ABERCROMBY (James, Lord Dun- fermline), 148.
Adair (Sir Robert), 28, 29. Addison (Joseph), 426, 427, 429, 430, 431.
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.
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,
Bentinck (Lord W.), 314. Bentley (Richard) 193.
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,
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,
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,
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.
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.
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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