PARAPHRASE OF A PASSAGE IN THE CHRONICLE OF THE MONK OF ST. GALL. (1856.)

[In the summer of 1856, the author travelled with a friend through Lombardy. As they were on the road between Novara and Milan, they were conversing on the subject of The the legends relating to that country. author remarked to his companion that Mr. Panizzi, in the Essay on the Romantic Narrative Poetry of the Italians, prefixed to his edition of Bojardo, had pointed out an instance of the conversion of ballad poetry into prose narrative which strongly confirmed the theory of Perizonius and Niebuhr, upon which "The Lays of Ancient Rome" are founded; and, after repeating an extract which Mr. Panizzi has given from the chronicle of "The Monk of St. Gall," he proceeded to frame a metrical paraphrase. The note in Mr. Panizzi's work (vol. i. p. 123, note b) is here copied verbatim.]

"The monk says that Oger was with Desiderius, King of Lombardy, watching the advance of Charlemagne's army. The king often asked Oger where was Charlemagne. Quando videris, inquit, segetem campis inhorrescere, ferreum Padum et Ticinum marinis fluctibus ferro nigrantibus muros civitatis inundantes, tunc est spes Caroli venientis. His nedum expletis primum ad occasum Circino vel Borea cœpit apparere, quasi nubes tenebrosa, quæ diem clarissimam horrentes convertit in umbras. Sed propiante Imperatore, ex armorum splendore, dies omni

nocte tenebrosior oborta est inclusis. Tunc visus est ipse ferreus Carolus ferrea galea cristatus, ferreis manicis armillatus, &c. &c. His igitur, quæ ego balbus et edentulus, non ut debui circuitu tardiore diutius explicare tentavi, veridicus speculator Oggerus celerrimo visu contuitus dixit ad Desiderium: Ecce, habes quem tantopere perquisisti. Et hæc dicens, pene exanimis cecidit.-MONACH. SANGAL. de Reb. Bel. Caroli Magni. lib. ii. § xxvi. Is this not evidently taken from poctical effusions?"

INSCRIPTION ON THE STATUE OF
LORD WM. BENTINCK.
AT CALCUTTA. (1835.)

To

WILLIAM CAVENDISH BENTINCK, Who, during seven years, ruled India with eminent

Prudence, Integrity, and Benevolence: Who, placed at the head of a great

Empire, never laid aside The simplicity and moderation of a private citizen:

Who

infused into Oriental despotism the spirit of British Freedom: Who never forgot that the end of Government is

The happiness of the Governed:

Who abolished cruel rites: Who effaced humiliating distinctions: Who gave liberty to the expression of public opinion:

Whose constant study it was, to elevate the intellectual

And moral character of The Nations committed to his charge: This Monument

Was erected by men, Who, differing in Race, in Manners, in Language, and in Religion, Cherish, with equal veneration and gratitude,

The memory of his wise, upright, and Paternal Administration.

Were successively entrusted to his care. In India, his fortitude, his wisdom, His probity, and his moderation, Are held in honourable remembrance By men of many races, languages, and religions.

In Jamaica, still convulsed by a social revolution,

His prudence calmed the evil passions Which long suffering had engendered in one class

And long domination in another. In Canada, not yet recovered from the calamities of civil war,

He reconciled contending factions
To each other,

And to the Mother Country.
Costly monuments in Asiatic and
American cities

Attest the gratitude of the nations
which he ruled.

This tablet records the sorrow and the

pride

With which his memory is cherished by his family.

ABSALOM.

Absolute government, theory of, 172.
Absolute rulers, 155.

Academy, the French, its services to litera-
ture, 10.

Addington, Henry, formation of his adminis-
tration, 353. His position as Prime Minis-
ter, 353. Resigns, 356. Raised to the
peerage, 357.

Eschines, compared by Mr. Mitford to De-
mosthenes, 77, 78.

Eschylus, his works, how regarded by Quintil-
lian, 57.

Agesilaus, depressed by the constitution of
Lycurgus, 74.

Ajax, the prayer of, in the Iliad, 57.
Aldrich, Dean, his mode of instructing the
youths of his college, 282. Employs Charles
Boyle to edit the letters of Phalaris, 283.
Alfieri, Vittorio, character of his works, 24.
His great fault in his compositions, 70.
Antinomian barn preacher, story of the, 199.
Approbation, love of, 148.

Aristocratical form of government. See Oli-
garchy.

Aristotle, his unrivalled excellence in analysis
and combination, 56. Value of his general
propositions, 56. His enlightened and pro-
found criticism, 57.

Arnault, A.V., Translation from, 366.
Arras, cruelties of the Jacobins at, 255.
Arrian, his character as a historian, 114.

BARÈRE.

the temper of the Athenians in the time of
Aristophanes, 109.

Atterbury, Francis, his birth and early life,
282. Defends Martin Luther against the
aspersions of Obadiah Walker, 282. Enters
the church and becomes one of the royal
chaplains, 282. Assists Charles Boyle in
preparing an edition of the letters of Pha-
laris, 283. His answer to Bentley's disser-
tation on the letters of Phalaris, 284.
Bentley's reply, 285. Atterbury's defence
of the clergy against the prelates, 285.
Created a D.D. and promoted to the Deanery
of Carlisle, 285. His pamphlets against the
Whigs, 286. Appointed to the Deanery of
Christ Church, 286. Removed to the Bi-
shopric of Rochester, 286. His opposition.
to the government of George I., 286. His
private life, 287. His taste in literature and
literary friends, 287. Thrown into prison
for treason, 288. Deprived of his dignities
and banished for life, 288. Calls Pope as a
witness to his innocence, 288. Goes to
Paris, and becomes Prime Minister of King
James, 289. Retires from the court of the
ex-King, 289. Death of his daughter, 289.
Induced by the Pretender to return to Paris,
290. His defence of the charge of having
garbled Clarendon's History of the Rebel-
lion, 290. His death, 290.
August, lines written in, 379.

decline of depend, 84.

Athenian Revels, scenes from, 12.
Athens disreputable character of Peiræus,
14. Police officers of the city, 14. Favour-
ite epithet of the city, 15. The Athenian
orators, 56. Excellence to which eloquence
attained at, 59. Dr. Johnson's contemptu-
ous derision of the civilisation of the people
of, 59. Their books and book education,
59.

An Athenian day, 59, 60. Defects of
the Athenians' conversational education, 60.
The law of ostracism at Athens, 73. Hap-
piness of the Athenians in their form of go-
vernment, 75. Their naval superiority, 76.
Ferocity of the Athenians in war, 76. And
of their dependencies in seditions, 76. Cause
of the violence of faction in that age, 76.
Influence of Athenian genius on the human
intellect and on private happiness, 81. The
gifts of Athens to man, 82. Character of
the great dramas of Athens, 93. Change in

machies of the schoolmen, 161, 171. And
of the Utilitarian philosophy, 161. His mode-
of tracking the principle of heat, 168.
Barbaroux, the Girondist, his execution, 254.
Barère, Bertrand, Mémoires de, of Carnot and
David, review of the, 232. Barère's true
character, 233. His lies, 235. His talents
as an author, 237. Sketch of his life, 237-
242. Votes against the King, 245. His
federal views and ultra-Girondism, 248.
His apparent zeal for the cause of order and
humanity, 249. His motion for punishing
the Jacobins, 249. Defeat of the Girondists,
249. Retains his seat at the Board of the
Triumphant Mountain, 250. His infamous
motion against the chiefs of the Girondists,
251. Moves that the Queen be brought be-
fore the Revolutionary Tribunal, 252. Re-
gales Robespierre and other Jacobins at a
tavern on the day of the death of the
Queen, 252. Formation of his peculiar style

CC

BARRE.
of oratory, 252. His Carmagnoles, 253.
Effect produced by his discourses, 253.
Seconds Robespierre's atrocious motion in
the Convention, 253. Becomes one of the
six members of the Committee of Public
Safety, 254. The first to proclaim terror
as the order of the day, 257. Recommends
Fouquier Tinville to the Revolutionary
Committee of Paris, 257. His proposal to
destroy Lyons and Toulon, 257.
His oppo-
sition to the personal defence of Danton,
257, 258. His support of the wretch Lebon,
258. His war against learning, art, and
history, 258. His sensual excesses, 258.
Becomes a really cruel man, 259. His
morning audiences and mode of treating
petitions, 259. His orders against cer-
tain head-dresses, 259. Nicknames given
to him, 260. Obtains a decree that no quar-
ter should be given to any English or
Hanoverian soldier, 260. M. Carnot's de-
fence of this barbarity, 260 note. Barère's
support of Robespierre's fiendish decree,
263. His panegyric on Robespierre, 264.
His motion that Robespierre and his ac-
complices should be put to death, 264.
Destruction of the power of the Jacobins,
265. Report on his conduct voted by the
Convention, 267. Condemned to be re-
moved to a distant place of confinement,
268. His perilous journey, 268. Impri-
soned at Oléron, 268, 269. Removed to
Saintes, 269. Escapes to Bordeaux, 269.

Chosen a member of the Council of Five
Hundred, which refuses to admit him, 270.
His libel on England, 270. The Liberty of the
Seas, 270. His flight to St. Ouen, 270. Sends
a copy of his work to the First Consul, 270.
Allowed by Bonaparte to remain in Paris,
271. Refuses; becomes a writer and a spy
to Bonaparte, 272. Sends his friend Demer-
ville to the guillotine, 274. Spies set to
watch the spy, 274. Ordered to quit Paris,
274. Employed in the lowest political
drudgery, 274. His Mémorial Antibritan-
nique and pamphlets, 275. His fulsome
adulation of the Emperor, 275. Causes of
his failure as a journalist, 275. Treated
with contempt by Napoleon, 276.
treachery to his Imperial master, 277. Be-
comes a royalist on the return of the Bour-
bons, 277. Compelled to leave France, 278.
Returns in July 1830, 278. Joins the ex-
treme left, 278. His last years and death,
279. Summary of his character, 280. His
hatred of England, 280. His MS. works on
divinity, 281.

His

Barré, Colonel, joins the Whig opposition,
332. Appointed by Pitt Clerk of the Pells,
338.

Bearn, the constitution of, 239.
Beatrice, Dante's love of, 26.

Beauclerk, Topham, a member of the Literary
Club, 320.

Bentham, Mr., his defence of Mr. Mill, 150.
His merits and shortcomings, 150, 151.
Examination of his views, 153. His ac-
count of the manner in which he arrived at
the "greatest happiness principle," 162.
Testimony to his merits, 216.

Bentinck, Lord William, inscription on the
statue of, at Calcutta, 382.
Bentley, Richard, his dissertation on the

Bonaparte, Napoleon, his detestation of the
cruel decree of the Convention respecting
English prisoners, 262. His return from
Egypt, and assumption of absolute power as
First Consul, 270. His policy at this period,
270. Allows Barère to reside in Paris, 271.
Employs Barère as a writer and spy, 272,
274. Establishes the Imperial government,
275. His opinion of Barère's journalism,
275. His defeat and abdication, 277.
Boswell, James, becomes a member of The
Club, 320. His character, 320. His life of
Johnson, 320.

Bourbon, Duke, character of the government
of, 228.

Bow Street, whiggery of, 159, 160.
Boyd, his translation of the Divine Comedy
of Dante, 31.

Boyle, Charles, his college edition of the
letters of Phalaris, 283. The answer to
Bentley attributed to him, 284.

Boyse, the poet, his friendship with Samuel
Johnson, 312.

Brasidas, great only when he ceased to be a
Lacedæmonian, 74.

Brissot, the Girondist leader, 244. His trial,
253.

His

Brissotines, the. See Girondists.
Buccaneer, the Last, 378.
Bunyan, John, age in which he produced his
Pilgrim's Progress, 92. His birth and early
life, 290. His notions of good and evil, 291.
Enlists in the parliamentary army, 291.
Returns home and marries, 292.
fantasies and internal sufferings, 292, 293.
Thrown into gaol, 293. His prison life,
294. His intimate knowledge of the Bible,
294. His early writings, 294. His abhor-
rence of the Quakers, 294. His controversies,
294. His answer to Edward Fowler, 294.
His dispute with some of his own sect, 294.
His liberation from prison, 295. His Pil-
grim's Progress, 295. His Holy War, 296.
Difficulties of 1685, 297. His death and
burial-place, 297. Fame of his Pilgrim's
Progress, 297, 298.

Burgundy, Duke of, his theory of good go-
vernment, 226.

Burke, Edmund, his character of the first
French republic, 117. And of the French
National Assembly, 220. His vindication
of himself from the charge of inconsistnocy,
222. His part in The Club, 320. His posi-
tion in the Whig opposition, 332.

Burns, Robert, age in which he produced his
works, 92.

Butler, Samuel, character of his poetry,

95.

Byron, Lord, his egotism and its success,
32.