| 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.
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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.
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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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