Communes, in France, their origin, nature, and function, iii. 462, 464, 472. Compurgators, in Saxon law, what, vii. 318. Condorcet, brief character of him, iv. 356, 372. extract from a publication of his, iv. 356. Confidence, unsuspecting, in government, importance of it, ii. 234. of mankind, how to be secured, v. 414. Connections, party, political, observations on them, i. 527, 530. commended by patriots in the commonwealths of antiquity, i. 527. the Whig connection in Queen Anne's reign, i. 529. Conquest cannot give a right to arbitrary power, ix. 456. Conscience, a tender one ought to be tenderly handled, vii. 54. Constantine the Great, changes made by him in the internal policy of the Roman Empire, vii. 220. Constantinople, anecdote of the visit of an English country squire to, v. 387. anecdote of the Greeks at the taking of, vi. 96. Constituents, in England, more in the spirit of the constitution to lessen than to enlarge their number, i. 370. their duty to their representatives, ii. 370. compulsive instruction from them first rejected by Mr. Burke, iv. 95. points in which they are incompetent to instruct their representatives, vii. 74, 75. Constitution, a, cannot defend itself, vi. 100. consequences of disgracing the frame and constitution of the state, vii. 103. the English, a change in it, an immense and difficult operation, i. 371, 520. English, changes in it to be attempted only in times of general confusion, i. 371. eulogy on it, iii. 561; v. 210; vii. 100. the whole scheme of it to prevent any one of its principles from being carried to an extreme, iv. 207. not struck out at a heat, iv. 209. commendation of it by Montesquieu, iv. 212. the only means of its subversion, what, v. 49, 52. Constitutional Society, The, its nature and design, iii. 236. Conti, Prince de, his character and conduct, iv. 436. Contract, an implied, one, always, between the laborer and his employer, v. 137. Contracting parties, not necessary that they should have different interests, v. 139. Control and exercise of authority together contradictory, iv. 164. Convocation of the clergy, though a part of the constitution, now called for form only, ii. 226. Conway, General, moves the repeal of the American Stamp Act, ii. 52. Cornwallis, Lord, (Baron,) proceedings in his trial, xi. 30. Cornwallis, Lord, (Marquis,) his evidence at the trial of Warren Hastings, xii. 359. Coronation oath, its obligations with respect to Roman Catholics, iv. 259. Corporate bodies, their usefulness as instruments, iii. 441. more under the direction of the state than private citizens, iii. 447. Corruption, of nature and example, what the only security against, ii. 238. in pecuniary matters, the suspicion of it how to be avoided, iii. 95. Cossim, Ali Khân, his character and conduct, ix. 405. Country, lore of, remarks on, xi. 422. Credit and power incompatible, i. 368.