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ABERCROMBY (James, Lord Dun-
fermline), 148.

Adair (Sir Robert), 28, 29.
Addison (Joseph), 426, 427, 429, 430,
431.

Agassiz, 363.

Aikin (Lucy), 426, 427, 429.
Akenside (Mark), 139.

Alison (Sir Archibald), 239, 328.
Allen (John), Memoir of Fox, 27;
French Revolution of 1830, 81;
work on the Royal Prerogative, 88;
the Marchmont Papers, 110; recep-
tion of the Reform Bill, 111; article
on Bolingbroke, 159, 163; the
Wellington Despatches, 215; Lord
Brougham more formidable than
trusted, 229; cautions Mr. Napier
about Lord Brougham, 240;
Brougham's motion against Lord
Glenelg, 241; Lord Melbourne and
reform, 248; Prescott's Ferdinand
and Isabella, 248; Plumer Ward,
248; Brougham on Talleyrand, 265;
Chatham's second administration,
266; Brougham's Political Charac-
ters, 284; Lister's life of Clarendon,
284; Charles the First and the Scot-
tish Commissioners, 285; Church
Rates, 303; Sir Walter Raleigh,
322; Brougham not malignant but
unscrupulous, 323; his characters
flashy and exaggerated, 323; Ma-
caulay's article on Lord Holland,
350; mistake of the Melbourne
Government in dissolving Parlia-
ment, 350, 351; Lord Holland's
letter on the execution of Ney, 407;
Fox Memorials, 408; his death,
424.

Althorp (Lord, Earl Spencer), 157,
200, 462.

Ambrosian miracles, 472.
Anglesey (Lord), 200, 374.
Aqaviva, 390.

Arago, 252, 300, 301.

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Babrius, 495, 496, note.
Bacon (Lord), 9, 17, 19, 33, 47-51,
174, 180, 181, 194, 196, 253, 255,
346, 445.

Barère (Bertrand), 458, 465.
Baring (Mrs. H.), 284, note.

(Sir F. T., Lord Northbrook), 405.
Baronets (Order of), 314.
Barrow (Sir John), 32, 455.
Baxter (Richard) 295, 303, 304, 312.
Bell (Andrew), 37.

(Sir Charles), 187.
(Robert), 9, note.
Bellarmine, 390.
Bentham (Jeremy), 20,

441-5, 448.

Bentinck (Lord W.), 314.
Bentley (Richard) 193.

102, 438,

Black (Adam), 47, 235, 236, 277.
Blanc (Louis), 528.

Boiardo, 155, 278, 282.
Boileau, 446.

Bolingbroke (Lord), 162, 311.
Borrow (George), 422, 423.
Bowdler (John), 460.
Bowring (Sir John),. 441-5.
Boyle (David), 360, 512, 527.
Brewster (Sir David), 11, 162; article
on Brougham's Theology, 187;
strictures on Whewell, 193; Tel-
ford; discovery of the composition
of Water, 305, 315; life and dis-
coveries of Watt, 315; too personal
in his criticism on Whewell, 371,
374, 377; defends his severity to
Whewell, 380; Hay's Harmonius

Colouring, 437; article on Thunder-
storms. 475 477.
Brougham (Henry, Lord Brougham),
jealous of new contributors, 3;
Edinburgh dinner to, 42; invites
Mr. Napier to write on the Baconian
philosophy, 47; his opinion of Mr.
Napier as editor of the Edinburgh
Review, 62; wishes his articles to be
kept secret, 68; paper on Registra-
tion, 79; Lady Canning's pamphlet on
the Portuguese question, 79; speech
on Slavery, 80; his exertions in
that speech, 81; returned for York-
shire, 82; wishes to write a mani-
festo on the Revolution in France,
88; becomes Lord Chancellor, 48;
enjoins secrecy about his articles,
99; his speeches puffed in the Re-
view, 110; supposed to aspire to
the Premiership, 129; articles on
Reform, 132, 138; on Mirabeau,
Aristocracy, and the Constitution,
156; speech on the dismissal of the
Melbourne Ministry, 157; con-
tributes six articles to one Number,
158; excluded from the Melbourne
Cabinet, 158, 159; complains that
his services to the Review are
undervalued, 159; wishes well to it
while it supports its old principles,
160; his ease and rapidity in
writing, 161; Macaulay's excellent
article on Mackintosh, 162; cen-
sures the practice of using the
celebrity of a public man to propa
gate calumnies against himself, 162;
lectures on Political Economy and
Government, 163; dissatisfaction
with his former colleagues, 164;
the Edinburgh Review never avowed
itself a party journal, 168; refers to
its former attacks on the Whigs,
168; has written a fifth of the
Review with his own hand, 169;
had the existence of the Melbourne
Ministry in his hands, 170; per-
sonal allusions to the Melbourne
Ministry, 171; abomination of un-
fair publications exemplified in his
own case, 172; Jeffrey's omission
in not denouncing them in his
article on Mackintosh, 172; regrets
the article on Waddington, 173;
state of his health, 174; Lord
Melbourne and the Great Seal, 175;
Ireland can only be kept quiet
through O'Connell, 175 Empson's
misrepresentations respecting Lord
Grey's administration, 177, 178;
his unpleasant position as regards

the Review, 179; Sir Henry Tay-
lor's affectation, 179; article on
Advocacy, 179: his Natural Theo-
logy, 187; Empson's unfairness
respecting the preferment of Mal-
thus, 187, 188; critical position
of the Melbourne Ministry, 189;
merits and defects of Macaulay's
article on Bacon, 196; Empson,
a bad imitator of Macaulay, 198;
improvement of the business in the
House of Lords, 199; loss to the
Liberal party by the General Elec-
tion in 1837, 199; the Wellesley
despatches, 200; Ireland saved by
Lords Wellesley and Anglesey, 200;
condemns the omission of all notice
of the Wellington despatches, 201;
the underlings described, 201: re-
feis to former attacks on the Whigs.
202; favourable to an extension of
the franchise, 203; wishes Lord
Jeffrey to be consulted, 203; pecu-
niary grant by the East India
Company to Lord Wellesley, 203;
article on Jefferson, 207; conduct
of the Review in regard to the
Melbourne Government, 209; im-
provement of the working classes
an imperative duty, 210; Lord
Melbourne hostile to all reform,
210; praises Castlereagh and Sid-
mouth, 213, 214; continued hos-
tility to his former colleagues, 215;
article on Toleration, 216; treated
with great kindness by the Queen,
216; wishes to extend the suffrage
to educated persons, 216; services
of the Review to the cause of Peace,
217; Canada policy of the Govern-
ment, 217; is preparing a letter
to Lord John Russell, 217; wishes
Lord Jeffrey to be consulted on his
differences with Mr. Napier, 218;
laid down a rule against associating
with the Government in private,
221; aware of the difficulties of
Mr. Napier's position, 224; his
aversion to extremes and to crude
legislation, 224; Empson's flattery
of Lord Durham, 224, 225; returns
Lord Jeffrey's letter to Mr. Napier,
226; his comments thereor, 228;
Lady Charlotte Bury, 232; libellous
publications, 233; speeches on
Canada and slavery, 230, 232, 233,
234, 238; twitted by Lord Mel-
bourne for opposing his Government,
233; collection of his Speeches, 234,
235, 236; article on George the
Fourth and Queen Caroline, 238,

239; rank of an Historian his chief
literary ambition, 239; Louis Phil-
ippe, 244; his chateau at Cannes,
246; interview with King Leopold
at Laeken, 247; Duke and Duchess
of Kent, 247; Lord Melbourne's
allusion to his courtier-like qualities,
247; his Speeches published at
Edinburgh, 250, 251; basely treated
by the Melbourne Government, 251;
character of Talleyrand, 252; com-
plains of Macaulay not calling on
him on his return from India, 260;
Macaulay and Empson anxious to
break off his connection with the
Review, 261; no believer in Lord
Chatham's madness, 261; obliga-
tions of the Review to Macaulay,
266; articles respecting Neutral
Rights, 267; abandoned by the
Whigs, 267; Lord Melbourne be-
sotted by Court favour, 267; ap-
peals to his Speeches as proofs of
his adherence to the Whig creed,
268; Lord Melbourne's opinion of
Burke and Robertson, 271, 272;
threatens to start a new Edinburgh
Review, 272; condemns Lord Dur-
ham's conduct in Canada, 274; dis-
sertation on Party, 275; all his red
hot shot remains to be fired, 275;
portraits of great lawyers, 276, 277;
dialogues on Instinct and analysis of
Cuvier, 276; finishes his sketch of
Lord North at Walmer Castle, 277;
the Duke of Wellington, 277;
Wilberforce and Clarkson, 278, 285;
misrepresentation respecting Lord
Melbourne, 286; Letter to the
Queen, 286; justifies his attacks
on his old colleagues, 286, 287;
visits the Duke of Wellington at
Walmer, 298; proposes the Duke's
health at the Dover festival, 299;
Letter to the Duke of Bedford on
Education, 299; commentary on
the Principia, 300; knows Boling-
broke by heart, 300; evils of scien
tific assemblages, 300; discovery of
the composition of Water, 301; his
daughter's alarming state, 301;
hoax about his death, 302; Don
Pedro Cevallos, 308; used the Re-
view as a Ministerial journal while
Lord Chancellor, 309; friendly rela-
tions with Lord Melbourne, 310;
denies the covert attack on O'Con-
nell through Wilkes, 311; Lord
Melbourne's reason for refusing him
the Great Seal, 311; sensation
caused by the report of his death,

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312, 313; death of his mother, 316;
her remonstrance against his be-
coming Lord Chancellor, 316; has
experienced the nature of Whig
gratitude, 316; Macaulay's profli-
gate defence of Lord Clive and
snip-snap style, 317; article on
Walpole and his contemporaries,
323; Sir Samuel Romilly, 325;
Mill unjust to the aristocracy, 332;
Macaulay's mistakes respecting Na-
tural Religion, 333; condemns the
practice of making deceased persons
public property, 333; Romilly and
the Quarterly Review, 335; dis-
approves of the publication of Ro-
milly's Memoirs, 336; absurd pas-
sage in Macaulay on the immortal-
ity of the soul, 337; demonstration
by Cuvier of the suspension of the
laws of nature in the creation of
the human species, 337; Romilly's
portrait at Holland House be-
queathed to him by Lord Holland,
338; Macaulay's article on Lord
Holland, 351; his affection and
admiration for Jeffrey, 355; re-
signation of the Melbourne Ministry,
356; Macaulay's article on Warren
Hastings, 359; judicial promotions
in Edinburgh, 360; disregarded
party in making judicial appoint-
ments, 361; Lord Normanby's Irish
administration, 374-76; his Po-
litical Philosophy, 386; Lord Camp-
bell's speeches, 402, 404, 418;
Macaulay and Jack Campbell re-
nowned as bores, 403; Roebuck
on French Criminal Jurisprudence,
404; ascribes the article on Loyola
to Macaulay, 403, 404; Lord Hol-
land's letter respecting Marshal
Ney, 405, 407, 408; Campbell's
services as a Law reformer, 418;
was a contributor to the first No.
of the Edinburgh Review, 433;
Letter to Sir James Graham on Law
Reform, 436; quarrel with Mr. Na-
pier, 438; his Political Philosophy,
438, 462; lives of Men of Letters,
487; meets Lord Melbourne at
Lady Holland's, 487.

Brown (Dr. Thomas), 7, 17, 25, 50,

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plains of the unfriendliness of the
Review, 84; thinks his Novels
deserving of notice, 85; represents
St. Ives, 86, note; article on Society
in England and France, 101, 103;
his Siamese Twins, 104, 105; Sir
Egerton Brydges, 147, 148; Sir
Thomas Browne, 182; Paul de
Kock and Chateaubriand, 183, 184;
his work on Athens, 184, 190, 194;
Sir Henry Vane, 184, 196; Macau-
lay's article on Lord Bacon, 194,
195; defence of the Whigs, 297,
303, 312, 313.

(Henry, Lord Dalling), 341, 343,
538, 539.

Bunyan (John), 119, 120.

Burke (Edmund), 28, 270, 284, 342,
466.

Bury (Lady Charlotte), 230, 232, 234.
Byron (Lord), 96, 123,

C.

Cagliostro (Count), 125, 129.
Campbell (John, Lord Campbell),
Member for Edinburgh, 148; con-
demns the conduct of the Melbourne
Ministry to Brougham, 175, note;
his Speeches, 402, 418; Lord Chan-
cellor of Ireland, 404, note; not
always a Whig, 418; origin of the
nickname of Plain John, 511, note;
Denman mad about Privilege, 515;
Lives of the Lord Chancellors', 515
522, 526.

(Thomas), 11, 185, 186, 190, 368.
Canning (George), 24, 41, 109, 169,
239, 274, 336.

(Lady), 79.

Capefigue (M.), 330.
Carlisle (Lord), 316.
Carlton (Mrs.), 185, 186.

Carlyle (Thomas), devotes himself to
German literature, 77; education
in Germany, 78; meditates an essay
on Byron, 96; on Napoleon, 97;
Taylor's German Poetry, 101;
Fashionable Novels, 102; Jeremy
Bentham, 102, 103; prefers the
Edinburgh Review as a vehicle for
his contributions, 112; English
Universities, 113; proposes an essay
on Luther, 114, 115; evils of pro-
lixity, 116; state of Authors, 116;
article on Characteristics, 117, 118;
history of the French Revolution,
118, 119, 123; death of his father,
122; Corn Law Rhymes, 122, 124,

125; character of Lord Byron, 123,
124; sends Taylor's German Poetry
to Goethe, 125; criticism on, 126;
his want of books, 130; aspects of
poetical literature in France, 348,
349.

Carnot, 252.

Castlereagh (Lord), 169, 213, 214.
Cathcart (Lord Alloway), 59.
Cavendish (Henry), 301, 305, 315-
Cevallos (Don Pedro), 308.
Chalmers (Dr. Thomas), 64.
Channing (W. E.), 70, 78.
Chateaubriand, 183, 184, 252.
Chatham (Lord), 138, 141, 144, 252,
259, 261, 266, 304, 469, 474.
Chesterfield (Lord), 139.
Churchill, 467.

Clanricarde (Lady), 239.

Clarkson (Thomas), 259, 278, 279, 285.
Clerk (John), 32.

Clinton (Fynes), 190.

Clive (Lord), 278, 283, 291, 293, 294,
316-18.

Cochrane (Lord), 12.

Cockburn (Henry, Lord Cockburn),

473, 511-13, 515. 519.
Coleridge (S. T.), 116.

Collier (Jeremy), 330, 331.

Congreve, 21, 330.

Constable (Archibald), 6, 10, 17, 21,

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