Lords Justices of the Council on the
death of Queen Anne, 105. Again ap-
pointed Chief Secretary for Ireland,
106. His relations with Swift and
Tickell, 106, 108. Removed to the
Board of Trade, 108. Production of
his Drummer, 109. His Freeholder,
109. His estrangement from Pope,
109, 111. His long courtship of the
Countess Dowager of Warwick and
union with her, 115. Takes up his
abode at Holland House, 115. Ap-
pointed Secretary of State by Sunder-
land, 116. Failure of his health, 116,
120. Resigns his post, 116. Receives
a pension, 116. His estrangement from
Steele and other friends, 117. Advocates
the bill for limiting the number of
Peers, 118. Refutation of a calumny
upon him, 119. Entrusts his works to
Tickell, and dedicates them to Craggs,
119.
Sends for Gay on his death-bed
to ask his forgiveness, 120. His death
and funeral, 121. Tickell's elegy on
his death, 121. Superb edition of his
works, 121. His monument in Poet's
Corner, Westminster Abbey, 122.
Addison, Dr. Lancelot, sketch of his life,
Adiaphorists, a sect of German Protest-
ants, v. 591, 608.
Adultery, how represented by the drama-
tists of the Restoration, vi. 560.
Advancement of Learning by Bacon, its
publication, vi. 172.
Eschines, compared by Mr. Mitford to
Demosthenes, vii. 696, 697.
Eschylus and the Greek drama, v. 11–19.
Eschylus, his works, how regarded by
Quintilian, vii. 661.
Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous
to that of England in the 16th century,
v. 600. Bravery of its inhabitants, vi.
563, 566. The English the only army
in India which could compete_with
them, 564. Their devastations in India,
390.
Agesilaus, depressed by the constitution
of Lycurgus, vii. 690.
Aghrim, battle of, iii. 437-439.
Agriculture, state of, in 1685, i. 243-247.
Reform of, 320.
Agricultural and manufacturing labourers,
comparison of their condition, v. 338,
340.
Agujari, the singer, vii. 6.
Aikenhead, Thomas, condemned to death,
iv. 309. Executed, 309.
Aikin, Miss, review of her life of Addison,
vii. 52, 122.
Ailesbury, Countess of, her death from
terror, iv. 297.
Ailesbury, Earl of, his account of Charles
II.'s death, i. 343 note. Takes the
oath of allegiance to William, ii. 423.
Takes part in Jacobite plots, iii. 260.
His protest against the rejection of the
Place Bill, 629. His connexion with Ja-
cobite conspirators, iv. 158. Sent to the
Tower; his dealings with Porter, 255.
Aix, its capture, vi. 70.
Ajax, the prayer of, in the Iliad, vii. 662.
Akbar Khan, his death and power, iii. 467.
Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, vi. 28.
Albemarle, George Monk, Duke of, his
character, i. 115. Marches to London,
115. Declares for a free Parliament,
116. His sea service, 255.
Albemarle, Christopher Monk, Duke of,
son of the above, i. 450. Marches
against Monmouth; his retreat, 451.
Proclaimed a traitor by Monmouth, 458.
Chancellor of Cambridge University, ii.
Albemarle, Arnold Van Keppel, Earl of,
his character, iv. 389. Becomes a fa-
vourite of William III.; his elevation
to the Peerage; Portland's jealousy of
him, 389. Forfeited Irish property
bestowed on him, 522. Dispatched with
William's last instructions to the Hague,
552. His return, 555. Present at the
King's death-bed, 555.
Albeville (White), Marquis of, i. 559.
His meanness and corruption, ii. 65.
James II.'s envoy at the Hague, 230,
238. Insulted by the populace at the
Hague, 348.
Albigensians, vi. 462, 463; their move-
ment premature, i. 35.
Aldrich, Henry, Dean of Christchurch, i.
259. A member of the Ecclesiastical
Commission, iii. 172. His mode of in-
structing the youths of his college, vii.
284. Employs Charles Boyle to edit
the Letters of Phalaris, 284.
Alexander the Great, compared with Clive,
vi. 452.
Alexander VIII., Pope, iii. 148. James's
embassy to, 149.
Alfieri, Vittorio, character of his works,
vii. 605. Comparison between his works
and those of Cowper, v. 406.
Alford, Gregory, Mayor of Lyme, gives
the alarm of Monmouth's landing, i.
Allahabad, vi. 561–562.
Allegiance, oath of, difficulties in regard
to, ii. 476-482. The houses of Parlia-
ment differ, 486.
Allegories of Johnson and Addison, v. 446.
Allegory, difficulty of making it interest-
ing, v. 446.
Allegro and Penseroso, v. 10.
Alleine, Joseph, i. 456.
Allibone, Richard, a Roman Catholic;
ALP
raised to the Bench, ii. 91. One of the
judges at the trial of the bishops, 169.
Delivers his opinion, 176.
Alphabetical writing, the greatest of hu-
man inventions, vi. 216. Comparative
views of its value by Plato and Bacon,
216, 217.
Alsatia. See Whitefriars.
Alsop, Vincent, a Nonconformist of the
Court party, ii. 49, 148.
America; Puritan settlements in, i. 72.
Trade with, from Bristol, 263. British
Colonies in, their alleged piratical con-
duct, iv. 509. Acquisitions of the Ca-
tholic Church in, 455. Its capabilities,
America, Spanish, hatred of the Spaniards
in, iv. 400.
American colonies, British war with them,
vi. 582. Act for imposing stamp duties
upon them, vii. 248. Their disaffec-
tion, 256. Revival of the dispute with
them, 272. Progress of their resist-
ance, 275.
Amsterdam, meeting of British exiles at,
i. 421. The authorities connive at Ar-
gyle's expedition, 428, 445. Opposition
in, to William of Orange, ii. 80, 200.
Disputes with Lewis XIV., 216. The
Bank of, iv. 87. Commercial prosper-
ity of, 479.
Anabaptists, their origin, v. 588.
Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the pot-
ter's wheel, vi. 205.
Anatomy Bill, Mr. Warburton's speech
on the, viii. 77.
Anaverdy Khan, governor of the Carnatic,
vi. 392, 394.
Anderton, keeper of a secret Jacobite
press, iv. 30. Tried for treason, 32.
Executed, 33.
Angria, his fortress of Gheriah, reduced
by Clive, vi. 404.
Angus, Earl of, raises the Cameronian
regiment, iii. 76.
Annandale, Earl of, a member of the Club
at Edinburgh, iii. 40, 84. Goes to
London, 333. Arrested; his confession,
346.
Ann Hyde, Duchess of York, Talbot's
slanders against, i. 38.
Anne, Princess, afterwards Queen; educated
a Protestant, i. 165. Married to Prince
George of Denmark, 213. Her attach-
ment to the Duchess of Marlborough,
ii. 76. Scheme for inducing her to be-
come a Roman Catholic, 117. Her
absence at the birth of the Prince of
Wales, 161, 239. Her disbelief of his
legitimacy, 239. Her flight, 281. Con-
sents to William's election to the throne,
381. Gives birth to a son, iii. 115.
Provision made for, by Parliament, 240,
VOL. VIII.
245. Her subserviency to Lady Marl-
borough, 240. Her bigotry, 243. Her
letter to her father, 489. Her interview
with Mary on Marlborough's treason,
494. Her rupture with her sister, 496,
497. And reconciliation, iv. 118. Her
reconciliation with William, 143. Her
political and religious inclinations as
Queen, v. 676. Changes in her govern-
ment in 1710, 676. Relative estima-
tion by the Whigs and the Tories of her
reign, 677, 680, 684. State. of parties
at her accession, vii. 74, 75. Dismisses
the Whigs, 94. Change in the conduct
of public affairs consequent on her
death, 106.
Anne's, Queen, Bounty, ii. 459.
Anselm, Archbishop, i. 18.
Antinomian barn preacher, story of the,
Antioch, Grecian eloquence at, vi. 455.
Antrim, Alexander Macdonnell, Earl of,
marches on Londonderry, ii. 570. Flight
of his division at the Boyne, iii. 295.
Apocrypha, question of lessons taken
from, iii. 187.
Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone
claims it for the Church of England,
vi. 361-380.
Approbation, love of, v. 268.
Aquinas, Thomas, vi. 233.
Arab fable of the Great Pyramid, vi. 487.
Arbuthnot, his satire on the first Parti-
tion Treaty, iv. 427. His Satirical
Works, vii. 91.
Archangel, founded by British adven-
turers, iv. 382, 383. Secret trade in
tobacco, 383.
Arches, Court of, i. 591.
Archidiaconal Courts, i. 591.
Archimedes, his slight estimate of his
inventions, vi. 214.
Archytas, rebuked by Plato, vi. 214.
Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with Eng-
land, i. 394, 398, 452. His claims
recognised by the English, 394.
Areopagitica, Milton's allusion to, v. 44.
Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Marquess
of, i. 418. His power, iii. 54.
Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Earl of,
son of the above, i. 418. Sentenced to
death; escapes to Holland, 419. His
power, 420. Appointed commander of
the expedition to Scotland, 423. Lands
in Scotland, 429. His proclamation;
raises his clan, 429. His plan of
operations; thwarted by his followers,
430, 433. Marches on Glasgow, 434.
His troops dispersed, 434. Taken pri-
soner, 435. His fortitude, 437. His
last sayings, 438. His execution, 439.
His unpopularity in Scotland, iii. 55.
Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Earl of, son
of the above. Joins William Prince of
Orange at the Hague, ii. 234. Takes
his seat in the Convention at Edin-
burgh, iii. 20. Administers the coro-
nation oath for Scotland to William
III., 35, 36. Alarm in the Highlands
at his restoration, 56. His insignifi-
cant character; his hatred to Mac-
donald of Glencoe, 517. Joins in the
plan for the extirpation of the Mac-
donalds of Glencoe, 523.
Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's
administration, vi. 43.
Ariosto, compared with Tasso, vi. 472.
Aristocracy, English, its character, i. 29.
Thinned by wars of the Roses, 31.
Aristocratical form of government. See
Oligarchy.
Aristodemus, vi. 446.
Aristophanes, vi. 491.
Aristotle, his authority impaired by the
Reformation, vi. 211. His unrivalled
excellence in analysis and combination,
vii. 660. Value of his general proposi-
tions, 660. His enlightened and pro-
found criticism, 661.
Arithmetic, comparative estimate of, by
Plato and by Bacon, vi. 213, 217.
Arlington, Henry Bennet, Lord, i. 167.
His official gains, 243. His character,
vi. 265. His coldness for the Triple
Alliance, 271. His impeachment, 284.
Armada, the, viii. 587.
Armies in the middle ages, how con-
stituted, v. 57, 193. A powerful re-
straint on the regal power, 193. Sub-
sequent change in this respect, 195.
Arminian controversy, i. 62.
Arms, British, successes of, against the
French in 1758, vi. 71, 74.
Armstrong, Sir Thomas, execution of, iii.
Army (the), control of, by Charles I., or
by the Parliament, v. 200. Its triumph
over both, 205. Danger of a standing
army becoming an instrument of des-
potism, 580.
Arnault, A. V., translation from, viii. 560.
Arne, Dr., set to music Addison's opera
of Rosamond, vii. 80.
Arnold, Michael, a juryman in the trial
of the bishops, ii. 171. Holds out for
a conviction, 177.
Arragon and Castile, their old institutions
favourable to public liberty, v. 645.
Arran, Earl of, ii. 352.
Arras, cruelties of the Jacobins at, vii.
161.
Arrian, his character as a historian, v.
135.
Art of War, Machiavelli's, v. 73.
Arts, the Fine, laws on which the progress
and decline of, depend, v. 85.
Articles, Lords of, i. 615, 617.
Arundel, Earl of, i. 264; vi. 203.
Arundell, Lord, of Wardour, i. 558.
Made a Privy Councillor, 588. Lord
Privy Seal, 644.
Ashley, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord;
his maiden speech, iv. 203, 204 note.
His "Characteristics," 204.
Ashley. See Shaftesbury.
Ashton, John, Jacobite agent, iii. 364.
Arrested, 367. His trial and execu-
tion, 381, 382.
Asia, Central, its people, vi. 562.
Asiatic Society, commencement of its
career under Warren Hastings, vi. 610.
Assemblies, deliberative, vi. 69.
Association. See Catholic Association.
"Association, The," instituted on the
discovery of the assassination plot, iv.
221. Debate in the Lords upon, 233.
Its signature throughout the country,
234, 235.
Astronomy, comparative estimate of, by
Socrates and by Bacon, vi. 215.
Astry, Sir Samuel, Clerk of the Crown,
ii. 169, 177.
Athanasian Creed, question of, iii. 174.
Athenian Comedies, their impurity, vi.
491. Re-printed at the two Universi-
ties, 491.
Athenians (the), Johnson's opinion of
them, v. 533.
Athenian Revels, Scenes from, vii. 582.
Athens, disreputable character of Peiræus,
vii. 585. Police officers of the city, 585.
Favourite epithet of the city, 586. The
Athenian orators, 660. Excellence to
which eloquence attained at, 666.
Dr.
Johnson's contemptuous derision of the
civilisation of the people of, 666. Their
books and book education, 666. An
Athenian day, 667. Defects of the
Athenians' conversational education,
667. The law of ostracism at Athens,
689. Happiness of the Athenians in
their form of government, 693. Their
naval superiority, 694. Their ferocity
in war, 694. And of their dependencies
in seditions, 694. Cause of the violence
of faction in that age, 694. Influence
of Athenian genius on the human in-
tellect and on private happiness, 703.
The gifts of Athens to man, 703. Cha-
racter of the great dramas of Athens,
v. 99. Change in the temper of the
Athenians in the time of Aristophanes,
Athlone, importance and situation of, iii.
429. Siege of, 430, 431. Taken by
the English, 433, 434.
Athlone, Earl of (General Ginkell), re-
duces the Scotch mutineers to sur-
render, ii. 430. At the battle of the
Boyne, iii. 289. Commander of Wil-
liam III.'s forces in Ireland, 421. Takes
the field, 428. Reduces Ballymore, 429.
Besieges Athlone, 429. Takes the
town, 433. Advances in pursuit of
Saint Ruth, 437. Attacks the Irish
at Aghrim, 437. Gains a complete
victory, 439. Takes Galway, 440.
Bombards Limerick; takes the camp
of the Irish cavalry, 442. Takes the
fort on Thomond Bridge, 443. Refuses
the terms demanded by the Irish, 446.
Offers conditions; which are accepted,
447. His dispute with Sarsfield, 448,
449. Created Earl of Athlone; pre-
sides at the court-martial on Grandval,
516. Surprises Givet, iv. 241. Grant
of forfeited Irish lands to, 527.
Athol, territory of, iii. 81. War in, 83.
Athol, John Murray, Marquess of; op-
poses Argyle, i. 425. Devastates Ar-
gyleshire, 443. Leader of the Scotch
Jacobites, iii. 20. His proceedings in
the Convention, 31, 32. His power, and
weak character, 81. Leaves Scotland,
81.
Atkyns, Sir Robert, Chief Baron, ii. 415.
Attainder, the Great Act of, iii. 567, 569.
Attainder, an act of, warrantable, v. 569.
Atterbury, Francis, i. 606. His reply to
Bentley to prove the genuineness of the
Letters of Phalaris, vi. 321. Reads the
funeral service over the body of Addi-
son, vii. 286. His birth and early
life, 283. Defends Martin Luther
against the aspersions of Obadiah Wal-
ker, 283. Enters the church and be-
comes one of the royal chaplains, 284.
Assists Charles Boyle in preparing an
edition of the letters of Phalaris, 284.
Bentley's reply, 288. Atterbury's de-
fence of the clergy against the prelates,
288. Created a D.D. and promoted to
the Deanery of Carlisle, 289.
pamphlets against the Whigs, 289.
Appointed to the Deanery of Christ
Church, 289. Removed to the Bishopric
of Rochester, 290. His opposition to
the government of George I., 290. His
private life, 291. His taste in litera-
ture and literary friends, 291. Thrown
into prison for treason, 292. Deprived
of his dignities and banished for life,
293. Calls Pope as a witness to his
innocence, 293. Goes to Paris, and
becomes Prime Minister of King James,
294. Retires from the court of the ex-
King, 295. Death of his daughter, 295.
Induced by the Pretender to return to
Paris, 295. His defence of the charge
of having garbled Clarendon's History
of the Rebellion, 295. His death, 296.
Attila, vi. 455.
Attributes of God, subtle speculations
touching them imply no high degree of
intellectual culture, vi. 457, 458.
Aubrey, his charge of corruption against
Bacon, vi. 188. Bacon's decision against
him after his present, 200.
Augsburg, Treaty of, ii. 24
Augsburg, Confession of, its adoption in
Sweden, vi. 476.
Augustine, St., vi. 455.
Aurungzebe, iii. 468. His quarrel with
the East India Company, 474.
Aurungzebe, his policy, vi. 389.
Austen, Jane, notice of, vii. 42.
Austin, Sarah, her character as a trans-
lator, vi. 454, 489.
Austin, Thomas, a juryman in the bishops'
trial, ii. 177.
Austria, conduct of, in the peace negotia-
tions of 1697, iv. 311, 321. Success of
her armies in the Catholic cause, 551.
Authors, their present position, v. 370,375.
Auverquerque, Master of the Horse to
William III., ii. 417. At Limerick, iii.
322. His gallant conduct at Steinkirk,
582. At the death-bed of William III.,
Avaux, Count of, French envoy at the
Hague, ii. 20, 215. His representa-
tions to Lewis XIV., 216. His warn-
ings to James II., 227. His audience
of the States General, 228. Advises a
French invasion of Holland, 231. His
character, 529. Chosen to accompany
James to Ireland, 530. His observa-
tions on Ireland, 533. His policy, 539.
Accompanies James into Ulster, 511,
542. Returns to Dublin, 544. His
advice to James, 564.
lent Irish party, 570.
in his barbarities, 578.
sacre of Protestants in
His report of the Irish soldiers, 132
Advises James to enforce disciplin,.
257. Recalled to France, 259. His low
opinion of the Duke of Berwick, 424 n.
Avignon, the Papal Court transferred from
Rome to, vi. 463.
Assists the vio-
Supports Rosen
Advises a mas-
Ireland, iii. 130.
His friendship with the Earl of Essex,
156-161. Examination of his conduct
to Essex, 160-170. Influence of King
James on his fortunes, 168. His ser-
vility to Lord Southampton, 168. In-
fluence his talents had with the public,
169. His distinction in Parliament and
in the courts of law, 170. His literary
and philosophical works, 171. His
"Novum Organum," and the admira-
tion it excited, 171. His work of redu-
cing and recompiling the laws of Eng-
land, 171. His tampering with the
judges on the trial of Peacham, 171–176.
Attaches himself to Buckingham, 177.
His appointment as Lord Keeper, 179.
His share in the vices of the adminis-
tration, 180. His animosity towards
Sir Edward Coke, 183, 185. His town
and country residences, 185. His titles
of Baron Verulam and Viscount St.
Albans, 186. Report against him of
the Committee on the Courts of Justice,
188. Nature of the charges, 188-190.
Overwhelming evidence to them, 189–
191. His admission of his guilt, 191.
His sentence, 191. Examination of Mr.
Montagu's arguments in his defence,
192-200. Mode in which he spent the
last years of his life, 202, 204. Chief
peculiarity of his philosophy, 203, 212.
His views compared with those of Plato,
212-220. To what his wide and durable
fame is chiefly owing, 222. His fre-
quent treatment of moral subjects, 225.
His views as a theologian, 227. Vulgar
notion of him as inventor of the induc-
tive method, 228. Estimate of his
analysis of that method, 228-235.
Union of audacity and sobriety in his
temper, 235. His amplitude of com-
prehension, 235, 236. His freedom from
the spirit of controversy, 236. His
eloquence, wit, and similitudes, 238.
His disciplined imagination, 239. His
boldness and originality, 240. Unusual
development in the order of his faculties,
241.
His resemblance to the mind of
Burke, 241. Specimens of his two
styles, 241, 242. Value of his Essays,
242. His greatest performance the
first book of the Novum Organum, 243.
eontemplation of his life, 244, 245. His
description of the logomachies of the
Schoolmen, v. 290, 308. And of the Uti-
litarian philosophy, 291. His mode of
tracking the principle of heat, 303.
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character, vi.
139-143.
Baconian philosophy, its chief peculiarity,
vi. 203. Its essential spirit, 206. Its
method and object differed from the
ancient, 212. Comparative views of
Bacon and Plato, 212-220.
ficent spirit, 217, 218, 224.
compared with ancient philosophy, 220–
228.
Badminton, the Duke of Beaufort's house-
hold at, i. 462. Visit of James II. to,
ii. 165. Visit of William III., iii. 329.
Baillie, General, destruction of his detach-
ment by Hyder Ali, vii. 92.
Baker, Major Henry, takes up the defence
of Londonderry, ii. 547. Chosen mili-
tary governor, 359. Dies of fever, 576.
Balance of Power, interest of the Popes
in preserving the, vi. 481.
Balcarras, Colin Lindsay, Earl of, iii. 17.
His commission from James II., 18.
His interview with William III., 19.
Arrives at Edinburgh, 19. His pro-
ceedings in the Convention, 25. Arres-
ted, 63. Takes the oath of allegiance to
William, 337. His resentment against
Montgomery, 344.
Balfour's regiment, iii. 84.
Ballymore taken by Ginkell, iii. 429.
Bandon, muster of Protestants at, ii. 507.
Reduced by General Macarthy, 523.
Banim, Mr., his defence of James II. as
a supporter of toleration, vi. 113.
Bank of England, See England, Bank of.
Banking, origin of, iv. 85. Proposals for
a National Bank, 88. Banking opera-
tions of Italy in the 14th century, v. 52.
Bantry Bay, action in, ii. 555.
Baptists, ii. 473.
Bar, degraded condition of the, in the time
of James II., v. 222.
Barbaroux, the Girondist, his execution,
vii. 159.
Barbary, horses from, i. 247. Work on,
by the Rev. Dr. Addison, vii. 55.
Barbesieux, Marquess of; his frivolity,
iii. 529. Arranges the plan for the as-
sassination of William III., 585.
Barcelona, taken by the French, iv. 321.
Capture of, by Peterborough, v. 666.
Barclay, Sir George, heads the plot for the
assassination of William III., iv. 207.
His commission from James II., 208.
Arrives in London! his disguises, 209.
His dealings with Charnock and Par-
kyns, 209. His "Janissaries," 210.
Plan of attack, 212. Escapes to France,
Barclay, Robert, the Quaker, iii. 389.
Barebone's Parliament, i. 106. Ordinance
of. 130.
Barère, Bertrand, Mémoires de, of Carnot
and David, review of the, vii. 123.
Barère's true character, 124. His lies,
128. His talents as an author, 132.
Sketch of his life, 132-140. Votes
against the King, 145. His federal
views and ultra-Girondism, 149. His
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