ABSALOM.

ABSALOM and Achitophel of Dryden, cha-

racter of it, 105.

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-
four 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.

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. His
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 inconsistnǝcy,
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.

Carmagnoles, the, of Barère, 253. Lord El-
lenborough's, 253.

Carmichael, Miss, or Polly, in Dr. Johnson's
house, 322.

Carnot, M. Hippolyte, his part in the Me-
moirs of Bertrand Barère, 232, 235, 237.
Carolan, his compositions, 299.

Carrier, the tyrant of Nantes, placed under
arrest, 266.

Casti, character of his Animali Parlanti,
24.

Catholicism, Roman, the most poetical of
all religions, 26. Its great revival at the
beginning of the thirteenth century, 26.
Treaty concluded by Charles II. by which
he bound himself to set up Catholicism in
England, 295.

Catiline, Sallust's account of the Conspiracy
of, 118.

Cavendish, Lord John, becomes Chancellor of
the Exchequer, 333. Resigns, 334.
Cervantes, delight with which

Quixote is read, 86.

his Don

Charles II., King of England, influence of his
residence abroad upon his character and
tastes, 95. His treaty respecting Roman
Catholics, 295.

Chatham, first Earl of, compared by Mira-
beau, 231. His declining years, 327. His
last appearance in the House of Lords,
327.

Chatham, second Earl of, his mismanagement
of the Admiralty, 351.

Chaumette, one of the accusers of the Gi-
rondists before the Revolutionary Tribunal,
253.

Christ Church, Oxford, cry of, against Bent-
ley, 284.

Christianity, effect of the victory of, over
paganism, 123.

Churchill, his insult to Johnson, 319.
Civil War, the great, 45.

Clarendon, his History of the Rebellion,
charge of garbling it, 290.

Classical writers, celebrity of the great,
56.

Cleomenes, causes and results of his raving
cruelty, 75.

Clergyman, the Country, his Trip to Cam-
bridge, 373.

Club, The, formation of, 301, 320. Members
of the, 320.

"Coalition," formation of the, 335. Uni-
versal disgust, 336. End of the Coalition,
338.

Coates, Romeo, the actor, 151.

Cock Lane Ghost, the, 318.
Collot, d'Herbois, becomes a member of the
Committee of Public Safety, 254. Attacked
in the streets, 260. Brought to trial, 266,
267. Condemned by the Convention to be
removed to a distant place of confinement,
268. His end, 269.

Condorcet, strength brought by him to the

Constantinople, empire of, its retrogression
and stupefaction, 124.

Convention, the French, of 1792, 243. The
Girondists, 244. The Mountain, 245.
Character of the diplomatic language
during the reign of the Convention, 252.
Corday, Charlotte, her murder of Marat, 250.
Corneille, attempts of the Academy to depress
the rising fame of, 10.

Cornwallis, General, his surrender to the
Americans, 332.

Cottabus, the Athenian game of, 13.
Couthon, becomes a member of the Com-
mittee of Public Safety, 254. His execu-
tion, 264.

Cowley, Mr. Abraham, and Mr. John Mil-
ton, conversation between, touching the
great Civil War, 45.

Criticism, verbal, 58. Improvement of the
science of criticism, 90. The critical and
poetical faculty distinct and incompatible,
92.

Cyrus, Xenophon's Life of, its character, 114.

DANTE, criticism on, 21. His first adven-

ture in the popular tongue, 22. In-
fluences of the times in which he lived upon
his works, 24. His love of Beatrice, 26. His
despair of happiness on earth, 26. Close
connection between his intellectual and
moral character, 27. Compared with Milton,
27. His metaphors and comparisons, 28.
Little impression made by the forms of
the external world upon him, 29. Fascina-
tion revolting and nauseous images had
for his mind, 30. His use of ancient
mythology in his poems, 30. His idolatry
of Virgil, 30. Excellence of his style, 31.
Remarks upon the translations of the
Divine Comedy, 31. His veneration for
writers inferior to himself, 86. How re-
garded by the Italians of the fourteenth
century, 86, 87.

Danton, character of, 233. His death, 257.
David, M. d'Angers, the sculptor, his part in
the Memoirs of Bertrand Barère, 232.
De Foe, effect of his Robinson Crusoe on
the imagination of the child and the judg-
ment of the man, 87.

Demerville, the Jacobin, betrayed by his
friend Barère, 274.

Democracy, a pure, 72, 73. Mr. Mill's view
of a pure and direct, 134.
Demosthenes, compared by Mr. Mitford to
Eschines, 77, 78. His irresistible elo-
quence, 80.

Denham, Sir John, character of his poetry, 94.
Denis, St., Abbey of, laid waste by Barère,
258.

"Dennis, St., and St. George in the Water,
some Account of the Lawsuit between the
Parishes of," 40.

Deserted Village of Oliver Goldsmith, 303.
Desmoulins, Camille, his attack on the Reign
of Terror, 257. Reply of Barère, 257.
Desmoulins, Mrs., in Dr. Johnson's house, 322.
Despotic rulers, 155. Theory of a despotic
government, 172.
Dies Iræ, 367.
Dionysius, his criticisms, 57.