Avarice, an instrument and source of oppression in India,
    iii. 107; ix. 491.

Bacon, Lord, a remark of his applied to the revolution in France, v. 175.
  his demeanor at his impeachment, xi. 173.

Bacon, N., his work on the laws of England not entitled to
    authority, vii. 479.

Bail, method of giving it introduced by Alfred, vii. 265.
  advantage of it, vii. 265.

Ball, John, abstract of a discourse of, iv. 178.

Ballot, all contrivances by it vain to prevent a discovery of
    the inclinations, iii. 507.

Balmerino, Lord, proceedings in his trial, xi. 34.

Banian, functions and character of the, ix. 363.

Bank paper in England, owing to the flourishing condition of
    commerce, iii. 541.

Bards, the, character of their verses, vii. 178.

Bartholomew, St., massacre of, iii. 420.

Bathurst, Lord, his imagined vision of the rising glories of
    America, ii. 114.

Bayle, Mr., an observation of his on religious persecution, vi. 333.

Beauchamp, Lord, his bill concerning imprisonment; Mr. Burke’s
    course with respect to it, ii. 382.

Beauty, a cause of love, i. 114, 165.
  proportion not the cause of it in vegetables, i. 166.
  nor in animals, i. 170.
  nor in the human species, i. 172.
  beauty and proportion not ideas of the same nature, i. 181.
  the opposite to beauty not disproportion or deformity, but
    ugliness, i. 181.
  fitness not the cause of beauty, i. 181.
  nor perfection, i. 187.
  how far the idea of beauty applicable to the qualities of the
    mind, i. 188.
  how far applicable to virtue, i. 190.
  the real cause of beauty, i. 191.
  beautiful objects, small, i. 191.
  and smooth, i. 193.
  and of softly varied contour, i. 194.
  and delicate, i. 195.
  and of clear, mild, or diversified, colors, i. 196.
  beauty of the physiognomy, i. 198.
  beauty of the eye, i. 198.
  the beautiful in feeling, i. 201.
  the beautiful in sounds, i. 203.
  physical effects of beauty, i. 232.

Bede, the Venerable, brief account of him and his works, vii. 250.

Bedford, the first earl of, who, v. 201.

Begums of Oude, accused by the East India Company of rebellion, ii. 475.
  pretence for seizing their treasures, xii. 33.

Benares, city of, the capital of the Indian religion, ii. 477, 484.
  province of, its projected sale to the Nabob of Oude, xi. 259.
  devastation of, during Mr. Hastings’s government, xi. 302, 347.
  the Rajah of, nature of his authority, xi. 240.
  imprisoned by Mr. Hastings’s order, xi. 277.
  the Ranny of, the soldiery incited by Mr. Hastings to plunder her,
    ii. 486.

Benfield, Paul, his character and conduct, iii. 97.

Bengal, extent and condition, of, ii. 498.
  conquest of, by the Emperor Akbar, ix. 392.
  era of the independent subahs of, ix. 392.
  era of the British empire in, ix. 393.
  nature of the government exercised there by Mr. Hastings, xii. 211.