CLE

Clergy, game-shooting propensity of the,
412

Coke, Sir Edward, rebuked by Bacon, 40
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, to Josiah Wade,
relating how a woman abused him in a
coach, 417; to Joseph Cottle, offering
the copyright of the Lyrical Ballads,'
418; to William Godwin, on the effect
of drink upon his talk, 420; his friend-
ship with Southey, 429; with Charles
Lamb, 433 note

Commonwealth, end of the, 102; the
Council of State of the, 103, 120
Constable, John, to Mr. Dunthorne, on the
way to excellence in painting, 445; to
the Rev. J. Fisher, on skies in landscape,
446

Conventicles, proceedings against the, 111,
113

Corneille, Boileau's judgment of, 179
Cotes, Francis, portrait-painter, death of,
339

Cottle, Joseph, his generous treatment of
Southey, 431
Covenant, the, 90, 92
Cowley, poetry of, 138

Cowper, William, to Clotworthy Rowley,

on the enjoyment of life without wealth,
318; to Joseph Hill, in behalf of the
lace-makers, 320; to Mrs. Newton, in
verse, concerning her gift of a barrel of
oysters, 321; to the Rev. John Newton,
(1) describing Mr. Grenville's canvass-
ing visit to him, 322; (2) on the praise
accorded to his 'Task,' and on Pope's
Homer, 324; to Lady Hesketh, looking
forward to a visit from her, 325; to
the Rev. Walter Bagot, confessing his
shyness when visited by strangers, 327;
to Mrs. Charlotte Smith, a letter of
sympathy, 328

Cox, Bishop, to Rodolph Gualter, con-
cerning the Puritan movement, 57
Crabbe, George, to Edmund Burke, (1)
appealing for his help in distress, 350;
(2) congratulating him on his appoint-
ment as Paymaster-General of the
Forces, 352; Sir Walter Scott's liking
for his poems, 400

DER

Cradock, Mr., Dr. Parr's testimony to, 343
Craggs, Mr., his friendship with Addison,
181

Cranfield, Lord, his plan for cheapening
Court mourning, 74

Cranmer, Archbishop, to Henry VIII,
concerning the scandalous reports
against Anne Boleyn, 13

Créqui, Duke of, his embassy to Oliver
Cromwell, 385

Cromwell, Oliver, to the Hon. Wm. Lent-
hall, describing the victory at Wor-
cester, 80; to Cardinal Mazarin, con-
cerning the Catholics and the Stuart
princes, 82; to Sir William Lockhart,
insisting on the observance by France
of the treaty against Spain, 82; presses
the trial of Charles 1., 119; his desire
to be addressed as brother by Louis
XIV., 385

Cumberland, Duke of, at his father's
funeral, 267

Cumming. See De Roos: also Hook
Curran, John Philpot, 354

Custom House, the fire in 1814 at, 103 note

DANIEL, Samuel, on our judgment of

bygone ages, quoted, 358

D'Arblay, Madame, to Mrs. Lock, de-
ploring her sister's death, 346
Darley, George, 546, note

Dashwood, Chamberlain, presents a snuff-
box to Addison, 180

Daun, defeat of, at Torgau, 267 note
Dawley farm, 195

De Burgh, Hubert, 260

De Foe to the Earl of Halifax, concerning
an engagement to write for his lord-
ship, 151; returning thanks for his
lordship's bounty, 153

De Quincey, Thomas, to Miss Jessie
Miller, expressing his delight in her
society, 481; to his daughter, Margaret
Craig, declaring his famished condition,
with remarks on personal cleanliness,
483

De Roos, Lord, his action for defamation
against Mr. Cumming, 502

FAR

FARQUHAR, George, the dramatist,

causes Mrs. Oldfield to become an
actress, 225

Fatima, a Turkish lady visited by Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu, 205

Felton, assassination of the Duke of Buck-

ingham by, 75

Fénelon, Boileau's opinion of the 'Télé-
maque' of, 179

Fielding, Henry, to the Hon. George
Lyttleton, congratulating him on his
second marriage, 234

Flanders, the French army in, 124
Fordyce, Dr., to David Garrick, in praise

of his impersonation of King Lear,
284

Forster, John, his edition of Landor, 505
note

Fox, Hogarth's portrait of, 268

Fox How, Dr. Arnold's residence, 517
France, treaty of, with Cromwell against
Spain, 84; the bourgeoisie of, 177; tree
culture in, 270; the war of 1803 with,
423; Lord Palmerston's way of deal-
ing with, 459, 460

Francis II. of France styles himself 'King
of Scotland,' 55

GUI

ter on his grandson, 263; his funeral,
266

George III., accession of, 265; govern-

ment of, 315; his policy towards the
Catholics, 408

Gibbon, Edward, to Dr. Priestley, (1) re-
fusing his challenge to controversy, 320;
(2) declining correspondence with him,
331; to Lord Sheffield, on the death of
Lady Sheffield, 332

Glamorgan, Earl of, disavowed by Charles
I., 94

Godwin, William, to Samuel Taylo
Coleridge, describing Curran, the Irish
barrister, 353; to Percy Bysshe Shelley,
condemning political associations and
inculcating tolerant views, 356; to his
daughter, Mrs. Shelley, on her depres-
sion at the loss of her child, 359; his
'History of the Commonwealth,' 385 note
Gold, the power of, Rev. G. Plaxton's
letter on, 148

Goldsmith, Mr., a cousin of General Wolfe,
290

Goldsmith, Oliver, to Mr. Griffith, in reply
to his threat of imprisonment, 295;
to his brother Maurice, relinquishing
his uncle's legacy for the benefit of his
poor relatives, 297; to Bennet Langton,
announcing the completion of She
Stoops to Conquer,' 299; his professor-
ship of Ancient History at the Royal
Academy, 297, 338

Gondolas, Venetian, 384

Grafton, Duke of, Junius's letter to,
313

Grattan, Henry, 354

Gray, Thomas, to the Rev. Norton
Nicholls, (1) retailing Cambridge news,
255; (2) describing country scenery;
his Odes from the Norse tongue, 268
Grenoble, the burning fountain of, 121
Grenville, George, administration of, 315
Grenville, Mr. G., his electioneering vist
to the poet Cowper, 322
Guadiana, passage of the, 392.
Guiana, Ralegh's expedition to, 38
Guiccioli, Marchesa, Byron's passion for.

489

Harley, the attempted assassination of,
161. See Oxford
Harvey, discovery of the circulation of
the blood by, 70

Haydon, Benjamin Robert, to John Keats,
letter of encouragement, 474; to Miss
Mitford, (1) animadverting upon Haz-
litt's treatment of Keats, 473; (2) com-
paring Byron and Wordsworth, 476;
(3) on a butcher who had an ambition
to feed genius, 479; to William Words-
worth, recalling a jovial dinner in the
company of Lamb and Keats, 480
Hayley, William, his friendship with

Mrs. Charlotte Smith, 329; with Wil-
liam Blake, 361

Hayward, Mr., on Sydney Smith's liberal-
mindedness, 413 note

Hazlitt, his treatment of Keats, 475
Hellespont, Byron's swim across the, 485
Henrietta Maria, Queen, to Charles I.,
dissuading him from yielding to Parlia-
ment on the questions of Presbyterian
government and the militia, 89
Henry IV. of France, abjuration of Pro-
testantism by, 27

Henry VI., recovery of, from mental de-
rangement, 5

HOW

Henry VII. to Sir Gilbert Talbot, calling
upon him for military service against
the York faction, 8

Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn, 15, 16
Herbert, Sir Edward, 62

Herrick, Robert, to Sir William Herrick,
appealing to his purse, 67, 68
Herries, Lady, 342

Hesketh, Lady, Cowper's affection for,
325 note

Hewet, John, killed together with his
sweetheart, Sarah Drew, by lightning,
192

Hewlett, Mr. J. T., 523 note

Highland poetry, 243
Highlanders, the, 466, 467
History, language of, 540

Hogarth, his conversation with Horace
Walpole, 268

Hogg, James, to Professor Wilson, declin-
ing an invitation to Elleray, 421
Holland, league of England and Sweden
with, 124

Home, John, his conversation with Mac

pherson on Highland poetry, 243
Homer, translation of, by Pope, 189, 324;
by Cowper, 328; by Sotheby, 362
Hood, Thomas, to his daughter, alluding
to his march across Germany with the
19th Polish Infantry, 522; to Charles
Dickens, deferring an appointment,
523; to May Elliot, a child, 523; to
Sir Robert Peel, bidding him a dying
farewell, 525

Hook, Theodore, his Ramsbottom Let-
ters,' see Ramsbottom; to Charles Mat-
thews, relative to some remarks on
strolling players in the 'Fugglestone
Correspondence,' 499; engaged to write
the life of Charles Mathews, 501; his
impromptu epigram on the action of De
Roos v. Cumming, 502
Horner, Francis, 422

HUM

to Sir S. C, giving his wayside
meditations, 76; to Lady E. D———, a
complimentary letter, 79
Hume, David, to, concerning the
'Poems of Ossian,' 243; to Rousseau,
asserting the groundlessness of his accu-
sations, 246; to Dr. Blair, detailing
Rousseau's charges, 248
Hunt, Leigh, to Mr. Ives, stating his
wishes in prison, 462; to Joseph Severn,
sending a cheering message to Keats,
464; Haydon's judgment of, 474; in-
vited by Byron to become partner in a
periodical at Pisa, 507; style of, 537
Hyde, Edward (Earl of Clarendon), to
Lord Witherington, soliciting informa-
tion to be used in his History,' 100; to
Mr. Mordaunt, on the relations of the
Army with the Parliament, 101; to Sir
Henry Bennet, relating the end of the
Commonwealth, 102

IMLAY, Captain Gilbert, his base treat-

ment of Mary Wollstonecraft, 379 note
Inarime, the island of, Bishop Berkeley's
visit to, 187

Inchbald, Mrs., to the Rev. J. Plumptre,
in defence of the stage, 348

India, climate of, 533; Black Act of, 533
'Ingoldsby Legends,' the, 501
Inoculation. See Small-pox
Inquisition, Spanish, suggested for Eng-
land, 112

Inverness, Macbeth's castle at, 334
Ireland, women of, 176; state of, 504
Ireland, Samuel W. H., to Dr. Parr, pro-
testing the genuineness of his Shake-
speare forgeries, 448

Irish, love for wit of the, 387; the rent
grievance among the, 388

Ischia, the island of, 187

Italians, assassination among the, 490

JAGO, Richard, 253 note

James I. to his son Prince Henry, on
departing from Scotland to take pos-
session of the English crown, 44; to

Jervis, Admiral. See St. Vincent
Jewel, Bishop, to Peter Martyr, on the re-
ligious affairs of the kingdom after the
accession of Elizabeth, 54

Johnson, Dr., to Warren Hastings, point-
ing out to him the field for study
offered by India, 236; to the Earl of
Chesterfield, resenting his patronage,
238; to the Laird of Rasay, apologising
for a misstatement, 239; to Mrs. Piozzi,
(1) stigmatising her marriage as igne-
minious, 240; Mrs. Piozzi's reply, 242;
(2) advising her to remain in England,
241; intimacy of Dr. Parr with, 343
Jonson, Ben, to Dr. Donne, on the defence
of his own reputation, 64; Isaac Wal-
ton's account of, 69

Junius to Sir William Draper, denouncing
his half-pay as a Government job, 311;
to the Duke of Grafton, denouncing
Colonel Luttrell's appointment' to the
representation of Middlesex, 313
Juries, independence of, 112