A.

Addison, Joseph, ii. 419.

Albemarle, Arnold van Keppel, Earl of,
birth and origin, i. 234; his rapid rise
in the favour of William III, 231, 234,
236; bonours and appointments con-
ferred on him, 235, 236, 239; popular
with the English, 233, 236; character,
237, 238; lampooned, 238; military
services, 239; in favour with Queen
Anne, ib.; retires to Holland, 240;
death, ib.; noticed, i. 170, 173, 230.
Albemarle, William-Anne, second Earl of,
noticed, i. 241; account of, ib., n.
Amelia Sophia, Princess, daughter of
George II., birth, iii. 209; the Dukes
of Newcastle and Grafton rivals for her
favour, 209, 210, 211; character, 211,
212; fond of hunting and the card-
table, 212 - 214, 218; excludes
the public from Richmond Park, 215,
216; quits the court on the accession
of George III., 216; her acquaintance
with Horace Walpole, 217, 218; death,
219; notices of, iii. 51, 63, 65, 192,
238, 395.

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Anne, Princess, daughter of James II.,
birth, i. 249, 250; George I. a suitor
for her hand, 250; marries Prince
George of Denmark, ib.; deserts her
father at the revolution, 251; flight
from Whitehall, 252 - 255; trium-
phant entry into Oxford, 255, 256;
unfeeling conduct towards her father,
256, 260, 261; motives for deserting
him, 256 259; misunderstanding
with her sister, Queen Mary, 261
-264; mutual dislike between Anne
and King William, 265; reconciled
to her sister, 265, 266; proposes to
restore her father to the throne, 267-
270; James forgives her on his death-
bed, 269; her intention of restoring
the Pretender, 270-276; loses her
last surviving son, the Duke of Glouces-

ter, 277, 280, 281; her curious manner
of corresponding with the Duchess of
Marlborough, 281. (See the next
article.)

Anne, Queen, succeeds to the throne, i.
282, 283; character, 283-285, 320
-322; her court, 284; her attach-
ment to ceremonies and customs, 284,
285; process of the royal toilet, 285–
287; good breeding, 287; love of
flattery, 288; accused of dram-drink-
ing, 288, 289, 327; habits of economy,
289-291; person, 292; particular in
matters of dress, ib. ; sweetness of her
voice, 293, 294; taste for hunting, 294;
behaviour on the death of her husband,
295-301; state of parties during her
reign, 301-303; her life embittered by
the political dissensions among her
ministers, 302, 305-307; her bias in
favour of the Tory party, 303, 304;
timidity of her disposition, 304; last
illness, 307-320; death, 320; her
numerous children, 322; determines
on the dismissal of the Duke of Marl-
borough, 386-391, 403; early friend-
ship with the Duchess, 448, 449, 452;
domineered over by her, 453, 454;
their misunderstanding, 455–462; her
presumed attachment to Sheffield Duke
of Buckingham, ii. 4, 5, 8; the Duch-
ess of Marlborough superseded by Mrs.
Masham in her affections, 39-42;
identifies herself with, Harley's political
intrigues, 41, 47-53; countenances
the intrigues for his dismissal, 74-77;
Mrs. Masham's influence over her, i.
296-298; ii. 242, 244, 248—254,
256; notices of, i. 182, 432; ii. 56,
102, 283; iii. 77.

Anne, (Princess of Orange,) daughter of
George II.; memoir of, iii. 203-208.
Arbuthnot, Dr., ii. 228, 250, 252.
Argyle, John, fourth Duke of, ii. 439.
Askew, Anne, her martyrdom, ii.12, and n.
Athlone, Earl of, i. 369.

Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, performs
the funeral ceremony at the interment
of the Duke of Marlborough, i. 444;
his interview with Lord Bolingbroke at
Calais, ii. 153; birth, 211; educated at
Westminister and Oxford, 212; his
literary attainments, ib.; wearies of a
collegiate life, 213; enters into holy
orders, 214; accused of scepticism,
215; marries a relation of the Duke of
Leeds, ib.; his theological controversies,
215, 216; advanced to the Bishopric of
Rochester, 217; his friendship with
Pope, Bolingbroke, Swift and Gay,
217, 218; instances of his ready wit,
218-220; his Jacobite principles,
220, 222; proposes to proclaim the
Pretender, 221, 222; arrested for high
treason and sent to the Tower, 223,
224; restless and ambitious character,
213, 223, 224; the clergy publicly
pray for him in the churches, 224; his
verses on Lord Cadogan, 225; rigorous
treatment by the ministry, 225-227;
letter to Pope from the Tower, 227;
trial and defence, 229-232; declared
guilty of high treason, 233; presents
his Bible to Pope, 234; trial of strength
between the Bishop and Sir Robert Wal-
pole, 235, 236; departs from England,
in conformity with his sentence of exile,
236, 237; verses addressed to him by
the Duke of Wharton, 237; his vain
assumption of the character of a philo-
sopher, 237, 238; engages in the
service of the Pretender, 238, and n.;
grief at the death of his daughter, Mrs.
Morrice, 238-240; death and burial,
241; notices of, iii. 273-275, 368.
Augusta, Princess of Wales, hurried from
Hampton Court by her husband on the
eve of her accouchement, iii. 132—135 ;
birth, 160, married to Frederick,
Prince of Wales, 128, 160, 161; her
good conduct as a wife and a mother,
161, 162; tolerates her husband's
amours, 162; appointed guardian to
her eldest son, afterwards George III.,
163, 192; her discreet behaviour, 164;
subsequent unpopularity, 165; her
presumed attachment to Lord Bute, 164,
166-168; character, 169; last illness
and death, 169, 170; notices of, iii. 147,
153, 214, 324, 325, 328, 441.

B.

Baillie, Griselda. (See Murray.)

Bareith, Margravine of, attachment of
Frederick Prince of Wales to her, iii.
123, 124; her father's brutal treatment
of her, ii. 319; iii. 123, and n.
Barry, Mrs., the actress, i. 293.
Bateman, Lady, i. 479.

Bath, William Pulteney, Earl of, notices
and anecdotes of, ii. 362, 366-368,
381, 390; iii. 128, 131, 320, 376–378.
Battersea, interesting associations con-

nected with the seat of Lord Boling-
broke at, ii. 174, n.
Beaulieu, Edward Hussey, Lord, notice
of, i. 483, n.

Bedford, (Lady Diana Spencer,) Duchess
of; project of marrying her to Frede-
rick Prince of Wales, iii. 127.
Bellenden, Mary, her beauty and wit,
ii. 436, 437; George II.'s admi-
ration of her, 437; her contempt for
his penuriousness, 438; married to
Colonel John Campbell, afterwards
Duke of Argyle, 439; specimen of her
epistolary style, 440; death, 441; no-
tices of, ii. 284, 385; iii. 404.
Bellenden, Margaret, ii. 437.
Berkeley, James, third Earl of, proposes
to carry off the Prince of Wales to
America, iii. 10, 11, and n.

Berkeley, Hon. George, iii. 416, and n.
Bernsdorf, Count, a favourite with George
I., ii. 296.

Berwick, Duke of, i. 139; ii. 146.
Bidloo, Dr., i. 171–173.

Blackbourn, Dr., Archbishop of York,
anecdote of, iii. 98, and n.
Blackmore, Sir William, the poet, i.
140.

Blandford, Marquess of, i. 371.
Blenheim, battle of, i. 374-377.
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount;
comparison between his genius and
that of Harley, ii. 43-46; his in-
timacy with the Marquis de Guis-
card, 55; birth, 87; educated among
the Puritans, 88, 89; the schoolfellow
of Sir Robert Walpole at Eton, 90; iii.
352; removed to Christ Church Col-
lege, Oxford, ii. 90; his early profli-
gacy, 90
92, 95, 96; occasional
habits of study, 90, 92; overweening
ambition, 92; verses addressed by him
to Miss Clara Atkins, 93; marries a
daughter of Sir Henry Winchescombe,
95; their disagreements and separa-
tion, 96; her affectionate regard for
him, 96, 97, 103; enters the House of
Commons, and distinguishes himself by

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his eloquence, 97, 98; attaches him-
self to Harley, and appointed Secretary
at War, 37, 38, 98; friendship with
the Duke of Marlborough, i. 418-420;
ii. 98, 99; retires with Harley from
office, 99; his literary seclusion, 99,
100; appointed Secretary of State, 101
his great political talents, 101, 102;
disliked by Queen Anne and Mrs.
Masham, 102; reverts to his former
libertine habits, 103; Swift's character
of him, 104; conducts the treaty of
Utrecht, 102, 105-109; created Vis-
count Bolingbroke, 109; his friendship
with literary men, 110-112; Pope's
admiration of his genius, 112, 113 ;
supplies Pope with the frame-work of
his Essay on Man," 113; their friend-
ship, 113, 114; Bolingbroke's subse-
quent vindictiveness, and causes for it,
114117 ; his dissensions with Har-
ley, 117-123; accomplishes the poli-
tical ruin of the latter by means of Mrs.
Masham, i. 305-307; ii. 71–78, 122,
123 ; his projected administration in
the event of Harley's fall, i. 307, 417;
ii. 123; failure of his ambitious pro-
jects; i. 307; ii. 123, 124; dignified
conduct under proscription, 124, 125;
dismissed from his employments, 126;
articles of accusation prepared against
him, 127, 131, 133; escapes from
England in the disguise of a servant,
128, 129 ; circulates a letter in defence
of his conduct, 130 ; impeached in the
House of Commons, 134 ; General
Ross's generous defence of him, 135,
136; nature of the charges brought
against him, 136 - 138 ; attainted,
137; accused of an intention of restor-
ing the Stuarts, i. 276, n.; ii. 138; his
melancholy condition in France, 139;
receives a visit from an agent of the
Pretender, ib.; accepts the seals from
that prince, 140, 141; dismissed from
his service, 142, 143; charges brought
against him by the Pretender's ad-
herents, 143-145; the Duke of Ber-
wick's testimony to his zeal in the
cause of that prince, 146; maintains a
character for gallantry at Paris, 147;
falls in love with the Marquise de Vil-
lette, 148; marries her on the death of
his first wife, 149; purchases an es-
tate near Orleans, 149, 150; visited by
Voltaire, 150; partially pardoned, 153;
interview with Bishop Atterbury at
Calais, ib.; returns to England dan

again interferes in politics, 154; his
fruitless attempts to obtain a reversal of
his attainder, 154, 155; his struggles
with Sir Robert Walpole for power,
155-162, 167. Walpole unwillingly
consents to restore him his family es-
tates, 156; retires to Dawley, near
Uxbridge, 160, 162; his assumption
of the character of a philosopher, 161—
165; retires to France, 164; sells his
farm at Dawley, 166; visit to Pope at
Twickenham, ib.; his mode of living
in France, 167; continues to interfere
in politics, 168 ; fixes his residence at
his family seat at Battersea, 169; afflic-
tions attending his closing years, 169,
170; character of him by Lord Ches-
terfield, 170, 171; his last illness, 173,
174; death, 174; character, 175,
176; encomiums on his genius, 176,
177; his philosophical writings, 177,
178; notices of, i. 292, 416; ii. 54, 55,
58-60, 218; iii. 87, 126, 128, 129,
138, 414.

Bolingbroke, Lady, first wife of Lord
Bolingbroke, separated from her hus-
band, ii. 96; her affectionate regard
for him, 96, 97; death, 148.
Bolingbroke, Lady, (Clara de Marsilly,
widow of the Marquis de Villette, and
second wife of Lord Bolingbroke ;) Bo-
lingbroke falls in love with her, ii. 148;
their marriage, 149 ; her last illness
and death, 171, 172.

Bolton, Henrietta Crofts, Duchess of, ii.
306, 307.

Bothmar, Baron, a favourite with George
I., ii. 296.

Boyne, battle of the, i. 91–93.
Brady, Dr. Robert, noticed, iii. 353.
Breadalbane, Earl of, implicated in the
massacre of Glencoe, i. 119.

Brett, Anne, mistress of George I., ii. 312,
313.

Bridgewater, Elizabeth, Duchess of, i.
480, 481.

Bristol, George, second Earl of, anecdote
of, ii. 398, 399, n.
Bristol, Augustus John, Earl of, his mar-
riage with Elizabeth Chudleigh, after-
wards Duchess of Kingston, iii. 321;
their separation, 322; refuses his con-
sent to a divorce, 332 ; sentence of jac-
titation pronounced against him, 333.
Browne, Sir William, epigram by, ii. 303.
Buckingham, George Villiers, second
Duke of, i. 26.

Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of,

his literary character, ii. 2; birth, ib.;
early habits of study, 2, 3; volunteers
in the first naval war with the Dutch,
3; in favour with Charles II. and the
wits, ib.; befriends Dryden, 4; com-
mands the "Royal Katherine" in the
second Dutch war, ib.; aspires to the
hand of the Princess Anne, 4, 5, 8;
commands the expedition sent for the
relief of Tangier, 5, 182; fidelity to
James II., 6, 7; his love of women
and the gaming-table, 10; want of re-
ligion, ib.; wit, 11, 12; writings, 12
-14; character, 14; death, 16; epi-
taph on himself, ib.; notices of, i. 65,
ii. 20.

Buckingham, Catherine Darnley, Duchess

of, her curious character of herself, ii.
18, 19, 29, 30; birth, 19; married to the
Earl of Anglesey, ib.; to the Duke of
Buckingham, 20; proud of being the
daughter of James II., 21, 26, 27;
exerts herself to restore her half-bro
ther, the Pretender, 22, 24, 25; anec-
dotes of, 23, 28; person, 31; death,
31, 32; noticed, i. 484.

Buckingham House, St. James's, notice
of, ii. 9.

Burgess, Daniel, a fanatical preacher, ii.
89.

Burke, Edmund, anecdote of, iii. 378, n.
Burnet, Bishop, notices of, i. 51, 55-

57, 85, 172, 184, 279, 282, 283; ii.
209, 406.

Bute, John Stuart, Marquis of; his pre-
sumed intrigue with the Princess of
Wales, iii. 164, 166-168, 328; ac-
count of, 166, n.

Butler, Dr., his "Analogy of Religion"
obtains for him the favour of Queen
Caroline, iii. 78, 79.

C.

Cadogan, Earl of, Bishop Atterbury's se-
vere lines on, ii. 225.
Caillemote, General, i. 93.
Cardonnel, Mr., Secretary to the Duke of
Marlborough, i. 334, 335.
Carmarthen, Marquess of, notices of, i.
146, 148-151, 154.

Caroline, Queen of George II., anecdote
of, iii. 23, n.; birth, 72; personal at-
tractions, 72-74; refuses the hand of
the Emperor Leopold I., 73; mar-
riage, 74; disliked by George I., 75;
dignity and decorum of her conduct on

becoming Queen, 76, 84; her levees
composed of wits and divines, 77; her
regard for learned and literary men,
78-82; her own literary attainments,
80; controversy between Clarke and
Leibnitz referred to her arbitration, 81;
her heterodox principles, 81-83; her
uniform support of Sir Robert Walpole,
85, 86, 93, 373-376; secret means
by which he obtained his influence over
her, 87, 90, 91; her power over the
King paramount to those of his mis-
tresses, 70, 87-90; her unfortunate
concealment of a secret disorder, 90,
91, 106, 107; her life endangered by
a false delicacy, 91, 92, 104; her
adroit managemement of the King,
93-95; their mutual attachment, 95,
96;
countenances her husband's
amours, 96-99; coldness of her dis-
position, 99; evenness of her temper,
100; accused of penuriousness, 101;
her charities, 102; taste for ornamen-
tal gardening, 103; last illness,
103-107; death, 108; accused of
withholding her forgiveness from her
son in her last moments, 109, 110;
the King's grief at her death, 111–113,
117; character, 114-118; notices of,
ii. 376; iii. 127, 133-135, 226, 408,
409, 411, n., 412, 414-416, 421.
Caroline, Princess. (See Elizabeth Ca-
roline.)

"Cato," Addison's play of, ii. 112.
Charles II. distrustful of the motives of
the Prince of Orange in visiting Eng-
land, i. 13, 14; anecdotes of, 15, 37,
163, 193, n., 293, 327.

Charles III. of Spain, notices of, ii.

184-189.

Charles XII. of Sweden, i. 437.
Chatham, Earl of. (See Pitt.)
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope,

Earl of, birth, ii. 335; early thirst for
distinction, 335, 337; habits of life at
the University, 336; makes the tour of
Europe, 338; appointed Captain of the
Yeomen of the Guards, and sent Am-
bassador to Holland, 339; mode of
passing his time there, 340, 341; his
propensity for the gaming-table, 342,
346; created a Knight of the Garter,
343; takes an active part in politics,
344; marries the reputed niece of the
Duchess of Kendal, ib.; appointed
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 345; Se-
cretary of State, 346; eloquence, 347,
348; wit, 348-353; iii. 323; his

friendship with Swift, Pope, Gay, &c.,
ii. 353; patronage of literary men,
354; his claims to be regarded as a
poet, 355; commences an action
against George II., 357; his letters to
his son, 357-359; kindness to his
son's widow, 360; afflicted by disease,
361, 362; death, 363; notices of, ii.
170, 171, 174, 304, 305, 381, 390;
iii. 18, 39, 87, 414-416.
Chesterfield, Melesina Schulenberg, Coun-
tess of, the reputed daughter of George
I. by the Duchess of Kendal, ii. 328,
344; married to Lord Chesterfield,
342, 344; created Countess of Wal-
singham, 344; notices of, ii. 356, 357.
(See Walsingham.)

Chudleigh, Elizabeth, afterwards Duchess
of Kingston. (See Kingston.)
Churchill, Sir Winston, i. 333, 335.
Churchill, Arabella, i. 343.

Churchill, General Charles, notices of, iii.
377, 382, 399.

Clarendon, Henry Hyde, Earl of, anec-
dote of, i. 64.

Clarke, Dr. Samuel, notices of, iii.
81-83.

Cleveland, Barbara Villiers Duchess of,
notices of, i. 338, 339; ii. 260, 261,
269, 270, 273, 274.
Closter-Seven, convention of, iii. 195, 196.
Compton, Dr. Henry, Bishop of London,
accompanies the Princess Anne in her
flight from Whitehall in 1788, i.
253-256.

Compton, Sir Spencer. (See Wilmington.)
Condé, Prince de, i. 29, 31.

Congreve, William, notices of, i. 140,
476, n.

Coningsmark, Count, in love with the
Electoral Princess, ii. 284, 285; his
mysterious end, 286; causes the assas-
sination of Thynne, iii. 256.
Cope, General, iii. 179.
Cornbury, Lord, i. 63.

Craggs, Secretary, notices of, ii. 11, 292,
412 and n., 413.

Craven, Lord, account of, i. 73-75;
prepares to defend Whitehall against
William III., 74.

Cross, Mrs., the actress, Peter the Great
in love with her, i. 149.
Culloden, battle of, iii. 181; barbarities
practised after it, 184, 185.
Cumberland, William, Duke of, second
son of George 11., birth, iii. 172; anec-
dotes of his childhood, 172, 173; ad-
dicted to women and the gaming-table,

174, 175, 199, n.; his repugnance to
marriage, 175; wounded at the battle
of Dettingen, 37, 176; defeated at the
battle of Fontenoy, 177; personal gal-
lantry displayed by him during the ac-
tion, 178; commands the royal forces
against the Pretender, 179, 180; gains
the battle of Culloden, 181, 182, 184;
his contempt for popular applause, 183;
atrocious barbarities authorized by him,
184-186; unfeeling speech uttered by
him on his brother's death, 158, 186;
cruelty of his disposition, 187, 188;
fearlessness of his character, 188; un-
popularity, 157, 158, 189, 190; in-
stance of his displaying generosity of
mind, 191; his mortification at being
excluded from the regency, 192; his
father's affection for him, 193; de-
feated at Hastenbech, 194, 195; con-
cludes the disgraceful convention of
Closter-Seven, 195, 196; the King's
treatment of him, and his
generous for-
bearance, 196-198; resigns his em-
ployments and retires into private life,
197-199; illnesses and death, 199—
201; character, 201, 202; notices of,
iii. 51, 66, 68, 215, 238

D.

Darlington, Sophia Charlotte Countess
of, (mistress of George I., account) of,
ii. 329-333; notices of, 289, 295.
Dashwood, Catherine, the "Delia" of

Hammond's Love Elegies, ii. 376–378.
Delaval, Sir James, iii. 253, 254.
Deloraine, Elizabeth Fenwicke, Countess
of, supposed to be the mistress of
George, II., iii. 57, 58; disgraced at
Court, 58; account of, 57, 58, n.
Denmark, Prince George of, birth, i. 324;
military services, 324, 326, 328; mar-
ried to the Princess Anne, daughter of
James II., 250, 251, 324, 325; cha-
racter, 326, 329-331; accused of
dram-drinking, 327; his defection from
James, 251, 327, 328; honours con-
ferred on him, 328, 329; neglected by
William III., ib.; last illness, 295—
301, 330; death, 330, 331; notices
of, i. 87; ii. 50.

Denmark, Princess of. (See Anue.)
Denmark, Frederick, King of, marries
the Princess Louisa of England, iii.
225, 226.

Denmark Queen of. (See Louisa.)