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tinue the war, because it affected not his own dominions, 311. See Alliance, and Conduct.

Almanack makers. Why alone excluded the privilege of other authors, to live after their deaths, v. 54.

Ambassador. Wherever he is, his house has all the privileges of his master's dominions, xi. 14.

Ambition. Not so strong a passion in young men as love, xi. 293.

America. The state of religion in the plantations there, iii. 234. In some of the poorest colonies on the continent there, the people allowed to cut their money into halves and quarters for the sake of small traffick, v. 222. Why the Irish migrate thither, ibid, ix. 363. xviii. 353. The reasons urged for removing thither from Ireland ill founded, ix. 366.

Amplification. What; and the use of it in poetry, xvii. 22.

Amsterdam Gazette. The confidence of its writer, xvi. 305.

Amusement. Whose happiness it is, xvii. 387.

Anatomical figures. A collection of them recommended to Swift's patronage, xviii. 387.

Anglesea (Arthur, earl of). His zeal against the bill for laying a duty on Irish yarn, xv. 14.

Anglesey (John Annesley, earl of.) By his death, the tories lost a great supporter, xiv. 204.

Anglo-Latin. Specimens of, xvi. 366-371.

Anjou (duke of). At the beginning of the war maintained six and thirty thousand men out of the Spanish provinces he then possessed, iii. 418. See Partition Treaty, Spain.

Anne (queen). History of her four last Years, iv. i. Considerations on the Consequences of her Death, iv. 372. Modest Inquiry into the Report of it, xviii. 149. Remarks on the Characters of her Court, 218. Her conduct in the change of the ministry, iii. 4-10. Her right hereditary and indefeasible, as much as an act of parliament could make it, 24. Behaviour of the whigs toward her, 53. Began her reign with a noble benefaction to the church, 69. Her character, 89. iv. 280. Showed great prudence, firmness, and courage, in the change of the ministry, iii. 381. Put under the unreasonable obligation of being guarantee of the whole barrier treaty, 424. Influenced in every action by negligence or procrastination, iv. 280. When she began the change of ministry in 1708, she did not intend to carry it so far as the high church party hoped and expected, 374. A great mistress of royal reserve and delay; her jealousy frequently destroying the good effects of her friendship, 280. 332. 368. 375. Induced to change her ministry, more to preserve her power and prerogative, than through apprehension of danger to the church, 282. She and her ministry had no design of bringing in the pretender, 319. 349. Had a great personal regard for the lords Somers and Cowper, 321. An instance of her piety, xvi. 307. Degraded her dignity, in sending an humiliating embassy to the Czar, 333. Her speech to both houses of parliament, containing the foundation of the peace, iv. 195. Her circumstances much resembled those of Elizabeth, xviii.