tention to it necessary to Christianity, vii. 246.
contributed, in the early ages, to the temporal power of the
clergy, vii. 399.

Lechmere, Mr., extracts from his speeches at the trial of
Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 122, 124, 142.

Legislation, important problem in, v. 166.

Legislative and juridical acts, the difference between them, vii. 63.

Legislative right, not to be exercised without regard to the
general opinion of those who are to be governed, ii. 224.

Legislators, bound only by the great principles of reason and
equity, and the general sense of mankind, ii. 196.
character of a true legislator, ii. 456.
duties of legislators, v. 166; vi. 319.
the mode of proceeding of the ancient legislators, iii. 476.

Legislature, the true end of it, what, ii. 225; iii. 457.
its power of regulating the succession to the crown, iv. 134.

Leland, Dr., his book (View of Deistical Writers) the best on
the subject, vii. 34.

Length, too great, in buildings, prejudicial to grandeur of effect, i. 152.

Letter of Mr. Burke to the Sheriffs of Bristol, on American
Affairs, ii. 187.
to Gentlemen of Bristol, on the Trade of Ireland, ii. 249, 258.
to a Member of the National Assembly, on French Affairs, iv. 1.
to a Peer of Ireland, on the Penal Laws against Irish Catholics, iv. 217.
to Sir Hercules Langrishe, on the Roman Catholics of Ireland,
iv. 241; vi. 375.
to William Elliot, Esq., on a Speech in the House of Lords,
in the Debate concerning Lord Fitzwilliam, v. 107.
to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks upon himself and his Pension, v. 171.
on a Regicide Peace, v. 233, 342, 384; vi. 1.
to the Empress of Russia, vi. 113.
to Sir Charles Bingham, on the Irish Absentee Tax, vi. 121.
to Hon. Charles James Fox, on the American War, vi. 135.
to the Marquis of Rockingham, on the Plans of the Opposition
in reference to the American War, vi. 151.
to Rt. Hon. Edmund S. Pery, on the Relief of the Roman
Catholics of Ireland, vi. 197.
to Thomas Burgh, Esq., in Vindication of his Parliamentary
Conduct relative to Ireland, vi. 209.
to John Merlott, Esq., on the same subject, vi. 235.
to the Lord Chancellor and others, with Thoughts on the
Executions of the Rioters in 1780, vi. 239.
to Rt. Hon. Henry Dundas, with the Sketch of a Negro Code, vi. 255.
to the Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Meeting, on
Parliamentary Reform, vi. 291.
to William Smith, E