Ingratitude of Bacon towards him, 386-396, 412.
His trial and execution, 388, 389.
Feeling of King James towards him, 399.
His resemblance to Buckingham, 410, 411.

Essex, Earl of (time of Charles I.), ii. 56-59.

Euripides, how regarded by Quintilian, i. 42.

Europe, state of, at the Peace of Utrecht, ii. 182.
Want of union in, to arrest the designs of Louis XIV., 528.
The distractions of, suspended by the Treaty of Nimeguen, 550.

Evelina, Fanny Burney's, iii. 347.
Johnson's admiration for, 351.

Evelyn, John, ii. 524, 539.

_Ex post facto_ punishments considered, i. 312.

Falkland, Lucius Cary, Viscount, deceived by Charles, i. 320.
A friend of liberty, 329.
At the head of the Constitutional Royalists, ii. 43.

Family Compact, the, between France and Spain, ii. 183.

Fenelon, standard of morality in his Telemachus, ii. 115-117.
The book not immoral, iii. 54.

Ferdinand VII., resemblance between him and Charles I. of England,
ii. 55.

Feudal nobles, unimportant in Italy, i. 146.

Fielding, Henry, his description of Partridge at the play, quoted,
i. 196.

Finch, Lord Keeper, a humble tool of Charles I., ii. 26.
His impeachment and flight to Holland, 37.

Fine arts, the, their decline in England after the civil war, ii. 199.
Government should promote them, 660.

Florence, its commercial preeminence, i. 148.
Its superiority of learning, 151.
Military reform in, 173.
Return of the Medici to, 174.
Machiavelli's History of, 184.
Last struggle for liberty of, 185.

Foote, Charles, his stage character of an Anglo-Indian grandee,
ii. 747

Forde, Colonel, ii. 724, 727.

Fox, Henry (afterwards Lord Holland), his personality, ii. 258.
Accepts office, 264.
Relations with Newcastle, 261-267.
Directed to form an administration in concert with Chatham, 268.
Early history and career, iii. 104.
Made paymaster by Chatham, 601.
Continued by Bute, 623.
Employed by Bute to carry the Commons, 628.
Methods used, 631.
Made a peer, 637.

Fox, Charles James, son of the above, his success as a debater,
ii. 249.
Comparison of his History of James II. with Mackintosh's History of
the Revolution, 284.
His style, 285, 286.
Characteristic of his oratory, 287.
Championship of arbitrary measures and defiance of public opinion,