V.
Vandyke, his portrait of the Earl of Strafford, [454]
Yausittart. Mr., Governor of Bengal, his position, [9] ; his fair intentions, feebleness, and inefficiency, [9]
Varela's portrait of James II., [251]
Vattel, [27]
Vega, Garcilasso de la, a soldier as well as a poet, [81]
Vendôme, Duke of, takes the command of the Bourbon forces in Spain (1710), iii [127]
Venice, republic of, next in antiquity to tin- line of the Supreme Pontiff's, [300]
Venus, the Roman term for the highest throw on the dice, [13] ; note.
Vergniaud, [452] [457] [473] [474]
Verona, protest of Lord Holland against the course pursued by England at the Congress of, [413]
Verres, extensive bribery at the trial of, [421]
Verse, occasional, [350] ; blank, [300] ; reasoning in, [300]
Versification, modern, in a dead language, [212]
Veto, by Parliament, on the appointment of ministers, [487] ; by the Crown on aets of Parliament, [488]
"Violet Crown, city of," a favorite epithet of Athens, [30] ; note.
"Vicar of Wakefield" (the), [159] [161]
Vigo, capture of the Spanish galleons at. [170] [108]
"Village, Deserted" (the), Goldsmith's, [162] [103]
Villani, John, his account of the state of Florence in the [14]th century, [276]
Villn-Vieiosa, battle of, [171] [128]
Villiers, Sir Edward, [412]
Virgil not so "correct" a poet as Homer, [337] ; skill with which Addison imitated him, [331] Dante's admiration of, [329]
Vision of Judgment, Southev's, [145]
Voltaire. the connecting link of the literary schools of Lewis XIV. and Lewis XVI., [355] Horace Walpole's opinion of him. [155] ; his partiality to England, [412] [294] ; meditated a history of the conquest of Bengal, 214; his character, and that of his compeers, [294] ; his interview with Congreve, [407] ; his genius venerated by Frederic the Great, [100] ; his whimsical conferences with Frederic, [176] ; seq.; compared with Addison as a master of the art of ridicule, [370] [377] ; his treatment by the French Academy, [23] ; failed to obtain the poetical prize,
W.
Wages, effects of attempts by government to limit the amount of, [362] ; their relations to labor, [383] [385] [400]
Waldegrave, Lord, made first Lord of the Treasury by George II., [242] ; his attempt to form an administration, [243]
Wales, Frederic, Prince of, joined the opposition to Walpole, [208] ; his marriage, [209] ; makes Pitt his groom of the bedchamber, [216] ; his death, [222] [223] ; headed the opposition, [7] ; his sneer at the Earl of Bute, [20]
Wales, Princess Dowager of, mother of George [111] [18] ; popular ribaldry against her, [42]
Wales, the Prince of, generally in opposition to the minister, [208]
Wall, Mr., Governor of Goree, [318]
Waller, Edmund, his conduct in the House of Commons, [303] ; similarity of his character to Lord Bacon's, [38] [5] [386]
Walmesley, Gilbert, [177]
Walpole, Sir Horace, review of Lord Dover's edition of his Letters to Sir Horace Mann, [143] ; eccentricity of his character, [144] [145] ; his politics, [146] ; his affectation of philosophy, [149] ; his unwillingness to be considered a man of letters, [149] ; his love of the French language, [152] ; character of his works, [156] [158] ; his sketch of Lord Carteret, [187]
Walpole, Sir Robert, his retaliation on the Tories for their treatment of him, [136] ; the "glory of the Whigs," [165] ; his character, [166] ; seq.; the charges against him of corrupting the Parliament, [171] ; his dominant passion, [171] 173; his conduct in regard to the Spanish war, [173] ; his last struggle, [178] ; outcry for his impeachment, [179] ; formidable character of the opposition to him, [175] [206] ; his conduct in reference to the South Sea bubble, [200] ; his conduct towards his colleagues, [202] [205] ; found it necessary to resign, [217] ; bill of indemnity for witnesses brought against him, [218] ; his maxim in election questions in the House of Commons, [473] ; his many titles to respect, [416] [417]
Walpolean battle, the great, [165] [426]
Walsingham, the Earl of (16th century), [36]
Wanderer, Madame D'Arblay's, [311]
War, the Art of, by Machiavelli, [306]
War of the Succession in Spain, Lord Mahon's, review of, [75] [112] ; see Spain.
War, in what spirit it should be waged, [187] [188] ; languid, condemned, [495] Homer's description of, [356] [357] ; descriptions of by Silius Italicus, [357] ; against Spain, counselled by Pitt and opposed by Bute, [29] ; found by Bute to be inevitable, [32] ; its conclusion, [37] ; debate on the treaty of peace, [49]
War, civil. See Civil War.
Ward, John William, Lord Dudley, [288]
Warburton, Bishop, his views on the ends of government, [122] ; his social contract a fiction, [182] ; his opinion as to the religion to be taught by government, [188]
Warning, not the only end of punishment, [464]
Warwick, Countess Dowager of, [411] [412] ; her marriage with Addison, [412]
Warwick, Earl of, makes mischief between Addison and Pope, [469] ; his dislike of the marriage between Addison and his mother, [411] ; his character, [412]
Watson, Bishop, [425]
Way of the World, by Congreve, its merits, [403]
Wealth, tangible and intangible, [150] [152] ; national and private, [153] [180] ; its increase among all Masses in England, [180] [187] ; its diffusion in Russia and Poland as compared with England, [182] ; its accumulation and diffusion in England and in Continental states, [182]
Wodderburne, Alexander, his defence of Lord Clive, [292] ; his urgency with Clive to furnish Voltaire with the materials for his meditated history of the conquest of Bengal, [294]
Weekly Intelligencer (the), extract from, on Hampden's death, [405]
Weldon, Sir A., his Story of the meanness of Bacon, [407]
Wellesley, Marquis, his eminence as a statesman, iv. 05; his opinion as to the expediency of reducing the numbers of the Privy Council, 05; l'itt's friendship for him, [205]
Wellington, Duke of, [90] [357] [408] [409] [420] ; l'itt's estimate of him, [290] "Wellingtoniad" (the), an imaginary epic poem, [158] [171]
Wendover, its recovery of the elective franchise, [443]
Wesley, John, Southey's life of, [137] ; his dislike to the doctrine of predestination, [170]
West Indies (the), slavery in, [303] [330] ; its origin and legal condition there, [303] [310] ; state of religion in, [311] [313] ; state of manners, [314] [310] ; public opinion in, [315] [317] [318] 319; despotic character of the inhabitants, [320]-322; commerce of, [323] [325] ; character of the proprietors, [320]-329; slavery in, approaching its end, [328] [329] ; their system of cultivation, [378] [381] [403]
Westminster Hall, [42] ; the scene of the trial of Hastings, [124]
Westphalia, the treaty of, [314] [338]
Wharton, Earl of, lord lieutenant of Ireland, [371] ; appoints Addison chief secretary, [371]
Wheler, Mr., his appointment as Governor-General of India, [54] ; his conduct in the council, [57] 02, [74]
Whigs (the), their unpopularity and loss of power in [171] [130] ; their position in Walpole's time, [20] [207] ; their violence in [167]9, [299] ; the king's revenge on them, [301] ; revival of their strength, [304] ; their conduct at the Devolution, [319] [320] ; after that event, [330] ; doctrines and literature they patronized daring the seventy years they were in power, [332] Mr. Courtenay's remark on those of the [17]th century, [272] ; attachment of literary men to them after the Devolution, [337] ; their fall on the accession of Anne, [351] [301] ; in the ascendant in [170] Queen Anne's dislike of them, [381] ; their dismissal by her, [381] ; their success in the administration of the government, [381] ; dissensions and reconstruction of the Whig government in [171]7, [430] ; enjoyed all the public patronage in the reign of George I., [4] [5] ; acknowledged the Duke of Newcastle as their leader, [8] ; their power and intiuence at the close of the reign of George II., [10] ; their support of the Brunswick dynasty, [15] ; division of them into two classes, old and young, [72] ; superior character of the young Whig school, [73] ; see Tories.
Whig and Tory, inversion of the meaning of, [131]
Whigs and Tories after the Devolution, [530] ; their relative condition in [171] [130] ; their essential characteristics, [2] ; their transformation in the reign of George I., [3] ; analogy presented by France, [4] ; subsidence of party spirit between them, [5] ; revival under Bute's administration of the animosity between them, [38]
Whitgift, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, his character, [353] ; his Calvinistic doctrines, [175]177; his zeal and activity against the Puritans, [330]
Wickliffe, John, juncture at which he rose, [312] ; his intiuence in England, Germany, and Bohemia, [313]
Wieland, [341]
Wilberforce, William, travels upon the Continent with Pitt, [242] ; opposes Fox's India bill, [245] [240] ; reelected to Parliament, [249] ; his efforts to suppress the slave-trade, [209] ; his intimate friendship with Pitt, [287] [297] ; his description of Pitt's speech against Hastings, [120]
Wilkes, John, conduct of the government with respect to his election for Middlesex, [535] ; his comparison of the mother of George III. to the mother of Edward [111] , [42] ; his persecution by the Grenville administration, [56] ; description of him, [56] ; his North Briton, [56] ; his committal to the Tower, [56] ; his discharge, [57] ; his Essay on Woman laid before the House of Lords, 511; tights a duel with one of Lord Bute's dependents, [60] ; flies to France, [60] ; is works ordered to be burnt by the hangman, and himself expelled the House of Commons, and outlawed, [60] ; obtains damages in an action tor the seizure of his papers, [61] ; returns from exile and is elected for Middlesex, [100] ; compared to Mirabeau, [72]
Wilkie, David, recollection of him at Holland House, [425] ; failed in portrait-painting, [319]
William III., low state of national prosperity and national character in his reign, [529] ; his feeling in reference to the Spanish succession, [102] ; unpopularity of his person and measures, [101] ; suffered under a complication of diseases, [101] ; his death, [102] ; limitation of his prerogatives, [103] ; compact with the Convention, [320] ; his habit of consulting Temple, [103] ; coalition which he formed against Lewis XIV. secretly favored by Home, [339] ; his vices not obtruded on the public eye. [392] ; his assassination planned, [394] Addison's Lines to him, [333] ; reference to him, [67]
Williams, Dean of Westminster, his services to Buckingham, and counsel to him and the king, [411] [416]
Williams, John, his character, [139] [270] ; employed by Hastings to write in his defence, [139]
Williams, Sir William, his character as a lawyer, [378] ; his view of the duty of counsel in conducting prosecutions, [378]
Wimbledon Church, Lord Burleigh attended mass at, [6]
Windham, Mr., his opinion of Sheridan's speech against Hastings, [122] ; his argument for retaining brands in the impeachment against Hastings, [123] ; his appearance at the trial, [12]S; his adherence to Burke, [136]
Wine, excess in, not a sign of ill-breeding in the reign of Queen Anne, [367]
"Wisdom of our ancestors," proper value of the plea of, [272]
Wit, Addison's compared with that of Cowley and Butler, [375]
Witt, John de, power with which he governed Holland, [32] ; his interview with Temple, [36] ; his manners, [36] [37] ; his confidence in Temple and deception by Charles' court, [47] ; his violent death, [51]
Wolfe, General, l'itt's panegyric upon, [213] ; his conquest of Quebec and death, [244] ; monument voted to him, [244]
Woman, source of the charm of her beauty, [74] ; her different treatment among the Greeks and the Romans, [83] [85] ; in the middle ages, [85] ; and among civilized nations generally, [33] [35]
Women, as agricultural laborers, [394] [395]
Women (the) of Dryden's comedies, [356] ; of his tragedies, [357] [358]
Woodfall, Mr., his dealings with Junius, [38]
Wordsworth, relative "correctness" of his poetry, [338] Byron's distaste for, [352] ; characteristics of his poems, [356] [362] ; his egotism, [82]
Works, public, employment of the public wealth in, [155] ; publie and private, comparative value of, [155]
Waiting, grand canon of, [76]
Wycherley, William, his literary merits and faults, [368] ; his birth, family, and education, [369] [370] ; age at which he wrote his plays, [370] [371] ; his favor with the Duchess of Cleveland, [372] [373] ; his marriage, [376] ; his embarrassments, [377] ; his acquaintance with Pope, [381] [383] ; his character as a writer, [384] 387; his severe handling by Collier, [599] ; analogy between him and Congreve, [410]
X.
Xenophon, his report of the reasoning of Socrates in confutation of Aristodeinus, his political economy, [149] ; his presentation of the Spartan character, [185] ; his style, [393] ; his mental characteristics, [393] [394] ; contrasted with Herodotus, [394] ; with Tacitus, [403]
Y.
York, Duke of, [62] ; anxiety excited by his sudden return from Holland, [94] ; detestation of him, [94] ; revival of the question of his exclusion, [96]
York House, the London residence of Bacon and his father, [408] [432]
Yonge, Sir William, [205]
Young, Dr., his testimony to Addison's colloquial powers, [366]
Z.