Congreve's character of an author, 221.

Coriolanus's wife proposed as a pattern to the British wives,
48.

Creed of a tory malecontent, 83.

D.

Detraction from merit, what it is owing to, 96.

Disaffection, how punished in some former reigns, 279.
Discontented temper described by Theophrastus, 340.
Dispensary, Garth's, vindicated against the Examiner's cri-
ticism, 299.

Dublin university, an encomium on it, 188.

Duck hunting, what M. Bayle compares to it, 162.

E.

Edward III. his character, 225, 267.

Elizabeth, queen, her steadiness and uniformity, 136. Her
advice to the University of Oxford, 192. Her character in
general, 226, 288.

Eloquence, when it proves a very pernicious talent, 128.
England compared to Trinculo's kingdom of Viceroys, 325.
English much given to change, and why, 133. The ill ef-
fects of it, 135. Their character by the French writers,
158. How they ape the French, 161.

Englishman, his duty as such, 31.

Evil not to be committed that good may come of it, 43.
Euripides, the tragedian, his impious account of an oath, and
how resented by the Athenians, 38.

Examiner, why the title of his paper ought to be Executioner,
299. Some reflections on that paper, 106.

F.

Fan, how it may be made use of with good success against
popery, 46, 86.

Female conversation, its distinguishing ornaments, 128.

Flatterer, to what compared by Thales, 330.

Fox hunter, his character, 119.

Freeholder, British, his happiness, 8.

Freeholder, the design of that paper, 11.

Freeholders' answer to the Pretender's declaration, 51.

Free-thinkers in politics, who they are, 282.
Free-thinking of the old philosophers, 276.

French, their vanity, 156. The incivility of their writers to
the English, 158. And to the Germans, 160. What the
Germans and Italians say of a Frenchman, 160.

G.

Garter, lady's, the dropping of it fatal to the French nation,
70.

George I. king of Great-Britain, his character, 12, 250. His
virtues, influence and credit, both at home and abroad,
130, 137. The baseness of his treatment by the disaffect.
ed, 251.

Germans, French writers' reflections on them, 160.
Glory, Alexander the Great's false notion of it, 273.
Gossip in Politics, what she is in her family, 138.
Gratian's maxim for raising a man to greatness, 197.
Gratias, Spanish, what they are, 227.

Great-Britain, not to be governed by a popish sovereign,
201, 239.

Greek historians, cautions to be observed in reading them,
274.

Gretzer's character, by Cardinal Perron, 160.

Grub-street biographers described, 199.

H.

Habeas corpus act, reflections on its suspension, 90.

Hans Carvel's finger, 304.

Henry IV. of France, his treatment of the conspirators, 174
Henry VII. of England, his character, 225.

Henry V. of England, his character, 267.

High-church-men, how naturally they are drawn in to favour
the cause of popery, 150. Compared to the blind Sy-
rians, 151. Their bawlers a disgrace to the church of
England, 281.

Highlander second-sighted, his character and vision, 143..
The Jacobites' opinion of the Highlanders, 42.

Historian, ecclesiastic, D. Schomberg's advice to him, 198.
Historians, modern, an account of them, 198

Historians, Greek and Roman, cautions to be observed in
reading them, 274.

Humour, its advantage under proper regulations, 245.

I.

James II. his treatment of those concerned in Monmouth's

rebellion, 178.

James I. his character, 250, 288.

Jews, ancient ones, great lovers of their country, 30.

Impiety, present, to what owing, 206.

Inn-keeper, a pleasant story of a high-church one, 122. A
factious one executed for a saucy pun, 279.

John, St. the evangelist, distinguished from the baptist, 309.

K.

Kirke's Lambs, the name he gave his dragoons, 330.

L.

Ladies, British, their happiness, 25.

Ladies, the great service they are of to their parties, 21. A
cartel for them during their party contentions, 126.

Ladies, disaffected, who they are, 125.

fered to them, &c. 140.

Considerations of-

Ladies of either party, proposals for a truce between them,
211.

Land-tax, reflections upon the act for laying four shillings in
the pound, 109.

Learned fools, a fable, 189.

Learned bodies, their obligation to cultivate the favours of

princes and great men, 190.
Legs, a riddle upon them, 300.

Letter to the Examiner full of nonsense, 321.

Love of one's country defined, 26. How much it is our du-
ty, ibid. How natural and reasonable, ibid. The actions
proceeding from it, how received, 29.

Lover, his passion for Mrs. Anne Page, 335.

Lovers, a calculation of their numbers in Britain, 22.

Louis d'ors, reflections on the edict for raising them, 100..
Loyalty, the nature of it, 39.

Lucan's Pharsalia, the character of that work, and why it
was not explained for the use of the Dauphin, 224.

Liars, how they are branded in Turkey, 95.

Lies, suited to particular climates and latitudes, 44. Party
lies, 45.

Lying, the sign of a bad cause, 40.

M.

Madrid treaty compared with the treaty of Utrecht, 226.,
Mahometanism, how it was propagated, 269.

Malecontents, advice to them, 129.

Masquerade on the birth of the Archduke, 241.

Match out of Newgate, an account of that farce, 194.
Matilda, the Empress, favoured by the university of Oxford,

191.

Ministers of state, how they should bear an undeserved re-
proach, 96. The condition of those in Great Britain,

259.

Mobs, the folly and mischiefs of them, 270.

Monkeys' skirmishes in the East-Indies, 271.

Morality, its practice necessary to make a nation or a party
flourish, 152.

Muley Ishmael, emperor of Morocco, his arbitrary power,
and the tendency of it, 60.

N.

Netherlands, advantages to our trade there obtained by his
late majesty, 236.

News-writers, the hardship upon them in a time of peace,
142, 147. Their favourite sects and parties, 285.

Nethisdale, a country gentlewoman in a riding-hood mista-
ken for that lord, 141.

Non-resistance truly stated, 326. Its consequences, 330.
Nonsense defined, 318. High and low nonsense compared
to small beer, 320. The two only writers who hit upon
the sublime in nonsense, ibid.

0.

Oak boughs, rue, and thyme, the censure and correction of
those who wore those badges, 270.

Oaths to the state, the nature of them, 33.

Oxford university, their affection to the Empress Matilda,
191. Queen Elizabeth's advice to them, 192.

P.

Page, Mrs. Anne, fond of China ware, 335.

Papers of the week, how they ought to be conducted, 248.
Papirius, son of a Roman senator, his story, 186.

Parrot in London affronts a Scotchman, 324.

Party-writers, their unchristian spirit, 104.

Party spirits to be excluded out of public diversions, 192!
Party rage, how unamiable it makes the fair sex, 209.

Party distinctions censured, 280.

Parties in church and state, the source of them, 136.
Passive obedience truly stated, 326. Its consequences, 331
Patin, M. his ill-natured character of the English, 158.
Patriots, from whence they naturally rise, 29.

Peace, observations upon a time of, 142, 147.

Perjury, the guilt of it, 33.

Persian ambassador in France, his ceremony every morning,
28.

Pharsalia of Lucan, the character of that work, and why it
was not explained for the use of the dauphin, 224.

Play of Sir Courtly Nice, the audience divided into whigs and
tories, 193.

Popish prince inconsistent with protestant subjects, 237.
Preston rebel, his memoirs, 16.

Preston rebels, and their party, 42.

Pretendér, annals of his reign, 202. The Freeholders' an-
swer to his declaration, 51.

Printing presses erected in the country, 284.

Pudding, a favourite dish of the English, 158.

Punch, a remark upon that liquor, 123.

Q.

Quack, the first appearance that a French one made in the
streets of Paris, 306.

Quaker's address to King James II. 331.

R.

Rebellion, the guilt of it in general, and of the late one in
particular, 71. What would have been the consequences
of its success, 75. Indifference in such a juncture crimi-
nal, 77. Several useful maxims to be learned from the
late rebellion, 148. The celebration of the thanksgiving-
day for suppressing it. 264.

Rebels against the late king, whether they deserved his
mercy or justice, 163 to 182.

Riches, the uncertainty of them in France, 102.

Riddle upon a leg of mutton, 301. Another upon legs, 300
Riots, the folly and mischief of them, 272.