ii. 334;
  Garrick’s adaptation of The Chances, ii. 233, n. 4;
  Seward’s edition of their plays, ii. 467.
Beauties of Johnson, iv. 148-151, 421, n. 2.
Beauties of the Rambler, i. 214. 
BEAUTY, independent of utility, ii. 166; iv. 167. 
BEAUX STRATAGEM, Archer quoted, v. 133, n. 1;
  acted by Garrick, iii. 52;
  Boniface praises his ale, ii. 461;
  is done good to by Latin, iii. 89, n. 2;
  Scrub, iii. 70. 
BECKENHAM, iv. 313. 
BECKET, T., the bookseller, ii. 294. 
BECKFORD, Alderman, account of him, iii. 76, n. 2;
  Chatterton’s gain by his death, iii. 201, n. 3;
  his English, iii. 76, 201;
  Lord Mayor, iii. 459;
  monument in Guildhall, iii. 201. 
BEDFORD, iv. 132. 
BEDFORD, fourth Duke of,
  attack on the ministry in 1766, iv. 316;
  vails, tries to abolish, ii. 78, n. 1;
  vice-roy in Ireland, ii. 130, n. 3. 
BEDFORD, fifth Duke of, iii. 284; iv. 126. 
BEDFORD, Hilkiah, iv. 286, n. 3. 
BEDFORDSHIRE, militia, i. 307, n. 4; iii. 399. 
BEDLAM, Boswell and Johnson visit it, ii. 374;
  curiosities of London, one of the, ii. 374, n. 1;
  houses built near it, iv. 208. 
BEER, allowance of, to servants and soldiers, iii. 9, n. 4.
Beggar’s Opera.  See GAY, John. 
BEGGARS, beg more readily from men than women, iv. 32;
  English compared with Scotch, v. 75, n. 1;
  many in want of work, iii. 401;
  their trade overstocked, iii. 401;
  mentioned, iii. 26.  See ALMSGIVING. 
BEHMEN, Jacob, ii. 122. 
BELCHIER, John, the surgeon, iii. 57. 
BELGRADE, Siege of, ii. 181. 
BELIEF, attacks on it, iii. it; v. 288, n. 3. 
BELL, Dr., iv. 1, n. 1. 
BELL, Rev. Dr., ii. 204, n. 1. 
BELL, Rev. Mr., of Strathaven, iii. 360. 
BELL, Mrs., Johnson’s epitaph on her, ii. 204, n. 1. 
BELL, John, Travels, ii. 55. 
BELL, John, the bookseller, Lives of the Poets, ii. 453, n. 2; iii. 110. 
BELLAMY, Mrs., acts in Dodsley’s Cleone, i. 325, n. 3, 326;
  Johnson, letter to, iv. 244, n. 2. 
BELLEISLE, iii. 343, n. 2. 
BELLEISLE, The, a man-of-war, i. 378, n. 1.
Bellerophon, i. 277, n. 4. 
BELSHAM, William, Essay on Dramatic Poetry, i. 389, n. 2. 
BEMBRIDGE,—­, iv. 223, n. 3. 
BENEDICTINES.  See PARIS, BENEDICTINES.
Benefit, free, v. 243. 
BENEVOLENCE, motive to action, iii. 48:  mingled with vanity, ib. 
BENEVOLISTS, The, iii. 149, n. 2. 
BENGAL, iii. 134, n. 1, 233, 455. 
BENNET, James, editor of Ascham’s Works, i. 464. 
BENSLEY, Robert, the actor, ii. 45. 
BENSON, William, his monument to Milton, i. 227, n. 4; v. 95, n. 2. 
BENTHAM, Dr. E., ii. 445. 
BENTHAM, Jeremy, on convict-labour, iii. 268, n. 4;
  Shelburne’s, Lord, wretched education, iii. 36, n. 1;
    fearlessness as a minister, iv. 174, n. 4. 
BENTLEY, Dr., attacks, never answered, ii. 61, n.