V.Vandyke, his portrait of the Earl of Strafford,454Yausittart. Mr., Governor of Bengal, his position,9; his fair intentions, feebleness, and inefficiency,9Varela's portrait of James II.,251Vattel,27Vega, Garcilasso de la, a soldier as well as a poet,81Vendôme, Duke of, takes the command of the Bourbon forces in Spain (1710), iii127Venice, republic of, next in antiquity to tin- line of the Supreme Pontiff's,300Venus, the Roman term for the highest throw on the dice,13; note.Vergniaud,452457473474Verona, protest of Lord Holland against the course pursued by England at the Congress of,413Verres, extensive bribery at the trial of,421Verse, occasional,350; blank,300; reasoning in,300Versification, modern, in a dead language,212Veto, by Parliament, on the appointment of ministers,487; by the Crown on aets of Parliament,488"Violet Crown, city of," a favorite epithet of Athens,30; note."Vicar of Wakefield" (the),159161Vigo, capture of the Spanish galleons at.170108"Village, Deserted" (the), Goldsmith's,162103Villani, John, his account of the state of Florence in the14th century,276Villn-Vieiosa, battle of,171128Villiers, Sir Edward,412Virgil not so "correct" a poet as Homer,337; skill with which Addison imitated him,331Dante's admiration of,329Vision of Judgment, Southev's,145Voltaire. the connecting link of the literary schools of Lewis XIV. and Lewis XVI.,355Horace Walpole's opinion of him.155; his partiality to England,412294; meditated a history of the conquest of Bengal, 214; his character, and that of his compeers,294; his interview with Congreve,407; his genius venerated by Frederic the Great,100; his whimsical conferences with Frederic,176; seq.; compared with Addison as a master of the art of ridicule,370377; his treatment by the French Academy,23; failed to obtain the poetical prize,W.Wages, effects of attempts by government to limit the amount of,362; their relations to labor,383385400Waldegrave, Lord, made first Lord of the Treasury by George II.,242; his attempt to form an administration,243Wales, Frederic, Prince of, joined the opposition to Walpole,208; his marriage,209; makes Pitt his groom of the bedchamber,216; his death,222223; headed the opposition,7; his sneer at the Earl of Bute,20Wales, Princess Dowager of, mother of George11118; popular ribaldry against her,42Wales, the Prince of, generally in opposition to the minister,208Walker, Obadiah,112113Wall, Mr., Governor of Goree,318Waller, Edmund, his conduct in the House of Commons,303; similarity of his character to Lord Bacon's,385386Walmesley, Gilbert,177Walpole, Lord.400404Walpole, Sir Horace, review of Lord Dover's edition of his Letters to Sir Horace Mann,143; eccentricity of his character,144145; his politics,146; his affectation of philosophy,149; his unwillingness to be considered a man of letters,149; his love of the French language,152; character of his works,156158; his sketch of Lord Carteret,187Walpole, Sir Robert, his retaliation on the Tories for their treatment of him,136; the "glory of the Whigs,"165; his character,166; seq.; the charges against him of corrupting the Parliament,171; his dominant passion,171173; his conduct in regard to the Spanish war,173; his last struggle,178; outcry for his impeachment,179; formidable character of the opposition to him,175206; his conduct in reference to the South Sea bubble,200; his conduct towards his colleagues,202205; found it necessary to resign,217; bill of indemnity for witnesses brought against him,218; his maxim in election questions in the House of Commons,473; his many titles to respect,416417Walpolean battle, the great,165426Walsingham, the Earl of (16th century),36Wanderer, Madame D'Arblay's,311War, the Art of, by Machiavelli,306War of the Succession in Spain, Lord Mahon's, review of,75112; see Spain.War, in what spirit it should be waged,187188; languid, condemned,495Homer's description of,356357; descriptions of by Silius Italicus,357; against Spain, counselled by Pitt and opposed by Bute,29; found by Bute to be inevitable,32; its conclusion,37; debate on the treaty of peace,49War, civil. See Civil War.Ward, John William, Lord Dudley,288Warburton, Bishop, his views on the ends of government,122; his social contract a fiction,182; his opinion as to the religion to be taught by government,188Warning, not the only end of punishment,464Warwick, Countess Dowager of,411412; her marriage with Addison,412Warwick, Earl of, makes mischief between Addison and Pope,469; his dislike of the marriage between Addison and his mother,411; his character,412Watson, Bishop,425Way of the World, by Congreve, its merits,403Wealth, tangible and intangible,150152; national and private,153180; its increase among all Masses in England,180187; its diffusion in Russia and Poland as compared with England,182; its accumulation and diffusion in England and in Continental states,182Wodderburne, Alexander, his defence of Lord Clive,292; his urgency with Clive to furnish Voltaire with the materials for his meditated history of the conquest of Bengal,294Weekly Intelligencer (the), extract from, on Hampden's death,405Weldon, Sir A., his Story of the meanness of Bacon,407Wellesley, Marquis, his eminence as a statesman, iv. 05; his opinion as to the expediency of reducing the numbers of the Privy Council, 05; l'itt's friendship for him,205Wellington, Duke of,90357408409420; l'itt's estimate of him,290"Wellingtoniad" (the), an imaginary epic poem,158171Wendover, its recovery of the elective franchise,443Wesley, John, Southey's life of,137; his dislike to the doctrine of predestination,170West Indies (the), slavery in,303330; its origin and legal condition there,303310; state of religion in,311313; state of manners,314310; public opinion in,315317318319; despotic character of the inhabitants,320-322; commerce of,323325; character of the proprietors,320-329; slavery in, approaching its end,328329; their system of cultivation,378381403Westminster Hall,42; the scene of the trial of Hastings,124Westphalia, the treaty of,314338Wharton, Earl of, lord lieutenant of Ireland,371; appoints Addison chief secretary,371Wheler, Mr., his appointment as Governor-General of India,54; his conduct in the council,5702,74Whigs (the), their unpopularity and loss of power in171130; their position in Walpole's time,20207; their violence in1679,299; the king's revenge on them,301; revival of their strength,304; their conduct at the Devolution,319320; after that event,330; doctrines and literature they patronized daring the seventy years they were in power,332Mr. Courtenay's remark on those of the17th century,272; attachment of literary men to them after the Devolution,337; their fall on the accession of Anne,351301; in the ascendant in170Queen Anne's dislike of them,381; their dismissal by her,381; their success in the administration of the government,381; dissensions and reconstruction of the Whig government in1717,430; enjoyed all the public patronage in the reign of George I.,45; acknowledged the Duke of Newcastle as their leader,8; their power and intiuence at the close of the reign of George II.,10; their support of the Brunswick dynasty,15; division of them into two classes, old and young,72; superior character of the young Whig school,73; see Tories.Whig and Tory, inversion of the meaning of,131Whigs and Tories after the Devolution,530; their relative condition in171130; their essential characteristics,2; their transformation in the reign of George I.,3; analogy presented by France,4; subsidence of party spirit between them,5; revival under Bute's administration of the animosity between them,38Whitgift, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, his character,353; his Calvinistic doctrines,175177; his zeal and activity against the Puritans,330Wickliffe, John, juncture at which he rose,312; his intiuence in England, Germany, and Bohemia,313Wieland,341Wilberforce, William, travels upon the Continent with Pitt,242; opposes Fox's India bill,245240; reelected to Parliament,249; his efforts to suppress the slave-trade,209; his intimate friendship with Pitt,287297; his description of Pitt's speech against Hastings,120Wilkes, John, conduct of the government with respect to his election for Middlesex,535; his comparison of the mother of George III. to the mother of Edward111,42; his persecution by the Grenville administration,56; description of him,56; his North Briton,56; his committal to the Tower,56; his discharge,57; his Essay on Woman laid before the House of Lords, 511; tights a duel with one of Lord Bute's dependents,60; flies to France,60; is works ordered to be burnt by the hangman, and himself expelled the House of Commons, and outlawed,60; obtains damages in an action tor the seizure of his papers,61; returns from exile and is elected for Middlesex,100; compared to Mirabeau,72Wilkie, David, recollection of him at Holland House,425; failed in portrait-painting,319William III., low state of national prosperity and national character in his reign,529; his feeling in reference to the Spanish succession,102; unpopularity of his person and measures,101; suffered under a complication of diseases,101; his death,102; limitation of his prerogatives,103; compact with the Convention,320; his habit of consulting Temple,103; coalition which he formed against Lewis XIV. secretly favored by Home,339; his vices not obtruded on the public eye.392; his assassination planned,394Addison's Lines to him,333; reference to him,67Williams, Dean of Westminster, his services to Buckingham, and counsel to him and the king,411416Williams, John, his character,139270; employed by Hastings to write in his defence,139Williams, Sir William, his character as a lawyer,378; his view of the duty of counsel in conducting prosecutions,378Wimbledon Church, Lord Burleigh attended mass at,6Windham, Mr., his opinion of Sheridan's speech against Hastings,122; his argument for retaining brands in the impeachment against Hastings,123; his appearance at the trial,12S; his adherence to Burke,136Wine, excess in, not a sign of ill-breeding in the reign of Queen Anne,367"Wisdom of our ancestors," proper value of the plea of,272Wit, Addison's compared with that of Cowley and Butler,375Witt, John de, power with which he governed Holland,32; his interview with Temple,36; his manners,3637; his confidence in Temple and deception by Charles' court,47; his violent death,51Wolcot,270238Wolfe, General, l'itt's panegyric upon,213; his conquest of Quebec and death,244; monument voted to him,244Woman, source of the charm of her beauty,74; her different treatment among the Greeks and the Romans,8385; in the middle ages,85; and among civilized nations generally,3335Women, as agricultural laborers,394395Women (the) of Dryden's comedies,356; of his tragedies,357358Woodfall, Mr., his dealings with Junius,38Wordsworth, relative "correctness" of his poetry,338Byron's distaste for,352; characteristics of his poems,356362; his egotism,82Works, public, employment of the public wealth in,155; publie and private, comparative value of,155Waiting, grand canon of,76Wycherley, William, his literary merits and faults,368; his birth, family, and education,369370; age at which he wrote his plays,370371; his favor with the Duchess of Cleveland,372373; his marriage,376; his embarrassments,377; his acquaintance with Pope,381383; his character as a writer,384387; his severe handling by Collier,599; analogy between him and Congreve,410
Vandyke, his portrait of the Earl of Strafford,454
Yausittart. Mr., Governor of Bengal, his position,9; his fair intentions, feebleness, and inefficiency,9
Varela's portrait of James II.,251
Vattel,27
Vega, Garcilasso de la, a soldier as well as a poet,81
Vendôme, Duke of, takes the command of the Bourbon forces in Spain (1710), iii127
Venice, republic of, next in antiquity to tin- line of the Supreme Pontiff's,300
Venus, the Roman term for the highest throw on the dice,13; note.
Vergniaud,452457473474
Verona, protest of Lord Holland against the course pursued by England at the Congress of,413
Verres, extensive bribery at the trial of,421
Verse, occasional,350; blank,300; reasoning in,300
Versification, modern, in a dead language,212
Veto, by Parliament, on the appointment of ministers,487; by the Crown on aets of Parliament,488
"Violet Crown, city of," a favorite epithet of Athens,30; note.
"Vicar of Wakefield" (the),159161
Vigo, capture of the Spanish galleons at.170108
"Village, Deserted" (the), Goldsmith's,162103
Villani, John, his account of the state of Florence in the14th century,276
Villn-Vieiosa, battle of,171128
Villiers, Sir Edward,412
Virgil not so "correct" a poet as Homer,337; skill with which Addison imitated him,331Dante's admiration of,329
Vision of Judgment, Southev's,145
Voltaire. the connecting link of the literary schools of Lewis XIV. and Lewis XVI.,355Horace Walpole's opinion of him.155; his partiality to England,412294; meditated a history of the conquest of Bengal, 214; his character, and that of his compeers,294; his interview with Congreve,407; his genius venerated by Frederic the Great,100; his whimsical conferences with Frederic,176; seq.; compared with Addison as a master of the art of ridicule,370377; his treatment by the French Academy,23; failed to obtain the poetical prize,
Wages, effects of attempts by government to limit the amount of,362; their relations to labor,383385400
Waldegrave, Lord, made first Lord of the Treasury by George II.,242; his attempt to form an administration,243
Wales, Frederic, Prince of, joined the opposition to Walpole,208; his marriage,209; makes Pitt his groom of the bedchamber,216; his death,222223; headed the opposition,7; his sneer at the Earl of Bute,20
Wales, Princess Dowager of, mother of George11118; popular ribaldry against her,42
Wales, the Prince of, generally in opposition to the minister,208
Walker, Obadiah,112113
Wall, Mr., Governor of Goree,318
Waller, Edmund, his conduct in the House of Commons,303; similarity of his character to Lord Bacon's,385386
Walmesley, Gilbert,177
Walpole, Lord.400404
Walpole, Sir Horace, review of Lord Dover's edition of his Letters to Sir Horace Mann,143; eccentricity of his character,144145; his politics,146; his affectation of philosophy,149; his unwillingness to be considered a man of letters,149; his love of the French language,152; character of his works,156158; his sketch of Lord Carteret,187
Walpole, Sir Robert, his retaliation on the Tories for their treatment of him,136; the "glory of the Whigs,"165; his character,166; seq.; the charges against him of corrupting the Parliament,171; his dominant passion,171173; his conduct in regard to the Spanish war,173; his last struggle,178; outcry for his impeachment,179; formidable character of the opposition to him,175206; his conduct in reference to the South Sea bubble,200; his conduct towards his colleagues,202205; found it necessary to resign,217; bill of indemnity for witnesses brought against him,218; his maxim in election questions in the House of Commons,473; his many titles to respect,416417
Walpolean battle, the great,165426
Walsingham, the Earl of (16th century),36
Wanderer, Madame D'Arblay's,311
War, the Art of, by Machiavelli,306
War of the Succession in Spain, Lord Mahon's, review of,75112; see Spain.
War, in what spirit it should be waged,187188; languid, condemned,495Homer's description of,356357; descriptions of by Silius Italicus,357; against Spain, counselled by Pitt and opposed by Bute,29; found by Bute to be inevitable,32; its conclusion,37; debate on the treaty of peace,49
War, civil. See Civil War.
Ward, John William, Lord Dudley,288
Warburton, Bishop, his views on the ends of government,122; his social contract a fiction,182; his opinion as to the religion to be taught by government,188
Warning, not the only end of punishment,464
Warwick, Countess Dowager of,411412; her marriage with Addison,412
Warwick, Earl of, makes mischief between Addison and Pope,469; his dislike of the marriage between Addison and his mother,411; his character,412
Watson, Bishop,425
Way of the World, by Congreve, its merits,403
Wealth, tangible and intangible,150152; national and private,153180; its increase among all Masses in England,180187; its diffusion in Russia and Poland as compared with England,182; its accumulation and diffusion in England and in Continental states,182
Wodderburne, Alexander, his defence of Lord Clive,292; his urgency with Clive to furnish Voltaire with the materials for his meditated history of the conquest of Bengal,294
Weekly Intelligencer (the), extract from, on Hampden's death,405
Weldon, Sir A., his Story of the meanness of Bacon,407
Wellesley, Marquis, his eminence as a statesman, iv. 05; his opinion as to the expediency of reducing the numbers of the Privy Council, 05; l'itt's friendship for him,205
Wellington, Duke of,90357408409420; l'itt's estimate of him,290"Wellingtoniad" (the), an imaginary epic poem,158171
Wendover, its recovery of the elective franchise,443
Wesley, John, Southey's life of,137; his dislike to the doctrine of predestination,170
West Indies (the), slavery in,303330; its origin and legal condition there,303310; state of religion in,311313; state of manners,314310; public opinion in,315317318319; despotic character of the inhabitants,320-322; commerce of,323325; character of the proprietors,320-329; slavery in, approaching its end,328329; their system of cultivation,378381403
Westminster Hall,42; the scene of the trial of Hastings,124
Westphalia, the treaty of,314338
Wharton, Earl of, lord lieutenant of Ireland,371; appoints Addison chief secretary,371
Wheler, Mr., his appointment as Governor-General of India,54; his conduct in the council,5702,74
Whigs (the), their unpopularity and loss of power in171130; their position in Walpole's time,20207; their violence in1679,299; the king's revenge on them,301; revival of their strength,304; their conduct at the Devolution,319320; after that event,330; doctrines and literature they patronized daring the seventy years they were in power,332Mr. Courtenay's remark on those of the17th century,272; attachment of literary men to them after the Devolution,337; their fall on the accession of Anne,351301; in the ascendant in170Queen Anne's dislike of them,381; their dismissal by her,381; their success in the administration of the government,381; dissensions and reconstruction of the Whig government in1717,430; enjoyed all the public patronage in the reign of George I.,45; acknowledged the Duke of Newcastle as their leader,8; their power and intiuence at the close of the reign of George II.,10; their support of the Brunswick dynasty,15; division of them into two classes, old and young,72; superior character of the young Whig school,73; see Tories.
Whig and Tory, inversion of the meaning of,131
Whigs and Tories after the Devolution,530; their relative condition in171130; their essential characteristics,2; their transformation in the reign of George I.,3; analogy presented by France,4; subsidence of party spirit between them,5; revival under Bute's administration of the animosity between them,38
Whitgift, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, his character,353; his Calvinistic doctrines,175177; his zeal and activity against the Puritans,330
Wickliffe, John, juncture at which he rose,312; his intiuence in England, Germany, and Bohemia,313
Wieland,341
Wilberforce, William, travels upon the Continent with Pitt,242; opposes Fox's India bill,245240; reelected to Parliament,249; his efforts to suppress the slave-trade,209; his intimate friendship with Pitt,287297; his description of Pitt's speech against Hastings,120
Wilkes, John, conduct of the government with respect to his election for Middlesex,535; his comparison of the mother of George III. to the mother of Edward111,42; his persecution by the Grenville administration,56; description of him,56; his North Briton,56; his committal to the Tower,56; his discharge,57; his Essay on Woman laid before the House of Lords, 511; tights a duel with one of Lord Bute's dependents,60; flies to France,60; is works ordered to be burnt by the hangman, and himself expelled the House of Commons, and outlawed,60; obtains damages in an action tor the seizure of his papers,61; returns from exile and is elected for Middlesex,100; compared to Mirabeau,72
Wilkie, David, recollection of him at Holland House,425; failed in portrait-painting,319
William III., low state of national prosperity and national character in his reign,529; his feeling in reference to the Spanish succession,102; unpopularity of his person and measures,101; suffered under a complication of diseases,101; his death,102; limitation of his prerogatives,103; compact with the Convention,320; his habit of consulting Temple,103; coalition which he formed against Lewis XIV. secretly favored by Home,339; his vices not obtruded on the public eye.392; his assassination planned,394Addison's Lines to him,333; reference to him,67
Williams, Dean of Westminster, his services to Buckingham, and counsel to him and the king,411416
Williams, John, his character,139270; employed by Hastings to write in his defence,139
Williams, Sir William, his character as a lawyer,378; his view of the duty of counsel in conducting prosecutions,378
Wimbledon Church, Lord Burleigh attended mass at,6
Windham, Mr., his opinion of Sheridan's speech against Hastings,122; his argument for retaining brands in the impeachment against Hastings,123; his appearance at the trial,12S; his adherence to Burke,136
Wine, excess in, not a sign of ill-breeding in the reign of Queen Anne,367
"Wisdom of our ancestors," proper value of the plea of,272
Wit, Addison's compared with that of Cowley and Butler,375
Witt, John de, power with which he governed Holland,32; his interview with Temple,36; his manners,3637; his confidence in Temple and deception by Charles' court,47; his violent death,51
Wolcot,270238
Wolfe, General, l'itt's panegyric upon,213; his conquest of Quebec and death,244; monument voted to him,244
Woman, source of the charm of her beauty,74; her different treatment among the Greeks and the Romans,8385; in the middle ages,85; and among civilized nations generally,3335
Women, as agricultural laborers,394395
Women (the) of Dryden's comedies,356; of his tragedies,357358
Woodfall, Mr., his dealings with Junius,38
Wordsworth, relative "correctness" of his poetry,338Byron's distaste for,352; characteristics of his poems,356362; his egotism,82
Works, public, employment of the public wealth in,155; publie and private, comparative value of,155
Waiting, grand canon of,76
Wycherley, William, his literary merits and faults,368; his birth, family, and education,369370; age at which he wrote his plays,370371; his favor with the Duchess of Cleveland,372373; his marriage,376; his embarrassments,377; his acquaintance with Pope,381383; his character as a writer,384387; his severe handling by Collier,599; analogy between him and Congreve,410