ii. 208

Comets, feelings of terror inspired by the presence of, i. 376, 377 _note_

Comines, Philip de, credulity shown in his history, i. 327; ii. 265 _note_

Commerce. See Trade

Commerce; Rise of trading interests in Scotland in the eighteenth century, iii. 171. See Trade; Trade, Free

Commission, High Court of, established in Scotland, iii. 125. Cruelty of the, 142 _note_

Commons, House of, origin of the, ii. 117. Causes of the increase of the authority of the, 121

Comte, M., remarks on his 'Philosophie Positive,' i. 5 _note_

Condillac, his metaphysical work, the 'Traité des Sensations,' ii. 357. Essential positions upon which the work is based, 358

Condorcet, his character and abilities, i. 470. Burke's remarks on, 471. His proposal of English criminal jurisprudence as a model for France, ii. 226. His professed atheism, 352

Conjurors, tricks of, forbidden to be seen by the French Protestants, ii. 70

Conquest, Norman, Sir F. Palgrave on the results produced by the, ii. 116 _note_

Consciousness, faculty or state of the mind so called, i. 14. Different opinions respecting, 14 _note_. Its fallibility, 15. Authorities as to the preservation of consciousness in dreams and in insanity, 17 _note_

Constant, M., his adoption of a remark of Voltaire, ii. 303

Converts, fickleness of, i. 255, 256

Convocation, falls into general contempt, i. 414. Final prorogation of, by an act of the Crown, 415. Permitted recently to re-assemble, 415

Copyhold rights in England, ii. 119. Not recognised by the French laws, 120

Coquereau, suppression of his 'Memoirs of Terrai,' ii. 238

Corn, free trade in, proposed by Stafford in 1581, i. 213 _note_. The real cause of the abolition of the, 273. Merits of the Anti-Corn-Law League, 274. Importance of the repeal of the Corn-laws, 502

Corneille, period in which his tragedies appeared, ii. 209

Cornwall, hardly a bookseller in, in 1780, i. 432 _note_

Corporation Act, i. 396. Suspended by James II., i. 397

Corvée, the, in France, ii. 129. Authorities respecting the, 129 _note_

Coulumb, his experiments on electrical phenomena, ii. 362

Councils, authority of, despised by Chillingworth, i. 349

Courrayeur, suppression of the 'Dissertations' of, ii. 237

Cousin, M., on free will, quoted, i. 14 _note_

Covenant, Solemn League and, framed, iii. 132. Causes which produced the, 198

Coyer, his knowledge of the English language and literature, ii. 219

Credulity of Asiatics as compared with that of Europeans, i. 134. Instances of the credulity of the sixteenth century, 330. This credulity the natural result of the state of the age, 333

Crime, uniform reproduction of, i. 24, 25, 31 _notes_. Crime the result of the state of society into which the criminal is thrown, 29. Rawson on the possibility of arriving at certain constants with regard to crime, quoted, 31 _note_. Mode of preventing crime in France,