham ministry, 24; appointed Vice- Treasurer of Ireland, 26-28; over- tures made to him by Newcastle, 34; made Secretary of State, 34; defends Admiral Byng, 40; coalesces with the Duke of Newcastle, 34; success of his administration, 34-51; his appreciation of Clive, 503. 528; breach between him and the great Whig connection, 528; review of his Correspondence, iii. 445; in the zenith of prosperity and glory, 445; his coalition with Newcastle, 450 his strength in Parliament, 456; jealousies in his cabinet, 466; his defects, 467; proposes to declare war against Spain on account of the family compact, 470; rejection of his counsel, 470; his resignation, 470; the king's gracious behaviour to him, 470; public enthusiasm to- wards him, 471; his conduct in opposition, 473-485; his speech against peace with France and Spain, 487; his unsuccessful audi- ences with George III. to form an administration, 495; Sir William Pynsent bequeaths his whole pro- perty to him, 500; bad state of his health, 500; is twice visited by the Duke of Cumberland with propo- sitions from the king, 505, 506; his condemnation of the American Stamp Act, 513; is induced by the king to assist in ousting Rocking- ham, 520; morbid state of his mind, 521, 522. 528; undertakes to form an administration, 523; is created Earl of Chatham, 524; failure of his ministerial arrangements, 524-531; loss of his popularity, and of his foreign influence, 524-531; his des- potic manners, 523. 527; lays an embargo on the exportation of corn, 528; his first speech in the House of Lords, 528; his supercilious con- duct towards the Peers, 528; his retirement from office, 529; his policy violated, 532; resigns the privy seal, 532; state of parties and of public affairs on his recovery, 532, 533; his political relations, 536; his eloquence not suited to the House of Lords, 536; opposed the recognition of the independence of the United States, 538; his last ap- NN 3
pearance in the House of Lords, 538; his death, 540; reflections on his fall, 540; his funeral in Westminster Abbey, 541.
Cherbourg, guns taken from, ii. 45. Chesterfield, Lord, his dismissal by Walpole, ii. 10.
Cheyte Sing, a vassal of the govern- ment of Bengal, iii. 135; his large revenue and suspected treasure, 138; Hastings' policy in desiring to punish him, 139-143; his treat- ment made the successful charge against Hastings, 173. Chillingworth, his opinion on apos- tolical succession, ii, 424; became a Catholic from conviction, ii. 545. Chinsurah, Dutch settlement on the Hoogley, ii. 476; its siege by the English and capitulation, 502. Chivalry, its form in Languedoc in the 12th century, ii. 546, 547. Cholmondeley, Mrs. iii. 310. Christchurch College, Oxford, its re- pute after the Revolution, ii. 367; issues a new edition of the Letters of Phalaris, 367.
Christianity, its alliance with the ancient philosophy, ii. 224; light in which it was regarded by the Italians at the Reformation, 553. Church (the), in the time of James II.
Church (the), Southey's Book of, i.
Church, the English, persecutions in her name, i, 116; High and Low Church parties, iii. 390. Church of England, its origin, and connection with the state, i. 125. ii. 440; its condition in the time of Charles I., i. 236; endeavour of the leading Whigs at the Revolution to alter its Liturgy and Articles, ii. 114, 429; its contest with the Scotch nation, 116; Mr. Gladstone's work in defence of it, 457; his arguments for its being the pure Catholic Church of Christ, 414-418; its claims to apostolical succession dis- cussed, 419-431 views respecting its alliance with the state, 433-442; contrast of its operations during the two generations succeeding the Re- formation, with those of the Church of Rome, 566, 567.
Church of Rome, its alliance with ancient philosophy, ii. 224; causes of its success and vitality, 539, 540; sketch of its history, 544-583. Churchill, Charles, i. 184. Cicero, partiality of Dr. Middleton towards, ii. 131, 132; the most eloquent and skilful of advocates, 132; his epistles in his banishment,
150; his opinion of the study of rhetoric, 250.
Cider, proposal of a tax on, by the Bute administration, iii. 488. Civilisation, England's progress in, due to the people, i. 255.
Civil privileges and political power identical, i. 298.
Civil war, its evils the price of our liberty, i. 38; conduct of the Long Parliament in reference to it, 140 163.
Clarendon, Lord, his character, i. 185 -187; his testimony in favour of Hampden, 420. 438. 442. 458. 462; his literary merit, ii. 129; his posi- tion at the head of affairs, 297. 299 -304; his faulty style, 316; his opposition to the growing power of the Commons, 336; his temper, $37. Clarke, Dr. Samuel, ii. 542. Clarkson, Thomas, iii. 343. Classical learning, love of, in Italy in the 14th century, i. 68. Clavering, General, iii. 99; his op- position to Hastings, 103-109; his appointment as Governor-General, 116; his defeat, 118; his death, 118. Cleveland, Ddchess of, her favour to
Wycherley and Churchill, iii. 20, 21. Clifford, Lord, his character, ii. 312; his retirement, 320; his talent for debate, 335.
Clive, Lord, review of Sir John Mal-
colm's Life of, ii. 444-537; his family and boyhood, 446, 447; his shipment to India, 447; his arrival at Madras, and position there, 449; obtains an ensign's commission in the Company's service, 452; his at- tack, capture, and defence of Arcot, 462-466; his subsequent proceed- ings, 469, 470; his marriage and re- turn to England, 470; his reception, 471; enters Parliament, 473; re- turns to India, 474; his subsequent proceedings, 475 et seq.; his conduct towards Omichund, 491; his pecu- niary acquisitions, 495, 496; his transactions with Meer Jaffier, 495. 498; appointed Governor of the Company's possessions in Bengal, 498; his dispersion of Shah Alum's army, 500; responsibility of his posi- tion, 502; his return to England, 502; his reception, 503, 504; his proceedings at the India House, 505. 511; nominated Governor of the British possessions in Bengal, 511; his arrival at Calcutta, 512; sup- presses conspiracy, 512-516; suc- cess of his foreign policy, 517; his return to England, 520; his unpopu- larity, and its causes, 520-529; in- vested with the Grand Cross of the
Bath, 531; his speech in his defence, and its consequence, 531; his life in retirement, 533; reflections on his career, 535; failing of his mind, and death by his own hand, 536. Clizia, Machiavelli's, i. 86. Clodius, extensive bribery at the trial of, ii. 204.
Club-room, Johnson's, i. 400.
Coalition of Chatham and Newcastle, ii. 44.
Cobham, Lord, his malignity towards Essex, ii. 167. Cæsar Borgia, i. 90.
Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of James I. to, i. 413.
Cæsar compared with Cromwell, i. 170. Cæsars (the), parallel between them and the Tudors, not applicable, i.483. Coke, Sir E., his conduct towards Ba- con, ii. 147. 190; his opposition to Bacon in Peacham's case, 175, 176; his experience in conducting state prosecutions, 176; his removal from the Bench, 190; his reconciliation with Buckingham, and agreement to marry his daughter to Bucking- ham's brother, 191; his reconcilia- tion with Bacon, 191; his behaviour to Bacon at his trial, 210. Coleridge, relative "correctness
his poetry, i. 323; Byron's opinion of him, 335.
Coligni, Gaspar de,reference to, iii. 503. Collier, Jeremy, sketch of his life, iii. 39-46; his publication on the pro- faneness of the English stage, 43. 49; his controversy with Congreve, 46. et seq.
Colloquies on Society, Southey's, i. 206; plan of the work, 214, 215. Colonies, i. 504; question of the com- petency of Parliament to tax them, iii. 512, 513.
Comedy (the) of England, effect of the writings of Congreve and Sheridan upon, i. 84.
Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, iii. 1-55; have exercised a great influence on the human mind, 3. Comines, his testimony to the good government of England, i. 408. Commerce and manufactures, their extent in Italy in the 14th century, i. 67-69; condition of, during the war at the latter part of the reign of George II. ii. 49.
Commons, House of, increase of its power, i. 195-197; increase of its power by and since the Revolution, ii. 118.
Commonwealth, iii. 14.
Comus, Milton's, i. 13. 16.
Conflans, Admiral,his defeat by Hawke, ii. 47.
Congreve, sketch of his career at the Temple, iii. 35; success of his" Love for Love," 38; his "Mourning Bride," 39; his controversy with Collier, 46. 49; his "Way of the World," 49; his position among men of letters, 51; his attachment to Mrs. Bracegirdle, 52; his friend- ship with the Duchess of Marlbo- rough, 53; his death and capricious will, 53; his funeral in Westminster Abbey, 54; cenotaph to his memory at Stowe, 54; analogy between him and Wycherley, 54, 55. Congreve and Sheridan, effect of their works upon the comedy of England, i. 84; contrasted with Shakspeare,
Conquests of the British.arms in 1758 -60, ii. 46, 47..
Constance, council of, put an end to the Wickliffe schism, ii. 550. Constitution (the) of England, in the 15th and 18th centuries, compared with those of other European states, i. 146; the argument that it would be destroyed by admitting the Jews to power, 296; its theory in respect to the three branches of the legisla- ture, iii. 439.
Constitutional government, decline of, on the Continent early in the 17th century, i. 150.
Constitutional History of England, re- view of Hallam's, i. 107-206. Constitutional Royalists in the reign of Charles I., i. 444. 451. Conway, Henry, iii. 498; Secretary of State under Lord Rockingham, 510; returns to his position under Chat- ham, 524-528; sank into insignifi- cance, 533.
Conway, Marshal, his character, ii. 503. Cooke, Sir Anthony, his learning, ii. 139.
Co-operation, advantages of, ii. 390. Coote, Sir Eyre, iii. 122; his character
and conduct in council, 122, 123; his great victory of Porto Novo, 133. Corah, ceded to the Mogul, iii. 92. "Correctness" in the fine arts and in the sciences, i. 323–327; in paint- ing, 327; what is meant by it in poetry, 323-327.
Corruption, parliamentary, not neces- sary to the Tudors, i. 579; its extent in the reigns of George I. and II. iii. 463, 464.
Corsica given up to France, iii. 533. Cossimbazar, its situation and import- ance, iii. 74.
Condé, Marshal, compared with Clive, Council of York, its abolition, i. 489.
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