CLA

pointment as Governor-General, 579.
His defeat, 582. His death, 582.
Clayton, Sir Robert, his house in the Old

Jewry, i. 276. Mover of the Exclusion
Bill; his election for London in 1688,
ii. 362.

Cleland, William, iii. 23. Lieut. Colonel
of Cameronians, 76. At the battle of
Dunkeld, 99. His death, 100.
Clench, William, a Roman Catholic writer,
i. 607 note.

Cleomenes, causes and results of his raving
cruelty, vii. 692.

Clergy, their loss of importance after the
Reformation, i. 255, 256. Two classes
of, 260. The rural clergy under Charles
II., 254. Their degraded condition,
259. Their great influence, 261. Ques-
tion of requiring oaths from the clergy,
ii. 481. Difference of the two Houses
of Parliament thereupon, 486.
Clergyman, the Country, his Trip to Cam-
bridge, viii. 578.

Clerkenwell, establishment of a monastery
in, i. 598.

Cleveland, Duchess of, i. 335.

Cleveland, Duchess of, her favour to

Wycherley and Churchill, vi. 505, 506.
Clifford, Lord, his character, vi. 277. His
retirement, 284. His talent for debate,

295.

Clifford, Mrs., a Jacobite agent, iii. 265,
272, 273.

Clifford, Sir Thomas, a member of the
Cabal Ministry, i. 166. His retirement,
191. The originator of the corrupting
of Parliament, iii. 228.

Clippers of the coin, law of Elizabeth
against, iv. 185. Their activity and
gains; public sympathy with, 187. Ex-
tent of mischief caused by, 189, 190.
Clive, Lord, review of Sir John Malcolm's

Life of, vi. 381-453. His family and
boyhood, 382, 385. His shipment to
India, 383. His arrival at Madras, and
position there, 384. Obtains an ensign's
commission in the Company's service,
387. His attack, capture, and defence
of Arcot, 395-399. His subsequent
proceedings, 401, 402. His marriage
and return to England, 401. His re-
ception 402. Enters Parliament, 403.
Returns to India, 404. His subsequent
proceedings, 404-418. His conduct to-
wards Omichund, 418. His pecuniary
acquisitions, 420, 422. His transactions
with Meer Jaffier, 421, 422. Appointed
Governor of the Company's possessions
in Bengal, 423. His dispersion of Shah
Alum's army, 424. Responsibility of
his position, 425. His return to Eng-
land, 426. His reception, 426, 427.
His proceedings at the India House,
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428, 433. Nominated Governor of the
British possessions in Bengal, 433.
His arrival at Calcutta, 433. Suppresses
a conspiracy, 434. Success of his
foreign policy, 437, 438. His return to
England, 440. His unpopularity, and
its causes, 441-448. Invested with the
Grand Cross of the Bath, 448. His
speech in his defence, and its conse-
quence, 449. His life in retirement,
451. Reflections on his career, 451.
Failing of his mind, and death by his
own hand, 451.

Clizia, Machiavelli's, v. 67.

Clodius, extensive bribery at the trial of,
vi. 193.

Club, the, formation of, vii. 315, 346.
Members of the, 346.

Club," The, in Edinburgh, iii. 40. Its
power, 78. Its intrigues, 101. Its in-
trigues with the Jacobites, 333. The
chiefs betray each other, 342.
Club room, Johnson's, v. 537.
Coalition of Chatham and Newcastle, vi.
62; vii. 225. Universal disgust, vii.
370, 371. End of the Coalition, 375.
Coaches, first establishment of, i. 295.
Coad, John, his narrative, i. 507 note.
Coal, consumption of, i. 248. Cost of
conveyance, 295.

Coates, Romeo, the actor, v. 274.
Cobham, Lord, his malignity towards
Essex, vi. 165.

Cochrane, Sir John, i. 421. His disputes
with Argyle, 430. His attempt on the
Lowlands, 431. Taken prisoner, 435.
Ransomed, 513.

Cock Lane Ghost, the, vii. 343.
Coffee houses, i. 287, 304.
Cohorn, employed in the defence of

Namur, iii. 574. Wounded, 575. Serves
in the siege of Namur, iv. 160, 163. Sur-
prises Givet, 165.

Coiners, iv. 187.

Coining, ancient and improved system of,
iv. 185.

Coke, Sir E., his conduct towards Bacon,
vi. 149, 183. His opposition to Bacon
in Peacham's case, 172, 173. His ex-
perience in conducting state prosecu-
tions, 173. His removal from the
Bench, 183. His reconciliation with
Buckingham, and agreement to marry
his daughter to Buckingham's brother,
184. His reconciliation with Bacon,
184. His behaviour to Bacon at his
trial, 198.

Coke, John, sent to the Tower by the
House of Commons, i. 545.
Colchester, Richard Savage, Lord, joins
the Prince of Orange, ii. 266.
Coldstream Guard (the), i. 231; iii. 147.
Coleman, Edward, i. 183.

Colepepper, his quarrel with the Earl of
Devonshire, ii. 70.

Coleridge, relative "correctness of his
poetry, v. 398. Byron's opinion of him,
408.

Coligni, Gaspar de, reference to, vii. 249.
Coligni, Admiral, an ancestor of William
III., iv. 25.

College, Stephen, trial and execution of,
i. 207.

Collier, Jeremy, his Essay on Pride, i.
257 note. Preacher at Gray's Inn,
259. A nonjuror, iii. 164. His "Re-
marks on the London Gazette," iv. 33.
Absolves Friend and Parkyns at Ty-
burn, 230. Sentence of outlawry pro-
nounced against, 231. Sketch of his
life, vi. 519-524. His publication on
the profaneness of the English stage,
522, 527. His controversy with Con-
greve, 524 et seq.

Colloquies on Society, Southey's, v. 330.
Plan of the work, 337, 338.

Collot d'Herbois, becomes a member of
the Committee of Public Safety, vii. 159.
Attacked in the streets, 169. Brought to
trial, 179, 180. Condemned by the Con-
vention to be removed to a distant place
of confinement, 181. His end, 183.
Cologne, Archbishopric of, ii. 218.
Colonies, v. 644. Question of the compe-
tency of Parliament to tax them, vii.
256, 257.

Colonies, principle of dealing with them,
iv. 371, 372.

Colt, Sir Henry, candidate for Westmin-
ster in 1698, iv. 423.

Comedy (the), of England, effect of the
writings of Congreve and Sheridan
upon, v. 65.

Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, vi.
490-532. Have exercised a great in-
fluence on the human mind, 491.
Comines, Philip de, his opinion of the
English government, i. 29; v. 544.
Commerce and manufactures, their extent
in Italy in the 14th century, v. 52, 54.
Condition of, during the war at the
latter part of the reign of George II.,
vi. 74.

Pro-

Commission, the High, Clarendon's testi-
mony to its abuses, i. 71. Abolished
at the Restoration, 591. Reappointed
by James II., 593. Proceedings in,
against Bishop Compton, 596.
ceedings against the Universities, ii. 92.
Against the University of Cambridge,
96. Against Magdalene College, Ox-
ford, 103. Further proceedings in, 205.
Abolished, 236.

Commoners, distinguished families of, i. 30.

Compounders, the, iv. 5. Advise James
II. to resign the crown to his son, 9.
Comprehension Bill, its provisions, ii. 469.
Resistance to, 470. Suffered to drop,
475, 486. The object of it defeated by
Convocation, iii. 190.

Compton, Henry, Bishop of London, tutor
to the Princesses Mary and Anne, i.
547. Disgraced by James II., 549.
Declines to suspend Sharp, 593. Pro-
ceedings against him, 596. Suspended
from his spiritual functions, 597. His
education of the Princess Mary, ii. 11.
His communications with Dykvelt, 73.
Joins in the consultations of the bishops,
150. Joins the revolutionary conspiracy,
195. Signs the invitation to the Prince
of Orange, 197. His suspension re-
moved, 240. Questioned by James, his
equivocation, 249. Takes part in the
conference of the bishops with James,
261. Assists the flight of the Princess
Anne, 282. Waits on William at St.
James's. 333. Supports the Compre-
hension Bill, 469. Assists at the coro-
nation of William and Mary, 490. His
claims for the primacy, iii. 185. His
discontent at being passed over, 186.
Accompanies William to Holland, 369.
His jealousy of Tillotson, 395. Preaches
at St. Paul's on the Thanksgiving Day,
iv. 327.

Comus, Milton's, v. 10, 13.

Condé, the Prince of; his opinion of Wil-
liam of Orange, ii. 6. Compared with
Clive, vi. 452.

Condorcet, strength brought by him to the
Girondist party, vii. 143. His melan-
choly end, 159.

Conduit Street, i. 280.

Conflans, Admiral, his defeat by Hawke,
vi. 71.

Congreve, sketch of his career at the Tem-
ple, vi. 516, 517. Success of his “Love
for Love," 518. His "Mourning Bride,"
519. His controversy with Collier, 522,
527. His "Way of the World,” 527.
His position among men of letters, 529.
His attachment to Mrs. Bracegirdle,
530. His friendship with the Duchess
of Marlborough, 530. His death and ca-
pricious will, 530. His funeral in West-
minster Abbey, 531. Cenotaph to his

CON

memory at Stowe, 531. Analogy
between him and Wycherley, 531, 534.
Congreve and Sheridan, effect of their

works upon the comedy of England, v.
65. Contrasted with Shakespeare, 65.
Coningsby, Thomas, Paymaster-General

under William III., iii. 284. One of the
Lords Justices for Ireland, 329. Orders
the execution of Gafney, 421. Signs
the Treaty of Limerick, 448. Becomes
unpopular with the Englishry, 645.
His recall, 645. Prior's ballad against,
645 note.

Conquest of the British arms in 1758-60,
vi. 70, 72.

Consistory Courts, i. 591.

Constance, council of, put an end to the
Wickliffe schism, vi. 465.
Constantinople, English ambassador at, in
the reign of Charles II., i. 241. Retro-
gression and stupefaction of the empire,
of, v. 150.
Constitution (the) of England, in the 15th
and 18th centuries, compared with those
of other European states, v. 92. The
argument that it would be destroyed by
admitting the Jews to power, 458. Its
theory in respect to the three branches
of the legislature, vii. 118.
Constitutional government, decline of, on
the Continent early in the 17th century,
v. 195, 197.

Constitutional History of England, review
of Hallam's, v. 162–238.
Constitutional Royalists in the reign of
Charles I., v. 571, 577.

Conti, Armand, Prince of, at the battle of
Steinkirk, iii. 581.

Conventicle Act, the, ii. 42.

Convention, the, summoned by the Prince

of Orange in 1688, ii. 341. Election of
Members, 349. Meets, 361. Debates
on the state of the nation, 365, 374,
378. The Commons declare the throne
vacant, 368. The Lords discuss the
question of a regency, 369. The Lords
negative the clause declaring the throne
vacant, 378. Dispute between the
Houses, 378, 380. The Lords yield,
385. Reforms suggested by the Com-
mons Committee, 385, 386. Adopts the
Declaration of Right, 388. Declares
William and Mary King and Queen;
settles the succession, 389. Its adhe-
rence to ancient forms and principles,
395, 396. Question of its conversion
into a Parliament, 419. Bill to that
effect passed by the Lords, 421. By
the Commons, 422. See Parliament of
1689.

Convention, the French, of 1792, vii. 141.
The Girondists, 142. The Mountain,
145. Character of the diplomatic lan-

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guage during the reign of the Conven-
tion, 156.
Convention, Scotch, iii. 3. Letter of
William III. to, 13. Its meeting, 20.
Elects the Duke of Hamilton president,
21. Appoints a Committee of Elec-
tions; summons Edinburgh Castle to
surrender, 22. Letter of James II. to,
24. William's letter read, 25. James's
letter read; its effect, 26. Agitation
in, on the flight of Dundee, 27. Its
measures of defence; letter to William,
28. Appoints a committee to prepare
a plan of government, 29. Declares the
deposition of James, 31. Proclaims
William and Mary; adopts the Claim
of Right, 32. Its declaration against
Episcopacy, 34. Recognises the le-
gality of torture, 34.
nation oath, 35.
Parliament, 78.
Scotch.

Revises the coro-
Converted into a
See Parliament,

Convocation, subjection of, to royal autho-
rity, i. 45. William III. requested by

Parliament to summon Convocation, ii.
486. Constitution of, iii. 182.
Convocation of 1689; its temper, iii. 177.
Exasperated by the proceedings in
Scotland, 181, 182. Meets, 186. The
Houses differ on the Address, 188.
Waste of time by the Lower House, 189.
Jealousies in, 190 note. Prorogued,

190.

Conway, Henry, his character as a soldier,
vi. 427; vii. 248. Secretary of State
under Lord Rockingham, 253. Returns
to his position under Chatham, 265-
270. Sinks into insignificance, 272.
Conyngham, Sir Albert, leader of Ennis-
killen Dragoons, iii. 290.

Cook, Sir Thomas, Chairman of the East
India Company, iv. 37. His accounts
of his expenditure, 133. Sent to the
Tower, 134. Obtains a Bill of Indem-
nity, 135.

Cook, a nonjuring clergyman, assists in
the absolution of Friend and Parkyns at
Tyburn, iv. 230.

Cooke, Sir Anthony, his learning, vi. 144.
Cooper, Bishop, his answer to Martin
Marprelate, i. 59 note.

Co-operation, advantages of, vi. 338.
Coote, Sir Eyre, vi. 584. His character

and conduct in council, 585, 586. His
great victory of Porto Novo, 593.
Copyright, speeches respecting the Law of,
viii. 195, 209.

Corah, ceded to the Mogul, vi. 561
Corday, Charlotte, her murder of Marat,
vii. 153.

Cork, James II. at, ii. 531. Taken by
Marlborough, iii. 331.

Corn Laws, speech on the, viii. 349.

COR

Cornbury, Edward, Viscount, deserts to
William, ii. 267. His signature forged
by Robert Young, iii. 556.
Corneille, attempts of the Academy to de-
press the rising fame of, vii. 577.
Cornish, Henry: his trial and execution,
i. 516, 517. His attainder reversed, iii.
105.

Cornwall, tin and copper in, i. 247. Feel-
ing in, on the imprisonment of Bishop
Trelawney, ii. 166. Levies in, in ex-
pectation of a French landing, iii. 310.
Cornwallis, Charles, Lord, made First Lord
of the Admiralty, iii. 508.

Cornwallis, General, his surrender to the
Americans, vii. 366.

Coronation oath, ii. 488, 489.

Corporation Act, Bill for the repeal of, ii.

483.

Corporation Bill, the, iii. 207.

"Correctness" in the fine arts and in the

sciences, v. 398-401. In painting, 401.
What is meant by it in poetry, 397–401.
Corruption, parliamentary, not necessary
to the Tudors, vi. 18. Its extent in the
reigns of George I. and II., vii. 219,
220.

Corsica given up to France, vii. 272.
Cosmo, Grand Duke; his travels, i. 257
note, 275 note. His praise of English
inns, 300 note.

Cossimbazar, its situation and importance,
vi. 347.

Cottabus, the Athenian game of, vii. 582.
Cotton manufacture, i. 266.

Council of York, its abolition, v. 562.
Country gentlemen, i. 249. Their rude-
ness of manners, 250, 251. Their
loyalty and attachment to the Church,
253, 254.

"Country Party," the, i. 159. Opposes
the Cabal, 173. Difficulties of, 178.
Its dealings with France, 179. The
new Country Party, 537.
Country Wife, of Wycherley, its character
and merits, vi. 508. Whence borrowed,
514.

Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of his

Memoirs of Sir William Temple, vi.
246-325. His concessions to Dr. Lin-
gard in regard to the Triple Alliance,
275. His opinion of Temple's proposed
new council, 289, 292. His error as to
Temple's residence, 314.
Cousinhood, nickname of the official mem-
bers of the Temple family, vi. 254.
Couthon, becomes member of the Com-
mittee of Public Safety, vii. 159. His
execution, 175.

Covenant, the Scotch, v. 562.
Covenanters, Scotch, i. 146. Persecution

of, 387. Summary executions of, 388-
390. Their hatred of the observance of

festivals, iii. 3.
Convention, 36.

CRE

Dissatisfied with the
Their scruples about
taking arms for William III, 75, 77.
Their conclusion of a treaty with
Charles I., v. 562.

Covent Garden, i. 280.
Coventry, riots at, i. 599.
Coventry, Sir John, Charles II.'s revenge
on, i. 160.
Coventry, Lady, vii. 11.

Cowley, Abraham, i. 313. His Ode to the
Royal Society, 318. Dictum of Denham
concerning him, v. 2. Deficient in ima-
gination, 8. His wit, vi. 14; vii. 90.
His admiration of Bacon, vi. 243.
Cowley, Mr. Abraham, and Mr. John Mil-
ton, conversation between, touching the
Great Civil War, vii. 641.

Cowper, Earl, Keeper of the Great Seal,

vii. 80.

Cowper, William, supports the attainder
of Fenwick, iv. 279. Opposes the Bill
for regulating Elections, 299. His po-
pular qualities; member for Hertford,
501. His defence of Lord Somers, 557.
Cowper, Spencer, brother of the preceding,
attachment of a young Quaker lady to,
iv. 501. Accused of murdering her,
502. His acquittal; grandfather ot
William Cowper, the poet, 504.
Cowper, William, the poet, v. 406.
praise of Pope, 407. His friendship
with Warren Hastings, vi. 546.
Cowper, William, a celebrated anatomis.,
iv. 503.

His

Cox, Archdeacon, his eulogium on Sir
Robert Walpole, vi. 22.

Coyer, Abbé, his imitation of Voltaire, vii.

91.

Craggs, James; his early career; becomes
an army clothier; sent to the Tower for
refusing to produce his books, iv. 130
Craggs, Secretary, vi. 58. Succeeds Addi-
son, vii. 120. Addison dedicates his
works to him, 120.

Cranburne, Charles, purveyor of arms to
Jacobite conspirators, iv. 211. Execu-
ted, 232.

Crane, bearer of James II.'s letter to the
Scotch Convention, iii. 24.
Cranmer, Archbishop, his character, i. 40;
v. 172. His opinions of royal supre
macy, i. 44.

Craven, William, Earl of, ii. 331.
Crawford, Earl of, President of the Scotch
Parliament, iii. 38. Presides at the
torture of Neville Payne, 347.
Crebillon, the younger, vi. 10.

Crecy, French negotiator at Ryswick, iv.

312.

Cresset, John, his pamphlet against stage
coaches, i. 297 note.

Crewe, Nathaniel, Bishop of Durham;

CRI

Ecclesiastical Commissioner, i. 595.
Takes part in a Popish procession, ii.
89. Present at the interview of the
bishops with James II., 250. Re-
sumes his seat in the Lords under Wil-
liam III., 385.

Crisis, Steele's, vii. 108.

Crisp, Samuel, his early career, vii. 8.
His tragedy of Virginia, 9. His retire-
ment and seclusion, 12, 13. His friend-
ship with the Burneys, 13.
His grati-
fication at the success of Miss Burney's
first work, 15. His advice to her upon
her comedy, 18. His applause of her
"Cecilia," 19.

Criticism, verbal, 58. Improvement of
the science of criticism, v. 95. The
critical and poetical faculty distinct
and incompatible, 97. Remarks on Dr.
Johnson's code of criticism, 532.
Critics, professional, their influence over
the reading public, v. 374.
Croese, Gerard, his account of William
Penn, i, 394 note, 511 note.
Croker, Mr., his edition of Boswell's life

of Dr. Johnson, reviewed, v. 498–538.
Cromwell, Oliver, at Marston Moor, i. 93.
At Naseby, 93. Character of his army,
94.
Suppresses an insurrection in
Wales, 97. Leaves Charles I. to his fate,
100. Combination of parties against
him; his conquest of Ireland, 102. Of
Scotland, 103. His design on the
crown, 105. His protectorate; his
House of Commons, 106. His Upper
House, 107. His energy, 108. His

toleration, 108. His foreign policy, 109.
His death, 110. Treatment of his re-
mains, 122; vi. 104. Honour paid to
his memory, i. 150. His death ascribed
to poison, 344. Prosperity of Scotland
under, iii. 7 note. Reference to, on the
question of oaths, 154. His elevation
to power, v. 210. His character as a
legislator, 211. As a general, 212.
His administration and its results, 214,
217. Embarked with Hampden for
America, but not suffered to proceed,
561. His qualities, 586. His admin-
istration, vi. 100, 105. His abilities
displayed in Ireland, 262, 265. Anec-
dote of his sitting for his portrait,

543.

Cromwell and Charles, choice between, v.
206.

Cromwell and Napoleon, remarks on Mr.

Hallam's parallel between, v. 211, 216.
Cromwell, Henry, description of, vi. 257.
Cromwell, Richard, bis accession and
character, i. 110. Calls a Parliament;
unpopular with the army, 111.
fall, 112. As a ruler, vii. 213.
"Cromwellians" in Ireland, i. 147.

DAL

Crone, a Jacobite emissary, arrested, iii.
264. His trial, 272. Conviction, 272.
Saves his life by giving information, 273.
Cross, Godfrey, executed for giving infor-
mation to Tourville, iii. 363.

Crown (the), veto by, on Acts of Parlia-
ment, v. 199. Its control over the army,
200. Its power in the 16th century,
597. Curtailment of its prerogatives,
vi. 19, 20. Its power predominant at
the beginning of the 17th century, 292.
Decline of its power during the Pension-
ary Parliament, 293, 294. Its long cor-
test with the Parliament put an end
to by the Revolution, 300. See also
Prerogative.

Crown lands, proposed resumption of, iv.

354.

Crusades, productive of good, i. 6. Their
beneficial effect upon Italy, v. 52.
Cudworth, Ralph, i. 259.
Culpepper, Mr., v. 571.

Cumberland, wild state of, in 1685, i. 223.
Cumberland, Richard, Bishop of Peter-
borough, iii. 400.

Cumberland, the dramatist, his manner
of acknowledging literary merit, vii. 17.
Cumberland, Duke of, vi. 427. The con
fidential friend of Henry Fox, vii. 233.
Confided in by George III., 249. His
character, 249. Mediates between the
king and the Whigs, 251.

Cunningham, commands the succours sent
to Londonderry, ii. 546. Deceived by
Lundy; effects nothing, 546. Sent to
prison, 574.

Currency, debased state of (1695), iv. 184,
186, 188, 189. General suffering caused
thereby, 189, 196. Literary allusions
to, 190 note. Ineffective legislation
on the subject, 192. Consultations for
the restoration of, 192. Pamphlets on,
199. Parliamentary proceedings, 200.
Panic and disturbances, 201. The Re-
coinage Bill, 201. Efforts for its resto-
ration, 248. And their success, 267, 269.
Customs, produce of, i. 225. Of Liverpool,
269. Of London, 273.

Cutlery, i. 267.

Cutts, John, at the battle of the Boyne,
iii. 289. Serves in the Brest expedi-
tion, iv. 101. His gallantry in the siege
of Namur, 161, 165, 166. Present at
the interview between William and
Pendergrass, 218. His exertions during
the fire at Whitehall, 380.
Cyrus, Xenophon's Life of, its character,

v. 134.

Horace Walpole's

opinion of him, vi. 10.