Accidental things ought to be carefully dis-
tinguished from permanent causes
and effects, v. 234.

Account, capital use of an, what, i. 511.
Act of navigation, i. 378; ii. 30, 38.
Acts of grace, impolicy of, ii. 386.
Acts of indemnity and oblivion, probable

effects of, as a means of reconciling
France to a monarchy, iv. 460.
Addison, Mr., the correctness of his opin-

ion of the cause of the grand effect
of the rotund questioned, i. 150.
his fine lines on honorable political
connections, i. 529.
Administration, Short Account of a Late
Short, (Marquis of Rockingham's,)
i. 263.

censures on that administration, i.
379.

state of public affairs at the time of

its formation, i. 381.

character and conduct of it, i. 388.
idea of it respecting America, i. 397.
remarks on its foreign negotiations,
i. 412.

character of a united administration,
i. 419.

of a disunited one, i. 425.

the administration should be corre-
spondent to the legislature, i. 471.
Admiration, the first source of obedience,
iv. 251.

one of the principles which interest
us in the characters of others, vii.
148:

Adrian, first contracts the bounds of the
Roman Empire, vii. 214.

Advice, compulsive, from constituents, its
authority first resisted by Mr.
Burke, iv. 95.
Adviser, duty of an, iv. 42.
Agricola, Julius, character and conduct
of, vii. 199.

Aix, the Archbishop of, his offer of con-
tribut.on, why refused by the
French National Assembly, iii.
390.
Aix-la-Chapelle, the treaty of, remarks
on, v. 441.

Akbar, the Emperor, obtains possession
of Bengal, ix. 392.

Alfred the Great, character and conduct
of, vii. 261.

his care and sagacity in improving
the laws and institutions of Eng-
land, vii. 482.

Allegiance, oath of, remarkable one taken
by the nobility to King Stephen,
vii. 388.

Alliance, one of the requisites of a good
peace, i. 295.

the famous Triple Alliance negotiated
by Temple and De Witt, v. 438.
alliance between Church and State in
a Christian commonwealth, a fanci-
ful speculation, vii. 43.

Ambition, one of the passions belonging
to society, i. 124.

nature and end of, i. 124.

misery of disappointed, i. 335.

ought to be influenced by popular
motives, i. 474.

influence of, iii. 107.

one of the natural distempers of a
democracy, iv. 164.

legislative restraints on it in democ-
racies always violent and ineffect-
ual, iv. 164.

not an exact calculator, vii. 82.
virtue of a generous ambition for ap-
plause for public services, x. 176.
America, advantage of, to England, i. 297.
nature of various taxes there, i. 355.
project of a representation of in Par-
liament, its difficulties, i. 372.
its rapidly increasing commerce, ii.

112.

eloquent description of the rising glo-
ries of, in vision, ii. 115.
temper and character of its inhab-
itants, ii. 120.

their spirit of liberty, whence, ii. 120,
133.

proposed taxation of, by grant in-
stead of imposition, ii. 154.

danger in establishing a military gov-
ernment there, vi. 176.

American Stamp Act, its origin, i. 385.
repeal of the, i. 265, 389.

reasons of the repeal, ii. 48.

good effects of the repeal, i. 401; ii.

59.

Ancestors, our, reverence due to them,

iii. 562; iv. 213.

Angles, in buildings, prejudicial to their
grandeur, i. 151.

Animals, their cries capable of convey-
ing great ideas, i. 161.
Anniversaries, festive, advantages of, iv.
369.

Anselm, appointed Archbishop of Can
terbury, vii. 373.

supports Henry I. against his brother
Robert, vii. 377.
Apparitions, singular inconsistency in the
ideas of the vulgar concerning
them, vii. 181.

Arbitrary power, steals upon a people by

lying dormant for a time, or by
being rarely exercised, ii. 201.
cannot be exercised or delegated by
the legislature, ix. 455.

not recognized in the Gentoo code, xi.
208.

Arbitrary system, must always be a cor-
rupt one, x. 5.

danger in adopting it as a principle
of action, xi. 322.
Areopagus, court and senate of, remarks
on the, iii. 507.

Ariosto, a criticism of Boileau on, vii. 154.
Aristocracy, affected terror at the growth
of the power of the, in the reign of
George II., i. 457.
influence of the, i. 457.

too much spirit not a fault of the, i.
458.

general observations on the, iii. 415.
character of a true natural one, iv.
174.

regulations in some states with re-
spect to, iv. 250.

must submit to the dominion of pru-
dence and virtue, v. 127.
character of the aristocracy of France
before the Revolution, iii. 412; vi.
39.

Aristotle, his caution against delusive
geometrical accuracy in moral ar-
guments, ii. 170.

his observations on the resemblance.
between a democracy and a tyran-
ny, iii. 397.

his distinction between tragedy and
comedy, vii. 153.

his natural philosophy alone un-
worthy of him, vii. 252.

his system entirely followed by Bede,
vii. 252.

Armies yield a precarious and uncertain.

obedience to a senate, iii. 524.
remarks on the standing armies of
France and England, iii. 224.
Army commanded by General Monk,
character of it, iv. 36.

Art, every work of, great only as it de-
ceives, i. 152.

Artist, a true one effects the noblest de-
signs by easy methods, i. 152.
Artois, Comte d', character of, iv. 430.

Ascendency, Protestant, observations on
it, vi. 393.

Asers, their origin and conquests, vii. 228.
Assassination, recommended and em-
ployed by the National Assembly
of France, iv. 34.

the dreadful consequences of this
policy, in case of war, iv. 34.
Astonishment, cause and nature of, i.
130, 217.

Atheism by establishment, what, v. 310.
ought to be repressed by law, vii. 35.
schools of, set up by the French regi-
cides at the public charge, vi. 106.
Atheists, modern, contrasted with those
of antiquity, iv. 355.
Athenians, at the head of the democratic
interests of Greece, iv. 321.
Athens, the plague of, remarkable preva-
lence of wickedness during its con-
tinuance, vii. 84.

Augustin, state of religion in Britain when
he arrived there, vii. 233.
introduced Christianity among the
Anglo-Saxons, vii. 235.

Aulic Council, remarks on the, v. 119.
Austria began in the reign of Maria The-
resa to support great armies, v.
368.

her treaty of 1756 with France, de-
plored by the French in 1773, v.
370.

Authority, its only firm seat in public
opinion, ii. 224; vi. 165.

the people the natural control on it,
iv. 164.

the exercise and control of it together
contradictory, iv. 164.

the monopoly of it an evil, v. 151.
Avarice, an instrument and source of op-
pression in India, iii. 107; ix. 491.

Bacon, Lord, a remark of his applied to
the revolution in France, v. 175.
his demeanor at his impeachment,
xi. 173.

Bacon, N., his work on the laws of Eng-
land not entitled to authority, vii.
479.

Bail, method of giving it introduced by
Alfred, vii. 265.

advantage of it, vii. 265.
Ball, John, abstract of a discourse of, iv.
178.

Ballot, all contrivances by it vain to pre.
vent a discovery of the inclinations,
iii. 507.
Balmerino, Lord, proceedings in his
trial, xi. 34.

Banian, functions and character of the,
ix. 363.

Bank paper in England, owing to the
flourishing condition of commerce,
iii 541.

Bards, the, character of their verses, vii

178.

Bartholomew, St., massacre of, iii. 420.

Bathurst, Lord, his imagined vision of the
rising glories of America, ii. 114.
Bayle, Mr., an observation of his on relig-
ious persecution, vi. 333.
Beauchamp, Lord, his bill concerning im-
prisonment; Mr. Burke's course
with respect to it, ii. 382.

Beauty, a cause of love, i. 114, 165.

proportion not the cause of it in veg-
etables, i. 166.

nor in animals, i. 170.

nor in the human species, i. 172.
beauty and proportion not ideas of
the same nature, i. 181.
the opposite to beauty not dispropor-
tion or deformity, but ugliness, i.
181.

fitness not the cause of beauty, i. 181.
nor perfection, i. 187.

how far the idea of beauty applicable

to the qualities of the mind, i. 188.
how far applicable to virtue, i. 190.
the real cause of beauty, i. 191.
beautiful objects, small, i. 191.
and smooth, i. 193.

and of softly varied contour, i. 194.
and delicate, i. 195.

and of clear, mild, or diversified col-
ors, i. 196.

beauty of the physiognomy, i. 198.
beauty of the eye, i. 198.

the beautiful in feeling, i. 201.
the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
physical effects of beauty, i. 232.
Bede, the Venerable, brief account of him
and his works, vii. 250.
Bedford, the first earl of, who, v. 201.
Begums of Oude, accused by the East

India Company of rebellion, ii. 475.
pretence for seizing their treasures,
xii. 33.

Benares, city of, the capital of the Indian
religion, ii. 477, 484.

province of, its projected sale to the
Nabob of Oude, xi. 259.
devastation of, during Mr. Hastings's
government, xi. 302, 347.

the Rajah of, nature of his author-
ity, xi. 240.

imprisoned by Mr. Hastings's order,
xi. 277.

the Ranny of, the soldiery incited by
Mr. Hastings to plunder her, ii. 486.
Benfield, Paul, his character and conduct,
iii. 97.

Bengal, extent and condition of, ii. 498.
conquest of, by the Emperor Akbar,

ix. 392.

era of the independent subahs of, ix.
392.

era of the British empire in. ix. 393.
nature of the government exercised
there by Mr. Hastings, xii. 211.
Bengal Club, observations on the, iv. 324.
Bidjegur, fortress of, taken by order of
Mr. Hastings, xi. 291.

Biron, Duchess of, murdered by the French
regicides, vi. 41.

Bitterness, in description, a source of the
sublime, i. 162.

Blackness, effects of, i. 229.

Boadicea, Roman outrages against, vii.
197.

Boileau, his criticism on a tale in Ariosto,
vii. 154.

Bolingbroke, Lord, animadversions on his
philosophical works, i. 3.

some characteristics of his style, i. 7.
a presumptuous and superficial writ-
er, iii. 398.

a remark of his on the superiority of
a monarchy over other forms of gov-
ernment, iii. 398.

Boncompagni, Cardinal, character of
him, iv. 338.

Borrower, the public, and the private
lender, not adverse parties with
contending interests, v. 455.
Bouillon, Godfrey of, engages in the Cru-
sade, vii. 372.

Boulogne, fortress of, surrendered to
France, v. 204.

importance of it to England, v. 204.
Bouvines, victory of, important advan-
tages of it to France, vii. 458.
Brabançons, mercenary troops in the time
of Henry II., their character, vii.
420.

Bribing, by means of it, rather than by

being bribed, wicked politicians
bring ruin on mankind, iii. 107.
Brissot, his character and conduct, iv. 371.
Preface to his Address to his Con-
stituents, v. 65.

Britain, invasion of, by Cæsar, vii. 165.
account of its ancient inhabitants,
vii. 170.

invaded by Claudius, vii. 191.
reduced by Ostorius Scapula, vii.

191.

finally subdued by Agricola, vii. 199.
why not sooner conquered, vii. 202.
nature of the government settled there
by the Romans, vii. 205.

first introduction of Christianity into,
vii. 221.

deserted by the Romans, vii. 223.
entry and settlement of the Saxons
there, and their conversion to
Christianity, vii. 227.

Britons, more reduced than any other
nation that fell under the German
power, vii. 232.

Brown, Dr., effect of his writings on the
people of England, v. 239.
Buch, Captal de, his severe treatment of
the Jacquerie in France, iv. 177.
Buildings, too great length in them, pre-
judicial to grandeur of effect, i. 152.
should be gloomy to produce an idea
of the sublime, i. 158.

Burke, Mr., his sentiments respecting sev-
eral leading members of the Whig
party, iv. 66.

and respecting a union of Ireland
with Great Britain, iv. 297.

Burke, Mr. Continued.

respecting acts of indemnity and
oblivion as a means of reconciling
France to a monarchy, iv. 460.
his animadversions on the conduct of
Mr. Fox, v. 7.

his pathetic allusion to his deceased
son, v. 207.

Burnet, Bishop, his statement of the
methods which carried men of
parts to Popery in France, iii. 430.
Bute, Earl of, his resignation, i. 381.

his successors recommended by him,
i. 381.

supposed head of the court party
called "King's Men," i. 467.

Cæsar, Julius, his policy with respect to
the Gauls, vii. 163.

his invasion of Germany, vii. 164.
and of Britain, vii. 165.

Calais, lost by the surrender of Boulogne,
v. 204.

Calamity, its deliberations rarely wise,
iii. 540.

public calamity often arrested by the
seasonable energy of a single man,
v. 124.

Caligula undertakes an expedition against
Britain, vii. 190.

Calonne, M. de, remarks on his work,
"L'État de la France," iii. 479.
extract from it, iii. 549.

Campanella, curious story concerning
him, i. 212.

Canada Bills, convention for their liqui-
dation, i. 409.

Canterbury, dispute between the suffra-
gan bishops of the province and
the monks of the Abbey of St.
Austin, vii. 446.

Cantons, French, their origin, nature, and
function, iii. 462, 464, 471.

Cantoo Baboo, Mr. Hastings's banian, x.

19.

Canute, his character and conduct, vii.
276.

remarks on his code of laws, vii. 483.
Capital, monopoly of, not an evil, v. 151.
Care, appearance of, highly contrary to

our ideas of magnificence, i. 154.
Carnatic, the extent, nature, and condi-
tion of the country, ii. 492; iii. 65.
dreadful devastation of it by Hyder
Ali Khân, iii. 62.

Caste, consequences of losing it in India,
x. 89.

Castile, different from Catalonia and Ara-
gon, iv. 340.

Castles, great numbers of them built in

the reign of Stephen, vii. 389.
Casuistry, origin and requisites of, iv. 168.
danger of pursuing it too far, iv. 168.
Catholics, Letter to an Irish Peer on the

Penal Laws against, iv. 217.
Celsus, his opinion that internal remedies
were not of early use proved to be
erroneous, vii. 184.

Cerealis, extract from his fine speech to
the Gauls, iv. 272.

Change and reformation, distinction be-
tween, v. 186.

Characters of others, principles which in-
terest us in them, vii. 148.
Charity, observations on, v. 146.

not to be interfered with by the mag-
istrate, v. 146.
Charles I. defended himself on the prac-
tice of his predecessors, ii. 279.
his ill-judged attempt to establish the
rites of the Church of England in
Scotland, vii. 8.

Charles II. obliged by the sense of the
nation to abandon the Dutch war,
ii. 219.

brief character of him, iv. 37.
his government compared with that
of Cromwell, iv. 467.

Charles XII. of Sweden, parallel between
him and Richard I. of England, vii.
436.
Charters are kept when their purposes are
maintained, ii. 565.

Chatham, Lord, his character, ii. 61.
Cheselden, Mr., his story of a boy who

was couched for a cataract, i. 226.
Chester, the County Palatine of, admitted
to representation in Parliament in
the reign of Henry VIII., ii. 150.
Chesterfield, Lord, his conduct (when
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland) with
respect to the Roman Catholics,
iv. 235.

Cheyt Sing, Rajah of Benares, nature of
his authority, îì. 479; xi. 240.
imprisoned by order of Mr. Hastings,
xi. 277.

Christendom, the several states of, have
all been formed slowly and without
any unity of design, v. 373.
Christianity, original introduction of, into
Britain, vii. 221.

Church, the, has power to reform her doc-

trine, discipline, and rites, vii. 7.
Church establishment in England, obser-
vations on it, iii. 352.

the provision made for its clergy by
the state, iii. 364.

education of its clergy contrasted with
that of the Roman Catholic clergy,
iv. 231.

eulogy on it, vi. 401; vii. 36, 56.
Cicero, remarks on his orations against
Verres, xii. 349.

Circumstances, importance of them in all

political principles, iii. 240; vii. 55.
Citizens, not to be listened to, in matters
relating to agriculture, v. 146.
Civil list, debts due on it, request for a
supply for discharging them, how
made, i. 508.

plan of economy relative to it, ii.

350.

Civil society, great purpose of, vi. 333.
Civil vicinity, law of, what, v. 322.
Civil wars corrupt the morals of the
people, ii. 203.

abuse, vii. 121.

Clarendon, Constitutions of, vii. 403.
Claudius, the Emperor, invades Britain,

vii. 191.

Clavering, Sir John, eulogy on him, x.
246; xii. 348.

Clear expression, different from a strong
one, i. 260.

Clearness not necessary for affecting the
passions, i. 133.

Clergy, convocation of, a part of the con-
stitution, ii. 226.

observations on the provision made
by the state for them, iii. 364, 448.
Roman Catholic, in France, character
of them before the Revolution, iii.
424.

laws of William and Anne respecting
the Popish clergy, vi. 317.
review of the state of the clergy in
England down to the reign of Hen-
ry II., vii. 398.

Clive, Lord, sent to India, ix. 438.

his conduct there, ix. 439.

Clootz, Anacharsis, his masquerade em-
bassy to the Constituent Assembly
of France, vi. 49.

Coke, Lord, ingenious quotation in his
Reports, i. 5.

his observation on discretion in judi-
cature, iv. 292.

Colonies, commercial, mode of levying
taxes in them, an important and
difficult consideration, i. 354.
American, import ten times more
from Great Britain than they send
in return, i. 393.

Colonists, the British, in America, char-
acter of, i. 395.

Address to, vi. 183.

Colors, soft and cheerful ones unfit to pro-
duce grand images, i. 158.
Comedy, observations on, vii. 150.

Aristotle's distinction between it and
tragedy, vii. 153.

Comines, Philip de, his remarks on the
English civil wars, vi. 252.
Commerce and liberty, the two main
sources of power to Great Britain,
ii. 87.

great increase of, in America, ii. 112.
Common law, nature of the, vii. 462.
Common Pleas, court of, its origin, vii. 466.
Commons, the House of, observations on

its nature and character, i. 491.
what qualities recommend a man to
a seat in it, in popular elections, i.
497.

can never control other parts of the
government, unless the members
themselves are controlled by their
constituents, i. 503.

ought to be connected with and de-
pendent on the people, i. 508.
has a collective character, distinct
from that of its members, ii. 66.
duty of the members to their constit-
uents, ii. 95.

Continued.

general observations on its privileges
and duties, ii. 544.

the collective sense of the people to
be received from it, ii. 545.

its powers and capacities, ii. 552.
cannot renounce its share of author-
ity, iii. 258.

its composition, iii. 289.

the most powerful and most corrupt
ible part of the constitution, vii.

62.

a superintendence over the doctrines
and proceedings of the courts of
justice, one of its principal objects,
vii. 107.

concise view of its proceedings on the
East India question, ii. 559.
Commonwealths, not subject to laws anal-
ogous to those of physical life, v.
124, 234.

Communes, in France, their origin, na-
ture, and function, iii. 462, 464, 472.
Compurgators, in Saxon law, what, vii.
318.

Condorcet, brief character of him, iv. 356,
372.

extract from a publication of his, iv.
356.

Confidence, unsuspecting, in government,
importance of it, ii. 234.

of mankind, how to be secured, v.
414.

Connections, party, political, observations
on them, i. 527, 530.

commended by patriots in the com-
monwealths of antiquity, i. 527.
the Whig connection in Queen Anne's
reign, i. 529.

Conquest cannot give a right to arbitrary
power, ix. 456.

Conscience, a tender one ought to be ten-
derly handled, vii. 54.

Constantine the Great, changes made by
him in the internal policy of the
Roman Empire, vii. 220.

Constantinople, anecdote of the visit of an
English country squire to, v. 387.
anecdote of the Greeks at the taking
of, vi. 96.

Constituents, in England, more in the
spirit of the constitution to lessen
than to enlarge their number, i.
370.

their duty to their representatives,
ii. 370.

compulsive instruction from them

first rejected by Mr. Burke, iv. 95.
points in which they are incompe-
tent to instruct their representa-
tives, vii. 74, 75.
Constitution, a, cannot defend itself, vi.
100.

consequences of disgracing the frame
and constitution of the state, vii.
103.

the English, a change in it, an im-
mense and difficult operation, i.
371, 520.