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Brown, Marshal, 683.

Brownrigg, Mrs., her apprentices, 658.
Bruce, Lord, 698.

Brunswick, Ferdinand of, 683, 693; House
of, 647, 761; feeling of the English
for, 815.

Brussels, 393, 395, 400, 663, 671.

Brydges, Sir Egerton, 718.

Buckersdorf, 992.

Buckingham, 393, 395, 400.

Budgebudge, 553.

Budgell, Eustace, 742, 755, 757.
Buffon, 674.

Buhl, Count, 677, 678.

Bunyan, John, the Pilgrim's Progress,
Southey's edition, 217; his history,
mind, and character, 221; his charac-
ters met with in critical poems, 51.
Burghley, Lord, his Life and Times, by
Dr. Nares, 252; his talents, principles,
and character, 253; means of his poli-
tical advancement, 254; his parlia-
mentary opposition to Queen Mary's
court, ib.; promotion by Queen Elizabeth,
255; the Reformation, Elizabeth's
power based on the people's support,
258; limitation of English monarchy,
the Tudor rule as compared with that
of the Cæsars, 260; causes of re-esta-
blishment of Papal supremacy, 260;
position of Henry VIII. to Catholic
and Protestant parties, 262; partiality
of dramatists for Catholic ecclesiastics,
263; Elizabeth's attachment to Catholic
ceremonials and Burghley's conformity
to them, the national reaction, 263;
Elizabeth's power of Government, 264;
Elizabethan literature, 265.
Burgundy, Duke of, his character and
projects, 917.

Burke, Edmund, his speech on reform,
134; understanding and conduct, 137;
his statement about Jacobins and East
Indians, 540;-and Pitt, 605; men-
tioned, 634, 639 ;-and Fox, 641; his
opening speech at trial of Warren
Hastings, 648; mentioned, 677, 703,
710; on Miss Burney's writings, 695;
his comparison of Grenville to Ovid's
Evil Spirit, 820; mentioned, 838, 840,
849, 852, 911, 912; on the French
Revolution, 910; on Longinus, 923.
Burnet, Bishop, 344.

Burney, Dr., 695, 702.

Burney, Frances (see Madam D'Arblay).
Burns, his Tam O'Shanter, 57.
Burton Pynsent, Cedars at, 843.
Bussy, 528.

Bute, Earl of, 595, 820, 825, 829, 836, 840.
Butler, S., his wit and learning, 60;
Hudibras, 464; mentioned, 745.

Butler, W., his estimate of the Catholic
population in England, 261.

Byng, Admiral, 328; trial of, 329.
Byron, Lord, his life by Moore, 177;
Lady Byron, 179.

CABAN the, 450.

Cabinet, formation of a, 455.
Cabul, 610.

Cadiz, 564.

Cæsars, the, despotic rule of, 86, 260,
665.

Cairo, 622, 657.

Calcutta, 542, 601, 602, 614, 616, 618, 22,
623, 629; Black hole of, 522, 535, 602;
English functionaries at, 536.
Calais, 730.

Calderon, sparkling verse of, 274; quota-
tion from, 660.
Callimachus, 922.

Calvinists, the, 552, 559, 564.
Camaldoli, order of, 555.
Cambray, 681.

Cambridge, Christ Church College
716; Trinity, 760; the University
favoured by Hanoverian Sovereigne,
823.

Camden, Lord, 349, 852.
Campagna, the 763.

Campbell, Thomas, his editorship of
History of Frederick the Great, 656.
Candahar, 610.

Canning, Mr., 717, 722, 736.
Cape Comorin, 610.
Capraæ, 734.

Capuchins, their subtilty, 2.

Caraffa, Giov. Pietro, Pope Paul IV., 555,

557.

Carleton, Lord, 737.

Carlton House, 638.
Carmagnoles, the, 565, 809.

Carnatic, the, 510, 601, 622, 626, 628,
635, 682.

Carnot blinded by party spirit, 803.
Carrero, Porto, 273, 274, 288.
Carrier, 795, 809.

Carteret, Lord, 307, 308, 309, 665, 692
Cary, his translation of Dante, 883.
Cashmere, shawls of, 628; looms of, €58.
Casina of Plautus, 39.

Casti, his Animali Parlanti, 880.
Castile, 734.

Castilian, the, 268; gravity of, 278; faith
of, 557; at the beginning of the six-
teenth century, 563.

Castilians, conduct of the, 284; their
proverb, 521.

Catharine II., 693.

Catholic Association, the, 593.
Catholicism, triumph of, 562.
Catholicity, true, 501.

Catholics, restraints of the, 358; rising
against Protestants, 264; of Ireland,
670; of Silesia, 670.
Catiline, Conspiracy of, 82.
Catinet, 735.

Cato, play of, 66, 733, 751, 752.
Catullus, 56, 726, 741, 886.

Cave, 660.

Cavendish, Lord, 461; Lord John, 837,
847.

Cecil, Robert, 377, 388.
Cemetery of the Escurial, 274.
Censorship, 367.

Cervantes, qualities of, 52, 613.
Cevennes, war of the, 564.
Chamier, Mr., 613.

Champion, Colonel, 611.
Chandernagore, 521, 525.
Chandos, Duke of, 758.
Chantrey, 883.

Charles I., the resistance of the people,

14; his advocates, 16, 108; his execu
tion defended by Milton, 18; his con-
sent to Strafford's death, 106; attempt
to seize the five members, 107; his
character, 109; fall, 118; his death,
119, 901; at Westminster Hall, 647;
mentioned, 912.

Charles II., 59; character of, 353; and
Wycherley, 577, 578; after the Re-
storation, 904; Regent Orleans, a
facsimile of, 917.

Charles II. of Spain, 745.

Charles III. of Spain, 820.
Charles V., 551.

Charles VI. of Germany, death of, 662.
Charles VIII. of Bavaria, 666, 667.
Charles X., 628, 913.

Charles XII., 665; Life of, by Voltaire,
661.

Charles of Lorraine, 637.
Charles Martel, 745.

Chateaubriand, M. de, note by, on Louis
XIV., 915.

Chateauroux, Duchess of, 666.
Chatham, Earl of, Thackeray's history

of, 312-334; the biographer, indis-
criminate praise, 312; character of Pitt,
313; family, 314; returned for Old
Sarum, 314; Walpole's ministry, 314;
Townshend, 315; Chesterfield, 316;
Duke of Argyle, the Pelhams, 316; the
patriots, 317; Pitt in Parliament, 317;
Prince Frederick in opposition, 317;
Pitt's first speech, 318; as a speaker,
319; as patriot, 321; courtier, 322;
Paymaster, 323; Pitt and Fox, 324;
fragment of a speech, 327; the nation
angry, 327; Secretary of State, 328;
ministry defeated, Pitt recalled to office,
329; his moderation, 329; no ministry,

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Christianity, its triumph over Paganism,
86.

Christian Utopia, Southey's, 143.

Chunar, rock of, 632, 633.
Chunda Sahib, 516, 518.

Church and State, Gladstone on, 477.
Church of England, whence sprung, 97;
of Scotland, 560; the Catholic, 548, 560;
the Established, 562.

Churchill, his history, 127, 517; lines on,
by Philips, 738; (author), 601.
Churchmen, marriage of, 263.

Cicero, his coalescence with Catiline, 82;
Life of, 731; mentioned, 647, 727;
Epistles of, 924.

Cincinnatus, 863.

Clarendon, Lord, his history, 19; his
reputation, 19; Nugents' memorials, his
character of Hampden, 89, 225; power
declining, 442; mentioned, 745.
Clarke, 549.
Clarkson, 641, 718.
Claudian, 726, 727.

Clavering, Colonel, 612, 614, 615, 617, 619,
620, 621, 629.

Clement VII., patron of Machiavelli,
28.

Clement XIII., 690.

Clergy and Courts of Law, struggle
between, 262.

Cleveland, Duchess of, 576.
Clifford, Lord Treasurer, 452.
Clive, Robert, 601, 602, 606, 607; his

choice of a Champion, 639; military

skill, 667; troops of, 682 (see Lord
Clive).

Clizia, Machiavelli's, 39.

Clootz, atheism of, 565.

Closter Severn, 684.

Cobham, Lord, 591.

Cock Lane Ghost, the, 727.
Cofhis, Mr. Mackensie, 808.

Coke, Sir Edward, 391; Lady, 397
Colbert, 668.
Coleridge, 882
Coligni, 825.
Collé, 680.

Collier, Jeremy, 570, 585, 723, 746; his
essay on the stage, 586.
Collot sent to Guiana, 798.
Colman, 455, 601, 698.

Commoner, the Great (see Pitt), 845.
Commons, House of, 302, 545, 596, 599,
639, 643, 644, 645, 646, 695, 711, 730,
739, 740, 741, 747, 818, 913.

Commons, House of, Irish, 744.
Commonwealth, the, 725.
Commune, the, of Paris, 565.
Compact, Family, the, 290.

Companies, European, in Bengal, 521
(see East India).

Composition, absurdity of rules for 52.
Comus, Milton's, 7.

Condé, 667.

Confession of Augsburg, 559.

Congreve, childhood of, 583; characters
in his comedies, 570, 572; history of,
584; and Collier, 588; his attachments,
death and funeral. 591; mentioned,

590;

724, 728, 758.

Congreveran, 517.

Connoisseur, the, 746.

Conquest of Granada, the, Dryden's, 65.
Conraden, 522.

Conspiracy of English officers in India
538.

Constance, Council of, 553.

Constitution, Old, of England, 352.
Constitutional History of England,
Hallam's, 93.

Consul Mummius, 339.
Control, Board of, 653.

Convention, the, 798.

Conversation, a, between Cowley and
Milton, 896-906.

Conway, General, 533, 838, 841, 845, 846,

Cossimbuzar, 526, 602.

Council of Constance, 262; of Five
Hundred, 798; of Trent, 559.

Court of Common Pleas, the, 560; of
Versailles, Vienna, 679.

Couthon, 793.

Coventry, Lord Keeper, 658; Lady, 700,
701.

Covelong, fort of, 519.

Cowley, Abraham, dictum of Denham's
concerning him, 2; his lack of imagina-
tion, 5; as a critical poet, 57; his wit
and learning, 60; conversation with
Milton, 896; mentioned, 745, 923.
Cowper, poet, the forerunner of the great
restoration of our literature, 187, 601;
tenderness and purity of his style, 763.
Cowper, Lord, 648, 739, 760, 752.
Coxe, Archdeacon, 304.

Craftsman, the, 741.

Craggs, 760, 763.

Cranmer, his character, 99.

Crebillon, 674, 680.

Crewe, Mrs., 709.

"Crisis," 756.

Crisp, Samuel, 699, 701, 704, 705.
Critias, 800.

Criticism on the principal Italian writers,
878-895.

Croat, the, 666.

Croker, his edition of Boswell's Johnson,
194; his blunders, 195.
Cromwell, parallel instituted between,
and Napoleon, 120; the execution of
Charles I., 119; despatch of gentlemen
as slaves to Barbadoes, 124; painted
by Lely, 599; Dryden compared to, 49.
Cromwellian System, the, 441.

Crown, the, power of, in the sixteenth
century, 259.

Crusades, the, 554.

Culloden, 664; "Butcher of" (see Duke
of Cumberland).

Cumberland, Duke of, 533, 683, 684, 817,
826, 827, 835, 839.

Cumberland, author, 601, 703.
Curio, Epistle to, 307, 756.
Cyprian, 559.

Cyrus, the life of, 77.

DACCA, 618.

Dacier, 731.

Dallas, 648.

847, 818.

Coote, Sir Eyre, 622, 623, 627.

Corah, 609, 610.

Cordova, 552.

Corneille, 613, 674, 752.

Coromandel, coast of, 627, 664.
Correspondence between Laud and Straf-
ford, 103; Political, of Machiavelli, 40.
Corruption, Ministerial, 301.

Danby, Earl of, 453, 459.

Dante, the Divine Comedy, 8; his genius
compared with that of Milton, 8; his
accuracy in details, 9; his poetry, 9;
his character, 12; his admiration for
inferior writers, his idolatry of Virgil
displayed in his Divine Comedy, 52; his
contemporaries, 52; his avoidance of

bombast, 55; vision of, 811; criticised,
879.

Dante, essay on, 878; the Oromasdes of
Italian literature, 878; his birth, 880;
youth, 881; the Divine Comedy, 883;
his style, 885.
Danube, the, 656.

D'Arblay, Madame, 695, 723.

Alexander, 716.

D'Argens, Marquis, 672, 675.
D'Arnand, Baculard, 674, 675.

Dashwood, Sir Francis, 823, 829.
Daun, Capt., 683, 689, 692.
Daylesford, 600, 652, 653.
Deccan, Viceroy of the, 514.
Decennali, the, Machiavelli's, 37.

Declaration of Indulgence, 452; of Right,
363.

Defoe's Romance, reason of its interest to
youth, 53.

Delany, Mrs., 706, 712.

Della Crusca, 695.

Delhi, 605, 628.

Delta of the Ganges, 630.

Demerville beheaded, 802.
Democritus and Heraclitus, 705.
Denham, Sir John, 2, 880.
Denis, Madame, 674, 677.
Denmark, 562, 628.

Dennis, John, 589; his Remarks on
Cato, 752; Frenzy of, by Pope, 753.
Desfontaines, 673.

De Stael, Madame, 715.

D'Estrées, Marshal, 684.
Dettingen, 666.

Devonshire, Duke of, 328, 827, 837.
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of, 647.
Diaries, Evelyn's, Pepys', 711.

Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay,
695-723; contrast between earlier and
later style of Frances Burney, 695; the
Burney family, 696; surroundings and
character of Miss Burney, 698; her
first attempt at authorship, 699; novel
of Evelina, 702, 703; Dr. Johnson's
approval of, 703; the Witlings, 704;
Cecilia, 705; introduction to George
III., 706; station at court, 707; Madame
Schwellenberg, 708, 709; trial of War-
ren Hastings, 710; Miss Burney's fail-
ing health, 714; her marriage, 715;
novel of Camilla, 715; The Wanderer,
last illness and death, 716; on sketches
of character, and caricatures, 717, 718;
Madame D'Arblay's characters, 719; her
imitation of Johnson, 720; French style,
721; novel writing raised by Madame
D'Arblay's Evelina, 723.
Dickens, Charles, 750.
Dionysius, 85, 654.

Directory, the, 799.

Divine Comedy, the, 883, 884; mythology
of, 886; translations of, Boyd's, Cary's,
Hayley's, 887.

Doctor Akakia, 676.
Dodd, Dr., 642.

Dodington, Bubb, 595, 808, 814, 840.
Dodsley, publisher, 702.

Doge of Genoa, 733, 763.

Dona, Count, Swedish minister at the
Hague, 447.

Donne, his grotesque conceits, 57.

Don Quixote, 52, 613.

Doria, House of, 733.

Dorset, Lord, 60, 729.

Dover, Lord, 292.

Dowdeswell, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
838.

Downing Street, 836.

Drama, the object of the, 88; Old
English, charms of, 58; theatrical re-
presentations prohibited, 59.

Dramatic art, its effects, 53.

Dramatists of the Elizabethan age, 263.
Draper, Sir William, 665.
Dresden, 680, 689.

Drogheda, Countess of, 578.

Drummer, the, Addison's, 755, 756.
"Drunken administration," the, 309.
Drury Lane Theatre, 705, 749, 751, 752.
Dryden, his failure in attempting to
reunite parts of the Paradise Lost, 60;
the poetical works of, 49-70; his rank
as a poet, influence on national taste
and political eminence, 49; his poetical
characteristic, change of style and order
of productions, 61; bombast and con-
ceits of his early panegyrical verses, 61;
his Annus Mirabilis, 61; unreality of
characters in his rhyming plays, com.
parison of his comic and vicious
characters with those of Smollett, 62;
violation of historic propriety, the
persons of his dramas not men and
women, 62; his diction, versifications,
descriptions, and rhetoric, 63; his
imagery compared with that of Homer
and Shakspeare, 64; his reasoning in
verse, his best scenes between men,
his abandonment of stage writing and
after success, 66; unsoundness of his
logic, his love of the old poets, 67;
exaggerations of his panegyrics,
superiority of his critical works, 68;
superiority of Hind and Panther to
Religio Laici, 68; his Absalom and
Ahithophel, 464; his method of treating
subjects, 68; comparison with Pope and
Juvenal, his Ode on St. Cecilia's Day,
his power to produce an epic poem, 69;
conditions under which he might have
attained higher excellence, 70; com-

pared with other poets of the Restora-
tion, 570; frankness of, 587; and
Addison, 727; Essay on Criticism, 735;
The Spanish Friar, 762; energy and
purity of style, 763; invectives of, 880;
Mock Astrologer, the, 893.
Du Barry, Madame, 918.
Dublin, 743, 754.

Dubois, Cardinal, 50, 763.

Du Châtelet, Madame, 674.

Duchy of Lancaster, lawyers of, 597.
Duke of Grafton, vessel, 604.
Dumont, Etienne, his Souvenirs

sur

Mirabeau, 907; his literary acquire-
ments and services to Mr. Bentham,
907; no admirer of the French Revo-
lution, 910; his attempt to instruct the
National Assembly in parliamentary
tactics, 911; his vivid picture of that
Assembly, 920; his sterling character,

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Electorate of Hanover, 684.

Elector of Bavaria, 664, 665, 925; of
Saxony, 559; the Great, 656.
Eliot, Sir John, 332.

Elizabeth, Queen, the persecutions under
her government, 95; penal laws, 96;
under head of persecutions, arguments
in favour of, apply with greater force
to Mary, 97; state of literature in her
reign, 57; an Adiaphorist, 263; con-
forming to the ceremonials of the
Roman Church, 264; the dark side of
her character, 264; her ability to secure
the love and confidence of her subjects,

265; suspicions, 383; decline of, 388; a
Protestant from policy, 539.
Elphinstone, 547.
Elwes, 718.

Ely, Lord, 104.

Emperor Joseph II., birth of, 665; men-
tioned, 635.

Emperor of Germany, 659; Russia, 654.
Empire, the Carlovingian, 628; the Mo-
gual, 609; of Philip II., 266.

Empress Elizabeth of Russia, 680 (see
Maria Theresa, Catherine II.); Faustina,
739.

English administration, war policy of,
287.

English Bible, 59.

English Drama, a blow dealt to the, 60.
English expedition to Spain, 278.
English literature in the reign of Eliza
beth and James I., 57.

English people welcoming Charles II.,
352.

English, revolutions of 1641 and 1688,
their mildness, 911.

Englishman, the, Steele's, 753, 754, 756.
English vintage, 829.
Epictetus, 418.

Epicurean infidelity, 564.
Erasmus, 732.

Essex, Earl of, 393; trial of, 394.
Etheredge, 747.

Eugene, Prince, religion of, 485, 923.
Eugenio, 749.

Euripides, 7, 56, 886.

Europe, its formation into a federal com-

munity, 87.

European coalition, 773; war against,
786.

Examiner, the, 751.
Exchange, the, 749.
Eylau, 663, 683.

Ezekiel, poetry of, 564.

FAIRY QUEEN, Spenser's, Pitt's accurate
knowledge of, 820.

Falconbridge, 51.

Falkland, a resolute champion of liberty,
112.
Falstaff, 661.

Family Compact, the, 290, 821.

Fénélon, his Telemachus and Dialogues
of the Dead, 571, 661; doctrines of, 916.
Ferdinand II., 559.

Ferguson, Sir Adam, his suggestion that
luxury corrupts, 211.

Fielding, extract from, 53; mentioned,
695, 700, 749, 756; his Amelia, Dr.
Harrison in, 743.

Filmer, his theory, 479, 817.

Fine arts, certain operations of their
laws, 50.

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