Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches Volume Iv Part 19

a.s.sists Charles Boyle in preparing an edition of the letters of Phalaris.

His answer to Bentley's dissertation on the letters of Phalaris.

Bentley's reply.

Atterbury's defence of the clergy against the prelates.

Created a D.D. and promoted to the Deanery of Carlisle.

His pamphlets against the Whigs.

Appointed to the Deanery of Christ Church.

Removed to the Bishopric of Rochester.

His opposition to the Government of George I.

His private life.

His taste in literature and literary friends.

Thrown into prison for treason.

Deprived of his dignities and banished for life.

Calls Pope as a witness to his innocence.

Goes to Paris, and becomes Prime Minister of King James.

Retires from the court of the ex-King.

Death of his daughter.

Induced by the Pretender to return to Paris.

His defence of the charge of having garbled Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.

His death.

August, lines written in.

Bacon, Lord, his description of the logomachies of the schoolmen.

And of the Utilitarian philosophy.

His mode of tracking the principle of heat.

Barbaroux, the Girondist, his execution.

Barere, Bertrand, Memoires de, of Carnot and David, review of the.

Barere's true character.

His lies.

His talents as an author.

Sketch of his life.

Votes against the King.

His federal views and ultra Girondism.

His apparent zeal for the cause of order and humanity.

His motion for punis.h.i.+ng the Jacobins.

Defeat of the Girondists.

Retains his seat at the Board of the Triumphant Mountain.

His infamous motion against the chiefs of the Girondists.

Moves that the Queen be brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal.

Regales Robespierre and other Jacobins at a tavern on the day of the death of the Queen.

Formation of his peculiar style of oratory.

His Carmagnoles.

Effect produced by his discourses.

Seconds Robespierre's atrocious motion in the Convention.

Becomes one of the six members of the Committee of Public Safety.

The first to proclaim terror as the order of the day.

Recommends Fouquier Tinville to the Revolutionary Committee of Paris.

His proposal to destroy Lyons and Toulon.

His opposition to the personal defence of Danton.

His support of the wretch Lebon.

His war against learning, art, and history.

His sensual excesses.

Becomes a really cruel man.

His morning audiences and mode of treating pet.i.tions.

His orders against certain head-dresses.

Nicknames given to him.

Obtains a decree that no quarter should be given to any English or Hanoverian soldier.

M. Carnot's defence of this barbarity.

Barere's support of Robespierre's fiendish decree.

His panegyric on Robespierre.

His motion that Robespierre and his accomplices should be put to death.

Destruction of the power of the Jacobins.

Report on his conduct voted by the Convention.

Condemned to be removed to a distant place of confinement.

His perilous journey.

Imprisoned at Oleron.

Removed to Saintes.

Escapes to Bordeaux.

Chosen a member of the Council of Five Hundred, which refuses to admit him.

His libel on England.

The Liberty of the Seas.

His flight to St Ouen.

Sends a copy of his work to the First Consul.

Allowed by Bonaparte to remain in Paris.

Refuses; becomes a writer and a spy to Bonaparte.

Sends his friend Demerville to the guillotine.

Spies set to watch the spy.

Ordered to quit Paris.

Employed in the lowest political drudgery.

His "Memorial Antibritannique" and pamphlets.

His fulsome adulation of the Emperor.

Causes of his failure as a journalist.

Treated with contempt by Napoleon.

His treachery to his Imperial master.

Becomes a royalist on the return of the Bourbons.

Compelled to leave France.

Returns in July 1830.

Joins the extreme left.

His last years and death.

Summary of his character.

His hatred of England.

His MS. works on divinity.

Barre, Colonel, joins the Whig opposition.

Appointed by Pitt Clerk of the Pells.

Bearn, the const.i.tution of.