Boufflers, marfhal, his able defence of Namur, 180. Attempts the city of
Nimeguen, 354. His refolute defence of Lisle, 461, His excellent re
treat at Malplaquet, 471.
Bref, unfuccefsful attack upon, 163.
Burnet, Dr. made bishop of Sarum, 8. His character, 9. Zealously de-
fends the rights of the church, 20. His pastoral letter burnt, 115. Ap-
pointed preceptor to the duke of Glocefter, 249. Declares himself ini-
mical to perfecution, but an advocate for penal laws in religion, 284.
His fpeech in vindication of occafional conformity, 374. His fpeech at
the trial of Sacheverel, 379. His ftrange and abfurd prediction, 483.
Byng, fir George, narrowly escapes fhipwreck, 452. Defeats a French
fquadron with the pretender on board, 458.
CABAL adminiftration formed, x.
Cadiz, unfuccessful attempt upon, 359.
Capel, lord, one of the lords juftices of Ireland, 118-and lord deputy, 1774
His death, 211.
Carlowitz, treaty of, 256.
Carthagena (West Indies) taken by the French, 229.
Catinat, marthal, his able conduct in Italy, 86, 104, 124-and Flanders, 226.
Charles 11. king of England, his acceffion and character, ii. His treacher-
ous violation of promise, v. Married to an infanta of Portugal, vi. His
converfion to popery, x. Publishes a declaration of indulgence, xi. His
infidious policy, xvi. His wife and moderate conduct, xxi. Triumphs
over the patriots, xxv. Illness and death, ib.
Charles II. king of Spain, his refentment against England, 271.
His will
in favor of the prince of Bavaria, ib.-of the archduke Charles, 277–
of the duke of Anjou, 302.-His death, ib.
Charles XI. king of Sweden, his death, 225.
Ebarles XII. king of Sweden, mediator of the Treaty of Ryfwick, 225.
A powerful confederacy formed against him, 297. Compels the Danes to
a feparate peace, 298. Gains the battle of Narva, 444. His rapid fuc-
ceffes in Poland, ib. His arrogant conduct to the emperor, 446. De-
feated at Pultowa, 473. Takes refuge in Turkey, 474- Returns to
Sweden, 526.
Charles VI. emperor of Germany, nominal king of Spain, arrives in Eng-
land, 372. Sails under British convoy to Lisbon, ib. Conquers Barce-
Jona, 413-and the whole of Catalonia, ib.-and Valencia, ib. His fa-
tal procrastination, 426. His victory at Saragoffa, 484. Proceeds to
Madrid, ib. Retreats back to Arragon, 485. Elected Emperor of the
Romans, 491. His eagerness to continue the war, 502. Refuses to ac-
cede to the Treaty of Utrecht, 513. Concludes a feparate peace at Al-
Raftadt, 526.
Chriftiern V. king of Denmark, his decease, 297.
Clarendon, earl of, his character, iii. and difgrace, viii.
Clement XI. his acceffion to the papacy, 306. Recognises the archduke as
king of Spain, 464.
Comprehenfion, Bill of, 20.
Convocation, proceedings of, 22, 324, 366, 380, 421, 467, 488.
Couper, William, made lord keeper of the great feal, 414.
chancellor of Great Britain, 441. Refigns his office, 481.
DANBY, earl of, created lord high treasurer, xiv. Impeached of high
treafen, xix. Created marquis of Carmarthen, 7-and lord prefident, ib.
Created duke of Leeds, 158. His malverfations in office, 171. A fe-
cond time impeached, 173. His arrogant defence, 174. Difmiffed from
his office, 265.
Darien, fettlement of, 266, 291.
Denmark, prince of, joins the prince of Orange at Andover, liw His in-
dolence and incapacity, 37. Declares for, and votes againft, the Occa-
fional Conformity Bill, 40. His death and character, 464.
Dundee, vifcount, his romantic character, 27. Heroic achievements, 30—
and death, 31.
LAST India company, affairs of, 90, 113, 156, 239, 262, 284.
Eugene, prince of Savoy, relieves the fortrefs of Coni, 86. Captures Car-
magnola, ib. Gains a complete victory over the Turks at Zenta, 231.
His able operations in Lombardy, 327. Gains the battle of Chiari, ib.
Takes the marechal duc de Villeroy prifoner, 328. Fights a bloody bat-
tle against the marshal Vendome at Luzzara, 358. Joins the duke of
Marlborough in Germany, 382. Victory at Bleinheim, 383. Engages
a fecond time the duc de Vendome at Cufano, 411. Gains a complete
victory at Turin, 427. His unfuccessful attempt on Toulon, 448. Vic-
tory at Oudenarde, 459. Captures Lifle, 460. Victory at Malplaquet,
471. His fucceffes in Flanders, 483. Makes a vifit to England, 502.
Captures Quefnoy, 509. Invefts Landreci, 510. Abandoned by the
English, and confequent disasters, ib.
Exclufion, Bill of, xxiii. xxxiv.
FENWICK, fir John, his Bill of Attainder, 214.
Fletcher, of Saltoun, his declaration respecting the union, 432.
Signs the Treaty of Travendahl,
Reduces the duchies of Bremen and
Frederick IV. king of Denmark, joins the confederacy against Charles XII.
297. Attacked in his capital, ib.
298. Recommences the war, 474.
Verden, 526.
GALLAS, count, ambassador from Vienna, his infolent conduct, 495-
Forbid the court, ib.
Galway, earl of, his difafter at Badajoz, 412. Marches to Madrid, 425.
His character, 450. Totally defeated at Almanza, ib. His military
operations in Portugal, 472. Unjustly cenfured by the houfe of lords,
486. Proteft of 36 peers in his favor, 487.
Gertruydenberg, conferences of, 482.
Ginckel, general, appointed commander in chief in Ireland, 59. Capturce
Athlone, 60. Gains the battle of Aghrim, 62 Takes the city of Li-
merick, 65. Created earl of Athlone, 66. His fuccefs at Givet, 207.
Commands the allied army in Flanders, 354.
Glencoe, maffacre of, 140.
Glocefter, duke of, his death, 299.
Godolphin, lord, appointed firft lord of the treafury, 72. His character, ib.
His wife counsel to king William, 151. Protefts against the Eaft India
Bill, 242. Superfeded in the treasury by Mr. Montague, 248. Rein-
ftated in the treasury, 303. A fecond time difmiffed, 334. Constituted
lord high treasurer, 347. His political embarrassments, 395. Corre-
fponds with the court of St. Germaine's, 405. His exertions to accom-
plish the Treaty of Union, 428-430. His difmiflion from office, 481.
Unjustly cenfured by the house of commons, 486. His death, 515.
Gordon, duchess of, her attachment to the pretender, 493.
Grafton, duke of, killed at the fiege of Cork, 59.
HALIFAX, marquis of, opposes the Bill of Exclufion, xxv. His character,
8. Appointed lord privy feal, ib. Afpires to be head of the whigs, 18.
Refigns his office, 45. His political versatility, ib.-and death, 151.
Halifax, lord. Vide Montague, Mr.
Hamilton, duke of, chosen president of the Scottish convention, 24. His
death, 158.
Hamilton, duke of, opposes the Hanoverian fucceffion, 389.
felfishness, and treachery, 430, 437, 438. Killed in a duel, 512.
Hamilton, general, his violation of faith, 36. Taken prifoner at the Boyne, 56.
Hanover, duchy of, made an electorate of the empire, 105.
Hanover, elector of, affumes the command of the imperial army, 448. His
prudent political conduct, 527. His acceffion to the throne of Great
Britain, 536.
Harcourt, marquis of, his able negotiations at Madrid, 269, 301.
Harcourt, fir Simon, made lord chancellor of Great Britain, 481.
Harley, Robert, introduces the Triennial Act, 165. Chofen speaker of the
houfe of commons, 307. A fecond time chosen speaker, 334. A third
time chosen speaker, 361. Made fecretary of state, 380. His fecret
intrigues at court, 441. Difmiffed from his office, 448. Conftituted
chancellor of the exchequer, 481. Stabbed at the council-board by
M. Guifcard, 487. Created earl of Oxford and lord treasurer, ib. En-
ters into clandeftine negotiations with France, 493. His character, 517
-523. His correfpondence with the court of Hanover, 529. His
mysterious conduc, 532. Dismiffed from his office, 535.
Haverfham, lord, falls under the cenfure of the commons, 321. Attacks the
lord treasurer Godolphin, 398. Moves an invitation to the princess
Sophia, 415.
Hedges, fir Charles, made fecretary of state, 304. Difmiffed from his office,
334. Reinstated in his fecretaryfhip, 347. A fecond time difmiffed, 441.
Heidelberg, fack of, 123.
Highlanders, general account of, 27.
Holt, fir John, made lord chief justice of England, 8. His refolute con-
duct, 401.
Hooke, colonel, his negotiations in Scotland, 429.
INNOCENT XI. pope, his political attachments, xxix. Favors the league
of Augsburg, 33- His death and character, 82.
Innocent XII. pope, his acceffion to the papacy, 83. His attachment to the
court of St. Germaine's, 234. His death, 306.
Ireland, affairs of, 35, 44, 53, 66, 115, 119, 156, 157, 177, 211, 245-6,
252, 285, 523-6.
JAMES II. king of England, his acceffion to the throne, xxvi. His ex-
cefs of indifcretion, xxviii. Grows infolent by profperity, xxxiv. Dif-
folves the parliament in anger, xxxv. Pays infidious court to the diffen-
ters, xxxviii. Sufpends the penal laws, xxxix. Receives a nuncio from
Rome, xl. His tyranny over Scotland, ib.—and Ireland, xli. Establishes
an illegal court of ecclefiaftical commiffion, xlii. Commits feven bishops
to the Tower, xliv. Sends an embassy to Rome, xlviii. His obftinacy
and political infatuation, lii. His confternation and precipitate retracta-
tions, liii. Abandons the metropolis, liv. Abdicates the government,
lvi. His letter to the Scottish convention, 24. His abject fuperfti-
tion, 33. Embarks for Ireland, 34. Convenes a parliament, 37. His
tyrannical and violent proceedings, 38,-and confequent pufillanimity,
56. Takes refuge a fecond time in France, ib. His royal declaration
from St. Germaine's, 106. Eye-witness of the defeat off La Hogue, 109.
His fecond declaration from St. Germaine's, 148. Sufpected of con-
fpiring against the life of king William, 203. His bigoted policy, 228.
Protefts against the treaty of Ryfwick, 233. His illnefs, death, and
Jeffries, judge, his deteftable barbarities, xxxiii.
Tower, 15.
Jofeph I. emperor of the Romans, his acceffion and character, 410. His
humiliating conceffions to the king of Sweden, 445. Effects the conqueft
of Naples, 449. His death, and its political consequences, 489.
Juan V. king of Portugal, his acceffion, 450. Adheres to the grand
alliance, ib.
LANDAU captured by the Germans, 357. Re-captured by the French
under M. Tallard, 370. A second time taken by the Imperialists, 386.
Again captured by the French under marechal Villars, 525.
Leeds, duke of. Vide Danby, earl of.
Leopold, emperor of Germany, his political fituation, 32,-and character, 78.
His letter to the king of Poland, 87. Concludes a peace with the Turks
at Carlowitz, 256. His intrigues at the court of Madrid, 272,-277-
His disappointments and perplexities, 306. Implores the protection of
England, 380. His death, 410.
Limerick, fiege of, raised 58
Life taken by the allies, 461.
Londonderry, fiege of, 43
A second time besieged, and taken, 65.
Louis XIV. his formidable power, and unprincipled ambition, ix. Projects
the fubversion of Holland, x. His political intrigues, xvi-xvii. Apprises
James II. of his danger, lii. Receives him with generofity, lvii. His
ufurpations and oppreflions, 31. Invades the German empire, 33. His
kindness to the Irifh exiles, 66. Orders Te Deum for the fack of Heidel-
berg, 123. Detaches the duke of Savoy from the grand alliance, 208.
Signs the peace of Ryfwick, 235.
Accedes to the firft treaty of parti-
tion, 256. Signs the fecond treaty of partition, 273. His flagrant
violation of faith with England, 302. Recognises the pretender as
king of Great Britain, 330. His fuperftition and barbarity, 388. Makes
ineffectual advances towards a pacification, 427. Renews his overtures
for peace, 468. Makes a third and final propofition of peace, 480. His
elation at the state of parties in England, 494.
Lovat, lord, his intrigues in Scotland, 376. Thrown into the Bastille, 378.
Lawther, fir John, made first commiffioner of the treasury, 48.
Ludlow, general, proclamation against him, 48.
Luxemburg, marechal, defeats the prince of Waldeck at Fleurus, 85. Cap-
tures Namur, 99. Gains the battle of Steinkirk, 101,-and of Lan-
den, 120. Captures Charleroy, 122.
Luzzara, battle of, 358.
MACKAY, general, gains the battle of Killicranky, 30. His heroilm at
Athlone, 61. Slain at Steinkirk, 102.
Malplaquet, victory of, 471.
Manchefer, earl of, his negotiations at Paris, 276, 303, 330. Appointed
fecretary of state, 334.
Marlborough, earl of, captures Cork and Kinfale, 59. His gallantry at
Walcourt, 82. Difmiffed from his offices, 94. His political infincerity,
ib. Committed to the Tower, III. His correfpondence with the
court of St. Germaine's, 164. Reinflated in the royal favor, 249. Ap-
pointed governor to the duke of Glocefter, ib. Conftituted commander
of the British auxiliaries and plenipotentiary to the ftates, 325. De-
clared captain-general of the British forces, 344. His able negotiations
at the Hague, 345. Advises war with France, 347. His fuccefsful
operations in Flanders, 354. Capture of Liege, 355. His extraordinary
efcape, 356. Created duke of Marlborough, 363. Captures the city
of Bonne, &c. 369. His march to the Danube, 380. Victory of
Schellenburg, 382. Victory at Blenheim, ibid. Its confequent fuc-
ceffes, 383-5. Manor of Woodflock fettled upon him by parlia
ment, 400. His continued correspondence with the court of St. Ger-
maine's, 405. His march to the Mofelle, 408. Invetted with the
principality of Mindelheim, 410. Gains the victory of Ramillies, 423-
His rapid fucceffes in Flanders, 424. His embaffy to Charles XII. 444.
His generous and noble conduct, 458. Victory of Oudenard, 459. Cap-
tures the city of Lifle, 460,—and Tournay, 471. Gains the battle of
Malplaquet, ibid. Captures Mons, ibid. His popularity on the wane, 475-
His conquefts in Flanders, 483. Prosecuted by order of the queen, 486.
Appears for the last time in Flanders, 489. Captures Bouchaine, 491.
Oppofes the preliminaries of peace, 498. Is difmiffed from his employ-
ments, 501. His political intrigues, 521.
Marlborough, duchefs of, her infolent conduct, 440.
over the queen, 455. Refigns her places at court, 486.
Mary, queen of England, her acceffion to the crown, 6. Conftituted fole
regent, 66.
Her character, and difcreet conduct, 67. Her fortitude
and fpirit, 69. Her wife and generous policy, 109.
Mafbam, Mrs. becomes a favorite at Court, 441.
Matueof, count, the Ruffian ambassador, publicly arrested, 463.
Mentx, fiege of, 81.
Mefnager, M. his fecret negotiations in England, 494.
Minorca, conqueft of, 463.
Molefworth, Mr. his farcaftic remark on the convocation, 524.
Molyneux, Mr. his famous pamphlet cenfured by parliament, 244.
Monmouth, duke of, his rafh expedition to England, xxxii. His death and
character, ib.
Monmouth, earl of, made first commiffioner of the treasury, 7. His character,
ib. Dismisled from the treasury, 48. His intrigues with the court of
St. Germaine's, 77, 223. Committed to the Tower, 224. Accedes to
the title of Peterborough, ib. His exploits in Spain, 413. Accufes the
earl of Galway, 453. Parliamentary enquiry into his conduct, 454.
Montague, Mr. constituted chancellor of the exchequer, 158. Directs a ge-
neral recoinage of filver, 190. His dextrous operations of finance, 212.
Made firft commiffioner of the treasury, 248. Difmiffed, and created
baron Halifax, 304. Impeached by the house of commons, 315. His
fpeech on the danger of the church, 418.
Montgomery, fir James, his eccentric character and conduct, 127–136.
Muftapba Íl, cmperor of the Turks, his acceffion, 187.
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