| Berlin and Milan Decrees, ii. 84, 267, 859. BERNARD, FRANCIS, Governor of Massachusetts, i. 8, 160. BINNEY, HORACE, ii. 506.
BLACK, PROFESSOR, in the Edinburgh Medical University; i. 846.
Mr. Giles, 56; State debts; internal taxes, 57; X. Y. Z. Talleyrand, Mr. Gerry, Washington; the constitution, 59; the responsibility of judges; impeachment of justice in England, 60; sedition act; the ecclesiastical establish- ment, 61; Mr. Giles explains; the pulpit charged with federalism; the expediency of the judiciary law consid-Blackwood's Magazine, i. 290. ered, 62; Supreme Court; district courts; circuit courts, Bladensburg, Md. ii. 439. 63; the effect of placing judges of the Supreme Court in circuit courts, 64; circuit court described; character of the judges; inconvenience felt from division in opinion; defects of the former judicial system, 65; the new sys- tem an improvement; jurisdiction; compensation; judges of the Supreme Court, 66; state of the circuit courts considered; jurisdiction of the district courts; objections to the late establishment, answered, 67; ex- pense of the federal judiciary; paucity of causes in fede- ral courts, 68; changes in the nation of France; Brissot, Robespierre, Tallien and Barras; Bonaparte, 69; "Has the legislature a right by law to remove a judge?" 69; judges to hold their offices through good behavior; further remarks, 70; tenure of office, 70; ordinance of 1787; answer to Mr. Thompson; statute of William III., 72; court of "piepoudre;" the constitution predicated upon the integrity of man, 73; parties in the House at the time of the passage of the judiciary act, 78; Mr. Read of S. C., Mr. Green of R. I., 74; election of Mr. Jefferson, his conduct reviewed, 75; power of Congress to establish courts; judges have their offices for one term, 76; district judges of Kentucky and Tennessee; power of the government limited, 77; the judicial act of 1789, 79; judges should be independent of political changes, 80.
BLAND, FRANCES, wife of John Randolph, ii. 155. BLAND, THHODORIC, notice of, ii. 155. BLANDY, MARY, trial of, i. 589. BLANNERHASSETT, Wirt's description of, ii. 467. BLANNERHassett's Island, i. 174; ii. 467. BLEECKER, MR., of New York, ii. 267, 276. BLOUNT, WILLIAM, the case of, ii. 53, 147; expulsion of, 148; Kentucky memorial, 148.
BLOUNT, MR, resolutions of concerning the British treaty, L 104, 111.
Speech on the repeal of the embargo, 1809; the reso- lution of Mr. Giles; motion to amend Mr. Giles" plan considered, 80; orders in council and imperial decrees; England and France; war with England, the object of the resolution, 81; means to secure peace neglected, 81; differences between the nations considered; the rule of 1756; constructive blockade, 82; impressment of sea- men on board American ships, 83; Mr. Fox, 85; attack of the Leopard upon the Chesapeake, 86; further remarks; the purpose of the embargo, 87; opposition in the East- ern States, 88; correspondence between Mr. Canning and Mr. Pinkney; considered, 89; benefits not to be gain- ed by non-intercourse and embargo, 90; further remarks upon the speech of Mr. Giles, 91; the army and navy; extract from Mr. Bayard's speech of 12th of February, 1810, 91; notices of, i. 120; ii. 22, 261.
BAYARD, JOHN, notice of, ii. 52.
BAYARD PIERRE DU TERRAIL, Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche, il. 52.
BECK, PAUL, see "Fort Wilson."
BECKFORD, Mrs., in the trial of J. F. Knapp, ii. 404.
Beef and Pork, sent from the United States to the British West Indies, 1778; and from England, 1780; exported from Ireland seven years prior to 1777, i. 101 BEEKMAN, HENRY, i. 850.
Beith in Ayrshire, i. 290. Belgic Confederacy, i. 866.
BELL, WILLIAM, letter to the commandant of Fort Hawkins, September 1817, li. 276.
Belsham's Memoirs of the reign of George III. i. 275. Bennington, battle of, ii. 357, 364.
BENTON, THOMAS H., estimate of the character and services of William B. Giles, by, ii. 190; sketch of the character of Robert T. Hayne, ii. 556, 557; notice of, 871.
BERKELEY, ADMIRAL, L. 86.
BERKELEY, SIR WILLIAM, 1. 40.
Berlin, ministers to, 1. 511, 518.
BOERHAAVE H. DE., his opinion of the poor, i. 347. BOLLMAN AND SWARTWOUT, case of, ii. 463. Bolton's History of Westchester County, New York, i. 458. BONAPARTE, JOSEPH, his claim to the crown of Spain, ii. 841. BONAPARTE, the jailer of, i. 526; "the nation of France," ii. 69, 856; his opinions of protection, 814. BOND, DR., of Philadelphia, i. 808, 346. BONHAM -, see "Fort Wilson." Boston evacuated by the British, i. 557; banks of, ii. 570. Boston Centinel, ii. 249.
Boston Chronicle, quotation from, i. 60. Boston Gazette, i. 274.
Boston Massacre, account of, i. 60; Joseph Warren's oration on, 60; John Hancock's oration on, 227; John Adams' defence of the soldiers of the, 285; Robert Treat Paine's argument in the case of the, 247; notice of, ii. 448; Minot's oration on the, i. 551; Josiah Quincy, Jr., de- fence of the soldiers of the, i. 336.
Boston Port Bill, James Wilson's resolution against the; offered in Convention of Pennsylvania, January, 1775, 1. 71; meeting in New York relative to the, 152; the "meeting in the fields" at New York, in reference to the; Alexander Hamilton's speech on, 184; notice of, 233. Boston Transcript, Sigma's sketches in the, ii. 238. BOTTA, CHARLES, his history of the American Revolution, ii. 452; his reports of the speeches of R. H. Lee and John Dickinson, 452.
BOUDINOT, ELIAS, parentage and education of; studies law with Richard Stockton; marries; death of his wife; his political course; appointed commissary-general of prison- ers; delegate to the Continental Congress; elected pres- ident of Congress; Federal Constitution; re-elected to Congress, 1.262; appointed director of the Mint; retire- ment; New Jersey College; Board of Foreign Missions; American Bible Society; elected president of; donation to the Society; his death; literary tastes and produc- tions, 263; his life of William Tennent, 263.
Oration before the Cincinnati; great men raised up for great events; obligations of mankind to patriots; Warren and Montgomery, 264; equality and rights of men; universal brotherhood; self-government, 265; Americans, "the hope of human nature;" the "highest officers the first servants of the people;" origin of the Society of the Cincinnati, 266, 267; equality; capability; rights of women; Columbus and Isabella, 268; dedica- tion to General Washington, 269; speech on Non-Inter- course with Great Britain; reasons for his vote; Mr. Clark's motion; Mr. Smith, of Maryland; his services; prisoners at Algiers; constitutionality of Mr. Clark's motion, 270; America in 1776; non-importation agree. ment; Mississippi and the Lakes, 271; patron of Alex ander Hamilton, i. 183.
Bowdoin College, ii. 579. BOWDOIN, JAMES, elected Governor of Massachusetts, i. 226. BRACKENRIDGE, H. H., ancestry and birth of; early educa-
on; teaches school; an incident, i. 356; enters college; college life, 356; poem on the "Rising Glory of Amer- ica;" writes the drama entitled "Bunker's Hill;" edits the United States Magazine; anecdote of his editorship; strictures on General Charles Lee; serves as a chaplain in the American army, 356; his rhetorical productions; commences the study of law; settles at Pittsburg; commences political life, 356; the "Whiskey Insurrec- tion; " publishes "Modern Chivalry;" appointed Judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; his wit and elo- quence; Jeffrey's opinion of his conversational powers; estimate of his character, 357; biographical notice of, by his son, 357.
Eulogium on "the brave men who have fallen in the contest with Great Britain," 1779, 858; patriots, their reward, 358; the cause of liberty; state of the country during the revolution, 859.
BRACKENRIDGE, H. M., recollections of places and persons in the west, i. 356.
BRADDOCK, GENERAL, defeat of, i. 40, 251.
Braintree, Mass., Congregational Church in, ii., 247. Brandywine, battle of, ii. 8.
BRAY, CAPTAIN, testimony in Knapp's trial, ii. 416. BRECKENRIDGE, Mr., i. 477.
BRISSOT, "the nation of France," ii. 69.
British evacuate Boston, i. 557.
British America, a summary view of the rights of, by
Thomas Jefferson, ii. 450.
British Government a mixed one, compared with the
British Parliament pass an act to raise a revenue on glass, paper, &c., i. 8.
British Spy, see William Wirt.
British Treaty, speech of Fisher Ames on the, i. 104; Blount's resolution on, 106; James Madison's speech on the, 144; opposed by De Witt Clinton, 565; discussion in the Virginia legislature relative to, ii. 9; remarks of James Hillhouse on the, 140; Gallatin's speech on the, 133; Mr. Nicholas' remarks on the, 140; Wm. B. Giles' speech on the, 190; Edward Livingston opposes it; his reasons, 218; essays under the signature of Camillus, ii. 34; meeting at New York relative to the, 34. BURKE, ROBERT, attorney-general of Virginia, ii. 259. BROOKS, JOHN, GENERAL, in the Massachusetts Insurrection, i. 557; notice of, ii. 364.
Brown University, Tristam Burgess at, ii. 319, 320; notice of, 335.
Brownstown, battle of, ii. 271.
BUCKMINSTER, JOSEPH STEVENS, ii. 357.
Bunker Hill, Webster's Address at, 1825, ii. 862, 369; battle of, ii. 365.
BUCHANAN, MR., see Knapp's Trial.
BURGOYNE, JOHN, GENERAL, approaching Albany, i. 154;
convention with; Witherspoon's speech on the, 296; letter from, to General Gates, 299; resolutions of Con- gress relative to, 801.-
BURGESS, TRISTAM, ancestry and birth; early education;
whaling voyage; studies medicine; enters Brown Uni- versity; studies law; his practice, ii. 319; his eloquence; elected to the Congress, 319; appointed chief justice of Rhode Island; occupies chair of oratory and belles-lettres, Brown University; re-election to Congress; argument on claim of Marigny D'Auterive; reply to John Ran- dolph, ii. 320; contributions to periodical publications; occasional orations; return to private life; his death, 822; speech on removal of Washington's remains, 332, 334.
Speech on the judiciary bill, 1825, ii. 822; provisions of the bill; objections to be removed, 323; present system considered, 824; number of the judges; further remarks, 825; equalization of judicial representation, 326; politi- cal representation to be secured by the system, 326; equalization of a knowledge of State laws, 327; judges are to learn by travel, 828; increase of the Supreme Court, 329; the system of 1801, 330; the future of the judiciary, 331.
BURGOYNE, JOHN, John Witherspoon's speech on the con- vention with, i. 298.
Bunker Hill Monument, address of Daniel Webster at the laying of the corner stone of, ii. 862. BURKE, EDMUND, in Parliament, ii. 247, 431. BURNS, THOMAS, ii. 227.
BURE, AARON, candidate for President of the United States, ii. 75; as Vice President; confidence in, 150; his career, 151; deposition of Commodore Truxton and Mr. McRae, in the trial of, 152; speech of Edmund Randolph in the trial of, i. 174; the conspiracy of; participation of John Smith is considered, ii. 147; Wirt's speech in the trial of, 461, 469.
BURRIL, JAMES, of Rhode Island, ii. 129. Byfield Academy, ii. 33.
BYLES, MATHER, i. 321. BYRON, GEORGE ANSON, ii. 96.
CABOT, GEORGE, sketch of the life of, i. 558; st Philadelphia, 9. CESAR compared with Washington, i. 554.
CALDWELL, DR. CHARLES, estimate of the oratory of Fisher Ames, i. 92.
CALDWELL, JAMES, i. 60; ii. 471. CALDWELL, JOHN, ii. 471. CALDWELL, MARTHA, ii. 471. CALHOUN, JAMES, ii. 471.
CALHOUN, JOHN CALDWELL, birth; ancestry; character of his parents; early instruction at home; ii. 472; enter Yale College; his brilliant success; commences the study of law; his practice; election to Congress; result of his first speech; appointed Secretary of War by President Monroe; his able administration, 472; elected Vice President; resignation; election to United States Senate; appointed Secretary of State, by President Tyler; death; tributes to his character, 473; notices of, 882, 883.
Speech on the increase of the army, 1811; report of the Committee of Foreign Relations; means nothing but war or empty menace, ii. 475; war never should be re- sorted to, but when justifiable and necessary; justifiable if it should ensue, 475; further remarks in reply to John Randolph; defenceless state of the country, 476; expen ses of the war considered, 476; constitution not calcula- ted for a war, 477; non-importation act; the love of France, and hatred of England; balance of power, 479.
Speech on a bill proposing to set apart and pledge, as a permanent fund for the construction of roads and canals, the bonus of the National Bank, and the United States' share of its dividends; the importance of roads and canals, ii. 479; higher considerations why Congress should take charge of the subject, 480; power of raising revenue depends on them, 480; extent of country; the constitutional question, 481; communication from Maine to Louisiana, the first great object; further remarks, 482.
Speech on the revenue collection bill; the conduct of South Carolina; imports for protection unconstitutional; statement of Luther Martin, ii. 483; power of the Su
Judiciary, ii. 75.
CLARK, ABRAHAM, i. 270.
CLARK, MR., see trial of R. M. Goodwin.
preme Court to judge between the States and the | CLAIBORNE, THOMAS, of Tenn., see Bayard's speech on the general government, ii. 484; reply to Mr. Clayton; South Carolina in the tariff of 1816, 485; speech on the tariff of 1816, considered, 487; course of South Carolina, 489; election of General Jackson, 490; test oath, 491; the public debt; enforcing acts, 492; nullification, 492; has Congress the right to pass the bill? 493; answers Mr. Grundy and Mr. Clayton, 494; sovereignty of the States, 495; power and liberty; the question at issue, 496; fur- ther remarks to Mr. Clayton; replies to Mr. Rives, 498; remedy for the evils of the bill proposed, 501; the ascend- ency of the constitution over the law-making majori- ty; the great and essential point, 503; the right of inter- position on the part of a State considered; powers of the general government, 504.
CALHOUN, PATRICK, ii. 471.
Calhoun Settlement, ii. 471.
CALLENDER, William Wirt counsel for, ii. 441.
CAMBRELENG, MR., see trial of R. M. Goodwin.
"Camillus," see Fisher Ames.
CAMPBELL, GEORGE, see "Fort Wilson.
CAMPBELL, LORD WILLIAM, i. 52, 54.
CAMPBELL, MR, tutor of Chief Justice Marshall, ii. 7.
Canada, the conquest of, i. 2; letter to the oppressed in- habitants of, 153.
CLAY, ELIZABETH, the mother of Henry Clay, ii. 259. CLAY, HENRY, birth and parentage; the slashes; death of his father, ii. 259; clerk in a drug store; origin of the sobriquet, "the mill boy of the slashes"; Virginia Court of Chancery; Chancellor Wythe. 259; commences the study of law; removes to Lexington, Ky., 259 · early practice, an incident of, 260; elected to the Senate; his influence; the American system, 260; speech on the Bank charter; elected to the House of Representatives; chosen speaker; treaty of peace, 1814; visits Paris; in- terview with Madame de Stael, 261; battle of Waterloo; anecdote of Lord Liverpool; return to America; appoint- ed Secretary of State; address before the Colonization Society of Kentucky; re-elected to the Senate; farewell speech; nominated for the Presidency; his death; sketch of his character and services, 263; his duel with John Randolph, 159.
Speech on the New Army bill, 1813, 264; speech on the Seminole War, 278; speech on Internal Improve- ment, 286; speech on the Tariff, 1824, 296; address to Lafayette, 817; reply to John Randolph, 318.
Canon and Feudal law, John Adams' dissertation on, ii. CLAY, JOHN, REV., ii. 259. 447. CLAYTON, J. M., ii. 485, 498. Capital Punishment, Edward Livingston's argument Clermont, New York, ii. 218. against, ii. 225.
CAREY, MATTHEW, the relative importance to the Union of the Southern and Eastern States, ii. 563; further quota- tion, 570.
CARLETON, GUY, i. 288.
Carlisle, Pa., i. 308.
CARPENTER, T., report of the trial of Aaron Burr, i. 174; ii. 461.
CARROLL, CHARLES, of Carrollton, i. 489; tribute to, ii. 453. CARTER, ELIZABETH, ii. 428.
Carthagena, expedition against, i. 825. Castine, Maine, attack on, i. 421.
CASTLEREAGH, LORD, ii. 268, 270.
CATHOART, LORD, ii. 54.
Catholics in Ireland, extension of the right of suffrage among the, attempted, i. 526.
CAULKINS, F. M., her history of New London, ii. 144. CEVALLOS, COUNT, Spanish minister, ii. 344.
CHARLES, II., Navigation Act of, i. 7.
Charleston, South Carolina, Judge Drayton's charge to the
Charleston, Louisville, and Cincinnati Railroad, ii. 556. Charlestown, Mass. i. 45; burning of, 288.
CHASE, SAMUEL, impeachment of, John Randolph's resolution on, ii. 156; notices of, i. 174, 856, 372, 490; ii. 93. Cherokee Indians, the case of, ii. 443; Wirt's argument in relation to, 469.
Cherokee and Creek Indians, Hawkins and Pickens' treaty with, i. 120.
Chesapeake, attack of the Leopard on the, ii. 86; defenceless state of in 1811, 185. CHEVES, LANGDON, ii. 382, 555.
CLINTON, DE WITT, birth and education of; studies law; appointed private secretary to Governor George Clinton, 1. 565; politics; opposes the adoption of the Federal Constitution; essays under the signature of "A Country- man; " "his opinions in after life, 565; letter to the Mayor of Philadelphia, 565; opposes the British treaty; mili- tary tastes; elected lieutenant; appointed secretary of the Regents of the University, 565; election of John Jay; returns to the practice of law; elected to the legis- lature; chosen to the United States Senate; his career, 565; an opponent of Gouverneur Morris, 565; elected mayor of New York; duties of the mayor, 566; his course in the State Senate; elected lieutenant-governor; retirement; the Erie Canal, 566; elected governor, 566; mission to England; Tuckerman's sketch of his life and services, 566; tour of New England; his last days and death, 567; candidate for the presidency, 558; notices of, 1. 351, 477, ii. 346.
Speech on the navigation of the Mississippi; Mr. Ross's resolutions; the injuries alleged to have been committed by Spain considered; the importance of free navigation, 568; the nature, character and tendency of the remedy proposed, 569; the justice and policy of the measure, 569; navigation always first to be tried; demand of sat- isfaction ought to precede an appeal to arms; Vattel, on the law of nations, 569; Burlamaqui, Martens, and Paley; the reign of George III. a "war reign," 570; the case of the Falkland Islands; the English settlements on the Mosquito shore and Honduras; controversy about Nootka Sound considered, 571; the practice of the United States government, 571; the policy of Washing- ton considered; the western posts; Indian difficulties; defeated by General Wayne, 572; review of the country; past history, 572; effect of British rapacity, 578; Novem- ber Orders of 1793, 578; future policy of the United States considered, 574.
CLINTON, GEORGE, governor of New York, i. 429, 527, 565. CLINTON, SIR HENRY, ii. 588.
CLYMER, DANIEL, see "Fort Wilson."
CLYMER, GEORGE, sketch of the life of, i. 120: see "Fort Wilson."
COBBETT, WILLIAM, ii. 185.
COIT, MR., of Connecticut, ii. 184.
COLDEN, CADWALLADER D., life of Fulton, i. 851.
COLTON, CALVIN, his Life and Times of Henry Clay, ii. 259. Columbia College, New York, Alexander Hamilton at, i. 560;
John Randolph at, ii. 156. Columbian Centinel, Boston, i. 552. Concord, Mass., ii. 865.
DALRYMPLE, COLONEL, i. 60.
DANA, Chief Justice of Mass., i. 552.
Dana, Francis, minister to Russia, ii. 247.
DANE, NATHAN, ii. 872, 375, 423; remarks of Robert Y Hayne in reference to, ii. 558.
DANDRIDGE, NATHANIEL W., i. 11.
Dandridge, DOROTHEA, second wife of Patrick Henry, i. 11. Danvers, Mass., ii. 418. D'ARBLAY, MADAME, ii. 428.
Confederation, The, eulogy on, i. 15; John Witherspoon's DARRICOTт, Mrs. ii. 259. speech on, 296.
Congress, the powers of, respecting the disposal of the terri- tory and property of the United States, ii. 44; to build roads, 290; cutting canals, 292.
Congress of 1774, i. 287; suggested by Samuel Adams, 322. Considerations on behalf of the Colonists, by James Otis,
Constitution of the United States, Uriah Tracy's speech on a proposed amendment to, relative to the mode of elect- ing a president and vice-president, i. 482.
Continental Congress, declaration of, on taking up arms, i. 286; John Adams in the, ii. 448.
Dartmouth College, ii. 857, 358, 859; discourse before the Faculty, Students, and Alumni of; commemorative of Daniel Webster, by Rufus Choate, ii. 362. D'AUTERIVE, MARIGNY, ii. 820.
DAVIE, WILLIAM RICHARDSON, sketch of the life of, i. 403. DAWES, THOMAS, quotation from, i. 4. DEACON, PETER, ii. 259. DEANE, SILAS, i. 234, 802. DECANDOLLE, the botanist, ii. 130. Declaration of Independence, ii. 453. Declaration of Rights of Virginia, i. 11. D'ENGHEIN, DUKE, execution of, ii. 282.
Convention Parliament of 1688, bill of rights enacted by, DELANY, SHARPE, see "Fort Wilson."
COPPERTHWAIT, HUGH, i. 453. CORBIN, MR., i. 33.
Cornwallis, LORD, i. 120; expression in reference to Vir- ginia, ii. 177; French troops in Ireland surrender to, 526.
CORRELISSEN, N., his oration at Ghent, 1816, ii. 55. COXE, ISAAC, see "Fort Wilson."
CRAIG, CAPTAIN, expedition under the command of, ii. 272. CRAIG, JAMES H., governor of Canada, il. 533. CRAM, Mr., Red Jacket's reply to, i. 419. CRAWFORD, W. H., ii. 882; his opinion of James Hillhouse's proposition to amend the Federal Constitution, 146. Creek Indians, see "Cherokee and Creek Indians:" treaty between the United States and the, ii. 274; its charac- ter, 275.
CROMWELL, OLIVER, i, 7, 453; ships and troops of, invade Virginia, 40.
CROSWELL, HARRY, Alexander Hamilton's speech in the trial of, i. 204; ii. 587. Crown Point, i. 45.
CROWNINGSHIELD, RICHARD, arrested for the murder of Jo- seph White, ii. 399.
CROWNINGSHIELD, GEORGE, arrested for the murder of Jo- seph White, ii. 399.
CRUGER, NICHOLAS, i. 183.
CRUSE, PETER HOFFMAN, his Life of William Wirt, ii. 440. CULLEN, PROFESSOR in the Edinburgh Medical University, i. 346.
Culloden, Battle of, ii. 335.
Culpepper C. H., Va., ii. 441.
Cumberland Island, Ga., General Henry Lee died at, 1. 449. Cumberland Road, ii. 287, 295, 296, 382. CUNNINGHAM, the case of Forsey and, i. 350. CUREAN at Westminster, i. 525.
Currency and Banking system of the United States, con- siderations on, ii. 133.
CURTIS, GEORGE T., his History of the Constitution of the United States, i. 164, ii. 85. CUSHING, THOMAS, i. 225.
D'AGUESSEAU, on capital punishment, ii. 235. DALLAS, A. J., notice of, ii. 95. DALLAS, ROBERT C., notice of, ii. 95.
Delaplaine's Repository, quoted, ii. 35.
DE LOLME, the writer on Legislation, ii. 130. Democratic Review, quoted, ii. 218.
DENNY, RICHARD, ii. 259.
D'ENVILLE, LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, letter from to Dr. Frank- lin, ii. 130.
"Dermot, Mac Morrogh;" or, the Conquest of Ireland, by John Q. Adams, ii. 251.
DESAUSSURE, H. W., ii. 472.
DE STAEL, MADAME, ii. 285; account of Henry Clay's inter- view with, 261.
D'ESTAING, COUNT, at Rhode Island, ii. 33. Detroit, action at, 1814, ii. 271. DEXTER, RICHARD, notice of, ii. 237. DEXTER, SAMUEL, senior, notice of, ii. 237. Dexter, Samuel, ancestry and birth of; graduates at Har- vard College, ii. 237; studies law; anecdote of practice, 237; election to Congress; appointed Secretary of War; transferred to the Treasury Department; his practice in the Supreme Court; his oratory, 288; his habits; temperance; the Massachusetts State Temperance So- ciety; anecdote of; Mission to Spain tendered him; ill health; his death, 239; argument in the trial of Thomas O. Selfridge, 239; Red Jacket's reply to, i. 426; at Philadelphia, ii. 9; Webster's tribute to, 894; coun- sel in Knapp's trial, 899, 409; notice of, 572. Dictator, an American, i. 82. DICKINSON, JOHN, birth, parentage, and early education; studies law; enters the Temple at London; returns to Philadelphia; elected to the Pennsylvania Assembly; his oratory; reply to a piece called the speech of Joseph Galloway; member of the Congress of New York; his career; political writings, i. 278; address to the Com- mittee of Correspondence in Barbadoes; the Farmer's Letters; address of the inhabitants of Boston; Dr. Franklin's preface to the Farmer's Letters; Richard Henry Lee, 274; Liberty Song; Arthur Lee; elected to Congress; Address to the people of Quebec; petition to the King; Declaration of Congress, 1775; second peti- tion to the King; opposes the Declaration of Independ- ence, 275; political writings, 275; leads a regiment; serves as a private soldier; appointed Brigadier Gen- eral; elected to Congress; address to the States; quo- tation from; chosen member of the Delaware Assembly; President of the State; Dickinson College; the Federal Constitution; writes the letters of Fabius; his last lite-
rary production; his death, 276; speech attributed to, | ELLSWORTH, OLIVER, ancestors of, birth and education; com by Botta, ii. 452; notices of, i. 66, 296.
Speech in the Pennsylvania House of Assembly, 1764; attempted change of government, 277; prudence to be used in effecting great ends; Duke of Monmouth and the Prince of Orange compared; Tacitus, 278; consider- ation of the attempted change, 279; consequences upon the change, 280; Church of England; government of Carolina and the Jerseys; Quakers, 282.
The Declaration on taking up arms; the early colo- nists, 286; trial by jury; Congress of 1774; petitions neglected, 287; General Gage; Battle of Lexington; Boston; Proclamation of June 12th, 1775; burning of Charlestown, Mass., 288.
DRAYTON, WILLIAM HENRY, Judge, ancestry of; birth of; his early education; graduates at Oxford; his marriage; writes under the signature of a Freeman; controversy with Christopher Gadsden; appointed to the Privy Council of South Carolina; appointed Judge, 1774; his removal from the bench and Council; elected to the Provincial Congress of South Carolina; is chosen Presi- dent of that body; appointed Chief Justice of South Carolina; delivers his celebrated charge to the Grand Jury; his address to Congress, 1774, i. 48; writes under the signature of a Carolinian; answer to the declaration of Lord and General Howe, 1776; elected to the Conti- nental Congress, i. 49; death of; his literary produc- tions; "History of the American Revolution;" memoirs of him, by John Drayton; challenged by General Charles Lee; his reasons for declining; charge to the Grand Jury of Charleston, S. C., i. 50.
DUDLEY, PAUL, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, death of, i. 2. DUMONT, the writer on legislation; anecdote of, ii. 130. DUNCANNON, CAPTAIN.-See "Miranda's Expedition." DUNLAP, WILLIAM, his History of New York, i. 453, DUNMORE, LORD, enters Virginia, 1775, i. 10, ii. 7; defeated by the Americans at the Great Bridge, Va., 8; notice of, 155. Dutch, the treaty between the Mohawks and, i. 468; Eng- land's Navigation Act, ii. 36.
DUYCKINCK, E. A. and G. L., i. 357.
DWIGHT, THEODORE, history of the Hartford Convention, i. 558.
East Florida, William Hunter's speech on seizing. ii. 837. Eastern States, their opposition to the embargo, 1809, ii. 88. EASTMAN, ABIGAIL, ii. 357.
EATON, GENERAL, ii. 462; deposition in the trial of Aaron Burr, 152.
EDGEWORTH, MARIA, ii. 428.
Edinburgh, Medical University of, ii. 533; the professors in, i. 346.
EDWARDS, BENJAMIN, ii. 441.
EDWARDS, NINIAN, ii. 441.
Education Female, prejudices against, ii. 427, ELIOT, JOHN, i. 3.
Eliot's Biographical Dictionary, i. 323.
ELIOT, LIEUTENANT, bravery of, ii. 272.
Elizabeth River, Virginia, action at, ii. 8.
mences the study of law; anecdote of his early practice, i. 401; appointed States Attorney; elected to the State Legislature and the Continental Congress; member of the "Committee of Appeals;" the "Rhode Island Ex- pedition;" the Federal Constitution, 402; elected to the Senate of the United State; appointed Chief Jus- tice; his career; appointed on a mission to France; anecdote of an English lawyer; failing health; resigns his seat on the bench; return to America; his last days and death; tribute to, 403, opposes Mr. Gallatin's tak- ing a seat in the Senate, ii. 34; notices of, i. 120; ii. 9. Speech on the Federal Constitution; on opening the debates; a more energetic system necessary, 404; re- ference to ancient and modern history; necessity of coercion; present weakness, 405; on the power of Con- gress to lay taxes, 406; reasonable checks; reference to Rhode Island, 408.
Embargo, James A. Bayard's speech on the repeal of the, ii. 80.
EMMET, CHRISTOPHER TEMPLE, death of, i. 525. EMMET, ROBERT, father of Thomas addis, i. 525. EMMET, THOMAS ADDIS, parentage and birth; designed for the practice of medi ́ne; his studies; graduates at the Medical University of Edinburgh; his fellow-students, i. 525; Medical Thesis published by Smellie; travels in Germany and Italy; death of his brother; studies law; Erskine commences practice; his marriage; success at the bar; Curran; the condition of Ireland, 525; the French Revolution; societies of United Irishmen; Em- met joins them; the adherence of the people; arrest of Mr. Emmet; insurrections of Wexford and Wicklow; defeat at Vinegar Hill, 526; French force land at Killala; surrender to Lord Cornwallis; suffering in prison; the jailer of Napoléon; Mrs. Emmet, 526; removed to Fort George; writes the history of Ireland; liberation and removal to the Continent; Brussels and Paris; sails for New York; commences the practice of law; admitted to the Supreme Court; death of Hamilton, 527; success at the bar; politics; appointed Attorney General of New York; anecdote of his practice; manners and appearance in court; retort upon William Pinkney, 527; Mr. Em- met's habits of business; estimate of his powers as an advocate; his eloquence; the Astor cause; trial of Lieu- tenant Percival; and the case of the Sailors' Snug Harbor, 528; his last illness and death; memoir of his life, by Haines, 528; counsel in the case of the Neirede, ii. 96.
Speech in defence of William S. Smith; Miranda's expedition, 528; account of General Miranda, 529; charac ter of Mr. Smith, 580; Mr. Adams and Mr. Genet, 580; the statute considered, 531; captain Lewis and Mr. Arm- strong; the misrepresentations of Fink, 582: the Lean- der, 534; conduct of Spain towards the United States, 535; the rescue of the Kempers; Colonels Swartwout and Platt, 586; letter of Captain Duncanson, 586.
Speech in the trial of Robert M. Goodwin, 587; duty of the jury, 538; burthen of the proof not thrown on the defence, 538; Mary Blandy's case, 539; act of manslaughter must be voluntary; interpretation of the word" wilful," 540; distinction between murder and manslaughter, 541; Hawkins' definition of manslaughter, 542; Sir John Chichester's case, 543.
ENDICOTT, MR., testimony in the trial of J. F. Knapp, ii. 405. England, "implication" in, see Patrick Henry; resolution
of the Lords and Commons, of February 7, 1688, l. 52; the Navigation Act of, 103; Navigation Act of the seventeenth century, ii. 86; object of, to curtail the navigation of the Dutch, 86; the disposition of, in 1783, 41; the manufacturing resources of, 172.
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