B.Baber, founder of the Mogul empire,202Bacon, Lady, mother of Lord Bacon,349Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's new edition of the works of,336495; his mother distinguished as a linguist,349; his early years,352355; his services refused by government,355356; his admission at Gray's Inn,357; his legal attainments,358; sat in Parliament in1593,359; part he took in politics,360; his friendship with the Earl of Essex,305372; examination of his conduct to Essex,373384; influence of King James on his fortunes,383; his servility to Lord Southampton,384; influence his talents had with the public,386; his distinction in Parliament and in the courts of law,388; his literary and philosophical works,388; his "Novum Organum," and the admiration it excited,388; his work of reducing and recompiling the laws of England,389; his tampering with the judges on the trial of Peacham,389394; attaches himself to Buckingham,390; his appointment as Lord Keeper,399; his share in the vices of the administration,400; his animosity towards Sir Edward Coke,405407; his town and country residences,408409; his titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, report against him of the Committee on the Courts of Justice,413; nature of the charges,413414; overwhelming evidence to them,414410; his admission of his guilt,410; his sentence,417; examination of Mr. Montagu's arguments in his defence,417430; mode in which he spent the last years of his life,431432; chief peculiarity of his philosophy,435447; his views compared with those of Plato,448455; to what his wide and durable fame is chiefly owing,403; his frequent treatment of moral subjects,407; his views as a theologian,409; vulgar notion of him as inventor of the inductive method,470; estimate of his analysis of that method,471479; union of audacity and sobriety in his temper,480; his amplitude of comprehension,481482; his freedom from the spirit of controversy,484; his eloquence, wit, and similitudes,484; his disciplined imagination.487; his boldness and originality,488; unusual development in the order of his faculties,489; his resemblance to the mind of Burke,489; specimens of his two styles,490491; value of his Essays,491; his greatest performance the first book of the Novum Organum,492; contemplation of his life,492495; his reasoning upon the principle of heat,90; his system generally as opposed to the schoolmen,7879103; his objections to the system of education at the Universities,445Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character,342448Baconian philosophy, its chief peculiarity,435; its essential spirit,439; its method and object differed from the ancient,448; comparative views of Bacon and Plato,448159; its beneficent spirit,455458403; its value compared with ancient philosophy,459471Baillie, Gen., destruction of his detachment by Hyder Ali,72Balance of power, interest of the Popes in preserving it,338Banim, Mr., his defence of James II. as a supporter of toleration,304Banking operations of Italy ill the14; century,270Baptists, (the) Bunyan's position among,140147Bar (the) its degraded condition in the time of James II.,520Barbary, work on, by Rev. Dr. Addison,325Barbarians, Mitford's preference of Greeks,190Barcelona, capture of, by Peterborough,110Barère, Bertrand, Memoirs of, reviewed,423539; opinions of the editors as to his character,424; his real character,425427429407; has hitherto found no apologist,420; compared with Danton and Robespierre,420; his natural disposition,427; character of his memoirs,429430; their mendacity,431430445; their literary value,430; his birth and education,430437; his marriage,438; first visit to Paris,439; his journal,439; elected a representative of the Third Estate,440; his character as a legislator,441; his oratory,442471472; his early political opinions,442; draws a report on the Woods and Forests,443; becomes more republican,443; on the dissolution of the National Assembly he is made a judge,440; chosen to the Convention,449; belongs to the Girondists,455; sides with the Mountain in condemnation of the king,450457; was really a federalist,400; continues with the Girondists,401; appointed upon the Committee of Public Safety,403; made its Secretary,403; wavers between the Girondists and the Mountain,404; joins with the Mountain,405; remains upon the Committee of Public Safety,460; his relation to the Mountain,400-408; takes the initiative against the Girondists,408409; moves the execution of Marie Antoinette,409; speaks against the Girondists,434435474; one of the Committee of Safety,475; his part (luring the Reign of Terror.482485487; his cruelties, 485,480; life's pleasantries,487488; his proposition to murder English prisoners,490492; his murders,495497; his part in the quarrels of the Committee,497590; moves that Robespierre be put to death,499500; cries raised against him,504; a committee appointed to examine into his conduct,505; his defence,50550; condemned to imprisonment,507; his journey to Orleans and confinement there,507509; removed to Saintes,510; his escape,510; elected a member of the Council of Five Hundred,511; indignation of the members and annulling of the election,511512; writes a work on the Liberty of the Seas.512; threatened by the mob,512513; his relations with Napoleon,514518521527; a journalist and pamphleteer,523524; his literary style,525; his degradation,527; his treachery,528; becomes a royalist,529; elected to the Chamber of Representatives,529; banished from France,531; his return,531; involved in lawsuits with his family,531; pensioned,532; his death,532; his character,534535537539; his ignorance of England and her his,530; his religious hypocrisy,Baretti, his admiration for Miss Burney,271Barilion, M. his pithy words on the new council proposed by Temple,770Barlow, Bishop,370Barrére, Col.,233248Barrington, Lord,13Harwell, Mr.,35; his support of Hastings,4054552Baltic, Burke's declamations on its capture,113Bathos, perfect instance of, to be found in Petrarch's 5th sonnet,93Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies, Addison's,331Bavaria, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism,326Baxter's testimony to Hampden's excellence,430Bayle, Peter,300Beatrice, Dante's,1Beanclerk, Topliam,204Beaumarchais, his suit before the parliament of Paris,430431Beckford, Alderman,90Bedford, Duke of,11; his views of the policy of Chatham,2041; presents remonstrance to George II71Bedford, Earl of. invited by Charles I. to form an administration,472Bedfords (the),11; parallel between them and the Buckinghams,73; their opposition to the Buckingham ministry on the Stamp Act,79; their willingness to break with Grenville on Chatham's accession to office,89; deserted Grenville and admitted to office,110Bedford House assailed by a rabble,70Begums of Oude, their domains and treasures,80; disturbances in Oude imputed to them,87; their protestations,88; their spoliation charged against Hastings,121Belgium, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism,326330Belial,355Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen against,353Bellasys, the English general,107Bellingham, his malevolence,309Belphegor (the), of Machiavelli,299Benares, its grandeur,74; its annexation to the British dominions,84"Benefits of the death of Christ,"325Benevolences, Oliver St. John's opposition to, and Bacon's support of,389Bengal, its resources,228Bentham and Dumont,3840153Bentham and his system,53545980,8791115116,121122; his language on the French revolution,204; his greatness,3840Benthamites,58990Bentinck, Lord William, his memory cherished by the Hindoos,298Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the state of religion in England in the16th century,25Bentley, Richard, his quarrel with Boyle, and remarks on Temple's Essay on the Letters of Phalaris,109111115119; his edition of Milton,111; his notes on Horace,111; his reconciliation with Boyle and Atterbury,113; his apothegm about criticism,119212Berar, occupied by the Bonslas,59Berwick, Duke of, held the Allies in check,109; his retreat before Galway,119Bible (the), English, its literary style,348Bickell, R. Rev., his work on Slavery in the West Indies,330Bickerstaff, Isaac, astrologer,374Billaud,405475498499501504506508510Biographia Britannica, refutation of a calumny on Addison in,417Biography, writers of contrasted with historians,423; tenure by which they are bound to their subject,103Bishops, claims of those of the Church of England to apostolical succession,160-174.Black Hole of Calcutta described,233234; retribution of the English for its horrors,235239242245Blackmore, Sir Richard, his attainments in the ancient languages,331Blackstone,334Blasphemous publications, policy of Government in respect to,171Blenheim, battle of,354Addison employed to write a poem in its honor,355Blois, Addison's retirement to,339"Bloombury Gang," the denomination of the Bedfords,11Bodley, Sir Thomas, founder of the Bodleian Library,388433Bohemia, influence of the doctrines of Wickliffe in,313Boileau, Addison's intercourse with,340341; his opinion of modern Latin,341; his literary qualities,343; his resemblance to Dryden,373Bolingbroke, Lord, the liberal patron of literature,400; proposed to strengthen the royal prerogative,171; his jest on the occasion of the tirst representation of Cato,392Pope's perfidy towards him,408; his remedy for the disease of the state,2324Bombast, Dryden's,361362Shakspeare's,361Bombay, its affairs thrown into confusion by the new council at Calcutta,40Book of the Church, Southey's,137Books, puffing of,192198Booth played the hero in Addison's Cato on its tirst representation,392Borgia, Cæsar,301Boroughs, rotten, the abolition of, a necessary reform in the time of George I.,180Boswell, James, his character,391397204205Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Crocker, review of,368426; character of the work,387Boswellism,265Bourbon, the House of, their vicissitudes in Spain,106130Bourne, Vincent,5342; his Latin verses in celebration of Addison's restoration to health,413Boyd, his translation of Dante,78Boyer, President,390-392.Boyle, Charles, his nominal editorship of the Letters of Phalaris,108113119; his book on Greek history and philology, v.331.Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry,355"Boys" (the) in opposition to Sir R. Walpole,176Bracegirdle, Mis., her celebrity as an actress,407; her intimacy with Congreve,407Brahmins,306"Breakneck Steps," Fleet Street,157; note.Breda, treaty of,34Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles II.,525Brihuega, siege of,128"Broad Bottom Administration" (the),220Brothers, his prophecies as a test of faith,305306Brown, Launcelot,284Brown's Estimate,233Bruce, his appearance at Mr. Burney's concerts,257Brunswick, the House of,14Brussels, its importance as the seat of a vice-regal Court,34Bridges, Sir Egerton,303Buchanan, character of his writings,447Buckhurst,353Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenie" of James1,44Bacon's early discernment of his influence,330337; his expedition to Spain, 308; his return for Bacon's patronage,333; his corruption,402; his character and position,402408; his marriage,411412; his visit to Bacon, and report of his condition,414Buckingham, Duke of, one of the Cabal ministry,374; his fondness for Wycherley,374; anecdote of,374Budgell Eustace, one of Addison's friends,308303371Bunyan, John, Life of,132150252204; his birth and early life,132; mistakes of his biographers in regard to his moral character,133134; enlists in the Parliamentary army,135; his marriage,135; his religious experiences,130-138; begins to preach,133; his imprisonment,133141; his early writings,141142; his liberation and gratitude to Charles II.,142143; his Pilgrim's Progress,143140; the product of an uneducated genius,57343; his subsequent writings,14; his position among the Baptists,140147; his second persecution, and the overtures made to him,147148; his death and burial-place,148; his fame,14143; his imitators,143150; his style,200; his religious enthusiasm and imagery,333Southey's edition of his Pilgrim's Progress reviewed,253207; peculiarities of the work,200; not a perfect allegory,257258; its publication, and the number of its editions,145140Buonaparte. See Napoleon.Burgoyne, Gen., chairman of the committee of inquiry on Lord Clive,232Burgundy, Louis, Duke of, grandson of Louis XIV., iii. 02, 03.Burke, Edmund, his characteristics,133; his opinion of the war with Spain on the question of maritime right,210; resembles Bacon,483; effect of his speeches on the House of Commons,118; not the author of the Letters of Junius,37; his charges against Hastings,104137; his kindness to Alisa Burney,288; her incivility to him at Hastings' trial,28; his early political career,75; his first speech in the House of Commons,82; his opposition to Chatham's measures relating to India,30; his defence of his party against Grenville's attacks,102; his feeling towards Chatham,103; his treatise on "The Sublime,"142; his character of the French Republic,402; his views of the French and American revolutions,51208; his admiration of Pitt's maiden speech,233; his opposition to Fox's India bill,245; in the opposition to Pitt,247243; deserts Fox,273Burleigh and his Times, review of Lev. Dr. Xarea's,130; his early life and character,310; his death,10; importance of the times in which he lived,10; the great stain on his character,31; character of the class of statesmen he belonged to,343; his conduct towards Bacon,355305; his apology for having resorted to torture,333Bacon's letter to him upon the department of knowledge he had chosen,483Burnet, Bishop,114Burney, Dr., his social position,251255; his conduct relative to his daughter's first publication.207; his daughter's engagement at Court,281Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame.Burns, Robert,201Bussy, his eminent merit and conduct in India,222Bute, Earl of, his character and education,1320; appointed Secretary of State,24; opposes the proposal of war with Spain on account of the family compact,30; his unpopularity on Chatham's resignation,31; becomes Prime Minister,30; his first speech in the House of Lords,33; induces the retirement of the Duke of Newcastle,35; becomes first Lord of the Treasury,35; his foreign and domestic policy,3752; his resignation,52; continues to advise the King privately,577079; pensions Johnson,198199
Baber, founder of the Mogul empire,202
Bacon, Lady, mother of Lord Bacon,349
Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's new edition of the works of,336495; his mother distinguished as a linguist,349; his early years,352355; his services refused by government,355356; his admission at Gray's Inn,357; his legal attainments,358; sat in Parliament in1593,359; part he took in politics,360; his friendship with the Earl of Essex,305372; examination of his conduct to Essex,373384; influence of King James on his fortunes,383; his servility to Lord Southampton,384; influence his talents had with the public,386; his distinction in Parliament and in the courts of law,388; his literary and philosophical works,388; his "Novum Organum," and the admiration it excited,388; his work of reducing and recompiling the laws of England,389; his tampering with the judges on the trial of Peacham,389394; attaches himself to Buckingham,390; his appointment as Lord Keeper,399; his share in the vices of the administration,400; his animosity towards Sir Edward Coke,405407; his town and country residences,408409; his titles of Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans, report against him of the Committee on the Courts of Justice,413; nature of the charges,413414; overwhelming evidence to them,414410; his admission of his guilt,410; his sentence,417; examination of Mr. Montagu's arguments in his defence,417430; mode in which he spent the last years of his life,431432; chief peculiarity of his philosophy,435447; his views compared with those of Plato,448455; to what his wide and durable fame is chiefly owing,403; his frequent treatment of moral subjects,407; his views as a theologian,409; vulgar notion of him as inventor of the inductive method,470; estimate of his analysis of that method,471479; union of audacity and sobriety in his temper,480; his amplitude of comprehension,481482; his freedom from the spirit of controversy,484; his eloquence, wit, and similitudes,484; his disciplined imagination.487; his boldness and originality,488; unusual development in the order of his faculties,489; his resemblance to the mind of Burke,489; specimens of his two styles,490491; value of his Essays,491; his greatest performance the first book of the Novum Organum,492; contemplation of his life,492495; his reasoning upon the principle of heat,90; his system generally as opposed to the schoolmen,7879103; his objections to the system of education at the Universities,445
Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character,342448
Baconian philosophy, its chief peculiarity,435; its essential spirit,439; its method and object differed from the ancient,448; comparative views of Bacon and Plato,448159; its beneficent spirit,455458403; its value compared with ancient philosophy,459471
Baillie, Gen., destruction of his detachment by Hyder Ali,72
Balance of power, interest of the Popes in preserving it,338
Banim, Mr., his defence of James II. as a supporter of toleration,304
Banking operations of Italy ill the14; century,270
Baptists, (the) Bunyan's position among,140147
Bar (the) its degraded condition in the time of James II.,520
Barbary, work on, by Rev. Dr. Addison,325
Barbarians, Mitford's preference of Greeks,190
Barcelona, capture of, by Peterborough,110
Barère, Bertrand, Memoirs of, reviewed,423539; opinions of the editors as to his character,424; his real character,425427429407; has hitherto found no apologist,420; compared with Danton and Robespierre,420; his natural disposition,427; character of his memoirs,429430; their mendacity,431430445; their literary value,430; his birth and education,430437; his marriage,438; first visit to Paris,439; his journal,439; elected a representative of the Third Estate,440; his character as a legislator,441; his oratory,442471472; his early political opinions,442; draws a report on the Woods and Forests,443; becomes more republican,443; on the dissolution of the National Assembly he is made a judge,440; chosen to the Convention,449; belongs to the Girondists,455; sides with the Mountain in condemnation of the king,450457; was really a federalist,400; continues with the Girondists,401; appointed upon the Committee of Public Safety,403; made its Secretary,403; wavers between the Girondists and the Mountain,404; joins with the Mountain,405; remains upon the Committee of Public Safety,460; his relation to the Mountain,400-408; takes the initiative against the Girondists,408409; moves the execution of Marie Antoinette,409; speaks against the Girondists,434435474; one of the Committee of Safety,475; his part (luring the Reign of Terror.482485487; his cruelties, 485,480; life's pleasantries,487488; his proposition to murder English prisoners,490492; his murders,495497; his part in the quarrels of the Committee,497590; moves that Robespierre be put to death,499500; cries raised against him,504; a committee appointed to examine into his conduct,505; his defence,50550; condemned to imprisonment,507; his journey to Orleans and confinement there,507509; removed to Saintes,510; his escape,510; elected a member of the Council of Five Hundred,511; indignation of the members and annulling of the election,511512; writes a work on the Liberty of the Seas.512; threatened by the mob,512513; his relations with Napoleon,514518521527; a journalist and pamphleteer,523524; his literary style,525; his degradation,527; his treachery,528; becomes a royalist,529; elected to the Chamber of Representatives,529; banished from France,531; his return,531; involved in lawsuits with his family,531; pensioned,532; his death,532; his character,534535537539; his ignorance of England and her his,530; his religious hypocrisy,
Baretti, his admiration for Miss Burney,271
Barilion, M. his pithy words on the new council proposed by Temple,770
Barlow, Bishop,370
Barrére, Col.,233248
Barrington, Lord,13
Harwell, Mr.,35; his support of Hastings,4054552
Baltic, Burke's declamations on its capture,113
Bathos, perfect instance of, to be found in Petrarch's 5th sonnet,93
Battle of the Cranes and Pygmies, Addison's,331
Bavaria, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism,326
Baxter's testimony to Hampden's excellence,430
Bayle, Peter,300
Beatrice, Dante's,1
Beanclerk, Topliam,204
Beaumarchais, his suit before the parliament of Paris,430431
Beckford, Alderman,90
Bedford, Duke of,11; his views of the policy of Chatham,2041; presents remonstrance to George II71
Bedford, Earl of. invited by Charles I. to form an administration,472
Bedfords (the),11; parallel between them and the Buckinghams,73; their opposition to the Buckingham ministry on the Stamp Act,79; their willingness to break with Grenville on Chatham's accession to office,89; deserted Grenville and admitted to office,110
Bedford House assailed by a rabble,70
Begums of Oude, their domains and treasures,80; disturbances in Oude imputed to them,87; their protestations,88; their spoliation charged against Hastings,121
Belgium, its contest between Protestantism and Catholicism,326330
Belial,355
Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen against,353
Bellasys, the English general,107
Bellingham, his malevolence,309
Belphegor (the), of Machiavelli,299
Benares, its grandeur,74; its annexation to the British dominions,84
"Benefits of the death of Christ,"325
Benevolences, Oliver St. John's opposition to, and Bacon's support of,389
Bengal, its resources,228
Bentham and Dumont,3840153
Bentham and his system,53545980,8791115116,121122; his language on the French revolution,204; his greatness,3840
Benthamites,58990
Bentinck, Lord William, his memory cherished by the Hindoos,298
Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the state of religion in England in the16th century,25
Bentley, Richard, his quarrel with Boyle, and remarks on Temple's Essay on the Letters of Phalaris,109111115119; his edition of Milton,111; his notes on Horace,111; his reconciliation with Boyle and Atterbury,113; his apothegm about criticism,119212
Berar, occupied by the Bonslas,59
Berwick, Duke of, held the Allies in check,109; his retreat before Galway,119
Bible (the), English, its literary style,348
Bickell, R. Rev., his work on Slavery in the West Indies,330
Bickerstaff, Isaac, astrologer,374
Billaud,405475498499501504506508510
Biographia Britannica, refutation of a calumny on Addison in,417
Biography, writers of contrasted with historians,423; tenure by which they are bound to their subject,103
Bishops, claims of those of the Church of England to apostolical succession,160-174.
Black Hole of Calcutta described,233234; retribution of the English for its horrors,235239242245
Blackmore, Sir Richard, his attainments in the ancient languages,331
Blackstone,334
Blasphemous publications, policy of Government in respect to,171
Blenheim, battle of,354Addison employed to write a poem in its honor,355
Blois, Addison's retirement to,339
"Bloombury Gang," the denomination of the Bedfords,11
Bodley, Sir Thomas, founder of the Bodleian Library,388433
Bohemia, influence of the doctrines of Wickliffe in,313
Boileau, Addison's intercourse with,340341; his opinion of modern Latin,341; his literary qualities,343; his resemblance to Dryden,373
Bolingbroke, Lord, the liberal patron of literature,400; proposed to strengthen the royal prerogative,171; his jest on the occasion of the tirst representation of Cato,392Pope's perfidy towards him,408; his remedy for the disease of the state,2324
Bombast, Dryden's,361362Shakspeare's,361
Bombay, its affairs thrown into confusion by the new council at Calcutta,40
Book of the Church, Southey's,137
Books, puffing of,192198
Booth played the hero in Addison's Cato on its tirst representation,392
Borgia, Cæsar,301
Boroughs, rotten, the abolition of, a necessary reform in the time of George I.,180
Boswell, James, his character,391397204205
Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Crocker, review of,368426; character of the work,387
Boswellism,265
Bourbon, the House of, their vicissitudes in Spain,106130
Bourne, Vincent,5342; his Latin verses in celebration of Addison's restoration to health,413
Boyd, his translation of Dante,78
Boyer, President,390-392.
Boyle, Charles, his nominal editorship of the Letters of Phalaris,108113119; his book on Greek history and philology, v.331.
Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry,355
"Boys" (the) in opposition to Sir R. Walpole,176
Bracegirdle, Mis., her celebrity as an actress,407; her intimacy with Congreve,407
Brahmins,306
"Breakneck Steps," Fleet Street,157; note.
Breda, treaty of,34
Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles II.,525
Brihuega, siege of,128
"Broad Bottom Administration" (the),220
Brothers, his prophecies as a test of faith,305306
Brown, Launcelot,284
Brown's Estimate,233
Bruce, his appearance at Mr. Burney's concerts,257
Brunswick, the House of,14
Brussels, its importance as the seat of a vice-regal Court,34
Bridges, Sir Egerton,303
Buchanan, character of his writings,447
Buckhurst,353
Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenie" of James1,44Bacon's early discernment of his influence,330337; his expedition to Spain, 308; his return for Bacon's patronage,333; his corruption,402; his character and position,402408; his marriage,411412; his visit to Bacon, and report of his condition,414
Buckingham, Duke of, one of the Cabal ministry,374; his fondness for Wycherley,374; anecdote of,374
Budgell Eustace, one of Addison's friends,308303371
Bunyan, John, Life of,132150252204; his birth and early life,132; mistakes of his biographers in regard to his moral character,133134; enlists in the Parliamentary army,135; his marriage,135; his religious experiences,130-138; begins to preach,133; his imprisonment,133141; his early writings,141142; his liberation and gratitude to Charles II.,142143; his Pilgrim's Progress,143140; the product of an uneducated genius,57343; his subsequent writings,14; his position among the Baptists,140147; his second persecution, and the overtures made to him,147148; his death and burial-place,148; his fame,14143; his imitators,143150; his style,200; his religious enthusiasm and imagery,333Southey's edition of his Pilgrim's Progress reviewed,253207; peculiarities of the work,200; not a perfect allegory,257258; its publication, and the number of its editions,145140
Buonaparte. See Napoleon.
Burgoyne, Gen., chairman of the committee of inquiry on Lord Clive,232
Burgundy, Louis, Duke of, grandson of Louis XIV., iii. 02, 03.
Burke, Edmund, his characteristics,133; his opinion of the war with Spain on the question of maritime right,210; resembles Bacon,483; effect of his speeches on the House of Commons,118; not the author of the Letters of Junius,37; his charges against Hastings,104137; his kindness to Alisa Burney,288; her incivility to him at Hastings' trial,28; his early political career,75; his first speech in the House of Commons,82; his opposition to Chatham's measures relating to India,30; his defence of his party against Grenville's attacks,102; his feeling towards Chatham,103; his treatise on "The Sublime,"142; his character of the French Republic,402; his views of the French and American revolutions,51208; his admiration of Pitt's maiden speech,233; his opposition to Fox's India bill,245; in the opposition to Pitt,247243; deserts Fox,273
Burleigh and his Times, review of Lev. Dr. Xarea's,130; his early life and character,310; his death,10; importance of the times in which he lived,10; the great stain on his character,31; character of the class of statesmen he belonged to,343; his conduct towards Bacon,355305; his apology for having resorted to torture,333Bacon's letter to him upon the department of knowledge he had chosen,483
Burnet, Bishop,114
Burney, Dr., his social position,251255; his conduct relative to his daughter's first publication.207; his daughter's engagement at Court,281
Burney, Frances. See D'Arblay, Madame.
Burns, Robert,201
Bussy, his eminent merit and conduct in India,222
Bute, Earl of, his character and education,1320; appointed Secretary of State,24; opposes the proposal of war with Spain on account of the family compact,30; his unpopularity on Chatham's resignation,31; becomes Prime Minister,30; his first speech in the House of Lords,33; induces the retirement of the Duke of Newcastle,35; becomes first Lord of the Treasury,35; his foreign and domestic policy,3752; his resignation,52; continues to advise the King privately,577079; pensions Johnson,198199