ay of the World, Congreve's, iii. 94.

Wedderburne, Alexander, his able defence of Lord Clive, ii. 756, 757.
Urges Clive to furnish Voltaire with the materials for his meditated
history of the conquest of Bengal, 758.

Weldon, Sir A., his story of the meanness of Bacon, ii. 420.

Wellesley, Marquess, his eminence as a statesman, ii. 555.

Wendover, its recovery of the elective franchise, ii. 15.

Wentworth, Thomas. See Strafford.

Wesley, John, Southey's Life of, i. 500.
His dislike to the doctrine of predestination, ii. 653.

Whately, Richard, Archbishop of Dublin, his work on logic, ii. 481.

Wheler, Mr., appointed Governor-General in India, iii. 160.
Obliged to be content with a seat in the Council, 163.

Whigs, their unpopularity and loss of power in 1710, ii. 176, 177.
Their position in Walpole's time, 242-244.
Their violence in 1679, 325.
The king's revenge on them, 327, 328.
Revival of their strength. 329.
Their conduct at the Revolution, 343.
After that event, 352.
Doctrines and literature patronized by them during the seventy years
they were in power, 353, 354.
Mr. Courtenay's remark on those of the 17th century, 499.
Compared with the Tories, iii. 592.
Power of, injured by the fall of Walpole, 594.
Their power under the Pitt-Newcastle coalition, 599.
Influential members of the party, 600.
Their animosity excited by Bute, 624.

Whig and Tory, inversion of the meaning of, ii. 177.

Whitgift, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, his character,
ii. 372.
His Calvinistic doctrines, 653.

Wilberforce, William, describes Pitt's speech against Hastings,
iii. 219.

Wilkes, John, compared to Mirabeau, ii. 125, 126.
Attacks the princess dowager in print, iii. 626.
Persecuted by Grenville's government, 639, 642.
Flees to France, 643.
Trouble over his election from Middlesex, 678.

Wilkie's Epigoniad, compared with Fenelon's Telemachus, ii. 116.

William III., only one to derive glory from the Revolution, i. 366.
Perfidy of statesmen under, 368.
His feeling in reference to the Spanish Succession, ii. 140.
Unpopularity of his person and measures, 150.
Suffered under a complication of diseases, 151.
His death, 152.
Compact with the Convention, 343.
His habit of consulting Temple, 588.

Williams, Dean of Westminster, his services to B