Colonists, the British, in America, character of, i. 395. 
  Address to, vi. 183.

Colors, soft and cheerful ones unfit to produce grand images, i. 158.

Comedy, observations on, vii. 150. 
  Aristotle’s distinction between it and tragedy, vii. 153.

Comines, Philip de, his remarks on the English civil wars, vi. 252.

Commerce and liberty, the two main sources of power to Great
    Britain, ii. 87.
  great increase of, in America, ii. 112.

Common law, nature of the, vii. 462.

Common Pleas, court of, its origin, vii. 466.

Commons, the House of, observations on its nature and character, i. 491.
  what qualities recommend a man to a seat in it, in popular
    elections, i. 497.
  can never control other parts of the government, unless the
    members themselves are controlled by their constituents, i. 503.
  ought to be connected with and dependent on the people, i. 508.
  has a collective character, distinct from that of its members, ii. 66.
  duty of the members to their constituents, ii. 95.
  general observations on its privileges and duties, ii. 544.
  the collective sense of the people to be received from it, ii. 545.
  its powers and capacities, ii. 552.
  cannot renounce its share of authority, iii. 258.
  its composition, iii. 289.
  the most powerful and most corruptible part of the constitution, vii. 62.
  a superintendence over the doctrines and proceedings of the
    courts of justice, one of its principal objects, vii. 107.
  concise view of its proceedings on the East India question, ii. 559.

Commonwealths, not subject to laws analogous to those of
    physical life, v. 124, 234.

Communes, in France, their origin, nature, and function,
    iii. 462, 464, 472.

Compurgators, in Saxon law, what, vii. 318.

Condorcet, brief character of him, iv. 356, 372.
  extract from a publication of his, iv. 356.

Confidence, unsuspecting, in government, importance of it, ii. 234.
  of mankind, how to be secured, v. 414.

Connections, party, political, observations on them, i. 527, 530.
  commended by patriots in the commonwealths of antiquity, i. 527.
  the Whig connection in Queen Anne’s reign, i. 529.

Conquest cannot give a right to arbitrary power, ix. 456.

Conscience, a tender one ought to be tenderly handled, vii. 54.

Constantine the Great, changes made by him in the internal
    policy of the Roman Empire, vii. 220.

Constantinople, anecdote of the visit of an English country
    squire to, v. 387.
  anecdote of the Greeks at the taking of, vi. 96.

Constituents, in England, more in the spirit of the constitution
    to lessen than to enlarge their number, i. 370.
  their duty to their representatives, ii. 370.
  compulsive instruction from them first rejected by Mr. Burke, iv. 95.
  points in which they are incompetent to instruct their
    representatives, vii. 74, 75.