Louvois, French Minister of War, ii. 231. Advises the devastation of the Palati- nate, 494. His jealousy of Lauzun, 527, iii. 259. His advice to James II., ii. 540. Provides means for the siege of Mons, iii. 379. His death, 533. His talents as War Minister; adverse to the plan of invading England, 534. His plot for the assassination of Wil- liam, 584.
Love, honourable and chivalrous, unknown
to the Greeks, vii. 621. The passion as delineated in the Roman poets, 621. What is implied in the modern sense of the word love, 621. Change under- gone in the nature of the passion of love in the middle ages, 622. "Love for Love," Congreve's, vi. 518. Its moral, 535.
"Love in a Wood," when acted, vi. 504. Lovelace, John, Lord, ii. 265. Rises for William, 266. Made prisoner, 266. Liberated by the people of Gloucester; marches to Oxford, 293. His threat to the Lords, 379.
Low Church party, ii. 434-456. Lowick, Edward, his share in the assassina-
tion plot, iv. 211. Executed, 232. Lowndes, William, his mistaken views of the currency, iv. 194. Locke's refuta- tion of, 195.
Lowther, Sir John. See Lonsdale, Earl of. Loyola, his energy, vi. 468, 479.
Lucas, Charles, character of his Irish patriotism, iii. 455.
Lucas, Lord, appointed Lieutenant of the Tower, ii. 310.
Ludlow, Edmund, refuses to take part in
the Whig plots, i. 416. His Swiss re- tirement, iii. 199. Returns to London, 200. Proclamation for his apprehen- sion, 201. His flight; his tomb at Vevay, 201.
Lumley, Richard, Lord, i. 462. Pursues Monmouth, 479. Joins the revolu- tionary conspiracy, ii. 196 Signs the invitation to the Prince of Orange, 197. Seizes Newcastle for William, 292. Lundy, Robert, appointed Governor of Londonderry by Mountjoy, ii. 513. Professes his adherence to the Govern- ment of William and Mary, 524. Re- pulsed by Hamilton at Strabane, 543. His treachery, 545, 546. His flight, 547. Sent to the Tower, 574. Lunt, turns informer against Lancashire Jacobites, iv. 107. His evidence at Manchester, 111.
Luther, his declaration against the an-
cient philosophy, vi. 211. Sketch of the contest which began with his preaching against the Indulgences, and terminated with the treaty of West- phalia, 464-481.
Luttrell, Colonel Henry, ii. 557. His intrigues at Limerick, iii. 424. De- puted to St. Germains, 425. Opens a correspondence with the English, 442. Deserts James; assassinated, 450. Luttrell, Colonel Simon, ii. 557. Ejects the Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, 571. Governor of Dublin for James, iii. 283. A member of the deputation from Limerick to St. Germains, 425. Remains faithful to James, 450.
Luttrell, Narcissus, his diary, ii. 400
Luxemburg, seized by Lewis XIV., i. 217. Luxemburg, Francis Henry, Duke of, gains the battle of Fleurus, iii. 278. Commands at the siege of Mons, 379. His cam- paign against William III. in Flanders 417. Covers the siege of Namur, 573 His personal peculiarities, 577. Receives information of the Allies' plans, 578 Surprised by William at Steinkirk, 580. Retrieves the day, 582. Advises Lewis XIV. to give battle, iv. 18. Threatens Liege, 19. Gains the battle of Landen, 21-23. His inactivity after the battle, 25. His campaign of 1694, 106. His death, 123.
Lycurgus, his mistaken principles of legis-
lation, vii. 692. His system of domestic slavery, 77.
Lyme Regis, Monmouth lands at, i. 446. Lyons, cruelties of the Jacobins at, vii.
161. Barère's proposal to utterly an- nihilate it, 164.
Lysander, depressed by the constitution of Lycurgus, vii. 690.
Lysias, anecdote by Plutarch of his speech for the Athenian tribunals, vi. 327. Lyttelton, Lord, vi. 77.
At the battle of Killiecrankie, 87. His quarrel with a Lowland gentleman, 335. At the conference at Glenorchy, 513. Takes the oaths to William III.'s Government, 516. Examined by the Glencoe Commissioners, iv. 150. Macdonald, Colin of Keppoch, iii. 61. Threatens Inverness, 62. Joins Dun- dee, 63. Examined by the Glencoe Commissioners, iv. 150.
Macdonald of Sleat, iii. 65. Retires from the Highland army, 98. Macdonalds, their ancient ascendency in the Highlands, iii. 54. Their claim to be Lords of the Isles, 59. Their feud with the citizens of Inverness, 61. Macflecnoe of Dryden, character of the, v. 120.
Machiavelli, his Works, by Périer, v. 46.
General odiousness of his name and works, 46, 47. Suffered for public liberty, 47. His elevated sentiments and just views, 47. Held in high esti- mation by his contemporaries, 48. State of moral feeling in Italy in his time, 50. His character as a man, 63. As a poet, 64. As a dramatist, 65. a statesman, 62, 69, 76, 78, 80. Prince, 75. Excellence of his precepts, 76. His candour, 78. Comparison between him and Montesquieu, 78. His style, 79. His levity, 80. His his- torical works, 80. Lived to witness the last struggle for Florentine liberty, 81. His work and character misrepresented, 82. His remains unhonoured till long after his death, 82. Monument erected to his memory by an English nobleman, 82. Character of his history, 145. Mackay, General Andrew, ii. 254. His skirmish with the Irish troops at Win- canton, ii. 277. Sent by William III. to Scotland, iii. 29. His campaign in the Highlands, 67. His plan for a fortress at Inverlochy, 68. Suspends operations, 75. Marches northwards, 84. Arrives at Killiecrankie, 86. De- feated by Dundee, 88. His retreat, 90, 91. Reorganises his force, 95. Defeats the Highlanders at St. Johnston's, 96. Thwarted by the Scotch administration, 98. Supported by William, 98. Builds Fort William, 335. Serves under Ginkell in Ireland, 428. Forces the passage of the Shannon at Athlone, 433. Turns the Irish flank at Aghrim, 438. At the battle of Steinkirk, 581. His fall, 582. Mackenzie, Mr., his dismissal insisted on by Grenville, vii. 252. Mackenzie, Henry, his ridicule of the Nabob class, vi. 442. Mackenzie, Sir George, Lord Advocate, i. 616. Dismissed, 616. Hated by the
Covenanters, iii. 24. His speech in the Scotch Convention against the deposi- tion of James II., 31.
Mackintosh, Sir James, his collection of Newsletters and other documents, i. 305 and note, 344 note. His opinion on the Roman Catholic question, ii. 61. Review of his History of the Revolution in England, vi. 76-134. Comparison with Fox's History of James II., 76. Character of his oratory, 79. His con- versational powers, 80. His qualities as a historian, 81. His vindication
from the imputations of the editor, 84, 88-95. Change in his opinions pro- duced by the French Revolution, 84. His moderation, 87, 88. His historical justice, 94. Remembrance of him at Holland House, 542. Mackintoshes (the), iii. 60.
Maclachlan, Margaret, murder of, i. 391. Maclean, Colonel, agent in England for Warren Hastings, vi. 572, 580. Macleans (the), iii. 56, 66. Macnaghtens (the), iii. 56, 65. Macpherson, his forgery of Fingal, vii. 350. Threatens Dr. Johnson, 350. Madras, description of it, vi. 384. capitulation to the French, 386. Re- stored to the English, 387.
Madrid, bread riots in, iv. 470. Capture of, by the English army, in 1705, v. 668. Magdalene College, Cambridge, MSS. at,
i. 239 note. See Pepysian Library. Magdalene College, Oxford, ii. 99. Its loyalty, 100. Its wealth; vacancy of the Presidency, 101. The Fellows cited before the High Commission, 103. In- terview of the Fellows with James II., 107. Penn's negotiations with, 108, 109 and note, 110 and note. Special commissioners sent to, 111. Bishop Parker installed President, 112. The Fellows ejected, 114, vii. 55. Turned into a Popish seminary, ii. 115. Con- cessions of James in regard to, 241. Announced restoration of the Fellows, 243. Addison's connection with it, 56. Mahommed Reza Khan, his character, vi. 555. Selected by Clive, 557. His capture, confinement at Calcutta, and release, 557, 559.
Mahon, Lord, review of his History of the War of the Succession in Spain, v. 638, 684. His qualities as a historian, 638, 640. His explanation of the financial condition of Spain, 645. His opinions on the Partition Treaty, 648, 650. His representations of Cardinal Porto Car- rero, 658. His opinion of the peace on the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession, 677. His censure of Harley, 677; and view of the re-
semblance of the Tories of the present day to the Whigs of the Revolution, 677, 678.
Mahrattas, sketch of their history, vi. 390,
583. Expedition against them, 584. Maine, Duke of, a natural son of Lewis XIV., iv. 156. His cowardice, 160. Maintenon, Madame de, saves Trêves from destruction, ii. 495. Uses her influence with Lewis XIV. to recognise James III., iv. 540. Her boast as to religion in her time, vi. 500.
Malaga, naval battle near, in 1704, v. 662.
Malcolm, Sir John, review of his Life of
Lord Clive, vi. 381-453. Value of his work, 382. His partiality for Clive, 410. His defence of Clive's conduct towards Omichund, 418.
Malkin, Sir Benjamin Heath, epitaph on, viii. 590.
Mallet, David, patronage of, by Bute, vii. 231.
Maloney, an Irish bishop, i. 642 note. Malthus, Mr., attacked by Mr. Sadler, v. 420.
Man, the contemplation of, the noblest
earthly object of man, vii. 614. Manchester, Charles Montague, Earl of, joins the rising for the Prince of Orange in the North, ii. 276. Sent ambassador to Paris, iv. 466. Sends news to William III. of the proclama- tion of James III., 545. Recalled from Paris, 546. His patronage of Addison, vii. 64, 72.
Manchester, Countess of, vii. 64. Manchester, i. 266. Special commission at, in 1694, iv. 110. Acquittal of the prisoners, 111.
Mandeville, his metaphysical powers, v. 5.
Mandragola (the), of Machiavelli, v. 64. Manheim, destroyed by the French, ii. 495.
Manilla, capitulation of, vii. 225. Manley, John, his speech against the at- tainder of Fenwick, iv. 277. Mannerism of Johnson, v. 536. Mansfield, Lord, vii. 227. His character
and talents, vi. 56. His rejection of the overtures of Newcastle, 64. His elevation, 64. Character of his speeches, vii. 265. His friendship for Hastings, vii, 616.
Manso, Milton's Epistle to, v. 8. Mansuete, Father, ii. 47. Manufactures and commerce of Italy in the fourteenth century, v. 52, 53. Manufacturing system (the), Southey's opinion upon, v. 338. Its effect on the health, 340. Manufacturing and agricultural labourers,
comparison of their condition, v. 340, 342. Manufactories, wages in, i. 326. Ballads regarding, 326 note. Children's labour in, 327.
Marat, his bust substituted for the statues of the martyrs of Christianity, vi. 486. His murmurs against Barère, vii. 152. His death, 153 note.
Marcet, Mrs., her Dialogues on Political Economy, v. 4.
Marcellus, the counterfeit oration for, vii. 284.
March, Lord, a persecutor of Wilkes, vii. 244.
Marie Antoinette, Queen, Barère's account of the death of, vii. 129. Brought be- fore the Revolutionary Tribunal on the motion of Barère, 155. Her execution, 155.
Marino, San, visited by Addison, vii. 69. Marlborough, mound at, i. 227 note. The Duke of Somerset's house at, iii. 329.
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of; his rise and character, i. 358, v. 221. Ambassador extraordinary to France, i. 360. His operations against Mon- mouth, 462. At the battle of Sedge- moor, 474. His pity for the convicted rebels, 504. Sits on the trial of Lord Delamere, 552. His communications with Dykvelt; his motives for deserting James II., ii. 74. His letters to Wil- liam III., 78, 222. Conspires against James, 267. Attends James, 270. His desertion, 279. Commands the English brigade under Waldeck; re- pulses the French at Walcourt, iii. 147. Complaints of his avarice, 148. His relations with the Princess Anne, 241. Supports the Abjuration Bill, 252. One of the Council of Nine, 269. Advises the sending reinforce- ments to Ireland, 318. His expedi- tion to Ireland, 330. His dispute with the Duke of Wurtemberg; takes Cork, 331. Takes Kinsale, 331. His re- ception by William on his return, 332. Hated by the Jacobites; his ties to William, 412. Seeks an interview with Colonel Sackville; his pretended repentance for his desertion of James II., 412. His treasonable betrayal of secrets, 413. His promises to James, 414. Receives a written pardon from James, 415. Accompanies William to the Continent, 415. His correspond- ence with James, 416. His plot for the restoration of James, 489. culates on the army's jealousy of fo- reigners, 491. Distrusted and betrayed by the Jacobites, 492, 493. Disgraced,
494. Various reports of the cause of his disgrace, 494. His signature forged by Robert Young, 556. Sent to the Tower, 559. Released; public feeling in favour of, 561. Robbed by highway- men, 593. Excites discontent against the Dutch, 601. His opposition to Go- vernment, 629. His communications with Middleton, iv. 9. Supports the Bill for regulating State Trials, 75. Betrays the intended expedition to Brest, 99, 100 and note. His motives, 102. Offers his services to William, and is rejected, 103. Change in his views caused by the death of Mary, 141. Promotes the reconciliation of the Princess Anne with William, 143. Implicated in Fenwick's confession, 260. His demeanour, 262. His speech in the House of Lords, 288. William III.'s reconciliation with, 417, 418. His mo- tives for fidelity, 418. His support of the Court, 457. Uses his influence in favour of Burnet when attacked in the House of Commons, 517. His share in passing the Resumption Bill, 535. His baseness, v. 228. His conversion to Whiggism, 676. His acquaintance with the Duchess of Cleveland, and commencement of his splendid fortune, vi. 506. Notice of Addison's poem in his honour, vii. 78. Marlborough and Godolphin, their policy, vii. 73.
Marlborough, Sarah, Lady, ii. 75. Her
influence over her husband, 76. Her friendship with the Princess Anne, 77. Her influence over the Princess, iii. 240. Her wilfulness, 241. Her love of gain, 242. Forms a princess's party, 244. Attends the Princess Anne to Kensing- ton, 496. Her friendship with Con- greve, vi. 530. Her inscription on his monument, 531. Her death, 53. Marsh, Bishop, his opposition to Calvin- istic doctrine, vi. 368. Marsiglia, battle of, iv. 318. Marston Moor, battle of, i. 93. Martinique, capture of, vii. 225.
Martin's illustrations of the Pilgrim's
Progress, and of Paradise Lost, v. 445, 446.
Martyn, Henry, lines to, viii. 543, Marvel, Andrew, vii. 60.
Mary, Queen, her plea for fanaticism, v. 608.
Mary of Modena, Queen, her rapacity, i. 508. Obtains an assignment of rebel prisoners, 508. Rapacity of her maids of honour, 509. Her jealousy of Cath- arine Sedley, 577. Her dislike of Ro- chester, 579. Suspected to have been bribed by Tyrconnel, 642. Her preg-
Birth of her son, 160
Her flight; her reception by Lewis XIV., 345. Her letters to her corre- spondents in London betrayed to William III., iii. 264. Her letter to Montgomery, 344. Gives birth to a daughter, 539. Question respecting her jointure, iv. 318, 319 note. The payment of her jointure made conditional on the remo- val of James II. from St. Germains, 397. Her interview with Madame de Maintenon, 540.
Mary, Princess (afterwards Queen), edu- cated a Protestant, i. 165. Marries William of Orange, 178. Specimen of her careless use of the English language, 308 note. Her relations with her hus- band, ii. 10. Which are cleared up by Burnet, 15. Her attachment to her husband, 16. Her disapproval of the Declaration of Indulgence, 59. Sub- scribes for the ejected Fellows of Mag- dalene College, 115. Concurs in her husband's enterprise, 198. Her wrongs at the hands of her father, 198. husband's ascendency over her, 359. Detained in Holland, 377. Her letter to Danby, 380. Declared Queen; ar- rives in England, 389. Her demeanour and its motives, 390. Proclaimed Queen, 399. Her popularity and amiable qua- lities, 438, 439. Sets the fashion of taste in china, 442. Her coronation, 490. Proclaimed in Scotland, iii. 31. Accepts the crown of Scotland, 35. Orders the arrest of suspected persons, 274. Her anxiety during the Irish campaign, 305. Receives tidings of William's wound, and subsequently of his victory at the Boyne, 306. Her so- licitude for her father's safety; reviews the volunteer cavalry at Hounslow, 311. Her interview with the Princess Anne on Marlborough's treason, 494. De- mands the dismissal of Lady Marl- borough, 496. Incurs blame for her treatment of her sister, 497. Her con- duct to suspected officers of the navy, 546. Receives a loyal address from them, 547. Her measures for the relief of the wounded in the battle of La Hogue, 552, 553. Her reply to the merchants' address on the loss of the Smyrna fleet, iv. 29. Attacked by the small-pox, 116. Her death, 118. Ge- neral sorrow, and exultation of the ex- treme Jacobites, 118. Her funeral, 119. Greenwich Hospital established in honour of her, 121. Effect of her death in Holland; in France, 122. A lock of her hair found on William III. after his death, 556. Marylebone, i. 274.
Masque, the Italian, v. 12. Massachusets, charter of, question regard. ing, i. 214.
Massey, John, a Roman Catholic, made Dean of Christchurch, Oxford, i. 589. Massillon, his character of William III., ii. 21 note. Massinger, allusion to his Virgin Martyr, v. 45. His fondness for the Roman Catholic Church, 607. Indelicate writ- ing in his dramas, vi. 493. Mathematics, comparative estimate of, by Plato and by Bacon, vi. 213, 215. Matthieson, John, his "Dying Testimony," iii. 350 note.
Maumont, Lieut. General, ii. 527, 544. Directs the siege of Londonderry; killed. 552.
Maurice, Prince of Orange, i. 170. Maximilian of Bavaria, vi. 474. Maxims, general, their uselessness, v. 76. Maxwell, Thomas, iii. 424. Defends the
ford of the Shannon at Athlone, 430. Taken prisoner, 433. Maynard, Sir John, his great age, and eminence as a lawyer, i. 540. Waits on William Prince of Orange at St. James's, ii. 334. Appointed Commissioner of the Great Seal, 415. His speech on the conversion of the Convention into a Par- liament, 422.
Maynooth, Mr. Gladstone's objections to
the vote of money for, vi. 370. Speech on the Maynooth College Bill, viii. 302. Mayor, Lord, of London, his state, i. 277. Mazarin, Duchess of, i. 335. Mecca, vi. 455.
Medals, Addison's Treatise on, vii. 58, 72. Medici, Lorenzo de. See Lorenzo de Me- dici.
Medicine, science of, its progress in Eng- land in the 17th century, i. 320. Com- parative estimate of the science of, by Plato and by Bacon, vi. 217, 219. Pe- trarch's invectives on, vii. 631. Meer Cossim, his talents, vi. 431. deposition and revenge, 431. Meer Jaffier, his conspiracy, vi. 413. His conduct during the battle of Plassey, 415. His pecuniary transactions with Clive, 421. His proceedings on being threatened by the Great Mogul, 424. His fears of the English, and intrigues with the Dutch, 425, 426. Deposed and reseated by the English, 431. His death, 433. His large bequest to Lord Clive, 439.
Megrigny, French engineer officer in Na- mur, iv. 159. Melancthon, v. 591.
Melbourne, Lord, speech on the motion as to want of confidence in the ministry of, viii. 160.
Melfort, John Drummond, Lord, i. 609. His apostacy to Popery, 609. His un- popularity, ii. 379. Attends James II. to Ireland, 528. His unpopularity, 540. Advises James to go to Ulster, 541. His indignation at the conduct of Rosen, 578. His letters to Dundee and Bal-
carras, iii. 63. Dismissed by James II., 134. His letter to Mary of Mo- dena, 304. Made a Knight of the Garter at St. Germains, 540. Tho author of James's Declaration, 541. His advice respecting the second De- claration, iv. 10.
Melgar, Count of, a Spanish Minister, iv.
Memoirs of Sir W. Temple, review of, vi. 246-325. Wanting in selection and compression, 246.
Memoirs of the Life of Warren Hastings, review of, vi. 543-712.
Memoirs, popularity of, as compared with that of history, v. 154, 156. "Mémorial Antibritannique" (the), of Barère, vii. 192.
Memory, comparative views of the impor- tance of, by Plato and by Bacon, vi. 217.
Menander, the lost comedies of, vii. 90. Mendoza, Hurtado de, v. 642.
Mentz, recovered from the French by the Duke of Lorraine, iii. 146. Mercenaries, employment of, in Italy, v. 57. Its political consequences, 57. And moral effects, 58.
Meres, Sir Thomas, i. 398.
Metaphors, Dante's, vii. 612.
Metaphysical accuracy incompatible with successful poetry, v. 17.
Metcalfe, Sir Charles, his ability and dis- interestedness, vi. 453. Epitaph on, viii. 593.
Methodists, their early object, vi. 467. Mew, Peter, Bishop of Winchester, i. 469. Lends his horses for the artillery at Sedgemoor, 475. Prevented by illness from attending the meeting of bishops, ii. 149. Visitor of Magdalene College, 241. Prepares to restore the Fellows of Magdalene; summoned to London, 243. Appointed a member of the Ecclesiasti- cal Commission, iii. 173. Officiates at the consecration of Tillotson, 393. Mexico, exactions of the Spanish viceroys
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