Chancellor, a political one, 157.
Acting by deputy, 155.

D.

political functions, 195.

Changes, sudden in politics, 271.
Charles the Tenth, a warning to, 142.
Charities, public, some a nuisance, 255.
Charity, public and private, its bad influence,

337.

Conservative reformers of November, 1834,
270.

Constitution, ignorance of the radicals of
the, 57.

the good old days of, 77.
Confederation of Despots, 161.
Conscience, when it can be dispensed with,
148.

Conspirators, the holy alliance, 159.
Constituents, control over by their repre-
sentatives, 247.

Contracting the currency, consequence of, 38.
Corn, purchase of foreign, 96.

Courts of arbitration, establishment of, to
prevent litigation, 225.
Creator, evidence of design in the works of,
352,

Crime, mode of preventing. 275, 277.
Creed, Roman Catholic, 201.

Crown, necessity of defining the power of, 94.
its influence on the votes of mem-

bers, 128.

clamour, 78.

Davies, his state of mind, 299.
Death, the punishment of, 280.
Debating, Mr. Canning's mode of, 67.
Debt, abolition of imprisonment for, 279.
Decisions, Lord Eldon's satisfactory, 158.
Demosthenes' speeches prepared, 320.

a mannerist-the French unable
to translate him, 327.
Deputy, the Chancellor acting by, 153.
Despots, the confederation of, 161.
Discontents, cure for popular, 61.

impossible to suppress, 87.
Dissenters, the folly of joining the "
pery" cry, 184.

advice to, 258.
difference among, 264.

no po-

Doctors, mad, not always the best judges in
lunacy, 300.

opinion and authority of, 300.
Dreams, influence of external circumstances
on, 359.

Durham, the bishop and clergy of, 295, 296,
297.

Duties on spirits, ought to be kept high, 187.
of the English foreign secretary, 188.

religion as connected with, 105.
Eldon, Lord, his Scotch decisions satis-
factory, 158.

his aversion to chancery reform, 196.
his tenacity of office, 176.
management of the Chancery Com-

mission, 199.

character of, 82.

- infirmity of doubting, 195.
Eloquence, modern, worthless, 319.
Emancipation, Catholic, no danger in, 183.
Emperor Alexander, 137.

Enactments, folly of new penal, 156.
England, monopoly of the bank of, 194.
England's conduct toward Ireland, 155.
Englishmen have no right to claim annual

parliaments and universal suffrage, 55.
Entail, Scotch, bill, 276.
Established religion, reasons for supporting,

257.

Eulogium on Sir R. Peel, 204.

Institutes, 283.

or

Meetings, illegality of large ones, 256.
Melbourne, Lord, recalled to his forgotten
Whig principles, 71.

Members, conduct of, at the close and com-
mencement of the parliamentary sessions,
233.

Members of Parliament, qualifications of,
278.

influence of the Crown on the

votes of, 128.
Men, principles to be supported. not, 289.
Military flogging, its tendency, 29.

renown of England, 31.

parade of the Prince Regent, 34.
Mind, effect of habit on the infant, 275
peculiar state of Dr. Davies's, 299.
the, no longer in shackles, 339.
independent existence of, 335.
capacity of, 356.

immateriality of, 357.

indestructibility of, 359.

and organization, 359.

Minister, cause of Lord Chatham's success

as a, 88.

pleasures of being prime, 280.
Ministerial, press of 1819, 86.

responsibility, 25.

Ministers' conduct after the withdrawal of
the bill of Pains and Penalties, 120.
Ministry, fictitious plots of the Castlereagh,

71.

Missionary Smith, case of Demerara, 164.
Monarchy, opinion of, 56.

preferable to a republic, 73.
Monopoly of the Bank of England, 194.
Monuments, imperishable to a nation's ho-
nour, 82.

Moral principle, is weakened by oaths, 262.

-love of, 205.

inducements to take, 289.

the pains of, 290.

Opening of Brougham's speech on the
Queen's trial, 106.

Opinions, biassed, 239.

Oration against Verres, 318.

against Verres, not fit for modern
readers, 319.

Orator, influence of habit on, 355.
Orange lodges, 156.

Orators, perorations of the Greek, more dig-
nified than powerful or impassioned, 322.
chief excellency of the Greek, 326.
Oratory,modern,is not natural eloquence,319.
study of the ancient corrects the
modern, 320.

an art with the ancients, 324.
preparation desirable in, 333.
ancient and modern, 334.
importance of, 330.

Outlawry and arrest, law of, 225.
Owen, Mr., opinion of his plan, 89.

views on infant education, 90.
character of, 91.

a true friend to the, 73.

conflict between them and the ma-

effects on industry, 265.

state of the country, 266.

amendment bill, justified by the

Poor, the, instructing them in Latin and
Greek, 103.

Precedent, no defence of illegality, 49.

Press, liberty of the, 42.

licentiousness of the, 44, 84.

- limits to the liberty of the, 62.
the ministerial, 86.

Pressure from without, 281.

Prime Minister, the pleasures of being, 280.
Principles to be supported, not men, 289.
Property in the West Indies, 150.

difference between Church and
private, 192.
Protestant Church, the Catholics have no
right to the funds of the, 261.
Protestantism in Ireland, 231.

Provision for the Queen, 122.

for the Catholic Clergy, 186.

Prussia, Frederick of, 139.

Prussian system of education can never be
adopted in this country, 254.
Public rewards, misapplication of, 63

- servants, men in office not the only, 63.
Punishment, Capital, 264.
Purchase of foreign corn, 96.

law of marriage inconsistent, 260.
Scotchmen, the reason of their success in
life, 75.

Scotland, bishops at discount in, 295.
opinion of, 105.

Science, medical, 254.

and ignorance, 266.

Scientific men, charlatanerie of the French,
312.

Secretary, duties of the English Foreign,
188.

Seals, dragging them through the dirt, 286.
Ships, the right of searching private, does
not extend to those of war, 314.
Sinecure places, abolition of, 250.
Slavery, Anti-, 27.

and abolition acts, repeal of, 272.
Slave trade, 28, 31.

Slaves, comparison between the West India
and the Roman domestic, 149.

a novel mode of converting them to
christianity, 149.

164.

285.

registration of, 54.
necessity of a firm policy among the,

ships, punishment of slave dealers,

Smith, Mr., a martyr, 170.
Socinians and Unitarians, 272.
Spain, insolence of the holy alliance towards,
138.

aggression of France on, 147.
Speculation, risk of, after the war, 38.

Speeches, inutility of the King's, 197.
Spies, employed in the public service, 64.
doctrine of the employment of, 93.
Spirits, the duties on them ought to be kept
high, 187.

State, a future demonstrated, 360.
States, friendly intervention with foreign, 53.
Steam, wonderful effects of, 282.
Subjects' right to demand protection from
the Crown, 250.

Suffrage, universal, 54, 246.
Supplies, privilege of the House of Com-
mons in stopping the, 29.
Sussex, the Duke of, 192.

War, right of searching private ships does
not extend to ships of war, 314.

a strong stimulant to cultivation, 37.
risk of speculation after, 38.
horrors of, 283.

and commerce, 302.
Watt, an example to mechanics, 282.
Wellesley, eulogium of the marquis of, 250.
Wellington, the Duke of, 236, 271.
Whigs, when they would go to war, 197.
Witnesses, exclusion of, 111.

against the Queen, perjured, 112.
Writers, study of the early English, 335.
Wynn, character of, 84.

Y.

York, the Duke of, 190, 199.

Youth, aptitude of, for knowledge, 333.