PAR

iv. 425. Discontent at William III.'s 1
delay in Holland, 436. Choice of a
Speaker, 437, 438. Election of Sir
Thomas Littleton, 438. Resolution for
the reduction of the army to 7,000, 440.
Failure of the Ministry to rescind the
resolution, 444. Variance between the
House of Commons and the Ministry,
449-451. Tyrannical conduct of the
House, 453. The Bill for disbanding
the Army passes the Commons, 453.
Debate in the Lords; the Bill passed,
454. Resolution carried in the Lords
in favour of retaining the Dutch guards,
457. William's message to the Com-
mons, 459. The previous question
carried, 460. Address to the King,
460. Discussion on naval administra-
tion, 461. 462. Clause for the appoint-
ment of Commissioners to take account
of property forfeited in Ireland; the
Lords demur, 463. Prorogation, 464.
Proceedings on the establishment of the
Scottish Company for colonizing Darien,
488. Assembles in Nov. 1699, 513. In-
temperate address of the Commons to
the King, 514. Attack on Somers, 514.
On Burnet, 516. Second attack on
Somers, 518, 519. Proceedings on the
report of the Commissioners on Irish
forfeited estates, 524. Remuneration
to the Commissioners who signed the
report, 525. Sir Richard Levinge sent
to the Tower; the Resumption Bill,
526. Extravagant grants to the Duke
of Ormond, 528. The Resumption Bill
tacked to the Land Tax Bill; indig-
nation in the House of Peers, 529.
Amendments carried by them; rejected
by the Commons, 530. Conferences
between the Houses, 533, 534.
Lords give way and pass the Bill, 535.
Motion in the Commons for the removal
of Lord Somers from office, 536. Its
defeat, 537. Prorogation, 538. Disso-
lution, 549.

The

Parliament of Ireland, summoned by
James II., in 1689, ii. 558. Passes the
Toleration Act, 560. Confiscates the
property of Protestants, 561.
Parliament, Irish, of 1692, assembles;
its composition and limited powers, iii.
646. Rejects the Act of Settlement;
appoints Committee of Grievances,
647.

Parliament, Scotch, constitution of, i. 73.
Parliament of 1685; its subserviency to
James II., 385. Enacts the statute
against conventicles, 386. Assembles
in 1686, 613. Its refractory spirit, 614.
Representatives of towns, 615. Ad-
journed, 617. The Parliament of 1689,
factions in, iii. 78. Passes the Act of

PAT

Incapacitation, 80. Refuses supplies,
81. Adjourned, 92. Reassembles in
1690, 336. Factiousness and venality
of the leading statesmen, 336. Govern-
ment obtains a majority, 337. Votes
supplies, 338. Restores the ejected
Presbyterian ministers, 339. Settles
the Church constitution, 339, 341. Set-
tles the question of Church patronage,
342. Adjourns, 347. Reassembles in
1693, 654. Its unexpected moderation,
655. Meets in 1695, iv. 149. Proceed-
ings in regard to the Glencoe massacre,
150-152. Votes supply, 155. Meets
in the autumn of 1696; passes Acts for
the security of Government; Act for
the settling of Schools, 306. Passes an
Act incorporating a Company to carry
out Paterson's scheme, 482. Powers
given to the Company, 482.
Parliamentary government, its advantages
and disadvantages, vii. 377.
Parliamentary opposition, its origin, r.
543.
Parliamentary reform, vii. 218. Speeches
on, viii. 11, 26, 39, 51, 63, 79.
Parr, Dr., vi. 630.

Parties, analogy in the state of, in 1704

and 1826, vii. 74. State of, in the time
of Milton, v. 40. In England in 1710,
676-681. Mixture of, at George II's
first levee, after Walpole's resignation,
vii. 207.

Partition Treaty, the first, iv. 426.

Tn-

reasonable outery against, 427-431.
The second Partition Treaty, 469.
Partridge, his wrangle with Swift, vii.
89.

Party, illustration of the use and abuse of,
vii. 254. Power of, during the Refor-
mation and the French Revolution, v.
593.

Pascal, Blaise, i. 568; vi. 318,459.
Pasquinades, ii. 85.

Paterson, William, his plan of a Na-
tional Bank, iv. 91. His fruitless pro-
jects, 476. His intimacy with Fletcher
of Saltoun, 477. Popularity of his
schemes, in Scotland, 478. Proposes
the colonisation of Darien by Scotland,
480-482. His examination before the
House of Commons, 489. His obstinate
self-delusion, 490. Sails for America,
491. His disastrous failure, 498.
Patrick, Simon, preacher at St. Paul's,
Covent Garden, i. 259. Takes part in
the conference with Roman Catholie
divines, 638. His share in resisting
the reading of James II.'s Declaration,
ii. 149, 150. A member of the Eccle-
siastical Commission, iii. 172. Em-
ployed to rewrite the Collects; his
style, 176 and note. Made Bishop of

PAT

Chichester, 184. Translated to the See
of Ely, 400.
"Patriots" (the), in opposition to Sir R.
Walpole, vi. 25. Their remedies for
State evils, 30.
Patronage, effect of, on literature, v. 105.
Patronage of literary men, v. 370. Less
necessary than formerly, 371, 373.
Paul IV., Pope, his zeal and devotion, vi.
467, 471.

Paulet, Sir Amias, vi. 148.

Paulician theology, its doctrines and pre-
valence among the Albigenses, vi. 462.
In Bohemia and the Lower Danube, 463.
Pauperism, diminution of, i. 328, 329 n.
Pausanias, his insanity, viii. 692.
Pauson, the Athenian painter, viii. 582.
Payne, Neville, a Jacobite agent, iii. 333.
Flies to Scotland, 346. Seized and ex-
amined by torture; his firmness, 347.
Peacham, Rev. Mr., his treatment by
Bacon, vi. 171, 174.

Pearson, John, Bishop of Chester, i. 259.
His death, 590.

Pechell, Dr. John, Vice-Chancellor of
Cambridge University, ii. 96. Behaviour
of Jeffreys to, 97.
Peculiars, Court of, i. 591.

Peel, Sir Robert, remarks on his past con-
duct and present position, viii. 168.
Peers, new creations of, v. 200. Impolicy
of limiting the number of, vii. 118.
Question of their sterility, as a class, v.
492.

Peiræus, disreputable character of, viii.

582.

Pelham, Henry, Parliamentary corruption

under, iii. 230. His character, vi. 33.
His death, 58.

Pelhams (the), their ascendency, vi. 31.
Their accession to power, 55. Feeble-

ness of the opposition to them, 55. See
also Newcastle, Duke of.

Pemberton, counsel for the bishops, ii.
170, 172.

Pembroke, Thomas Herbert, Earl of, col-
lects the Wiltshire Militia to oppose
Monmouth, i. 461. Removed from the
Lord Lieutenancy of Wiltshire, ii. 131.
Present at the Coronation of William
and Mary, 490. Placed at the head of
the Admiralty, iii. 232. One of the
Council of Nine, 269. Appointed Lord
Privy Seal, 508. Appointed one of the
Lords Justices, iv. 141. His part in the
debate on Fenwick's attainder, 290, 292.
English negotiator at Ryswick, 312.
Appointed President of the Council,
465. Joins in the resistance of the
Peers to the Resumption Bill, 530.
Pendergrass warns Portland of the assas-
sination plot, iv. 217. His interview with
William III., 218. His evidence, 224.

PET

Peninsular War, Southey's, v. 333.
Penn, William, i. 393. His influence with
James II., 394. His high reputation,
395. His character, 395, 396. Con-
ducts the bargain for the ransom of the
Taunton young ladies, 509 and note.
His presence at the execution of Cor-
nish, 518. At the burning of Elizabeth
Gaunt, 518. His services to James II.,
ii. 50. His proposal of equivalents, 63.
At Chester, 105. Negotiates with the
Fellows of Magdalene College, 108, 109
and note, 110 and note. Advises a
Jacobite invasion of England, iii. 261.
Examined by the Privy Council, 270.
Held to bail, 270. Takes part in a
Jacobite conspiracy, 363. Informed
against by Preston, 383. Warrant is-
sued against, 386. His flight; his in-
terview with Lord Sidney, 390, 391.
Pardoned; his faithlessness, 391.
Penne, George, i. 511 note.
Penseroso and Allegro, Milton's, v. 10.
People, the, comparison of their condition
in the 16th and 19th centuries, v. 359
et seq. Their welfare not considered in
partition treaties, 648.

Pepys, Samuel, his report on the English
Navy, i. 235, 239 note. His account of
Bristol, 262. His travelling adventures,
292. His administration of the Admi-
ralty, 349; ii. 238. Examined as wit-
ness against the bishops, 174. His
praise of the Triple Alliance, vi. 276

note.

Pepysian Library, ballads in, i. 226 note;
266 note, 490 note, 601. Maps of

London in, 275 note. MSS. in, 476 note.
Pericles, his distribution of gratuities
among the members of the Athenian
tribunals, vi. 193. His eloquence, viii.

669.

Périer, M., translator of the works of
Machiavelli, v. 46.

Persecution, religious, in the reign of
Elizabeth, v. 166, 167. Its reactionary
effects upon churches and thrones, 178.
In England during the progress of the
Reformation, 596.

Personation, Johnson's want of talent for,
v. 536.

Personification, Robert Montgomery's pen-
chant for, v. 383.

Perth, James Drummond, Earl of, Chan-
cellor of Scotland, i. 609. Apostatises,
609. Supports the policy of James II.,
615, 619. Retires from Edinburgh,
ii. 351. His attempted flight, 352.
Raised to the Dukedom, by James III.,
v. 544.

Peshwa, authority and origin of, vi. 583.
Peter the First, Czar of Muscovy, his visit
to England, iv. 381. Surprise excited by

PET

his character, 384. His passion for
maritime pursuits, 384. Interest felt
for him in England; his intercourse
with William III., 385. Lodges at
Deptford, 386. His interviews with

Burnet; his filthy habits, 387. Visits
Portsmouth; his departure, 387.
Peterborough, Henry Mordaunt, Earl of,
author of Halstead's "Succinct Gene-
alogies," i. 204 note. Converted to
Popery, ii. 27. Appointed Lord Lieu-
tenant of Northamptonshire, 133. His
suit against Williams, 144. Impeached,
iii. 203.

Peterborough, Earl of, his expedition to
Spain, v. 662. His character, 662, 672,
673. His successes on the north-east
coast of Spain, 665-669. His retirement
to Valencia thwarted, 671. Returns to
Valencia as a volunteer, 671.
call to England, 672.

His re-

Saint
His

Pétion, the Girondist, vii. 143.
Just's speech on his guilt, 156.
unfortunate end, 150.

"Petition of Right," i. 67. Enactment of
the, v. 552. Violated by Charles I., i.
68; v. 552.

Petrarch, v. 8. The first restorer of polite
letters into Italy, 52 Interest excited

by his loves, 417. Influence of his
poems on the literature of Italy, viii.
602, 603. Criticism on the works of,
619. Celebrity as a writer, 619. Causes
of this, 620. Extraordinary sensation
caused by his amatory verses, 622.
Causes co-operating to spread his re-
nown, 622. His coronation at Rome,
623. His poetical powers, 624. His
genius, 625. Paucity of his thoughts,
626. His energy when speaking of the
wrongs and degradation of Italy, 626.
His poems on religious subjects, 627.
Prevailing defect of his best composi-
tions, 627. Remarks on his Latin writ-
ings, 629.
Petre, Father, i. 569.
sation by the Pope,
intrigues with, 643.
ii. 125.
Petty, Sir William, i. 221 note. His
Political Arithmetic, 264 note. One of
the founders of the Royal Society, 320.
His statement of labourers' wages, 324.
His settlement at Kenmare, ii. 505.
Phalaris, Letters of, controversy upon
their merits and genuineness, vi. 319,
323. Sir W. Temple's opinion of them,
vii. 285. Their worthlessness shown by
Bentley, 286.

Refused a dispen-
590. Tyrconnel's
A privy councillor,

Philarchus for Phylarchus, v. 506.
Philip II., of Spain, extent and splendour
of his empire, v. 639 et seq.

Philip III. of Spain, his accession, v. 655.

PIT

His character, 655, 659. His choice of
a wife, 659. Is obliged to fly from Ma-
drid, 668. Surrender of his arsenal and
ships at Carthagena, 670. Defeated at
Almenara, and again driven from Ma-
drid, 673. Forms a close alliance with
his late competitor, 681. Quarrels with
France, 681. Value of his renunciation
of the crown of France, 681, 682.
Philip le Bel, vi. 463.

Philips, John, author of the Splendid
Shilling, vii. 77. Specimen of his poetry
in honour of Marlborough, 77. The
poet of the English vintage, 238. His
monument refused admission into West-
minster Abbey, v. 117.

Philips, Sir Robert, vi. 188.

Philip's Norton, skirmish at, i. 466.
Phillipeaux, Abbé, his account of Addi-
son's mode of life at Blois, vii. 65.
Phillipps, Ambrose, vii. 85.
Philosophy, ancient, its characteristics, vi.
204, 206. Its stationary character, 209.
220. Its alliance with Christianity, 209,
210. Its fall, 210, 212. Its merits com-
pared with the Baconian, 220, 222. Rea-
son of its barrenness, 233, 235.
Philosophy, moral, its relation to the
Baconian system, vi. 225.

Philosophy, natural, the light in which it
was viewed by the ancients, vi. 204,
211. Chief peculiarity of Bacon's, 203,
205.

Pilgrimages, advantages of, i. 6. From
England to Rome, 7.

Pilgrim's Progress, Bunyan's, history of
the, vii. 305. Its fame, 308. Attempts
to improve and imitate it, 309.
Pilnitz, League of, effect of the, vii. 141.
Pindar and the Greek drama, v. 12.
Piozzi, Mrs., vii. 350, 352.

Piracy in the Indian Ocean, iv. 509.
Pisistratus, Bacon's comparison of Essex
to him, vi. 160. His eloquence, viii.
668.

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham. See
Chatham, Earl of.

Pitt, William, son of the preceding, in-
stance of his disinterested patriotism,
iv. 449. His admiration for Hastings,
vi. 617, 624. His asperity towards
Francis, 618. His speech in support of
Fox's motion against Hastings, 623,
626. His motive, 627. His eloquence,
630. His combination with Fox against
Addington, 640. Popular comparison
of, with Mr. Canning, v. 617. His
birth and early life, vii. 357, 358. His
preceptor Pretyman, 360. His fond-
ness for mathematics, 360. His know-
ledge of Greek and Latin, 361. And
of modern literature, 361. His delight
in oratory, 361. Studies the law, 363.

PIU

Goes into Parliament for Appleby,
363. Condition of the country at this
period, 363. Pitt's first speech in Par-
liament, 365. Declines the Vice-Trea-
surership of Ireland, 367. Courts the
ultra-Whig party, 367. His advocacy
of reform, 368. Becomes Chancellor of
the Exchequer at twenty-three years of
age, 368. His speech and Sheridan's
repartee, 370. His visit to the Con-
tinent with William Wilberforce, 371.
Appointed First Lord of the Treasury
and Chancellor of the Exchequer, 374.
His difficulties and dangers, 375. His
power, 376. Review of his merits and
defects, 377. His reported speeches,
379. Character of his oratory, 380.
His private life, 382. His popularity,
383. His neglect of authors, 384. His
talents as a leader, 385. Effect of the
French Revolution, 389. His love of
peace and freedom, 392.
charged with apostasy, 392. Beginning
of his misfortunes, 393. His domestic
policy, 396. His great designs for the
benefit of Ireland, 397. His rupture
with Addington, 400. His speech on
the opening of the Session of 1803, 403.
Reconstructs the Government on the
resignation of the Addington Ministry,
406. Decline of his health, 407. His
death, 409. His public funeral, 410.
Vote for paying his debts, 410. Re-
view of his life, 411. Lines to his
memory, viii. 554.

Unjustly

Pius V., his bigotry, vi. 374. His aus-
terity and zeal, 471.

Pius VI., his captivity and death, vi.
487. His funeral rites long withheld,
487.

Place Bill, iii. 626, 628; iv. 77. Nega-

tived by William III., 79. Rejected
by the Commons, 115.

Placemen, true principles of their ad-
mission to Parliament, iii. 626-629.
Plagiarism, instances of R. Montgomery's,
v. 379, 380.

Plain Dealer, Wycherley's, its appearance
and merit, vi. 508, 575. Its libertinism,
515.

Plantagenets, their greatness, i. 11.
Plassey, battle of, vi. 412, 417. Its effect
in England, 423.

Plato, comparison of his views with those
of Bacon, vi. 212, 220. His excellence
in the art of dialogues, 318.

Plautus, his Casina, v. 67. Translation
from his Rudens, viii. 594.

Plays, English, of the age of Elizabeth, v.
399, 400.

Plebeian, Steele's, vii. 118.

Plomer, Sir T., one of the counsel for
Hastings on his trial, vi. 630.

POL

Plowden, Francis, ii. 557. One of the
Lords Justices appointed by James II.
for Ireland, iii. 442.

Plutarch class of historians of which he
may be regarded as the head, v. 136.
His delineation of character, 144. His
evidence of gifts being given to judges
in Athens, vi. 193. His anecdote of
Lysias's speech before the Athenian
tribunals, 326.

Pococke, Edward, i. 259.

Poetry, definition of, v. 5. Character of
Southey's, 334. Character of Robert
Montgomery's, 376-387. Wherein that
of our times differs from that of the last
century, 397. Laws of, 399, 401, 403.
Unities in, 399. Its end, 402. Alleged
improvements in, since the time of
Dryden, 404. The interest excited by
Byron's, 414. Dr. Johnson's standard
of, 531. Addison's opinion of Tuscan,
vii. 79. Horace's comparison of poems
to certain paintings, 667. Principles
upon which poetry is to be estimated,
667. Element by which poetry is
poetry, v. 84. Frame of mind required
by poetry, 87. Absurdities of writers
who attempt to give general rules for
composition, 88. The mechanical part
of the art of poetry, 92. Power of the
imagination in a barbarous age, 92.
Periods of consummate excellence and

of the decline of poetry, 94. Age of
critical poetry, 94. The imaginative
school gradually fading into the criti-
cal, 96. The poets of Greece, 96.
And of Rome, 97. Revolution of the
poetry of Italy, Spain, and England,
97. The critical and poetical faculties,
distinct, and incompatible, 97. Excel-
lence of English dramatic poetry, 99.
Extinction of the dramatic and as-
cendency of the fashionable school of
poetry, 101. Changes in the time of
Charles II., 102. John Dryden, 104

et seq.

Poets, the favourite themes of the, of the
present day, vii. 613. Catholicity of the
orthodox poetical creed, 613. Why
good poets are bad critics, 616.
Poland, contest between Protestantism

and Catholicism in, vi. 472, 479.
Pole, Reginald, ii. 100; v. 591.
Police officers of Athens, vii. 585.
Politeness, definition of, v. 526.
Politian, allusion to, v. 375.
Pollexfen, counsel for Baxter, i. 383.
Counsel for the bishops, ii. 170, 172.
Appointed Chief Justice of Common
Pleas, 415.

Polwarth, Lord (Sir Patrick Hume), 1.
420. Takes part in Argyle's expedition
to Scotland, 430. His disputes with

POL

Argyle, 431, 434. Escapes to the Con-
tinent, 435. Joins William III. at the
Hague, ii. 234. Attends meeting of
Scotchmen in London, 353. Joins the
opposition to Government at Edin-
burgh, iii. 41, 80. Raised to the Peer-
age, 655. Made Lord Chancellor of
Scotland; gives the casting vote for
the execution of Thomas Aikenhead,
iv. 309.

Polybius, his character as a historian, v.
135.

Pomponius Atticus, his veneration for
Greek literature, v. 147.

Pomponne, his share in the conversation
with Portland on the Spanish Succes-
sion, iv. 406-408.

Pondicherry, vi. 394. Its occupation by
the English, 583.

Ponet, Bishop, an English Reformer, i.

40.

Poor (the), their condition in the 16th

and 19th centuries, v. 360. et seq. In
England and on the Continent, 362-
366.

Poor-rates (the), lower in manufactur-
ing than in agricultural districts, v.

339.

Pope, Alexander, his independence of
spirit, v. 371. His translation of
Homer's description of a moonlight
night, 398. Relative "correctness of
his poetry, 398. Byron's admiration of
him, 408. Praise of him, by Cowper,
408. His character, habits, and con-
dition, 523, 525. His dislike of Bent-
ley, vi. 323. His acquaintance with
Wycherley, 511, 512. His appre
ciation of the literary merits of Con-
greve, 529. The originator of the heroic
couplet, vii. 61. His testimony to
Addison's talking powers, 83. His
Rape of the Lock his best poem, 102.
His prologue to Cato, 103. His Essay
on Criticism warmly praised in the
Spectator, 103. His intercourse with
Addison, 103. His hatred of Dennis,
103. His estrangement from Addison,
104. His suspicious nature, 109. His
satire of Addison, 112, 114. Conden-
sation of the sense in his couplets, vii.
669. His friendship with Bishop Atter-
bury, 292. Appears as a witness in
favour of his friend, 293. His epitaph
on Atterbury, 296.

"Pope, burning of the," ii. 181; iv.

548.

Popes, review of Ranke's History of the,
vi. 454-489.

Popham, Major, vi. 601.

Popish Plot, i. 183, 187. Reaction in
regard to, 205. Circumstances which
assisted the belief in, vi. 107, 110.

POR

Popoli, Duchess of, saved by the Earl of
Peterborough, v. 666.

Population, review of Mr. Sadler's work
on the Law of, v. 419. His attack of
Mr. Malthus, 420. His statement of
the law of population, 426. Extremes
of population and fecundity in well-
known countries, 426. Population of
England, 426, 486. Of the United
States of America, 441. Of France,
481. And of Prussia, 488.
Porter, George, a Jacobite adventurer, iv.
146. Heads a Jacobite riot, 158. Ad-
mitted to Barclay's assassination plot,
211, 219. Arrested, 223. Gives evi-
dence against his confederates, 223, 225.
His dealings with the agents of Fen-
wick, 254. Gives information of the
intrigue, 256.

Porter, Sir Charles, one of William III.'s
Lords Justices for Ireland, iii. 329.
Signs the treaty of Limerick, 447.
Portico, the doctrines of the school so
called, vii. 217.

Portland, Duke of, formation of his ad-
ministration, vii. 372.
Portland, Earl of, afterwards

Duke

(William Bentinck), his fidelity to
William III., ii. 8, 10. His mission to
England in 1687, 23. Letter of William
to him, 226. His conversation with
Burnet, 383. Appointed Groom of the
Stole, 417. Raised to the peerage, 492.
Accompanies William to Ireland, 492.
His Dutch cavalry at the battle of the
Boyne, iii. 290. Accompanies William
to Holland, 369. Sent to consult Sir
William Temple, 649. His conduct in
the matter of the East India Company,
iv. 58. Sent to summon Boufflers to
surrender Namur, 165. Proposed grant
of Crown Lands in Wales to, 205. Re-
ceives information of the assassination
plot, 217. Sent to England by William
to raise money, 246. His meetings
with Boufflers, 316-318. Settles the
terms of peace, 320. Sent Ambassador
to France, 388. His deportment to-
wards William III., 389. His jealousy
of the Earl of Albemarle, 389.
embassy in Paris, 390. Splendour of
his equipage, 392. Impression on the
French people; his personal popularity,
393. Reception by the King, 394. His
demand for the removal of James II's
Court from St. Germains, 395, 396.
Remonstrates against the countenance
given to assassins, 396. Annoyances
caused by the presence of the Court of
St. Germains, 398. His silence on the
subject of the Spanish Succession, 398,
406. His discussion with Pomponne
and Torcy, 406-408. Applies to William

His