Mendoza, Hurtado de, 81
Mercenaries, employment of, in Italy, 283 ; its political consequences, 284 ; and moral effects, 285
Messiah, Pope's, translated into Latin verse by Johnson, 175
Metals, the precious, production of, 351
Metaphysical accuracy incompatible with successful poetry, 225
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, his ability and disinterestedness, 298
Methodists, their rise unnoticed by some writers of the history of England under George II., 426 ; their early object, 318
Mexico, exactions of the Spanish viceroys in, exceeded by the English agents in Bengal, 266
Miehell, Sir Francis, 401
Middle ages, inconsistency in the schoolmen of the, 415
Middlesex election, the constitutional question in relation to it, 101 104
Middleton, Dr., remarks on his Life of Cicero, 340 341 ; his controversies with Bentley, 112
Midias, Demosthenes' speech against, 102
"Midsummer Night's Dream," sense in which the word "translated" is therein used, 180
Milan, Addison's visit to, 345
Military science, studied by Machiavelli, 306
Military service, relative adaptation of different classes for, 280
Militia (the), control of, by Charles I. or by the Parliament, 488
Mill, James, his merits as a historian, 277 278 ; defects of his History of British India, 195 196 ; his unfairness towards Clive's character, 237 ; his Essay on Government reviewed, 5 51 ; his theory and method of reasoning, 6 8 10 12 18 20 46 48 ; his style. 8 ; his erroneous definition of the end of government, 11 ; his objections to a Democracy only practical ones, 12 ; attempts to demonstrate that a purely aristocratic form of government is necessarily bad, 12 13 ; so also an absolute monarchy, 13 14 ; refutation of these arguments, 15 16 18 ; his inconsistencies, 16 17 96 97 121; his narrow views, 19 20 ; his logical deficiencies, 95 ; his want of precision in the use of terms, 103 108 ; attempts to prove that no combination of the simple forms of government can exist, 21 22 ; refutation of this argument., 22 29 ; his ideas upon the representative system. 29 30 ; objections to them, 30-32; his views upon the qualifications of voters, 32 36 ; objections to them, 36 38 41 42 ; confounds the interests of the present generation with those of the human race, 38 39 ; attempts to prove that the people understand their own interest, 42 ; refutation of this argument, 43 ; general objections to his theory, 44 47 122 ; defended by the Westminster Review, 529 ; inconsistencies between him and the reviewer, 56 58 ; the reviewer mistakes the points at issue, 58 60 61 65 70 77 114 ; and misrepresents arguments, 62 73 74 ; refutation of his positions. 63 64 66 74 76 122 127 ; the reviewer shifts the issue, 68 127 128 ; fails to strengthen Mill's positions, 71 ; and manifests great disingenuousness, 115 118 129 130
Millar, Lady, her vase for verses, 271
Milton, review of his Treatise on Christian Doctrine, Mr. Lemon's discovery of the MS. of it, 202 ; his style, "202; his theological opinions, 204 ; his poetry his great passport to general remembrance, 205 211 ; power of his imagination, 211 ; the most striking characteristic of his poetry, 213 375 ; his Allegro and Penseroso, 215 ; his Cornus and Samson Agonistes, 215 ; his minor poems, 219 ; appreciated the literature of modern Italy, 219 ; his Paradise Regained, 219 ; parallel between him and Dante, 17 18 ; his Sonnets most exhibit his peculiar character, 232 ; his public conduct, 233 ; his defence of the execution of Charles L, 246 ; his refutation of Salmasius, 248 ; his conduct under the Protector, 249 ; peculiarities which distinguished him from his contemporaries, 253 ; noblest qualities of every party combined in him, 260 ; his defence of the freedom of the press, and the right of private judgment, 262 ; his boldness in the maintenance of his opinions, 263 ; recapitulation of his literary merits, 264 ; one of the most "correct" poets, 338 ; his egotism, 82 ; effect of his blindness upon his genius, 351 Dryden's admiration of, 369 370
Milton and Cowley, an imaginary conversation between, touching the great Civil War, 112 138
Milton and Shakspeare,character of, Johnson's observations on, 417
Minden, battle of, 247
Minds, great, the product of their times, 323 325
Mines, Spanish-American, 85 351
Ministers, veto by Parliament on their appointment, 487 ; their responsibility lessened by the Revolution, 531
Minorca, capture of, by the French, 232
Minority, period of, at Athens, 191 192
"Minute guns!" Diaries Townshend's exclamation on hearing Bute's maiden speech, 33
Mirabeau, Dumont's recollections of, 71 74 ; his habit of giving compound nicknames, 72 ; compared with Wilkes, 72 ; with Chatham, 72 73
Missionaries, Catholic, their zeal and spirit, 300
Mittford, Mr., his History of Greece reviewed, 172 201 ; its popularity greater than its merits, 172 ; his characteristics, 173 174 177 420-422; his scepticism and political prejudices, 178 188 ; his admiration of an oligarchy, and preference of Sparta to Athens, 181 183 ; his views in regard to Lyeurgus, 185 ; reprobates the liturgic system of Athens, 190 ; his unfairness, 191 422; his misrepresentation of Demosthenes, 191 193 195 197 ; his partiality for Æschines, 193 194 ; his admiration of monarchies, 195 ; his general preference of the Barbarians to the Greeks, 190 ; his deficiencies as an historian, 190 197; his indifference for literature and literary pursuits, 197 199
Modern history, the period of its commencement, 532
Mogul, the Great, 27 ; plundered by Hastings, 74
Mohammed Heza Khan, his character, 18 ; selected by Clive, 21 ; his capture, confinement at Calcutta and release, 25
Molière, 385
Molwitz, battle of, 171
Mompesson, Sir Giles, conduct of Bacon in regard to his patent, 401 402 ; abandoned to the vengeance of the Commons, 412
Monarch, absolute, establishment of, in continental states, 481 Mitford's admiration of, 195
Monarchy, the English, in the l6th century, 15 20
Monjuieh, capture of the fort of, by Peterborough, 115
Monmouth, Duke of, 300 ; his supplication for life, 99
Monopolies, English, during the latter end of Elizabeth's reign, multiplied under James, 304 401 ; connived at by Bacon, 402
Monson, Mr., one of the new councillors under the Regulating Act for India, his opposition to Hastings, 40 ; his death and its important consequences, 54
Montagu, Basil, review of his edition of Lord Bacon's works, 330 ; character of his work, 330 ; his explanation of Lord Burleigh's conduct towards Bacon, 350 ; his views and arguments in defence of Bacon's conduct towards Essex, 373 379 ; his excuses for Bacon's use of torture, and his tampering with the judges, 391 394 ; his reductions on Bacon's admonitions to Buckingham, 403 ; his complaints against James for not interposing to save Bacon, 415 ; and for advising him to plead guilty, 410 ; his defence of Bacon, 417 430
Montagu, Charles, notice of him, 338 ; obtains permission for Addison to retain his fellowship during his travels, 338 Addison's Epistle to him, 350 ; see also Halifax, Lord.
Montague, Lord, 399
Montague, Marv, her testimony to Addison's colloquial powers, 300
Montague, Mrs., 126
Mont Cenis, 349
Monttesquieu, his style, 314 304 365 Horace Walpole's opinion of him, 155 ; ought to have styled his work L'esprit sur les Lois, 142
Montesquieu and Machiavelli, comparison between, 314
Montgomery, Mr. Robert, his Omnipresence of the Deity reviewed, 199 ; character of his poetry, 200 212
Montreal, capture of, by the British, 170 245
Moody, Major Thomas, his reports on the captured negroes reviewed, 361 404 ; his character, 302 303 404 ; characteristics of his report, 304 402; its reception, 304 ; its literary style, 305 ; his principle of an instinctive antipathy between the White and the Black races, 365 ; its refutation, 306 367 ; his new philosophy of labor, 373 374 ; his charges against Mr. Dougal, 376 ; his inconsistencies, 377 ; and erroneous deductions, 379 380 391 ; his arrogance and bad grammar, 394 ; his disgraceful carelessness in quoting documents, 399
Moore, Mr., extract from his "Zelnco," 420
Moore's Life of Lord Byron, review of, 324 367 ; its style and matter, 324 ; similes in his "Lalla Rookh," 485
Moorshedabad, its situation and importance, 7
Moral feeling, state of, in Italy in the time of Machiavelli, 271
Morality of Plutarch, and the historians of his school, political, low standard of, after the Restoration, 398 515
Moses, Bacon compared to, by Cowley, 493
"Mountain" (the), their principles, 454 455 ; their intentions towards the King, 450 457 ; its contests with the Girondists, 458 459 402 460 ; its triumph, 473
"Mountain of Light," 145
Mourad Bey, his astonishment at Buonaparte's diminutive figure, 357
"Mourning Bride," by Congreve, its high standing as a tragic drama, 391
Moylan, Mr., review of his Collection of the Opinions of Lord Holland as recorded in the Journals of the House of Lords, 412 420
Mucius, the famous Roman lawyer, 4 ; note.
Munro, Sir Hector, 72
Munro, Sir Thomas, 298
Munster, Bishop of, 32
Murphy, Mr., his knowledge of stage effect, 273 ; his opinion of "The Witlings," 273
Mussulmans, their resistance to the practices of English law, 5
Mysore, 71 ; its fierce horsemen, 72
Mythology, Dante's use of, 75 76