Part 53

East India Company, the, its absolute authority in India, ii. 277. Its condition when Clive first went to India, 674, 675. Its war with the French East India Company, 677. Increase of its power, 693. Its factories in Bengal, 702. Fortunes made by its servants in Bengal, 733, 734.

Ecclesiastical Commission, the, of Queen Elizabeth's time, ii. 76.

Ecclesiastics, fondness of the old dramatists for the character of, ii. 88.

Education, in England in the 16th century, ii. 373. Duty of the government in promoting it, 661.

Egerton, brings charge of corruption against Bacon, ii. 425. Bacon's decision against him, after receiving his present, 440.

Egotism in conversation and literature considered, i. 23, 24.

Elephants, use of, in war in India, ii. 691.

Eliot, Sir John, ii. 18-20. His Treatise on Government, 21. A martyr to liberty, 22.

Elizabeth, Queen, her unjustifiable persecution of non-conformists, i. 291. Her use of the church to increase her power, 303. Condition of the working classes in her reign, 534. Her rapid advancement of Cecil, ii. 69, 70. Character of her government, 76, 77, 80, 90. A persecutor, though herself indifferent, 89, 90. Her early notice of Lord Bacon, 372. Her favor toward Essex, 379. Factions at the close of her reign, 380, 381, 398. Her pride and temper, 387, 398. Her death, 398.

Elphinstone, Lord, ii. 761.

England, under Elizabeth, i. 291. Reformation in, a political move, 297. Under Henry VIII., 302. In 1640, 306. Under Charles I., 317. Change of feeling in, after the attempt on the Five Members, 319. Representative government in, preserved, 327. Disgraceful condition of, under Charles II., 354. Decay of statesmanship, 355. Corruption of the bar, 360. National feeling displaced by party loyalty, 364. Fortunate that the Revolution was effected by men of small calibre, 367. Perfidy of William III.'s statesmen, 368. Review of constitutional history of, from Henry VII., 371. Condition of the common people in, at various periods, 534. Prophecy of its future prosperity, 543. Her periodic fits of morality, 573. Theories deduced from her population, 617 et seq. Fecundity of the nobility, 632. Disability of Jews in, 646. Her physical and moral condition in the 15th century, ii. 7. Never so rich and powerful as since the loss of her American colonies, 135. Her conduct in reference to the Spanish succession, 152, 153. Successive steps of her progress, 307-310. Influence of her Revolution on the human race, 309, 344. Her situation at the Restoration compared with that of France at the restoration of the Bourbons, 311, 312. Her situation in 1678, 317, 319-327. Character of her public men in the latter part of the 17th century, 507. Difference in her situation under Charles II. and under the Protectorate, 525. Restoration immorality the reaction from Puritanism, iii. 58. Diminished prestige of, in 1785, 195. Upholds Prussia against all Europe, 302. Subsidies paid, 318. Withdraws her aid from Prussia, 326. State of parties in, 592. Factions sink into repose, 595. Corruption in the House of Commons, 609. Terminates her continental alliances, 623. War with America, 682.

England, Constitution of, how preserved, i. 322 et seq. Development of, from Henry VII.'s reign, 371. Recent attacks on, 375. Proposed reform of, 380. A standing refutation of James Mill's reasoning, 399.

English, the, in the 16th century, a free people, ii. 78. Their character, 319, 320.

English Common Law, not suited to India, iii. 168.

Epicureans, their peculiar doctrines, ii. 452.

Epicurus, the lines on his pedestal, ii. 452.

Erasmus, quoted, ii. 286.

Ercilla, Alonzo de, soldier as well as poet, ii. 133.

Essay on Government, James Mill's, review of, i. 381-422.

Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, ii. 93. His character, popularity, and favor with Elizabeth, 379, 380, 382, 389. His political conduct, 382. His friendship for Bacon, 383, 385, 412. His conversation with Robert Cecil, 382, 383. His expedition to Spain, 384. Pleads for Bacon's marriage with Lady Hatton, 385. Decline of his fortunes, 385. His faults, 387, 410, 411. His administration in Ireland, 386. 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.