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, 461, 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, ii. 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.

Clamor, justifiable when it is caused by
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.

Commons, the House of- 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.

Constitution Continued.

English, changes in it to be attempted
only in times of general confusion,
i. 371.

eulogy on it, iii. 561; v. 210; vii. 100.
the whole scheme of it to prevent any
one of its principles from being
carried to an extreme, iv. 207.
not struck out at a heat, iv. 209.
commendation of it by Montesquieu,
iv. 212.

the only means of its subversion,
what, v. 49, 52.
Constitutional Society, The, its nature
and design, iii. 236.

Conti, Prince de, his character and con-
duct, iv. 436.

Contract, an implied one, always, be-
tween the laborer and his employ-
er, v. 137.

Contracting parties, not necessary that
they should have different inter-
ests, v. 139.

Control and exercise of authority together
contradictory, iv. 164.

Convocation of the clergy, though a part

of the constitution, now called for
form only, ii. 226.

Conway, General, moves the repeal of the
American Stamp Act, ii. 52.
Cornwallis, Lord, (Baron,) proceedings in
his trial, xi. 30.

Cornwallis, Lord, (Marquis,) his evidence

at the trial of Warren Hastings,
xii. 359.
Coronation oath, its obligations with re-

spect to Roman Catholics, iv. 259.
Corporate bodies, their usefulness as in-
struments, iii. 441.

more under the direction of the state
than private citizens, iii. 447.
Corruption, of nature and example, what
the only security against, ii. 238.
in pecuniary matters, the suspicion
of it how to be avoided, iii. 95.
Cossim, Ali Khân, his character and con-
duct, ix. 405.

Country, love of, remarks on, xi. 422.
Credit and power incompatible, i. 368.
Crimes, the acts of individuals, not of de-
nominations, ii. 418.

according to the criminal law, what,
vi. 340.

Cromwell, brief character of him, iii. 294.
his principle in the appointment of
judges, iv. 13.

his conduct in government, iv. 37.
his government compared with that
of Charles II., iv. 467.

Cross, the effect of it not so grand in ar-
chitecture as that of the parallelo-
gram, i. 150.

Crown, the influence of it, what, i. 444.
inheritable nature of it, iii. 258.
this principle maintained at the Rev-
olution, iii. 254.

the only legitimate channel of com-
munication with other nations, v.
10.

Crusade, origin and progress of the, vii.
369.

Curfew, origin and policy of the, vii.
354.

Curiosity, the first and simplest emotion
of the human mind, i. 101.
general observations on it, i. 101.
Custom, considered in relation to deform-
ity and beauty, i. 179.

not the cause of pleasure, i. 180.
Cyprus, account of the conquest of it by
Richard I., vii. 428.

Danger and pain, the idea of them a
source of the sublime, i. 110, 130.
with certain modifications, delight-
ful, i. 111.

the danger of anything very dear to
us removes for the time all other
affections from the mind, iv. 95.
Darkness more productive of sublime
ideas than light, i. 156.

necessary to the highest degree of
the sublime in building, i. 158.
Locke's opinion concerning, i. 225.
terrible in its own nature, i. 226.
why, i. 227.

Davies, Sir John, his statement of the
benefits of the extension of Eng-
lish constitutional law to Ireland,
ii. 147; iv. 273.

Day, not so sublime as night, i. 158.
Debi Sing, his character and conduct, x.
69.

Debt, the interest of, not the principal,
that which distresses a nation, i.
329.

Debts, civil, faults of the law with regard
to, ii. 384.

public, excessive, their tendency to
subvert government, iii. 437.
Deceivers and cheats never can repent,
iv. 9.

Declaration of Right, contains the princi-
ples of the Revolution of 1688, iii.
252.

drawn by Lord Somers, iii. 254.
proceeds upon the principle of refer-
ence to antiquity, iii. 273.

Defensive measures, though vigorous at
first, relax by degrees, iv. 355.
necessary considerations with regard
to them, vi. 100.

Definitions, frequently fallacious, i. 81.
Deformity not opposed to beauty, but to
the complete common form, i. 178.
Deity, power the most striking of his at-
tributes, i. 143.
Delamere, Lord, proceedings in his trial,
xi. 31.
Delight, what, i. 107.

distinguished from pleasure, i. 108.
the misfortunes of others sometimes
a source of, i. 118.

the attendant of every passion which
animates us to any active purpose,
i. 119.

how pain can be a cause of, i. 215.

Democracy, no example in modern times
of a considerable one, iii. 396.
an absolute one, not to be reckoned
among the legitimate forms of gov-
ernment, iii. 396.

Aristotle's observation on the resem-
blance between a democracy and a
tyranny, iii. 397.

the vice of the ancient democracies,
what, iii. 508.

the foodful nurse of ambition, iv. 164.
Departments in France, their origin, na-
ture, and function, iii. 461, 465.
Depth thought to have a grander effect
than height, i. 147.

Description, verbal, a means of raising
a stronger emotion than painting,
i. 133.

Desirable things always practicable, ii.

357.

Despotism, nature of, i. 446; ix. 458.
D'Espréménil, the illustrious

illustrious French

magistrate, murdered by the Revo-
lutionists, vi. 40.

Dialogue, advantages and disadvantages

of it as a mode of argumentation,
vi. 9.

Difference in taste, commonly so called,
whence, i. 89.

Difficulty, a source of greatness in idea,
i. 153.

its disciplinary uses, iii. 453.
political difficulties, ill consequences
of attempting to elude them, iii.
454.

Dignity, national, no standard for rating
the conditions of peace, v. 257.
Dimension, greatness of, a powerful cause
of the sublime, i. 147.

necessary to the sublime in building,
i. 152.

but incompatible with beauty, i. 242.
Dinagepore, Rajah of, account of him, xii.
318.

Diogenes, anecdote of him, iv. 61.
Directory, the, by whom settled, vii. 13.
rejected at the Restoration, vii. 13.
Disappointment, what, i. 108.
Discontents, Thoughts on the Cause of the
Present, i. 433.

produced by a system of favoritism,
i. 469.

Discretion, Lord Coke's remark on, iv.
292.

Discretionary powers of the monarch,
should be exercised upon public
principles, i. 469.
Discrimination, a coarse, the greatest ene-

my to accuracy of judgment, v. 143.
Dissenters, observations on the Test Act,
in reference to them, iv. 264.
Distress, great, never teaches wise lessons
to mankind, iv. 10.

Distrust, advantages of, iv. 443.
Disunion in government, mischief of, i.
425.

Divorce, observations on, v. 313.
Domesday Book, origin and nature of it,
vii. 354.

Drama, Hints for an Essay on the, vii.
143.

Dramatic writing, difficulty of, vii. 145.
origin of, vii. 149.

Druids, some account of their origin, char-
acter, and functions, vii. 176.

the opinion that their religion was
founded on the unity of the God-
head, confuted, vii. 185.

Dryden, his translation of a passage in
Virgil, v. 391.

Du Bos, his theory of the greater effect of
painting than of poetry on the pas-
sions, controverted, i. 134.
Dunkirk, démolition of, i. 412.
Dunning, Mr., brief character of, ii. 398.
Du Pin, M. de la Tour, his account of the
state of the army in France, iii.
512.

Durham, County Palatine of, admitted
to representation in Parliament, in
the reign of Charles II., ii. 152.
Duty, effectual execution of it, how to be
secured, ii. 353.

determined by situation, ii. 465; iv.
167.

people do not like to be told of it,
iv. 163.

not dependent on the will, iv. 165.

Easter, whence the name derived, vii. 237.
disputes about the time of celebrating
it promote the study of astronomy
and chronology, vii. 252.
East India Company, origin of the, ix. 348.
system of its service, ix. 350.

a fundamental part of its constitu-
tion, that its government shall be
a written one, ix. 369.

two sources of its power, ix. 345.
its negotiations with government, i.
362.

observations on its charter, ii. 438.
extent and population of its posses-
sions, ii. 443, 444.

observations on its conduct, ii. 446.
its treatment of the nations indirectly
subject to its authority, ii. 466.
its administration in the countries im-
mediately under its government, ii.
497.

concise view of the proceedings of
the House of Commons relative to
it, ii. 559.

East Indies, origin of the extensive Brit
ish possessions there, ii. 560.
Ecclesiastical investiturę, origin and na-
ture of, vii. 382.

Economy and war not easily recc aciled,
i. 310.