  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, 336 495 ; his mother distinguished as a linguist, 349 ; his early years, 352 355 ; his services refused by government, 355 356 ; his admission at Gray's Inn, 357 ; his legal attainments, 358 ; sat in Parliament in 1593, 359 ; part he took in politics, 360 ; his friendship with the Earl of Essex, 305 372 ; examination of his conduct to Essex, 373 384 ; 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, 389 394 ; 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, 405 407 ; his town and country residences, 408 409 ; 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, 413 414 ; overwhelming evidence to them, 414 410 ; his admission of his guilt, 410 ; his sentence, 417 ; examination of Mr. Montagu's arguments in his defence, 417 430 ; mode in which he spent the last years of his life, 431 432 ; chief peculiarity of his philosophy, 435 447 ; his views compared with those of Plato, 448 455 ; 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, 471 479 ; union of audacity and sobriety in his temper, 480 ; his amplitude of comprehension, 481 482 ; 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, 490 491 ; value of his Essays, 491 ; his greatest performance the first book of the Novum Organum, 492 ; contemplation of his life, 492 495 ; his reasoning upon the principle of heat, 90 ; his system generally as opposed to the schoolmen, 78 79 103 ; his objections to the system of education at the Universities, 445 Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character, 342 448 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, 448 159 ; its beneficent spirit, 455 458 403 ; its value compared with ancient philosophy, 459 471 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 the 14 ; century, 270 Baptists, (the) Bunyan's position among, 140 147 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, 423 539 ; opinions of the editors as to his character, 424 ; his real character, 425 427 429 407 ; has hitherto found no apologist, 420 ; compared with Danton and Robespierre, 420 ; his natural disposition, 427 ; character of his memoirs, 429 430 ; their mendacity, 431 430 445 ; their literary value, 430 ; his birth and education, 430 437 ; 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, 442 471 472 ; 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, 450 457 ; 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, 408 409 ; moves the execution of Marie Antoinette, 409 ; speaks against the Girondists, 434 435 474 ; one of the Committee of Safety, 475 ; his part (luring the Reign of Terror. 482 485 487 ; his cruelties, 485, 480 ; life's pleasantries, 487 488 ; his proposition to murder English prisoners, 490 492 ; his murders, 495 497 ; his part in the quarrels of the Committee, 497 590 ; moves that Robespierre be put to death, 499 500 ; cries raised against him, 504 ; a committee appointed to examine into his conduct, 505 ; his defence, 505 50 ; 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, 511 512 ; writes a work on the Liberty of the Seas. 512 ; threatened by the mob, 512 513 ; his relations with Napoleon, 514 518 521 527 ; a journalist and pamphleteer, 523 524 ; 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, 534 535 537 539 ; 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, 7 70 Barlow, Bishop, 370 Barrington, Lord, 13 Harwell, Mr., 35 ; his support of Hastings, 40 54 55 2 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, 430 431 Beckford, Alderman, 90 Bedford, Duke of, 11 ; his views of the policy of Chatham, 20 41 ; presents remonstrance to George II 71 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, 326 330 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 his system, 53 54 59 80, 87 91 115 116, 121 122 ; his language on the French revolution, 204 ; his greatness, 38 40 Bentinck, Lord William, his memory cherished by the Hindoos, 298 Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the state of religion in England in the 16th century, 25 Bentley, Richard, his quarrel with Boyle, and remarks on Temple's Essay on the Letters of Phalaris, 109 111 115 119 ; his edition of Milton, 111 ; his notes on Horace, 111 ; his reconciliation with Boyle and Atterbury, 113 ; his apothegm about criticism, 119 212 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, Bickell, R. Rev., his work on Slavery in the West Indies, 330 Bickerstaff, Isaac, astrologer, 374 Billaud, 405 475 498 499 501 504 506 508 510 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, 233 234 ; retribution of the English for its horrors, 235 239 242 245 Blackmore, Sir Richard, his attainments in the ancient languages, 331 Blackstone, 334 Blasphemous publications, policy of Government in respect to, 171 Blenheim, battle of, 354 Addison 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, 388 433 Bohemia, influence of the doctrines of Wickliffe in, 313 Boileau, Addison's intercourse with, 340 341 ; 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, 392 Pope's perfidy towards him, 408 ; his remedy for the disease of the state, 23 24 Bombast, Dryden's, 361 362 Shakspeare's, 361 Bombay, its affairs thrown into confusion by the new council at Calcutta, 40 Book of the Church, Southey's, 137 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, 391 397 204 205 Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Crocker, review of, 368 426 ; character of the work, 387 Boswellism, 265 Bourbon, the House of, their vicissitudes in Spain, 106 130 Bourne, Vincent, 5 342 ; 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, 108 113 119 ; 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, 305 306 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 James 1 , 44 Bacon's early discernment of his influence, 330 337 ; his expedition to Spain, 308; his return for Bacon's patronage, 333 ; his corruption, 402 ; his character and position, 402 408 ; his marriage, 411 412 ; 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, 308 303 371 Bunyan, John, Life of, 132 150 252 204 ; his birth and early life, 132 ; mistakes of his biographers in regard to his moral character, 133 134 ; enlists in the Parliamentary army, 135 ; his marriage, 135 ; his religious experiences, 130-138; begins to preach, 133 ; his imprisonment, 133 141 ; his early writings, 141 142 ; his liberation and gratitude to Charles II., 142 143 ; his Pilgrim's Progress, 143 140 ; the product of an uneducated genius, 57 343 ; his subsequent writings, 14 ; his position among the Baptists, 140 147 ; his second persecution, and the overtures made to him, 147 148 ; his death and burial-place, 148 ; his fame, 14 143 ; his imitators, 143 150 ; his style, 200 ; his religious enthusiasm and imagery, 333 Southey's edition of his Pilgrim's Progress reviewed, 253 207 ; peculiarities of the work, 200 ; not a perfect allegory, 257 258 ; its publication, and the number of its editions, 145 140 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, 104 137 ; 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, 51 208 ; his admiration of Pitt's maiden speech, 233 ; his opposition to Fox's India bill, 245 ; in the opposition to Pitt, 247 243 ; deserts Fox, 273 Burleigh and his Times, review of Lev. Dr. Xarea's, 1 30 ; his early life and character, 3 10 ; 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, 355 305 ; his apology for having resorted to torture, 333 Bacon's letter to him upon the department of knowledge he had chosen, 483 Burnet, Bishop, 114 Burney, Dr., his social position, 251 255 ; 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, 13 20 ; 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, 37 52 ; his resignation, 52 ; continues to advise the King privately, 57 70 79 ; pensions Johnson, 198 199 Butler, 350 Addison not inferior to him in wit, 375 Byng, Admiral, his failure at Minorca. 232 ; his trial, 236 ; opinion of his conduct, 236 Chatham's defence of him, 237 Byron, Lord, his epistolary style, 325 ; his character, 326 327 ; his early life, 327 ; his quarrel with, and separation from, his wife, 329331; his expatriation, 332 ; decline of his intellectual powers, 333 ; his attachment to Italy and Greece, 335 ; his sickness and death, 336 ; general grief for his fate, 336 ; remarks on his poetry, 336 ; his admiration of the Hope school of poetry, 337 : his opinion of Wordsworth and Coleridge, 352 ; of Deter Bell, 353 ; his estimate of the poetry of the 18th and 19th centuries, 353 ; his sensitiveness to criticism, 354 ; the interpreter between Wordsworth and the multitude, 356 ; the founder of an exoteric Lake, school, 356 ; remarks on his dramatic works, 357 363 ; his egotism, 365 ; cause of his influence, 336 337
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