men on the Choice of a Member, 237. Considerations on the Choice of a Recorder of, 245. The Dean's Speech to the Lord Mayor, &c. on being presented with his Freedom, 257. Proposal for giving Badges to the Beggars in, 261.
Dublin. The method used by Dr. King, archbishop of it, to encourage the clergy of his diocese to re- sidence, xiii. 153. The see of it has many fee- farms, which pay no fines, 168. The many street robberies committed there owing to the want of courage in gentlemen, xii. 58. Wants not its due proportion of folly and vice, both native and fo- reign, viii. 228. Methods used by the Intelli- gencers to be informed of all occurrences in it, ibid. More infested with beggars after the esta- blishment of the poorhouse than before, xiii. 262. Shares more deeply in the increasing mise- ries of Ireland than the meanest village in it, 261. Infested with colonies of beggars sent thither from England, 267. The number of houses in that city, xiii. 18. Number of families, 27. In mo- ney matters, that city may be reckoned about a fourth part of the whole kingdom, as London is judged to be a third of England, ibid. about the choice of a mayor, xv. 157. University Contest of Dublin wants to have professorships confined to the fellows, not left at large,, xvii. 172. ships there obtained by great merit, xix. 128. Fellow- Dean and chapter of St. Patrick's cathedral pos- sessed of 4000l. a year, xvii. 190. there preserved or promoted by Dr. Swift, ibid. Monuments Law and rules observed there, in the election of their mayors and aldermen, xv. 157. the vanity and luxury of feasting there, xx. 85. Remark on Statue of king William there how treated, xxi. 92. The players there, refusing to give the secretary three hundred a year, obliged to act as strollers, 3.222. See Hoadly, King
Duck.(Stephen), xviii, 66. A quibbling Epigram on
Dudley (sir Matthew). His laconick letter, xxi. 34. Duelling. An extraordinary duel, ii. 112. Duke (Dr. Richard). His character, xxi. 148. Duke upon Duke. A new ballad, xxiv. 23. Dukes (Mrs). x. 43.
Dun (sir Patrick) xv. 68. Dunciad. See Pope.
Duncombe (alderman). Left his niece 200,000l., xxi. 191.
Dunkin (Dr. William). Some account of him, xix. 151. XX. 33-35. 158, 166. 216. 217. His translation of Carberia Rupes, x. 278. His epi- gram on the Drapier, xi. 350.
Memorial concerning delivered by the sieur Tugghe, vi. 136. Secured to England by the peace, would have been thought a glorious ac- quistion under the duke of Marlborough, though at the cost of many thousand lives, vi. 215. The demolition of it deferred, to remove the difficulties which the barrier-treaty occasioned, 218. Yielded by the French king in his preliminaries, but clog- ged with the demand of an equivalent, 6. Stipu- lated in the counter-project to be demolished, but that article struck out in the barrier-treaty, ibid. 35.
Some observations respecting it, xv. 226. The duke of Ormond not able to send troops to take possession of it, when yielded to Britain, ibid. vii. 182. Six regiments sent from England, under Mr. Hill, for that purpose, 184. On its delivery, a cessation of arms proclaimed, 185. The uni- versal joy occasioned in England, by the news of its being surrendered, 188.
Dunstable. Project for transporting wheaten straw - from Ireland thither, to be manufactured into hats for the Irish women, xii. 17.
Dunton (John), iii. 65. His tract, entitled Neck or
Nothing, the shrewdest piece written in defence of the whigs, vi. 182
D'urfy (Mr.). Verses occasioned by an &c. at the end of his name in the title to one of his plays, xxiv. 15. Prologue designed for his last play, 17. |
Dutch. Some remarks on their practice of trampling on the crucifix, ix. 242. Why they are no pre- cedent for us, either in religion or government, iii. 303. To what the preservation of their com- monwealth is to be ascribed, 312. Delivered up Traerbach to the Imperialists without consulting the queen, vi. 217. In what manner England bound by an old treaty to assist them whenever attacked by the French, v. 268. Joined with the English in signing two treaties with Portugal; but wise enough never to observe them, 279. advantages granted to them as guarantees of the protestant succession, 28c-282. 293.305. What the proportion of men they were to contribute to- ward the war, 284. Gradually lessened their pro- portion in all new supplies, ibid. Never furnished their quota of maritime supplies, 286. Are ever threatening England with entering into separate measures of a peace, 314. Why against a peace, vi. 8. Dutch partnership, wherein it consists, 11. Though they allow the fullest liberty of con- science of any Christian state, yet admit none into civil offices, who do not conform to the legal wor- ship, xiii. 202. The English highly blameable, in permitting them to engross the herring-fishery, xix. 76. Their behaviour, on finding the queen in earnest inclined to a peace, vii. 66. Greatly deficient every year in furnishing their quota, 117. Entirely abandoned the war in Portugal, 119 In low politicks, excel every country in Christendom, 148. Discontented at seeing the queen at the head of the negotiation, 15. Their intrigues for
entering into separate measures of peace with France, 165. 206. The inducements which led them to sign the treaty of barrier and succession, 207. Convinced of their errour in trusting to a discontented party, 210. In what light they seem to have considered England, v. 324. Character of them, xix. 77. xxiii. 161. Brief remarks on them, xxii. 78. 85. 125. A learned Dutchman writes a book to prove that England wronged them by the peace, 144. Yield to the barrier-treaty, which chiefly retarded the peace, 184.
Dyer's Letter. A paper of lying fame, iv. 308. Dyot (Justice), a commissioner of the stamp office). In danger of the gallows, for defrauding the reve- nue, xxi. 23. His trial, ibid. A remarkable anecdote of the person (a clerk in Doctors Com- mons) who detected the fraud, 32.
Dying speeches. Of what kind they usually are, xii, 56.
Eachard (Dr.). His book of the contempt of the clergy, iii. 25. xiv. 179. xxiii. 1 150. Edgworth (colonel Ambrose), xxi. 39.
Education, modern, Essay on, viii. 37. Of Ladies, xiv. 233.
Education. The manner of educating children in Lilliput, ix. 62. The necessity of it, iv. 161. The consequences of its defects to many noble fami- lies, viii. 38. Is usually less in proportion as the estate the children are born to is greater, xiv. 51. Not above a thousand male human creatures in England and Wales of good sense and education, xiv. 236. Of females, not half that number, 237. What too frequently the consequence of a liberal one, xvii. 129.
Edward (the Black Prince). When he appeared great, xiv. 224.
Edward (the Confessor). First introduced a mixture of the French tongue with the Saxon, vi. 45. In his time the English gentry began to affect the French language and manners, in compliance with their king, who had been bred in Normandy, vii. 227. He was the first of our princes who attempted to cure the king's evil by touching; and was the first who introduced what we now call the common law, ibid.
Edwin (sir Humphry, lord mayor in 1698). Went in his formalities to a conventicle, with the insignia of his office, iii. 183. xxiii. 211.
Egremont (John Perceval, earl of). xxi. 175. Egyptians. The first fanaticks, iii. 258. Drank nothing but ale, 259.
Eleanor (queen of France). Divorced from Lewis, and married to Henry duke of Normandy, vii.
295. Elections. Dexterity of the whig ministry in deciding them, v. 56. Absurdities attending them; 1st, that any who dissent from the national church should have the privilege of voting; zd, that an election should be any charge either to the candidate or to the ministry; 3d, that the qualification which entitles a freeholder to vote still remains forty shillings only, though that sum was fixed when it was equal to twenty pounds at present: 4th, that representatives are not elected ex vicinio, but a member perhaps chosen for Berwick, whose estate is at the Land's End; and many persons returned for boroughs who do not possess a foot of land in the kingdom; and, 5th, that decayed boroughs should retain their privilege of sending members, who in reality represent nobody, xiv. 229-231. Strongly contested in 1713, xv. 288. Elegy. On Mr. Demar, a rich usurer, x. 189. A
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