So stalked he when he turned to flight, on that famed Picard field, Bohemia's plume, and Genoa's bow, and Cæsar's eagle shield. So glared he when at Agincourt in wrath he turned to bay, And crushed and torn beneath his claws the princely hunters lay. Ho!strike the flagstaff deep Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids: Ho! gunners, fire a loud salule: ho! gallants, draw your blades: Thou sun, shine on her joyously; ye breezes, waft her wide; Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pridė.

The freshening breeze of eve unfurled' that banner's massy fold; The parting gleam of sunshine kissed that haughty scroll of gold; Night sank upon the dusky beach, and on the purple sea, Such night in England ne'er had been, nor e'er again shall be. From Eddystone to Berwick bounds, from Lynn to Milford Bay, That time of slumber was as bright and busy as the day;

For swift to east and swift to west the ghastly war-flame spread, High on St. Michael's Mount it shone : it shone on Beachy Head. Far on the deep the Spaniard saw, along each southern shire, Cape beyond cape, in endless range, those twinkling points of fire. The fisher left his skiff to rock on Tamar's glittering waves: The rugged miners poured to war from Mendip's sunless caves!

O'er Longleat's towers, o'er Cranbourne's oaks, the fiery herald flew :

He roused the shepherds of Stonehenge, the rangers of Beaulieu. Right sharp and quick the bells all night rang out from Bristol town, And ere the day three hundred horse

had met on Clifton down;

The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night,

And saw o'erhanging Richmond Hill the streak of blood-red light,

Then bugle's note and cannon's roar the deathlike silence broke, And with one start, and with one cry, the royal city woke.

At once on all her stately gates arose the answering fires;

At once the wild alarum clashed from all her reeling spires;

From all the batteries of the Tower pealed loud the voice of fear; And all the thousand masts of Thames sent back a louder cheer;

And from the furthest wards was heard the rush of hurrying feet,

And the broad streams of pikes and flags rushed down each roaring street; And broader still became the blaze, and louder still the din,

As fast from every village round the horse came spurring in:

And eastward straight from wild Blackheath the warlike errand went, And roused in many an ancient hall the gallant squires of Kent. Southward from Surrey's pleasant hills flew those bright couriers forth; High on bleak Hampstead's swarthy moor they started for the north; And on, and on, without a pause, ‘untired they bounded still :

All night from tower to tower they sprang; they sprang from hill to hill: Till the proud peak unfurled the flag o'er Darwin's rocky dales,

Till like volcanoes flared to heaven the stormy hills of Wales, Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern's lonely height, Till streamed in crimson on the wind the Wrekin's crest of light, Till broad and fierce the star came forth on Ely's stately fane, And tower and hamlet rose in arms o'er all the boundless plain; Till Belvoir's lordly terraces the sign to Lincoln sent,

And Lincoln sped the message on on o'er the wide vale of Trent; Till Skiddaw saw the fire that burned on Gaunt's embattled pile, And the red glare on Skiddaw roused the Lurghers of Carlisle.

1832.

Abbé and abbot, difference between, 251.
Academy, character of its doctrines, 414.
Adam, Robert, court architect to George III.,
831.

Addison, Joseph, review of Miss Aikin's life
of, 769-814; his character, 770; his birth and
early life, 771; appointed to a scholarship
in Magdalene College, Oxford, 771; his
Essay on the Evidences of Christianity,
773; his intention to take orders frustrated,
775; sent by the Government to the Conti-
nent, 777; his introduction to Boileau,
779; composes his Epistle to Montague
(then Lord Halifax) 781; becomes tutor
to a young English traveller, 782; writes
his Treatise on Medals, 782; engaged by
Godolphin to write a poem in honour of
Marlborough's exploits, 784; is appointed
to a Commissionership, 784; merits of his
"Campaign," 784; criticism of his Tra-
vels in Italy, 786; his opera of Rosamond,
787; is made Under-Secretary of State,
788; his election to the House of Com-
mons, 788; his failure as a speaker, 788;
his popularity and talents for conversation,
789; his timidity and constraint among
strangers, 789; becomes Chief Secretary
for Ireland under Wharton, 791; origina-
tion of the Tatler, 793; his characteristics
as a writer, 793; compared with Swift
and Voltaire as a master of the art of
ridicule, 794; his pecuniary losses, 796;
loss of his Secretaryship, 796; resignation
of his Fellowship, 796; returned to Parlia
ment without a contest, 797; his Whig
Examiner, 797; his discontinuance of the
Tatler and commencement of the Spec-
tator, 797; his commencement and dis-
continuance of the Guardian, 799; his
Cato, 800; his intercourse with Pope,
802;

a

his concern for Steele, 802; begins
new series of the Spectator, 803;
appointed Secretary to the Lords Justices
of the Council on the death of Queen
Anne, 803; relations with Swift and
Tickell, 805; removed to the Board of
Trade, 805; production of his Drummer,
805; his Freeholder, 805; his long court-
ship of the Countess Dowager of Warwick
and union with her, 809; appointed
Secretary of State by Sunderland, 810;
resigns his post, 810; receives a pension,
810; his estrangement from Steele and
other friends, 811; advocates the bill for
limiting the number of Peers, 811; refuta-
tion of a calumny npon him, 812; his
death and funeral, 813; Tickell's elegy on
his death, 813; superb edition of his
works, 813; his monument, 814.

Adiaphorists, a sect of German Protestants,
238.

Adultery, how represented by the dramatists
of the Restoration, 596.

Advancement of Learning, by Bacon, 391.
Eschylus and the Greek drama, 8-12.
Afghanistan, the monarchy of, analogous to
that of England in the 16th century, 243;
bravery of its inhabitants, 640.

Agricultural and manufacturing labourers,
comparison of their conditions, 113.
Agujari, the singer, 740.
Aix, its capture, 326.

Akenside, his Epistle to Curio, 298.
Alexander the Great, compared with Clive,

Allegories of Johnson and Addison, 197.
Alphabetical writing, views of its value by
Plato and Bacon, 420.

America, acquisitions of the Catholic Church
in, 572; its capabilities, 572.
American colonies, British, war with them,
653; act for imposing stamp duties upon
them, 841; their disaffection, 846; revival
of the dispute with them, 856.
Angria, his fortress of Gheriah reduced by
Clive, 540.

Anne, Queen, her political and religious in-
clinations, 275; relative estimation by the
Whigs and the Tories of her reign, 276-
278, 280; state of parties at her accession,
783; dismisses the Whigs, 796.
Apostolical succession, Mr. Gladstone
claims it for the Church of England, 512-
524.

Aquinas, Thomas, 431.

Arbuthnot's Satirical Works, 794-

Arcot, Nabob of, his relations with England,
532-535, 570.

Argyle, Duke of, secedes from Walpole's
administration, 309.

Arithmetic, comparative estimate of, by
Plato and by Bacon, 418, 419.
Arlington, Lord, 451.

Armies in the middle ages, how constituted,
36, 37, 75; a powerful restraint on the
regal power, 75; subsequent change in
this respect, 75.

Army, The, control of, by Charles I. or by
Parliament, 79; its triumph over both, 83;
danger of a standing army becoming an
instrument of despotism, 230, 231.
Arne, Dr., 787.

Arragon and Castile, their old institutions
favourable to public liberty, 256.
Arundel, Earl of, 411.

Bacon, Lord, review of Basil Montagu's
new edition of the works of, 368-439; his
early years, 375; his services refused by
government, 376, 377; his admission at
Gray's Inn, 377; sat in Parliament in
1593, 378; his conduct to Essex, 384-388;
influence of King James on his fortunes,
388; his servility to Lord Southampton.
389; his distinction in Parliament and in
the courts of law, 390; his works, 391; his
work of reducing and recompiling the laws
of England, 391; his tampering with the
judges on the trial of Peacham, 391; his
appointment as Lord Keeper, 396; his
share in the vices of the administration,
396; his animosity towards Sir Edward
Coke, 399; his titles of Baron Verulam
and Viscount St. Albans, 400; report
against him of the Committee on the
Courts of Justice, 402; his admission of
his guilt, 403; his sentence, 404; chief
peculiarity of his philosophy, 412-417; his
views compared with those of Plato,
417-422; his views as a theologian, 427;
contemplation of his life, 438.

Bacon, Sir Nicholas, his character, 370-373.
Baconian philosophy, 412.

Baillie, Gen., destruction of his detachment
by Hyder Ali, 659.

Balance of power, interest of the Popes in
preserving it, 588.

Bar, The, its degraded condition in the time
of James II., 95.

Barcelona, capture of, by Peterborough, 270.
Barillon, M., his pithy words on the new
council proposed by Temple, 468, 472.
Barlow, Bishop, 602.

Bavaria, its contest between Protestantism
and Catholicism, 583-588.

Bayle, Peter, 574.

Bedford, Duke of, 818; his views of the

policy of Chatham, 825, 831; presents
remonstrance to George III., 844.
Bedfords, The, 818; their opposition to the
Rockingham ministry on the St. m Act,
847.

Bedford House assailed by a rabble, 843.
Begums of Oude, 666; their spoliation
charged against Hastings, 681.
Belgium, its contest between Protestantism
and Catholicism, 583-588.

Belial, 595.

Bell, Peter, Byron's spleen against, 163.
Benares, its grandeur, 660; its annexation
to the British dominions, 665.

Benevolences, Oliver St. John's opposition
to, and Bacon's support of, 391.
Bentham, his language on the French Revo-
lution, 335.

Bentham and Dumont, 285.

Bentivoglio, Cardinal, on the state of reli-

gion in England in the 16th century, 246.
Bentley, Richard, his quarrel with Boyle,
and remarks on Temple's Essay on the
Letters of Phalaris, 487; his edition of
Milton, 488, 768; his notes on Horace,
488; his reconciliation with Boyle and
Atterbury, 489.

Bickerstaff, Isaac, astrologer, 793.

Bishops, claims of those of the Church of
England to apostolical succession, 512-
515.

Black Hole of Calcutta described, 541-542.
Black more, Sir Richard, his attainments in
the ancient languages, 773.
Blackstone, 366.

Blasphemous publications, policy of Govern-
ment in respect to, 123.
Blenheim, battle of, 783.

Blois, Addison's retirement to, 777.
"Bloomsbury gang," the denomination of
the Bedfords, 818.

Bodley, Sir Thomas, founder of the Bodleian
library, 391, 411.

Boileau, Addison's intercourse with, 777.
Bolinbroke, Lord, the liberal patron of
literature, 184; proposed to strengthen the
royal prerogative, 293; his pretence of phi,
losophy ir. his exile, 426; his remedy for
the diseases of the state, 823, 824.
Book of the Church, Southey's, 107.
Books, puffing of, 133-135.

Boroughs, rotten, the abolition of, a neces-
sary reform in the time of George I., 297.
Boswell's Life of Johnson, by Croker, review
of, 170-196; character of the work, 180.
Bourne, Vincent, 810.

Boyle, Charles, his nominal editorship of the
Letters of Phalaris, 487; his book on
Greek history and philology, 773.

Boyle, Rt. Hon. Henry, 784.

Boys, The," in opposition to Sir R. Wal-
pole, 295.

Bracegirdle, Mrs., her celebrity as an actress,
619.

Bribery, foreign, in the time of Charles I.,

97.

"Broad Bottom Administration, The," 315-
Brunswick, the House of, 820.

Brydges, Sir Egerton, 763.

Buckingham, Duke of, the "Steenie" of
James I., 210, 394, 402.

Buckingham, Duke of, one of the Cabal
ministry, 604; anecdote of his volatility,
€04.

Bunyan, John, his history and character,
200-202; his style, 203.

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, review of
Southey's edition of, 196.

Buonaparte, 86, 322, 785. See also Napoleon,
Burke, Edmund, his characteristics, 106

tion of corn, 854; his retirement from
office, 854; his policy violated, 855; resigns
the privy scal, 856; state of parties and of
public affairs on his recovery, 856; opposed
the recognition of the independence of the
United States, 858; his last appearance in
the House of Lords, 859; his death, 859.
Cherbourg, guns taken from, 326.
Chesterfield, Lord, his dismissal by Walpole,
308.

Cheyte Sing, 661; his treatment made the
successful charge against Hastings, 680.
Chivalry, its form in Languedoc in the 12th
century, 575.

Cholmondely, Mrs., 747.

Christianity, its alliance with the ancient
philosophy, 415; light in which it was
regarded by the Italians at the Reforma-
tion. 578.

Church, The, Southey's Book of, 107.
Church, The English, persecutions in her
name, 60; High and Low Church parties,
787.

Church of England, its origin and connec
tion with the State, 64, 523; its condition
in the time of Charles I., 122-124; endea-
vour of the leading Whigs at the Revolu-
tion to alter its Liturgy and Articles, 361,
518; its contest with the Scotch nation,
361; Mr. Gladstone's work in defence of
it, 492, 493; his arguments for its being
the pure Catholic Church of Christ, 510,
512; its claims to apostolic succession
discussed, 512-519; views respecting its
alliance with the State, 519-524; contrast
of its operations during the two genera-
tions succeeding the Reformation, with
those of the Church of Rome, 584, 585.
Church of Rome, its alliance with ancient
philosophy, 416; causes of its success and
vitality, 571, 572; sketch of its history,
575-593.

Churchill, Charles, 94, 831.

Cicero, the most eloquent and skilful of
advocates, 370.

Cider, proposal of a tax on, 835.

Civil privileges and political power identical,

145.

Civil war, its evils the price of our liberty,
19; conduct of the Long Parliament in
reference to it, 71, 72, 83.

Clarendon, Lord, his character, 95; his posi-
tion at the head of affairs, 451-455; his
opposition to the growing power of the
Commons, 471.

Clarke, Dr. Samuel, 573.
Clarkson, Thomas, 764.

Clifford, Lord, his character, 459; his retire-
ment, 463; his talent for debate, 470.
Clive, Lord, review of Sir John Malcolm's
Life of, 524-571; his attack, capture, and
defence of Arcot, 533-535; his marriage
and return to England, 538; enters Parlia
ment, 539; returns to India, 539; ap-
pointed Governor of the Company's pos
sessions in Bengal, 551; his dispersion
of Shah Alum's army, 552; nominated
Governor of the British possessions in
Benga!, 558; suppresses a conspiracy,
558-560; success of his foreign policy,

561; his speech in his defence, and its
consequence, 568; his life in retirement,
569; his death, 570.

Club-room, Johnson's, 195.

"

Coke, Sir E., his conduct towards Bacon,
377, 399; his removal from the Bench, 398;
his reconciliation with Bacon, 399; his
behaviour to Bacon at his trial, 408.
Coleridge, relative correctness of his
poetry, 157; Byron's opinion of him, 163.
Collier, Jeremy, his publication on the pro-
faneness of the English stage, 614-617.
Colloquies on Society, Southey's, 105-131.
Colonies, 254; question of the competency
of Parliament to tax them, 846.

Comic Dramatists of the Restoration, 593-
621.

Commons, House of, increase of its power,
100; increase of its power by and since
the Revolution, 362.
Commonwealth, 600.
Congreve, sketch of his career at the Temple,
610;
success of his Love for Love,
612; his Mourning Bride, 612; his
controversy with Collier, 616; his Way
of the World, 617; his death and capri-
cious will, 620.

Congreve and Sheridan, effect of their works
upon the comedy of England, 43; con-
trasted with Shakspeare, 44.

Constance, Council of, put an end to the
Wickliffe schism, 577.

Constitution, The, of England, in the 15th
and 18th centuries, compared with those
of other European States, 74; its theory
in respect to the three branches of the
legislature, 811.

Constitutional History of England, review
of Hallam's, 55-105..

Cooke, Sir Anthony, his learning, 373.
Coote, Sir Eyre, 654.

"

"Correctness in the fine arts and in the
sciences, 157-160; in painting, 159; what
is meant by it in poetry, 158.

Corruption, Parliamentary, not necessary to
the Tudors, 292; its extent in the reigns
of George I. and II., 823.

Council of York, its abolition, 222.

Courtenay, Rt. Hon. T. P., review of his
Memoirs of Sir William Temple, 439-490.
Covenant, the Scotch, 219.

Covenanters, The, their conclusion of a
treaty with Charles I., 219.
Coventry, Lady, 743.

Cowley, 259, 437.

Cowper, Earl, Keeper of the Great Seal, 787.
Cowper, William, 162; his friendship with
Warren Hastings, 629.

Coyer, Abbé, his imitation of Voltaire, 794.
Cranmer, Archbishop, estimate of his
character, 61.
Crebillon the Younger,
Crisis, Steele's, 805.

286.

Crisp, Samuel, his early career, 741; his
tragedy of Virginia, 743 his retirement
and seclusion, 744.

Criticism, remarks on Johnson's rode of,
191.

Croker, Mr., his edition of Boswell's Life of
Dr. Johnson, reviewed, 170-196.