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Allegro and Penseroso, 6
Alphabetical writing, the greatest of human
inventions, 396; comparative views of its
value by Plato and Bacon, 396, 397
America, acquisitions of the Catholic Church
in, 542; its capabilities, 542
American colonies, British war with them,
619; act for imposing stamp duties upon
them, 802; their disaffection, 807; revival
of the dispute with them, 817; progress of
their resistance, 819
Anabaptists, their origin, 221

Anacharsis, reputed contriver of the potter's
wheel, 390

Anaverdy Khan, governor of the Carnatic,
504, 505

Angria, his fortress of Gheriah reduced by
Clive, 511

Anne, Queen, her political and religious incli-
nations, 259; changes in her government
in 1710, 259; relative estimation by the
Whigs and the Tories of her reign, 260-262,
264; state of parties at her accession, 745,
746; dismisses the Whigs, 757; change in
the conduct of public affairs consequent on
her death, 765

Antioch, Grecian eloquence at, 542
Anytus, 382

Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone claims
it for the Church of England, 485, 496
Aquinas, Thomas, 407

Arab fable of the Great Pyramid, 562
Arbuthnot's Satirical Works, 756
Archimedes, his slight estimate of his inven-
tions, 395

Archytas, rebuked by Plato, 395

Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with England,
505-508, 540; his claims recognised by the
English, 505

Areopagitica, Milton's allusion to, 27

Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's ad-
ministration, 290

Ariosto, compared with Tasso, 552
Aristodemus, 543
Aristophanes, 564

Aristotle, his authority impaired by the Re-
formation, 393

Arithmetic, comparative estimate of by Plato
and by Bacon, 394, 395

Arlington, Lord, his character, 427; his cold-
ness for the Triple Alliance, 430; his im-
peachment, 438

Armies in the middle ages, how constituted,
35, 70; a powerful restraint on the regal
power, 70; subsequent change in this re-
spect, 71

Arms, British, successes of, against the French
in 1758, 307-309

Army (the), control of by Charles I. or by
the Parliament, 74; its triumph over both,
77; danger of a standing army becoming
an instrument of despotism, 216
Arne, Dr., set to music Addison's opera of
Rosamond, 749

Arragon and Castile, their old institutions
favourable to public liberty, 240

Art of War, Machiavelli's, 45

Arundel, Earl of, 388

Asia, Central, its people, 607

Asiatic Society, commencement of its career

under Warren Hastings, 637

Assemblies, dellberative, 306

Association. See Catholic Association

Astronomy, comparative estimate of by Soc.
rates and by Bacon, 396
Athenian comedies, their impurity, 564; re
printed at the two Universities, 564
Athenians (the), Johnson's opinion of them,

187

Attainder, an act of, warrantable, 209
Atterbury, Bishop, his reply to Bentley to
prove the genuineness of the Letters of Pha
laris, 461; reads the funeral service over
the body of Addison, 774
Attila, 542

Attributes of God, subtle speculations touch-
ing them imply no high degree of intellec
tual culture, 543, 544

Aubrey, his charge of corruption against Ba-
con, 379; Bacon's decision against him after
his present, 386

Augsburg, Confession of, its adoption in Swe
den, 555
Augustine, St., 542

Aurungzebe, his policy, 502
Austen, Jane, notice of, 726
Austin, Sarah, her character as a translator,
541, 563

Austria, success of her armies in the Catholic
cause, 551

Authors, their present position, 122-125
Avignon, the Papal Court transferred from
Rome to, 547

B

Baber, founder of the Mogul empire, 501
Bacon, Lady, mother of Lord Bacon, 352
Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's new

edition of the works of, 346-414; his mother
distinguished as a linguist, 352; his early
years, 353, 354; his services refused by go-
vernment, 355, 356; his admission at Gray's
Inn, 355; his legal attainments, 355; sat in
Parliament in 1593, 356; part he took in
politics, 356; his friendship with the Earl
of Essex, 359-363; examination of his con-
duct to Essex, 362-368; influence of King
James on his fortunes, 366; his servility to
Lord Southampton, 367; influence his ta-
lents had with the public, 367; his distino-
tion in Parliament and in the courts of law,
368; his literary and philosophical works,
368; his "Novum Organum," and the ad-
miration it excited, 368; his work of reduc
ing and recompiling the laws of England,
369; his tampering with the judges on the
trial of Peacham, 369-372; attaches himself
to Buckingham, 372; his appointment as
Lord Keeper, 373; his share in the vices of
the administration, 374; his animosity
towards Sir Edward Coke, 376, 377; his
town and country residences, 376; his titles
of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans,
377; report against him of the Committee
on the Courts of Justice, 379; nature of the
charges, 379, 380; overwhelming evidence
to them, 380, 381; his admission of his guilt,
381; his sentence, 381; examination of Mr.
Montagu's arguments in his defence, 381-
387; mode in which he spent the last years
of his life, 388, 389; chief peculiarity of his
philosophy, 389-394; his views compared
with those of Plato, 394-399; to what his
wide and durable fame is chiefly owing, 400;'

Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen against, 159
Bellasys, the English general, 249
Bellingham, his malevolence, 726
Belphegor (the) of Machiavelli, 42
Benares, its grandeur, 627; its annexation
to the British dominions, 631
"Benefits of the Death of Christ," 552
Benevolence, Oliver St. John's opposition to,
and Bacon's support of, 369
Bengal, its resources, 511, et seq.
Bentham, his language on the French revo-
lution, 316

his frequent treatment of moral subjects, | Belgium, its contest between Protestantism
402; his views as a theologian, 403; vulgar and Catholicism, 553, 557
notion of him as inventor of e inductive Belial, 572
method, 404; estimate of his analysis of that
method, 404-408; union of audacity and
sobriety in his temper, 408; his amplitude
of comprehension, 408, 409; his freedom
from the spirit of controversy, 409; his
eloquence, wit, and similitudes, 410; his
disciplined imagination, 411; his boldness
and originality, 411; unusual development
in the order of his faculties, 412; his resem-
blance to the mind of Burke, 412; specimens
of his two styles, 412, 413; value of his
Essays, 413; his greatest performance the
first book of the Novum Organum, 413;
contemplation of his life, 413, 414
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character, 349-351
Baconian philosophy, its chief peculiarity,
389; its essential spirit, 390; its method and
object differed from the ancient, 394; com-
parative views of Bacon and Plato, 394-
399; its beneficent spirit, 397, 398, 401; its
value compared with ancient philosophy,
399-404

Baillie, Gen., destruction of his detachment
by Hyder Ali, 756

Balance of power, interest of the Popes in pre-
serving it, 558

Banim, Mr., his defence of James II, as a sup-
porter of toleration, 333

Banking operations of Italy in the 14th cen-
tury, 32

Bar (the), its degraded condition in the time
of James II., 88

Barbary, work on, by Rev. Dr. Addison, 733
Barcelona, capture of, by Peterborough, 253
Baretti, his admiration for Miss Burney, 710
Barillon, M., his pithy words on the new coun-
cil proposed by Temple, 443
Barlow, Bishop, 572
Barrington, Lord, 780

Barwell, Mr., 610; his support of Hastings,
612, 618, 619, 621

Bastille, Burke's declamations on its capture,
643

Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies, Addison's,

736

Bavaria, its contest between Protestantism
and Catholicism, 553, 558

Baxter's testimony to Hampden's excellence,

192

Bayle, Peter, 544

Beaumarchais, his suit before the parliament
of Paris, 387

Beckford, Alderman, 815

Bedford, Duke of, 779; his views of the po-

licy of Chatham, 786, 792; presents remon-
strance to George III., 805

Bedford, Earl of, invited by Charles I. to
form an administration, 209
Bedfords (the), 779; their opposition to the
Rockingham ministry on the Stamp Act,
808; their willingness to break with Gren-
villeon Chatham's accession to office, 813; de-
serted Grenville and admitted to office, 817;
parallel between them and the Rocking-
hams, 802

Bedford House assailed by a rabble, 804
Begums of Oude, their domains and treasures,
632; disturbances in Oude imputed to them,
632; their protestations, 633; their spolia-
tion charged against Hastings, 647

Bentham and Dumont, 268
Bentinck, Lord William, his memory che-
rished by the Hindoos, 541
Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the state of religion
in England in the 16th century, 230
Bentley, Richard, his quarrel with Boyle, and
remarks on Temple's Essay on the Letters
of Phalaris, 461; his edition of Milton, 462,
731; his notes on Horace, 462; his recon.
ciliation with Boyle and Atterbury, 463
Berar, occupied by the Bonslas, 620
Berwick, Duke of, held the Allies in check,
250; his retreat before Galway, 254
Bickerstaff, Isaac, astrologer, 754
Biographia Britannica, refutation of a ca-
lumny on Addison in, 773

Biography, tenure by which a writer of is
bound to his subject, 459

Bishops, claims of those of the Church of
England to apostolic succession, 485, 489
Black Hole of Calcutta described, 513, 514;
retribution of the English for its horrors,
514, 515,517, 518

Blackmore, Sir Richard, his attainments in
the ancient languages, 736
Blackstone, 346

Blasphemous publications, policy of govern-
ment in respect to, 115

Blenheim, battle of, 748; Addison employed
to write a poem in its honour, 746
Blois, Addison's retirement to, 739
"Bloomsbury gang," the denomination of
the Bedfords, 779

Bodley, Sir Thomas, founder of the Bodleian
library, 369, 388

Bohemia, influence of the doctrines of Wick-
liffe in, 547, 548

Boileau, Addison's intercourse with, 740, 741;
his opinion of modern Latin, 740, 741; his
literary qualities, 741

Bokngbroke, Lord, the liberal patron of lite-
rature, 179; proposed to strengthen the
royal prerogative, 276; his pretence of
philosophy in his exile, 402; his jest on oc-
casion of the first representation of Cato,
762; Pope's perfidy towards him, 768; his
remedy for the diseases of the state, 784,
785

Bombay, its affairs thrown into confusion by
the new council at Calcutta, 613
Book of the Church, Southey's, 100
Books, puffing of, 123-126

Booth, played the hero in Addison's Cato on
its first representation, 761
Borgia, Cæsar, 43

Boroughs, rotten, the abolition of, a necessary
reform in the time of George I., 280
Boswell, James, his character, 175-177

Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Croker, review
of, 165-190; character of the work, 175
Boswellism, 28

Bourbon, the House of, their vicissitudes in
Spain, 248-258

Bourne, Vincent, 327; his Latin verses in
celebration of Addison's restoration to
health, 357

Boyle, Charles, his nominal editorship of the
Letters of Phalaris, 461; his book on Greek
history and philology, 736
Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry, 746

"Boys" (the), in opposition to Sir R. Wal-
pole, 278

Bracegirdle, Mrs., her celebrity as an actress,
588; her intimacy with Congreve, 588, 589
Brahmins, 544

Breda, treaty of, 429

Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles I., 90
Brihuega, siege of, 258

"Broad Bottom Administration" (the), 297
Brothers, his prophecies as a test of faith,
544

Brown Launcelot, 535

Brown's Estimate, 302

Bruce, Lord, his appearance at Dr. Burney's
concerts, 704

Brunswick, the House of, 781

Brussels, its importance as the seat of a vice-
regal Court, 429
Brydges, Sir Egerton, 726

Buchanan, character of his writings, 394
Buckhurst, 564, 565

Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenfe" of
James I., 197, 198; Bacon's early discern-
ment of his influence, 372, 373; his expedi-
tion to Spain, 373; his return for Bacon's
patronage, 373; his corruption, 374; his
character and position, 374-377; his mar-
riage, 378; his visit to Bacon, and report
of his condition, 380

Buckingham, Duke of, one of the Cabal
ministry, 573; his fondness for Wycherley,
573; anecdote of his versatility, 574
Budgell, Eustace, one of Addison's friends,
752, 753

Bunyan, John, his history and character, 136-
138; his style, 139; his religious enthusiasm
and imagery, 556

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, review of
Southey's edition of, 132; peculiarity of the
work, 133, 136, 138, 139; not a perfect alle-
gory, 135, 136

Buonaparte, 81, 304, 747. See also Napoleon
Burgoyne, Gen., chairman of the committee
of inquiry on Lord Clive, 539

Burke, Edmund, his characteristics, 98; his
opinion of the war with Spain on the ques-
tion of maritime right, 295; resembles
Bacon, 412; effect of his speeches on the
House of Commons, 464; not the author of
the Letters of Junius, 611; his charges
against Hastings, 640, 754; his kindness to
Miss Burney, 718; her incivility to him at
Hastings' trial, 718; his early political
career, 806-809; his first speech in the
House of Commons, 809; his opposition to
Chatham's measures relating to India, 815;
his defence of his party against Grenville's
attacks, 818; his feeling towards Chatham,

818

Burleigh and his Times, review of Rev. Dr.
Nares's, 220; his early life and character,

221-224; his death, 224; importance of the
times in which he lived, 224; the great
stain his character, 233; character of
the use of statesmen he belonged to, 352;
classical acquirements of his wife, 352; his
conduct towards Bacon, 354, 355, 359; his
apology for having resorted to torture, 370;
Bacon's letter to him upon the department
of knowledge he had chosen, 409
Burnet, Bishop, 463

Burney, Dr., his social position, 702, 704; his
conduct relative to his daughter's first pub
lication, 709; his daughter's engagement at
Court, 714

Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame
Bussey, his eminent merit and conduct in
India, 509

Bute, Earl of, his character and education,
782; appointed Secretary of State, 785; op-
poses the proposal of war with Spain on
account of the family compact, 787; his
unpopularity on Chatham's resignation,
788; becomes Prime Minister, 788; his first
speech in the House of Lords, 788; induces
the retirement of the Duke of Newcastle,
789; becomes First Lord of the Treasury,
790; his foreign and domestic policy, 791,
796; his resignation, 797; continues to ad
vise the king privately, 799, 804, 808
Butler, Addison not inferior to him in wit,

755

Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca, 302;
his trial, 304; opinion of his conduct, 304;
Chatham's defence of him, 304

Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, 147; his
character, 148; his early life, 148; his quar
rel with and separation from his wife, 149-
150; his expatriation, 151; decline of his
intellectual powers, 151; his attachment to
Italy and Greece, 152; his sickness and
death, 152; general grief for his fate, 152;
remarks on his poetry, 153; his admiration
of the Pope school of poetry, 159; his
opinion of Wordsworth and Coleridge, 159;
of Peter Bell, 159; his estimate of the
poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries, 159;
his sensitiveness to criticism, 160; the in-
terpreter between Wordsworth and the
multitude, 160; the founder of an exoteric
Lake school, 161; remarks on his dramatic
works, 161-163; his egotism, 163; cause of
his influence, 163-165

Cabal (the), their proceedings and designs,
434, 436, 438

Cabinets, in modern times, 442
Cadiz, exploit of Essex at the siege of, 249,
360; its pillage by the English expedition
in 1702, 249
Cæsar Borgia, 43
Cæsar, Claudius, resemblance of James 1, to,

196

Cæsar, Julius, compared with Cromwell, 81
Cæsars (the), parallel between them and the
Tudors, not applicable, 229
Calcutta, its position on the Hoogley, 512;
scene of the Black Hole of, 513, 514; re-
sentment of the English at its fall, 514;
again threatened by Surajah Dowlah, 5i6;

revival of its prosperity, 521; its sufferings |
during the famine, 536; its capture, 598;
its suburbs infested by robbers, 612; its
festivities on Hastings' marriage, 619
Calvinism, moderation of Bunyan's, 138; held
by the Church of England at the end of
the 16th century, 489; many of its doc-
trines contained in the Paulician theology,

546
Cambridge, University of, favoured by George
I. and George II., 790; its superiority to
Oxford in intellectual activity, 349; dis-
turbances produced in by Civil War, 421
Cambyses, story of his punishment of the cor-
rupt judge, 383

Camilla, Madame D'Arblay's, 727, 728
Campaign, The, by Addison, 746

Canada, subjugation of, by the British in
1760, 308

Canning, Mr., 725

Cape Breton, reduction of, 307

Caraffa, Gian Pietro, afterwards Pope Paul
IV., his zeal and devotion, 549, 552
Carlisle, Lady, 212

Carnatic (the), its resources, 504-510; its in-
vasion by Hyder Ali, 625, 626
Carteret, Lord, his ascendancy after the fall
of Walpole, 281, 282; Sir Horace Walpole's
stories about him, 283; his defection from
Sir Robert Walpole, 292; succeeds Walpole,
297; his character as a statesman, 297, 298;
created Earl Granville, 297

Carthagena, surrender of the arsenal and
ships of, to the Allies, 254
Casina (the), of Plautus, 41
Castile, Admiral of, 250

Castile and Arragon, their old institutions
favourable to public liberty, 240
Castilians, their character in the 16th century,
238; their conduct in the War of the Suc-
cession, 255; their attachment to the faith
of their ancestors, 549

Castracani, Castruccio, Life of, by Machiavelli,

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Chalmers, Dr., Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his
defence of the Church, 466

Champion, Colonel, commander of the Bengal
army, 608

Chandernagore, French settlement on the
Hoogley, 512; captured by the English,
516

502

Charlemagne, imbecility of his successors,
Charles, Archduke, his claim to the Spanish
crown, 241; takes the field in support of
it, 250; accompanies Peterborough in his
expedition, 251; his success in the north-
east of Spain, 253; is proclaimed king at
Madrid, 254; his reverses and retre t, 256;
his re-entry into Madrid, 257; his unpopu-
larity, 257; concludes a peace, 259; forms
an alliance with Philip of Spain, 262
Charles I., lawfulness of the resistance to,
15, 18; Milton's defence of his execution,
20, 21; his treatment of the Parliament of
1640, 61; his treatment of Strafford, 66;
estimate of his character, 66, 79, 80, 197
his fall, 78; his condemnation and its con-
sequences, 78-81; Hampden's opposition to
him, and its consequences, 197-204; resist-
ance of the Scots to him, 204, 205; his in-
creasing difficulties, 205; his conduct to-
wards the House of Commons, 212-214;
his flight, 214; review of his conduct and
treatment, 215, 217; reaction in his favour
during the Long Parliament, 331; cause of
his political blunders, 378; effect of the vic-
tory over him on the national character, 418
Charles I. and Cromwell, choice between, 78
Charles II., character of his reign, 22; his

foreign subsidies, 89; his situation in 1660
contrasted with that of Louis XVIII., 324;
his character, 327, 423; his position towards
the king of France, 329; consequences of
his levity and apathy, 331, 332; his court
compared with that of his father, 427; his
extravagance, 429; his subserviency to
France, 430-440; his renunciation of the
dispensing power, 438; his relations with
Temple, 439, 441, 456; his system of bribery
of the Commons, 445; his dislike of Halifax,
453; his dismissal of Temple, 456; his social
disposition, 573

Charles II. of Spain, his unhappy condition,
241, 243-246; his difficulties in respect to
the succession, 241-246

Charles III. of Spain, his hatred of England,

787

Charles V., 549
Charles VIII., 409

Charles XII., compared with Clive, 541
Charlotte, Queen, obtains the attendance of
Miss Burney, 714; her partizanship for
Hastings, 719; her treatment of Miss
Burney, 720-723

Chatham, Earl of, character of his public life,
286, 287; his early life, 287; his travels, 288;
enters the army, 288; obtains a seat in Par-
liament, 288; attaches himself to the Whigs
in Opposition, 291; his qualities as an orator,
293, 294; is made Groom of the Bedchamber
to the Prince of Wales, 295; declaims against
the ministers, 296; his opposition to Car-
teret, 297; legacy left him by the Duchess
of Marlborough, 297; supports the Pelham
ministry, 297; appointed Vice-Treasurer of
Ireland, 297, 298; overtures made to him

by Newcastle, 801; made Secretary of
State, 301; defends Admiral Byng, 304;
coalesces with the Duke of Newcastle, 302;
success of his administration, 302-309; his
appreciation of Clive, 525, 537; breach be-
tween him and the great Whig connection,
537; review of his Correspondence, 775; in
the zenith of prosperity and glory, 775;
his coalition with Newcastle, 777; his
strength in Parliament, 780; jealousies in
his cabinet, 785; his defects, 786; proposes
to declare war against Spain on account of
the family compact, 787; rejection of his
counsel, 787; his resignation, 787; the
king's gracious behaviour to him, 787;
public enthusiasm towards him, 788; his
conduct in opposition, 789-795; his speech
against peace with France and Spain, 795;
his unsuccessful audiences with George III.
to form an administration, 799; Sir William
Pynsent bequeaths his whole property to
him, 801; bad state of his health, 802; is
twice visited by the Duke of Cumberland
with propositions from the King, 804, 805;
his condemnation of the American Stamp
Act, 807, 808; is induced by the King to
assist in ousting Rockingham, 811; morbid
state of his mind, 811, 812, 815; under-
takes to form an administration, 812, 813;
is created Earl of Chatham, 813; failure of
his ministerial arrangements, 813-817; loss
of his popularity, and of his foreign in-
fluence, 813-817; nis despotic manners,
812, 814; lays an embargo on the exporta-
tion of corn, 815; his first speech in the
House of Lords, 815; his supercilious con-
duct towards the Peers, S15; his retire-
ment from office, 815; his policy violated,
816-818; resigns the privy seal, 817; state
of parties and of public affairs on his re-
covery, 817, 818; his political relations,
819; his eloquence not suited to the House
of Lords, 819; opposed the recognition of
the independence of the United States, 821;
his last appearance in the House of Lords,
820; his death, 821; reflections on his fall,
821; his funeral in Westminster Abbey,

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Cheyte Sing, a vassal of the government of
Bengal, 627; his large revenue and sus-
pected treasure, 629; Hastings' policy in
desiring to punish him, 629-631; his treat-
ment made the successful charge against
Hastings, 644

Chillingworth, his opinion on apostolical
succession, 488; became a Catholic from
conviction, 545

Chinsurah, Dutch settlement on the Hoogley,
512; its siege by the English and capitula-
tion, 525

Chivalry, its form in Languedoc in the 12th
century, 545, 546
Cholmondely, Mrs., 710

Christchurch College, Oxford, its repute after
the Revolution, 460; issues a new edition
of the Letters of Phalaris, 461
Christianity, its alliance with the ancient phi-
losophy, 392; light in which it was regarded
by the Italians at the Reformation, 548
Church (the), in the time of James II., 88

Church (the), Southey's book of, 100
Church, the English, persecutions in her
name, 55, 56; High and Low Church
parties, 749

Church of England, its origin, and connection
with the state, 59; its condition in the
time of Charles I., 113; endeavour of the
leading Whigs at the Revolution to alter
its Liturgy and Articles, 340, 490; its con-
test with the Scotch nation, 341; Mr. Glad
stone's work in defence of it, 466, 467; his
arguments for its being the pure Catholic
Church of Christ, 483, 485; its claims to
apostolical succession discussed, 485-491;
views respecting its alliance with the state,
491-496; contrast of its operations during
the two generations succeeding the Refor.
mation, with those of the Church of Rome,
551, 556

Church of Rome, its alliance with ancient phi
losophy, 392; causes of its success and vi
tality, 542, 543; sketch of its history, 544-

563

Churchill, Charles, 87, 792
Cicero, partiality of Dr. Middleton towards,
348; the most eloquent and skilful of ad.
vocates, 348; his epistles in his banishment,
357; his opinion of the study of rhetoric,

405

Cider, proposal of a tax on, by the Bute ad-
ministration, 796

Civilisation, England's progress in, due to the
people, 121

Civil privileges and political power identical,

141

Civil war, its evils the price of our liberty,
18; conduct of the Long Parliament in
reference to it, 66, 77

Clarendon, Lord, his character, 88, 89; his
testimony in favour of Hampden, 199, 208,
209, 217, 219; his literary merit, 347; his
position at the head of affairs, 13, 14-17;
his faulty style, 22; his opposition to the
growing power of the Commons, 31; his
temper, 32

Clarke, Dr. Samuel, 543
Clarkson, Thomas, 726
Classical learning, love of, in Italy in the 14th
century, 33

Clavering, General, 610; his opposition to
Hastings, 612, 615; his appointment as Go-
vernor-General, 617; his defeat, 619; his
death, 619

Cleveland, Duchess of, her favour to Wy.
cherley and Churchill, 572, 573
Clifford, Lord, his character, 434; his retire-
ment, 439; his talent for debate, 445
Clive, Lord, review of Sir John Malcolm's
Life of, 497-541; his family and boyhood,
498, 499; his shipment to India, 498; his
arrival at Madras, and position there, 499;
obtains an ensign's commission in the
Company's service, 501; his attack, capture,
and defence of Arcot, 505-508; his subse-
quent proceedings, 509, 510; his marriage
and return to England, 510; his reception,
510; enters Parliament, 510; returns to
India, 511; his subsequent proceedings,
511-520; his conduct towards Omichund,
519; his pecuniary acquisitions, 521, 522;
his transactions with Meer Jaffir, 521, 522;
appointed Governor of the Company's pos
sessions in Bengal, 523; his dispersion of

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