  Nabobs, class of Englishmen to whom the name was applied, 280 283. Names, in Milton, their significance, 214 ; proper, correct spelling of, 173 Naples, 347 Napoleon, his policy and actions as first Consul, 513 514 525 283 280 ; his treatment of Barer, 514 516 518 522 520 ; his literary style, 515 ; his opinion of BarÈre's abilities, 524 525 ; his military genius, 293 294 ; 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, 210 Mr. 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, 236 237 357 495 408 Nares, Rev. Dr., review of his Burleigh and his Times, 1 30 National Assembly. See Assembly. National Debt, Southey's notions of, 153 155 ; effect of its abrogation, 154 England'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 Nature, Dryden's violations of, 359 ; external, Dante's insensibility to, 72 74 ; feeling of the present age for, 73 ; not the source of the highest poetical inspiration, 73 74 Navy, its mismanagement in the reign of Charles II., 375 Negroes, their legal condition in the West Indies, 307 310 ; their religious condition, 311 313 ; their social and industrial capacities, 301 402 Major Moody s theory of an instinctive antipathy between them and the Whites, and its refutation, 305 307 ; prejudices against them in the United States, 368 361 ; amalgamation between them and the Whites, 370 373 ; their capacity and inclination for labor, 383 385 387 391 ; 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, 178 191 ; his character, 191 ; his appointment as head of the administration, 226 ; his negotiations with Fox, 227 228 ; 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, 243 244 ; his character and borough influence, 472 ; his contests with Henry Fox, 472 ; his power and patronage, 7 8 ; his unpopularity after the resignation of Chatham, 34 35 ; 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, 252 Malbranche's admiration of him, 340 ; invented the method of fluxions simultaneously with Leibnitz, 324 "New Zealander" (the), 301 160 162 201 41 42 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, 13 Chancellor 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, 285 286 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, 438 448 405 ; 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, 19 20 ; his services dispensed with by Hastings, 24 ; his rancor against Mahommed Reza Khan, 25 ; his alliance with the majority of the new council, 42 43; his committal for felony, trial, and sentence, 45 40 ; his death, 48 49
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