of the province of Bengal, xii. 208. his extravagant and corrupt contracts, xii. 297. his conduct in reference to various presents, xii. 324, 338, 350. observations on the Mahometan college founded by him, xii. 352. Lord Cornwallis's testimony to the disastrous effects of his revenue system, xii. 359. examination of the merits set up by him, xii. 370. Hawles, Sir John, extracts from his speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 126, 135. Height, less grand than depth, i. 147. Helvetii, remarkable emigration of them related by Cæsar, vii. 172. Henry I. of England, brief account of his reign, vii. 375. Henry II. of England, brief account of his reign, vii. 394. Henry IV. of England, severs the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancaster from the crown, ii. 296. Henry IV. of France, brief character of him, iii. 411. Hii, or Columbkill, brief account of it, vii. 249. Hindoo institutions, characteristics of, ix. 382. Hindoo polity, destroyed by Mr. Hastings, ix. 394. Hindostan, eras in its history, ix. 386. History, moral lessons to be drawn from it, iii. 418, 421. caution with regard to the study of it, iv. 468. Hobbes, his view of war as the state of Nature, i. 15. Holland, Sir John, extracts from his speech at the trial of Dr. Sacheverell, iv. 146. Holy Land, view of its condition at the commencement of the third Crusade, vii. 426. Homer, his similitudes seldom exact, i. 88. a simile from the Iliad, i. 105. his representation of Discord, obscure and magnificent, i. 138. no instance in the Iliad of the fall of any man remarkable for stature and strength that touches us with pity, i. 243. has given to the Trojans more of the amiable and social virtues than to the Greeks, i. 243. would excite pity for the Trojans, admiration for the Greeks, i. 243. his masterly representation of the grief of Priam over the body of Hector, iv. 95. observation on his representation of the ghosts of heroes at the sacrifices of Ulysses, vii. 181. his works introduced into England by Theodorus, Archbishop of Canterbury, vii. 249. Honest men, no safety for them but by believing all possible evil of evil men, iv. 7. Horace, the truth of an observation in his Art of Poetry, discussed, i. 134. a passage from him of similar import to one from David, i. 143. Household, the royal, has strong traces of feudality, ii. 303. Howard, the philanthropist, his labors, ii. 387. Hudibras, humorous lines from, applicable to the modern Whigs, iv. 150. Hume, Mr., his account of the secret of Rousseau's principles of composition, iii. 459. his remark on the doctrines of John Ball, iv. 355. Humility, the basis of the Christian system, iv. 26. humanity cannot be degraded by it, v. 253. Husbandry, classification of laborers in, v. 144. Hyder Ali Khân, scheme of the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot to extirpate him, iii. 61. dreadful devastation of the Carnatic by him, iii. 83.