racter and merits, iii. 24; whence | Cromwell and Napoleon, remarks or
borrowed, 32.
Mr. Hallam's parallel between, i.
170-176.
Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of
his Memoirs of Sir William Temple,
ii. 273-373; his concessions to Dr.
Lingard in regard to the Triple Al-
liance, 309; his opinion of Temple's
proposed new council, 329; his error
as to Temple's residence, 360. note.
Cousinhood, nickname of the official
members of the Temple family, ii.
283.
Covenant, the Scotch, i. 431.
Covenanters (the), their conclusion of
a treaty with Charles I., i. 431.
Coventry, Lady, iii. 301.
Cowley, dictum of Denham concerning
him, i. 3; deficient in imagination,
10; his wit, 574., iii. 503; his ad-
miration of Bacon, i. 269.
Cowper, Earl, Keeper of the Great
Seal, iii. 690.
Cowper, William, i. 333; his praise of
Pope, 334; his friendship with War-
ren Hastings, iii. 72.
Cox, Archdeacon, his eulogium on Sir
Robert Walpole, i. 584.
Coyer, Abbé, his imitation of Voltaire,
iii. 404.
Craggs, Secretary, ii. 30; succeeds Ad-
dison, iii. 436; Addison dedicates
his works to him, 441.
Cranmer, Archbishop, estimate of his
character, i. 121.
Crebillon the younger, i, 568.
Crisis, Steele's, iii, 427.
Crisp, Samuel, his early career, iii. 299;
his tragedy of Virginia, 301; his re-
tirement and seclusion, 303; his
friendship with the Burneys, 304;
his gratification at the success of
Miss Burney's first work, 308; his
advice to her upon her comedy, 311;
his applause of her "Cecilia," 313.
Criticism, remarks on Johnson's code
of, i. 393.
Critics, professional, their influence
over the reading public, i. 262.
Croker, Mr., his edition of Boswell's
Life of Dr. Johnson, reviewed, i.
349-401.
Cromwell, Oliver, his elevation to
power, i. 169; his character as a
legislator, 171; as a general, 171;
his administration and its results,
175, 176; embarked with Hampden
for America, but not suffered to
proceed, 431; his qualities, 463;
his administration, ii. 83. 89; treat-
ment of his remains, 86;
abilities displayed in Ireland, 293;
anecdote of his sitting for his por-
trait, iii. 69.
Cromwell and Charles, choice be-
tween, i. 163.
Cromwell, Henry, description of, ii.
286.
Cromwell, Richard, iii. 457.
Crown (the), veto by, on Acts of
Parliament, i. 155; its control over
the army, 157; its power in the
16th century, 478; curtailment of
its prerogatives, 580-582; its power
predominant at the beginning of
the 17th century, 332; decline of
its power during the Pensionary
Parliament, 334, 35; its long con-
test with the Parliament put an end
to by the Revolution, 341. See also
Prerogative.
Crusades (the), their beneficial effect
upon Italy, i. 66.
Culpeper, Mr., i. 444.
Cumberland, the dramatist, his man-
ner of acknowledging literary merit,
iii. 308.
Cumberland, Duke of, ii. 503; the
confidential friend of Henry Fox,
iii. 482; confided in by George III.,
503; his character, 503; mediated
between the king and the Whigs,
505.
Dacier, Madame, iii. 370.
D'Alembert, Horace Walpole's opi-
nion of him, i. 568.
Dallas, Chief Justice, one of the coun-
sel for Hastings on his trial, iii. 181.
Danby, Earl, i. 580; his connection
with Temple, abilities, and cha-
racter, ii. 322; impeached and sent
to the Tower, 326; owed his office
and dukedom to his talent in de-
bating, 335.
Danger, public, a certain amount of,
will warrant a retrospective law, i.
440.
Dante, his Divine Comedy, i. 17. 68;
comparison of him with Milton, 17.
et seq.; "correctness" of his poetry,
S22; story from, illustrative of the
two great parties in England after
the accession of the House of
Hanover, iii. 446.
D'Arblay, Madame, review of her
Diary and Letters, iii. 289-353;
wide celebrity of her name, 289;
her Diary, 290, 291; her family,
291; her birth, and education, 294,
295; her father's social position,
297; her first literary efforts, 298;
her friendship with Mr. Crisp, 298.
504; publication of her "Evelina,"
305. 307; her comedy, "The Wit-
son's "Cato," iii. 418; Pope's
Narrative of his Frenzy, 419.
Devonshire, Duchess of, iii. 181.
Devonshire, Duke of, forms an ad-
ministration after the resignation
of Newcastle, ii. 38; Lord Cham-
berlain under Bute, iii. 477; dis-
missed from his lord-lieutenancy,
485; his son invited to court by the
king, 507.
lings," 311, 312; her second novel, | Dennis, John, his attack upon Addi-
"Cecilia," 313; death of her friends
Crisp and Johnson, 313; her regard
for Mrs. Delany, 314; her inter-
view with the king and queen, 314,
315; accepts the situation of keeper
of the robes, 316; sketch of her life
in this position, 318-324; attends
at Warren Hastings' trial, 324; her
espousal of the cause of Hastings,
325; her incivility to Windham and
Burke, 325; her sufferings during
her keepership, 326. 331-335; her
marriage, and close of the Diary,
336; publication of" Camilla," 337;
subsequent events in her life, 337;
publication of "The Wanderer,'
338; her death, 338; character of
her writings, 338-351; change in
her style, 345-347; specimens of
her three styles, 348, 349; failure of
her later works, 351; service she
rendered to the English novel, 353.
Dashwood, Sir Francis, Chancellor of
the Exchequer under Bute, iii. 476;
his inefficiency, 489.
Davies, Tom, i. 363.
Davila, one of Hampden's favourite
authors, i. 423.
Daylesford, site of the estate of the
Hastings family, iii. 70; its pur-
chase and adornment by Hastings,
194, 195.
De Augmentis Scientiarum, by Bacon,
ii. 174. 215.
Debates in Parliament, effects of their
publication, i. 201.
Debt, the national, effect of its abro-
gation, i. 225; England's capabilities
in respect to it, 254.
Declaration of Right, ii. 111.
"Declaration of the Practices and
Treasons attempted and committed
by Robert Earl of Essex," by Lord
Bacon, ii. 161.
Dedications, literary, more honest
than formerly, i. 258.
De Guignes, iii. 296.
Delany, Dr., his connection with
Swift, iii. 314; his widow, and her
favour with the royal family, 314.
Delhi, its splendour during the Mogul
empire, ii. 453.
Delium, battle of, ii. 289.
Democracy, violence in its advocates
induces reaction, i. 474.
Democritus, the reputed inventor of
the arch, ii. 219; Bacon's estimate
of him, 220.
Demosthenes, ii. 210.
Denham, dictum of, concerning
Cowley, i. 3.
Denmark, contrast of its progress to
the retrogression of Portugal, ii.
574.
Diary and Letters of Madame
D'Arblay, reviewed, iii. 289-353.
Discussion, free, its tendency, i. 237.
Dissent, its extent in the time of
Charles I., i. 231; cause of, in Eng-
land, ii. 568; avoidance of in the
Church of Rome, 570. See also
Church of England.
Dissenters (the), examination of the
reasoning of Mr. Gladstone for their
exclusion from civil offices, ii. 401-
408.
Disturbances, public, during Gren-
ville's administration, iii. 506.
Divine Right, i. 32.
Division of labour, its necessity, ii.
380; illustration of the effects of
disregarding it, 380.
Dodington, Bubb, iii. 455.
Donne, John, comparison of his wit
with Horace Walpole's, i. 574.
Dorset, the Earl of, the patron of
literature in the reign of Charles II.,
ii. 378; iii. 24.
Double Dealer, by Congreve, its
reception, iii. 37; his defence of its
profaneness, 47.
Dover, Lord, review of his edition of
Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir
Horace Mann, ii. 557-601. See
Walpole, Sir Horace.
Dowdeswell, Mr., Chancellor of the
Exchequer under Lord Rocking-
ham, iii. 510.
Drama (the), its origin in Greece, i.
14; causes of its dissolute character
soon after the Restoration, iii. 15.
Dramas, Greek, compared with the
English plays of the age of Eliza-
beth, i. 323.
Dramatic art, the unities violated in
all the great masterpieces of, i. S24.
Dramatic literature shows the state
of contemporary religious opinion,
i. 490.
Dramatic Works (the), of Wycherley,
Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar,
review of Leigh Hunt's edition of,
iii. 1-55.
Dramatists of the Elizabethan age,
manner in which they treat religious
subjects, i. 490.
Drogheda, Countess of, her character,
acquaintance with Wycherley, and
sation, and so popular in writing, i
844.
Elephants, use of, in war in India, ii.
465, 466.
Eliot, Sir John, i. 419-421; his Trea-
tise on Government, 422; died a
martyr to liberty, 426.
marriage, 567; its consequences, | Egotism, why so unpopular in conver-
568.
Dryden, the original of his Father
Dominic, i. 85; his merits not ade-
quately appreciated in his day, 259;
alleged improvement in English po-
etry since his time, 331; the con-
necting link of the literary schools
of James I. and Anne, 338; his
poetical genius, iii. 2; his excuse
for the indecency and immorality of
his writings, 6; his generous admi-
ration for the talents of others, 36;
censure on him by Collier for his
language regarding heathen divini-
ties, 44, 45; complimentary verses
to him by Addison, 364; obtained
from Addison a critical preface to
the Georgics, 366.
Dublin, Archbishop of, his work on
Logic, ii. 254.
Dumont, M., the interpreter of Ben-
tham, i. 566; his opinion that
Burke's work on the Revolution had
saved Europe, ii. 64.
Dundas, Mr., his character, and hos-
tility to Hastings, iii. 164. 175.
Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry, his
gigantic schemes for establishing
French influence in India, ii. 451.
457. 459. 467-474.
East India Company, its absolute au-
thority in India, ii. 47; its condition
when Clive first went to India, 449,
450; its war with the French East
India Company, 451; increase of its
power, 469; its factories in Bengal,
475; fortunes made by its servants
in Bengal, 507, 508; its servants
transformed into diplomatists and
generals, iii. 75; nature of its go-
vernment and power, 83, 84; rights
of the Nabob of Oude over Benares
ceded to it, 135; its financial em-
barrassments, 139.
Ecclesiastical commission (the), i. 478.
Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dra-
matists for the character of, i. 490.
Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles, i. 327;
painting of, by a gifted master, 327.
Edinburgh, comparison of with Flo-
rence, ii. 574.
Education in England in the 16th
century, ii. 144; duty of the govern-
ment in promoting it, 433.
Education in Italy in the 14th century,
i. 68.
Egerton, his charge of corruption
against Bacon, ii. 197; Bacon's de-
cision against him after receiving
his present, 212.
Elizabeth (Queen), fallacy entertained
respecting the persecutions under
her, i. 112-114; her penal laws,
114; arguments in favour of, on the
head of persecution, apply with
more force to Mary, 122-124; con-
dition of the working classes in her
reign, 244. 411; her rapid advance
of Cecil, 471; character of her go-
vernment, 478. 480. 484. 494; a per-
secutor though herself indifferent,
492, 493; her early notice of Lord
Bacon, ii. 143; her favour towards
Essex, 151; factions at the close of
her reign, 151, 152. 169; her pride
and temper, 157. 183; and death,
169; progress in knowledge since
her days, 540; her Protestantism,
Ellenborough Lord, one of the coun-
sel for Hastings on his trial, iii. 181.
Elphinstone, Lord, ii. 537.
Elwes, iii. 343.
Elwood, Milton's Quaker friend, al-
lusion to, i. 58.
Emigration of Puritans to America, i.
430.
Emigration from England to Ireland
under Cromwell, ii. 294.
Empires, extensive, often more flour-
ishing after a little pruning, i. 504.
England, her progress in civilisation
due to the people, i. 255; her phy.
sical and moral condition in the 15th
century, 407, 408; never so rich and
powerful as since the loss of her
American colonies, 504; conduct
of, in reference to the Spanish suc-
cession, 520-522; successive steps
of her progress, ii, 77, 78; influence
of her revolution on the human
race, 79. 114; her situation at the
Restoration compared with France
at the restoration of Lewis XVIII.,
80-82; her situation in 1678, 87.
91.97; character of her public men
at the latter part of the 17th cen-
tury, 280; difference in her situa-
tion under Charles II. and under
the Protectorate, 299; her fertility
in heroes and statesmen, 446.
English (the), in the 16th century a
free people, i. 480, 481; their cha-
racter, ii. 89. 96.
English language, ii. 546.
English plays of the age of Elizabeth,
i. 323.
"Englishman," Steele's, iii. 427.
Enlightenment, its increase in the
world not necessarily unfavourable
to Catholicism, ii. 540.
Enthusiasts, dealings of the Church of
Rome and the Church of England
with them, ii. 567-571.
Epicureans, their peculiar doctrines,
ii. 224.
Epicurus, the lines on his pedestal, ii.
Epitaphs, Latin, i. 393.
Ercilla, Álonzo de, a soldier as well as
a poet, i. 502.
Essay on Government, Sir William
Temple's, ii. 316.
Essays, Lord Bacon's, value of them,
ii. 155. 175. 215. 260. 268.
Essex, Earl of, i. 496; his character,
popularity, and favour with Eliza-
beth, ii. 151. 153. 161; his political
conduct, 153; his friendship for
Bacon, 153, 154. 161. 183; his con-
versation with Robert Cecil, 154;
pleads for Bacon's marriage with
Lady Hatton, 156. 190'; his expe-
dition to Spain, 156; his faults, 156,
157. 182; decline of his fortunes,
157; his administration in Ireland,
158; Bacon's faithlessness to him,
158, 159; his trial and execution,
159. 166; ingratitude of Bacon to-
wards him, 158-167. 184; feeling
of King James towards him, 171;
his resemblance to Buckingham,
182.
Essex, Earl of, (temp. Ch. I.,) i. 457—
Etherege, Sir George, iii 4.
Euripides, Milton's admiration of him,
i. 15; emendation of a passage of,
361. note.
Europe, state of, at the peace of
Utrecht, i. 551; want of union in,
to arrest the designs of Lewis XIV.,
ii. 302; the distractions of, suspend-
ed for a short time by the treaty of
Nimeguen, 325; its progress during
the last seven centuries, 545.
Evelina, Madame D'Arblay's, speci-
mens of her style from, iii. 348, 349.
Evelyn, ii. 298. 313.
Evils, natural and national, i. 229.
Exchequer, fraud of the Cabal minis-
try in closing it, ii. 318.
Fable (a) of Pilpay, i. 256.
Fairfax, reserved for him and Crom-
well to terminate the civil war, i.
459.
Falkland, Lord, his conduct in respect
to the bill of attainder against Straf-
ford, i. 137; his character as a poli-
tician, 152; at the head of the Con-
stitutional Royalists, 444.
Family Compact (the) between France
and Spain, i. 552., iii. 470.
Favourites, royal, always odious, iii.
478.
Female Quixote (the), iii. 352.
Fénélon, standard of morality in his
Telemachus, iii. 10.
Ferdinand II., his devotion to Catho-
licism, ii. 564.
Ferdinand VII., resemblance between
him and Charles 1. of England, i.
456.
Fictions, literary, i. 58.
Fidelity, touching instance of, in the
sepoys towards Clive, ii. 464.
Fielding, his contempt for Richardson,
iii. 300; case from his "Amelia,'
analogous to Addison's treatment
of Steele, $98.
Filicaja Vincenzio, iii. 389.
Finance, Southey's theory of, i. 222-
227.
Finch, Chief Justice to Charles I., i.
428; fled to Holland, 439.
Fine arts (the), encouragement of in
Italy in the 14th century, i. 68;
causes of their decline in England
after the civil war, 569; govern-
ment should promote them, ii. 534.
Fletcher, the dramatist, iii. 6. 17.
Fleury, iii. 219. 222.
Florence, state of, in the 14th century,
i. 67-69; its History, by Machia-
velli, 104; compared with Edin-
burgh, ii. 574.
Foote, Charles, his stage character of
an Anglo-Indian grandee, ii. 522;
his mimicry, iii. 340; his inferiority
to Garrick, 340.
Forde, Colonel, ii, 499. 502.
Forms of government, i. 389, 390.
Fox, the House of. See Holland, Lord.
Fox, Charles James, comparison of his
History of James II. with Mackin-
tosh's History of the Revolution, ii.
53; his style, 55; characteristic of
his oratory, 57; his bodily and men-
tal constitution, iii. 58. 61; his
championship of arbitrary measures,
and defiance of public opinion, 62;
his change after the death of his
father, 62; clamour raised against
his India Bill, and his defence of it,
163; his alliance with Burke, and
call for peace with the American
republic, 166; his powerful party,
170; his conflicts with Pitt, 171;
his motion on the charge against
Hastings respecting his treatment
of Cheyte Sing, 172; his appearance
on the trial of Hastings, 182; his
rupture with Burke, 189.
Fox, Henry, sketch of his political
character, ii. 28-33; accepts office,
34; directed to form an adminis-
tration in concert with Chatham,
37; applied to by Bute to manage
the House of Commons, iii. 482, 483;
his private and public qualities, 483;
became leader of the House of Com-
mons, 484; obtains his promised
peerage, 491.
France, illustration from the history
of, since the Revolution, i. 179; her
condition in 1712 and 1832, 549;
her state at the restoration of Lewis
XVIII, ii. 81; enters into a com-
pact with Spain against England,
470; her recognition of the indepen-
dence of the United States, 537.
Francis, Sir Philip, councillor under
the Regulating Act for India, iii.
99; his character and talents, 100;
probability of his being the author
of the Letters of Junius, 100-103;
his opposition to Hastings, 103. 118;
his patriotic feeling, and recon-
ciliation with Hastings, 123; his
opposition to the arrangement with
Sir Elijah Impev, 129; renewal of
his quarrel with Hastings, 129;
duel with Hastings, 130; his return
to England, 134; his entrance into
the House of Commous and cha-
racter there, 165. 173; his speech
on Mr. Fox's motion relating to
Cheyte Sing, 173; his exclusion
from the committee selected to con-
duct the impeachment of Hastings,
177.
Francis, the Emperor, iii. 457.
Franklin, Benjamin, ii. 542; his ad-
miration for Miss Burney, iii. 310.
Franks, rapid fall of their dominion
after the death of Charlemagne, ii.
455.
Frederic I., iii. 201.
Frederic II., ii. 549.
Frederic the Great, review of his Life
and Times, by Thomas Campbell,
iii. 200-288; notice of the House of
Brandenburgh, 200; birth of Fre-
deric, 204; his father's conduct to
him, 204; his taste for music, 205;
his desertion from his regiment, 206;
his imprisonment, 206; his release,
207; his favourite abode, 207; his
amusements, 207; his education,
208; his exclusive admiration for
French writers, 209; his veneration
for the genius of Voltaire, 210; his
correspondence with Voltaire, 212;
his accession to the throne, 212; his
character little understood, 212, 213;
his true character, 213, 214; he
determines to invade Silesia, 216;
prepares for war, 218; commences
hostilities, 218, 219; his perfidy,
219; occupies Silesia, 219; his
first battle, 221; his change of
policy, 223; gains the battle of
Chotusitz, 224; Silesia ceded to
him, 224; his whimsical conferences
with Voltaire, 225; recommences
hostilites, 226; his retreat from
Bohemia, 226; his victory at Hohen-
friedberg, 227; his part in the
treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 227;
public opinion respecting his poli-
tical character, 228; his application
to business, 228; his bodily exer-
tions, 229, 230; general principles
of his government, 230, 231 his
economy, 231; his character as an
administrator, 232, 233; his labours
to secure to his people cheap and
speedy justice, 233; religious perse-
cution unknown under his govern.
ment,233; vices of his administration,
234; his commercial policy, 234; his
passion for directing and regulating,
235; his contempt for the German
language, 236; his associates at
Potsdam, 237-239; his talent for
sarcasm, 239; invites Voltaire to
Berlin, 243; their singular friend-
ship, 244, et seq.; union of France,
Austria, and Saxony, against him,
256; he anticipates his ruin, 258;
extent of his peril, 261; he occupies
Saxony, 261; defeats Marshal
Brown at Lowositz, 262; gains the
battle of Prague, 263; loses the
battle of Kolin, 264; his victory at
Leuthen, 272; its effects, 274; his
subsequent victories, 274-288.
Frederic William I., iii. 202; his cha-
racter, 202; his ill-regulated mind,
202; his ambition to form a brigade
of giants, 203; his feeling about his
troops, 203; his hard and savage
temper, 204; his conduct to his son
Frederic, 205, 206; his illness and
death, 212.
Free inquiry, right of, in religious
matters, ii. 415, 416.
French Revolution (the), and the
Reformation, anology between, i.
473-475.
Funds, national. See National Debt.
Gabrielli, the singer, iii. 296.
Galileo, ii. 543.
Galway, Lord, commander of the
allies in Spain in 1704. i. 528. 536;
defeated by the Bourbons at Al-
manza, 541.
Ganges, the chief highway of Eastern
commerce, ii. 475.
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