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Sienna, cathedral of, vii. 71.

Sieyes, the Abbé, M. Dumont's sketch of
the character of, v. 637.
Sigismund of Sweden, vi. 474.
Silius Italicus, vii. 77.
Similitudes, Dante's, vii. 612.

Simon, Saint, his character and opinions,
v. 628.

Simonides, his speculations on natural re-
ligion, vi. 456.
Simpkin, Mr., i. 467.
Sismondi, M., v. 163.
Sixtus V., vi. 471.

Skelton, Colonel Bevil, English envoy at
Amsterdam, i. 427. His endeavours to
prevent Monmouth from sailing, 444,
445. English envoy at Versailles; his
efforts to save James II., ii. 228, 229. Re-
called and committed to the Tower, 229.
Appointed Lieutenant of the Tower,

287.

Skinner, Cyriac, v. 1.

Skinners' Company; their hall in Dow-
gate, iii. 478.
Slane Castle, iii. 286.

Slavery, domestic, the cause of the violence
of factions in ancient times, vii. 695.
Sleat, Macdonald of. See Macdonald.
Sloane, i. 320.

Smalridge, Dean of Carlisle and Christ
Church, vii. 289.

Smith, Aaron, made Solicitor to the Trea-
sury, ii. 418. Examined by the Lords
on the commitment of Marlborough and
Huntingdon, iii. 596. His influence
with Sir John Trenchard, 662. Inves-
tigates the Lancashire plot, iv. 108.
His mismanagement, 110.
His exa-
mination by the Lords, 115. Appointed
Chancellor of the Exchequer, 507.
Smith, Adam; his alarm at the National
Debt, iii. 618.

Smith, Dr. Thomas, ii. 101. Aids James

II.'s attack on Magdalene College, Ox-
ford, 103, 114.

Smith, John, made Commissioner of the
Treasury, iv. 97.

Smith, Matthew, a spy, iv. 295.
Smith, Robert; his "Dying Testimony,"

iii. 351 note.

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Soho Square, i. 279.

His

Solmes, Count of, occupies Whitehall, for
the Prince of Orange, ii. 331. Com-
mands the Dutch troops in Ireland, iii.
127. Leads the charge at the battle of
the Boyne, 294. Left in command of
William III.'s forces in Ireland, 318.
Commands the British at Steinkirk,
581. Fails to support Mackay's divi-
sion, 582. Outcry against him, 584.
Complaints against him in Parliament,
597. Killed at Landen, iv. 22.
Somers, John (afterwards Lord), junior
counsel for the Bishops, ii. 171.
speech at the trial, 175. Enters Par-
liament, 363. At the conference with
the Lords on the question of declaring
the throne vacant, 384. Frames the
Declaration of Right, 388. Appointed
Solicitor General, 416. Manager for
the Commons of the Conference in the
case of Oates, iii. 112. Chairman of
the Committee on Corporations, 207,
211. His speech on the Bill declaring
the Acts of the Parliament of 1689
valid, 247. Conducts the prosecution
of Preston and Ashton, 381. Attorney
General, 602. Appointed Lord Keeper
of the Privy Seal, 653. His eminent
qualities, iv. 53. His conversation and
demeanour, 54. His patronage of merit,
54. Libels against him, 55 and note.
Appointed one of the Lords Justices,
141. Promotes the reconciliation of
the Princess Anne with William III.,
143. Takes part in the discussions on
the Currency, 192. His proposed ex-
pedient, 197. Made Lord Chancellor
303. His pamphlet against disbanding
the army, known as "The Balancing
Letter," 338-342. His retirement, for
his health, to Tunbridge Wells, 426.

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Receives a despatch announcing the
First Partition Treaty, 431. His repre-
sentation to the King of the feeling of
the country, 431. Remonstrates with
William on his resolution to abandon
England, 443. His speech on the Bill
for disbanding the army, 454. His
rapid rise, and modesty; hatred of, by
the violent Tory leaders, 508. His
connexion with the proceedings of Wil-
liam Kidd, 510, 513. Parliamentary
attack upon, 515. Triumphant excul-
pation, 515; vi. 629. Grant of Crown
property conferred on him, 517. Parlia
mentary attack upon, 518, 519. Rancour
of the Tory leaders towards him, 532.
His prudent advice on the subject of
the Resumption Bill, 534. Unsuccess-
ful motion for his exclusion from office,
556, 557. His encouragement of litera-
ture, vii. 64. Procures a pension for
Addison, 64. Made Lord President of

the Council, 80.
Somerset, Charles Seymour, Duke of, i.
212. Assists at the coronation of Wil-
liam and Mary, ii. 490.

Somerset, Edward Seymour, Duke of,
Protector, i. 488. As a promoter of
the English Reformation, v. 175. His
fall, vi. 177.

Somerset, Duke of, vii. 115.

Somersetshire, traditions of the pea-
santry, i. 470. Their valour at the
battle of Sedgemoor, 475, 476. Jef-
freys in, 501-505.

Somnauth, gates of, speech on the, viii.

228.

Song, viii. 581.

Sonnet-fanciers, vii. 629.
Sonnets, Milton's, v. 22.

Sophia, Princess, placed in the succession
of the crown, iii. 115.

Sophocles and the Greek drama, v. 11.
Soul, vi. 457.

Soult, Marshal, reference to, vii. 249.
South, Robert, i. 259.

Southampton, Earl of, notice of, vi. 168.
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, Earl

of, i. 141, 155. Joins in the resistance
of the Peers to the Resumption Bill, iv.
531.

Southampton House, near Holborn, i.
279.

Southcote, Johanna, vi. 459, 479.
Southern and Northern countries, dif-

ference of moral feeling in, v. 58, 60.
Southey, Robert, review of his Colloquies
on Society, v. 330. His characteristics,
330, 332. His poetry preferable to his
prose, 332. His lives of Nelson and
John Wesley, 333. His Peninsular
War, 333. His Book of the Church,
333. His political system, 334. Plan

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of his present work, 336. His opinions
regarding the manufacturing system,
339. His political economy, 343 et
seq. The national debt, 344 et seq.
His theory of the basis of government,
348. His remarks on public opinion,
350, 351. His view of the Catholic
claims, 356. His ideas on the pros-
pects of society, 358, 366. His prophe-
cies respecting the Corporation and
Test Acts, and the removal of the
Catholic disabilities, 358. His obser-
vations on the condition of the people
in the 16th and 19th centuries, 360.
His arguments on national wealth, 362,
365. Review of his edition of Bun-
yan's Pilgrim's Progress, 445. See also
Bunyan.

South Sea Bubble, vi. 41.
Southwark, election for (1701), iv. 550.
Spain, the monarchy of, becomes abso-
lute, i. 34. Becomes formidable to
England, 48. State of (time of Charles
II.), 155. War with France, 157.
Horses from, 247. Feeling of, towards
England, 363. The court of, con-
demns Lewis XIV.'s conduct to the
Protestants, 534. State of, in 1692,
iii. 568. Miserable state of its army
and navy (1694), iv. 104. Conduct of,
in the peace negotiations, 311. Ex-
pected vacancy of the crown, 398.
Magnitude and importance of the do-
minions at stake, 399. Weakness of
the empire, 400. Its tendency to dis-
solution, 400. Supremacy of Castile,
401. Candidates for the succession,
the Dauphin, the Emperor Leopold,
402. The Electoral Prince of Bavaria,
403. Factions in the court of Madrid,
404. Discussion regarding the Sue-
cession between the Duke of Portland
and Lewis XIV.'s Ministers, 406, 407.
Proposals on the part of France, 410.
Discussions at Newmarket between Wil-
liam III. and the Count of Tallard,
413-415. Renewed negotiations at Loo,
the First Partition Treaty, 426-432.
The provisions become known to the
Spaniards, 434. Complications caused
by the death of the Prince of Bavaria,
455. Renewed discussions, 468. The
Second Partition Treaty, 469. Riots
in Madrid, 470. Consequent supre-
macy of the French faction under Car-
dinal Portocarrero, 470. Information
received of the Second Partition Treaty,
473. Sentiments towards William III.,
474. Insulting message, 475. Sus-
pension of diplomatic relations between
England and Spain, 475. Previous
quarrel on the subject of Darien; see
Darien. Review of Lord Mahon's War

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of the Succession in, v. 638. Her
state under Philip, 641. Her litera-
ture during the 16th century, 642. Her
state a century later, 643. Effect pro-
duced on her by the Reformation, 646.
Her disputed succession, 647, 648. The
Partition Treaty, 648, 650. Conduct
of the French towards her, 650. How
affected by the death of Charles, 654
et seq. Designation of the War of the
Spanish Succession, vi. 482. No con-
versions to Protestantism in, 487. Re-
volution of the poetry of Spain, v. 97.
Spanheim, Ezekiel; his share in arranging
the rejoicings at the Hague for William
III.'s entry in 1691, iii. 372.
Spanish and Swiss soldiers in the time of
Machiavelli, character of, v. 74.
Sparre, the Dutch general, v. 660.
Sparta, the great men of, 73. Mr Mitford's

admiration of the stability of the insti-
tutions of, 74. Real character of the
Spartans, 74. Their kind of liberty, v.

136.

Spectator (the), notices of it, vii. 96-100,
103. Crowds of imitators of the, vii.
336.

Speeches, viii. 1–442.

Speke, Hugh, i. 603.

Distributes John-
son's tracts, 603. Claims the author-
ship of the forged proclamation against
Papists, ii. 292. Asserts himself the
contriver of the "Irish night," 318.
Spencer, Charles Lord (son of the Earl of
Sunderland), his entry on public life,
iv. 333. His taste for books, and
Whiggism, 334. Object of his policy,
334.

Spencer, George Earl, his able administra-
tion of the Admiralty, vii. 396.
Spenser, Edmund, v. 447. His opinion of
Irish ballads, i. 52.

Spies, political, in France, vii. 189. Their
unpopularity in England, 190. The
modus operandi of a spy, 190.
Spires, destroyed by the French, ii. 495.
Spirits, Milton's materiality of them, v. 18.
Sprat, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester, i. 259.

An Ecclesiastical Commissioner, 595.
Reads the Declaration of Indulgence in
Westminster Abbey, ii. 154. Resigns
the Commissionership, 206. Summoned
by James II. to a conference, 261.
Takes the oath of allegiance to William,
422. Assists at the coronation of
William and Mary, 490. Ecclesiastical
Commissioner under William, iii. 173.
Withdraws from the Ecclesiastical Com-
mission, 173. Treasonable paper hidden
in his palace, 557. His character, 558.
Arrested, 559. His innocence proved,

560.

Spurton, Dr., v. 585.

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general; his defeat at Stratton, i. 90.
Stamford, Thomas Grey, Earl of, accused
of participation in the Rye House Plot,
i. 549. Joins the rising for the Prince
of Orange in the North, ii. 276. Chair-
man of the "Murder Committee," iii.
203. Entertains William III. at Brad-
gate, iv. 179.

Stamp Act, disaffection of the American
colonies on account of the, vii. 257.
Repeal of the, 261.

Standing armies, strong aversion to, in
England, i. 526; iv. 332. Arguments
against them, 335-337. The arguments
self-contradictory, 337. Lord Somers'
reply, 338-342. Contingency of a French
invasion, 339. Reference to Grecian
history, 340 and note. To the army of
Hannibal, 341.
Stanhope, Earl of, vi. 41.
Stanhope, General, v. 666. Commands in
Spain (1707), 673, 675.

Star Chamber (the), i. 70; v. 561, 564.
Abolished, i. 77; v. 568.

Staremberg, the imperial general in Spain,
(in 1707), v. 673, 675.
Statesmanship, contrast of the Spanish
and Dutch notions of, vi. 270.
Statesmen, the character of, greatly affected
by that of the times, v. 231. Character
of the first generation of professed
statesmen that England produced, vi.

139-143.

State Trials, vi. 108, 111, 127, 198.
Steel, Sir Richard, vii. 83. His character,

85. Treatment of him, 86. His origina-
tion of the Tatler, 89, 90. His subse-
quent career, 95, 100, 109.
Steevens, George, vii. 16.
Steinkirk, battle of, iii. 579-583. Fight
between the French household troops
and the British division, 582. French
and allied losses; moral effect of the
victory, 583.

Steward, Lord High, Court of the, i. 552;
iii. 603.

Stewart of Ballenach, iii. 82.

Stewart, James; his correspondence with
the Grand Pensionary Fagel, ii. 81.
Attached to the Whig-Jacobite party
in Edinburgh, iii. 344. His conduct as
Lord Advocate in the prosecution of
Thomas Aikenhead, iv. 308.
Stewarts of Appin, iii. 56, 65.
Stillingfleet, Edward, i. 252. His answer

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to the papers found in the writing of
Charles II., 638. Declares against
reading the Declaration of Indulgence,
ii. 149. A member of the Ecclesiastical
Commission, iii. 172. Made Bishop of
Worcester, 184. His claims for the
Primacy, iv. 113.
Stirling, plan of the Scotch Jacobites for
secession to, iii. 20, 26.
Stockjobbing, origin of, iii. 612, 613 and
note. Was anterior to the National
Debt, 614. Fluctuations in the Stock
Exchange, iv. 456.

Stoicism, comparison of that of the Ben-
galee with the European, vi. 555.
Stoics, their philosophy, vi. 209, 220,
224.

Storey, Samuel, i. 513.

Stories, good, fondness of the later ancient
writers for, vii. 686.

See

Stout, Quaker family at Hertford, endea-
vour to fix a charge of murder on
Spencer Cowper, iv. 502, 504.
Cowper, Spencer.
Strabane, skirmish at, ii. 543.
Strabane, Claude Hamilton, Lord, ii. 551.
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, v.
180, 182. His character and policy, i.
68, 69; v. 180. Deprecates Charles I.'s
Scotch war, i. 74. Persists in his policy,
76. His impeachment and execution,
77; v. 180, 559. Precedent of his at-
tainder quoted, iv. 284, 286. Defence
of the proceedings against him, v.

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Sulivan, Mr., Chairman of the East India
Company; his character, vi. 430. His
relation to Lord Clive, 433.
Sumner, Rev. C. B., v. 227.
Sunderland, Countess of; her intrigue
with Henry Sidney, ii. 225. Her letters,

226.
Sunderland, Robert Spencer, Earl of; his
political character, i. 193, 194. Sup-
ports the Exclusion Bill, 203. His in-
trigues, 217. Retained in office by
James II., 349. Conforms to Roman
Catholic observances, 367. His letter
to Penn, 510 note. Encourages the
errors of James II., 571. His motives;
bribed by France, 572. Joins the Je-
suitical cabal; converted by James,
572. His intrigues against Rochester,
573. Made an Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioner, 596. Bribed by Tyrconnel, 643.
Anecdote of, ii. 124. Made Lord Lieu-
tenant of Warwickshire, 135. His ad-
vice with regard to the Seven Bishops,
156. Recommends James II. to make
concessions, 167. Professes himself a
Papist, 168. Proves the publication
of the alleged libel by the bishops, 175.
His suspected treachery to James II.
222. His official gains, 223. Alarmed
for his safety, 224. His secret corre-
spondence with the Prince of Orange,
225. Deludes James into security, 227,
230. Disgraced, 246. His protesta-
tions of loyalty, 247. His secret ser-
vices to William, iv. 46. His flight to
Holland, 47. His return to England,

47. Ingratiates himself with William,
48. Advises the employment of Whig
ministers, 50. Promotes the reconcilia-
tion of William and the Princess Anne,
141. Receives William at Althorpe,
177.

Induces Godolphin to resign
office, 271. Appointed Lord Chamber-
lain and one of the Lords Justices, 304.
Alarm at his appointment, 333, 335.
His political character, 333. Attacks
on him in the House of Commons; his
friends in the House, 344. Utterly
distrusted by his colleagues, 345. His
alarm at the clamour raised against him,
346. Resigns office, 346,
Sunderland, Earl of, vi. 41. Secretary of
State, vii. 80. Appointed Lord Lieute-
nant of Ireland, 106. Reconstructs the
ministry in 1717, 116.

Superstition, instances of, in the 19th cen-
tury, vi. 462.

Supremacy, Act of, i. 590. Curtailment
of its powers, 591.

Supremacy, oath of, difficulties in regard
to, ii. 476-481. The Houses of Parlia-
ment differ, 487.

Supremacy, royal, i. 43. Assertion of,

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by Henry VIII. and Cranmer, 44. The
claim modified by Elizabeth, 45.
Supreme Court of Calcutta, account of, vi.

575.

Surajah Dowlah, Viceroy of Bengal, his
character, vi. 407. The monster of
the "Black Hole," 408. His flight and
death, 416, 420. Investigation by the
House of Commons into the circum-
stances of his deposition, 447.
Sutherland, Colonel Hugh, repulsed by
the Enniskilleners, ii. 575.
Sutherland, Earl of, iii. 339.

Sweden, a member of the Triple Alliance,

i. 159. Its jealousy of England and
Holland, iii. 564. Its part in the Tri-
ple Alliance, vi. 274. Its relations to
Catholicism, 474.

Swedish troops of William Prince of
Orange, ii. 258.

Swift, Jonathan, constancy of the Irish

populace to, i. 491. His patriotism con-
fined to the Saxon inhabitants of Ire-
land, iii. 455 and note. His birth and
early career, 649. Secretary to Sir
William Temple, 650. Bearer of a
letter to William III. on the Triennial
Bill, 651. His character of Somers,
iv. 55 note. Of Wharton, 62. His
position at Sir William Temple's, vi.
315. Instance of his imitation of
Addison, vii. 61. His relations with
Addison, 104, 106. Joins the Tories,

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character of, v. 637. His fine percep-
tion of character, v. 219; vi. 258. Pic-
ture of him at Holland House, 542.
Tallien, his attack on Robespierre in the
Convention, vii. 175.

Talmash, Thomas, serves under Marl-
borough at Walcourt, iii. 147. Serves
under Ginkell in Ireland, 428. At
Athlone, 433. His conduct in the battle
of Aghrim, 438. His high military
character, 598. At the battle of Lan-
den, iv. 23. Commands the attack on
Brest; attempts a landing, 101. Mor-
tally wounded, 102.

Tangier, garrisoned by the English, i.
150. Relinquished by Charles II., 207.
Colonel Kirke at, 492.

Tankerville, Ford Grey, Earl of (Lord
Grey of Wark); a political prisoner in
the Tower; escapes; his trial for the
seduction of Lady Henrietta Berkeley,
i. 412. Lands at Lyme with Monmouth,
446. His flight from Bridport, 449.
Resists Monmouth's design of deserting
his followers, 468. His cavalry routed
at Sedgemoor, 473. Accompanies Mon-
mouth's flight; taken, 479. His inter-
view with the King, 484. Ransomed,
513. His speech on the Association, iv.
233. Supports the Bill for Fenwick's
attainder, 290. His speech on the Bill
for disbanding the army, 454. Ap-
pointed First Lord of the Treasury; his
unhappy career, 507.

Tarbet, Viscount; plan recommended by
him for the pacification of the High-
lands, iii. 66. His plan adopted by
William III.'s government, 511.
Tasso, v. 408. Difference of the spirit of
his poem from that of Ariosto, vi. 472.
Specimen from Hoole's translation, vii.
63. Character of his "Secchia Rapita,"
vii. 605.

Tatler (the), its origination, vii. 89, 90.
Its popularity, 93. Change in its cha-
racter, 96. Its discontinuance, 96.
Taunton, prosperity of (1685), i. 455. Its
civil and religious politics, 456. Young
ladies of; their ransom assigned to the
Queen's maids of honour, 509. Favour
shown to, by James II., ii. 44.
Taxation, parliamentary consent necessary
to, i. 25. Importance of this right, 33.
The right involved in the question of
Ship-money, 71. The principles of tax-
ation, v. 345, 347.

Tea, consumption of (1691), iii. 469 and

note.

Teignmouth destroyed by the French, iii.

310. The sufferers relieved by church-
collections through England, 312.
Teignmouth, Lord, his high character and
regard for Hastings, vi. 614.

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