Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame.
Burns, Robert, 201
Bussy, his eminent merit and conduct in India, 222
Bute, Earl of, his character and education, 13 20 ; appointed Secretary of State, 24 ; opposes the proposal of war with Spain on account of the family compact, 30 ; his unpopularity on Chatham's resignation, 31 ; becomes Prime Minister, 30 ; his first speech in the House of Lords, 33 ; induces the retirement of the Duke of Newcastle, 35 ; becomes first Lord of the Treasury, 35 ; his foreign and domestic policy, 37 52 ; his resignation, 52 ; continues to advise the King privately, 57 70 79 ; pensions Johnson, 198 199
Butler, 350 Addison not inferior to him in wit, 375
Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca. 232 ; his trial, 236 ; opinion of his conduct, 236 Chatham's defence of him, 237
Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, 325 ; his character, 326 327 ; his early life, 327 ; his quarrel with, and separation from, his wife, 329331; his expatriation, 332 ; decline of his intellectual powers, 333 ; his attachment to Italy and Greece, 335 ; his sickness and death, 336 ; general grief for his fate, 336 ; remarks on his poetry, 336 ; his admiration of the Hope school of poetry, 337 : his opinion of Wordsworth and Coleridge, 352 ; of Deter Bell, 353 ; his estimate of the poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries, 353 ; his sensitiveness to criticism, 354 ; the interpreter between Wordsworth and the multitude, 356 ; the founder of an exoteric Lake, school, 356 ; remarks on his dramatic works, 357 363 ; his egotism, 365 ; cause of his influence, 336 337
C.
Cabal (the), their proceedings and designs, 46 54 59
Cabinets, in modern times, 65 235
Cadiz, exploit of Essex at the siege of, 107 367 ; its pillage by the English expedition in 170 108
Cæsar Borgia, 307
Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of James I. to, 440
Cæsar compared with Cromwell, 504 ; his Commentaries an incomparable model for military despatches, 404
Cæsars (the), parallel between them and the Tudors, not applicable, 21
Calcutta, its position on the Hoogley, 230 ; scene of the Black Hole of, 232 233 ; resentment of the English at its fall, 235 ; again threatened by Surajah Dow lab, 239 ; revival of its prosperity, 251 ; its sufferings during the famine, 285 ; its capture, 8 ; its suburbs infested by robbers, 41 ; its festivities on Hastings's marriage, 56
Callicles, 41 ; note.
Calvinism, moderation of Bunyan's, 263 ; held by the Church of England at the end of the 16 ; century, 175 ; many of its doctrines contained in the Paulieian theology, 309
Cambon, 455
Cambridge, University of, favored by George I. and George II., 36 37 ; its superiority to Oxford in intellectual activity, 344 ; disturbances produced in, by the Civil War, 15
Cambyses, story of his punishment of the corrupt judge, 423
Camilla, Madame D'Arblay's, 314
Campaign (the), by Addison, 355
Canada, subjugation of, by the British in 176 244
Canning, Mr., 45 46 286 411 414 419
Cape Breton, reduction of, 244
Carafla, Gian Pietro, afterwards Pope Paul, IV. his zeal and devotion, 318 324
Carlisle, Lady, 478
Carmagnoles, Bariere's, 471 472 490 491 498 499 502 505 529
Carnatic, (the), its resources, 211 212 ; its invasion by Hvder Ali, 71 72
Carnot, Hippolyte, his memoirs of Barrere reviewed, 423 539 ; failed to notice the falsehoods of his author, 430 431 435 557 ; his charitableness to him, 445 485 ; defends his proposition for murdering prisoners, 490 ; blinded by party spirit, 523 ; defends the Jacobin administration, 534 ; his general characteristics, 53 539
Carrier, 404
Carteret, Lord, his ascendency at the fall of Walpole, 184 Sir Horatio Walpole's stories about him, 187 ; his detection from Sir Robert Walpole, 202 ; succeeds Walpole, 210 ; his character as a statesman, 218 220
Carthagena, surrender of the arsenal and ship of, to the Allies, 111
Cary's translation of Dante, 68 78 70
Casiua (the), of Ilautus, 298
Castile. Admiral of, 100
Castile and Arragon, their old institutions favorable to public liberty, 86
Castilians, their character in the 16th century, 81 ; their conduct in the war of the Succession, 121 ; attachment to the faith of their ancestors, 316
Castracani, Castruccio, Life of, by Machiavelli, 317
Cathedral, Lincoln, painted window in, 428
Catholic Association, attempt of the Tories to put it down, 413
Catholic Church. See Church of Home.
Catholicism, causes of its success, 301 307 318, 331 336 ; the most poetical of all religions, 65
Catholics, Roman, Pitt's policy respecting, 280 281
Catholics and dews, the same reasoning employed against both, 312
Catholics and Protestants, their relative numbers in the 16th century, 26
Catholic Queen (a), precautions against, 487
Catholic Question (the), 413 410
Catiline, his conspiracy doubted, 405 ; compared to the Popish Plot, 406
"Cato," Addison's play of, its merits, and the contest it occasioned, 333 ; its first representation, 391 ; its performance at Oxford, 392 ; its deficiencies, 365 366
Cato, the censor, anecdote of, 354
Catullus, his mythology, 75
Cavaliers, their successors in the reign of George I. turned demagogues, 4
Cavendish, Lord, his conduct in the new council of Temple, 96 ; his merits, 73
Cecil. See Burleigh.
Cecil, Robert, his rivalry with Francis Bacon, 356 365 ; his fear and envy of Essex, 362 ; increase of his dislike for Bacon, 365 ; his conversation with Essex, 365 ; his interference to obtain knighthood for Bacon, 384
Cecilia, Madame D'Arblay's, 369 311 ; specimen of its style, 315 316
Censorship, existed in some form from Henry VIII. to the Revolution, 329
Ceres, 54 ; note.
Cervantes, 81 ; his celebrity, 80 the perfection of his art, 328 329 ; fails as a critic, 329
Chalmers, Dr., Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church, 122
Champion, Colonel, commander of the Bengal army, 32
Chandemagore, French settlement, on the Hoogley, 230 ; captured by the English, 239
Charlemagne, imbecility of his successors, 205
Charles, Archduke, his claim to the Spanish crown, 90 ; takes the field in support of it, 10 ; accompanies Peterborough in his expedition, 112 ; his success in the north-east of Spain, 117 ; is proclaimed king at Madrid, 119 ; his reverses and retreat, 123 ; his re-entry into Madrid, 126 ; his unpopularity, 127 ; concludes a peace, 131 ; forms an alliance with Philip of Spain, 138
Charles I., lawfulness of the resistance to, 235 243 Milton's defence of his execution, 246 249 ; his treatment of the Parliament of 164 457 ; his treatment of Stratford, 468 ; estimate of his character, 469 498 500 443 ; his tall, 497 ; his condemnation and its consequences, 500 501 Hampden's opposition to him, and its consequences, 443 459 ; resistance of the Scots to him, 460 ; his increasing difficulties, 461 ; his conduct towards the House of Commons, 477 482 ; his flight, 488 ; review of his conduct and treatment, 484 488 ; reaction in his favor during the Long Parliament, 410 ; effect of the victory over him on the national character, 7 8
Charles I. and Cromwell, choice between, 490
Charles II., character of his reign, 251 ; his foreign subsidies, 528 ; his situation in 1000 contrasted with that of Lewis XVIII., 282 283 ; his character, 290 30 80 ; his position towards the king of France, 290 ; consequences of his levity and apathy, 299 300 ; his court compared with that of his father, 29 ; his extravagance, 34 ; his subserviency to France, 37 44 46 ; his renunciation of the dispensing power, 55 ; his relations with Temple, 58 60 63 97 ; his system of bribery of the Commons, 71 ; his dislike of Halifax, 90 ; his dismissal of Temple, 97 ; his characteristics, 349 ; his influence upon English literature, 349 350 ; compared with Philip of Orleans, Regent of France, 64 65 Banyan's gratitude to him, 143 ; his social disposition, 374
Charles II. of Spain, his unhappy condition, 88 93 100 ; his difficulties in respect to the succession, 88 93
Charles III. of Spain, his hatred of England, 29
Charles VIII., 483
Charles XII., compared with Clive, 297
Charlotte, Queen, obtains the attendance of Miss Burney, 279 ; her partisanship for Hastings, 288 290 ; her treatment of Miss Burney, 298 297
Chateaubriand, his remark about the person of Louis XIV., 58 ; note.
Chatham, Earl of, character of his public life, 196 197 ; his early life, 198 ; his travels, 199 ; enters the army 199 ; obtains a seat in Parliament, 200 ; attaches himself to the Whigs in opposition, 207 ; his qualities as an orator, 211 213 ; dismissed from the army, 215 ; is made Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales, 161 ; declaims against the ministers, 218 ; his opposition to Carteret, 219 ; legacy left him by the Duchess of Marlborough, 219 ; supports the Pelham ministry, 220 ; appointed Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, 221 ; overtures made to him by Newcastle, 280 ; made Secretary of State, 235 ; defends Admiral Byng, 237 ; coalesces with the Duke of Newcastle, 230 ; success of his administration, 230-250; his appreciation of Clive, 260 289 ; breach between him and the great Whig connection, 289 ; review of his correspondence, 1 ; in the zenith of prosperity and glory, 221 222 ; his coalition with Newcastle, 7 ; his strength in Parliament, 13 ; jealousies in his cabinet, 25 ; his defects, 26 ; proposes to declare war against Spain oil account of the family compact, 29 ; rejection of his counsel, 30 ; his resignation, 30 ; the king's gracious behavior to him, 30 ; public enthusiasm towards him, 31 ; his conduct in opposition, 33 46 ; his speech against peace with France and Spain, 49 ; his unsuccessful audiences with George III. to form an administration, 58 Sir William Pynsent bequeaths his whole property to him, 63 ; bad state of his health, 64 ; is twice visited by the Duke of Cumberland with propositions from the king, 68 72 ; his condemnation of the American Stamp Act, 77 78 ; is induced by the king to assist in ousting Rockingham, 86 ; morbid state of his mind, 87 88 95 99 ; undertakes to form an administration, 89 ; is created Earl of Chatham, 91 ; failure of his ministerial arrangements, 91 99 ; loss of his popularity, and of his foreign influence, 99 ; his despotic manners, 89 93 ; lays an embargo on the exportation of corn, 95 ; his first speech in the Mouse of Lords, 95 ; his supercilious conduct towards the Peers, 95 ; his retirement from office, 100 ; his policy violated, 101 ; resigns the privy seal, 100 ; stale of parties and of public affairs on his recovery, 100 301 ; his political relations, 101 ; his eloquence not suited to the House of Lords, 104 ; opposed the recognition of the independence of the United States, 107 ; his last appearance in the House of Lords, 108 22 ; his death, 100 230 ; reflections on his fall, 100 ; his funeral in Westminster Abbey, lit.; compared with Mirabeau, 72 73
Chatham, Earl of, (the second), 230 ; made First Lord of the Admiralty, 270
Cherbourg, guns taken from, 245
Chesterfield, Lord, his dismissal by Walpole, 204 ; prospectus of Johnson's Dictionary addressed to him, 187 188 ; pulls it in the World, 194
Cheyte Sing, a vassal of the government of Cennigal, 75 ; his large revenue and suspected treasure, 79 Hastings's policy in desiring to punish him. 80 ; to 85 ; his treatment made the successful charge against Hastings, 118
Chillingworth, his opinion on apostolical succession, 172 ; became a Catholic from conviction, 306
Chinese (the) compared to the Homans under Diocletian, 415 416
Chinsurab, Dutch settlement on the Hoogley, 230 ; its siege by the English and capitulation. 259
Chivalry, its form in Languedoc in the 12th century, 308 309
Cholmondeley, Mrs., 271
Christchurch College. Oxford, its repute after the Revolution, 108 ; issues a new edition of the Letters of Phalaris, 108 116 118 ; its condition under Atterbury, 121 122
Christianity, its alliance with the ancient philosophy, 444 ; light in which it was regarded hv the Italians at the Reformation, 316 ; its effect upon mental activity; 416
Church (the), in the time of James II., 520
Church (the), Southey's Hook of, 137
Church, the English, persecutions in her name, 443 High and Low Church parties, 362 119 120
Church of England, its origin and connection with the state, 452 453 190 ; its condition in the time of Charles 1 , 166 ; endeavor of the leading Whigs at the Revolution to alter its Liturgy and Articles, 321 178 ; its contest with the Scotch nation, 322 Mr. Gladstone's work in defence of it, 116 ; his arguments for its being the pure Catholic Church of Christ, 161 166 ; its claims to apostolical succession discussed, 166 178 ; views respecting its alliance with the state, 183 193 ; contrast of its operations during the two generations succeeding the Reformation, with those of the Church of Rome, 331 332
Church of Rome, its alliance with ancient philosophy, 444 ; causes of its success and vitality, 300 301 ; sketch of its history, 307 349
Churchill, Charles, 519 42 200
Cicero, partiality of Dr. Middleton towards, 340 ; the most eloquent and skilful of advocates, 340 ; his epistles in his banishment, 361 ; his opinion of the study of rhetoric, 472 ; as a critic, 142
Cider, proposal of a tax on, by the Bute administration, 50
Circumstances, effect of, upon character, 322 323 325
"City of the Violet Crown," a favorite epithet of Athens, 36 ; note.
Civil privileges and political power identical, 311
Civil War (the), Cowley and Milton's imaginary conversation about, 112 138 ; its evils the price of our liberty, 243 ; conduct of the Long Parliament in reference to it, 470 495 496
Civilization, only peril to can arise from misgovernment, 41 42 England's progress in, due to the people, 187 ; modern, its influence upon philosophical speculation, 417 418
Clarendon, Lord, his history, 424 ; his character, 521 ; his testimony in favor of Hampden, 448 468 472 41 493 ; his literary merit, 338 ; his position at the head of affairs, 29 31 37 38 ; his faulty style, 50 ; his opposition to the growing power of the Commons, 73 ; his temper, 74 ; the charge against Christ-Churchmen of garbling his history, 130
Clarke, Dr. Samuel, 303
Clarkson, Thomas, 309
Classics, ancient, celebrity of, 139 ; rarely examined on just principles of criticism, 139 ; love of, in Italy in the 14th century, 278
Classical studies, their advantages and defects considered, 347 354