Anglo-Indian grandee, vi. 442. His mimicry, vii. 41. His inferiority to Garrick, 41.
Forde, Colonel, vi. 423.
Forms of government, v. 528, 530. Fort William, iii. 335.
Fortune, remedies for Good and Evil, Petrarch's, vii. 630.
Fowler, Dr. Edward, i. 259. His refusal to read the Declaration of Indulgence, ii. 148. A member of the Ecclesiastical Commission, iii. 172, 174. Made Bishop John Bunyan's of Gloucester, 400.
Fox, house of. See Holland, Lord. Fox, Charles, opposes James II.'s govern- ment, i. 541. Dismissed from the Pay Office, 549.
Fox, George, his doctrines, i. 129. His visions, 387. early life, iii. 386. His tenets, 387. His wanderings, 388. His doctrines and writings, revised by his followers, 390. His death and fu- neral, 390.
Fox, Sir Stephen, elected for Westminster,
iv. 181. His competition with Montague for the office of First Lord of the Trea- sury, 304.
Fox, Charles James, comparison of his History of James II. with Mackintosh's History of the Revolution, vi. 76. His style, 77. Characteristic of his oratory, 79. His bodily and mental constitution, vi. 536, 537. His championship of ar- bitrary measures, and defiance of public opinion, 538. His change after the death of his father, 539. Clamour raised against his India Bill, and his defence of it, 617. His alliance with Burke, and call for peace with the American republic, 619. His powerful party, 621. His conflicts with Pitt, 622. His mo- tion on the charge against Hastings, 624. His appearance on the trial, 631. His His rupture with Burke, 637. character, vii. 365. His great political error, 368. The King's detestation of him, 370. Becomes Secretary of State, under the Duke of Portland, 371. His India Bill, 373. His speeches, 381. Fox, Henry, sketch of his political cha- racter, vi. 51, 60. Accepts office, 62, 64. Directed to form an administration in concert with Chatham, 64, 69. Applied to by Bute to manage the House of His private Commons, vii. 233, 234. Becomes and public qualities, 234. leader of the House of Commons, 235. Obtains his promised peerage, 240. Foyle, boom thrown across the, by the besiegers of Londonderry, ii. 554. The passage forced by the relieving squad- ron, 581, 582.
Fragments of a Roman Tale, viii. 562. Frampton, Bishop of Gloucester, a non- juror, iii. 159.
France, the conquest of, would have been ruinous to England, i. 12. English wars in, 14. Successful resistance of, 16. Papal authority in, limited, 38. State of, under Lewis XIV., 155, 156; v. 626. War with Spain, i. 157. Power of, under Lewis XIV., 217, 310. Ascendency of (1685), ii. 498. Coa- lition against (1689), iii. 146. Finan- cial distress of (1693), iv. 39. Eng- lish relations with, in 1698, 388. The English embassy in, see Portland. Illus- tration from the history of, since the Her condition in Revolution, v. 217. 1712 and in 1832, 678. Her state at the restoration of Louis XVIII., vi. 98. Enters into a compact with Spain against England, 178. Recognizes the independence of the United States, 230. Character of French poetry, v. 97. Characteristics of the personifications of the drama of, 99. Spirit excited in France at the time of the Revolution by some of the ancient historians, 139. Burke's character of the French Re- public, 140. Population of, 481. Con- dition of the government of, in 1799, 615. Strictures of M. Dumont on the National Assembly, 619. Infancy of political knowledge of the French at the period of the Revolution, 619. The English Revolution compared with the French, 620. Arguments against the old monarchy of France, 620. The first compared with the second French Revolution, 622. Causes of the first Revolution, 625. Condition of France for eighty years previous, vii. 135. Causes which immediately led to that event, 135. Difficulties of the Constitution of 1791, 139. The war with the continental coalition, 140. Effect of the League of Pilnitz on the position of the King, 141. Formation and meeting of the Convention, 141. The two great parties of the Conven- tion-the Girondists and the Moun- tain, 143, 145. Death of the King, 146, 147. Policy of the Jacobins, 148. The new crime of federalism, 148. De- fection of Dumourier and appointment of the Committee of Public Safety, 159, 163. Irruption of the mob into the palace of the Tuileries, 152. Destruc- tion of the Girondists, 158. Establish- ment of the Reign of Terror, 159. Condition of France during the reign of Louis XV., v. 627. Fénélon's views incomprehensible to his countrymen, 628. Loss to France on the death of
the Duke of Burgundy, 629. The Re- gency of Philip of Orleans, 630. The Duke of Bourbon, 632. Downward course of the monarchy, and indications of the forthcoming revolution, 632, 633. The Greek and Roman models of the French legislators, 635. Victories of France in 1794, vii. 173. The memo- rable ninth of Thermidor, 175. Exe- cution of Robespierre and his accom- plices, 177. End of the Jacobin do- minion, 177, 183. Condition of the nation at this period, 178. Forma- tion of the Constitution of 1795, 184. Bonaparte's return from Egypt and as- sumption of absolute power, 185. Po- litical spies in France, 190.
of Napoleon at Waterloo, 197. The Chamber of Representatives, 197. The Royalist Chamber under the Bourbons, 198. Review of the policy of the Ja- cobins, 199. War declared by England against, 403.
Franche Comté, retained by France, i. 180. Francis, assaults Dangerfield; tried and executed for murder, i. 380. Francis, Sir Philip, councillor under the Regulating Act for India, vi. 567. His character, 567. Probability of his being the author of the Letters of Junius, 567, 568. Opposes Hastings, 570, 581. His patriotic feeling, and reconciliation to Hastings, 585. Opposes the arrange- ment with Impey, 590. Renews his quarrel with Hastings, 590. Duel with Hastings, 590. Returns to England, 593. His entrance into the House of Commons and character there, 618, 623. His speech relating to Cheyte Sing, 624. Excluded from the impeachment committee, 628.
Francis, the Emperor, vii. 213. Francis, Alban, a Benedictine monk, ii.
Franciscans, in London, i. 598. Franklin, Benjamin, vi. 457.
His ad- miration for Miss Burney, vii. 18. Franks, rapid fall of their dominion after the death of Charlemagne, vi. 389. Fraser, licenser of the press, his resigna- tion, iii. 634.
Frederic I., King of Prussia, iii. 373. Frederic II., ii. 549.
Frederic the Great, review of his Life and Times, by Thomas Campbell, vi. 645,714. Notice of the House of Bran- denburgh, 645. Birth of Frederic, 648. His father's conduct to him, 648. His taste for music, 649. His desertion and imprisonment, 650. His release, 651. His favourite abode and amusements, 651. His education, 651. His exclu- sive admiration for French writers VOL. VIII.
651. His veneration for the genius of Voltaire, 653. His correspondence with him, 654. His accession, 655. His character little understood, 656. His true character, 658. He deter- mines to invade Silesia, 658. Pre- pares for war, 658. Commences hosti- lities, 659. His perfidy, 660. Occu- pies Silesia, 660. His first battle, 661. His change of policy, 663. Gains the battle of Chotusitz, 663. Silesia ceded to him, 663. His whimsical conferences with Voltaire, 664. Recommences hos- tilities, 665. His retreat from Bohe- mia, 665. His victory at Hohenfried- berg, 666. His part in the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, 666. Public opinion respecting his political character, 666. His application to business, 667. His bodily exertions, 668. General princi- ples of his government, 668. His eco- nomy, 669. His character as an admi- nistrator, 670. Labours for cheap and speedy justice, 671. Religious perse- cution unknown under him, 671. Vices of his administration, 671. His com- mercial policy, 672. His passion for directing and regulating, 672. His contempt for the German language, 672. His associates at Potsdam, 673. His talent for sarcasm, 675. Invites Vol- taire to Berlin, 677. Their singular friendship, 679 et seq. Union of France, Austria, and Saxony, against him, 689. He anticipates his ruin, 690. Extent of his peril, 692. He occupies Saxony, 692. Defeats Marshal Brown at Lowositz, 693. Gains the battle of Prague, 694. Loses the battle of Kolin, 696. His victory at Leuthen, 700. Its effects, 702. His subsequent victories, 703-714.
Frederic William I., vi. 646. His cha- racter, 647. His ill-regulated mind, 647. His ambition to form a brigade of giants, 647. His feeling about his troops, 647. His hard and savage temper, 648. His conduct to his son Frederic, 648, 650. His death, 655. Free inquiry, right of, in religious mat- ters, vi. 358, 360.
"Freeman, Mrs.," name assumed by the Duchess of Marlborough, ii. 77; iii. 240.
French Academy, its services to litera- ture, 10.
French language and literature, influ- ence of, i. 310.
French Revolution (the), and the Refor--
mation, analogy between, v. 593, 595. Friend, Sir John, iv. 158. His privity to Barclay's assassination plot, 211. Ar- rested, 213. His trial and conviction,
227. Refuses to betray his confede- rates; executed, 230. Froissart, character of his history, vii. 145. Frome, rises in favour of Monmouth, dis- armed, i. 467.
Fullarton, Major, i. 431. His attempt to save Argyle, 435.
Fuller, William, a Jacobite emissary, his double treachery, iii. 263. His extra- vagant habits, 500. His connexion with Oates, 502. Announces his dis- covery of a plot, 503. His statement before the House of Commons, 504. His falsehood detected; his prosecution and punishment, 505.
Funding, system of; its effects, iii. 620. See National Debt. Furstemburg, Cardinal, candidate for the Archbishopric of Cologne, ii. 218. His cause supported by Lewis XIV., 228.
ABRIELLI, the singer, vii. 6. Gafney, irregular execution of, at Dublin, iii. 421. Gainsborough, Edward Noel, Earl of, ii.
Gall, Monk of St., Paraphrase in a Pas-
sage of the Chronicle of the, viii. 598. Gallican Church, distractions in, iii. 149. "Gallienus Redivivus," pamphlet, why so called, iii. 530 note. Galmoy, Lord, ii. 554.
Galway, siege of, iii. 439. Capitulation, 440.
Galway, Earl of (Marquess of Ruvigny),
leader of French refugees, iii. 127. Joins the English army in Ireland, 428. Turns the Irish flank at Aghrim, 438. His interview with Sarsfield, 445. Takes part in the expedition from St. Helen's, 588. At the battle of Landen, iv. 22. English envoy at Turin, 253. Grant of forfeited Irish lands to, 528. Commands the allies in Spain in 1704, V. 662, 668. Defeated at Almanza,
Gascoigne, Sir Thomas; his trial for trea- son, ii. 137.
Gastanaga, Marquess of, attends the Con-
gress at the Hague, iii. 373. Gover- nor of the Spanish Netherlands, 568. Recalled, 571.
Gauden, the author of Icon Basilike, iii. 634.
Gaudet, the Girondist, his execution, vii. 159.
Gaunt, Elizabeth; her trial and execution, i. 518, 519.
Gay attends Addison on his deathbed, vil. "Gazette, the London," in the reign of Charles II.; its ordinary contents, i. 304. The only printed newspaper in 1694, iv. 109. Deficiencies of, 171. Geneva, Addison's visit to, vii. 72. Genoa, Bank of, St. George at, iv. 87. Ad-
dison's admiration of, vii. 68. Its decay owing to Catholicism, vi. 481. Gensonné, the Girondist leader, vii. 113. His trial, 158. His death, 158. "Gentleman Dancing Master" produced, vi. 507. Its best scenes suggested by Calderon, 514.
Geologist, Bishop Watson's description of
Geometry, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, vi. 212. George, Prince, of Denmark, marries the Princess Anne, i. 211. Deserts James II., ii. 280. Made Duke of Cumber- land, 492. Offers to accompany Wil- liam III. to Ireland, iii. 271. His offer declined, 271.
George I., his accession, v. 680. George II., political state of the nation in his time, v. 231. His resentment against Chatham, vi. 54. Compelled to accept him, 55. His efforts for the pro- tection of Hanover, 59, 61. His rela- tions towards his ministers, 67-72. Reconciled to Chatham, vii. 212. His death, 213. His character, 214. George III., his accession the commence- ment of a new historic era, v. 231; vii. 204, 213. Cause of the discontents in the early part of his reign, 231. His partiality to Clive, vi. 448. Bright prospects at his accession, 582; vii. 204, 214. His interview with Miss Burney, 21. His opinions of Voltaire, Rousseau, and Shakspeare, 21. His partisanship for Hastings, 31. His illness, 31, 32. The history of the first ten years of his reign but imperfectly known, 204. His characteristics, 215, 216. His favour to Lord Bute, 217. His notions of go- vernment, 217. Slighted for Chatham at the Lord Mayor's dinner, 225. Re- ceives the resignation of Bute, and ap-
points George Grenville, 239, 241. His treatment by Grenville, 244. His aver- sion to his ministers, 245, 386. His illness, 248. Disputes on the regency question, 249. Inclined to enforce the American Stamp Act,256. The "King's friends," 257, 258. His unwilling con- sent to the repeal of the Stamp Act, 259– 262. Dismisses Rockingham, and ap- points Chatham, 264. George IV., vi. 629.
Georgics, Addison's translation of the, vii. 60.
Gerard of Brandon, Charles Lord, trial of, i. 550.
Germaine, Lord George, vii. 366. German nobles at the Congress of the Hague, iii. 373.
German princes; their mean and rapa- cious dealings with England and Hol- land, iii. 567.
Germany, the literature of, little known
in England sixty or seventy years ago, vii. 65. Addison's ramble in, 380. Gerona taken by the French, iv. 104. Ghizni, peculiarity of the campaign of, vi. 562.
Ghosts, Johnson's belief in, v. 527. Gibbon, Edward, his alleged conversion to Mahomedanism, v. 503, 504. His success as an historian, vi. 77. His presence at the trial of Hastings, 629. Unlearned his native English, vii. 47. Charges brought against him as a his- torian, v. 153. His part in The Club, vii. 315.
Gibbons, Grinling, i. 323.
Gibraltar, capture of, by Sir G. Rooke, v. 662.
Giffard, Bonaventura, i. 637. Popish Pre- sident of Magdalene College, 115. Giffard, Lady, vi. 270, 272, 315. Her death, 323.
Gifford, Byron's admiration of, v. 408. Gildon, a follower of Charles Blount, i. 276.
Gillies, Peter, military execution of, in Scotland, i. 389.
Ginkell, General. See Athlone, Earl of. Girondists, or Brissotines, Barère's ac- count of the proceedings against the, vii. 131. Sketch of the political party so called, 143. Its struggles with the Mountain, 148. Accusation brought against the leaders of the party, 148. Defeated by the Mountain, 152. Im- peached by their late colleague Barère, 154. Their trial, 157. Their fate, 158.
Givet, surprised by Athlone and Cohorn, iv. 241.
Gladstone, W. E., review of "The State
in its relations with the Church," vi.
326-380. Quality of his mind, 328. Grounds on which he rests his case for the defence of the Church, 330. His doctrine that the duties of government are paternal, 332. Specimen of his ar- guments, 334, 335. His argument that the profession of a national religion is imperative, 336, 338, 341. In conse- quence of his reasoning, 345-353. Glasgow, riot in, iii. 5.
Glasgow, Archbishop of, iii. 30, 31. Glasgow College, inaugural speech at, viii.
Gleig, Rev. G. R. review of his Life of Warren Hastings, vi. 543-644. Glencoe, situation of, iii. 513. Character of the people, 514. Massacre of, planned by Sir John Dalrymple, 522, 526. Pre- parations for, 526, 527. The massacre, 528. Sufferings of the fugitives, 529, 530. The massacre excites little at- tention at the time, 530, 532. Silence in the Scotch Parliament regarding, 580. Inquiry into, iv. 148. Report of the commissioners, 150. Proceedings of the Scotch Parliament regarding, 151. The officers engaged declared murder- ers, 152.
Glencoe, Macdonald of. See Macdonald. Glengarry, Macdonald of, See Macdo- nald.
Gloucester, siege of, i. 91. Its population in 1685, 265.
Gloucester, Duke of, anecdote of his child- hood, iv. 176. Arrangement of his household, 418.
Gloucestershire, contest for (1701), iv.
Godden, a Roman Catholic priest, i. 637. Godfrey, Sir Edmondsbury, murder of, i. 184.
Godfrey, Michael, supports the plan for a national bank, iv. 91. His death before Namur, 162.
Godolphin, Sidney Godolphin, Earl of, his character, i. 200. A commissioner of the Treasury under Charles II., 201 Recommends the passing of the Ex- clusion Bill, 203. His conduct in office, 217. Appointed chamberlain to the Queen, 349. Conforms to Roman Ca- tholic observances, 367. Sits on the trial of Lord Delamere, 552. His posi- tion at court, 574. Made a commis- sioner of the Treasury, 645. One of James II.'s Council of Five, ii. 272. His administration of the Treasury, 414, 449. Retires from office, iii. 232. Recalled to the Treasury as First Com- missioner, 361. William III.'s confi- dence in, 410. His treachery, 411. Influenced by Marlborough, 412. His communications with Middleton, iv. 9.
Appointed one of the Lords Justices, 141. Implicated in Fenwick's confes- sion, 260. His demeanour on the read- ing of Fenwick's confession, 262. Re- signs office, 271. His speech in the House of Lords, 288. His conversion to Whiggism, v. 675. Engages Addison to write a poem on the battle of Blen- heim, vii. 75.
Godolphin and Marlborough, their policy soon after the accession of Queen Anne, vii. 73.
Goëzman, his bribery as a member of parliament of Paris by Beaumarchais, vi. 200.
Golden Square, i. 279.
Goldsmith, Oliver, his dislike to Scotch scenery, iii. 43. His birth and early life, vii. 310. His first schoolmaster, 310. His personal appearance, 311. His college life, 311. Death of his father, 312. His attempts at the church, law, and physic, 312. His rambles on foot through Flanders, France, and Switzerland, 312. His dis- regard of truth, 313. His return to England, and desperate expedients to obtain a living, 313. His literary drudgery, 314. Character of his works, 314. Introduced to Johnson, 315. One of the original members of The Club, 315. Removes from Breakneck Steps to the Temple, 315. Story of the publication of the Vicar of Wakefield, 316. His Traveller, 316. His Dramas, 316. His Deserted Village, 317. His She Stoops to Conquer, 318. His Histories, 318, 319. His arts of selection and con- densation, 319. His intimacy with the great talkers of the day, 320. His con- versational powers, 320. How regarded by his associates, 320. His virtues and vices, 321. His death, 322. His ceno- taph in Westminster Abbey, 323. His biographers, 323. His part in The Club, 345. Unjust to estimate him by his History of Greece, vi. 559. Gomer Chephoraod, King of Babylon, apologue of, vii. 578.
Goodenough, Richard, a Whig refugee, i. 411. Taken after the battle of Sedge- moor; pardoned, 514. His evidence against Cornish, 517. A witness in the trial of Lord Delamere, 552. Goodman, Cardell, a Jacobite adventurer,
iv. 146. Heads a Jacobite riot, 159. His flight, 273.
Goodnatured Man (the), of Oliver Gold- smith, viii. 317.
Goordas, son of Nuncomar, his appoint- ment as treasurer of the household, vi. 559.
Gordon, Duke of, Governor of Edinburgh
Castle in 1689, iii. 6, 20. Summoned to surrender by the Scotch Convention, 22. Returns an evasive answer, 23. His interview with Dundee, 27. Re- fuses to fire on the city, 29. Surrenders the castle, 78.
Goree, conquest of, vi. 71. Gorhambury, the country residence of Lord Bacon, vi. 185.
Government, various forms of, v. 528, 529. Change in its form sometimes not felt till long after, 644. The science of, experimental and progressive, 677; vi. 89, 91. Examination of Mr. Glad- stone's Treatise on the Philosophy of, 326, 367. Doctrines of Southey on the duties and ends of, stated and examined, v. 348-357. Its conduct in relation to
infidel publications, 357. Its proper functions, vi. 499, 501. Proper con- ditions of a good, vii. 687. Review of Mr. Mill's Essays on, &c., v. 239. His chapter on the ends of government, 243. And on the means, 243. His view of a pure and direct democracy, 244. Of an oligarchy, 244. And of a monarchy, 244. Deduction of a theory of politics in the mathematical form,
Government, according to Mr. Mill, only necessary to prevent men from plundering each other, 249. His argument that no combination of the three simple forms of government can exist, 249. His remarks on the British Constitution, 253. His hope for man- kind in the government of a represen tative body, 257. The real security of men against bad government, 258. Mr. Mill's views as to the qualifications of voters for representatives, 260. desire of the poor majority to plunder the rich minority, 261. Effects which a general spoliation of the rich would produce, 264. Method of arriving at a just conclusion on the subject of the science of government, 270. Mr. Ben- tham's defence of Mr. Mill's Essays, 272. Deduction of the theory of government from the principles of human nature, 289. Remarks on the Utilitarian theory of government, 301. Mode of tracking the latent principle of good government, 302. Checks in political institutions, 307. Power, 309. Constitution of the English government, 311.
Grævius, his share in arranging the re- joicings at the Hague for William III.'s entrance in 1691, iii. 372.
Grafton, Duke of, repulsed by the rebels at Philip's Norton, i. 466. Attends the meeting of the officers with James IL; his answer to the King, ii. 270. De- serts James, 279. Takes the oath of
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