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Friendship with the Duchess of Marlborough, 98.
Death, 99.
Compared to Wycherley, 100.
Constitutional government, in England and on the Continent, i. 323.
Conversion of, into despotism, on the Continent, 326.
Dangers to, in England, 327.
Cooke, Sir Anthony, his learning, ii. 368.
Coote, Sir Eyre, sent to India, iii. 166.
His military reputation, 167.
Correctness, as a canon in art, i. 581.
Folly of, 587.
Council of York, abolished, ii. 38.
Country Wife, Wycherley's, iii. 70, 77.
Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of his Memoirs of Sir William Temple, ii. 498-599.
His concessions to Dr. Lingard in regard to the Triple Alliance, 533.
His opinion of Temple's proposed council, 554, 556.
His error as to Temple's residence, 585 note.
Covenant, the Scotch, ii. 30.
Covenanters, the Scotch, their treaty with Charles I., ii. 30, 31.
Cowley, Abraham, his wit, ii. 204.
Admired Bacon, 495.
Cowper, William, forerunner of literary revival in England, i. 591.
Schoolmate of Warren Hastings, iii. 117.
Coxe, Archdeacon, eulogizes Sir R. Walpole, ii. 214.
Craggs, Secretary, ii. 238, 261.
Cranmer, Archbishop, his time-serving character, i. 299.
Crébillon, the younger, ii. 198.
Crisp, Samuel, iii. 340.
His dramatic aspirations, 343.
Failure and retirement, 345.
Criticism, cannot exist in perfection with the creative faculty, i. 190.
Effect on critical poetry, 202.
Croker, John Wilson, his edition of Boswell's Johnson reviewed, i. 691-742.
Misstatements in the notes, 691.
Classical errors, 700.
Want of perspicacity, 704.
Triviality of his comments, 705.
His style, 706.
Omissions, 707.
Additions, 708.
Cromwell, Henry, ii. 512.
Cromwell, Oliver, wisdom of his government, i. 124.
His great opportunity, 345.
Compared with Napoleon, 347.
His service to justice, 348.
His army, 348.
His administration, 349.
His foreign policy, 351.
Weakness of his son, 352.
Compared with Charles II., 353.
His qualities, ii. 29, 61.
His administration, 313, 319.
His abilities displayed in Ireland, 519-521.
Crown, the, ii. 75.
Curtailment of its prerogatives, 210, 211.
Its power predominant at the beginning of the 17th century, 557.
Decline of its power during the Pensionary Parliament, 560.
Its long contest with the Parliament put an end to by the Revolution, 566.
See Prerogative.
Culpeper, Mr., a leader of the Constitutional Royalists, ii. 43.
Cumberland, Duke of, single victory of, ii. 729.
Hated by Scots, iii. 628.
Opposes the French treaty, 630.
His character, 649.
Tries to induce Pitt to succeed Grenville, 650.
Advises a Whig ministry without Pitt, 653.
Death, 656.
D'Adda, quoted, ii. 333.
Danby, Earl of, ii. 210.
His connection with Sir William Temple, 547.
Unjust charges against, 551.
Impeached and sent to the Tower, 553.
Owed his dukedom to his talent in debate, 561.
Dante, criticism on, i. 1.
His first adventure in the popular tongue, 2.
Influences of the times in which he lived upon his works, 3, 4.
His love of Beatrice, 11.
His despair of happiness on earth, 12.
Close connection between his intellectual and moral character, 12.
Compared with Milton, 13, 99-101.
His metaphors and comparisons, 15, 16.
Little impression made by the forms of the external world upon him, 16, 19.
Fascination revolting and nauseous images had for his mind, 18.
His use of ancient mythology in his poems, 19.
His idolatry of Virgil, 20.
Excellence of his style, 20, 21.
Remarks upon the translations of the Divine Comedy, 21, 22.
His use of the supernatural, 105.
His character as expressed in his poetry, 107.
His veneration for lesser writers, 194.
D'Arblay, M., a French refugee, marries Fanny Burney, iii. 378.
D'Arblay, Madame, Diary and Letters reviewed, iii. 331-395.
Family, 333.
Education, 335.
Shyness, 339.
Writes Evelina, 347.
Its success, 349.
Johnson's affection for, 351.
Writes a poor play, 353.
Publishes Cecilia, 354.
Loss of friends, 355.
Meets the king, 357.
Invited to be a keeper of the Queen's robes, 358.
Drawbacks to the position, 359.
Accepts it, 361.
Slavery of the service, 362.
Visits Oxford, 364.
Attends the trial of Warren Hastings, 366.
Her prejudice against his accusers, 367.
Feeling on the king's illness, 369.
Respect for the queen, 371.
Leaves the court on account of ill-health, 375.
Recovers, 377.
Marries, 378.
Lives in Paris, 379.
Her character-drawing, 385.
Her style, 387.
Quotations to illustrate the changes in her style, 390-392.
Her real service to English literature, 394.
D'Argens, Marquess, iii. 280.
Daun, an Austrian general, defeats Frederic the Great at Kolin, iii. 306.
At Hochkirchen, 319.
Driven from before Dresden, 320.
Defeated at Buckersdorf, 327.
David, M., editor of Barère's Mémoires, iii. 487.
Davila, one of Hampden's favorite authors, ii. 22.
De Augmentis Scientiarum, Bacon's, ii. 402, 443.
Declaration of Right, ii. 341.
Defensio Populi, i. 85.
Delhi, splendor of, ii. 679.
Democracy, the ideal government, i. 62.
Requires an educated constituency, 63.
Reaction induced by the violence of its advocates, ii. 72.
Democritus, reputed inventor of the arch, ii. 365.
Bacon's estimate of, 448.
Demosthenes, transcribes Thucydides six times, i. 47.
Falsely described by Mitford, 73.
Denham, Sir John, satire on Hampden, ii. 58.
Despotism, Mill's condemnation of, i. 388.
The Westminster Reviewer's defence of Mill's position on, 426.
Devonshire, Duke of, forms an administration after the resignation of Newcastle, ii. 268.
Lord Chamberlain under Bute, iii. 623.
Opposes the treaty with France, 630.
Dionysius, his critical ability, i. 41.
Confines himself strictly to things Grecian, 267.
Diplomacy, requirements of, in the Italian service, i. 169.
Discourses on Livy, Machiavelli's, i. 176.
Dissenters, exclusion of, from civil offices, ii. 624.
Divine Comedy, Dante's, its reality, i. 12.
Translations of, 21, 22.
Literalness of the descriptions, 99.
Comparable to Gulliver's Travels, 101.
Character of the spirits in, 105.
Division of labor, necessity of, ii. 606.
Donne, John, his wit compared with Horace Walpole's, ii. 204.
Dorset, Lord, his poetical ability, i. 212.
Double Dealer, Congreve's, iii. 82.
Dover, Lord, review of his edition of Horace Walpole's Letters to Sir Horace Mann, ii. 181-231.
Drama, real object of, i. 163.
Delightful character of the old English, 207.
Unnaturalness of the French, 207.
Affected by the closing of the theatres, 209.
Rhyme introduced into, 212.
Folly of the preservation of the unities, 583.
Immorality of the English, at the Restoration, iii. 48.
"Drunken Administration, The," ii. 225.
Dryden, John, essay on, i. 187-234.
His rank among poets, 187.
Affected by circumstances, 187.
Greatest of the critical poets, 214.
His Annus Mirabilis, 215.
His plays, 217.
Unnaturalness of his characters, 220.
Tendency to rant, 222.
The improvement of his work in later life, 225.
Founds the critical school of poetry, 227.
His power of reasoning in verse, 228.
His use of the flattery of dedication, 229.
His characteristics, 230.
Satirical works, 231.
A connecting link between two literary periods, 597.
Admits the justice of Jeremy Collier's attack, iii. 91.
Dumont, M., review of his Souvenirs sur Mirabeau, ii. 95-127.
Services rendered by him to society, 96.
The interpreter of Bentham, 96-98.
His view of the French Revolution, 98-103, 294.
His opinion that Burke's work on the Revolution had saved Europe, 101, 294.
His efforts to instruct the French in political knowledge, 103.
His pen-portrait of Mirabeau, 125.
His revelation of his own character, 127.
Dundas, Henry, investigates Indian affairs, iii. 194.
Sides with Hastings, 208.
Defends him on the first charge, 215.
Follows Pitt on the second, 219.
Dupleix, governor of Pondicherry, his gigantic schemes for establishing French influence in India, ii. 677, 683, 685, 693, 695, 700.
His death, 700, 758.
East India Company, the, its absolute authority in India, ii. 277.
Its condition when Clive first went to India, 674, 675.
Its war with the French East India Company, 677.
Increase of its power, 693.
Its factories in Bengal, 702.
Fortunes made by its servants in Bengal, 733, 734.
Ecclesiastical Commission, the, of Queen Elizabeth's time, ii. 76.
Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dramatists for the character of, ii. 88.
Education, in England in the 16th century, ii. 373.
Duty of the government in promoting it, 661.
Egerton, brings charge of corruption against Bacon, ii. 425.
Bacon's decision against him, after receiving his present, 440.
Egotism in conversation and literature considered, i. 23, 24.
Elephants, use of, in war in India, ii. 691.
Eliot, Sir John, ii. 18-20.
His Treatise on Government, 21.
A martyr to liberty, 22.
Elizabeth, Queen, her unjustifiable persecution of non-conformists, i. 291.
Her use of the church to increase her power, 303.
Condition of the working classes in her reign, 534.
Her rapid advancement of Cecil, ii. 69, 70.
Character of her government, 76, 77, 80, 90.
A persecutor, though herself indifferent, 89, 90.
Her early notice of Lord Bacon, 372.
Her favor toward Essex, 379.
Factions at the close of her reign, 380, 381, 398.
Her pride and temper, 387, 398.
Her death, 398.
Elphinstone, Lord, ii. 761.
England, under Elizabeth, i. 291.
Reformation in, a political move, 297.
Under Henry VIII., 302.
In 1640, 306.
Under Charles I., 317.
Change of feeling in, after the attempt on the Five Members, 319.
Representative government in, preserved, 327.
Disgraceful condition of, under Charles II., 354.
Decay of statesmanship, 355.
Corruption of the bar, 360.
National feeling displaced by party loyalty, 364.
Fortunate that the Revolution was effected by men of small calibre, 367.
Perfidy of William III.'s statesmen, 368.
Review of constitutional history of, from Henry VII., 371.
Condition of the common people in, at various periods, 534.
Prophecy of its future prosperity, 543.
Her periodic fits of morality, 573.
Theories deduced from her population, 617 et seq.
Fecundity of the nobility, 632.
Disability of Jews in, 646.
Her physical and moral condition in the 15th century, ii. 7.
Never so rich and powerful as since the loss of her American colonies, 135.
Her conduct in reference to the Spanish succession, 152, 153.
Successive steps of her progress, 307-310.
Influence of her Revolution on the human race, 309, 344.
Her situation at the Restoration compared with that of France at the restoration of the Bourbons, 311, 312.
Her situation in 1678, 317, 319-327.
Character of her public men in the latter part of the 17th century, 507.
Difference in her situation under Charles II. and under the Protectorate, 525.
Restoration immorality the reaction from Puritanism, iii. 58.
Diminished prestige of, in 1785, 195.
Upholds Prussia against all Europe, 302.
Subsidies paid, 318.
Withdraws her aid from Prussia, 326.
State of parties in, 592.
Factions sink into repose, 595.
Corruption in the House of Commons, 609.
Terminates her continental alliances, 623.
War with America, 682.
England, Constitution of, how preserved, i. 322 et seq.
Development of, from Henry VII.'s reign, 371.
Recent attacks on, 375.
Proposed reform of, 380.
A standing refutation of James Mill's reasoning, 399.
English, the, in the 16th century, a free people, ii. 78.
Their character, 319, 320.
English Common Law, not suited to India, iii. 168.
Epicureans, their peculiar doctrines, ii. 452.
Epicurus, the lines on his pedestal, ii. 452.
Erasmus, quoted, ii. 286.
Ercilla, Alonzo de, soldier as well as poet, ii. 133.
Essay on Government, James Mill's, review of, i. 381-422.
Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, ii. 93.
His character, popularity, and favor with Elizabeth, 379, 380, 382, 389.
His political conduct, 382.
His friendship for Bacon, 383, 385, 412.
His conversation with Robert Cecil, 382, 383.
His expedition to Spain, 384.
Pleads for Bacon's marriage with Lady Hatton, 385.
Decline of his fortunes, 385.
His faults, 387, 410, 411.
His administration in Ireland, 386.
Ingratitude of Bacon towards him, 386-396, 412.
His trial and execution, 388, 389.
Feeling of King James towards him, 399.
His resemblance to Buckingham, 410, 411.
Essex, Earl of (time of Charles I.), ii. 56-59.
Euripides, how regarded by Quintilian, i. 42.
Europe, state of, at the Peace of Utrecht, ii. 182.
Want of union in, to arrest the designs of Louis XIV., 528.
The distractions of, suspended by the Treaty of Nimeguen, 550.
Evelina, Fanny Burney's, iii. 347.
Johnson's admiration for, 351.
Evelyn, John, ii. 524, 539.
Ex post facto punishments considered, i. 312.
Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount, deceived by Charles, i. 320.
A friend of liberty, 329.
At the head of the Constitutional Royalists, ii. 43.
Family Compact, the, between France and Spain, ii. 183.
Fénelon, standard of morality in his Telemachus, ii. 115-117.
The book not immoral, iii. 54.
Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and Charles I. of England, ii. 55.
Feudal nobles, unimportant in Italy, i. 146.
Fielding, Henry, his description of Partridge at the play, quoted, i. 196.
Finch, Lord Keeper, a humble tool of Charles I., ii. 26.
His impeachment and flight to Holland, 37.
Fine arts, the, their decline in England after the civil war, ii. 199.
Government should promote them, 660.
Florence, its commercial preëminence, i. 148.
Its superiority of learning, 151.
Military reform in, 173.
Return of the Medici to, 174.
Machiavelli's History of, 184.
Last struggle for liberty of, 185.
Foote, Charles, his stage character of an Anglo-Indian grandee, ii. 747
Forde, Colonel, ii. 724, 727.
Fox, Henry (afterwards Lord Holland), his personality, ii. 258.
Accepts office, 264.
Relations with Newcastle, 261-267.
Directed to form an administration in concert with Chatham, 268.
Early history and career, iii. 104.
Made paymaster by Chatham, 601.
Continued by Bute, 623.
Employed by Bute to carry the Commons, 628.
Methods used, 631.
Made a peer, 637.
Fox, Charles James, son of the above, his success as a debater, ii. 249.
Comparison of his History of James II. with Mackintosh's History of the Revolution, 284.
His style, 285, 286.
Characteristic of his oratory, 287.
Championship of arbitrary measures and defiance of public opinion, iii. 106.
Change in his attitude after his father's death, 107.
Brings forward the Benares charge against Hastings, 216.
Speaks on the course of proceedings, 228.
France, from Louis XIV. to the Revolution, ii. 118-122.
Condition in 1712 and 1832, 180.
At the restoration of Louis XVIII., 311.
Austerity in, under Louis XIV., produces the immorality of the regency, iii. 59.
Turns to Prussia for help against England, 267.
Drawn into the combination against Frederic the Great, 295.
Makes peace, 328.
Assemblies in, in 1791, 505.
Constitution of 1791 fails, 503.
Cause of its failure, 509.
Convention of 1792, 510.
Justice of the abolition of the monarchy, 511.
Execution of the king, 516.
Reign of Terror in, 533.
End of the Terror, 559.
Under Constitution of 1795, 565.
Under the Consulate, 568.
Return of the Bourbons to, 581.
Effect of the Terror upon, 584.
Francis, Philip, made Councillor for India, iii. 144.
Probably wrote the Junius letters, 145.
Opposes Hastings, 148.
Accepts Nuncomar's testimony against him, 150.
Partially reconciled to Hastings, 168.
Objects to the arrangement with Impey, 173.
Challenges and is wounded by Hastings, 174.
Returns to England, 178.
Attacks Hastings in the House of Commons, 209.
Proposed as a manager of Hastings's impeachment, 221.
Franks, rapid decline of the, after the death of Charlemagne, ii. 680.
Frederic the Great, essay on, iii. 243-330.
Birth, 247.
Treatment by his father, 248.
Tastes, 250.
Acquaintance with Voltaire, 254.
Character as a king, 256.
Decides to seize Silesia, 259.
Invades it, 261.
Conduct at Molwitz, 263.
Makes peace with Austria, 267.
Joins France against England and Austria, 268.
His attention to the details of administration, 271.
Aggrandizement of the army, 273.
Parsimony, 274.
Liberality and justice, 275.
Commercial policy, 277.
His associates, 279.
His spite, 281.
Invites Voltaire to Berlin, 286.
Quarrels with him, 290.
European combination against, 294.
Personal dislike of, among sovereigns, 298.
His great danger, 299.
Alliance with England, 302.
Invades Saxony, 304.
And Bohemia, 305.
Driven back at Kolin, 307.
Extreme distress of, 308.
Further communication with Voltaire, 309.
Wins the battle of Rosbach, 313.
Of Leuthen, 314.
Tendency of Rosbach to unify Germany behind him, 316.
Worsts the Russians at Zorndorf, 318.
Attacked by the Pope, 322.
Beaten at Kunersdorf, 323.
Conquers at Lignitz and Torgau, 325.
Political changes to his advantage, 326.
Obtains peace, 328.
Frederic the Second, the Emperor, his qualities, i. 7.
Frederic William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, iii. 244.
Frederic William of Prussia, iii. 245.
Military establishment, 246.
Conduct to his children, 247.
Dies, 255.
Froissart quoted, ii. 7.
Fuller, on Lord Burleigh, ii. 66, 67.
Galway, Earl of, commander of the allies in Spain, ii. 158, 166, 171.
Defeated at Almanza, 172.
Ganges, the chief highway of Eastern commerce, ii. 700, 701.
Gentleman Dancing-Master, Wycherley's, iii. 69.
George I., transformation of English parties under, iii. 593.
His position at the beginning of his reign, 602, 603.
George II., his resentment against Chatham, ii. 255.
Compelled to accept him, 256.
His efforts for the protection of Hanover, 263, 264.
His relations with his ministers, 273-275.
Mixture of parties under, iii. 595.
Growth in popularity toward the close of his reign, 603.
George III., partial to Clive, ii. 756.
Sentiment of loyalty toward, at his accession, iii. 604.
Education, 606.
His speech not agreeable to the ministry, 611.
Dream of freedom on the accession of Bute, 622.
Determines never to submit to the Whigs, 633.
Harassed by Grenville, turns to Pitt, 640.
Resentment toward Grenville over the Regency Bill, 648.
Sends Cumberland to Pitt, 649.
Lectured by Grenville and Bedford, 652.
Makes Rockingham First Lord of the Treasury, 655.
Supported by the politicians called the king's friends, 660.
Tries to win Pitt over, 666.
Gibbon, Edward, why accused of being a Mohammedan, i. 697 and note.
A successful historian, ii. 284.
Gibraltar, capture of, by Sir George Rooke, ii. 158.
Giffard, Lady, sister of Sir William Temple, ii. 528, 529, 586, 597.
Gifford, Mr., the poet, admired by Byron, ii. 594.
Girondists, eminent men among, iii. 512.
Refuse to sanction any excesses, 514.
Oppose equivocally the king's execution, 515.
Accused of federalism, 519.
Their leaders condemned by Barère, 527.
Their trial, 531.
Executed, 532.
Gladstone, W. E., his book The State in its Relations with the Church, reviewed, ii. 600-669.
Quality of his mind, 603.
His grounds for the defence of the church, 605.
His doctrine that the duties of government are paternal, 609.
Specimen of his arguments, 610-613.
His argument that the profession of a national religion is imperative, 611, 613, 617.
The consequence of his reasoning, 620-628.
Shrinks from the suggestion of persecution, 624.
Fails to meet the consequences of his theory, 635.
Considers difference of opinion unnatural, 641.
Claims that the succession of the Anglican church was not broken in the Reformation, 645.
Believes in unity in doctrine, 296.
Gleig, Rev. G. R., his Life of Warren Hastings reviewed, iii. 114.
Glover's Leonidas, compared with Fénelon's Telemachus, ii. 116.
Godfrey, Sir E., ii. 323.
Godolphin, Lord, becomes a Whig, ii. 176.
Comes into power with Anne, iii. 423.
Induces Addison to commemorate Blenheim, 426.
Dismissed, 449.
Goëzman, bribed by Beaumarchais, ii. 440, 441.
Goldsmith, Oliver, character, i. 713.
Pleasantry about Johnson, 740.
Goordas, Nuncomar's son, iii. 134.
Goree, conquest of, ii. 216.
Gorhambury, Bacon's country residence, ii. 421, 442.
Government, must be adapted to its body politic, i. 62.
Aims of, according to James Mill, 386.
His reasoning against aristocratic and monarchical, 387, 388.
Combinations of the simple forms of, considered, 395.
Folly of Mill's conclusion, 398.
Representative, 403.
Its weak points, 404.
Correctives for the evil tendencies of representative, 410.
Influence of the middle class on, 415.
Theory of, deduced from principles of human nature in only one way, 419.
Must be founded on experience, 421.
Absurdity of utilitarian principle of, 468.
Sensible view of monarchic, 472.
Of constitutional, 475.
Religion as the basis of, according to Southey, 520.
Grafton, Duke of, First Lord of the Treasury in Chatham's last ministry, iii. 669.
Condition of that ministry after Chatham's retirement, 678.
Granby, Marquis of, his character, ii. 728.
Grand Alliance against the Bourbons, ii. 152.
Grand Remonstrance, Debate on, ii. 43.
"Great Commoner," the designation of the elder Pitt, ii. 281.
Greatest Happiness Principle, i. 418.
Its uselessness, 452.
Restated and assailed, 483.
Not demonstrated in its later form by Mr. Bentham, 487.
Greece, review of Mr. Mitford's History of, i. 56-82.
Errors of the historians of, 57, 58.
Partly caused by their high estimation of later classic writers, 59.
Military history of, 152.
Progress of literature in, 204.
All education oral in, 242.
Absence of progress in political science in, 265.
Instances of the corruption of judges in the ancient commonwealths of, ii. 431.
Greek Drama, derived from the Ode, i. 95.
Greeks, their attitude toward women, i. 25. See Athenians.
Grenville, George, opposed to Pitt's war policy, iii. 613.
Heads Bute's ministry in the Commons, 619.
Supports Bute's excise bill, 634.
Insulted by Pitt, 635.
Becomes First Lord of the Treasury, 637.
His characteristics, 638.
Attacks Wilkes, 639, 642.
Conduct toward the king, 644.
His Stamp Act and Regency Bill, 647, 648.
His vehement opposition to the repeal of the former, 663.
Conciliation with Chatham, 680.
Death, 681.
Grey, Lady Jane, her high classical acquirements, ii. 368.
Guadaloupe, fall of, ii. 276.
Guicciardini, ii. 64.
Guise, Henry, Duke of, his conduct compared to that of Essex, ii. 389.
Gunpowder, inventor of, unknown, ii. 452.
Habeas Corpus Act, Lord Shaftesbury's connection with, ii. 570, 578.
Hale, Sir Matthew, integrity of, ii. 405.
Halifax, Charles Montague, Earl of, his attainments, iii. 409.
Draws Addison into politics, 411.
Addison's Epistle to, 421.
Loses power, 422.
Returns to the Council, 432.
Halifax, George Savile, Viscount, a trimmer; compared with Shaftesbury, ii. 573.
His political tracts, 575.
His oratorical powers, 575, 576.
The king's dislike of him, 576, 577.
Hallam, Henry, his History of England dry but accurate, i. 287.
His perfect fairness to all parties, 290.
Just condemnation of Cranmer, 298.
His view of Strafford's punishment, 312.
Of the Parliament of 1640, 316.
Condemns the Long Parliament, 336.
His estimate of Cromwell, 347.
Of Clarendon, 362.
Of William III.'s reign, 809.
Hamilton, Gerard, his celebrated speech, ii. 205.
Hammond, Henry, uncle of Sir William Temple, ii. 509.
Hampden, John, review of Lord Nugent's Memorials of, ii. 1.
His public and private character, 2, 3.
Baxter's testimony to his excellence, 4.
His origin and early history, 4,5.
Took his seat in the House of Commons in 1621, and joined the opposition to the court, 6.
His first appearance as a public man, 13.
His first stand for the fundamental principle of the Constitution, 16.
Committed to prison, 16.
Set at liberty and reëlected for Wendover, 17.
His retirement, 18.
His remembrance of his persecuted friends, 19.
His letters to Sir John Eliot, 19.
Clarendon's characterization of him as a debater, 19.
Letter from him to Sir John Eliot, 20.
His acquirements, 21.
Death of his wife, 22.
His resistance to the assessment for ship-money, 27.
Strafford's hatred of him, 29.
His intention to leave England, 29.
His return for Buckinghamshire in the fifth Parliament of Charles I., 31.
His motion on the subject of the king's message, 32.
His election by two constituencies to the Long Parliament, 36.
Character of his speaking, 37.
His opinion on the bill for the attainder of Strafford, 40.
Lord Clarendon's testimony to his moderation, 41.
His mission to Scotland, 41.
His conduct in the House of Commons on the passage of the Grand Remonstrance, 44.
His impeachment ordered by the king, 45-49.
Returns in triumph to the House, 50.
Raises a regiment in Buckinghamshire, 56.
Contrasted with Essex, 57, 58.
His encounter with Rupert at Chalgrove, 59.
His death and burial, 60.
Effect on his party, 61.
Hanover, Chatham's invective against the favor shown it by George II., ii. 254.
Harcourt, French ambassador to Spain, ii. 144, 145.
Harley, Robert, his accession to power, ii. 177.
Censured by Lord Mahon, 178.
Thrown into prison, 182.
Hastings, Warren, essay on, iii. 114-242.
Birth and ancestry, 115.
Education, 117.
Beginnings in India, 119.
Returns to England, 123.
Appointed to the Council at Madras, 124.
Meets Baroness Imhoff, 125.
Effects reforms at Madras, 126.
Dispenses with the double government at Bengal, 133.
His principle "Thou shalt want ere I want," 135.
His dealings with the Prince of Oude, 137.
Helps him conquer the Rohillas, 141.
His successful financial policy, 143.
Made Governor-General, 144.
Opposed by majority of the Council, 148.
Accused by Nuncomar, 150.
Supported by the English sentiment in Bengal, 151.
Motive in destroying Nuncomar, 157.
Opposition to, in England, 159.
Maclean presents his resignation, 160.
Repudiates the resignation and retains his position, 161.
Marries Baroness Imhoff, and is reappointed Governor-General, 163.
Plans to meet the Mahratta encroachments, 164.
Stops the legal excesses of Impey, 172.
Fights a duel with Francis, 174.
Sends Coote against Hyder Ali, 178.
Notes the advantage to the English of the double government in India, 181.
His demands on the Rajah of Benares, 182.
Visits Benares, 184.
Adds it to British dominions, 187.
Extorts money from the Begums of Oude, 191.
Condemned in England but supported by the Company, 194.
His extension of the Indian dominions, 195.
Internal administration in India reviewed, 196.
Ability in writing dispatches, 198.
His encouragement of literature, 199.
Loved by all classes, 200.
His offences, 201.
Returns to England, 203.
Insensible of his danger, 205.
Mistakes in his course of defence, 206.
Supported by the ministry, 207.
His opponents, 209.
His defence, 214.
Cleared on the charge relating to the Rohilla war, 215.
Deserted by the ministry on the charge respecting Cheyte Sing, 216.
Spoliation of the Begums charged by Sheridan, 220.
Scene at his trial, 223.
His counsel, 225.
Acquitted, 233.
Ruined financially, 235.
Aided by the East India Company, 236.
Later life at Daylesford, 238.
Tardy acknowledgment of his services, 240.
Death, 241.
Hastings, Mrs. Warren, her influence, iii. 203. See Imhoff, Baroness.
Hatton, Lady, marries Sir Edward Coke, ii. 385.
Hawke, Admiral, defeats French fleet under Conflans, ii. 277.
Hawkins, Sir John, interpolation of extracts from, in Boswell's Johnson, condemned, i. 707-710.
Henry VII., his reign the starting-point of modern English history, i. 371.
Henry VIII., his interest in the Reformation, i. 302.
Attempts to raise a forced loan, ii. 82.
His intermediate position between the Catholic and Protestant parties, 86.
Henry IV. of France, ii. 621.
Heresy, remarks on, ii. 622-634.
Herodotus, as an historian, his simplicity, i. 236.
Inaccuracy of, 237.
His work adapted to oral publication, 239.
His reality, 240.
Hesiod, his complaint of the corruption of the judges of Ascra, ii. 431.
Hesse Darmstadt, Prince of, commands the land forces sent against Gibraltar in 1704, ii. 158.
Accompanies Peterborough on his expedition. 161.
His death at the capture of Monjuich, 164.
High Commission, Court of, abolished, ii. 38.
Highgate, death of Lord Bacon at, ii. 443.
Hind and the Panther, The, i. 231.
Historians, their difficulties, i. 235.
The early, 236.
The modern, 264.
Their progress, 265.
Exclusive spirit of the Grecian, 266.
Dependence of the Latin on the Greek, 267.
Points of superiority of modern, 272.
Prejudiced, 273.
Their neglect of narrative history, 276.
Ideal, their characteristics, 280.
Historical reading, its effect, i. 279.
History, Johnson's view of, i. 243.
Chiefly a matter of perspective, 245.
Neglect of narrative, 276.
Only value of, 277.
Ideal form of, explained, 281.
A compound of poetry and philosophy, 285.
Difficulties of dividing them, 286.
Hobbes, Thomas, influence of, ii. 421.
Holland, governed with almost regal power by John de Witt, ii. 525.
Its apprehensions of the designs of France, 528.
Its defensive alliance with England and Sweden, 532.
Holland, first Lord. See Fox, Henry.
Holland, Henry Fox, third Lord, essay on, iii. 101-113.
Compared to his grandfather and uncle, 107.
Ability in debate, 109.
Liberality, 110.
His hospitality, 111.
Hollis, Denzil, imprisoned by Charles I., ii. 18.
Impeached, 45.
Holwell, Mr., his presence of mind in the Black Hole, ii. 704.
Cruelty of the Nabob to, 705.
Homer, Quintilian's criticisms on, i. 42.
Horace, compares poems to certain paintings, i. 49.
Hosein, son of Ali, festival in memory of, ii. 690.
Legend of his death, 691.
Hospitals, objects of, ii. 660.
Hume, David, an advocate rather than an historian, i. 273.
On the violence of parties before the Revolution, ii. 350.
Hungarians, their incursions into Lombardy, ii. 680.
Hungary, rises to support Maria Theresa, iii. 265.
Hunt. Leigh, his Comic Dramatists of the Restoration reviewed, iii. 47-100.
Too lenient toward their immorality, 51.
Huntington, William, ii. 750.
Hutchinson, Mrs., ii. 518.
Hyder Ali, character of, iii. 175.
Invades India, 176.
Driven back by Coote, 178.
Imhoff, Baron, meets Hastings, iii. 124.
Agrees to divorce his wife, 126.
Imhoff, Baroness, her attachment to Warren Hastings, iii. 125.
Marries him, 163.
See Hastings, Mrs. Warren.
Impey, Sir Elijah, a schoolmate of Hastings, iii. 118.
Sent to India as Chief Justice, 148.
Sentences Nuncomar, 153.
His conduct reprehensible, 156.
Attempts to enforce the English law in India, 168.
Bought off by Hastings, 172.
His conduct in the plundering of the Begums of Oude, 193.
Recalled to England, 194.
