him, vii. 252.
his system entirely followed by Bede, vii. 252.

Armies yield a precarious and uncertain obedience to a senate, iii. 524.
remarks on the standing armies of France and England, iii. 224.

Army commanded by General Monk, character of it, iv. 36.

Art, every work of, great only as it deceives, i. 152.

Artist, a true one effects the noblest designs by easy methods, i. 152.

Artois, Comte d', character of, iv. 430.

Ascendency, Protestant, observations on it, vi. 393.

Asers, their origin and conquests, vii. 228.

Assassination, recommended and employed by the National Assembly
of France, iv. 34.
the dreadful consequences of this policy, in case of war, iv. 34.

Astonishment, cause and nature of, i. 160, 217.

Atheism by establishment, what, v. 310.
ought to be repressed by law, vii. 35.
schools of, set up by the French regicides at the public charge, vi. 106.

Atheists, modern, contrasted with those of antiquity, iv. 355.

Athenians, at the head of the democratic interests of Greece, iv. 321.

Athens, the plague of, remarkable prevalence of wickedness
during its continuance, vii. 84.

Augustin, state of religion in Britain when he arrived there, vii. 233.
introduced Christianity among the Anglo-Saxons, vii. 235.

Aulic Council, remarks on the, v. 119.

Austria began in the reign of Maria Theresa to support great
armies, v. 368.
her treaty of 1756 with France, deplored by the French in 1773, v. 370.

Authority, its only firm seat in public opinion, ii. 224; vi. 165.
the people the natural control on it, iv. 164.
the exercise and control of it together contradictory, iv. 164.
the monopoly of it an evil, v. 151.

Avarice, an instrument and source of oppression in India,
iii. 107; ix. 491.

Bacon, Lord, a remark of his applied to the revolution in France, v. 175.
his demeanor at his impeachment, xi. 173.

Bacon, N., his work on the laws of England not entitled to
authority, vii. 479.

Bail, method of giving it introduced by Alfred, vii. 265.
advantage of it, vii. 265.

Ball, John, abstract of a discourse of, iv. 178.

Ballot, all contrivances by it vain to prevent a discovery of
the inclinations, iii. 507.

Balmerino, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 34.

Banian, functions and character of the, ix. 363.

Bank paper in England, owing to the flourishing condition of
commerce, iii. 541.

Bards, the, character of their vers