Chapter IV: Part IX: Full Vindication of Fyzoola Khan by Major (1)

Palmer and Mr. Hastings 313

Appendix to the Eighth and Sixteenth Charges 319

Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq.,
late Governor-General of Bengal.

Speech in Opening the Impeachment.
First Day: Friday, February 15, 1788 329
Second Day: Saturday, February 16 396

VOL. X.

Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq.,
late Governor-General of Bengal.

Speech in Opening the Impeachment.
Third Day: Monday, February 18, 1788 3
Fourth Day: Tuesday, February 19 99

Speech on the Sixth Article of Charge.
First Day: Tuesday, April 21, 1789 149
Second Day: Saturday, April 25 240
Third Day: Tuesday, May 5 306
Fourth Day: Thursday, May 7 396

VOL. XI.

Report from the Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to
inspect the Lords' Journals in Relation to their Proceedings on
the Trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. With an Appendix. Also,
Remarks in Vindication of the Same from the Animadversions of
Lord Thurlow. 1794 1

Speeches in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq.,
late Governor-General of Bengal. (Continued.)

Speech in General Reply.
First Day: Wednesday, May 28, 1794 157
Second Day: Friday, May 30 227
Third Day. Tuesday, June 3 300
Fourth Day: Thursday, June 5 372

VOL. XII.

Speeches In the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq.,
late Governor-General of Bengal. (Continued.)

Speech in General Reply.
Fifth Day: Saturday, June 7, 1794 3
Sixth Day: Wednesday, June 11 75
Seventh Day: Thursday, June 12 143
Eighth Day: Saturday, June 14 235
Ninth Day: Monday, June 16 335

INDEX.

Accidental things ought to be carefully distinguished from
permanent causes and effects, v. 234.

Account, capital use of an, what, i. 511.

Act of navigation, i. 378; ii. 30, 33.

Acts of grace, impolicy of, ii. 386.

Acts of indemnity and oblivion, probable effects of, as a
means of reconciling France to a monarchy, iv. 460.

Addison, Mr., the correctness of his opinion of the cause of
the grand effect of the rotund questioned, i. 150.
his fine lines on honorable political connections, i. 529.

Administration, Short Account of a Late Short, (Marquis of
Rockingham's,) i. 263.
censures on that administration, i. 379.
state of public affairs at the time of its formation, i. 381.
character and conduct of it, i. 388.
idea of it respecting America, i. 397.
remarks on its foreign negotiations, i. 412.
character of a united administration, i. 419.
of a disunited one, i. 425.
the administration should be correspondent to the legislature, i. 471.

Admiration, the first source of obedience, iv. 251.
one of the principles which interest us in the characters
of others, vii. 148.

Adrian, first contracts the hounds of the Roman Empire, vii. 214.

Advice, compulsive, from constituents, its authority first
resisted by Mr. Burke, iv. 95.

Adviser, duty of an, iv. 42.

Agricola, Julius, character and conduct of, vii. 199.

Aix, the Archbishop of, his offer of contribution, why refused
by the French National Assembly, iii. 390.

Aix-la-Chapelle, the treaty of, remarks on, v. 441.

Akbar, the Emperor, obtains possession of Bengal, ix. 392

Alfred the Great, character and conduct of, vii. 261.
his care and sagacity in improving the laws and institutions
of England, vii. 482.

Allegiance, oath of, remarkable one taken by the nobility to
King Stephen, vii. 388.

Alliance, one of the requisites of a good peace, i. 295.
the famous Triple Alliance negotiated by Temple and De Witt, v. 438.
alliance between Church and State in a Christian commonwealth,
a fanciful speculation, vii. 43.

Ambition, one of the passions belonging to society, i. 124.
nature and end of, i. 124.
misery of disappointed, i. 335.
ought to be influenced by popular motives, i. 474.
influence of, iii. 107.
one of the natural distempers of a democracy, iv. 164.
legislative restraints on it in democracies always violent
and ineffectual, iv. 164.
not an exact calculator, vii. 82.
virtue of a generous ambition for applause for public services, x. 176.

America, advantage of, to England, i. 297.
nature of various taxes there, i. 355.
project of a representation of in Parliament, its difficulties, i. 372.
its rapidly increasing commerce, ii. 112.
eloquent description of rising glories of, in vision, ii. 115.
temper and character of its inhabitants, ii. 120.
their spirit of liberty, whence, ii. 120, 133
proposed taxation of, by grant instead of imposition, ii. 154.
danger in establishing a military government there, vi. 176.

American Stamp Act, its origin, i. 385.
repeal of the, i. 265, 389.
reasons of the repeal, ii. 48.
good effects of the repeal, i. 401; ii. 59.

Ancestors, our, reverence due to them, iii. 562; iv. 213.

Angles, in buildings, prejudicial to their grandeur, i. 151.

Animals, their cries capable of conveying great ideas, i. 161.

Anniversaries, festive, advantages of, iv. 369.

Anselm, appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, vii. 373.
supports Henry I. against his brother Robert, vii. 377.

Apparitions, singular inconsistency in the ideas of the vulgar
concerning them, vii. 181.

Arbitrary power, steals upon a people by lying dormant for a
time, or by being rarely exercised, ii. 201.
cannot be exercised or delegated by the legislature, ix. 455.
not recognized in the Gentoo code, xi. 208.

Arbitrary system, must always be a corrupt one, x. 5.
danger in adopting it as a principle of action, xi. 322.

Areopagus, court and senate of, remarks on the, iii. 507.

Ariosto, a criticism of Boileau on, vii. 154.

Aristocracy, affected terror at the growth of the power of the,
in the reign of George II., i. 457.
influence of the, i. 457.
too much spirit not a fault of the, i. 458.
general observations on the, iii. 415.
character of a true natural one, iv. 174.
regulations in some states with respect to, iv. 250.
must submit to the dominion of prudence and virtue, v. 127.
character of the aristocracy of France before the Revolution,
iii. 412; vi. 39.

Aristotle, his caution against delusive geometrical accuracy
in moral arguments, ii. 170.
his observations on the resemblance between a democracy and
a tyranny, iii. 397.
his distinction between tragedy and comedy, vii. 153.
his natural philosophy alone unworthy of him, vii. 252.
his system entirely followed by Bede, vii. 252.

Armies yield a precarious and uncertain obedience to a senate, iii. 524.
remarks on the standing armies of France and England, iii. 224.

Army commanded by General Monk, character of it, iv. 36.

Art, every work of, great only as it deceives, i. 152.

Artist, a true one effects the noblest designs by easy methods, i. 152.

Artois, Comte d', character of, iv. 430.

Ascendency, Protestant, observations on it, vi. 393.

Asers, their origin and conquests, vii. 228.

Assassination, recommended and employed by the National Assembly
of France, iv. 34.
the dreadful consequences of this policy, in case of war, iv. 34.

Astonishment, cause and nature of, i. 160, 217.

Atheism by establishment, what, v. 310.
ought to be repressed by law, vii. 35.
schools of, set up by the French regicides at the public charge, vi. 106.

Atheists, modern, contrasted with those of antiquity, iv. 355.

Athenians, at the head of the democratic interests of Greece, iv. 321.

Athens, the plague of, remarkable prevalence of wickedness
during its continuance, vii. 84.

Augustin, state of religion in Britain when he arrived there, vii. 233.
introduced Christianity among the Anglo-Saxons, vii. 235.

Aulic Council, remarks on the, v. 119.

Austria began in the reign of Maria Theresa to support great
armies, v. 368.
her treaty of 1756 with France, deplored by the French in 1773, v. 370.

Authority, its only firm seat in public opinion, ii. 224; vi. 165.
the people the natural control on it, iv. 164.
the exercise and control of it together contradictory, iv. 164.
the monopoly of it an evil, v. 151.

Avarice, an instrument and source of oppression in India,
iii. 107; ix. 491.

Bacon, Lord, a remark of his applied to the revolution in France, v. 175.
his demeanor at his impeachment, xi. 173.

Bacon, N., his work on the laws of England not entitled to
authority, vii. 479.

Bail, method of giving it introduced by Alfred, vii. 265.
advantage of it, vii. 265.

Ball, John, abstract of a discourse of, iv. 178.

Ballot, all contrivances by it vain to prevent a discovery of
the inclinations, iii. 507.

Balmerino, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 34.

Banian, functions and character of the, ix. 363.

Bank paper in England, owing to the flourishing condition of
commerce, iii. 541.

Bards, the, character of their verses, vii. 178.

Bartholomew, St., massacre of, iii. 420.

Bathurst, Lord, his imagined vision of the rising glories of
America, ii. 114.

Bayle, Mr., an observation of his on religious persecution, vi. 333.

Beauchamp, Lord, his bill concerning imprisonment; Mr. Burke's
course with respect to it, ii. 382.

Beauty, a cause of love, i. 114, 165.
proportion not the cause of it in vegetables, i. 166.
nor in animals, i. 170.
nor in the human species, i. 172.
beauty and proportion not ideas of the same nature, i. 181.
the opposite to beauty not disproportion or deformity, but
ugliness, i. 181.
fitness not the cause of beauty, i. 181.
nor perfection, i. 187.
how far the idea of beauty applicable to the qualities of the
mind, i. 188.
how far applicable to virtue, i. 190.
the real cause of beauty, i. 191.
beautiful objects, small, i. 191.
and smooth, i. 193.
and of softly varied contour, i. 194.
and delicate, i. 195.
and of clear, mild, or diversified, colors, i. 196.
beauty of the physiognomy, i. 198.
beauty of the eye, i. 198.
the beautiful in feeling, i. 201.
the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
physical effects of beauty, i. 232.

Bede, the Venerable, brief account of him and his works, vii. 250.

Bedford, the first earl of, who, v. 201.

Begums of Oude, accused by the East India Company of rebellion, ii. 475.
pretence for seizing their treasures, xii. 33.

Benares, city of, the capital of the Indian religion, ii. 477, 484.
province of, its projected sale to the Nabob of Oude, xi. 259.
devastation of, during Mr. Hastings's government, xi. 302, 347.
the Rajah of, nature of his authority, xi. 240.
imprisoned by Mr. Hastings's order, xi. 277.
the Ranny of, the soldiery incited by Mr. Hastings to plunder her,
ii. 486.

Benfield, Paul, his character and conduct, iii. 97.

Bengal, extent and condition, of, ii. 498.
conquest of, by the Emperor Akbar, ix. 392.
era of the independent subahs of, ix. 392.
era of the British empire in, ix. 393.
nature of the government exercised there by Mr. Hastings, xii. 211.

Bengal Club, observations on the, iv. 324.

Bidjegur, fortress of, taken by order of Mr. Hastings, xi. 291.

Biron, Duchess of, murdered by the French regicides, vi. 41.

Bitterness, in description, a source of the sublime, i. 162.

Blackness, effects of, i. 229.

Boadicea, Roman outrages against, vii. 197.

Boileau, his criticism on a tale in Ariosto, vii. 154.

Bolingbroke, Lord, animadversions on his philosophical works, i. 3.
some characteristics of his style, i. 7.
a presumptuous and superficial writer, iii. 398.
a remark of his on the superiority of a monarchy over other
forms of government, iii. 398.

Boncompagni, Cardinal, character of him, iv. 338.

Borrower, the public, and the private lender, not adverse
parties with contending interests, v. 455.

Bouillon, Godfrey of, engages in the Crusade, vii. 372.

Boulogne, fortress of, surrendered to France, v. 204.
importance of it to England, v. 204.

Bouvines, victory of, important advantages of it to France, vii. 458.

Brabancons, mercenary troops in the time of Henry II., their
character, vii. 420.

Bribing, by means of it, rather than by being bribed, wicked
politicians bring ruin on mankind, iii. 107.

Brissot, his character and conduct, iv. 371.
Preface to his Address to his Constituents, v. 65.

Britain, invasion of, by Caesar, vii. 165.
account of its ancient inhabitants, vii. 170.
invaded by Claudius, vii. 191.
reduced by Ostorius Scapula, vii. 191.
finally subdued by Agricola, vii. 199.
why not sooner conquered, vii. 202.
nature of the government settled there by the Romans, vii. 205.
first introduction of Christianity into, vii. 221.
deserted by the Romans, vii. 223.
entry and settlement of the Saxons there, and their conversion
to Christianity, vii. 227.

Britons, more reduced than any other nation that fell under the
German power, vii. 232.

Brown, Dr., effect of his writings on the people of England, v. 239.

Buch, Captal de, his severe treatment of the Jacquerie in France, iv. 177.

Buildings, too great length in them, prejudicial to grandeur
of effect, i. 152.
should be gloomy to produce an idea of the sublime, i. 158.

Burke, Mr., his sentiments respecting several leading members
of the Whig party, iv. 66.
and respecting a union of Ireland with Great Britain, iv. 297.
respecting acts of indemnity and oblivion as a means of
reconciling France to a monarchy, iv. 460.
his animadversions on the conduct of Mr. Fox, v. 7.
his pathetic allusion to his deceased son, v. 207.

Burnet, Bishop, his statement of the methods which carried men
of parts to Popery in France, iii. 430.

Bute, Earl of, his resignation, i. 381.
his successors recommended by him, i. 381.
supposed head of the court party called "King's Men," i. 467.

Caesar, Julius, his policy with respect to the Gauls, vii. 163.
his invasion of Germany, vii. 164.
and of Britain, vii. 165.

Calais, lost by the surrender of Boulogne, v. 204.

Calamity, its deliberations rarely wise, iii. 540.
public calamity often arrested by the seasonable energy of a
single man, v. 124.

Caligula undertakes an expedition against Britain, vii. 190.

Calonne, M. de, remarks on his work, "L'Etat de la France," iii. 479.
extract from it, iii. 549.

Campanella, curious story concerning him, i. 212.

Canada Bills, convention for their liquidation, i. 409.

Canterbury, dispute between the suffragan bishops of the province
and the monks of the Abbey of St. Austin, vii. 446.

Cantons, French, their origin, nature, and function, iii. 462, 464, 471.

Cantoo Baboo, Mr. Hastings's banian, x. 19.

Canute, his character and conduct, vii. 276.
remarks on his code of laws, vii. 483.

Capital, monopoly of, not an evil, v. 151.

Care, appearance of, highly contrary to our ideas of magnificence, i. 154.

Carnatic, the extent, nature, and condition of the country,
ii. 492; iii. 65.
dreadful devastation of it by Hyder Ali Khan, iii. 62.

Caste, consequences of losing it in India, x. 89.

Castile, different from Catalonia and Aragon, iv. 340.

Castles, great numbers of them built in the reign of Stephen, vii. 389.

Casuistry, origin and requisites of, iv. 168.
danger of pursuing it too far, iv. 168.

Catholics, Letter to an Irish Peer on the Penal Laws against, iv. 217.

Celsus, his opinion that internal remedies were not of early
use proved to be erroneous, vii. 184.

Cerealis, extract from his fine speech to the Gauls, iv. 272.

Change and reformation, distinction between, v. 186.

Characters of others, principles which interest us in them, vii. 148.

Charity, observations on, v. 146.
not to be interfered with by the magistrate, v. 146.

Charles I. defended himself on the practice of his predecessors, ii. 279.
his ill-judged attempt to establish the rites of the Church
of England in Scotland, vii. 8.

Charles II. obliged by the sense of the nation to abandon
the Dutch war, ii. 219.
brief character of him, iv. 37.
his government compared with that of Cromwell, iv. 467.

Charles XII. of Sweden, parallel between him and Richard I.
of England, vii. 436.

Charters are kept when their purposes are maintained, ii. 565.

Chatham, Lord, his character, ii. 61.

Cheselden, Mr., his story of a boy who was couched for a cataract, i. 226.

Chester, the County Palatine of, admitted to representation
in Parliament in the reign of Henry VIII., ii. 150.

Chesterfield, Lord, his conduct (when Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland)
with respect to the Roman Catholics, iv. 235.

Cheyt Sing, Rajah of Benares, nature of his authority, ii. 479; xi. 240.
imprisoned by order of Mr. Hastings, xi. 277.

Christendom, the several states of, have all been formed slowly
and without any unity of design, v. 373.

Christianity, original introduction of, into Britain, vii. 221.

Church, the, has power to reform her doctrine, discipline,
and rites, vii. 7.

Church establishment in England, observations on it, iii. 352.
the provision made for its clergy by the state, iii. 364.
education of its clergy contrasted with that of the Roman
Catholic clergy, iv. 231.
eulogy on it, vi. 401; vii. 36, 56.

Cicero, remarks on his orations against Verres, xii. 349.

Circumstances, importance of them in all political principles,
iii. 240; vii. 55.

Citizens, not to be listened to, in matters relating to agriculture,
v. 146.

Civil list, debts due on it, request for a supply for discharging
them, how made, i. 508.
plan of economy relative to it, ii. 350.

Civil society, great purpose of, vi. 333.

Civil vicinity, law of, what, v. 322.

Civil wars corrupt the morals of the people, ii. 203.

Clamor, justifiable when it is caused by abuse, vii. 121.

Clarendon, Constitutions of, vii. 403.

Claudius, the Emperor invades Britain, vii. 191.

Clavering, Sir John, eulogy on him, x. 246; xii. 348.

Clear expression, different from a strong one, i. 260.

Clearness not necessary for affecting the passions, i. 133.

Clergy, convocation of, a part of the constitution, ii. 226.
observations on the provision made by the state for them, iii. 364, 448.
Roman Catholic, in France, character of them before the
Revolution, iii. 424.
laws of William and Anne respecting the Popish clergy, vi. 317.
review of the state of the clergy in England down to the reign
of Henry II., vii. 398.

Clive, Lord, sent to India, ix. 438.
his conduct there, ix. 439.

Clootz, Anacharsis, his masquerade embassy to the Constituent
Assembly of France, vi. 49.

Coke, Lord, ingenious quotation in his Reports, i. 5.
his observation on discretion in judicature, iv. 292.

Colonies, commercial, mode of levying taxes in them, an important
and difficult consideration, i. 354.
American, import ten times more from Great Britain, than they
spend in return, i. 393.

Colonists, the British, in America, character of, i. 395.
Address to, vi. 183.

Colors, soft and cheerful ones unfit to produce grand images, i. 158.

Comedy, observations on, vii. 150.
Aristotle's distinction between it and tragedy, vii. 153.

Comines, Philip de, his remarks on the English civil wars, vi. 252.

Commerce and liberty, the two main sources of power to Great
Britain, ii. 87.
great increase of, in America, ii. 112.

Common law, nature of the, vii. 462.

Common Pleas, court of, its origin, vii. 466.

Commons, the House of, observations on its nature and character, i. 491.
what qualities recommend a man to a seat in it, in popular
elections, i. 497.
can never control other parts of the government, unless the
members themselves are controlled by their constituents, i. 503.
ought to be connected with and dependent on the people, i. 508.
has a collective character, distinct from that of its members, ii. 66.
duty of the members to their constituents, ii. 95.
general observations on its privileges and duties, ii. 544.
the collective sense of the people to be received from it, ii. 545.
its powers and capacities, ii. 552.
cannot renounce its share of authority, iii. 258.
its composition, iii. 289.
the most powerful and most corruptible part of the constitution, vii. 62.
a superintendence over the doctrines and proceedings of the
courts of justice, one of its principal objects, vii. 107.
concise view of its proceedings on the East India question, ii. 559.

Commonwealths, not subject to laws analogous to those of
physical life, v. 124, 234.

Communes, in France, their origin, nature, and function,
iii. 462, 464, 472.

Compurgators, in Saxon law, what, vii. 318.

Condorcet, brief character of him, iv. 356, 372.
extract from a publication of his, iv. 356.

Confidence, unsuspecting, in government, importance of it, ii. 234.
of mankind, how to be secured, v. 414.

Connections, party, political, observations on them, i. 527, 530.
commended by patriots in the commonwealths of antiquity, i. 527.
the Whig connection in Queen Anne's reign, i. 529.

Conquest cannot give a right to arbitrary power, ix. 456.

Conscience, a tender one ought to be tenderly handled, vii. 54.

Constantine the Great, changes made by him in the internal
policy of the Roman Empire, vii. 220.

Constantinople, anecdote of the visit of an English country
squire to, v. 387.
anecdote of the Greeks at the taking of, vi. 96.

Constituents, in England, more in the spirit of the constitution
to lessen than to enlarge their number, i. 370.
their duty to their representatives, ii. 370.
compulsive instruction from them first rejected by Mr. Burke, iv. 95.
points in which they are incompetent to instruct their
representatives, vii. 74, 75.

Constitution, a, cannot defend itself, vi. 100.
consequences of disgracing the frame and constitution of
the state, vii. 103.
the English, a change in it, an immense and difficult operation,
i. 371, 520.
English, changes in it to be attempted only in times of general
confusion, i. 371.
eulogy on it, iii. 561; v. 210; vii. 100.
the whole scheme of it to prevent any one of its principles
from being carried to an extreme, iv. 207.
not struck out at a heat, iv. 209.
commendation of it by Montesquieu, iv. 212.
the only means of its subversion, what, v. 49, 52.

Constitutional Society, The, its nature and design, iii. 236.

Conti, Prince de, his character and conduct, iv. 436.

Contract, an implied, one, always, between the laborer and
his employer, v. 137.

Contracting parties, not necessary that they should have
different interests, v. 139.

Control and exercise of authority together contradictory, iv. 164.

Convocation of the clergy, though a part of the constitution,
now called for form only, ii. 226.

Conway, General, moves the repeal of the American Stamp Act, ii. 52.

Cornwallis, Lord, (Baron,) proceedings in his trial, xi. 30.

Cornwallis, Lord, (Marquis,) his evidence at the trial of
Warren Hastings, xii. 359.

Coronation oath, its obligations with respect to Roman Catholics, iv. 259.

Corporate bodies, their usefulness as instruments, iii. 441.
more under the direction of the state than private citizens, iii. 447.

Corruption, of nature and example, what the only security against, ii. 238.
in pecuniary matters, the suspicion of it how to be avoided, iii. 95.

Cossim, Ali Khan, his character and conduct, ix. 405.

Country, lore of, remarks on, xi. 422.

Credit and power incompatible, i. 368.

Crimes, the acts of individuals, not of denominations, ii. 418.
according to the criminal law, what, vi. 340.

Cromwell, brief character of him, iii. 294.
his principle in the appointment of judges, iv. 13.
his conduct in government, iv. 37.
his government compared with that of Charles II., iv. 467.

Cross, the effect of it not so grand in architecture as that of
the parallelogram, i. 150.

Crown, the influence of it, what, i. 444.
inheritable nature of it, iii. 258.
this principle maintained at the Revolution, iii. 254.
the only legitimate channel of communication with other nations, v. 10.

Crusade, origin and progress of the, vii. 369.

Curfew, origin and policy of the, vii. 354.

Curiosity, the first and simplest emotion of the human mind, i. 101.
general observations on it, i. 101.

Custom, considered in relation to deformity and beauty, i. 179.
not the cause of pleasure, i. 180.

Cyprus, account of the conquest of it by Richard I., vii. 428.

Danger and pain, the idea of them a source of the sublime, i. 110, 130.
with certain modifications, delightful, i. 111.
the danger of anything very dear to us removes for the time
all other affections from the mind, iv. 95.

Darkness more productive of sublime ideas than light, i. 156.
necessary to the highest degree of the sublime in building, i. 158.
Locke's opinion concerning, i. 225.
terrible in its own nature, i. 226.
why, i. 227.

Davies, Sir John, his statement of the benefits of the extension
of English constitutional law to Ireland, ii. 147; iv. 273.

Day, not so sublime as night, i. 158.

Debi Sing, his character and conduct, x. 69.

Debt, the interest of, not the principal, that which distresses
a nation, i. 329.

Debts, civil, faults of the law with regard to, ii. 384.
public, excessive, their tendency to subvert government, iii. 437.

Deceivers and cheats never can repent, iv. 9.

Declaration of Right, contains the principles of the Revolution
of 1688, iii. 252.
drawn by Lord Somers, iii. 254.
proceeds upon the principle of reference to antiquity, iii. 273.

Defensive measures, though vigorous at first, relax by degrees, iv. 355.
necessary considerations with regard to them, vi. 100.

Definitions, frequently fallacious, i. 81.

Deformity not opposed to beauty, but to the complete common form, i. 178.

Deity, power the most striking of his attributes, i. 143.

Delamere, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 31.

Delight, what, i. 107.
distinguished from pleasure, i. 108.
the misfortunes of others sometimes a source of, i. 118.
the attendant of every passion which animates us to any active
purpose, i. 119.
how pain can be a cause of, i. 215.

Democracy, no example in modern times of a considerable one, iii. 396.
an absolute one, not to be reckoned among the legitimate forms
of government, iii. 396.
Aristotle's observation on the resemblance between a democracy
and a tyranny; iii. 397.
the vice of the ancient democracies, what, iii. 508.
the foodful nurse of ambition, iv. 104.

Departments in France, their origin, nature, and function, iii. 461, 465.

Depth thought to have a grander effect than height, i. 147.

Description, verbal, a means of raising a stronger emotion
than painting, i. 133.

Desirable things always practicable, ii. 357.

Despotism, nature of, i. 446; ix. 458.

D'Espremenil, the illustrious French magistrate, murdered by
the Revolutionists, vi. 40.

Dialogue, advantages and disadvantages of it as a mode of
argumentation, vi. 9.

Difference in taste, commonly so called, whence, i. 89.

Difficulty, a source of greatness in idea, i. 153.
its disciplinary uses, iii. 453.
political difficulties, ill consequences of attempting to
elude them, iii. 454.

Dignity, national, no standard for rating the conditions of peace, v. 257.

Dimension, greatness of, a powerful cause of the sublime, i. 147.
necessary to the sublime in building, i. 152.
but incompatible with beauty, i. 242.

Dinagepore, Rajah of, account of him, xii. 318.

Diogenes, anecdote of him, iv. 61.

Directory, the, by whom settled, vii. 13.
rejected at the Restoration, vii. 13.

Disappointment, what, i. 108.

Discontents, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present, i. 433.
produced by a system of favoritism, i. 469.

Discretion, Lord Coke's remark on, iv. 292.

Discretionary powers of the monarch, should be exercised upon
public principles, i. 469.

Discrimination, a coarse, the greatest enemy to accuracy of
judgment, v. 143.

Dissenters, observations on the Test Act, in reference to them, iv. 264.

Distress, great, never teaches wise lessons to mankind, iv. 10.

Distrust, advantages of, iv. 443.

Disunion in government, mischief of, i. 425.

Divorce, observations on, v. 313.

Domesday Book, origin, and nature of it, vii. 354.

Double cabinet, project of a, in the English court, i. 447.
nature and design of it, i. 454.
mischievous influence of it, i. 478.
how recommended at court, i. 485.
its operation upon Parliament, i. 490.
singular doctrine propagated by it, i. 525.

Drama, Hints for an Essay on the, vii. 143.

Dramatic writing, difficulty of, vii. 145.
origin of, vii. 149.

Druids, some account of their origin, character, and functions, vii. 176.
the opinion that their religion was founded on the unity of
the Godhead, confuted, vii. 185.

Dryden, his translation of a passage in Virgil, v. 391.

Du Bos, his theory of the greater effect of painting than of
poetry on the passions, controverted, i. 134.

Dunkirk, demolition of, i. 412.

Dunning, Mr., brief character of, ii. 398.

Du Pin, M. de la Tour, his account of the state of the army
in France, iii. 512.

Durham, County Palatine of, admitted to representation in
Parliament, in the reign of Charles II., ii. 152.

Duty, effectual execution of it, how to be secured, ii. 353.
determined by situation, ii. 465; iv. 167.
people do not like to be told of it, iv. 163.
not dependent on the will, iv. 165.

Easter, whence the name derived, vii. 237.
disputes about the time of celebrating it promote the study
of astronomy and chronology, vii. 252.

East India Company, origin of the, ix. 348.
system of its service, ix. 350.
a fundamental part of its constitution, that its government
shall be a written one, ix. 369.
two sources of its power, ix. 345.
its negotiations with government, i. 362.
observations on its charter, ii. 438.
extent and population of its possessions, ii. 443, 444.
observations on its conduct, ii. 446.
its treatment of the nations indirectly subject to its
authority, ii. 466.
its administration in the countries immediately under its
government, ii. 497.
concise view of the proceedings of the House of Commons
relative to it, ii. 559.

East Indies, origin of the extensive British possessions there, ii. 560.

Ecclesiastical investiture, origin and nature of, vii. 382.

Economy and war not easily reconciled, i. 310.
admirable system of, in France, under Necker, ii. 273.
difficulty of attempting a plan of public economy, ii. 268.
rules for a proper plan of, ii. 286.
things prescribed by the principles of radical economy, ii. 310.
distinction between economy and parsimony, v. 195.
political economy, had its origin in England, v. 192.

Education, effect of it on the colonists in America, ii. 124.
description of a good one, iv. 24; xii. 280.

Edward the Confessor, his character and conduct, vii. 278.

Election, popular, of magistrates, importance of it to a state, i. 472.
right of, what, i. 505.
mischief of frequent elections, i. 517; vii. 75.
the expense of them an important consideration, vii. 78.

Elizabeth, sister of Louis XVI., murdered by the French regicides, vi. 41.

Emphyteusis of the Romans, nature of it, vi. 354.

Empires do not fall by their own weight, vi. 27.

England, nature of its monarchy, ii. 288.
eulogy on its constitution, v. 210;
natural representation of its people, what it is, v. 284.
its constant policy with regard to France, iv. 397.
always necessarily the soul and head of any confederacy
against France, iv. 397; v. 245.

English History, An Abridgment of the, vii. 157.

Enmity, when avowed, is always felt, vi. 57.

Enthusiasm, excited by other causes besides religion, v. 361.

Eostre, the name of a Saxon goddess,--whence the term Easter, vii. 237.

Epicureans, the, why tolerated in their atheism by the supporters
of the ancient heathen religions, vii. 31.
their physics the most rational of the ancient systems, vii. 251.
why discredited, vii. 251.

Equity, criminal, a monster in jurisprudence, i. 500.

Established Church, the, should be powerful, but comprehensive
and tolerant, vii. 36.

Established religion of a state, has often torn to pieces the
civil establishment, vi. 357.

Establishment, legal, ground of a legislative alteration of it, vii. 10.
ground of the constitutional provision for the exclusive
application of tithes to its support, vii. 12.

Etiquette, its signification and uses, v. 434.

Europe, general division of, before the universal prevalence
of the Roman power, vii. 159.
the original inhabitants of Greece and Italy of the same race
with the people of Northern Europe, vii. 161.
view of the state of Europe at the time of the Norman invasion, vii. 327.

Evidence, circumstantial, remarks on it, xi. 93.

Example, of men of principle, never without use, i. 426.
the only argument of effect in civil life, i. 499.
what the only security against a corrupt one, ii. 238.
the school of mankind, v. 331.

Executions of criminals, observations on them, vi. 245.

Exercise necessary to the finer organs, i. 216.

Expression, difference between a clear and a strong one, i. 260.

Eye, the, in what its beauty consists, i. 198.

Eyre, Sir Robert, (Solicitor-General,) extracts from his
speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 138.

Factions, formed upon and generate opinions, vii. 44.

Fame, a passion for it, the instinct of all great souls, ii. 65.
the separation of it from virtue, a harsh divorce, ii. 243.

Fanaticism, epidemical, formidable nature of it, iii. 435.
may be caused by a theory concerning government as much as by
a dogma in religion, iv. 192.

Farmer, dangerous to try experiments on him, v. 147.
amount of his usual profits, what, v. 148.
difficulties of his business, v. 152.

Favoritism, a system of, in the executory government of England,
at variance with the plan of the legislature, i. 469.

Fear, cause of it, i. 210.
early and provident fear the mother of safety, vii. 50.

Feeling, the beautiful in, i. 201.

Female sex, the moral sensibility more acute in them then in men, xii. 164.

Finances, three standards to judge of the condition of a nation
with regard to them, i. 330.
importance of them to a state, iii. 534.
admirable management of the French finances under Necker, ii. 273.

Financier, duty of a judicious one in respect to his calculations, i. 348.
his objects, what, iii. 538, 558.

Fire, a chief object of worship to the Druids, why, vii. 182.

Firmness, a virtue only when it accompanies the most perfect
wisdom, i. 440.

Fitness, not the cause of beauty, i. 181.
the real effects of it, i. 184.

Flattery, why so prevalent, i. 124.

Florence, republic of, its origin, vii. 331.

Force, not impaired, either in effect or opinion, by an
unwillingness to exert itself, ii. 108.
objections to its employment against the American colonies, ii. 118.

Forest lands, plan of economical reform concerning them, ii. 300.

Foster, Justice, extracts from his Crown Cases and Discourses on
the Crown Law, xi. 28, 123.

Fox, (C.J.) panegyrics on him, ii. 533; iii. 219.
reluctant dissent from his opinion concerning the assumption
of citizenship by the French army, iii. 218.
animadversions on his commendation of the French Revolution,
iv. 77; v. 7.
policy of a treaty with France maintained by him, v. 26.
his conduct contrasted with that of Mr. Pitt, v. 60.

France, from its vicinity, always an object of English vigilance
with regard to its power or example, iii. 216.
Remarks on the Policy of the Allies with respect to, iv. 403.
the liberties of Europe dependent on its being a great and
preponderating power, iv. 455.
character of its government before the Revolution, as shown
by a review of the condition of the kingdom, iii. 400.
its exterior splendor just before the Revolution, v. 236.
state of things there during the Revolution, iv. 70.
barbarous treatment of the king and queen at the outbreak of
the Revolution, iii. 325.
eloquent description of the queen as Dauphiness, and of the
revolution in her fortunes, iii. 331.
observations on her execution, vi. 40.
degraded office to which the king was appointed by the Revolutionists,
iii. 496; iv. 20.
with his own hand pulled down the pillars of his throne, iv. 362.
character of the king's brothers, iv. 429.
character of the aristocracy before the Revolution, iii. 412; vi. 39.

Franchise and office, difference between them, iv. 252.
effect of separating property from franchise, iv. 256.

Franklin, Dr., conjectures on his visit to Paris, vi. 152.

Freedom, the great contests for it in England chiefly on the
question of taxation, ii. 120.
but in the ancient commonwealths chiefly on the right of
election of magistrates, or on the balance among the
several orders of the state, ii. 120.
character of civil freedom, ii. 229.
our best securities for it obtained from princes who were
either war-like or prodigal, vi. 35.

French Affairs, Thoughts on, iv. 313.

French Directory, the character of its members, v. 448.
their conduct towards the foreign ministers, vi. 48.

French emigrants, capable of being serviceable in restoring
order to France, iv. 427.

French literary cabal, their plan for the destruction of
Christianity, iii. 378.

French moneyed interest, at variance with the landed interest, iii. 376.

French Revolution, characterized as one of doctrine and theoretic
dogma, iv. 319.
its fundamental principle, iv. 322.

Frenchmen naturally more intense in their application than
Englishmen, iv. 54.
mischievous consequences of this, iv. 55.

Friends of the Liberty of the Press, a club formed under the
auspices of Mr. Fox, v. 20.
origin and character of it, v. 20.

Friends of the People, origin, composition, and proceedings of
the club so called, v. 12.
a libellous petition of theirs, v. 47.

Frugality, founded on the principle that all riches have limits, ii. 308.

Gaming, a principle inherent in human nature, ii. 293.
a general spirit of it encouraged by the Revolutionists
in France, iii. 488.
they who are under its influence treat their fortunes lightly, iv. 204.

Garrick, David, anecdote of him, vi. 47.

Gauls, their early incursions into Greece and Italy, vii. 161.
reduced at last by the Romans under Caesar, vii. 162.
policy of Caesar with regard to them, vii. 163.

Geneva, possible benefits to it from state granaries, v. 155.

Genghis Khan, observations on his code, xi. 212.

Genoa, republic of, its origin, vii. 831.

Gentoo law, the primeval law of India, xi. 207.

Gentoos, the original inhabitants of Hindostan, ix. 377.
distribution of the people into orders or castes, ix. 380.
origin and character of their laws, ix. 482.
extracts from Halhed's translation of them, xi. 209.

George II., character of his reign, i. 456.

George III., advantages under which he came to the throne, i. 450.

Germanic Custumary, the source of the polity of every country
in Europe, v. 319.

Germans, of Scythian original, vii. 322.
brief account of their manners and institutions, vii. 291.
in certain of their institutions the outlines of the
constitution of England delineated, vii. 293.

Germany, how likely to be affected by the Revolution in France, iv. 328.

Gibraltar, the object of England in retaining it, iv. 383.

Glastonbury Abbey, its extraordinary wealth and splendor, vii. 245.

Go-betweens, the world governed by, iv. 189.
their mode of influence, iv. 190.

Good fame of every man, ought to be protected by the laws, vii. 112.

Gothic Custumary, the source of the polity of every country
in Europe, v. 319.

Government, the forms of a free one not altogether incompatible
with the ends of an arbitrary one, i. 444.
project of government devised in the court of Frederick,
Prince of Wales, i. 447.
considered, i. 450.
nature and design of it, i. 460.
name of it, i. 466.
important ends of a mixed government, i. 469.
folly of hazarding plans of government except from a seat
of authority, ii. 104.
government a practical thing, ii. 227; iii. 310.
character of a free one, ii. 227.
an eminent criterion of a wise one, what, ii. 278.
reform in it should be early and temperate, ii. 280.
without means of some change, is without the means of its
conservation, iii. 259.
difficulty of forming a free one, iii. 560.
the particular form of it to be determined by the circumstances
and habits of a country, iv. 109.
a theory concerning it may be as much a cause of fanaticism as
a dogma in religion, iv. 192.
the establishment of one a difficult undertaking for foreign
powers to act in as principals, iv. 410.
not subject to laws analogous to those or physical life, v. 124, 234.
restraint the great purpose of, v. 133, 189.
policy of, in times of scarcity, v. 156.
important problem concerning, v. 166.
perishes only through its own weakness, v. 169.
impossible where property does not rule, v. 377.
the great objects of, v. 466; vii. 72.
its duty and right to attend much to opinions, vii. 44.
stands on opinion, vii. 91.

Grace, acts of, impolicy of them, ii. 386.

Gracefulness, an idea belonging to posture and motion, i. 200.

Granaries, public, danger in erecting them, v. 153.
fit only for a state too small for agriculture, v. 155.

Grand Seignior, the, not an arbitrary monarch, ix. 464.

Great personages, wisely provided that we should interest
ourselves in their fate, xi. 308.
everywhere made the objects of tragedy, xi. 308.

Greece, its original inhabitants of the same race as the
people of Northern Europe, vii. 161.
situation of it from a remote period, vii. 161.

Greek Church, character of its secular clergy, iv. 230.

Green Cloth, Court of, its origin and composition, ii. 304.

Grenville, Mr., character of him, ii. 37.

Grenville, Lord, eulogy of him, v. 174.

Grief, cause of, i. 108.

Guienne, William, Duke of, engages in the Crusade, vii. 374.

Guilt, gigantic, overpowers our ideas of justice, iv. 466.
expedients for concealing it, frequently the cause of its
detection, x. 49.
is never wise, x. 49; xi. 261.

Habeas Corpus, remarks upon the suspension of it in respect
to Americans, ii. 190.

Habit and use, not causes of pleasure, i. 180.

Hale, Sir Matthew, Cromwell's declaration to him when he
appointed him judge, iv. 13.
defect in his History of the Common Law, vii. 476.
causes of it, vii. 476.

Halhed's translation of the Gentoo code, remarks on it, xi. 207.

Hallmote, or Court Baron, what, vii. 301.

Hannay, Colonel, his character and conduct, xi. 418.

Happiness, civil, what, x. 135.

Hardwicke, Lord, his declaration as to the general rule of
evidence, xi. 77.

Harrington, his opinion as to a commonwealth not governed
by its property, v. 377.

Hastings, Mr., articles of charge against him presented to
the House of Commons, 1786, viii. 305-ix. 318.
appendix to the eighth and sixteenth charges, ix. 319.
speeches of Mr. Burke in his impeachment, ix. 327-x. 451;
xi. 155-xii. 398.
Report from the Committee appointed to inspect the Lords'
Journals, in relation to their proceedings on his trial, xi. 1.
his conduct in the treaty with the Mahrattas, ii. 454.
brief account of his treatment of the Nabob of Oude, ii. 467.
of the Begums of Oude, ii. 476.
of the Ranny of Benares, ii. 485.
his venal agreement for the extirpation of the Rohillas, viii. 308.
his fraudulent sale of the territories of the Mogul, viii. 322.
his designs against the Rajah of Benares, viii. 339.
orders the arrest of the Rajah, viii. 361.
instigates the plunder of his family by the soldiery, viii. 368.
usurps the government of Benares, viii. 380.
his oppressive impositions and exactions, viii. 381.
enforces the confiscation of the landed estates of the
Begums of Oude, viii. 403.
orders the seizure of their treasures, viii. 409.
severities practised upon their ministers in the execution of
those orders, viii. 414.
endeavors to stifle an inquiry into his proceedings, viii. 448.
corruptly abandons the Nabob of Furruckabad and his country
to the oppressions of the Nabob of Oude, viii. 472.
causes the destruction of the Rajah of Sahlone, viii. 486.
sets at defiance the orders of the Company with respect to
contracts, ix. 4.
and with respect to salaries, ix. 11.
his illegal and extravagant allowances to Sir Eyre Coote, ix. 12.
and to Brigadier-General Stibbert, ix. 13.
and to Sir John Day, ix. 15.
and for the civil establishment of Fort William, ix. 17.
his appointment of the Secretary of the Council as agent for
the supply of rice, with enormous commissions, ix. 19.
his corrupt receipt of presents in numerous instances, ix. 23.
tender and subsequent disavowal of his resignation, and
refusal to vacate office, ix. 42.
his illegal contract with the Surgeon-General, ix. 60.
his contracts for Poolbundy repairs, ix. 60.
his opium contracts, ix. 63.
his appointment of R.J. Sulivan to office, ix. 70.
his conduct with regard to the Ranna of Gohud, ix. 72.
his frequent, violent, and unauthorized changes in the
revenue and judicial systems of Bengal, ix. 79, 87.
permits his own banian to hold farms to a large amount in
different districts, in violation of his own regulations, ix. 83.
refuses relief to the distresses of the Nabob of Oude, ix. 98.
seeks to enforce unjust demands against the Nabob, ix. 98.
illegally assumes the delegation of the whole functions of the
Council, for the purpose of making a treaty with the Nabob, ix. 104.
in contravention of treaty stipulations, burdens the Nabob
with the continued maintenance of British troops, ix. 109, 112.
makes unjustifiable demands on, and receives unlawful presents
from the Nabob, ix. 110, 114.
on his own simple allegation of indefinite offences, urges the
Nabob to put to death Almas Ali Khan, ix. 154.
establishes a system of disreputable and ruinous interference
in the government of the Nabob, ix. 162.
attempts to abandon the British army to the sole discretion of
the Nabob, ix. 168.
arrests and continues in long imprisonment Mahomed Reza Khan,
without any proofs of guilt, ix. 185.
appoints Munny Begum to be guardian to the Nabob of Bengal,
and administratrix of the government, ix. 187.
seeks the aggrandizement of the Mahrattas, ix. 220, 228.
the Mogul delivered up to them through his instrumentality, ix. 221.
he libels and asperses the Court of Directors, ix. 228.
forces the Mahrattas into a war, by repeatedly invading
their country, ix. 253.
concludes a dishonorable treaty of peace and alliance with them, ix. 254.
withholds and conceals his official correspondence and
proceedings from the Directors and Council, ix. 267.
his conduct with regard to Fyzoola Khan, ix. 268.
his arbitrary principles of government, ix. 446; xi. 194.
his corrupt system of government, x. 5.
general farming of the lands at auction, in derogation of
the rights of proprietors, x. 15.
sale of offices, x. 21.
conduct in reference to the accusations of Nundcomar, x. 24, 205.
in the case of Munny Begum and the Nabob of Bengal,
x. 26, 193, 278; xii. 218, 245.
the receipt of bribes justified by an intention to apply
them to the Company's service, x. 43, 324.
account given of some of these transactions to the Directors, x. 44, 338.
delegation of the management of the revenues to a nominal
council, with Gunga Govind Sing as agent, x. 53.
appointment of Debi Sing to the charge of the province
of Dinagepore, x. 65.
the enormities of this man, mock inquiries into them, and
Mr. Hastings's responsibility in the premises, x. 77, 92, 186.
Mr. Hastings's measures justified by himself, as producing
an increase of revenue, x. 136.
remarks on the testimonials of the natives in his favor,
x. 154; xii. 356.
proofs of personal corruption, x. 161-295.
charged with peculation by General Clavering, x. 244.
opinions of counsel concerning his proposed prosecution
by the Directors, x. 257.
his connivance in the general corruption of the Service,
x. 296; xii. 294.
recriminatory charges against the House of Commons, xi. 166.
powers claimed by him, and the manner and results of their
exercise, xi. 195, 236, 238.
in the case of Cheyt Sing and the province of Benares, xi. 236.
of the Nabob of Oude, his kindred and country, xi. 372; xii. 3.
of the province of Bengal, xii. 208.
his extravagant and corrupt contracts, xii. 297.
his conduct in reference to various presents, xii. 324, 338, 350.
observations on the Mahometan college founded by him, xii. 352.
Lord Cornwallis's testimony to the disastrous effects of
his revenue system, xii. 359.
examination of the merits set up by him, xii. 370.

Hawles, Sir John, extracts from his speech at the trial of
Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 126, 135.

Height, less grand than depth, i. 147.

Helvetii, remarkable emigration of them related by Caesar, vii. 172.

Henry I. of England, brief account of his reign, vii. 375.

Henry II. of England, brief account of his reign, vii. 394.

Henry IV. of England, severs the Duchy and County Palatine of
Lancaster from the crown, ii. 296.

Henry IV. of France, brief character of him, iii. 411.

Hii, or Columbkill, brief account of it, vii. 249.

Hindoo institutions, characteristics of, ix. 382.

Hindoo polity, destroyed by Mr. Hastings, ix. 394.

Hindostan, eras in its history, ix. 386.

History, moral lessons to be drawn from it, iii. 418, 421.
caution with regard to the study of it, iv. 468.

Hobbes, his view of war as the state of Nature, i. 15.

Holland, Sir John, extracts from his speech at the trial of
Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 146.

Holy Land, view of its condition at the commencement of the
third Crusade, vii. 426.

Homer, his similitudes seldom exact, i. 88.
a simile from the Iliad, i. 105.
his representation of Discord, obscure and magnificent, i. 138.
no instance in the Iliad of the fall of any man remarkable
for stature and strength that touches us with pity, i. 243.
has given to the Trojans more of the amiable and social virtues
than to the Greeks, i. 243.
would excite pity for the Trojans, admiration for the Greeks, i. 243.
his masterly representation of the grief of Priam over the
body of Hector, iv. 95.
observation on his representation of the ghosts of heroes at
the sacrifices of Ulysses, vii. 181.
his works introduced into England by Theodorus, Archbishop of
Canterbury, vii. 249.

Honest men, no safety for them but by believing all possible
evil of evil men, iv. 7.

Horace, the truth of an observation in his Art of Poetry,
discussed, i. 134.
a passage from him of similar import to one from David, i. 143.

Household, the royal, has strong traces of feudality, ii. 303.

Howard, the philanthropist, his labors, ii. 387.

Hudibras, humorous lines from, applicable to the modern Whigs, iv. 150.

Hume, Mr., his account of the secret of Rousseau's principles
of composition, iii. 459.
his remark on the doctrines of John Ball, iv. 355.

Humility, the basis of the Christian system, iv. 26.
humanity cannot be degraded by it, v. 253.

Husbandry, classification of laborers in, v. 144.

Hyder Ali Khan, scheme of the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot
to extirpate him, iii. 61.
dreadful devastation of the Carnatic by him, iii. 83.

Hypaethra of the Greeks, what, vii. 187.

Imagination, what, i. 86.
no bounds to men's passions when they are under its influence, iv. 192.

Imitation, one of the passions belonging to society, i. 122.
its source and use, i. 122.

Impeachment, the great guardian of the purity of the constitution, i. 495.

Impey, Sir Elijah, (Chief Justice of Bengal,) accused of the
official murder of Nundcomar, x. 218.
resolution of the House of Commons concerning this accusation, x. 311.
serves as bearer of Mr. Hastings's order to seize the
treasures of the Begums of Oude, xii. 32.
acts as commissioner to seek affidavits against the Begums, xii. 82.

Indecision, the natural accomplice of violence, iv. 190.

Indemnification, one of the requisites of a good peace, i. 295.

Indemnity and oblivion, acts of, their probable effects as
means of reconciling France to a monarchy, iv. 460.

Independence of mind, always more or less influenced by
independence of fortune, vii. 78.

India, the people of, classification of them, ix. 376; xi. 207.

Indians, British alliances with them in the American war denounced,
vi. 171.

Indifference, pleasure, and pain, viewed in relation to each
other, as states of the mind, i. 103.

Indolence, the prevailing characteristic of the class of
elegant, weak-minded people, vii. 147.

Industry, effect of the Irish Popery laws in discouraging it,
vi. 351.

Infinite, the artificial, consists in succession and uniformity
of parts, i. 149, 220.

Infinity, a source of the sublime, i. 148.
in agreeable images, a cause of pleasure, i. 153.

Influence of the crown, operation of it, i. 444.

Inheritance, value of this principle in the British constitution, iii. 274.

Injury is quick and rapid, justice slow, x. 151; xi. 181.

Innocence, contrasted with guilt, ix. 371.

Insolvency, who ought to suffer in a case of, iii. 381.

Institutions, ancient juridical ones in England, intended to
retard the headlong course of violence and oppression, ii. 193.
in political institutions, soundness of the materials of
more importance than the fashion of the work, v. 120.
how, when revolutionized, to be reestablished, v. 126.
benefits of institution, properly conditional, vii. 15.

Interest of a debt, not the principal, distresses a nation, i. 329.

Intolerance, mischief of it, vii. 34.

Ireland, danger of a proposed tax upon, i. 352.
early transmission thither of English liberties and institutions,
ii. 146.
Two Letters to Gentlemen of Bristol relative to the Trade of Ireland,
ii. 247.
Mr. Burke's defence of his Parliamentary conduct with regard to it,
ii. 377.
the plan for the government of Ireland until 1782, what, iv. 233.
the true revolution there, that of 1782, iv. 276.
state of religion there before the grant of Pope Adrian IV., vi. 342.
object of the grant, vi. 342.
mutual importance of Ireland and Great Britain to one another, vi. 420.
reduction of Ireland by Henry II., vii. 410.
nature and previous condition of the country, vii. 410.
motives which led Adrian to commission Henry to reduce it, vii. 410, 413.
the English laws said to have been established there at its
subjugation by John, vii. 449.

Irish language, names of the letters of it taken from the names
of several species of trees, vii. 412.

Isocrates, observation of his in one of his orations against
the Sophists, i. 5.

Italy, its original inhabitants of the same race as the people
of Northern Europe, vii. 161.
its situation from a remote period, vii. 161.

Jacobinism by establishment, what, v. 309.

Jacobins, their character, iv. 437, v. 285, vi. 367.
their great object, v. 39.

Jacquerie, brief notice of the, iv. 177.

Jaffier Ali Khan, made Nabob of Bengal by the English, ix. 401.

Jaghires, Indian, nature of them, xii. 9.

Jekyl, Sir Joseph, his character, iv. 130.
extracts from his speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell,
iv. 130, 131, 132, 136, 137, 142, 143.