424; Banks, Sir Joseph, iii. 365; Beauclerk, described by, ii. 192, n. 2; loss by his death, iii. 424; black-ball, exclusion by a single, iii. 116; books, some of the members talk from, v. 378, n.4; Boswell's election: See BOSWELL, Literary Club; Boswell's account of meetings at which he was present, his introduction, ii. 240; Johnson's apology to Goldsmith, ii. 255; talk of second-sight and Swift, ii. 318; Mrs. Abington's benefit, ii. 330; Travels, Ossian, the Black Bear, and patriotism, ii. 345; speakers distinguished by initials, iii. 230; Johnson's last dinner, iv. 326; Boswell's reports of meetings generally brief, ii. 242, n. 1, 345, n. 5; Burke's company lost to it, ii. 16; Bunbury elected, ii. 274; Camden Lord, black-balled, iii. 311, n. 2; day and hour of meeting, i. 478, 479; ii. 20, n. 1, 330, n. 1; iii. 128, 365, 368; described in 1774 by Beauclerk, ii. 274, n. 3; Dodd sought admittance, iii. 280; Dunning, John, elected, iii. 128; first meeting of the winter, iii. 210; Fordyce elected, ii. 274; foundation, and list of members, i. 477-9, 481, n 3; Fox elected, ii. 274; talked little, iii. 267; Garrick elected, i. 480; his vanity, iii. 311, n. 3; Gibbon elected, i. 481, n. 3; describes it, ii. 348, n. 1; poisons it to Boswell, ii. 443, n. 1; Goldsmith recites some absurd verses, ii. 240; iv. 13; he wishes for more members, iv. 183; his epitaph to be shown to the Club, iii. 81; hanged or kicked, members deserving to be, iii. 281; hogshead of claret nearly out, iii. 238; imaginary college at St. Andrews, v. 108-9; increase of members proposed, iii. 106; Johnson's attendance in his latter years, iii. 106, n. 4; attends after his attack of palsy, iv. 232-3; his last dinner, iv. 326, (for attendances with Boswell, See just above, under BOSWELL); dislikes several members, iii. 106; his friends of the Club, iv. 85; his funeral, iv. 419; subscriptions for his monument, iv. 423, ns. 1 and 3; incompliance with a Call, iv. 84; mentions the Club in a letter, ii. 136; reads his epitaph on Lady Elibank, iv. 10; talks of Mrs. Lennox's play, iv. 10; Jones, Sir W., described by, v. 109, n. 5; motto, its, i. 478, n. 3; name, i. 477; v. 109, n. 5; number of members, i. 478, n. 2, 479; iii. 106; Palmerston, second Lord, black-balled, iv. 232; elected, ib. n. 2; Porteus, Bishop of Chester, black-balled, iii. 311, n. 2; select merit, loses its, ii. 430, n. l; Sheridan, R.B., elected, iii. 316; Shipley, Bishop of St. Asaph, elected, iv. 75, n. 3; Smith, Adam, elected, ii. 430, n. 1; Steevens elected, ii. 273-4; Vesey elected, iv. 28; Vesey's (Mrs.) evening parties on Club nights, iii. 424, n. 3; iv. 108, n. 4; Nonsense Club, i. 395, n. 2; Old Street Club, iii. 443-4; iv. 187; Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1; 431, n. 1; Tall Club, i. 308, n. 6; White's, ii. 329, n. 3; World, The, iv. 102, n. 4. COACH, post-coach, iii. 129; iv. 283; heavy coach, iv. 285. COAL-HEAVERS, riots of, iii. 46, n. 5. COALITION MINISTRY (Duke of Portland's) formed, iv. 174, n. 3; dismissed, i. 311, n. 1; iv. 165, n. 3, 249, n. 1; mentioned, iv. 170, n. 1, 223, n. 1, 258, n. 2. COBB, Mrs., ii. 388, 466; iii. 412; iv. 142, 143. COBHAM, Lord, i. 491, n. 1; iii. 347; iv. 50, n. 4, 102, n. 4. COBLENTZ, ii. 427, n. 4. COCHRAN, General, i. 431, n. 1. COCKBURN, Baron, iii. 335, n. 1. COCKBURN, Dr., iii. 152, n. 3. COCKBURN, Lord, civil juries in Scotland, ii. 201, n. 1; Dundas, Henry, Viscount Melville, ii. 160, n. 1; Edinburgh High School, ii. 144, n. 2; Edinburgh in the 18th century, v. 21, n. 1; Jeffrey's English accent, ii. 159, n. 6; Scotch county electors, iv. 248, n. 1; Scotch entails, ii. 414, n. 1; St. Giles, Edinburgh, v. 41, n. 1; titles of Scotch judges, v. 77, n. 4. COCKENZIE, ii. 302, n. 2. Cocker's Arithmetic, v. 138, n. 2. COCK-LANE GHOST. See GHOSTS. CODRINGTON, Colonel, iii. 204, n. 1. COFFEE-HOUSE CRITICS, i. 288. COFFEY, ----, v. 256, n. 1. COFFLECT, iv. 77, n. 3. COHAUSEN, Dr., ii. 427 n. 4. COIN, exportation of, iv. 104-5. COKE, Lord, a mere lawyer, ii. 158; his definition of law, iii. 16, n. 1; his painful course of study, iv. 310. COKE, Lady Mary, i. 407, n. 1. COL, the old Laird of, iii. 133; v. 29, n. 2. COL, Alexander Maclean, of, the second son, ii. 308, 406, 411. COL, Donald Maclean, the young Laird of, account of him, v. 250-1; the first road-maker, v. 235, n. 2; plans an excursion for Johnson, v. 254; accompanies him, v. 256-331; his bowl of punch, v. 258; manages the ship in the storm, v. 280-1; puts a rope in Boswell's hands, v. 282; juvenis qui gaudet canibus, v. 283; introduces turnips, v. 293; his family papers, v. 297-9; takes Johnson to his aunt's house, v.

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