Clavering, General, 35 ; his opposition to Hastings, 40 47 ; his appointment as Governor General, 54 ; his defeat, 56 ; his death, 57
Cleveland, Duchess of, her favor to Wycherly and Churchill, 372 373
Clifford, Lord, his character, 47 ; his retirement, 55 56 ; his talent for debate, 72
Clive, Lord, review of Sir John Malcolm's Life of, 194 298 ; his family and boyhood, 196 197 ; his shipment to India, 198 ; his arrival at Madras and position there, 200 ; obtains an ensign's commission in the Company's service, 203 ; his attack, capture, and defence of Arcot, 215 219 ; his subsequent proceedings, 220 221 223 ; his marriage and return to England,224; his reception, 225 ; enters Parliament, 226 ; return to India, 228 ; his subsequent proceedings, 228 236 ; his conduct towards Ormichund, 238 241 247, 248 ; his pecuniary acquisitions, 251 ; his transactions with Meer Jaffier, 240 246 254 ; appointed Governor of the Company's possessions in Bengal, 255 ; his dispersion of Shah Alum's army, 256 257 ; responsibility of his position, 259 ; his return to England, 260 ; his reception, 260 261 ; his proceedings at the India House, 263 265 269 ; nominated Governor of the British possessions in Bengal. 270 ; his arrival at Calcutta, 270 ; suppresses a conspiracy, 275 276 ; success of his foreign policy, 276 ; his return to England, 279 ; his unpopularity and its causes, 279 285 ; invested with the Grand Cross of the Bath, 292 ; his speech in his defence, and its consequence, 289 290 292 ; his life in retirement, 291 ; reflections on his career, 296 ; failing of his mind, and death by his own hand, 296
Clizia, Machiavelli's, 298
Clodius, extensive bribery at the trial of, 421
"Clouds" (the), of Aristophanes, 383
Coalition of Chatham and Newcastle, 243
Cobham, Lord, his malignity towards Essex, 380
Coke, Sir E., his conduct towards Bacon, 357 406 ; his opposition to Bacon in Peacham's case, 389 390 ; his experience in conducting state prosecutions, 392 ; his removal from the Bench, 406 ; his reconciliation with Buckingham, and agreement to marry his daughter to Buckingham's brother, 406 ; his reconciliation with Bacon, 408 ; his behavior to Bacon at his trial, 427
Coleridge, relative "correctness" of his poetry, 339 Byron's opinion of him, 352 ; his satire upon Pitt, 271
Coligni, Caspar de, reference to, 67
Collier, Teremy, sketch of his life, 393 396 ; his publication on the profaneness of the English stage, 396 399 ; his controversy with Congreve, 401
Colloquies on Society, Southey's, 132 ; plan of the work. 141 142
Collot, D'llerbois, 475 489 49S, 501 504 506 508 510
Colonies, 83 ; question of the competency of Parliament to tax them, 77 78
Comedy (the), of England, effect of the writings of Congreve and Sheridan upon, 295
Comedies, Dryden's, 360
Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, 350-411; how he exercised a great influence on the human mind, 351
Conimes, his testimony to the good government of England, 434
Commerce and manufactures, their extent in Italy in the 14th century, 270 ; condition of, during the war at the latter part of the reign of George II., 247
Committee of Public Safety, the French, 403 475 503
Commons, House of, increase of its power, 532 ; increase of its power by and since the Revolution, 325
Commonwealth, 335
Conceits of Petrarch, 89 90 ; of Shakspeare and the writers of his age, 342 344 347
Coudé, Marshal, compared with Clive, 237
Condensation, had effect of enforced upon composition, 152
Contians, Admiral, his defeat by Hawke, 245
Congreve, his birth and early life, 387 ; sketch of his career at the Temple, 388 ; his "Old Bachelor," 389 "Double Dealer," 39 ; success of his "Love for Love," 391 ; his "Mourning Bride," 392 ; his controversy with Collier, 397 400 403 ; his "Way of the World," 403 ; his later years, 404 405 ; his position among mem of letters, 400 ; his attachment to Mrs. Bracegirdle, 407 ; his friendship with the Duchess of Marlborough, 408 ; hi; death and capricious will, 408 ; his funeral in Westminster Abbey, 409 ; cenotaph to his memory at Stowe, 409 ; analogy between him and Wycherley, 410
Congreve and Sheridan, effect of their works upon the comedy of England, 295 ; contrasted with Shakspeare, 295
Conquests of the British arms in 175 244 245
Constance, council of, put an end to the Wickliffe schism, 313
Constantinople, mental stagnation in, 417
Constitution (the), of England, in the 15th and 18th centuries, compared with those of other European states, 470 477 ; the argument that it would he destroyed by admitting the dews to power, 307, 308 ; its theory in respect to the three branches of the legislature, 25 20 410
Constitutional government, decline of. on the Continent, early in the 17th century, 481
Constitutional History of England, review of llaltam's, 433 543
Constitutional Royalists in the reign of Charles L, 474 483
Convention, the French, 449 475
Conversation, the source of logical inaccuracy, 148 383 384 ; imaginary, between Cowley and Milton touching the great Civil War, 112 138
Conway, Henry, vi. 02; Secretary of State under Lord Rockingham, 74 ; returns to his position under Chatham, 91 95 ; sank into insignificance 100
Conway, Marshal, his character, 200
Cooke, Sir Anthony, his learning, 349
Cooperation, advantages of. 184
Coote, Sir Eyre, 1 ; his character and conduct in council, 62 ; his great victory of Porto Novo, 74
Corah, ceded to the Mogul, 27
Corday, Charlotte, 400
Corneille, his treatment by the French Academy, 23
"Correctness" in the fine arts and in the sciences, 339 343 ; in painting. 343 ; what is meant by it in poetry, 339 343
Corruption, parliamentary, not necessary to the Tudors, 108 ; its extent in the reigns of George I. and II. 21 23
Corsica given up to France, 100
Cossimbazar, its situation and importance, 7
Cottabus, a Greek game, 30 ; note.
Council of York, its abolition, 409
Country Wife of Wycherley, its character and merits, 370 ; whence borrowed, 385
Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of his Memoirs of Sir William Temple, 115 ; his concessions to Dr. Lingard in regard to the Triple Alliance, 41 ; his opinion of Temple's proposed new council, 65 ; his error as to Temple's residence, 100
Cousinhood, nickname of the official members of the Temple family, 13
Covenant, the Scotch, 460
Covenanters, (the), their conclusion of treaty with Charles I., 460
Coventry, Lady, 262
Cowley, dictum of Denham concerning him, 203 ; deficient in imagination, 211 ; his wit, 162 375 ; his admiration of Bacon, 492 493 ; imaginary conversation between him and 21 ; about the Civil War, 112 138
Cowper, Earl, keeper of the Great Seal, 361
Cowper, William, 349 ; his praise of Pope, 351 ; his friendship with Warren Hastings, 5 ; neglected, 261
Cox, Archdeacon, his eulogium on Sir Robert Walpole, 173
Coyer, Abbé, his imitation of Voltaire, 377
Crabbe, George, 261
Craggs, Secretary, 227 ; succeeds Addison, 413 Addison dedicates his works to him, 418
Cranmer, Archbishop, estimate of his character, 448 449
Crebillon, the younger, 155
Crisis, Steele's, 403
Crisp, Samuel, his early career, 259 ; his tragedy of Virginia, 261 ; his retirement and seclusion, 264 ; his friendship with the Burneys, 265 ; his gratification at the success of Miss Burney's first work, 269 ; his advice to her upon her comedy, 273 ; his applause of her "Cecilia," 275
Criticism, Literary, principles of, not universally recognized, 21 ; rarely applied to the examination of the ancient classics, 139 ; causes of its failure when so applied, 143 ; success in, of Aristotle, 140 Dionysius, 141 Quintilian, 141 142 Longinus, 142 143 Cicero, 142 ; ludicrous instance of French criticism, 144 ; ill success of classical scholars who have risen above verbal criticism, 144 ; their lack of taste and judgment, 144 ; manner in which criticism is to be exercised upon oratorical efforts, 149 151 ; criticism upon Dante, 55 79 Petrarch, 80-99; a rude state of society, favorable to genius, but not to criticism, 57 58 325 ; great writers are bad critics, 76 328 ; effect of upon poetry, 338 ; its earlier stages, 338 339 ; remarks on Johnson's code of, 417
Critics professional, their influence over the reading public, 196
Croker, Mr., his edition of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson, reviewed, 368 426
Cromwell and Charles, choice between, 496
Cromwell and Napoleon, remarks on Mr. Hallam's parallel between, 504 510
Cromwell, Henry, description of, 17
Cromwell, Oliver, his elevation to power, 502 ; his character as a legislator, 504 ; as a general, 504 ; his administration and its results, 509 510 ; embarked with Hampden for America, but not suffered to proceed, 459 ; his qualities, 496 ; his administration, 286 292 ; treatment of his remains, 289 ; his ability displayed in Ireland, 25 27 ; anecdote of his sitting for his portrait, 2
Cromwell, Richard, 15
Crown (the) veto by, on Acts of Parliament, 487 488 ; its control over the army, 489 ; its power in the 16th century, 15 ; curtailment of its prerogatives, 169 171 ; its power predominant at beginning of the 17th century, 70 ; decline of its power during the Pensionary Parliament, 71 ; its long contest with the Parliament put an end to by the Revolution, 78 ; see also Prerogative.
Crusades (the), their beneficial effect upon Italy, 275
Crusoe, Robinson, the work of an uneducated genius, 57 ; its effect upon the imaginations of children, 331
Culpeper, Mr., 474
Cumberland, the dramatist, his manner of acknowledging literary merit, 270
Cumberland, Duke of, 260 ; the confidential friend rif Henry Fox, 44 ; confided in by George II., 67 ; his character, * 67 ; mediated between the King and the Whigs, 68