Fleet, American, its cargo of bullion, 822.
Fletcher, 570.
Fleury, 664, 665, 918.
Florence, 673, 734, 739.
Florida, 635.
Fontenoy, 664.
Foote, his mimicry, 717.
Forde, Colonel, 531, 532.
Fort St. David, 518, 521.
Fort St. George, 518, 538, 605, 627, 635,
682.
Fort William, 521, 522, 524, 529, 532, 537,
601, 602, 605, 612, 623, 628, 635.
Fouquier Tinville, 795, 809.
Fox's History of James II., 335.
Fox, Charles, 595.
Fox, Henry, as a speaker, 324; mentioned,
533, 814, 826, 837; the Benares charge,
644; the English Demosthenes, 648;
and Sheridan, 711, 852.
Fox, House of, 594; party of, 643.
Fragments of a Roman Tale, 853; Liga-
rius, Flaminius, and Lucius Sylla, sus-
picious of Catiline, 853; Caius Cæsar,
854, 856; Cato in Senate, 855; Zoe,
Clodius, 856, 858, 860.
Franc de Pompignan, 746.
France, 296, 635, 647, 665, 679, 739, 915.
Francis of Loraine, 667.
Francis, Philip, 612, 614, 616, 620, 621,
623, 625, 627, 629, 639, 641, 643, 646;
resemblance of his style to that of
Junius, 613.
Franconia, Courts of, 604, 620.
Frankfort, 676, 687.
Franklin, Dr., "the less," 704.
Frascatories, 732.
Frederic the Great and his Times, edited
by Thomas Campbell, 656-694. The
Prussian monarchy, 656; grandfather
and father of Frederic, 656, 657; his
boyhood, 657, 658; ill-treatment of,
and attempt at escape, 656; his life at
Rheinsberg, 659; his admiration for
Voltaire, 660; his accession to the
throne, 661; comparison between
Frederic and his father, 662; prepares
for war, 664; Battle of Molwitz, 665;
Silesia ceded by Maria Theresa, 666;
hostilities, peace with England and
Austria, 667; Frederic's method of
government, 667; tolerance in religi-
ous matters, 670; love of literary
society, 671; his supper parties and
love of practical jokes, 672; reception
of Voltaire, 675; quarrels, 676, 677;
beginning of the Seven Years' War,
682; glory of Frederic, 687; popula-
rity in England, discipline of his army,
688; period of reverses, death of Mar-
gravine of Bareuth, 689; end the war,
693; mistakes in his French writing,
732.
Frederick I., first King of Prussia, 656.
Frederick II., 552, 881.
Frederick William I., 657; death of, 661.
Frederick, Prince of Wales, 817.
Frederick the Great, 486; little vanities
of, 654.
French ambassador, the, 273; armies,
defeats of, 287; factories in Bengal,
622; language, the, 659; Walpole's
love of, 296.
French Revolution, the, 642; compared
with the Reformation, 256; the Re-
public governed by coups d'état, 909;
meeting of States-General, fall of the
Bastile, rejection of religion, 909, 910;
stormy debates of National Assembly,
911; fanaticism, cruelty, and licentious-
ness of the Revolution contrasted with
English and American Revolutions,
912; policy of Louis XVI., 2; Charles
X., 912, 913; present state of France
with that of forty years ago, 913;
causes of revolution, 914; Louis XIV.,
his person and policy, 915; character
and projects of the Duke of Burgundy,
917; description of the Regency, the
Regent a facsimile of Charles II., 917;
accession and fall of Duke of Bourbon,
918; unpopularity of monarchy and
aristocracy, 918; subsequent events,
meeting of States-General, explosion of
a century of passions, the Revolution
conducted by speculators, 920.
Freeholder, the, 740, 756, 759.
Fréron, 673.
Friend, Sir John, executed for treason,
585.
Froissart, our Herodotus, 84.
Fulda, 602.
Fuller, his opinion of Burghley's conduct,
254.
Furor Biographicus, 99.
Fyzabad, 633.
GABRIELLI, 698.
Galloway, 751.
Galileo, 907.
Galt, Mr., his novels, 720.
Galway, his generalship, 285.
Gang, the Bloomsbury, 814.
Ganges, the, 610, 628, 630, 641; the Lower,
606.
Garrick, David, 698, 700, 717.
Garter King at Arms, 647; order of the,
739.
Gay, 71, 762.
Genoa, 723.
Genoude, M. 811.
Gensonné, 783.
Geometry, 413.
George I., 751, 759.
George II., 621, 667, 670; his dislike of
Pitt and Temple, 329; character of,
816; complaint of Pitt's ignorance, 820.
George III., 533, 621, 650, 706; accession
of, 815; character, 816.
Gerhard Dow, 700, 926.
Germany, Emperor of, 659.
Ghazini, 546.
Gibbon, his misrepresentations, 88; trick
of narration, 94; mentioned, 703, 720;
his appearance, 717.
Gibraltar, 279, 647.
Giffard, Lady, 470.
Girondists, 775, 776; trial of, 783.
Gladstone on Church and State, 477-507;
character of the author, 477; his
qualification for the work, 478; his
fundamental proposition theory, 479;
the duty of governments, 480; errors
of the author, 483; religion for the
army, 484; conformity necessary, 485;
penalties for heretics, 488; the author's
inconsistency, 491; his inventive
powers, 492; his bigotry, 494; on his
private judgment, 495; on apostolical
succession, 497; his idea of unity, 499;
on grants to Dissenters, 501; his
narrow-mindedness, 502; the editor's
views, 503; connection between govern-
ment and religion, 505.
Gleif, Rev. G. R., 599, 616, 634, 638, 654;
opinions of, 611, 612.
Glendoveer, Southey's, 139.
Godfrey, Sir E., murder of, 355.
Godolphin, blunder of, 287; mentioned,
590, 747, 819.
Goethe, 551, 706; Faust, 757.
Goëzmans, the, memorable case of, 406.
Golconda, jewels of, 628.
Grafton, Duke of, 838, 844, 847, 849.
Granada, 552, 554.
Granby, Marquis of, 533.
Grandison, Sir Charles, novel of, 638, 704,
Granville, Earl, 322, 596.
Grattan, Mr., 639, 852.
Gray, poet, 700; his imitation of old
poetical diction, 67; lampoon of, 595;
refused a Professorship, 825.
Statesmen,
Greece, its history the best commentary
upon that of Italy, 32; its imaginative
and critical schools, 56; Greek drama,
whence sprung, 6; literature, its cha-
racter admired by the Romans, 56.
Greeks, fashionable logic of the, 74; in
the time of Homer, 84.
Gregory XIII., 557.
Grenville, George, 533, 543, 545, 557, 596,
645, 706, 820, 822, 829, 830; and George
III., 839, 840; his frugality, 833; im-
posing stamp duties, 834; party of,
614; hissed, 841; dies, 850.
Grenvilles, the, 814, 843, 847, 849.
Greville, Fulk, 696.
Grey, Mr., assists Fox in charge against
Warren Hastings, 649, 651.
Grey, Earl, 648.
Grosvenor Square, 697.
Grotius, school of, 661.
Grub Street, 709, 741.
"Guardian," the, 751, 753.
Guarini, 880.
Guelfs, their success greatly derived
from ecclesiastical power, 29.
Guiana, 798.
Guicciardini, 252.
Guichard, 675.
HALIFAX, LORD, 343, 365, 589, 639, 735,
737, 744, 747, 751, 755.
Hall, Bishop, writings of, 59.
Hallam, Henry, his constitutional history
of England, 93; qualifications as a
historian, 94; peculiarities of his style,
94; his mind and style in sympathy,
95; testimony to the impartiality of
his book, 95; passing of the laws
against Catholics, 96; the character of
Cranmer, 99; the compromise from
which the Church of England sprung,
proceedings of the 101; the third
Parliament of Charles I., 102; the
impeachment of Strafford, 102; con-
duct of Hampden, 103; the Long
Parliament, Charles I., 107; the
nineteen propositions of Parliament,
113; the veto on the appointment of
ministers, 114; Parliament demanding
control over the army, 114; Archbishop
Laud and his correspondence with
Strafford, 116; destruction of the king's
armies, 118; his execution, 118; the
abilities of Charles, 119; his death,
119; parallel between Cromwell and
Bonaparte, 120; the dispatch of gentle-
men as slaves to Barbadoes, 124; the
reputation of Clarendon, 128; his esti-
mate of the numbers of religious
parties, 261.
Hamilton, Gerard, single speech of, 326,
Hampden, his conduct in affairs of ship.
money, 103; his memorials, his party,
and his times, by Lord Nugent, 224;
his private life and character, 225;
Baxter's opinion of him, 225; the story
of his early life, 225; first appearance
in Parliament, 226; a member for
Wendover, 230; correspondence relat-
ing to the sons of Sir John Eliot, 232;
his domestic afflictions, 233; his refusal
to pay the assessment of ship-money,
235; Strafford's dislike to him, 236;
his notions on the subject of the King's
Message, 236; his person unsafe, 236;
elected by two constituencies for the
Long Parliament, 239; his style as an
orator, 240; on the bill of attainder
against Strafford, 241; Clarendon's
testimony, 241; his mission to Scotland,
241; in the House of Lords, 242; his
impeachment, 243; returned again to
the House, 245; how he raised a regi-
ment of infantry, 248; Hampden and
Essex against Rupert, 249; his death,
250.
Hampton, 701.
Hannibal, 639, 684, 727, 738.
Hanover, House of, 589, 755, 761.
Hapsburg, House of, 662, 666, 678, 819.
Harcourt, French ambassador, 273.
Hardwicke, reputed the first lawyer of
his age, 814, 820, 824.
Harris, 698.
Harsch, General, 689.
Hastenbeck, 684.
Hastings family, their antiquity, 600;
Mrs., 638.
Havannah, 822.
Hawkesworth, 698.
Haymarket, the, 704; Addison's Garret
in, 737.
Heath, Mr., his woodcuts, 217.
Heathcote, Sir Gilbert, 751.
Heathfield, Lord, 647.
Hébert, 257, 782, 809.
Hebrews, the book of, as human com-
positions, 85.
Hector, Homer's description of, 65.
Hedges, Sir Charles, a Tory, 740.
Heir-apparent, in opposition, 317.
Helvetius, allusion to, 3.
Henriade, the, 659, 660.
Henry of Navarre, 486, 559.
Henry VII., political differences of his
reign, 132; Chapel of, 763.
Henry VIII., an orthodox Catholic, 100;
rising against his attempt to raise a
forced loan, 262.
Herculaneum, 734.
Herodotus, the earliest and best of
romantic historians, 71; his style of
narration, 72; audiences and subjects,
72; little dramatic genius, 72; his
partialities and prejudices, 73; project
of translating, 727.
Hesse Darmstadt, Prince of 280; death,
282.
Hildebrand, 557.
Hill, Aaron, 758.
Himalayas, the, 629.
Hindoo mythology, 550.
Hindoos, the, 610, 624, 628.
Hindostan, 610, 653.
Histories by Mill and Orme, 508, 524.
History of Charles V., 757.
History, events of importance in, 439.
History of England, 348; in 1660, 349;
of the Wars of the Succession, 335-
369.
History, the dignity of, 439; the romance
of, by Henry Neele, 71-92; no history
perfect, 71; sketch of requirements
Herodotus as a romantic historian, 71;
his dramatic and narrative powers, and
suitability of his history to his country-
men, 73; his topics, 73; formative in-
fluences on Grecian character; fallacies
of Greek reasoning and opinions, 74;
difference between Thucydides and
Herodotus, 75; historic delineations of
character compared to portrait paint-
ing, 75; truth only partially exhibited
by history, 76; artistic gradations by
Thucydides; his careful selection and
disposition; history as compared with
fiction, 76; qualities of Thucydides,
76; comparison of Xenophon with
Herodotus and Thucydides, 77; heathen
Puritanism of Xenophon, 78; contrast
of his narratives of popular super-
stitions with those of Thucydides;
pedantry and misleading tendencies of
historians of the Plutarch school, 78;
liberty as treated by them, and as
regarded by Spartans and Romans, 79;
effect of their writings, 79; passage
from Burke, on the French Revolution;
merits and defects of Livy, 81; Sallust's
Conspiracy of Catiline, 81; Tacitus as
an historian, 82; comparison of his
style with Herodotus, Xenophon, Livy,
Plutarch, and Thucydides, 83; modern
historians more truthful than Greek
and Roman, 84; exclusive spirit of
ancient nations, contempt of Greeks for
Roman literature, 85; Roman admira-
tion for Greek literature, 85; despotism
of the Cæsars, 86; relapse of the empire
of Constantine, 86; invasion of Europe
by Northern nations; results of Euro-
pean federation, 87; best modern
historians seduced by imagination, bias
of Herodotus, 88; more misrepresenta-
tions of Hume, Smollett, and Mitford,
88; Southey and Lingard; modern
controversial historic writing; Lord
Clarendon's sameness and repetitions,
89; possible falsity of a history, deca-
dence of the historic art, 90; effect of
historical reading, 90; the perfect
historian, 91; early English history,
91; instruction derivable from history,
92; a perfect historian an intellectual
prodigy, 92.
Hobbes, author of The Leviathan, 731.
Hochkirchen, camp at, 689, 690.
Hodge of Tartola, 862.
Hohenfriedberg, Battle of, 667.
Hohenlinden, Campbell's poem on, 656.
Hohenzollern, 656, 678, 684.
Holdernesse, Lord, 819.
Holkar, 621.
Holland House, 597, 759, 760, 762.
Holland, Lord, 593, 613; the late Lord
Holland, the opinions of, as recorded
in the journals of the House of Lords,
from 1797 to 1841, 593-598; the
editor, 593; Lord Holland's protest
against the detention of Napoleon, 593;
family of, and first Lord Holland, 594;
the late Lord compared with his father
and grandfather, 596; views on foreign
and domestic policy, 597; his private
character, guests at Holland House,
597, 598.
Holland, power of, 445; states, 621, 628,
659, 735, 748.
Holwell, Mr., 522, 523.
Holywell Street, 706.
Home, his tragedy of Douglas, 825.
Homer, his epithets, 62; avoidance of
bombast, 64; his comparisons, 884;
mentioned, 737, 924.
Hoogley, the, 521, 523, 582, 542, 618.
Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, 479.
Hoole, 729.
Horace, his good sense, 65; style, 69;
comparison, 926; mentioned 727.
Horne Tooke, letters of Junius to, 613.
Hotspur, Shakspeare's delineation of
his character, 51.
Hough, Bishop, 726, 731.
Hudibras, quotation from, 27; mentioned,
464; Buckingham's patronage of, 517,
577.
Huggins, 862, 863.
Hugh Capet, 628.
Hume, his history, 13; as an accomplished
advocate, 89; his partialities and pre-
judices, 368.
Hume, Joseph, 669, 757, 760.
Hungary, 665.
Hunter, William Huntingdon, S.S., 542.
Hussar, 666; Hussar-mongers of Hesse
and Auspach, 611.
Hutchinson, Mrs., 13, 202, 438, 441.
Hyde, Laurence, 469.
Hyde Park, 591.
Hyder Ali, 626, 635, 639.
Hyphasis, 610.
Hystaspes, 610.
ICON Basilike, the, 421.
Idolatry of Nations, 49.
Iliad, the, 757.
Imagination, Gladstone's, powers of, 492;
masterpieces of the, 50; progress of
the, 54,
Imhoff, Baron, Baroness, 604, 605, 621,
€41.
Impey, Sir Elijah, 601, 614, 617, 618, 624,
625, 631, 650.
Indemnity, Bill of, 321.
India, 546, 601, 604, 621, 622, 623, 628,
630, 639, 652, 682; neglect of, 543;
invaders of, 610; Dissertation on,
Robertson's, 732.
Inductive method, 421.
Indulgence, Declaration of, 452.
Indulgences, preaching of Luther against,
Inigo Jones, 722.
Inquisition, the, 557, 565.
Insurrection in Oude, 631.
Ireland, in the 17th century, 441; civi
lization of, 442, 621, 743, 754, 759.
Irene, Johnson's, 701.
Irishman, seven feet high, 657.
Irish, the, 559, 635; representation in
Parliament, 259; adhere to the ancient
faith, 554.
Isaiah, the swelling diction of, 64.
Italian poetry, change in, 56; -stage, the
absurdity of pieces, 733; writers,
criticism of the principal, 878-195.
Italy, 554, 565, 672; the history of Greece
the best commentary upon it, 32;
power exercised over it by foreign
mercenaries, 539; Narrative of Travels
in, 739; state of, during life of Dante,
881, 882; degradation of, 892.
JACKBUTE and petticoat, the, 825.
Jacobin club, 565; party, 785, 789.
Jacobins, whence sprung, 256, 910.
Jacobite cause, the, 671; Jacobites, 520.
Jacobitism, travelling a cure for, 734.
Jamaica, 863.
James I., 57, 559 912; his hatred of
Puritans, 101; East India Co. in reign
of, 537; Memoirs of his reign by Miss
Aiken, 724.
James II., accession of, 357; history of,
335; supporter of toleration, 358;
conduct of, 360; plan, 362; death of,
276.
Jansenian controversy, the, 559.
Java, 532.
Jesuits, the, 559, 670; game of the,
360; order of, 556, 557; fall of the,
565; doctrines of the, 567.
Jews, civil disabilities of the, 170; reasons
for toleration, 170; Jews as legislators,
171; their present disabilities, 171;
Jews not Englishmen, 172; respon-
sibility of government, 173; toleration
of Dissenters, 174; Jews in business,
175; prophecy and precept, 176.
Job, the book of, its conduct and diction,
7.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, LL.D., Boswell's
Life of, by Croker, 194-216; the
disappointing nature of the work, 194;
Croker's blunders and scandalous
inaccuracy, 194; Boswell, the first of
biographers, 202; Johnson grown old,
205; condition of men of letters when
Johnson arrived in London, 205; the
peculiarities of literary characters, 207;
Johnson's figure, constitution, temper,
and habits, 208; the characteristic
peculiarity of his intellect, 209; his
sentiments on religious subjects; his
dislike of the cant of patriotism, 210;
his judgments on books, 211; on men
and manners; his remarks on society,
213; his visit to the Hebrides, 214;
characteristic faults of his style, 215;
his singular destiny, 216; his praise
of the Pilgrim's Progress, 218; his
opinion of Clive, 542; a believer in
miracles, 551; visited by Warren
Hastings, 604; his letter to Hastings,
619; his opinion of Frances Burney,
695; and Dr. Burney, 697; death of,
705; his injustice to Boileau, 731; his
half Latin style, 745; and Lord Bute,
825; his definition of the word excise,
829; his only match in conversation
Edmund Burke, 838; his ignorance of
Greek, 921; mentioned, 700, 719, 720,
721.
Johnstone, 537.
"Jonathan's," 751.
Jonson, Ben, plays of, 58.
Judges, worthless, 366.
Judgment, its progressive advance, 54.
Jugget Seit, 525, 528.
Junius, 849.
Justice, administration of, 367; Chief
Justice Jeffreys, 625.
Juvenal, 606, 915; his invectives, 880
KEITH, George, Earl Marischal of Scot-
land, 671.
Keith, James, 671.
Kenrick, 703.
Keppel, 846.
Kew, 709.
King Agbarus of Edessa, 727.
King Gomer Chephoraod Zohak, story of,
494, 869.
"King" Maria Theresa, 666
King of Denmark, 562, 663.
Holland, 663.
Poland, 659.
Prussia, 654 (see Frederic the Great)..
Sweden, 659.
Kirk, Presbyterian, 365.
Kit-Kat Club, the, 731, 751.
Klopstock, 706.
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 298; 745.
Kniperdoling, 97, 256.
Knolles's History of the Turks, 464.
Knox, Captain, 608.
Kolin, battle of, 684.
Kotzebue, 695.
Kumaon, heights of, 610.
Labouring classes three centuries ago,
155.
La Bruyère, 750.
La Fayette, General, 716.
Lahore, 610.
Laine, M. Guizot's opinion of, 909.
Lally, 545, 622.
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