Mexico, exactions of the Spanish viceroys in, exceeded by the English agents in Bengal,266Miehell, Sir Francis,401Middle ages, inconsistency in the schoolmen of the,415Middlesex election, the constitutional question in relation to it,101104Middleton, Dr., remarks on his Life of Cicero,340341; his controversies with Bentley,112Midias, Demosthenes' speech against,102"Midsummer Night's Dream," sense in which the word "translated" is therein used,180Milan, Addison's visit to,345Military science, studied by Machiavelli,306Military service, relative adaptation of different classes for,280Militia (the), control of, by Charles I. or by the Parliament,488Mill, James, his merits as a historian,277278; defects of his History of British India,195196; his unfairness towards Clive's character,237; his Essay on Government reviewed,551; his theory and method of reasoning,68101218204648; his style.8; his erroneous definition of the end of government,11; his objections to a Democracy only practical ones,12; attempts to demonstrate that a purely aristocratic form of government is necessarily bad,1213; so also an absolute monarchy,1314; refutation of these arguments,151618; his inconsistencies,16179697121; his narrow views,1920; his logical deficiencies,95; his want of precision in the use of terms,103108; attempts to prove that no combination of the simple forms of government can exist,2122; refutation of this argument.,2229; his ideas upon the representative system.2930; objections to them,30-32; his views upon the qualifications of voters,3236; objections to them,36384142; confounds the interests of the present generation with those of the human race,3839; attempts to prove that the people understand their own interest,42; refutation of this argument,43; general objections to his theory,4447122; defended by the Westminster Review,529; inconsistencies between him and the reviewer,5658; the reviewer mistakes the points at issue,586061657077114; and misrepresents arguments,627374; refutation of his positions.6364667476122127; the reviewer shifts the issue,68127128; fails to strengthen Mill's positions,71; and manifests great disingenuousness,115118129130Millar, Lady, her vase for verses,271Milton, review of his Treatise on Christian Doctrine, Mr. Lemon's discovery of the MS. of it,202; his style, "202; his theological opinions,204; his poetry his great passport to general remembrance,205211; power of his imagination,211; the most striking characteristic of his poetry,213375; his Allegro and Penseroso,215; his Cornus and Samson Agonistes,215; his minor poems,219; appreciated the literature of modern Italy,219; his Paradise Regained,219; parallel between him and Dante,1718; his Sonnets most exhibit his peculiar character,232; his public conduct,233; his defence of the execution of Charles L,246; his refutation of Salmasius,248; his conduct under the Protector,249; peculiarities which distinguished him from his contemporaries,253; noblest qualities of every party combined in him,260; his defence of the freedom of the press, and the right of private judgment,262; his boldness in the maintenance of his opinions,263; recapitulation of his literary merits,264; one of the most "correct" poets,338; his egotism,82; effect of his blindness upon his genius,351Dryden's admiration of,369370Milton and Cowley, an imaginary conversation between, touching the great Civil War,112138Milton and Shakspeare,character of, Johnson's observations on,417Minden, battle of,247Minds, great, the product of their times,323325Mines, Spanish-American,85351Ministers, veto by Parliament on their appointment,487; their responsibility lessened by the Revolution,531Minorca, capture of, by the French,232Minority, period of, at Athens,191192"Minute guns!" Diaries Townshend's exclamation on hearing Bute's maiden speech,33Mirabeau, Dumont's recollections of,7174; his habit of giving compound nicknames,72; compared with Wilkes,72; with Chatham,7273Missionaries, Catholic, their zeal and spirit,300Mittford, Mr., his History of Greece reviewed,172201; its popularity greater than its merits,172; his characteristics,173174177420-422; his scepticism and political prejudices,178188; his admiration of an oligarchy, and preference of Sparta to Athens,181183; his views in regard to Lyeurgus,185; reprobates the liturgic system of Athens,190; his unfairness,191422; his misrepresentation of Demosthenes,191193195197; his partiality for Æschines,193194; his admiration of monarchies,195; his general preference of the Barbarians to the Greeks,190; his deficiencies as an historian,190197; his indifference for literature and literary pursuits,197199Modern history, the period of its commencement,532Mogul, the Great,27; plundered by Hastings,74Mohammed Heza Khan, his character,18; selected by Clive,21; his capture, confinement at Calcutta and release,25Molière,385Molwitz, battle of,171Mompesson, Sir Giles, conduct of Bacon in regard to his patent,401402; abandoned to the vengeance of the Commons,412Monarch, absolute, establishment of, in continental states,481Mitford's admiration of,195Monarchy, the English, in the l6th century,1520Monjuieh, capture of the fort of, by Peterborough,115Monmouth, Duke of,300; his supplication for life,99Monopolies, English, during the latter end of Elizabeth's reign, multiplied under James,304401; connived at by Bacon,402Monson, Mr., one of the new councillors under the Regulating Act for India, his opposition to Hastings,40; his death and its important consequences,54Montagu, Basil, review of his edition of Lord Bacon's works,330; character of his work,330; his explanation of Lord Burleigh's conduct towards Bacon,350; his views and arguments in defence of Bacon's conduct towards Essex,373379; his excuses for Bacon's use of torture, and his tampering with the judges,391394; his reductions on Bacon's admonitions to Buckingham,403; his complaints against James for not interposing to save Bacon,415; and for advising him to plead guilty,410; his defence of Bacon,417430Montagu, Charles, notice of him,338; obtains permission for Addison to retain his fellowship during his travels,338Addison's Epistle to him,350; see also Halifax, Lord.Montague, Lord,399Montague, Marv, her testimony to Addison's colloquial powers,300Montague, Mrs.,126Mont Cenis,349Monttesquieu, his style,314304365Horace Walpole's opinion of him,155; ought to have styled his work L'esprit sur les Lois,142Montesquieu and Machiavelli, comparison between,314Montgomery, Mr. Robert, his Omnipresence of the Deity reviewed,199; character of his poetry,200212Montreal, capture of, by the British,170245Moody, Major Thomas, his reports on the captured negroes reviewed,361404; his character,302303404; characteristics of his report,304402; its reception,304; its literary style,305; his principle of an instinctive antipathy between the White and the Black races,365; its refutation,306367; his new philosophy of labor,373374; his charges against Mr. Dougal,376; his inconsistencies,377; and erroneous deductions,379380391; his arrogance and bad grammar,394; his disgraceful carelessness in quoting documents,399Moore, Mr., extract from his "Zelnco,"420Moore's Life of Lord Byron, review of,324367; its style and matter,324; similes in his "Lalla Rookh,"485Moorshedabad, its situation and importance,7Moral feeling, state of, in Italy in the time of Machiavelli,271Morality of Plutarch, and the historians of his school, political, low standard of, after the Restoration,398515More, Sir Thomas,305416Moses, Bacon compared to, by Cowley,493"Mountain" (the), their principles,454455; their intentions towards the King,450457; its contests with the Girondists,458459402460; its triumph,473"Mountain of Light,"145Mourad Bey, his astonishment at Buonaparte's diminutive figure,357"Mourning Bride," by Congreve, its high standing as a tragic drama,391Moylan, Mr., review of his Collection of the Opinions of Lord Holland as recorded in the Journals of the House of Lords,412420Mucius, the famous Roman lawyer,4; note.Mutiny, Begum,2443Munro, Sir Hector,72Munro, Sir Thomas,298Munster, Bishop of,32Murphy, Mr., his knowledge of stage effect,273; his opinion of "The Witlings,"273Mussulmans, their resistance to the practices of English law,5Mysore,71; its fierce horsemen,72Mythology, Dante's use of,7576N.Nabobs, class of Englishmen to whom the name was applied,280283.Names, in Milton, their significance,214; proper, correct spelling of,173Naples,347Napoleon, his policy and actions as first Consul,513514525283280; his treatment of Barer,514516518522520; his literary style,515; his opinion of Barère's abilities,524525; his military genius,293294; his early proof of talents for war,297; his hold on the affections of his subjects,14; devotion of his Old Guard surpassed by that of the garrison of Arcot to Clive,210Mr. Hallam's parallel between him and Cromwell,504; compared with Philip II. of Spain,78; protest of Lord Holland against his detention,213; threatens to invade England,287; anecdotes respecting,236237357495408Nares, Rev. Dr., review of his Burleigh and his Times,130National Assembly. See Assembly.National Debt, Southey's notions of,153155; effect of its abrogation,154England's capabilities in respect to it,180National feeling, low state of, after the Restoration,525Natural history, a body of, commenced by Bacon,433Natural religion,302303Nature, Dryden's violations of,359; external, Dante's insensibility to,7274; feeling of the present age for,73; not the source of the highest poetical inspiration,7374Navy, its mismanagement in the reign of Charles II.,375Negroes, their legal condition in the West Indies,307310; their religious condition,311313; their social and industrial capacities,301402Major Moody s theory of an instinctive antipathy between them and the Whites, and its refutation,305307; prejudices against them in the United States,368361; amalgamation between them and the Whites,370373; their capacity and inclination for labor,383385387391; the Maroons of Surinam,380; to:388; inhabitants of Hayti,390; to:400; their probable fate,404Nelson, Southey's Life of,136"New Atalantis" of Bacon, remarkable passages in,488Newbery, Mr., allusion to his pasteboard pictures,215Newcastle, Duke of, his relation to Walpole,178191; his character,191; his appointment as head of the administration,226; his negotiations with Fox,227228; attacked in Parliament by Chatham,229; his intrigues,234; his resignation of office,235; sent for by the king on Chatham's dismissal", leader of the Whig aristocracy,239; motives for his coalition with Chatham,240; his perfidy towards the king,242; his jealousy of Fox,242; his strong government with Chatham,243244; his character and borough influence,472; his contests with Henry Fox,472; his power and patronage,78; his unpopularity after the resignation of Chatham,3435; he quits office,35Newdigate, Sir Roger, a great critic,342Newton, John, his connection with the slave-trade,421; his attachment to the doctrines of predestination,176Newton, Sir Isaac,207; his residence in Leicester Square,252Malbranche's admiration of him,340; invented the method of fluxions simultaneously with Leibnitz,324"New Zealander" (the),3011601622014142Niagara, conquest of,244Ninleguen, congress at,59; hollow and unsatisfactory treaty of,60Nizam, originally a deputy of the Mogul sovereign,59Nizam al Mulk, Viceroy of the Deecan, his death,211Nonconformity. See Dissent in the Church of England.Normandy,77Normans, their warfare against the Albigenses,310Norris, Henry, the nickname "Little Dickey" applied to him by Addison,417North, Lord, his change in the constitution of the Indian government,35; his desire to obtain the removal of Hastings,53; change in his designs, and its cause,57; his sense, tact, and urbanity,128; his weight in the ministry,13Chancellor of the Exchequer,100; at the head of the ministry,232; resigns,235; forms a coalition with Fox,239; the recognized heads of the Tory party,243Northern and Southern countries, difference of moral feeling in,285286Novels, popular, character of those which preceded Miss Burney's Evelina,319November, fifth of,247Novum Organum, admiration excited by it before it was published,388; and afterwards,409; contrast between its doctrine and the ancient philosophy,438448405; its first book the greatest performance of Bacon,492Nov, Attorney-General to Charles I,456Nugent, Lord, review of his Memorials of John Hampden and his Party,427Nugent. Robert Craggs,13Nuncomar, his part in the revolutions in Bengal,1920; his services dispensed with by Hastings,24; his rancor against Mahommed Reza Khan,25; his alliance with the majority of the new council,4243; his committal for felony, trial, and sentence,4540; his death,4849
Mexico, exactions of the Spanish viceroys in, exceeded by the English agents in Bengal,266
Miehell, Sir Francis,401
Middle ages, inconsistency in the schoolmen of the,415
Middlesex election, the constitutional question in relation to it,101104
Middleton, Dr., remarks on his Life of Cicero,340341; his controversies with Bentley,112
Midias, Demosthenes' speech against,102
"Midsummer Night's Dream," sense in which the word "translated" is therein used,180
Milan, Addison's visit to,345
Military science, studied by Machiavelli,306
Military service, relative adaptation of different classes for,280
Militia (the), control of, by Charles I. or by the Parliament,488
Mill, James, his merits as a historian,277278; defects of his History of British India,195196; his unfairness towards Clive's character,237; his Essay on Government reviewed,551; his theory and method of reasoning,68101218204648; his style.8; his erroneous definition of the end of government,11; his objections to a Democracy only practical ones,12; attempts to demonstrate that a purely aristocratic form of government is necessarily bad,1213; so also an absolute monarchy,1314; refutation of these arguments,151618; his inconsistencies,16179697121; his narrow views,1920; his logical deficiencies,95; his want of precision in the use of terms,103108; attempts to prove that no combination of the simple forms of government can exist,2122; refutation of this argument.,2229; his ideas upon the representative system.2930; objections to them,30-32; his views upon the qualifications of voters,3236; objections to them,36384142; confounds the interests of the present generation with those of the human race,3839; attempts to prove that the people understand their own interest,42; refutation of this argument,43; general objections to his theory,4447122; defended by the Westminster Review,529; inconsistencies between him and the reviewer,5658; the reviewer mistakes the points at issue,586061657077114; and misrepresents arguments,627374; refutation of his positions.6364667476122127; the reviewer shifts the issue,68127128; fails to strengthen Mill's positions,71; and manifests great disingenuousness,115118129130
Millar, Lady, her vase for verses,271
Milton, review of his Treatise on Christian Doctrine, Mr. Lemon's discovery of the MS. of it,202; his style, "202; his theological opinions,204; his poetry his great passport to general remembrance,205211; power of his imagination,211; the most striking characteristic of his poetry,213375; his Allegro and Penseroso,215; his Cornus and Samson Agonistes,215; his minor poems,219; appreciated the literature of modern Italy,219; his Paradise Regained,219; parallel between him and Dante,1718; his Sonnets most exhibit his peculiar character,232; his public conduct,233; his defence of the execution of Charles L,246; his refutation of Salmasius,248; his conduct under the Protector,249; peculiarities which distinguished him from his contemporaries,253; noblest qualities of every party combined in him,260; his defence of the freedom of the press, and the right of private judgment,262; his boldness in the maintenance of his opinions,263; recapitulation of his literary merits,264; one of the most "correct" poets,338; his egotism,82; effect of his blindness upon his genius,351Dryden's admiration of,369370
Milton and Cowley, an imaginary conversation between, touching the great Civil War,112138
Milton and Shakspeare,character of, Johnson's observations on,417
Minden, battle of,247
Minds, great, the product of their times,323325
Mines, Spanish-American,85351
Ministers, veto by Parliament on their appointment,487; their responsibility lessened by the Revolution,531
Minorca, capture of, by the French,232
Minority, period of, at Athens,191192
"Minute guns!" Diaries Townshend's exclamation on hearing Bute's maiden speech,33
Mirabeau, Dumont's recollections of,7174; his habit of giving compound nicknames,72; compared with Wilkes,72; with Chatham,7273
Missionaries, Catholic, their zeal and spirit,300
Mittford, Mr., his History of Greece reviewed,172201; its popularity greater than its merits,172; his characteristics,173174177420-422; his scepticism and political prejudices,178188; his admiration of an oligarchy, and preference of Sparta to Athens,181183; his views in regard to Lyeurgus,185; reprobates the liturgic system of Athens,190; his unfairness,191422; his misrepresentation of Demosthenes,191193195197; his partiality for Æschines,193194; his admiration of monarchies,195; his general preference of the Barbarians to the Greeks,190; his deficiencies as an historian,190197; his indifference for literature and literary pursuits,197199
Modern history, the period of its commencement,532
Mogul, the Great,27; plundered by Hastings,74
Mohammed Heza Khan, his character,18; selected by Clive,21; his capture, confinement at Calcutta and release,25
Molière,385
Molwitz, battle of,171
Mompesson, Sir Giles, conduct of Bacon in regard to his patent,401402; abandoned to the vengeance of the Commons,412
Monarch, absolute, establishment of, in continental states,481Mitford's admiration of,195
Monarchy, the English, in the l6th century,1520
Monjuieh, capture of the fort of, by Peterborough,115
Monmouth, Duke of,300; his supplication for life,99
Monopolies, English, during the latter end of Elizabeth's reign, multiplied under James,304401; connived at by Bacon,402
Monson, Mr., one of the new councillors under the Regulating Act for India, his opposition to Hastings,40; his death and its important consequences,54
Montagu, Basil, review of his edition of Lord Bacon's works,330; character of his work,330; his explanation of Lord Burleigh's conduct towards Bacon,350; his views and arguments in defence of Bacon's conduct towards Essex,373379; his excuses for Bacon's use of torture, and his tampering with the judges,391394; his reductions on Bacon's admonitions to Buckingham,403; his complaints against James for not interposing to save Bacon,415; and for advising him to plead guilty,410; his defence of Bacon,417430
Montagu, Charles, notice of him,338; obtains permission for Addison to retain his fellowship during his travels,338Addison's Epistle to him,350; see also Halifax, Lord.
Montague, Lord,399
Montague, Marv, her testimony to Addison's colloquial powers,300
Montague, Mrs.,126
Mont Cenis,349
Monttesquieu, his style,314304365Horace Walpole's opinion of him,155; ought to have styled his work L'esprit sur les Lois,142
Montesquieu and Machiavelli, comparison between,314
Montgomery, Mr. Robert, his Omnipresence of the Deity reviewed,199; character of his poetry,200212
Montreal, capture of, by the British,170245
Moody, Major Thomas, his reports on the captured negroes reviewed,361404; his character,302303404; characteristics of his report,304402; its reception,304; its literary style,305; his principle of an instinctive antipathy between the White and the Black races,365; its refutation,306367; his new philosophy of labor,373374; his charges against Mr. Dougal,376; his inconsistencies,377; and erroneous deductions,379380391; his arrogance and bad grammar,394; his disgraceful carelessness in quoting documents,399
Moore, Mr., extract from his "Zelnco,"420
Moore's Life of Lord Byron, review of,324367; its style and matter,324; similes in his "Lalla Rookh,"485
Moorshedabad, its situation and importance,7
Moral feeling, state of, in Italy in the time of Machiavelli,271
Morality of Plutarch, and the historians of his school, political, low standard of, after the Restoration,398515
More, Sir Thomas,305416
Moses, Bacon compared to, by Cowley,493
"Mountain" (the), their principles,454455; their intentions towards the King,450457; its contests with the Girondists,458459402460; its triumph,473
"Mountain of Light,"145
Mourad Bey, his astonishment at Buonaparte's diminutive figure,357
"Mourning Bride," by Congreve, its high standing as a tragic drama,391
Moylan, Mr., review of his Collection of the Opinions of Lord Holland as recorded in the Journals of the House of Lords,412420
Mucius, the famous Roman lawyer,4; note.
Mutiny, Begum,2443
Munro, Sir Hector,72
Munro, Sir Thomas,298
Munster, Bishop of,32
Murphy, Mr., his knowledge of stage effect,273; his opinion of "The Witlings,"273
Mussulmans, their resistance to the practices of English law,5
Mysore,71; its fierce horsemen,72
Mythology, Dante's use of,7576
Nabobs, class of Englishmen to whom the name was applied,280283.
Names, in Milton, their significance,214; proper, correct spelling of,173
Naples,347
Napoleon, his policy and actions as first Consul,513514525283280; his treatment of Barer,514516518522520; his literary style,515; his opinion of Barère's abilities,524525; his military genius,293294; his early proof of talents for war,297; his hold on the affections of his subjects,14; devotion of his Old Guard surpassed by that of the garrison of Arcot to Clive,210Mr. Hallam's parallel between him and Cromwell,504; compared with Philip II. of Spain,78; protest of Lord Holland against his detention,213; threatens to invade England,287; anecdotes respecting,236237357495408
Nares, Rev. Dr., review of his Burleigh and his Times,130
National Assembly. See Assembly.
National Debt, Southey's notions of,153155; effect of its abrogation,154England's capabilities in respect to it,180
National feeling, low state of, after the Restoration,525
Natural history, a body of, commenced by Bacon,433
Natural religion,302303
Nature, Dryden's violations of,359; external, Dante's insensibility to,7274; feeling of the present age for,73; not the source of the highest poetical inspiration,7374
Navy, its mismanagement in the reign of Charles II.,375
Negroes, their legal condition in the West Indies,307310; their religious condition,311313; their social and industrial capacities,301402Major Moody s theory of an instinctive antipathy between them and the Whites, and its refutation,305307; prejudices against them in the United States,368361; amalgamation between them and the Whites,370373; their capacity and inclination for labor,383385387391; the Maroons of Surinam,380; to:388; inhabitants of Hayti,390; to:400; their probable fate,404
Nelson, Southey's Life of,136
"New Atalantis" of Bacon, remarkable passages in,488
Newbery, Mr., allusion to his pasteboard pictures,215
Newcastle, Duke of, his relation to Walpole,178191; his character,191; his appointment as head of the administration,226; his negotiations with Fox,227228; attacked in Parliament by Chatham,229; his intrigues,234; his resignation of office,235; sent for by the king on Chatham's dismissal", leader of the Whig aristocracy,239; motives for his coalition with Chatham,240; his perfidy towards the king,242; his jealousy of Fox,242; his strong government with Chatham,243244; his character and borough influence,472; his contests with Henry Fox,472; his power and patronage,78; his unpopularity after the resignation of Chatham,3435; he quits office,35
Newdigate, Sir Roger, a great critic,342
Newton, John, his connection with the slave-trade,421; his attachment to the doctrines of predestination,176
Newton, Sir Isaac,207; his residence in Leicester Square,252Malbranche's admiration of him,340; invented the method of fluxions simultaneously with Leibnitz,324
"New Zealander" (the),3011601622014142
Niagara, conquest of,244
Ninleguen, congress at,59; hollow and unsatisfactory treaty of,60
Nizam, originally a deputy of the Mogul sovereign,59
Nizam al Mulk, Viceroy of the Deecan, his death,211
Nonconformity. See Dissent in the Church of England.
Normandy,77
Normans, their warfare against the Albigenses,310
Norris, Henry, the nickname "Little Dickey" applied to him by Addison,417
North, Lord, his change in the constitution of the Indian government,35; his desire to obtain the removal of Hastings,53; change in his designs, and its cause,57; his sense, tact, and urbanity,128; his weight in the ministry,13Chancellor of the Exchequer,100; at the head of the ministry,232; resigns,235; forms a coalition with Fox,239; the recognized heads of the Tory party,243
Northern and Southern countries, difference of moral feeling in,285286
Novels, popular, character of those which preceded Miss Burney's Evelina,319
November, fifth of,247
Novum Organum, admiration excited by it before it was published,388; and afterwards,409; contrast between its doctrine and the ancient philosophy,438448405; its first book the greatest performance of Bacon,492
Nov, Attorney-General to Charles I,456
Nugent, Lord, review of his Memorials of John Hampden and his Party,427
Nugent. Robert Craggs,13
Nuncomar, his part in the revolutions in Bengal,1920; his services dispensed with by Hastings,24; his rancor against Mahommed Reza Khan,25; his alliance with the majority of the new council,4243; his committal for felony, trial, and sentence,4540; his death,4849