Middleton, Earl, secretary of state, 296. 303; profane jest
of 318; friend of Rochester, 324.
Miguel, Don, against the constitution, 475; against his
father, 476; ineligible, 480; situation of, 482. 486; bad
character of, 777. 787; pretended claim to Portuguese
crown, 778; affianced to Donna Maria, 779; perjuries
of, 780. 784; lieutenant of Portugal, 780; and Prince
Metternich, 781, 782; afraid of England, 782; detained
at Vienna, 782, 783; lands at Lisbon, 784; assumes
title of king, 785; inhumanity of, 790.
Military democracies, 604; in France, 633.
Milton, Judge Christopher, 304.

Milton, John, last days of, 317; histories of, 508, 509;
descendants of, 510, 511; his "Paradise Lost," 520. 609.
Mind, early inquiries into the nature of, 8.
Miomandre, M., Queen's sentinel, 584.

Mirabeau, Count de. popularity of, 551; on priesthood,
563. n.; declamation against, 584; scheme of, ib.; ac-
cusations against, 585; on suffrage, 593.

Misprision, crime of, 740.

Missionary Society, the London, in Mr. Smith's case,

726.

Molinos, revival of the maxims of the ancient Mystics,
by, 46; his imprisonment, ib.

Molyneux, lord lieutenant, 374.

Molyneux, Mr., his work burned 609.

Monastic institutions, value of, 578; inutility of, 579.
Monks as landholders, 579.

Monmouth, Duke of, confession of, 280; judicial proceed-
ings after defeat of, 284-293; Presbyterians engaged
with, 284; scene at Taunton, 292.

Montague, Judge, with Jeffreys, 284. n.; and Test Act,
304.

Montesquieu, his undistinguishing adoption of the nar-
ratives of modern travellers condemned, 170; merits
and defects of his " Spirit of Laws," 171; on European
armies, 556; on restricting the press, 637.
Montfort, Simon de, first reformer, 800.
Montmorencies in National Assembly, 574.
Montrose, Marquis, verses by, 658.

Moral and physical sciences, considerations on, 4; great
importance of distinguishing them, ib.

Moral evil, extravagant doctrine of Ockham concerning,

"Moral sentiments, theory of," 6.

Moral forces in politics, 570.

Morality and religion, their mutual relation, 45.

Morality in action, criterion of, 6; foundation of, 591;
maxims of, ib.

Morals, Inquiry concerning the Principles of," remarks
on Mr. Hume's, 66.

Moray, Earl, papist, 328.; proceedings of, 332.
Mordaunt, Lord. See Peterborough.
More, Sir Thomas, Life of, 184; circumstances of his
early years, 185; his proceedings at college, 186; his
friendship with Erasmus, 187; his poetry, 188; his
studies for the law, 189; his lectures on law and
morals, ib.; his predilection for the monastic life, 190;
his marriage with Jane Colt, ib.; death of his first
wife, and second marriage, 191; routine of his domestic
life, ib.; extent of his professional practice, 192, nature
of his legal office in the city of London, 193, and n.;
his faculty of public speaking, ib.; he falls under the
royal displeasure, ib.; he becomes one of the earliest

parliamentary champions of liberty, 194; the first
writer of English history in its present language, ib.;
remarks on his prose style, 195; on his "History of
Richard III.," ib.; his Latin epigrams, 196; his Uto-
pia," ib.; his arguments against a community of goods,
198; difference of his temperament from that of Eras.
mus, 201; his entrance on public life, ib.; is made a
privy councillor, ib.; his favour with the king, 202; his
suspicion of the king's sincerity, ib.; he is knighted,
and raised to the office of treasurer of the exchequer,
203; his repeated missions, and weight in the council,
203, 204; honourable part taken by him in the parlia-
ment held at Westminster in 1523, 204; his speech ad-
dressed to the king, 204; his remarkable answer to
Cardinal Wolsey, 206; his pecuniary independence of
the king, 207; his appointment to the chancellorship of
the duchy of Lancaster, 208; his part against the Lu-
therans, 249; extent of his responsibility for the mea-
sures taken against the Lollards, ib.; his vindication of
himself, 210; arguments in favour of the humanity of
his character, 211; his estimate of the moral tendency
of the doctrine of predestination, 212; visits the court at
Woodstock, on his return from Cambray, 213; charac-
teristic letter from, to his wife, ib.; he is appointed
lord chancellor, 214; amount of chancery business in
his time, 215; nature of the duties of chancellor at that
period widely different from those of the present. 217;
particulars of his instalment, ib.; address of the Duke
of Norfolk to the people on the occasion, ib.; Sir
Thomas More's reply, 218; anecdote illustrative of his
filial piety, 219; his mode of administering the business
of his court, 219, 220; his inflexible integrity, 220; his
embarrassing situation during the proceedings in the
case of Henry's divorce, 223; his prudence, ib. ; con-
versations with Mr. Roper, his son-in-law, 224; his
resignation of the Great Seal, 225; impoverished state
of his fortune, ib.; consults with his family as to future
domestic arrangements, ib.; his impending dangers,
226; his conduct in the matter of Elizabeth Barton, the
holy maid of Kent, ib.; further attempts to bring him
over to the king's wishes, 227; violence of the king on
their failure, 228; act of 1533-4, relating to the king's
marriage, 229; More is summoned to appear before the
commissioners at Lambeth, ib.; particulars of the
examination, ib.; his committal to the Tower, 230;
interview with his wife, ib.; visit of his daughter, Mar-
garet Roper, 231; further attempts of the lords com-
missioners, ib.; difficulties of reconciling the destruc-
tion of More with the principles of law, ib.; further
examined by Cranmer and others, 232; circumstances
of his trial at Westminster, 232; his further examin-
ation in the Tower, 234; his execution. 235; vindica-
tion of his cheerful demeanour from the charge of
levity, ib; his posterity, 236; effect of his death upon
the Catholic states of Europe, ib.; general summary of
his character, ib.; some particulars concerning him
from the records of the Privy Council, and of the city
of London, 237, 238.

Morgarten, Swiss bravery at, 682.

Morley, Dr., part taken by him relative to the claim of
Bishop Gauden, 242, 243; advice to James II., 351.
Morton, Cardinal, archbishop of Canterbury, notices of,
136.

Mounier, M., pamphlets of, 584; and Mr. Burke, 599.
Mulgrave, Earl, character of, 311. 318. m.; profane jest
of, 318; lord chamberlain, 368.
Municipalities, French, 594, 595.
Munster, treaty of, 751.

Munter, Dr., and Struensee, 465.
Murders, disguised, 582.

Mystics, the, their origin and causes, 20.

N.

Nagle, Sir Richard, papist, 339.

Nantes, nature of edict of, 319, 320; edict of, revoked,

322.

Napoleon, and the Poles, 459; and his nobility, 632;
his new dynasty, 637; and the English journalists,
656. n.; accession of, 666; European combination
against, 706.

Nassau, the house of, its prominent position at the dawn
of modern history, 256.

National Assembly. See Assembly.

Necker, M., recall and character of, 550, 551; decline of,
554; banishment of, 555.

Negatives of French kings, 598. See Veto.
Netherlands, revolt of, from Spain, 750.

Neutrality, definition of strict, 780.

Newark borough, franchise in, 795, 796. 808.
Newspapers, effects of increase of, 679.

Newton, Isaac, delegate from Cambridge, 347.

Newtonian hypothesis, the, differences of Hartley and
Condillac concerning, 75. n.

Nimeguen, peace of, its results, 266. 320.
Noailles in National Assembly, 574.

Nobility, French, part secede to Commons, 555; devoted
to King, 560. See Nobles. Destruction of, 560, 561;
of France and England, 599; Napoleon's, 632; English
opulence of, 641; French, number of, 641. n.
Nobles, French, proceedings of order of, 553. See Orders.
And order of nobility, distinction between, 560.
Noel, agent of French government, 625.

Nominalists and Realists, controversy between, 21; the
Nominalists a free-thinking sect, 22; expiration of the
scholastic doctrine, ib.

Non-resistance, doctrine of, 354.

Norfolk, Duke of, his address to the people on the instal-
ment of Sir Thomas More as lord high chancellor of
England, 217.

North, Roger, tool of James II., 291.

Obedience, doctrine of passive, 429–433.
Ockham, William of, extravagance of his doctrines, 19;
founder of the sect of Nominalists, ib.; his doctrine
concerning the human mind, 21; on election and
reprobation, 134; on the distinction of right and
wrong, ib.

Odeschalchi, Cardinal, account of, 399.
Oliva, treaty of, 439.

Olivenza ceded to Spain, 473.

Opinions, influence of, upon human actions, 13; splendid
instance of, in the Roman patriciate, ib.

Oporto, executions at, 790.

Orange, house of, and Holland, 603.

Orange, Prince of, birth and prospects of, 257; measures
with reference to him in connexion with the "Per-
petual Edict for the maintenance of liberty," 258; re-
peal of the edict, 259; the prince appointed stadt-
holder, and the office made hereditary to his descend-
ants, ib.; his character and government, 259, 260; in-
stances of his magnanimity, 263, 264; difficulty of his

situation, 264; his march to the attack of Charleroi,
265; his conquests, and their consequences, 266; criti-
cal situation of affairs, 270; his relations with England,
271; his conduct with reference to the Bill of Exclu-
sion, and the Rye House Plot, ib. ; his renewed efforts
on the death of Charles II., to enlist the aid of England
in the European cause, 272; his position, 276; boast of
James II. to, 289. 314; marriage with Princess Mary,
295; and Judge Street, 305. n.; Protestants favour,
311; hated by James II., 317.; secret correspondents
of, 332. 364. n., 384. n., 394. n., 411. 421; Tyrconnel
against, 336. 342; Scotch lords against, 342; interfer-
ence of, 346; advice of, 389; and the English bishops.
411; and English Revolution, 434; elected king of
England, 606. 612; character of, 628; rise and progress
of, 678; assassinated, 751.

Orange, Princess, intercedes for her preceptor, 310; de-
signs against, 323; a determined Protestant, 350.
Orders (ranks), definition of, 559; question on union of
the, 552, 553. 559; Louis XVI. submits to union of the,
555; contrast of the, 560. See Nobles.
Orleans, Duchess of, 260.

Orleans, M., pamphlets of, 584; accusations against, 585.
Ormonde, Duke, friend of Rochester, 324; in Ireland,
333. 336; to be assassinated, 334; a governor of Charter
House, 344.

Ormonde, Duke, chancellor of Oxford, 425.
Ottomans. See Turks.

Oxford, Earl, married to Diana Kirke, 283. n.
Oxford University, attacked by James II., 345–350.

P.

Paley, Dr., strictures on his definition of the term "moral
sense," 6; did not derive his system from Hume, 85;
remarks on the constitution of his mind, and the style
of his writings, ib.; consideration of his general account
of virtue, 86; his system of ethics examined, 87, &c.;
his political opinions, 88; his laxity as a moralist, ib. ;
on capital punishment, 722.

Palmella, Count, president of Portugal, 475.
Pamphlets. See Halifax, Orleans, Revolutionary Tracts.
Paper, invention of, 16.

Papists, speeches in parliament against, 296; incapacity
of, 297; their policy, 301; in favour under James II.,
308; judges in Ireland, 338; in office, 339. 374; state of,
in England, 376; for blood, 388. n.; divisions amongst
English, 393.

Paris, blockade and revolt of, 555. 583; populace attack
Versailles, 585; character of populace of, 633, 634;
treaty of, 694. 701.

Parker, bishop of Oxford, buffoon, 317. 348; at Magdalen
College, 349; account of, 385.

Parliament, of James II., how composed, 276. 371, 372;
adverse to tyranny, 295; speeches against Popery, &c.,
296; defeats ministers of James 11., ib.; prorogued
298; See Scotland; Commons, house of. Effects of
dissolution of, 370, 371; of Paris, use of, 550; banished,
ib.; resists lettres de cachet, ib.

Parliaments, French, character of, 567. 573; control of,
615; progress of their influence, 206.
Parma, Prince of, in Netherlands, 751.
Patronage, church, 498, 499.
Paul, Czar, character of, 458.

Peachell, vice-chancellor of Cambridge, 347.

Pedro, Don, in Brazil, 475. 477; emperor of Brazil and
heir of Portugal, 477, 478; position of, on father's death,
479. 482; alleged disqualification of, 482; question of
his rights, 484, 485; abdicates for his daughter, 778—
780; policy of, 787.

Peel, Sir Robert, on Catholic emancipation, 805.

Peerage Bill, rejection of, 601. n.

Peers, use of, 379.

Pelham, Mr., on criminal committee, 714.

Peltier, Jean, account and sentence of, 656, 657; publica-
tions of, 66, 664.

Pemberton, Chief Justice, 413. 415.

Penn, William, Quaker, at burning of Mrs. Gaunt, 291;
culpable conduct of, 292; on imprisonment, 358; ac-
count of, 363, 364. 408; his advice to James II., 377.
389.

Pennsylvania, vote by ballot in, 654.

Perception and emotion, true doctrine concerning, 40.
Perceval, Hon. Spencer, attorney-general, 656. n.
Perfection, pursuit of, 569.

Peripatetics, their doctrine concerning happiness, 10.
Perth, Earl, proceedings of, 326, 327. 427. n.; in Scotch
parliament, 329.

Peru, state of 761.

Peterborough, Earl, against standing army, 298.
Peters, Hugh, memorials of, 612.

Petion, Mr., on suffrage, 593.

Petition of right, 300; to parliament, nature of a, 748.
Petre, Father, guide of James II., 232. 313. 339; to be
archbishop of York, 346; of privy council, 383; to be
secretary of state, 393; high in favour, 394, 395.

Petre family, 346.

Philip 11. aims at universal dominion, 676.
Philips, John and Edward, account of, 509.

Philo, his endeavour to reconcile the Platonic philosophy
with the Mosaic law, 15.

Philosophers, ancient, and printing 572; influence of, on
French Revolution, 575.

Philosophy, consideration of the disadvantages under
which it labours from the vague use of ordinary lan-
guage, 1; progress of, 571; and infidelity of French
leaders, 575.

Phrenology, fatal objections to the science of, 108. n.
Physical and Moral Sciences, considerations on, 4; great
importance of distinguishing them, ib.

Pickering's American Vocabulary, 655, n.
Pilgrim's Progress, popularity of, 360.

Pitt, Mr., elevation of, 615. 715; on penal laws, 723; on
reform, 793; policy of, 812.

Pitts, Thomas. See Tutchin.

Place, M. de le, on French Revolution, 631.

Plato, observations on the character of his writings, 8, 9;
his observations on the treatment of slaves, 10. n.;
considered as the fountain of ancient morals, ib.
Plot, Gunpowder, James II. and, 369. See Popish,
Rye House.

Poachers, increase of, 717.

Poetry, progress of, in England, 513, 514; subjects for,

515.

Poland, account of, 434; situation of, 435; succession to
crown of, 435, 436; constitution of, 437; guarantee of
Russia to, 438; Russia tyrannises over, ib.; cause of
destruction of, 441; first proposal of dismembering,
443. 447; Catharine's share in partition of, 444. 448;
military system of, 449; pusillanimity of king of, 455;
second partition of, 457; final partition of, 458; foreign
factions in, 603; policy of England in case of, 681.
Poles, their language and customs, 435; " liberum veto "
of the, 437; duped by Russia, 439; resist the Russians,
440; barbarous treatment of the, ib.; capture Cracow,
447; resist the partition, 448; virtuous conduct of diet
of the, 451. 453; resist, under Kosciusko, &c., 457, 458;
Napoleon's promise to the, 459.

Policy, maxims of colonial, 769.

"Political economy," the modern use of the term liable
to misconception, 3.

Political Tract, model of a, 366; economy, 540, 542; in-
novations, when necessary, 569; science of Europe,
571; and civil liberty, 590. n.; principles, 591.
Politics, bearing of, 570; moral forces in, ib.; maxims
in, 591; how reduced to science, 810.
Pollexfen, state prosecutor, 290. 411. 413.
Poniatowski, S., king of Poland, 437, 438.
Poor Laws, nursery of crime, 715.

Pope, the power of, in relation to the Church, 19. 135.;
his jurisdiction renounced by the kingdom of England,
223. See Innocent XI. His nuncio to England - sce
D'Adda; and French Revolution, 622.

Pope, poetry of, 517.

Popham, Andrew, case of, 544.

Popish plot communicated to Commons, 295.
Portsmouth, Duchess, supports Earl Sunderland, 277;
on Lord Russell's death, 279. n.; present to, 327.
Portsmouth fortified, 388.

Portugal, relations of, 472; alliance with England, 472.
474; at war, from its situation, 473; dependent on
Spain, ib.; king of, at Brazil, 474; revolution in, A.;
charter of, 475, 476; cedes Brazil to Don Pedro, 477.
See John VI., Pedro, Brazil. Cortes of Lamego, 482,
483; revolts from Spain, 752; recognised by England
and Spain, ib.; relation of, to England, 777; usurped
by Don Miguel, ib. ; proceeding in 1820-1826, 778, 779;
Absolutists and Constitutionalists in, 779; proceedings
in 1827, 780.

Posidonius, 14.

Potemkin, character of, 450.

Potocki, apostate Pole, 454. 457.

Powell, Judge, and Test Act, 305; on the bishops, 414.
Powis, Lord, privy councillor, 311; to be lieutenant of
Ireland, 339.

Powis, Sir Thomas, attorney-general, 385.

"Practical principles," strictures on Mr. Locke's doc-
trine concerning, 158.

Practical reason and theoretical reason, separate pro-
vinces of, 128.

Practice and theory, 571. n.

Praga, assault of, 458.

Precedents, in Test Act, 306.

Predestination, considerations upon the doctrine of, in
connexion with the human will, 138.
Prerogative, royal, 332. 388.

Presbyterians engaged with Monmouth, 284; James II.
persecutes, 328, 329; account of the, 360.
Prescription, right of, in church property, 564.

Press, freedom of the, in England, 658-66; control of
the, 659.663; English, in case of Poland, 680; a means
of popular influence, ib.

Preston, Lord, secretary of state, 296. 378.

Price, Richard, observations and strictures on his philo-
sophical writings and doctrines, 73.

Price, Dr., and Revolution Society, 605; on Hanover
succession, 606; arguments of, 606, 607. 611.
Prideaux, Mr., rigour against, 293.
Priesthood. See Clergy.

Priestley, Dr., his house demolished, 623.

Primi, the Abbate, his "History of the Dutch War,"
262.

Printing, invention of, 16; use of, 571; and philosophers,

public, 563, 564. n.; distinguished from trust, 799; and
political privileges, ib., influence of, 802.
Protestant, clergy, persecution and banishment of, by the
Emperor Leopold I., 269; establishment, Earl Roches-
ter for, 278; betrayed, 309; Tories, policy of, 301; faith,
firm in England, 318; persecuted in France, 318. 322;
colleges in France, 321; children ensnared, ib.
Protestants, mode of punishing in France, 321; in Ire-
land, 340.

Protocol, definition of a, 583.
Prussia. See Frederic II. Its relation to Europe, 710.
Puffendorff, merits and defects of his attempt to restore
natural law to its proper position, 168; his doctrine of
"moral entities," 169.

Punishment, capital, in India, 687, 688; on abolition of,
209. 688; Lord Hardwicke on, 715; Lords Camden and
Mansfield on, ib.; right of inflicting, 716. See Crime,
Felonies, Fielding, Gibbs, Grant, Macdonald. Lord
Rosslyn against, 720; three classes of crime subject to,
ib.; in frauds, &c., ib.; Dr. Paley on, 722; effect of
abrogating, in felonies, ib.; substitute for, in felonies,
723; Basil Montague on, 723. n.; London petition
against, 724; Quakers' petition against, 725.
Puritans, imprisoned, 357; account of the, 360. 500. n.
Putney, case of curate of, 344.
Pyrenees, no longer, 622.

Pyrrho, extravagant scepticism attributed to him, 143.

Q.

Quakers, account of the, 362, 363; encomium on the,
725.

Qualification for electors, nature of, 643, 644.
Queen. See Catharine, Elizabeth, Denmark.
Queen of James II. (Mary d'Este), account of, 301-303;
her gross ignorance and superstition, 302; jealousy of,
ib.; horrified, 314; ascendancy over him, 323; bribed
by Tyrconnel, 340; pregnancy of, 381, 382; ridiculed,
ib.; effects of, 389; delivered of a son, 422; suppo-
sititious? 422. 424.

Queen of France, her chamber broken into? 584.
Queensberry, Duke, episcopalian, 327; decline of, ib.;
downfall of, 332.

R.

Radom, confederation of, 439.

Radzivil, Prince, account of, 438, 439.
Rantzau, Danish minister, 461. 464.
Rapin, M., character of, 424.

Realists and Nominalists, the, controversy between, 21;
the scholastic doctrine expires with these disputes, 22.
Reason, emancipation of, 17; its influence on the will
indirect, 40, 41; improper application of the term “rea-
son" to the moral faculties, ib.
Recognition (of independence), meaning of the term, 749.
Redings, the defenders of Switzerland, 682.
Reform (Parliamentary), partial and effectual, 567, 568;
enemies to, 623; Mr. Pitt on, 793. See Boroughs.
Bill, principle of the, 793; simultaneous and progres-
sive, 795: simultaneous, necessity of, 796-798; agita-
tors for, 798; and corporation robbery, ib.; arguments
against, 800; a conciliatory measure, 802; niggardly,
evils of, 802, 803.

Reformation, consequences of the, 620.

Reformers, Sir Thomas More's account of the excesses
of the, 212.

Refugees, French, proceedings of, 582.
Regulators of corporations, 372.

Regulus, his case considered in illustration of the doc-
trine of disinterested affection, 49.

Reid, Dr., notice of his " Inquiry into the Human Mind,"
101; his philosophy taught at Paris, 102.
Religion, its relation to morality, according to Lord
Shaftesbury, 45.

Religious liberty, the principles of, first disclosed to the
world by the Independent divines, 152.
Renwick, Cameronian preacher, executed, 427.
Repnin, character of, 438-440.

Representation, object of popular, 639-641; composition
of, 639; and landed proprietors, 640; if depending on
numbers, 646. See Suffrage, Qualification. Value of,
647. 649; Mr. Fox, on best, 649; of Ireland and Scot-
land after the union, 798, 799; principle of, 809; vir-
tual, case of, 810.

Representatives, proportion of, 594. 615.

Republicans, bias against, 295; in France, 668.

Resistance, doctrine of non-, 429-432.
Responsibility, legal and moral, of advisers of the crown,
their respective limits defined, 208; of kings, 607.613, 614.
Review. See Edinburgh.

Revolt. See War.

Revolution, good effects of the, 294.

Revolution, French, Mr. Burke's speech against the, 543,
544; his insinuations against the favourers of the, 545;
an equivocal term, ib.; French, meaning of the, 547;
cause of the, ib. ; effect of union of orders on, 553, 554;
soldiery joins the, 555, 556. See States General. And
English, contrasted, 558; its effects on the Church,
562-565; fruits of, 568; French, ultimate fate of, 572;
a, without leaders, ib.; French, influence of philo-
sophers on, 575; atheistical? ib.; state of finance in.
577; factious and general, 580; French, evils of the,
580; English, price of the, 581; French, exaggeration
of evils of, 582; effect on commerce, ib.; lives lost in,
ib.; effect of, on provinces, 583; first excesses of the,
583, 584; use of the king to, 585; crisis of the, 586;
French, and literature, 587; union of provinces in,
595; societies, Mr. Burke on, 605; 1688, effects of. 605.
614; conference in the, 610-612; French, conduct of
leaders of, 606; society and monarchy, 613; American,
effect of, ib.; admirers and wishers of, 617, 618;
French, effects of the, 619, 620. 622. 672; perma-
nence of the, 619; denounced in pulpits, 623; its
effects on French people, 630, 631; on agricul-
ture, ib.; peasants averse to, 633; lesson from, 638;
progress of the, 666; reason of combination against,
707; error in government, 709.
Revolutionary pamphlets, French, 552.
Ricardo, Mr., eulogium on, 748.

Rich, Sir Robin, solicitor-general under Henry VIII.,
his unprincipled attempt to entrap Sir Thomas More,
232; More's exposure of him on his trial, 233.
Richard the Third, notice of Sir Thomas More's His-
tory of, 195.

Richelieu, Cardinal, discourages Protestants, 319; arro-
gance of, 572.

Richelieus in National Assembly, 574.

Right and wrong, universality of the principle of, 4; Dr.
Cudworth's doctrine concerning, 36; Dr. Samuel
Clarke's, 39; conscience the seat of their perception,
81; a perception of right and wrong must have pre-
ceded revealed religion, 86; dangerous opinion of Scotus
concerning, 134.

Right, see Petition of. To freedom, 608; petition of,
on martial law, 734.

Rights, of man, 588-591; metaphysic, 591; national, ib.;
from expediency, ib.; general, 592; bill of, on frequent
parliaments, 810.

Ripon, Dean of. See Cartwright.

Robertson, Dr., writings of, 497.

Robespierre, character of, 664; failure of, 666; reign of,

682; on trial of king, 683.

Rouchefoucault, M., on finance, 577.
Rouchefoucaults in National Assembly, 574.
Rochelle treacherously abandoned, 320.

Rochester, Earl, his station and character, 278; his idea
of business, ib.; indecency of, 281; his policy, 302,
303; on the decline, 303; in Compton's case, 311;
averse to Popery, 322, 323; his friends, 324; confer-
ence to convert, ib.; removed and pensioned, 325.
Rogers' poems, 517; poetical rank, 520, 521.
Rohan, Prince de, sagacity of, 446, 447. n.

Roman Patriciate, the, a striking instance of the influ-
ence of opinion on human conduct, 13.
Rome, proceedings of the court of, in the case of Henry
the Eighth's divorce, 222; divisions in see of, 299.
Romilly, Sir Samuel, character of, 688; and Mr. Wilber-
force, 721.

Roper, his account of Sir Thomas More's domestic life,
191; conversations with Sir Thomas on the state of
religion and the kingdom, 224.

Ross, Bishop, prosecuted, 331.
Rosslyn, Earl. See Wedderburne.

Rousseau, his influence on French Revolution, 575; Mr.
Hume on, 589. n.

"Rule of life," the, inquiry into the causes of the gene-
ral agreement of men concerning, 5; some of the early
Romans distinguished by a desire to discover a solid
foundation for, 13; remarks on Hartley's theory con-
cerning, 82.

Rules of conduct, general coincidence of all ages and na-
tions on the subject of, 4; Mr. Hume's theory, 5; pro-
secution of the inquiry, Whence arises this agreement
as to the "rule of life?" ib.; extract from Hartley's
"Observations on Man," 5. n.

Rumbold, Richard, quartered, 291.
Rumsey, Col., perjury of, 290.
Rupert's bequest to his mistress, 340.

Russell, Lord, uncompromising, 280; perjury at trial of,
290; of unspotted virtue, 291.

Russia, uncivilised state of, 276; interferes with Poland,
436; tyrannises over Poland, 438, 439. See Catharine.
Has no word for "honour," 440.

Russians, origin of the, 469.

Ryder, Sir Dudley, on criminal committee, 715, 716.
Rye-house Plot, 469.

Ryswick, peace of, 679.

Rzewuski, apostate Pole, 454. 457.

S.

Sacrilege, an indefinite term, 565.

Sailors, the, ridicule the monks, 425.

St. John, Lady, intercedes for Mrs. Lisle, 285.

St. Nicholas Island, use of, 290.

St. Pierre, Abbé, scheme of, 627.
Saldern, character of, 438.

Salisbury, Lord, papist, 419.

Sancroft, primate, wavering conduct of, 310; recom-
mends Jeffreys's brother, 311; defends the church, 404.
Sardinia, king of, occupies Genoa, 695; possessions of,
702.

Sarmatian race, 435; slaves, 469.

Satire, remarks on, 14, and n.
Savile, Sir George. See Halifax.

Scarsdale, Lord, dismissed, 373.

Scepticism, universal, the absurdity of, demonstrated,
65; mischievous consequences of, ib.

Sceptics, their baneful influence on philosophy, 15; ex-
travagant notions attributed to some of them, 143.
Scheldt, opening of the, 624.

Schiller's works, 528, 529.

Scholastic ethics, retrospect of, 16.

Scholastic philosophy, its origin traced, 17, 18.
Schoolmen, the, their character defined, 17; general ex-
cellence of their ethical system, 22.

Schools, Stoical and Epicurean, rise of the, 8.
Sciences, the, difficulties in the way of forming a new
nomenclature of, 3; instanced in the case of Lord
Bacon, ib.; importance of distinguishing between phy-
sical and moral, 4.

Scotch, the, their passion for dialectical subtilties, 60;
character given of them by Servetus, 60. n.
Scotland, power of James II. in, 276; persecution in, 326,
327; laws of, against Papists, 327; Parliament of, opened,
328; debates in, 328–332; adjourned, 332; proclama-
tion by James in, 353; state of, under James II., 427,
428; tenure of lands in, 564.

Scottish nobles, reply to the Pope, 620. n.

Scotus, inquiry into the place of his birth, 18. n.; his ac-
quiescence in the Augustinian doctrine, 133.
Scrofuia, royal cure of, 369.

Sebastiani, Col., publication of, 664.
Sebastiani, Don, son of Don Pedro, 480.
Sedgemoor battle, cruelties after, 281, 282.
Sedley, Catherine (Countess Dorchester), account of,
302, 303; leader of the Protestant party, 302; loses her
lover, James II., 303; return of, 323; reason of her
dismissal, 323. n.

Selden, his opinion of the equity of the Court of Chan-
cery, 216.

Self-interest and Self-love, observations concerning, 146.
Self-love, erroneousness of the general notion of its
being the most powerful of human motives, 41; remarks
upon, 78. 146.

"Sense of justice," what constitutes it, 80.
Septennial Act, account of the, 811.

Sepulveda, advocate of the Spanish colonists, 23; notices,
of, 136.

Seton, Judge, removed, 330.

Settlement Act for Ireland, 336. 340.
Settlement Act, arraigned, 607.

Seymour, Sir Edward, favours James II., 295.; and fel-
lows of Magdalen College, 350.

Shaftesbury, Earl of, singular fortune of his "Character-
istics," 42; notices of his early life, ib.; general ob-
servations on the character of his writings, 43; strie-
tures on his system of morals, ib.; for religious free-
dom, 300. 352.

Sharpe, dean of Norwich, against popery, 310.

Shaw, Mr., chairman of Lloyds, 748.

Sheridan and Tyrconnel, 339. n., 340; Mr., as a speaker,

493.

Ship-money as a precedent, 306.

Shorter, Sir John, mayor of London, 369.

Siberia, dread of, 439.

Sawyer, attorney general 385. 412.

Saxony, Elector of, and Poland, 436.

Slave trade, African, first condemned by Dominic S.

24.

Slavery, on abolition of, 744.