Delium, battle of, ii. 9.

Democracy, violence in its advocates induces
reaction, i. 224.

Democritus, reputed the inventor of the arch,
i. 390; Bacon's estimate of him, 390.
Demosthenes, i. 385.

Denham, dictum of, concerning Cowley, i. 2.
Denmark, contrast of its progress to the re-
trogression of Portugal, ii. 145.

Dennis, John, Pope's Narrative of his Frenzy,
ii. 349; his attack upon Addison's "Cato,'
349.

Devonshire, Duchess of, ii. 235.

Devonshire, Duke of, forms an administration
after the resignation of Newcastle, i. 303;
Lord Chamberlain under Bute, ii. 377; dis-
missed from his lord-lieutenancy, 380; his son
invited to court by the king, 391.

Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay, re-
viewed, ii. 286-317.

Dionysius, his inconsistency of character, ii.
242.

Discussion, free, its tendency, i. 113.
Dissent, cause of, in England, ii. 142; avoid-
ance of in the Church of Rome, 143; its ex-
tent in the time of Charles I., i. 113. See also
Church of England.

Dissenters (the), examination of the reasoning
of Mr. Gladstone for their exclusion from
civil offices, ii. 62-66.
Disturbances, public, during Grenville's admi-
nistration, ii. 390.
Divine Right, i. 16.

Division of labour, its necessity, ii. 53; illustra-
tions of the effects of disregarding it, 53.
Dodington, Bubb, ii. 366.

Donne, John, comparison of his wit with Ho-
race Walpole's, i. 272.

Dorset, the Earl of, the patron of literature in
the reign of Charles II., i. 179. ii.
Double Dealer, by Congreve, its reception, ii.
166; his defence of its profaneness, 171.
Dover, Lord, review of his edition of Horace

Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, i. 264
-285. See Walpole, Sir Horace.
Dowdeswell, Mr., Chancellor of the Exchequer
under Lord Rockingham, ii. 392.

Drama (the), its origin in Greece, i. 7; causes
of its dissolute character soon after the Res-
toration, ii. 156.

Dramas, Greek, compared with the English
plays of the age of Elizabeth, i. 154.
Dramatic art, the unities violated in all the
great master-pieces of, i. 154.
Dramatic literature shows the state of contem-
porary religious opinion, i. 232.
Dramatic Works (the) of Wycherley, Con-
greve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar, review of
Leigh Hunt's edition of, ii. 149-175.
Dramatists of the Elizabethan age, manner in
which they treat religious subjects, i. 232.
Drogheda, Countess of, her character, ac-
quaintance with Wycherley, and marriage,
ii. 161; its consequences, 161.
Drummond, Mr., ii. 131.

Dryden, the original of his Father Dominic,
i. 41; his merits not adequately appreciated
in his day, 123; alleged improvement in En-
glish poetry since his time, 157; the connect-
ing link of the literary schools of James I.
and Anne,, 160; his poetical genius, ii. 149;
his excuse for the indecency and immorality
of his writings, 151; his generous admiration
for the talents of others, 166; censure on him
by Collier for his language regarding heathen
divinities, 170; complimentary verses to him
by Addison, 322; obtained from Addison a
critical preface to the Georgics, 323.

Dublin, Archbishop of, his work on Logic,
i. 406.

Dumont M., his opinion that Burke's work on
the Revolution had saved Europe, i. 316; the
interpreter of Bentham, 268.

Dundas, Mr., his character, and hostility to
Hastings, ii. 227.

Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry, his gigantie
schemes for establishing French influence in
India, ii. 86. 89, 90. 94-97.

E.

East India Company, its absolute authority in
India, i. 308; its condition when Clive first
went to India, ii. 84, 85; its war with the
French East India Company, 87; increase of
its power, 95; its factories in Bengal, 98; for-
tunes made by its servants in Bengal; 112,
113; its servants transformed into diploma-
tists and generals, 184; nature of its govern-
ment and power, 188, 189; rights of the Nabob
of Oude over Benares ceded to it, 213; its fi-
nancial embarrassments, 215.
Ecclesiastical commission (the), i. 226.
Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dramatists for
the character of, i. 232.

Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles, i. 155; painting
of, by a gifted master, 155.

Edinburgh, comparison of with Florence, ii. 145.
Education in England in the 16th century,
i. 354; duty of the government in promoting
it, ii. 79.

Education in Italy in the 14th century, i. 32.
Egerton, his charge of corruption against Bacon,
i. 379; Bacon's decision against him after re-
ceiving his present, 386.

Egotism, why so unpopular in conversation,
and so popular in writing, i. 164.
Elephants, use of, in war in India, ii. 93.
Eliot, Sir John, i. 199, 200; his Treatise on Go-
vernment, 200; died a martyr to liberty, 200.

Elizabeth (Queen), fallacy entertained respect-
ing the persecutions under her, i. 53, 54; her
penal laws, 54; condition of the working
classes in her reign, 116. 195; her rapid ad-
vance of Cecil, 223; character of her govern-
ment, 227, 228. 230. 234; a persecutor though
herself indifferent, 233, 234; her early notice
of Bacon, 353; her favour towards Essex,
357; factions at the close of her reign,
352, 353. 366; her pride and temper. 361; and
death, 366; progress in knowledge since her
days, ii. 129; her Protestantism, 140.
Ellenborough, Lord, counsel for Hastings,ii.235.
Elphinstone, Lord, ii. 127.
Elwes, ii. 312.

Elwood, Milton's friend, allusion to, i. 28.
Emigration of Puritans to America, i. 204.
Emigration to Ireland under Cromwell, ii. 12.
Empires, extensive, often more flourishing after
a little pruning, i. 239.

England, her progress in civilization due to the
people, i. 121; her physical and moral con-
dition in the 15th century, 193, 194; never
so rich and powerful as since the loss of her
American colonies, 239; conduct of, in re-
ference to the Spanish succession, 247, 248;
successive steps of her progress, 322, 323; in-
fluence of her revolution on the human race,
323. 340; her situation at the Restoration
compared with France at the restoration of
Louis XVIII., 324, 325; her situation in 1678,
327. 329. 331; character of her public men at
the later part of the 17th century, ii. 4, 5;
difference in her situation under Charles II.
and under the Protectorate, 14; her fertility in
heroes and statesmen, 83.; her language, 131.
English (the), in the 16th century a free people,
i. 227, 228; their character, 328. 331.
English plays of the age of Elizabeth, i. 154.
Englishman," Steele's, ii. 352.
Enlightenment, its increase not necessarily
unfavourable to Catholicism, ii. 128.
Enthusiasts, dealings of the Churches of Rome
and of England with them, ii. 141-143.
Epicureans, their peculiar doctrines, i. 392.
Epicurus, the lines on his pedestal, i. 392.
Epitaphs, Latin, i. 186.

Ercilla, Alonzo de, a soldier poet, i. 238.
Essay on Government, Sir W. Temple's, ii. 22.
Essays, Lord Bacon's, i. 359. 368. 388. 408. 413.
Essex, Earl of, i. 235; his character, popularity,

and favour with Elizabeth, 357, 358. 372; his
political conduct, 358, 359; his friendship for
Bacon, 358, 359. 362. 372; his conversation
with Robert Cecil, 359; pleads for Bacon's
marriage with Lady Hatton, 360. 376; his
expedition to Spain, 359; his faults, 360, 361.
372; decline of his fortunes, 361; his admi-
nistration in Ireland, 360; Bacon's faithless-
ness to him, 361; his trial and execution,
362; ingratitude of Bacon towards him, 360-
365. 373; feeling of King James towards him,
367; his resemblance to Buckingham, 372, 373.
Essex, Earl of, (temp. Ch. I.) i. 217, 218.
Etherege, Sir George, ii. 150.
Euripides, Milton's admiration of him, i. 7;
emendation of a passage of, 171, note.
Europe, state of, at the peace of Utrecht, i. 262;
want of union in, to arrest the designs of
Louis XIV., ii. 15; the distractions of, sus-
pended by the treaty of Nimeguen, 26; its
progress during the last 7 centuries, 311.
Evelina, Madame D'Arblay's, specimens of her
style from, ii. 315, 316.

Evelyn, ii. 14.

Evils, natural and national, i. 109.
Exchequer, fraud of the Cabal ministry in
closing it, ii, 23.

VOL. II.

F.

Fable (a) of Pilpay, i. 122.
Fairfax, reserved for him and Cromwell to ter-
minate the civil war, i. 217.
Falkland, Lord, his conduct in respect to the
bill of attainder against Stratford, i. 65; his
character as a politician, 72; at the head of
the Constitutional Royalists, 211.
Family Compact (the) between France and
Spain, i. 262; ii. 375.

Favourites, royal, always odious, ii. 377.
Female Quixote (the), ii. 317.

Fénelon, his morality in Telemachus, ii. 153.
Ferdinand II. devoted to Catholicism, ii. 140.
Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and
Charles I. of England, i. 216.
Fictions, literary, i. 28.

Fidelity of the sepoys towards Clive, ii. 92.
Fielding, his contempt for Richardson, ii. 292;
case from his" Amelia," analogous to Addi-
son's treatment of Steele, 339.
Filicaja, Vincenzio, ii. 334.
Finance, Southey's theory of, i. 106-108.
Finch, Chief Justice, i. 203; flies to Holland, 208.
Fine arts (the), in Italy in the 14th century, i.33;
decline in England after the civil war, 270;
government should promote them, ii. 78.
Fletcher, the dramatist, ii. 152. 157.
Florence, state of, in the 14th century, i. 32,
33; its History, by Machiavelli, 50; com-
pared with Edinburgh, ii. 145.

Foote, Charles, his stage character of an Anglo-
Indian graudee, ii. 120; his mimicry, 311;
his inferiority to Garrick, 311.
Forde, Colonel, ii. 109. 111.
Forms of government, i. 184, 185.
Fox, the House of. See Holland, Lord.
Fox, Charles James, comparison of his His-
tory of James II. with Mackintosh's History
of the Revolution, i. 310; his style, 311; cha-
racteristic of his oratory, 312; his bodily and
mental constitution, ii. 177, 178; his cham-
pionship of arbitrary measures, and defiance
of public opinion, 178; his change after the
death of his father, 179; clamour raised
against his India Bill, and his defence of it,
227; his alliance with Burke, and call for
peace with the American republic, 228; his
powerful party, 230; his conflicts with Pitt,
230; his motion on the charge against Hast-
ings, 231; his appearance on the trial, 235;
his rupture with Burke, 239.

Fox, Henry, sketch of his political character,
i. 294.300; accepts office, 302, 303; directed to
form an administration in concert with Chat-
ham, 303. 306; applied to by Bute to ma-
nage the House of Commons, ii. 379, 380;
his private and public qualities, 379; be-
comes leader of the House of Commons,
380; obtains his promised peerage, 383.
France, illustration from the history of, since
the Revolution, i. 85; her condition in 1712
and in 1832, 260; her state at the restoration
of Louis XVIII., 324; enters into a compact
with Spain against England. 373; recognizes
the independence of the United States, 405.
Francis, Sir Philip, councillor under the Re-
gulating Act for India, ii. 196; his character
196; probability of his being the author of
the Letters of Junius, 196, 197; opposes Hast-
ings, 198. 205; his patriotic feeling, and re-
conciliation to Hastings, 207; opposes the
arrangement with Impey, 210; renews his
quarrel with Hastings, 210; duel with Hast-
ings, 211; returns to England, 212; his en-
trance into the House of Commons and
character there, 228. 231; his speech relat-
*E E

Franklin, Benjamin, ii. 129; his admiration for
Miss Burney, 297.

Franks, rapid fall of their dominion after the
death of Charlemagne, ii. 88.
Frederic I., iii. 201.

Frederic II., ii. 549.

Frederic the Great, review of his Life and
Times, by Thomas Campbell, ii. 244-286;
notice of the House of Brandenburgh, 244;
birth of Frederic, 246; his father's conduct to
him, 246; his taste for music, 246; his deser-
tion and imprisonment, 247; his release, 247;
his favourite abode and amusements, 247;
his education, 247; his exclusive admiration
for French writers, 248; his veneration for
the genius of Voltaire, 249; his correspond-
ence with him, 249; his accession, 250; his
character little understood, 251; his true
character, 252; he determines to invade Si-
lesia, 252; prepares for war, 252; commences
hostilities, 253; his perfidy, 253; occupies
Silesia, 253; his first battle, 254; his change
of policy, 255; gains the battle of Chotusitz,
255; Silesia ceded to him, 255; his whimsical
conferences with Voltaire, 256; recommences
hostilities, 256; his retreat from Bohemia,
256; his victory at Hohenfriedberg, 257; his
part in the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 257;
public opinion respecting his political cha-
racter, 257; his application to business, 257;
his bodily exertions, 258; general principles
of his government, 258; his economy, 259;
his character as an administrator, 259; la-
bours for cheap and speedy justice, 260; re.
ligious persecution unknown under him, 260;
vices of his administration, 260; his com-
mercial policy, 260; his passion for directing
and regulating, 261; his contempt for the
German language, 261; his associates at
Potsdam, 261; his talent for sarcasm, 263;
invites Voltaire to Berlin, 264; their singular
friendship, 265, et seq.; union of France,
Austria, and Saxony, against him, 271; he
anticipates his ruin, 272; extent of his peril,
273; he occupies Saxony, 273; defeats Mar-
shal Brown at Lowositz, 274; gains the battle
of Prague, 274; loses the battle of Kolin, 275;
his victory at Leuthen, 278; its effects, 279;
his subsequent victories, 280-286.
Frederic William I., ii. 245; his character,
245; his ill-regulated mind, 245; his ambition
to form a brigade of giants, 245; his feeling
about his troops, 245; his hard and savage
temper, 246; his conduct to his son Frederic,
246, 247; his death, 250.

Free inquiry, right of, in religious matters, ii.
69, 70.

French Revolution (the), and the Reformation,
analogy between, i. 224, 225.

Funds, national. See National Debt.

G.

Gabrielli the singer, ii. 290.
Galileo, ii. 130.

Galway, Lord, commander of the allies in Spain
in 1704, i. 250. 254; defeated at Almanza, 256.
Ganges, highway of commerce, ii. 98.
Garden of Eden, pictures of, in old Bibles, i.
155; painting of by a gifted master, 155.
Garrick, David, his acquaintance with Johnson,
1 178; his power of amusing children, ii. 289;
his advice as to Crisp's tragedy of Virginia,
292; his power of imitation, 311.
Garth, his epilogue to Cato, ií. 348.

Geneva, Addison's visit to, ii. 330.

Genoa, Addison's admiration of, ii. 328; its de..
cay owing to Catholicism, 144.
"Gentleman Dancing-Master" produced, ii.
160; its best scenes suggested by Calderon, 164.
Geometry, comparative estimate of, by Plato
and by Bacon, i. 394.

George I., his accession, i. 261.

George II., political state of the nation in his
time, i. 94; his resentment against Chatham,
297; compelled to accept him, 297; his efforts
for the protection of Hanover, 300, 301; his
relations towards his ministers, 305-308;
reconciled to Chatham, ii, 366; his death, 366;
his character, 367.

George III., his accession the commencement
of a new historic era, i. 93., ii. 361. 366;
cause of the discontents in the early part of
his reign, i. 94; his partiality to Clive, ii.
124; bright prospects at his accession, 205.
361. 367; his interview with Miss Burney,
299; his opinions of Voltaire, Rousseau, and
Shakspeare, 299; his partizanship for Hast-
ings, 305; his illness, 305, 306; the history of
the first ten years of his reign but imperfectly
known, 361; his characteristics, 368, 369; his
favour to Lord Bute, 369; his notions of
government, 369; slighted for Chatham at
the Lord Mayor's dinner, 374; receives the
resignation of Bute, and appoints George
Grenville, 383, 384; his treatment by Gren-
ville, 386; his aversion to his ministers, 387;
his illness, 388; disputes on the regency
question, 389; inclined to enforce the Ame-
rican Stamp Act, 393; the "King's friends,'
394, 395; his unwilling consent to the repeal
of the Stamp Act, 395 397; dismisses
Rockingham, and appoints Chatham, 398.
George IV., ii. 234.
Georgics, Addison's translation of the, ii. 322.
Germany, the literature of, little known in
England sixty or seventy years ago, ii. 326.
Germany, Addison's ramble in, 380.
Ghizni, peculiarity of the campaign of, ii. 193.
Ghosts, Johnson's belief in, i. 183.
Gibbon, his alleged conversion to Mahome-
danism, i. 168, 169; his success as an histo-
rian, 311; his presence at the trial of Hast-
ings, ii. 234; unlearned his native English,
315.

Gibraltar, capture of, by Sir G. Rooke, i. 250.
Giffard, Lady, ii. 16, 17. 43; her death, 49.
Gifford, Byron's admiration of, i. 159.
Gladstone, W. E., review of "The State in
its Relations with the Church," ii. 50-83;
quality of his mind, 51; grounds on which he
rests his case for the defence of the Church,
52; his doctrine that the duties of govern-
ment are paternal, 54; specimen of his argu-
ments, 54, 55; his argument that the profes.
sion of a national religion is imperative, 56, 57.
59; in consequence of his reasoning, 61-66.
Gleig, Rev. G. R., review of his Life of War-
ren Hastings, ii. 181-244.

Godfrey, Sir E. i. 330.

Godolphin, Lord, his conversion to Whig-

gism, i. 259; engages Addison to write a
poem on the battle of Blenheim, íi. 332.
Godolphin and Marlborough, their policy soon
after the accession of Queen Anne, ii. 331.
Goëzman, his bribery as a member of parlia-
ment of Paris by Beaumarchais, i. 387.
Goldsmith, i. 176; unjust to estimate him by
his History of Greece, ii. 181.
Goordas, son of Nuncomar, his appointment
as treasurer of the household, ii. 191.
Goree, conquest of, i. 307.

Gorhambury, the country residence of Lord
Bacon, i. 377.
Government, various forms of, i. 184, 185;
changes in its form sometimes not felt till long
after, 239; the science of, experimental and
progressive, 260. 318, 319; examination of
Mr. Gladstone's treatise on the Philosophy
of, ii. 50. 75; doctrines of Southey on the
duties and ends of, stated and examined, i.
109-114; its conduct in relation to infidel
publications, 115; its proper functions, ii.
155, 156.

Grafton, Duke of, Secretary of State under

Lord Rockingham, ii. 392; First Lord of the
Treasury under Chatham, 399; joined the
Bedfords, 403.

Granby, Marquis of, his character, ii. 111.
Grand Alliance against the Bourbons, i. 247.
Grand Remonstrance, debate on and passing of
it, i. 211.

Granville, Lord. See Carteret, Lord.

Gray, his want of appreciation of Johnson, ii.

292 his Latin verses, 327; his unsuccessful
application for a professorship, 378.

"Great Commoner," the designation of Lord
Chatham, i. 309. ii. 365.

Greece, its history compared with that of Italy,
i. 34; its degradation and rise in moderní
times, 151; instances of the corruption of
judges in the ancient commonwealths of, 382,
383; its literature, ii. 132.

Greek drama, its origin, i. 7; compared with
the English plays of the age of Elizabeth, 154.
Greeks, difference between them and the Ro-
mans, i. 37; their social condition compared
with that of the Italians of the middle ages,
47; their position and character in the 12th
century, 539.

Gregory XIII., his austerity and zeal, ii. 138.
Grenville, George, his character, ii. 372, 373;
entrusted with the lead in the Commons un-
der the Bute administration, 375; his sup-
port of the proposed tax on cider, 382; his
nickname of "Gentle Shepherd," 382; ap-
pointed prime minister, 384; his opinions,
384; character of his public acts, 384: his
treatment of the king, 386; his deprivation
of Henry Conway of his regiment, 387; pro-
posed the imposition of stamp duties on the
North American colonies, 388; his embar-
rassment on the question of a regency, 389;
his triumph over the king, 390; superseded
by Lord Rockingham and his friends, 392;
popular demonstration against him on the
repeal of the Stamp Act, 396; deserted by
the Bedfords, 403; his pamphlet against the
Rockinghams, 404; his reconciliation with
Chatham, 404; his death, 405.

Grenvilles (the), ii. 365; Richard Lord Tem-
ple at their head, 365.

Greville, Fulk, patron of Dr. Burney, his cha-
racter, ii. 288.

Grey, Earl, ii. 236.

Grey, Lady Jane, her high classical acquire-
ments, i. 352.

"Grievances," popular, on occasion of Wal-
pole's fall, i. 280, 281.
Grub Street, i. 181.
Guadaloupe, fall of, i. 307.

Guardian (the), its birth, ii. 347; its discon-
tinuance, 349.

Guelfs (the), their success greatly promoted by
the ecclesiastical power, i. 31.
Guicciardini, i. 220.

Guicowar, its interpretation, ii. 206.

Guise, Heury, Duke of, his conduct on the day
of the barricades at Paris, i. 362; his resem-
blances to Essex, 362.

Gunpowder, its inventor and the date of its
discovery unknown, i. 392.
Gustavus Adolphus, ii. 144.

H.

Habeas Corpus Act, ii. 36.

Hale, Sir Matthew, his integrity, i. 220. 370.
Halifax, Lord, a trimmer both by intellect and
by constitution, ii. 37; compared with Shaftes-
bury, 38; his political tracts, 38; his orato-
rical powers, 38; the king's dislike to him,
39; his recommendation of Addison to Go-
dolphin, 332; sworn of the Privy Council of
Queen Anne, 335.

Hallam, Mr., review of his Constitutional His-
tory of England, i. 51-98; his qualifications
as a historian, 52; his style, 52; character of
his Constitutional History, 52; his imparti-
ality, 53, 54. 85; his description of the pro-
ceedings of the third parliament of Charles
I., and the measures which followed its dis-
solution, 61; his remarks on the impeachment
of Strafford, 63, 64; on the proceedings of the
Long Parliament, and on the question of the
justice of the civil war, 65-77; his opinion
on the nineteen propositions of the Long
Parliament, 73; on the vote of the crown on
acts of parliament, 74; on the control over
the army, 74; on the treatment of Laud,
and on his correspondence with Strafford, 76;
on the execution of Charles I., 78; his par-
allel between Cromwell and Napoleon, 81;
his character of Clarendon, 89.
Hamilton, Gerard, his celebrated single speech,
i. 302; his effective speaking in the Irish
Parliament, ii, 339.

Hammond, Henry, uncle of Sir William Tem-
ple, his designation by the new Oxonian sec-
taries, ii. 7.

Hampden, John, his conduct in the ship-money
affair approved by the Royalists, i. 62; effect
of his loss on the Parliamentary cause, 77.
219; review of Lord Nugent's Memorial of
him, 190; his public and private character,
191,192; Baxter's testimony to his excellence,
192; his origen and early history, 192; took
his seat in the House of Commons in 1621,
193; joined the opposition to the Court, 193;
his first appearance as a public man, 196; his
first stand for the fundamental principle of the
Constitution, 198; committed to prison, 198;
set at liberty, and re-elected for Wendover,
198; his retirement, 199; his remembrance
of his persecuted friends, 199; his letters
to Sir John Elliot, 199; Clarendon's charac-
ter of him as a debater, 190. 208; letter from
him to Sir John Eliot, 200; his acquirements,
191. 200; death of his wife, 200; his resist-
ance to the assessment for ship-money, 203,
204; Strafford's hatred of him, 204; his in-
tention to leave England, 204; his return for
Buckinghamshire in the fifth parliament of
Charles I., 205; his motion on the subject of
the king's message, 206; his election by two
constituencies to the Long Parliament, 207;
character of his speaking, 208; his opinion
on the bill for the attainder of Strafford, 209;
Lord Clarendon's testimony to his modera-
tion, 209; his mission to Scotland, 210; his
conduct in the House of Commons on the
passing of the Grand Remonstrance, 211; his
impeachment ordered by the king, 212-214;
returns in triumph to the House, 214; his
resolution, 215; raised a regiment in Buck-
inghamshire, 217; contrasted with Essex,
218; his encounter with Rupert at Chalgrove,