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'A BECKET, Thomas, vi. 356.
Abolition of negro slavery, v. 521.
Absentee tax, Irish, v. 437, objec-

tions to it, 438.
Accidental things ought to be care-

fully distinguished from perma-
nent causes and effects, v. 153.
Account, capital use of, what, i.
362.

Act of Navigation, i. 401, 407.
Acts of Grace, impolicy of them, ii.
141; of indemnity and oblivion,
probable effects of them as a
means of reconciling France to a
monarchy, iii. 450.
Addison, Mr., the correctness of his
opinion of the cause of the grand
effect of the rotund questioned,
i. 102; his fine lines on hon-
ourable political connexions, i.
375.

Address (proposed) to the king,
1777, by members of parliament,
v. 460; to the British colonists
in North America, 476.
Administration, a short account of
a late short one, i. 182; Duke of
Cumberland's, in July, 1765, ib.;
Lord Chatham's, July, 1766, ib.;
Marquis of Rockingham's, 266,
see Rockingham; state of pub-
lic affairs at the time of its forma-
tion, 267; idea of it respecting
America, 279; remarks on its
foreign negotiations, 290; cha-
racter of a united administra-

VOL. VI.

tion, 299; of a disunited one, ib.;
should be correspondent to the
legislature, 279.

Admiration, difference between this
and love, i. 132; the first source
of obedience, ii. 303; one of the
principles which interest us in
the characters of others, vi. 178.
Adrian, first contracts the bounds
of the Roman empire, vi. 224.
Advice, compulsive, from constitu-

ents, its authority first resisted
by Mr. Burke, iii. 26.
Adviser, duty of one, ii. 548.
Agricola, Julius, character and con-
duct of, vi. 213.

Aix, the Archbishop of, his offer of
contribution why refused by the
French National Assembly, ii.
392.
Aix-la-Chapelle, the treaty of, re-
marks on it, v. 302.
Alderman, the office of, among the
Saxons, vi. 290.

Alfred, notices of, vi. 257; charac-
ter and conduct of, 262; his
care and sagacity in improving
the laws and institutions of Eng-
land, 418.
Allegiance, oath of, remarkable one
taken by the nobility to King
Stephen, vi. 349.

Alliance, one of the requisites of a
good peace, i. 203; the famous
Triple Alliance negotiated by
Temple and De Witt, v. 301;
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alliance between Church and
State in a Christian common-
wealth a fanciful speculation, vi.
115.

Alliances, Vattell on, iii. 460.
Allies, the, remarks on their policy
in respect to France, in 1792, iii.
400, 410.

Ambition, its effects on society, i.
84.

Ambition, one of the passions be-
longing to society, i. 83; its nature
and end, 84; misery of disappoint-
ed ambition, 233; ought to be in-
fluenced by popular motives, 335;
influence of it, iii. 193; one of
the natural distempers of a demo-
cracy, 78; necessity and danger-
ous tendency of violent restraints
on it, iii. 78; not an accurate cal-
culator, vi. 140.

America, trade of, relieved, i. 182;
representation of discussed, 260;
trade of, 278; advantage of to
England, 404; nature of various
taxes there, 247; eloquent de-
scription of the rising glories of,
in vision, 460; its rapidly in-
creasing commerce, 458; temper
and character of its inhabitants,
464; their spirit of liberty,
whence, 464, 469; proposed tax-
ation of by grant, instead of im-
position, 489; danger of estab-
lishing a military government
there, v. 472; an European power,
290.

AMERICAN COLONIES:-

The measures adopted by the
Rockingham Administration to
conciliate the Americans, i. 183;
want of attention to their con-
cerns, 260; taxation of, and its
consequences, 269; power of the
British legislature over, asserted,
279; repeal of the Stamp Act,
282; speech on American taxa-
tion, 283; effects of the tea tax,
and reasons for its repeal, 400;
policy of Lord Rockingham on
the commercial regulations of

America, 412; reasons why Eng-
land should not tax the colonies,
430, 478; a determination to do
so, the prime cause of the quar-
rel between the two countries,
482; great importance of adopt-
ing a liberal policy towards Ame-
rica, 451; basis of Mr. Burke's
plan of conciliation, 453; grow-
ing population of the colonies,
457; commercial importance of
the colonies, 458; their agricul-
ture and fisheries, 461; objec-
tions to the use of military force
for compelling obedience to ob-
jectionable laws, 463, ii. 12;
causes of American love of liber-
ty, i. 464; available means of re-
pressing disaffection in the colo-
nies, 472; six propositions for
conciliating the Americans, 489;
objections to Lord North's plan
of conciliation, 502, ii. 2; ad-
dress to the king on the conduct
of the government towards the
colonies, v. 460.

American Stamp Act, i. 189; re-
pealed, 276, 282; its origin and
progress, 270; reasons of the re-
peal, political, not commercial,
399, 414; good effects of the re-
peal, 423.

American taxation, Burke's speech
on, i. 382.

Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, i. 194.
Anacharsis Cloots, v. 387.
Ancestors, reverence due to them,
ii. 306, iii. 114.

Angles, in buildings, prejudicial to
their grandeur, i. 103.
Anglesey, formerly Mona, vi. 210.
Anglo-Saxons, vi. 240.

Animals, proportion not the cause
of beauty in, i. 117; their cries
capable of conveying great ideas,
i. 110.

Anniversaries, festive, advantages
of, iii. 387.

Anselm, appointed Archbishop of
Canterbury, after the death of
Lanfranc, vi. 338; supports

66

Henry I. against his brother Ro-
bert, 342.
Apparitions, singular inconsistency
in the ideas of the vulgar con-
cerning them, vi. 200.
Appeal from the New to the Old
Whigs," iii. 337.
Arbitrary power steals upon a peo-
ple by lying dormant for a time,
or by being rarely exercised, ii.
10.

Arcot. See Nabob of Arcot.
Areopagus, court and senate of, re-
marks on them, ii. 477.
Ariosto, a criticism of Boileau on,
vi. 181.

Aristocracy, affected terror of an
extension of power by, in the
reign of George II., i. 322; in-
fluence of the aristocracy, 323;
too much spirit, not a fault of it,
ib.; general observations on it,
ii. 410; character of a true na-
tural one, iii. 86; regulations in
some states with respect to it, 303,
304; must submit to the domin-
ion of prudence and virtue, v. 80;
character of the aristocracy of
France before the Revolution, ii.
379, y. 380; differs from a des-
potism only in name, i. 25; a
true natural one, an essential part
of society, iii. 85.
Aristotle, his caution against the
delusion of demanding geometri-
cal accuracy in moral arguments,
i. 501; his observations on the re-
semblance between a democracy
and a tyranny, ii. 396; his dis-
tinction between tragedy and
comedy, vi. 181; his natural phi-
losophy alone unworthy of him,
251; his system entirely follow-
ed by Bede, ib.

Armies yield a precarious and un-
certain obedience to a senate, ii.
480; on standing armies, iii. 277.
Army commanded by General
Monk, character of it, 543.
Army estimates, Burke's speech on
those of 1790 iii. 269.

Art, every work of, only great as it
deceives, i. 104.

Arthur, King, vi. 238.
Articles of Impeachment against
Warren Hastings, iv. 220, v. 62,
and Appendix, 63.

Articles, the Thirty-Nine, vi. 97.
Artist, a true one effects the noblest
designs by easy methods, i. 104.
Artois, Comte d', character of him,
iii. 428.

Ascendency, Protestant, in Ireland,
remarks on, vi. 66.

Asers, race of, origin, character, and
conduct of, vi. 234.
Assassination, recommended and
employed by the National Assem-
bly of France, ii. 542; the dread-
ful effects of, in case of war, 542,
543.

Assiento, the, i. 207.
Assignats, French, issues of, 504,
510.

Association, political, advantages of,
i. 374, ii. 37; effects of early
ones, i. 144.

Astonishment, origin and nature of
the passion, i. 88, 149.
Atheism, by astonishment, what, v.
207; against our reason, ii. 362;
schools of, set up by the French
regicides at the public charge, v.

429.

Atheists, modern, contrasted with

those of antiquity, iii. 377.
Athenian republic, the, i. 27.
Athenians at the head of the demo-

cratic interests of Greece, v. 351.
Athens, the plague of, wickedness
remarkably prevalent during its
continuance, vi. 141.

Auckland, Lord, his pamphlet on
politics, v. 355.
Augustine, introduced Christianity
among the Anglo-Saxons, vi. 237;
state of religion in Britain when
he arrived there, 238.

Aulic council, remarks on, v. 74.
Austria, began in the reign of Ma-
Iria Theresa to support great ar-
mies, v. 250; treaty of 1756
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with France deplored by the
French in 1773, 251; policy as
to her subjects, iii. 384.
Authority, the people the natural
control on it, iii. 78; the control
and exercise of it, contradictory,
ib.; the monopoly of it an evil, v.
96; the only firm seat of it in
public opinion, ii. 27; v. 464.
Avarice, effects of it, iii. 193.

Bacon, Lord, a remark of his ap-
plied to the Revolution in France,
v. 111.

Bacon, Nicholas, his work on the
Laws of England not entitled to
authority, vi. 415.

Bail, method of giving it, introduced
by Alfred, vi. 260; advantage of
it, ib.

Ball, Dr., his notions of the rights of
men, iii. 88.

Ball, the Abbé John, remarks on his
conduct, iii. 427.

Ballot, all contrivances by it unfit
to prevent a discovery of the in-
clinations, ii. 476.

Bank paper in England owing to
the flourishing condition of com-
merce, ii. 501.

Bankruptcies, inferences to be
drawn from, v. 344.
Bards, origin and character of, vi.
198.

Bartholomew, St., massacre of, ii.

413.

Bases, the three, of the new French
government, ii. 443.

Bathurst, Lord, his imagined vision
of the rising glories of America,
i. 460.

Bayle, his observation on religious
persecution, vi, 29.
Beauchamp, Lord, his Bill, Mr.
Burke's vindication of his con-
duct with respect to it, ii.
140.
Beautiful, the, compared with the
sublime, i. 141, 169; efficient
cause of, 143.

Beauty, observations on, i. 77, 113;

natural proportion not the cause
of it, 114; nor customary pro-
portion, 116; beauty and propor-
tion not ideas of the same nature,
124; the opposite to beauty not
disproportion, or deformity, but
ugliness, 124; fitness not the
cause of beauty, 125; nor per-
fection, 129; how far the ideas
of beauty may be applied to fa-
culties of the mind, 130; now
far they may be applied to vir-
tue, ib.; the real cause of beauty,
ib.; beautiful objects small and
smooth, 132, 133; and gradually
varied, 133; and delicate, 133,
134; and of mild or diversified
colours, 135; beauty acts by re-
laxing the solids of the whose sys-
tem, 160; of the sex, a percep-
tion of, enters into the idea of
love, ib.

Becket, Thomas à, vi. 356.
Bede, the Venerable, brief account
of him, vi. 250.

Bedford, Duke of, answers to, v.
67, 110; title by which he holds
his grants, 131; the first Earl,
who, ib.

Beer, brewed in England, i. 219.
Begums, the East India Company
suspect them of rebellion, ii. 204;
plundered by order of Mr. Hast-
ings, 202.

Benares, the capital of the Indian
religion, ii. 206; the Rajah's right
and title, v. 235; his expulsion,
256; second revolution in, 275;
third, 280; Warren Hastings's
design on, 244.

Benfield, Mr. Paul, iii. 185, 211;
his character and conduct, 146.
Bengal, extent and condition of, ii.
221; internal trade of, iv. 55.
Bengal Club, observations on it,
iii. 354.

Bernard, governor in Massachu-
setts, i. 402, 412.
Bigotry, effects of, vi. 39.
Bingham, letter to Sir Charles, on
the Irish absentee tax, v. 437.

Biron, Duchess of, murdered by
the French regicides, v. 382.
Bitterness, in description, a source
of the sublime, i. 111.
Blacklock, the poet, i. 174.

Blackness, the effects of, on the

mind, i. 158.

Boadicea, her character and con-
duct, vi. 212.

Board of Trade and Plantations, ii.
109.

Board of works, cost of it, ii. 89.
Boileau, his criticism on a tale in
Ariosto, vi. 186.
Bolingbroke's works, remarks on
their character and tendency, i.
2; Burke's letter to him, in vin-
dication of natural society, 6;
animadversions on his philoso-
phy, 2; some characters of his
style, 5; a presumptuous and
superficial writer, ii. 397; a re-
mark of his on the superiority of
a monarchy over other forms of
government, ib.

Borrower, the public, and the pri-
vate lender not adverse parties
with contending interests, v. 313.
Boston Port Bill, i. 497, ii. 11.
Botetourt, Lord, i. 395.
Bovines, victory of, important ad-

vantages of it to France, vi. 400.
Brabancons, mercenary troops in
the time of Henry II., their cha-
racter, vi. 373.

Bribing, by means of it, rather than

by being bribed, wicked politi-
cians bring ruin on mankind, ii.
192.

Bridgewater (Duke of) Canal, v.
341.

Brissot, his character and conduct,
iii. 388, 433; preface to his ad-
dress to his constituents, 511; ap-
pendix to it, 529.

Bristol, Burke's speeches at, i. 439;
addresses to the electors of, ii.
127.

Britain, invasion of by Cæsar, vi.

188; account of its ancient in-
habitants, 192; invaded by Clau-

dius, 207; reduced by Ostorius
Scapula, 208; finally subdued by
Julius Agricola, 213; why not
sooner conquered, 215; nature
of the government settled there
by the Romans, 218; first intro-
duction of Christianity in, 229;
deserted by the Romans, 231;
entry and settlement of the
Saxons, and their conversion to
Christianity, 233.

British colonists in North America,
address to. See AMERICAN COLO-

NIES.

Britons, more reduced than any

other nation that fell under the
German power, vi. 237.

Brown, Dr., effect of his writings

on the people of England, v. 157.
Buche, Captal de, his severe treat-
ment of the Jacquerie in France,
iii. 87.

Buckinghamshire meeting, letter to
the, vi. 1.

Building, the sublime in, i. 103;
management of light in, 108,
Buildings, too great length in them
prejudicial to grandeur of effect,
i. 104; should be gloomy, to pro-
duce an idea of the sublime, 107.
Bullion, trade of, secured, i. 203.
Burgh, Thos., Burke's letter to,
vindicating his conduct on Irish
affairs, v. 491.

Burke, Mr., his sentiments respect-
ing several leading members of
the Whig party, iii. 5; and re-
specting an union of Ireland with
Great Britain, 338; and respect-
ing acts of indemnity as a means
of reconciling France to a mon-
archy, 450; his animadversions
on the conduct of Mr. Fox, 469;
his pathetic allusion to his de-
ceased son, v. 135; declines
the poll at Bristol, ii. 170; vin-
dication of his public conduct, i.
256, ii. 127; and of his pension,
131.

Burke, Richard, Letter to, on the
Catholic Question, vi. 61.

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