Page 106, line 30, note. It is a curious fact, which I do not remember to have ever seen noticed, that tea came into fashion, and, after a short time, went out of fashion, at Paris, some years before the name appears to have been known in London. Cardinal Mazarin and the Chancellor Seguier were great tea-drinkers. See the letters of Gui Patin to Charles Spon, dated March 10, and 22, 1648, and April 1, 1657. Patin calls the taste for tea "l'impertinente nouveauté du siècle." Page 184, line 28, note. 66 That the Declaration made the impression which I have described, is acknowledged in the Life of James, ii. 489. They thought," says the biographer, "His Majesty's resentment descended too low to except the Feversham Mob, that five hundred men were excluded, and no man realy pardon'd except he should merit it by some service, and then the Pardons being to pass the Seals look'd as if it were to bring mony into the pocket of some favorits." Page 224, line 18, note. See the honorable mention of Sarsfield in Luxemburg's despatch. Page 261, line 10, note. William Duncombe, whose name is well known to curious students of literary history, and who, in conjunction with his son John, translated Horace's works, died in 1769, having been seventy-seven years an annuitant under the Act of 1692. A hundred pounds had been subscribed in William Duncombe's name when he was three years old; and, for this small sum, he received thousands upon thousands. Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, viii. 265. Page 261, line 36, note. Smollett's Complete History of England from the descent of Julius Cæsar to the treaty of Aix la Chapelle, 1748, containing the Transactions of one thousand eight hundred and three years, was published at this time. The work ends with a vehement philippic against the government; and that philippic ends with the tremendous words," the national debt accumulated to the enormous sum of eighty millions sterling." Page 264, line 40, note. I have said that Burke, alone among his contemporaries, was su perior to the vulgar error in which men so eminent as David Hume and Adam Smith shared. I will quote, in illustration of my meaning, a few weighty words from the Observations on the Late State of the Nation written by Burke in 1769. "An enlightened reader laughs at the inconsistent chimera of our author (George Gren ville), of a people universally luxurious, and at the same time oppressed with taxes and declining in trade. For my part, I cannot look on these duties as the author does. He sees nothing but the burden. I can perceive the burden as well as he: but I cannot avoid contemplating also the strength that supports it. From thence I draw the most comfortable assurances of the future vigour and the ample resources of this great misrepresented country." Page 371, note *. Since the first edition of this part of my history appeared, I have discovered that these lines, poor as they are, were not Harley's own. He took them, with slight alterations, from Dryden's Albion and Albanius. The following stanza I can, I think, warrant as a genuine production of Harley's Muse: "I honour the men, Sir, Who are ready to answer, When I ask them to stand by the Queen, In spite of orators And bloodthirsty praters, Whose hatred I highly esteem." Page 407, line 18, note. (1857.) Life of James, ii. 522; Macpherson, i. 487. The letter of Marlborough is dated May 4. It was enclosed in one from Sackville to Melfort, which would alone suffice to prove that those who represent the intelligence as unimportant are entirely mistaken. "I send it,” says Sackville, "by an express, judging it to be of the utmost consequence for the service of the King, my master, and consequently for the service of his Most Christian Majesty." Would Sackville have written thus if the destination of the expedition had been already known to all the world? Page 434, line 2, note. In the Craftsman of November 20, 1731, it is said that Locke drew up the paper in which the Commons gave their reasons for refusing to renew the Licensing Act. If this were so, it must be remembered that Locke wrote, not in his own name, but in the name of a multitude of plain country gentlemen and merchants, to whom his opinions touching the liberty of the press would probably have seemed strange and dangerous. We must suppose, therefore, that, with his usual prudence, he refrained from giving an exposition of his own views, and contented himself with putting into a neat and perspicuous form arguments suited to the capacity of the parlia mentary majority Page 440, note *. See also Life of Wharton, 1715. Page 502, line 11, note. Allusions to the state of the currency abound in the essays, plays, and poems, which appeared about this time. I will give two or three specimens. Dryden, in the dedication of his translation of the Eneid, complains that he had completely exhausted his vocabulary in order to meet the demands of the original. "What," he says, "had become of me, if Virgil had taxed me with another book? I had certainly been reduced to pay the public in hammered money, for want of milled." In Cibber's Comedy, entitled "Love's Last Shift, or the Fool in Fashion," a gay young gentleman says; "Virtue is as much debased as our money; and, faith, Dei Gratia is as hard to be found in a girl of sixteen as round the brim of an old shilling." Blackmore's Satire on Wit is nothing but a clumsy allegory, in which our literature is typified by coin so much impaired that it must be called in, thrown into the melting-pot, and restamped. Page 515, line 41, note. A remarkable instance of the fascinating effect which Shaftesbury's eloquence produced on young and ardent minds will be found in the autobiography of Cowper's friend and spiritual guide, John Newton. Page 596, line 37, note. On this subject Smalridge, afterwards Bishop of Bristol, wrote a very sensible letter which will be found in Nichols's Illustrations of Literary History, iii. 255. Page 601, line 15, note. See a letter of Smalridge to Gough dated November 10, 1696, in Nichols's Illustrations of Literary History, iii. 253. Page 607, note *. Of the notes it may be sufficient to say that the writer of them had never heard of Aaron Smith, the celebrated Solicitor of the Treasury, and the chief butt, during many years, of the Jacobite libellers. See the letter of Vernon to Shrewsbury, November 14, 1696. Page 625, note *. Some idle and dishonest objections which have been made to this part of my narrative have been triumphantly refuted in a little tract entitled "Thomas Aikenhead," by Mr. John Gordon. INDEX. A ABINGDON, James Bertie, Earl of, i. 467. Deprived of the Lord Lieutenancy Abjuration Bill, iii. 451-453. Debate upon, in the Lords, 454, 455. Act of Grace, iii. 455. Exceptions to, 455. Was the act of William 1II. Adda, Ferdinand, Count of, Papal Nuncio in England, ii. 16. Advises James Addison, Joseph, i. 377, note. His picture of a Dissenting minister, iii. 77, note. Aghrim, battle of, iv. 73. Agriculture, state of, in 1685, i. 242. Reform of, 320. Aikenhead, Thomas, condemned to death, iv. 623. Executed, 625. Ailesbury, Countess of; her death from terror, iv. 612. Ailesbury, Earl of; his account of Charles II.'s death, i. 345, note. Takes Akbar Khan; his death and power, iv. 104. Albemarle, George Monk, Duke of; his character, i. 113. Marches to Lon- Albemarle, Arnold, Van Keppel, Earl of; his character, v. 63; becomes a Albeville (White), Marquess of, ii. 37, 38. His meanness and corruption, 188. Albigensians; their movement premature, i. 35. Aldrich, Henry, Dean of Christchurch, i. 258. A member of the Ecclesiasti- Alexander VIII., Pope, iii. 348. James's embassy to, 348. Alford, Gregory, Mayor of Lyme; gives the alarm of Monmouth's landing, Allegiance, oath of, difficulties in regard to, iii. 78-85. The houses of Par- Alleine, Joseph, i. 461. Allibone, Richard, a Roman Catholic; raised to the Bench, ii. 214. One of Alsop, Vincent, a Nonconformist of the Court party, ii. 173, 269. America, Puritan settlements in, i. 71. Trade with, from Bristol, 262. Brit- Amsterdam, meeting of British exiles at, i. 412. The authorities connive at Anderton, keeper of a secret Jacobite press, iv. 334. Tried for treason, 335. Angus, Earl of, raises the Cameronian regiment, iii. 272. Annandale, Earl of, a member of the Club at Edinburgh, iii. 236. Goes to Ann Hyde, Duchess of York; Talbot's slanders against, i. 38. Anne, Princess; afterwards Queen; educated a Protestant, i. 164. Married Anselm, Archbishop, i. 18. Antrim, Alexander Macdonnell, Earl of, marches on Londonderry, iii. 113. Apocrypha, question of lessons taken from, iii. 388. Arbuthnot, his satire on the first Partition Treaty, v. 102. Archangel, founded by British adventurers, v. 55, 56. Secret trade in to- Arches, Court of, ii. 70. Archidiaconal Courts, ii. 70. Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Marquess of, i. 422. His power, iii. 250. Argyle, Archibald Campbell, Earl of; son of the above. Joins William Armstrong, Sir Thomas; execution of, iii. 416. Arnold, Michael, a juryman in the trial of the bishops, ii. 292. Holás out |