Part 67

Rulers, theoretical tendency of, i. 390. Effect of public opinion on, 392.

Rupert, Prince, ii. 48, 58. His encounter with Hampden at Chalgrove, 59.

Russell, Lord William, his conduct in the Council, ii. 581. His death, 584.

Russia, joins Maria Theresa against Prussia, iii. 294. Goes over to Prussia, 327.

Rutland, Earl of, his character, ii. 423.

Ruyter, Admiral de, in danger of assassination, ii. 542.

Sackville, Earl of (16th century), ii. 93.

Sackville, Lord George, ii. 728.

Sadler, Michael Thomas, his Law of Population reviewed, i. 608-640. His ranting style, 608. Deems the asserted evil of superfecundity a reflection on the Deity, 611. Attempts to distinguish this from other evils, 613. His law of population, 615. Misuse of mathematical terms, 616. His law proved false, 618. Danger of attaching such theories to religion, 621. His law at most merely a theory of superfecundity, 623. Evidence entirely against him, 624-627. Connection between fecundity and wealth, 631. Unfounded assertion of the sterility of the Peerage, 632. His conclusions with regard to the United States, 636. His ideas on their population, 637. His faults summarized, 640. His Refutation refuted, 656-690. His motto ridiculed, 656. His essay utterly bad, 657. Tries to evade his attack on Malthus, 659. His doctrine with regard to evil refuted, 661. Claims that Malthus charges the Deity with partiality, 663. Accused of "packing," 670, 680. His theory disproved by general conditions in France, 670. And in England, 675. Especially by conditions in English towns, 680. His further deductions from the fecundity of the nobility, 684. General remarks on his work, 690.

St. John, Henry, his accession to power in 1712, ii. 177, 186. See Bolingbroke, Lord.

St. John, Oliver, counsel against Charles I.'s writ for ship-money, ii. 28, 32-34. Made Solicitor-General, 40.

St. Louis, his persecution of heretics, ii. 432.

St. Maloes, ships burnt in the harbor of, ii. 276.

Saint Simon, cited, ii. 116, 184.

Sallust, characteristics of, as an historian, i. 259. His Conspiracy of Catiline criticised, 260. His character and genius, ii. 358.

Samson Agonistes, modelled on the Greek Drama, i. 95.

Satan, Montgomery's, worse than his other poor poems, i. 566.

Schitab Roy, ii. 133.

Scotland, cruelties of James II. in, ii. 331. Establishment of the Kirk in, 345, 639.

Scots, the, effects of their resistance to Charles I., ii. 30, 31.

Scott, Major, selected by Hastings as his champion in Parliament, iii. 205. Challenges Burke to an impeachment, 213.

Scott, Sir Walter, i. 594. His error in Peveril of the Peak, 599.

Sedley, Catherine, ii. 340.

Seneca, his work On Anger, ii. 446. His claims as a philosopher, 447. His work on natural philosophy, 451. The Baconian system in reference to, 482.

Seven Years' War, how brought about, iii. 294. Saxony overrun by Prussians, 304. Battle of Lowositz, 304. Bohemia invaded, 305. Battle at Kolin, 306, 307. French defeated by Frederic at Rosbach, 313. Austrians at Leuthen, 314. Russians at Zorndorf, 318. Frederic repulsed at Hochkirchen by the Austrians, 319. At Kunersdorf, 322. Prussian victories at Lignitz and Torgau, 325. Political changes in the coalition, 326. End of, 328.

Shaftesbury, Lord, allusion to, ii. 508. His character, 568-573. Contrasted with Halifax, 574-576.

Shakespeare, his lack of critical power, i. 205. His correctness considered, 582, 584. Revival of, 591. His partiality for friars, ii. 88. Allusion to, 94. His character-drawing, iii. 383.

Shelley, the poet, his strong imagination, i. 748.