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Lake Benacus, 733.

Lake Leman, 564, 677.

Laméttrie, 675.

Lannes, 598.

Lansdowne, Lord, 640, 704, 708.

Lapland, 672.

La Roche Jaquelin, M. de, Jacobinical

attacks of, 811.

Lascars, 622.

Las Casas, 641.

Latin poems, Addison's, 728.

La Trappe, monks of, 917.

Laud, Archbishop, 490; his correspondence
with Strafford, 103.

Law, Mr., 619.

Lawrence, General, troops of, 682.
Lawrence, Sir Thomas, 75, 717, 722.
Lawyers, 386.

Leadenhall Street, 639, 653.
Lebon, 809.

Legge, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
326, 814, 819, 820.

Legislation, science of, 416.

Leibnitz, his claim to the invention of
Fluxions, 50.

Leicester House, 817; Square, 696, 731.
Leigh Hunt, his edition of the dramatic
works of Wycherly, Congreve, Van-
burgh, and Farquhar, 568; opinion of
the volume, 569; Leigh Hunt's lenity,
570; dramatists after the Restoration,
570; holds the same opinion as Dr.
Young, 591.

Leipsic, 684, 687.

Lely, Sir Peter, 599.

Lemon, Mr., his discovery of Milton's
Essay on the Doctrines of Christianity,

1.

Lennox, Lady Sarah, 826.

Lenthal, Speaker, 600.

Leo X., 554, 557, 558.

Lepaux, deism of, 565.
Lessing, 731.

Lethbridge, Sir Thomas, 926.

Letter of Abbé Coyer to Pansophe, 746;
to the bailiff of Stockbridge, Addison's,
756.
Letters, Commonwealth of, 699; of
Frederic the Great, 660; and Voltaire,
685, 686; Horace Walpole's, 292—311;
of Junius, 613.

Leuthen, battle of, 687.

Leyden, 671.

Ligurian Gulf, the, 566, 762.

Lingard, Dr., 477; as a controversialist,
89; his estimate of the Catholic
population in England, 261.
Literature, Greek, 56; French, 296; Per-
sian, 603; state of, in the reigns of
Elizabeth and James I., 57; Walpole's
judgment of, 295; Essay on the Royal

Society of, 867-870; founders of the
society; fine arts exhibitions, 867 ; the
French academy, 868 ; literary Dart-
moor scheme, 869; story of King
Gomer Chephoraod, 869, 870.
Literatus, Sir W. Jones, 637.
Livy, 558, 732.

Lloyd, 601.

Lochiel, Campbell's, 656.

Locke, 549,907 ; school of, 843.
Logan, 652.

Lollardism in England, 262.
Lollards, the, 553, 564.

Lombardy, 735.

London, 622,642, 654 657; London Bridge,
742; juries, their dislike to the Church,
262; merchants, 333.
Londoners, loyalty of the, 258.
Longinus, 923.

Lord Clive, his life, 508-547; the
biographer Sir John Malcolm, 503;
Robert Clive's childhood, 509; goes to
India, 510; flight from Madras, and
commission in the Company's Service,
511; his plan to relieve Trichinopoly,
515; defence of Arcot, 516; victorious,
517; destroys Dupleix's pillar, fights
under Major Lawrence, 518; returns
to England, 519; returned M.P. for
St. Michael's, 520; unseated, returns to
India, 521; with the land forces at the
Hoogley, 523; as a politician, 524; takes
Chandernagore, 525; forges Admiral
Watson's name, 526; his dissimulation,
528; his dealings with Meer Jaffer,
529, 530; his supreme authority, 531;
honours and rewards in England, 533;
returns to India, 536; and the salt
monopoly, 538; identified with the
"Nabobs," 541, 543; melancholy of;
suicide, 546.

Lords, House of, 596, 644, 645, 646, 647,
650, 653, 761.

Loretto, shrine of, 566.

Louis IX., 197.

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Macburney, family of, 696.
Macflecnoe, Dryden's, 69.

Machiavelli, his works by Périer, 27; the
odious terms in which his name and
works are described, 27; his imprison-
ment in the cause of public liberty, 28;
various suppositions concerning the
author's motives, 28; his elevation of
sentiment and zeal for the public good,
28; his contemporaries' high estimate
of his works and person, 28; state of
moral feeling among Italians of his
time, 29; his character a collection of
contradictions, 36; the unfairness of
his policy and the fairness of his
intellect, 36; his place as a poet, 37;
his knowledge of the dramatic art, his
comedies, 38; his novel of Belphegor,
40; his political correspondence, 40;
his dexterity as a diplomatist, 40;
Borgia and Machiavelli, 41; the latter's
exertions to retrieve the misfortunes
of his country, 42; his fall, 43; The
Prince, and Discourses on Livy, 43;
his political works, 46; his last honours
paid by an English nobleman, 48; his
conferences with Borgia, 528.
Mackensie, Mr., dismissed from office, 337.
Mackintosh, Sir James, History of the

Revolution, 335-369; compared with
Fox's history, 335; his talents, intel-
lectual and moral qualities, 338; style,
339; the biographer, 340; judgment
and temper, 342; political opinions,
342; the editor, 344; model historians,
347; English Revolution, 350; old
Government, 352; Popish plot, 254;
panic, 355; character of Charles II.,
356; James II., 357; Jesuits, 360;
establishment of the Presbyterian
Kirk, 365; Reforms, 369.

Mackintosh, 598.

Macleane, Colonel, 615.

Macpherson, rant of, 53.

Macready, 751.

Madras, 602, 605, 622, 652.

Madrid, rising in, 274; invaders, 284;
Galway at; 284; advance of enemy,
286; Philip at, 286.
Madgeburg, 656.

Maharajah Nuncomar, 606, 607.
Mahommed Ali, 517, 518.

Mahommed Riza Khan, 606, 607, 615,
617.

Mahommedans, harems of, burst open,
624.

Mahon, Lord, 851.

Mahon's, Lord, History of the War in
Spain, 266; Philip II., 267; the
Spaniard, 268; finances, 270; decay of
Spain, 270; the Reformation; succes-
sion, 271; Partition Treaty, 272;
Harcourt, 273; Porto Carero, 273;
death of Charles, 275; beginning of
the war, 276; the English fleet, 278;
Earl of Peterborough, 279; Monjuich,
281 ; the Castilians, 283; Almanza,
285; Vendome, 286; English admini-
stration, 287; peace, 287; Whigs and
Tories, 289; dangers of the peace, 290.
Mahrattas, the, 535, 539, 621, 622, 626,
628.

Maintenon, Madame de, her boast, 518.
Malbranche, 731.

Malcolm, Sir John, 524, 528, 529, 542.
Malebolge, Dante's vision in, 811, 884.
Mallet, liberality of Government to, 825.
Malmesbury, Addison M.P. for, 740.
Malplaquet, 665, 683.
Malwa, 621.

Manchester, Countess of, 731; Earl of,
731, 735.
Manfred, 552.

Manilla capitulates, 822.

Mann, Sir Horace, Letters to, 202, 311.
Mansfield, Lord, 595, 596, 640, 823, 852.
Manso, Milton's epistle to, 5.
Manufacturing system, Southey's, 143.
Marat, 257, 912; bust of, 565; bust
broken, 795.

Marcet, Mrs., her little dialogues on
political economy, 3.

March, Lord, afterwards Duke of Queens-
bury, 832.

"Margery Mushroom," Mackensie's, 51.
Margraves, the, 656.

Maria Louisa, 277.

Maria Theresa, 665, 680.
Marie Antoinette, 643.
Marino, 880.

Marlborough, Duke of, 484, 636, 665;
rewarded by foreign powers, 530.
Marlborough, Henrietta, Duchess of, 590;
Sarah, Duchess of, death of, 322; Con-
greve's legacy to, 531; mentioned, 740

Marli, 747.

Marmion, Scotticisms in, 732.

Marseilles, 733.

Martinique taken, 822.

Martin Marprelate, 559.

Martin, Mr., his illustrations, 217.

Mary, Queen, her re-establishment of
Papal supremacy, 260.

Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, 519.
Massillon, 561, 659, 750.

Massinger, 570.

Maupertuis, 672, 676.

May's History, 13.

Maximilian of Bavaria, 559.

Maxim, Walpole's, 303.
Mazarin, Cardinal, 668.
Mecca, 642.

Mechanical Arts, 420.

Mecklenburg, Duchy of, 659; Duke of,
665.

Medici, Cosimo di, 655.
Medicine, 415.

Mediterranean, the, 733.
Meeran, 536.

Meer Cossim, 535.

Meer Jaffier, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 531,
532, 536, 540, 544, 602.

Melancthon, 254.

Melville, Lord, 648.
Menander, 745.

Mendicity Society, 484.

Mephistopheles, 746.

Merovingians, the, 605.

Metastasio, 660, 880.

Mexico, Gulf of, 621, 635.

Michael Angelo, 700.

Middlesex Election, the, 614.

Middletons, the, of Chirk, 759.
Midsummer Night's Dream, 65, 75%
Milan, 733.

Millar, Lady, her vase, 704.

Mill, Mr., historian, 347; severity of, 599.
Milton, his Essay on the Doctrines of
Christianity, 1; discovery of the lost
MS. by Mr. Lemon, 1; the poet's
style, 1; his opinions, heterodox and
orthodox, 2; his place among poets, 2;
the office of the poet, 3; reviewers'
definition of poetry, 5; Milton's
triumph over the poet's difficulties, 5;
the chief characteristic of his poetry,
5; this displayed in the Allegro and
Penseroso, 6; the different merits of
Comus and Samson Agonistes, 6;
Paradise Regained, and the minor
poems, 8; the poetry of Milton and
that of Dante compared, 8; Milton's
spirits, 9; gods and demons of Eschy-
lus, 11; Milton's loftiness of thought,
and Dante's intensity of feeling, 12;
Milton's character exhibited in his

sonnets, 13; his public conduct dis-
cussed, 13-17; Milton's defence of the
King's execution, 18; the book of
Salmasius, 19; Milton in office under
Cromwell, 19; administration of the
Protector, 20; the peculiarities which
distinguished Milton from his contem
poraries, 20; the Puritans, their
courage and talents, 21; the odions
and ridiculous parts of their character,
22; the Royalists, their vices and
virtues, 23; the noblest qualities of
all parties combined in Milton, 23; his
advocacy of the liberty of the press
and the unfettered exercise of private
judgment, 24; his hardihood in main-
taining his opinion, 25; the power of
the English language displayed in his
prose compositions, 25; his absorption
in controversy, 59; his infirmity, its
good influence, 60; his opinion of
Dryden, 62; his epic power, 70; Latin
poems of, 660; magnanimous patience
of, 671; and Dante, 883; his com-
parisons, 884; passages of, most read,
889; conversation with Cowley touch-
ing the Great Civil War, 896-906.
Mind, order of its development in nations,

55.

Minden, 533.

Ministers, Tory and Whig, 287.
Ministerial corruption, 301.

Minorca, 635.

Mirabeau, 907, 910, 911, 920, 921.

"Mirror," the, 746.

Misenus, Tomb of, 734.
Mississippi, the, 682.

Mite, Sir Mathew, 542.
Modena, Duke of, 763.
Modern Tory, Whig, 288.

Mogul, the great, 531, 602, 609, 627, 629;
Charter from the, 539; Empire, the,
653; Emperors, 653.
Mohawks, the, 749.

Molière, 659, 697, 705; his Cathos and
Madelon, 64.

Molwitz, 665.

Monarchy of England in 16th century,
257.

Monjuich, siege of, 281.
Monmouth Street, 669.
Monson, Mr., 612, 614, 620.
Montagu, 819. See Halifax.
Montagu, Basil, his edition of Bacon,
370; defence, 372, 385, 401.
Montagu, Charles, 728, 729.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 741, 758.
Montague, Mrs., 647, 722.
Mont Cenis, 735.

Montesinos, 145. See Southey.
Montesquieu, 46, 674, 923.

Montgomery, Robert, his omnipresence
of the Deity, 160; the modern practice
of puffing, 161; specimens of style, and
criticisms thereon, 164, 165; his Satan,
169.

Monti, his imitation of the style of Dante,
56.

Monument erected to Machiavelli, 48.
Moore, Dr., visits Voltaire at Ferney, 546.
Moore, Thomas, his life of Lord Byron,
177-193; his style, kindness, fairness,
and modesty, 177; the fable of the
Duchess of Orleans, 177, 178; Bryon
caressed by society, 178; the reaction,
178; the British public in its periodical
fits of morality, 179; the poet's depar-
ture, 180; his political opinions, 181;
difficulty in separating his literary
from his personal character, 182;
Byron the critic and Bryon the poet,
188.

Moorfields, 706.

Moor Park, 470, 471.

Moorshedabad, 523, 527, 529, 539, 541, 602,
605, 606, 608, 630,
Morari Row, 516.
Moravia, 665.

More, Sir Thomas, Essay on, by Southey,
137; ghost of, 141; criticism, 169.

Moscow, 564, 673, 716.

Mountain, the, contest against, 776;

power of, broken, 798.

Mount of Defiance, the, 666.

St. Thomas, 626.

Vesuvius, 905.

Muhlberg, 558.

Mulgrave, Lord, 645, 698.
Mummy Begum, the, 615, 617.
Munro, Sir Hector, 547, 627.
Munster, Bishop of, 444.
Murray, Attorney General, 323.
William, 814.

Museum at Florence, 734.

Mussulmans, the, 624.

Mycenæ, 678.

Mysore, 626, 629, 635.

Mythology, Rosicrucian, 756.

NABOB, the, 524, 525, 532, 539, 602, 629.

Nabob of Bengal, reduction of his allow.
ance, 609.

Nabob of the Carnatic, 510.

Nabob of Oude, 539, 612, 628.

Nabob Vizier, the, 610, 611, 612, 614, 628,

630, 631.

Nabobs, the, 540, 541.

Nabobs, the Mussulman, 622.
Naples, 734.

Napoleon, parallel instituted between,
and Cromwell, 120; his talent for war,
547; protest against his detention,

593; Scott's Life of, 599; pictures of,
893; mentioned, 667, 684, 687, 716,
735.
Narbonne, 552.

Nares, Dr., his Life of Burghley, bulky
and tedious, 252; not calculated to
change public opinion of Burghley,
253.

National Debt, Southey's dissertation on,
146; national works, 147.

Nations, the progress of, towards refine
ment; idolatry of, 55.
Natural theology, 550.
Nell Gwyn, 759.

Nelson, his life by Southey, 138; rewarded
by foreign powers, 530.
Nemesis, 741,

Netherlands, the, 680.

Nevis, market place of, 862, 863.
Newcastle, Duke of, 310, 324, 520, 812,
823, 838.

Newdigate, Sir Roger, a critic, 184; prize
of, 728.

Newton, Sir Isaac, his claim to invention
of Fluxions, 50; mentioned, 696, 722,
731, 762.

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Nizam, the, at Hydrabad, 622.
Nollekens, 594.

Norfolk, Duke of, 647.

Normandy, Duke of, 628.

North America, great lakes of, 664.
North, Lord, 612, 619, 648, 848; party of,
643.

Norway, transfer of, from Denmark to
Sweden, 663.

Novum Organum, 398.
Noyades, the, 797, 912.

Nugent, Lord, his memorials of Hampden,
224.

Nuncomar, 606, 607, 615, 616, 617, 629,
639, 641.

Nuneham, 709.
Nuremburg, 687.

OATES, Titus, 354, 618.
Oberea, 698.

Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, Dryden's, 69.
Odoacer, 605.

Odyssey, the, 757.
Ohlau, 664.

Old Sarum, 613.

Oléron, Castle of, 797.

Oldmixon, 13.

Omai, 524, 525, 526, 698, 879.
O'Meara, Barry, 804.

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Opposition, in Walpole's time, 304; the,
614, 640, 646, 649, 741, 761; Tory, 520;
Prince of Wales and, 812.

Orange, Prince of, 451; marriage of, 455;
Coffee House, the, 702.

Oriental monarchies, 259.

Orissa, 521, 527, 529, 602, 624.

Orleans, Duchess of, 177, 449.

Orleans, mob at, 797

Orloff, Count, 698.

Ormond, Duke of, 278, 442, 597.
Oromasdes, 878.

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Paymaster of the forces, 223.

Peacham, torture of, 391.

Peel, Sir Robert, 754.

Pelham, Henry, his character, 310; death,

324.

Pelhams, the, 310; reign of the, 322.
Pelletier, 680.

Pen, the, a formidable political agent,
741.

Peninsular War, Southey's, 139.

Penseroso and Allegro, Milton's, 6.
Pepin, 605.

Percival, Mr., 636, 817.

Père Fraguier's epigrams, 732.
Peregrinus, 498.

Pericles, 925.

Périer, M., translator of Machiavelli, 27.
Persius, wanting in brilliancy, 69.
Peshwa, the, 622, 629.

Peterborough, Earl of, 279, 282.

Petrarch, his merits, 878; celebrity of,
888;
crowned in the Capitol, 890;
genius of, 891, 895.

Phalaris, Letters of, 473, 924 ; disserta-
tion on, 728.

Philip of Orleans, a facsimile of Charles
II., 917.

Philip II. of Spain, 267, 559.

Philip IV. of France, 553.

Philip V. of Spain, 275, 277, 290, 732,
734.

Philippeaux, Abbé, 731.

Philips, John, his poem of Blenheim, 737.
Philips, Sir Robert, 399.

Phillipps, Ambrose (Namby Pamby), 742,
748, 755, 757.

Philosophers, ancient, 410; Voltairian

school of, 563, 564.

Phrynicus, fined for his tragedy, 53.
Pickwick, Mr., 744.

Pilgrim's Progress, the, 613, 879.
Pindar, 56; Odes of, 710.
Pirna, 682, 683.

Pitt, family of, 314.

Pitt, William, his description of Lord
Clive, 533; and Fox, 653, 741 ; his sys-
tem of Government in India, 605; his
opinion of Warren Hastings, 640; dis-
like of Francis, 641; his refusal to con
duct impeachment of Hastings, 648;
and Tragedy of Virginius, 700.
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, Corre
spondence of, Essay on, 810; Pitt in
the zenith of prosperity, 810; and the
Duke of Newcastle, 812; Pitt's in-
corruptibility, 813; gives commands in
the Militia to Tories, 815; ministers
envious of his popularity, 819; proposes
war against Spain, 821; resigns his

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