Private letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)

*Impey, Sir Elijah, ii. 86

India, i. 349, 350, 357; ii. 280

Ireland, debates on, i. 338, 373; ii. 115, 137;

effects of French Revolution on, ii. 320;

Roman Catholics v. Protestants, ii. 320, 343, 350

Irish Parliament, i. 196

*Irnham, Lord (Earl of Carhampton), i. 146

*Irvine, Lord, i. 247

Italy, Gibbon's tour in, i. 64

J

Jackson, Richard, ii. 19

*Jacobin Club, the, ii. 305

Jamaica, Light Dragoons for, ii. 289

Jenkinson, Charles. See Liverpool, Lord

Jenyns, Soame, i. 366, 391; ii. 94

*Jephson, Robert, author of tragedy of Braganza, i. 252

"John the Painter" (Aitken), i. 301

Johnson, Dr. Samuel, on Lord Bolingbroke, i. 8;

his description of Dr. Maty, i. 18;

on courts and camps, i. 25;

Lady Diana Beauclerk, i. 82;

Dr. Heberden, i. 83;

on Sir John Dalrymple's style, i. 131;

Goldsmith's epitaph, i. 202;

George Colman on, i. 213;

his publishers, i. 222;

Taxation no Tyranny, i. 271;

his friend Lord Eliot, i. 273;

"Single-Speech" Hamilton, i. 343;

and Abbé Raynal, ii. 75

Johnson, Sir William, i. 291

*Johnston, Governor George, i. 308, 332

Jolliffe, William, M.P. for Petersfield, i. 111, 153, 171, 247, 346, 366

Jones, Paul, i. 317, 347

Joseph II., Emperor, i. 158, 313; ii. 137

*Jourdan Coupe-Tête, ii. 293

*Journal, Gibbon's, quoted, i. 27, 35, 40, 50, 57, 84

Junius, Letters of, i. 108, 146; ii. 22, 92

K

Keene, Colonel, i. 302

*Kellerman, F. C. de, ii. 319

*Kelly, Hugh, School of Wives, i. 199

Keppel, Admiral Lord, and the French fleet, i. 339, 340, 343;

Palliser's charges against, i. 349, 356, 357;

M.P. for Surrey, i. 388;

First Lord of Admiralty, ii. 13, 18, 34

Keppel, General, i. 346

Kimber, Captain John, ii. 295

*Kingsbergen, Admiral, ii. 247

*Kingston, Duchess of, i. 265, 281

*Kingston, Duke of, i. 265

*Kippis, Dr., ii. 305

Knight, Gowin, i. 18

*Kolbel, Baron, i. 319

*Korff, Baroness de, ii. 254

*Laborde, M. de, ii. 329

La Brunette, Fort, i. 59

Laclos, Fran?ois C. de, ii. 258

*Lacretelle, ii. 326

*Ladbroke, Sir R., i. 201

La Fayette, Marquis de, i. 305; ii. 311, 324, 329

Lake, Miss, Gibbon's landlady in St. James's Place, i. 82, 83

Lally, Comtesse, ii. 274, 284

Lally-Tollendal, M., ii. 19, 211;

Burke's opinion of, ii. 274;

Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 284, 337;

his Strafford, ii. 284;

at English Court, ii. 285;

his opinion of Lord North, ii. 287;

his escape to England, ii. 311;

at Sheffield Place, ii. 322, 324;

his Songe d'un Anglois and Plaidoyer pour Louis XVI., ii. 375;

Sheffield's guest in Downing Street, ii. 377

*Lamballe, Prince de, ii. 312

Lamballe, Princesse de, ii. 312, 352

La Motte, i. 34; ii. 283, 293, 328

La Motte Piquet, i. 334

*Langara, Admiral, i. 376

Langer, M., ii. 227

Langlois, Benjamin, M.P. for St. Germains, i. 391

Lansdowne, Lord, ii. 350

Lascelles, Mr., i. 140, 191, 216, 240

Lauderdale, Lord, ii. 297, 320

*Laudohn, Field-Marshal, i. 158

Laurens, Henry, ii. 72

Lausanne, Gibbon at, i. 1-14, 37-55; ii. 74-157, 176-217, 219-223, 227, 241, 246-252, 255, 277-282, 290, 296, 308-319, 322, 325, 331-340, 345-348, 354-361, 369, 377-381

*Lauzun, Duc de (Duc de Biron), ii. 290

Lauzun, Duchesse de (Duchesse de Biron), ii. 289, 324, 333

Lavington, Lady, i. 319, 336

Lavington, Lord, i. 319, 336; ii. 214

Law, Rev. William, author of the Serious Call, i. 7, 398; ii. 218

Lee, Arthur, i. 334

Lee, Captain, i. 89

Lee, General, i. 284, 302

Lee, Mrs., i. 126, 184, 199, 201, 208

Leeds, Duke of, ii. 247, 302, 327

Leigh, Mr., i. 27

*Le Marchant, Sir Denis, i. 91

Lenborough Manor, Gibbon's Bucks estate, i. 69, 186, 384; ii. 64, 81, 83, 93, 96, 112, 124.

See also Lovegrove, Mr.

Lennox, Lord George H., i. 225, 226, 232

Leopold II., Emperor of Austria, at Pilnitz, ii. 271;

his death, ii. 279, 292

*Lepel, General Nicholas, i. 21

Lepel, Molly (Lady Hervey), i. 21, 29

Le Rebours, Postmaster at Pontarlier, ii. 357, 361

Lescure's Correspondence Secrète sur Louis XVI., etc., i. 314;

Vie de la Princesse de Lamballe, ii. 352

Lessart, Antoine de, Minister of Interior and Foreign Affairs, ii. 292

Lessart, M. de, Paris banker, ii. 94, 99

Lethieullier, Benjamin, M.P. for Andover, i. 240, 247

*Lethieullier, Smart, i. 240

Levade, M., ii. 268, 275, 339

*Lévis, Duc de, ii. 266, 290

Lewisham, Lord, ii. 86

*Leycester, Sir Peter, i. 90

Liancourt, Duc de (Rochefoucault), ii. 324

*Library, Gibbon's, its fate, ii. 300, 301

Lichfield, Earl of, Jacobite leader, i. 34

Ligne, Prince de, ii. 83, 137

*Ligonier, Lord, i. 180

Lincoln, Lord, i. 388

Lisburn, Lord, i. 376

Liskeard, Gibbon M.P. for, i. 229, 234

Liverpool, Lord (Charles Jenkinson), i. 264;

Secretary at War, 349; ii. 2;

Gibbon's host, ii. 9

Llandaff, Bishop of, i. 240

Lockwood, Mr., i. 134

*Loftus, Rev. Smyth, i. 328

*London Evening Post, i. 130, 180

*Long, Dudley, i. 391

Lonsdale, Earl of (Sir James Lowther), i. 82

Loughborough, Lord. See Rosslyn, Earl of

*Louis XV., i. 218

Louis XVI., i. 218, 334; ii. 204, 226, 252;

his escape and recapture, ii. 254 et seq., 285, 286, 311, 324;

declares war against Francis Joseph, ii. 279;

defended by Manuel, ii. 341;

his murder, ii. 360, 365, 374;

England's mourning for, ii. 374;

Lally's Plaidoyer, ii. 375

Louis XVIII., ii. 265

*Louis Philippe, i. 326

*Louvois, Marquis de, ii. 211

*Lovat, Lord, i. 264

Lovegrove, Mr., tenant of Lenborough, i. 186, 201, 205, 207, 210, 235, 239, 261, 286; ii. 84

Lowther, Sir James (Lord Lonsdale), i. 82

Lucan, Earl of, ii. 135, 162, 392

Lucan, Lady, ii. 400

Lucca, the Opera at, i. 66

*Luckner, Baron de, ii. 269

Luff, Mr., i. 138, 167

Luna, Miguel de, i. 243

Luttrell, Colonel, i. 91, 146, 247, 249

*Luxembourg, Maréchale de, ii. 289

*Luynes, Madame de, i. 314

Lymington, Gibbon M.P. for, i. 387, 400; ii. 1

Lyons, Gibbon at, i. 77

Lyttelton, Lord, i. 65

Lyttleton, Hon. William, i. 273

M

Macartney, Lord, i. 220;

Governor of Caribbee Islands, i. 369

*Macaulay, Lord, on Sheridan's knowledge of stage-effect, ii. 172

*Mackay, member of Madras Council, i. 362

*Mackenzie, Hon. Stuart, i. 56

Macpherson, James, author of Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands, etc., i. 202;

History of Opposition, i. 369

Madras Council, arrest of Lord Pigot, i. 308, 362

Mahrattas insurrection, the, i. 349, 350;

peace with, ii. 26

Maine, Sir William, i. 240

*Malden, M. de, ii. 256

Mallet, Arabella. See Williams, Mrs.

Mallet (or Malloch), David, author of the ballad William and Margaret,$1, 283;

his tragedy Eurydice, i. 19

Mallet, Dorothea. See Celesia, Madame

*Mallet du Pan, ii. 318, 329

Mallet, Mrs., i. 31, 34, 315

Malmesbury, James. Earl of, ii. 184;

"the audacieux Harris," ii. 300;

on Fox, ii. 306;

his Diaries and Correspondence quoted, ii. 350, 363

*Malmesbury, Lady, on Duke of Portland, ii. 306;

on England's mourning for Louis XVI., ii. 374

Malouet, Victor, ii. 311, 324, 329, 377

Manchester, Duke of, i. 154; ii. 67, 82, 86

Mann, Sir Horace, i. 65

Mansfield, Lord, Royal Marriage Bill, i. 154;

Sayer's alleged plot, i. 272;

on war with France, i. 339;

trial of members of Madras Council, i. 362

Mansfield, 2nd Lord, President of Council under Pitt, i. 333, 383

Manuel, Louis Pierre, ii. 311, 341

Maret, Hugues B. (Duc de Bassano), ii. 367

Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria, i. 394

*Marie Antoinette, ii. 203, 285;

her letter to Comte de Fersen quoted, ii. 292;

her distrust of La Fayette, ii. 329

Marriage Bill, Royal, i. 146, 151, 154

Marseillais, march of the, ii. 293

Martin, Samuel, his duel with Wilkes, i. 50, 51

Marvell, Andrew, i. 284

*Mason's satire, An Heroic Epistle, etc., i. 190

Masquerade, the Soho (Carlisle House), i. 131

Massachusetts Charter Act, i. 329, 331

Massey, Miss, i. 118, 119

Massey, Mrs., i. 352

*Mathews, Henry, Diary of an Invalid, ii. 40;

on fate of Gibbon's library, ii. 301

Matthews, Mr., i. 200, 207, 235, 269

Maty, Dr., i. 18, 20;

quarrels with Gibbon, i. 21

Mauduit, Isaac, author of Considerations on the Present German War, i. 240, 243, 247

Maury, Abbé, ii. 252, 270

Mayence, siege of, ii. 382

Maynard, Mrs., ii. 271-273

Melmoth, William ("Pliny"), i. 326

Meluner, Captain, ii. 375

Melville, Lord. See Dundas, Hon. Henry

Mémoire Justificatif, Gibbon's, i. 371

*Mémoires Littérraires de la Grande Bretagne pour l'An 1767, by Gibbon and Deyverdun, i. 82

Mentrond, M., ii. 267

Mercier, Sebastien, author of Tableau de Paris, ii. 82, 115

*Meredith, Sir W., i. 147

Mesery, M. de, i. 40

Mesery, Madame de, ii. 83

*Michaud, ii. 326

*Michelet, ii. 75

*Middleton, Dr., i. 83

Midleton, Lord, i. 210, 232, 236

Milan, Gibbon at, i. 60

Milbank, Sir Ralph, i. 344

Militia Bill, New, i. 366

Militia, calling out of the, ii. 348

*Millar, Andrew, i. 222

Miller, Anna, Lady, Letters from Italy by an Englishwoman, ii. 2

Miller, Sir John, i. 159

Miller, Sir John Riggs, ii. 2, 8

Miller, Sir Thomas, M.P. for Lewes, i. 240, 247

Milner, Sir William, i. 19

Milton, Lord (afterwards Earl of Dorchester), i. 139; ii. 350

*Ministerial Club, the, i. 84

*Minto, Earl of, ii. 25

Mirabeau, Marquis de, i. 35;

his La Monarchie Prussienne, ii. 192;

a king's dowry, ii. 203;

his "corps," ii. 269;

and M. de Narbonne, ii. 292;

his description of Lord Malmesbury, ii. 300

*Miscellaneous Works, Gibbon's, referred to, i. 20, 84, 375; ii. 87, 400

Moira, Lord (afterwards Marquis of Hastings), ii. 396

Molesworth, Sir J., i. 273

Molyneux, Lord, ii. 262

Monciel, Terrier de, ii. 329

Monkeith, Mr., i. 168

Mont Cenis, i. 55

Montagny, M. de, i. 61; ii. 195, 203, 229

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, Gibbon's opinions of her Letters, i. 53

*Montagu, Wortley, i. 6

*Montague, Mrs., i. 294

*Montconseil, Marquis de, ii. 211

Montesquieu, his invasion of Savoy, ii. 314, 315-317, 322, 326;

escapes from arrest, ii. 345;

report of the Diplomatic Committee on, ii. 346

*Montgomery, General, i. 275

Montolieu, Madame de, ii. 43, 154

Montolieu, M. de, ii. 43

*Moore, Dr. John, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 397

*Moore's Memoirs of Sheridan, ii. 172

*Mordaunt, Hon. and Rev. George, i. 19

*More, Hannah, ii. 75

*Morning Chronicle cited, i. 212; ii. 91, 172, 351

Morning Post, i. 291

*Mortimer-Ternaux, his Histoire de la Terreur quoted, ii. 352

Moss, Mrs., ii. 167, 249, 295, 300, 321, 331, 343

*Mouchy, Maréchal de, ii. 329

*Moultou, Pastor, i. 41

Mounier, J. Joseph, ii. 211, 274

Mountstuart, Lord, i. 56

Mouschkin Pouschkin, i. 227

*Moustier, M. de, ii. 256

Mulgrave, Lord, i. 376

*Munro, Sir Hector, i. 349

*Murphy's Grecian Daughter, ii. 29

Murray, John, Resident at Venice, and Ambassador at Constantinople, i. 76

*Mutiny Bill, the, ii. 95, 101

*Mysore, third war in, ii. 276

N

Naijeiraud, ii. 367

Napier, Sir Gerard, i. 25

Naples, Gibbon at, i. 72

*Napoleon Bonaparte, Essai sur l'Histoire de la Corse, ii. 75

Narbonne-Lara, Comte de, ii. 292, 347, 375

Nassau, Madame de, ii. 43, 266

Nassau-Siegen, Prince of, ii. 265

National Assembly, the, ii. 279, 280;

and English Nonconformists, ii. 305

Necker, Jacques, i. 41, 81;

Directeur Général, i. 304; ii. 115;

Mrs. Mallet's resentment, i. 316;

"no sign of jealousy," i. 320;

his Administration des Finances, ii. 115, 128;

and the States-General, ii. 181;

ordered to quit France, ii. 204;

Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 237;

his treatise, ii. 251;

North's opinion of, ii. 287;

his defence of the king, ii. 334, 347, 370;

warmly attached to England, ii. 373

Necker, Louis (Germanie, M. de), i. 291

Necker, Madame (Suzanne Curchod), Gibbon engaged to, i. 40, 41;

her description of Gibbon's visit, i. 81;

Gibbon's friendship for, i. 281, 283, 306, 312;

Mrs. Gibbon's suspicions, i. 306;

at Lausanne, ii. 111, 115, 116, 122;

Gibbon at Geneva with, ii. 291;

Montesquieu's surprise visit to, ii. 345

Neville, Mr., i. 28, 30, 370

New Monthly Magazine, ii. 301

New River Share, the, i. 100, 167, 168, 335, 344; ii. 190

*Newcastle, Duke of, i. 50

Newhaven Estate (Meeching Farm), Gibbon's, ii. 218, 235, 240, 242, 244, 250

Newton, Mr., Gibbon's solicitor, i. 127, 132, 169, 205-207, 227, 261, 269; ii. 113, 127, 139, 146

Nicholls, Mr., ii. 169, 171

*Nichols' Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century quoted, i. 7, 263

Nichols, John, ii. 301, 313, 314, 328

Nicol, George, ii. 359, 374

Nivernois, Duc de, i. 31, 314; ii. 375

"No Popery" riots, the, i. 380-382

*Noailles, Comte Charles de, ii. 329

Noailles, Comtesse Charles de, ii. 329

Noailles, Marquis de, French Ambassador, i. 305, 333; ii. 259

Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club, The, i. 200, 283

Nonconformists and the American war, i. 271;

relief from Sacramental test demanded, i. 373;

their sympathy with the French Revolution, ii. 305, 320;

and Pitt, ii. 305, 320

*North Briton, the, i. 50, 91

*North, Lady, ii. 4

*North, Lady Anne, ii. 198

North, Lord, Prime Minister, i. 112;

his opponent Barré, i. 145;

his support of Church, i. 148;

Royal Marriage Bill, i. 151;

his somnolence, i. 173;

proposed reconstitution of E. I. Co., i. 184;

Boston Port Bill, i. 206, 208;

conciliation for America, i. 250, 251, 271, 324, 329, 331;

Gibbon's opinion of, i. 255; ii. 82, 87;

his illness, i. 303;

on Irish trade, i. 338, 373;

on Sussex Militia, i. 341;

his windows broken by mob, i. 356;

Madras Council prosecution, i. 362;

the Militia Bill, i. 366;

on Burke's Establishment Bill speech, i. 376;

a seat for Gibbon, i. 387;

at Bushey, ii. 4;

Sheffield's guest in Downing Street, ii. 11;

resigns office, ii. 12;

"balance of the country in his hands," ii. 21;

Warden of Cinque Ports, ii. 23;

Gibbon's attachment to, ii. 28;

union with Fox and Rockingham, ii. 32;

Secretary of State, ii. 34;

eulogised in preface to Decline and Fall, ii. 170;

succeeds to Earldom of Guilford, ii. 238;

his kindness to Lally, ii. 285, 287;

his death, ii. 311

North, Major Frank, ii. 238, 244

Northington, Lord, i. 142; ii. 34, 60, 135, 136

*Northumberland, Duke of, i. 82

Northumberland Militia and the Gordon Riots, i. 381; ii. 28

Norton, Sir Fletcher (Speaker), i. 238

*Notes and Queries, ii. 301

Nott, Mr., ii. 262

Nottingham, Countess of, and Lord Essex's ring, i. 276

Nowell, Rev. Dr., i. 151

Nugent, Lieut.-Colonel, i. 132

Nuneham, Lord (Earl of Harcourt), i. 9

O

Ochs, M., ii. 262

*Oglander, Sir J., i. 90

*Oliver, Alderman Richard, i. 130

*Oliver, Lieut.-Governor Andrew (Massachusetts), i. 205, 240, 243

Oliver, Mr., i. 177

Onslow, Mr. and Mrs., i. 83

Orford, Lord. See Walpole, Horace

Oriel, Lord (John Foster), i. 200, 261, 269; ii. 136

Origines Guelfic?, ii. 227

Osborne, Sir George, i. 91

Ossory, Earl of, i. 27, 274, 296, 333, 373

Ostervald, Madame, ii. 79

Oude, Sujah Dowlah, Nawab of, i. 187, 209

P

Pache, Jean Nicolas (Mayor of Paris), ii. 368

Palliser, Sir Hugh, his charges against Admiral Keppel, i. 349, 356, 357

Palmer, Mr., arbitrator in Lenborough dispute, i. 205, 207

Palmerston, Lord (father of Prime Minister), i. 50;

member of the Catch Club, i. 283

*Panin, M., Russian Foreign Minister, i. 270

Pantheon, the, The Pantheon Rupture, etc., i. 146;

Boodle's masquerade at, i. 212, 215

Paris, Gibbon in, i. 28-36, 311-320;

Treaty of, i. 28;

Gibbon's opinion of, i. 317

*Parker, George Lane, i. 90

Parsons, Sir William, i. 204

Pascal, a parallel between his and Gibbon's writings, ii. 396

Patton, Miss Dorothea. See Gibbon, Mrs. (stepmother)

Patton, W., i. 30, 51, 169

Pavillard, M., Gibbon's tutor, etc., at Lausanne, i. 1 et seq., 40;

his description of Gibbon, i. 2

*Payba, Abraham, i. 6

Payne, Lady. See Lavington, Lady

Payne, Sir R. See Lavington, Lord

Peachy, Lady, i. 162

Peachy, Sir James, i. 162, 234

Pearson, General Sir Richard, i. 397

Pechell, Master in Chancery, i. 102

Pelham of Stanmer, Lord (Earl of Chichester), i. 200

Pelham, Thomas (2nd Earl of Chichester), ii. 60

*Pembroke, Earl of, ii. 375

Pembroke, Lady, ii. 106, 110

*Penthièvre, Duc de, i. 326

*Percy's Reliques quoted, i. 284

*Peterborough, Earl of, i. 19

Petier, M., ii. 258

*Petit Manin, ii. 351

Philadelphia, capture of, i. 323

Pigot, Admiral, i. 362; ii. 16

Pigot, Lord, Governor of Madras, i. 308, 362

Pigott, Charles, The Jockey Club; or, A Sketch of the Manners of the Age, ii. 297

Pilnitz, meeting of King of Prussia and Emperor of Austria at, ii. 271

Pitman, Mr., i. 197, 267

Pitt, General, i. 247

Pitt, George (Lord Rivers), i. 54, 56

*Pitt, Lady Harriet, ii. 22

Pitt, Mrs., i. 247

*Pitt, Thomas, M.P. for Old Sarum, ii. 32

Pitt, William, i. 45, 50;

and the Stamp Act, i. 84, 85;

Chancellor of Exchequer, ii. 19;

Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 28, 127;

resigns office, ii. 34;

Prime Minister, ii. 86, 97;

suggested union with Fox, ii. 92, 306, 307, 330;

his moderation, ii. 96;

his silence, ii. 97;

waning popularity, ii. 136;

scheme for Irish trade, ii. 137;

"the Hero of the day," ii. 162;

Fox's opinion of, ii. 180;

the Regency Bill, ii. 181;

Ellis' lines in Rolliad on, ii. 184;

a desperate plunge, ii. 226;

Corn Regulation Bill, ii. 239, 245;

on war with Russia, ii. 247, 249;

French view of, ii. 286;

Abolition of Slave Trade, ii. 294;

the representative system, ii. 297;

supported by Whigs, ii. 305;

his rumoured Plan of Reform, ii. 330;

meets Gibbon at Eden Farm, ii. 398

Poix, Prince de, ii. 329, 377

*Poix, Princesse de, i. 314; ii. 334

Poland, partition of, i. 158

*Poland, Stanislaus Poniatowski, King of, i. 29, 158

Polier, Colonel, ii. 43, 370

Polignac, Duchesse de, ii. 203

*Polignac, Prince de, ii. 204

*Pompadour, Madame de, i. 313

Ponsonby, William, Lord, i. 65

Porchester, Lord (afterwards Earl of Carnarvon), ii. 375

Porten, James, i. 2, 7, 101, 124

Porten, Lady (Mary Wibault), i. 220, 246, 250

Porten, Miss Catherine (Gibbon's aunt), i. 2, 17, 182, 220, 235, 241, 288, 304; ii. 1, 18, 21, 69, 82, 91, 121, 144;

Gibbon's letters to, i. 2, 5

Porten, Miss Charlotte, ii. 201, 221

Porten, Miss Judith. See Gibbon, Mrs. (mother)

Porten, Sir Stanier (Gibbon's uncle), i. 177, 204, 220, 246, 250, 266; ii. 10, 201

Porteous, Dr. Beilby (Bishop of London), i. 285

*Porter, General, M.P. for Stockbridge, i. 149

Portland, Duke of, i. 231; ii. 18, 34, 305;

Lady Malmesbury's opinion of, ii. 306;

Lord Sheffield's host at Bulstrode, ii. 329;

on Fox's conduct, ii. 351;

supports Alien Bill, ii. 363;

enthralled by Fox, ii. 367, 368

Pouschkin, Mouschkin, Russian Ambassador in London, i. 227

*Powell, Harcourt, M.P. for Newtown, i. 89

Powell, Mr., his offer to pay Fox's debts, i. 198

*Powney, Portlock, M.P. for Windsor, i. 388

*Powys, M.P. for Northamptonshire, i. 331; ii. 97

Poyntz, Mrs., i. 33

*Poyntz, Stephen, i. 33

*Pratt, Lord Chief Justice, i. 51

Prev?t, Lieut.-Colonel, i. 81

Prev?t, Madame, i. 81

Price, Dr. Richard, ii. 210;

Chairman of the Revolution Society, ii. 305

*Priestley, Dr., ii. 210, 305

Provence, Comte de (Louis XVIII.), ii. 265

Prowse, Mr., i. 33

Prussia, Prince Henry of, ii. 5, 111, 115-117

Prussia, King Frederick William of, his meeting with Emperor of Austria at Pilnitz, ii. 271

*Public Advertiser, Letters of Junius first published in, i. 108;

Woodfall assistant editor of, ii. 91

Pully, Mademoiselle de, ii. 324

Putney Writings, the, i. 93, 106

Q

Quebec Bill, i. 256

R

*Rae, Fraser, ii. 172

Ragobat or Ragonant Ráo, i. 349, 350

Ranelagh Gardens, i. 89

*Ranelagh, Lord, i. 89

Ravaud, Mrs., ii. 2, 8

*Ravensworth, Lord, i. 27

Raynal, Abbé, ii. 75, 82, 111, 115

*Réaux, Taboureau des, i. 304

*Redding, Cyrus, Recollections of the Author of Vathek, ii. 301

*Rees, Dr., ii. 305

*Reeves, Mr., ii. 349

*Regency Bill, ii. 181, 306

Remonstrance Debate, the, i. 113

Rennell, Major James, ii, 212, 226

Revenue Returns (1798), ii. 276, 288

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, Queen of Denmark's portrait, i. 143;

Colonel Barré's, i. 145;

Mrs. Bonfoy's, i. 189;

Gibbon's companion, i. 191; ii. 24, 162;

Goldsmith's epitaph, i. 202;

a friend of Eliot, i. 273;

Gibbon's portrait, i. 364; ii. 114;

Lord Sheffield's, ii. 212, 214, 216;

his death, ii. 311

Rhodes, Mr., ii. 224

Richardson, Mr., and S. Sayer's arrest, i. 272

Richmond, Duke of, his reception of Gibbon at Paris Embassy, i. 30, 32, 35;

his influence in Sussex, i. 225;

at Madame du Deffand's, i. 312;

his popularity in Paris, i. 316;

his slight skirmishes with Gibbon, i. 317;

in Sussex Militia, i. 336, 342;

Master-General of Ordnance, ii. 13, 18, 86, 374;

his house burnt, ii. 275;

on French affairs, ii. 286;

the Pitt-Fox union, ii. 307;

his kindness to Madame de Biron, ii. 334

Ridley, Major, i. 81

*Ridley, Sir Matthew, i. 81

*Ridotto al fresco, i. 114, 124

*Rivarol, ii. 330

Rivers, Lord (George Pitt), i. 54, 56

Roach, Miss, i. 16

Roberts, Mr., i. 201

Robertson, William, author of History of Scotland, etc., ii. 132, 190, 292

*Robespierre, ii. 256, 311

Roche, Captain David, his quarrel with Lieut. Ferguson, i. 209

Rochefoucault-Liancourt, Duc de, ii. 324

Rochford, Lord, i. 272

Rockingham, Lord. ii. 13, 17

Rodney, Admiral Sir George, i. 91;

defeats French at Cape St. Vincent, i. 376;

M.P. for Westminster, i. 388;

defeats French in West Indies, ii. 16

*Rogers, John, i. 69

*Rogers, Thomas, i. 393

*Roland, Madame, ii. 252

Roman Catholic Relief Bill (Ireland), ii. 115, 320

Romans Club, the, i. 89

Romanzov, Count Nicholas, ii. 266, 269

Romanzow, Peter A., 223, 227

Romberg, Messrs., of Ostend, ii. 191

Rome, Gibbon at, i. 66-72, 74

Ross, Sir John, i. 369

Rosset, M., ii. 283, 293, 328

Rosslyn, Earl of (Solicitor-General Wedderburn), i. 173;

his defense of E. I. Co., i. 185;

"artful and able," i. 240;

his speech on America, i. 249;

an agreeable companion, i. 302;

on war with France, i. 339;

Attorney-General, i. 347;

Madras Council prosecution, i. 362;

his kindness to Gibbon, i. 365; ii. 82, 91, 163;

on war with Spain, i. 377;

and Mrs. Abington, ii. 4;

"places are cheaper than mackerel," ii. 19;

his second marriage, ii. 24;

his Irish expedition, ii. 30;

Lally a favourite of, ii. 274, 285;

suggested Pitt-Fox coalition, ii. 306, 351;

Lord Chancellor, ii. 344, 351, 367, 368;

Gibbon's letter of congratulations, ii. 372;

Gibbon's last visit to, ii. 397

Rotombeau, ii. 351, 353

Rous, Lady, i. 171, 173-175

*Rous, Sir John, i. 171

Rousseau, J. J., i. 41; ii. 261, 289;

his Lettres de la Montague, ii. 318

*Rowe's Jane Shore, ii. 29

*Royal Foresters, the, i. 87

Royal Marriage Bill, the, i. 146, 151, 154

Royal Society, Gibbon a member of the, ii. 187

*Rumbold, Sir Thomas, President of Madras Council, ii. 85

Rumford, Count of (Sir Benjamin Thompson), ii. 72

Russell, Lady, i. 282

Russell, Sir John, i. 191, 196, 216, 218, 282; ii. 65

Russia, peace signed between Turkey and, i. 223;

probability of war with, ii. 247;

rupture with France, ii. 280

Russian mercenaries, proposed hire of, i. 270, 272

*Rutland, Duke of, ii. 86, 115

S

Sackville, Lord (Lord George Germain), i. 198, 226, 240, 249, 296;

Colonial Secretary, i. 278;

his hope, i. 290;

his wife's death, i. 328;

Fox's censure, i. 333;

his windows broken by mob, i. 356

Sainsbury, Mr., ii. 189, 199, 224, 233

St. Cierge, Madame de, ii. 43

St. Domingo, insurrection in Island of, ii. 280

*St. John, Sir H. Paulet, i. 142

*St. Omer, Bishop of, ii. 266

*St. Pierre, Bernardin de, ii. 75

St. Vincent, Earl, ii. 396

Sainte Croix, Bigot de, ii. 329

Salms, Princesse de, ii. 267

Sandwich, Lord, i. 356, 357;

Lord of the Admiralty, ii. 374

*Sardinia, Charles Emanuel III., King of, i. 58;

Victor Amadeus III., King of, ii. 265, 312, 315, 319

*Saville, Sir George, i. 375

Savoy, French invasion of, ii. 314

*Saxe-Teschen, Duke of, ii. 137

Sayer, Stephen, i. 272

*Scawen, Captain, i. 207

*Scholl, Dr., ii. 301

Schomberg, Count de, ii. 223

*Scindiah, i. 350

Scott, George, i. 130, 372, 393

Scott, James, Gibbon's intimacy with, i. 99-101;

his death, i. 177;

Gibbon's letters to, i. 82, 92, 115-117, 119, 126, 159, 161

*Scott, Sir Walter, his address to George Ellis in Marmion, ii. 184

Seeker, Archbishop, i. 285

*Selwyn, George, his Correspondence quoted, i. 29, 58, 82, 343, 347, 356, 388

Septchênes, Le Clerc de, translates part of Decline and Fall, i. 296

Serle's Coffee-House, i. 218

Servan, Joseph, ii. 315, 332, 368

Severy, Wilhelm de, ii. 162, 163, 165, 172, 176, 199, 206, 242, 287, 303, 316, 336, 358, 366, 369

Severy, Madame de, ii. 43, 178, 222, 335, 369

Sévigné, Madame de, i. 260

Shakespeare, Voltaire protests against French translation of, i. 294;

Boydell's edition of, ii. 276

Sharrock, Captain Robert, i. 26

Sheffield, Lady (Miss Abigail Way), i. 85, 139;

Gibbon's letters to, i. 241, 262, 301, 363, 386, 392; ii. 5, 11, 26, 65, 77, 115, 166, 168, 169, 335;

her death, ii. 377

Sheffield, Lord (J. B. Holroyd), subjects of Gibbon's letters to:-

Borromcan Islands, i. 57;

amusements at Turin, i. 58;

Gibbon's snuff-box, ibid.;

Milan, i. 60;

the Neckers, i. 81, 282, 305, 312; ii. 236, 251, 291, 345;

Sheffield's marriage, i. 85;

Gibbon's father's illness and death, i. 86, 115, 117;

"Farmer Gibbon," i. 138;

Denmark Revolution i. 144, 146, 149;

"Datch," i. 145;

the Pantheon, i. 146, 215;

Parliament and the Thirty-nine Articles, i. 147;

Royal Marriage Bill, i. 151;

Dr. Nowell's sermon, ibid.;

a sprained ankle, i. 161;

Beriton, i. 164, 167, 196, 247, 344; ii. 6, 182 et seq., 222, 227;

Lenborough, i. 165, 186, 205-207, 269, 296, 332, 335; ii. 64, 81, 83, 96, 112, 124;

the New River Share, i. 167, 168, 335, 344; ii. 190;

Lord North's somnolence, i. 173; ii. 24;

the E. I. Co., i. 184, 186; ii. 85;

Hume: W. Robertson, i. 190;

Deyverdun, i. 191, 255; ii. 74-157 passim, 176, 178, 191, 194;

Lord Holland and Fox's debts, i. 198;

British Coffee-House, i. 201;

Boston Port Bill, i. 206, 208;

Mrs. Horneck, i. 207;

Sujah Dowlah, i. 209;

war with Spain, i. 212, 344;

Boodle's masquerade at Pantheon, i. 215;

Godfrey Clarke's illness, i. 223, 227, 239;

Lord Sheffield and Sussex, i. 225, 232;

Romanzow and Pouschkin, i. 227;

offer of a seat, i. 229;

Sheffield's withdrawal, i. 233;

Gibbon M.P. for Liskeard, i. 234;

Clive's death, i. 238;

debate on Address, i. 240;

troubles with America (see America);

de Luna's book, i. 243;

Decline and Fall, i. 263, 264, 277, 285, 361; ii. 151, 187;

Spain and Barbary, i. 265;

proposed hire of Russian mercenaries, i. 270;

Sayer's arrest, i. 272;

Hon. John Damer, i. 287;

Howe's proclamation, i. 291;

La Fayette in Paris, i. 305;

Lord Pigot, i. 308, 362;

Madame du Deffand, i. 312;

Paris and the Parisians, i. 313, 317;

Duke of Richmond, i. 317;

Princesse de Beauvau, i. 319;

Gibbon's gout, i. 321, 322; ii. 163-165, 215, 221, 233;

Saratoga, i. 324;

France and America, i. 333;

the French fleet, i. 337, 338, 343, 347, 363;

Admiral Keppel, i. 339;

Tickell's Anticipation, i. 348;

troubles in India, i. 349, 350, 357;

Palliser and Keppel, i. 356;

Militia Bill, i. 366;

Macartney captured by French, i. 369;

rumours of Civil War, i. 375;

the Sussex protest, ibid.;

Burke's Establishment Bill, i. 376;

Rodney and the Spanish fleet, i. 376;

the Sussex Dragoons, i. 384; ii. 23;

Gibbon M.P. for Lymington, i. 387;

the Coventry sheriffs, i. 393;

Mrs. Abington, ii. 4;

ships to warn West Indian fleet, ii. 5;

list of new ministry (1782). ii. 19;

Hyder Ali, ii. 19, 26;

Lord Howe and Gibraltar, ii. 19, 20, 25;

Lord Loughborough's marriage, ii. 24;

Fox and American Independence, ii. 25;

Lord Sheffield's Coventry speech, ii. 32;

Gibbon's Lausanne scheme, ii. 56 et seq.;

the custody of Gibbon's books, ii. 60, 62, 63, 149;

an odd peace, ii. 67;

the Triumvirate from Dover to Boulogne, ii. 72;

Sheffield's Observations on the Commerce of the American States, ii. 73, 82, 148;

Gibbon at Lausanne, ii. 74-157, 176-252, 255, 277-380 passim;

Abbé Raynal, ii. 75, 82;

Lady E. Foster, ii. 81;

Fox and his India Bills, ii. 86;

Gibbon's opinion of North, ii. 87;

Miss Hester Gibbon, "the Northamptonshire Saint," ii. 91, 185, 187, 190, 193;

Loughborough's kindness, ii. 91;

Miss Frith's scissors, ii. 91, 97;

Coalition Cabinet, ii. 92;

"prudence and patriotism," ii. 93;

Gibbon's hopes of compensation, ii. 101;

"Fox's Martyrs," ii. 102;

a free-spoken counsellor, ii. 103;

ways and means, ii. 104, 110, 113, 127, 138, 146, 182-258 passim, 280, 281, 290, 300, 312, 360;

Mrs. Fraser, ii. 105;

society at Lausanne, ii. 111, 124, 135;

Pitt's popularity on Continent, ii. 127;

Sheffield's Observations, etc., on Ireland, ii. 128;

Gibbon's reported death, ii. 132;

Achilles Pitt and Hector Fox, ii. 136;

Joseph II. and Frederick II., ii. 137;

Aunt Kitty's death, ii. 144;

Lord Auckland, ii. 148;

Madame de Crousaz, ii. 154;

the conscious shame of the French, ii. 162;

Sheridan's speech, ii. 172;

twelve hours' talk with Fox, ii. 180;

George III.'s illness and recovery, ii. 181, 191;

Hugonin's death and dishonesty, ii. 183-185;

Gibbon's madeira, ii. 190, 211, 214, 223, 282, 327;

de Montagny and the Swiss transaction, ii. 195, 202;

the Severys, ii. 199, 206;

Sir S. Porten's death, ii. 201;

low spirits, ii. 202;

the French Revolution, ii. 204, 209;

French exiles at Lausanne, ii. 210, 222;

Gibbon's loneliness, ii. 215;

Reynolds' portrait of Sheffield, ii. 216;

happy though unmarried, ii. 220;

Aunt Hester's death, ii. 222;

the Newhaven property, ii. 235, 242;

Burke's French Revolution, ii. 237;

Gibbon's hospitality at Lausanne, ii. 242;

Louis XVI., ii. 255, 360;

the Sheffields' visit to Lausanne, ii. 277;

improvements in house and garden, ii. 278;

peace or war, ii. 279;

the St. Domingo insurrection, ii. 280;

Madame de Sta?l and her father, ii. 292;

march of the Marseillais, ii. 293;

the "Friends of the People," ii. 295;

Austrian Croats and Gallic cannibals, ii. 296;

fate of the Gibbonian collection, ii. 301;

Brunswick's march on Paris, ii. 311;

Madame de Lamballe's murder, ii. 312;

French invasion of Savoy, ii. 315;

Geneva threatened, ii. 317, 322;

preparations for flight, ii. 319;

fears of siege removed, ii. 326;

Mr. Nichols, ii. 328;

treaty with France delayed, ii. 331, 345;

the Gallic dogs, ii. 333;

Montesquieu and the Neckers, ii. 345;

Brunswick's retreat, ii. 346;

Barthélemy, ii. 355;

Geneva Revolution, ii. 355, 370;

Fox deeply tinged with democracy, ii. 356;

Gibbon's proposed return to England, ii. 357, 371, 379;

plan of work, ii. 359;

de Severy's death, ii. 369;

Lady Sheffield's death, ii. 377;

siege of Mayence, ii. 382;

Lord Hervey's Memorial, ii. 388;

the Althorpe library, ii. 392;

Gibbon's serious illness, ii. 393-395;

at Eden Farm, ii. 398.

His letters to Gibbon, ii. 217, 224, 232, 238, 239, 243, 245, 253, 254, 256-258, 268, 272, 274, 275, 283, 294, 295, 302, 304, 319, 328, 343, 348, 350, 361, 367, 368, 373, 376, 382, 395;

his pamphlets mentioned:

Observations on the Commerce of the American States, ii. 72, 82, 148;

- on the Manufactures, Trade, and Present State of Ireland, ii. 128;

- on the French Treaty and Commerce, ii. 148;

- on the Project for Abolishing the Slave Trade, ii. 217;

- on the Corn Bill now depending in Parliament, ii. 239

Shelburne, Earl, i. 26, 373;

Secretary of State, ii. 14, 17;

Prime Minister, ii. 19, 25;

resigns, ii. 33

Shelley, Sir John, i. 351

Shelley, Lady, ii. 31

Shelly, Mrs., ii. 386

Sheridan, i. 333;

his speech on Begums of Oude, ii. 172;

lines on Lord Glenbervie, ii. 180;

"Friends of the People," ii. 297

Siddons, Mrs., Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 29

Sidney, Mr., i. 40

*Simolin, M., ii. 254

*Simpson, Mrs. J. Bridgman, i. 153

Sivrac, Duchesse de, ii. 111

Skipwith, Mr. (Gibbon's co-executor of Clarke's will), i. 239, 244, 245, 254

Slave Trade, Abolition of, ii. 239, 294

*Sloane, Sir Hans, i. 29, 89

*Smith, General, ii. 85

*Smithson, Sir Hugh (Duke of Northumberland), i. 82

Smyrna Coffee House, i. 19

Soho masquerade, the (Carlisle House), i. 131

*Southerne's tragedy of The Fatal Marriage, ii. 29

Southouse, Mr., Gibbon's solicitor, i. 93, 95, 96, 98, 102, 103, 127

*Southwell, Lord, i. 6

Spain, troubles with, i. 212, 344;

Expedition v. Barbary, i. 265;

Rodney's defeat of Spanish fleet, i. 376;

war with France, i. 362;

convention between England and, ii. 226

Speed, Miss Harriet (Comtesse de Viry), i. 314, 316

Spencer, Lady, i. 33, 370; ii. 300, 310, 312, 400

Spencer, Lady Diana. See Bolingbroke, Lady, and Beauclerk, Lady Diana

Spencer Lady Elizabeth (Lady Pembroke), ii. 106, 110

Spencer, Lord, i. 33; ii. 135, 187, 305

Spencer, Lord Charles, i. 376

*Spencer, Lord R., i. 366

*Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, i. 114

Sta?l-Holstein, Baron de, ii. 292

Sta?l-Holstein, Madame de, i. 41, 115, 291, 292;

escapes from Paris, ii. 311;

birth of her sons, ii. 319, 347;

rescues Princesse d'Hénin, ii. 324;

Miss Burney on, at Dorking, ii. 375;

Lord Sheffield's guest, ii. 377

Stafford, Marquis of, ii. 306

Stamford, Lord, i. 254

*Stamp Act, the i. 84

*Standish, Sir Frank, i. 90

*Stanhope, Mrs. Eugenia, i. 195

Stanhope, Philip (Lord Chesterfield's son), i. 188, 191, 195

*Stanislaus Poniatowski, King of Poland, i. 29, 158

Stanley, Lord, his Fête Champêtre, i. 219

Stanley, Rt. Hon. Hans, i. 29, 44, 148

*States-General, meeting of the, ii. 279

Stawell, Lord, ii. 26, 175, 182, 189, 199

*Steward, Colonel, i. 398

Steward, Mr., i. 18

Storer, Anthony Morris, i. 207; ii. 67, 86, 87

Stormont, Lord (2nd Lord Mansfield), i. 314, 333, 371;

President of Council, ii. 34, 305

Strahan, William, printer to His Majesty, i. 222, 263, 279

Strange, Lord, i. 90

Strathmore, Lord, ii. 276

Stratton, member of Madras Council, i. 362

*Strode, William, i. 89, 90

*Struensee, Dr., i. 143

Stuart, Andrew, M.P. for Lanarkshire, i. 366

Stuart, Gilbert, View of Society in Europe, etc., ii. 22

Stuart, Mrs., ii. 11

Stuart, Sir Simeon, i. 84, 92, 105, 112

*Sturm's Religious Meditations, etc., i. 181

Suard, J. B. Antoine, translates Decline and Fall, i. 292

Suess, George, Gibbon's valet, ii. 49

Suffield, Lord, i. 250, 252

Sujah Dowlah, Nawab of Oude, i. 187, 209

Sulens, Mdlle., ii. 43

Sussex Militia, i. 336, 340, 361

Sutton, Sir Richard, i. 260

*Sweden, Gustavus III., King of, ii. 279

Swiss Guard massacred in Paris, ii. 312, 322, 355

Swiss Militia, i. 38

Sylva, Madame de, ii. 388, 400

Sydney, Lord (Tommy Townshend), i. 151, 210; ii. 19, 86

T

Taaffe, i. 6, 35

*Taboureau des Réaux, i. 304

*Talleyrand, ii. 292, 326

*Tandy, Napper, ii. 115

*Tanjore, Rajah of, i. 209, 308

*Tankerville, Earl of, i. 67

Tavistock, Marquis of, i. 27

Temple, Lord, i. 50, 185-187; ii. 19;

the "stormy petrel" of politics, ii. 86

Tessier, M., i. 278

Theodore, Charles, Elector of Bavaria, ii. 265

*Thiars, Comte de, ii. 324

*Thiers, M., ii. 326

Thomas, Dr., i. 223, 224, 241

Thompson, Sir Benjamin (Count of Rumford), ii. 72

Thompson, Sir Charles, i. 261

Thurlow, Lord, Attorney General, i. 173;

Lord Chancellor, i. 341; ii. 13, 86;

dismissed, ii. 306

Tickell, Richard, on Gibbon's snuff-box i. 58;

his pamphlet Anticipation, i. 341;

on Brooks's Club, i. 376

Tippoo (Hyder Ali's son), ii. 19;

defeated by Cornwallis, ii. 276

Tissot, Dr. Simon André, ii. 77, 105, 108, 115, 130, 179

Titchfield, Marquis of, ii. 363

Tollemache, Hon. W., i. 386

Tonyn, Governor of Florida, i. 300

*Toussaint d'Ouverture, ii. 75

*Towers, Dr., ii. 305

Townley, Colonel, i. 148

*Townshend, C., i. 347

Townshend, Hon. John, i. 58, 376; ii. 18, 19, 179

Townshend, Lord, duel with Lord Bellamont, i. 180;

Master of Ordnance, ii. 34;

on Coalition Ministry, ii. 34

Townshend, Thomas. See Sydney, Lord

Trade and Plantations. See Board of Trade

Trajan's Pillar, i. 67

Tremlet, Life of Almanzor, i. 238, 243

Trevor, Mrs., i. 361; ii. 148, 153, 279, 284

Trevor, Hon. John Hampden, ii. 135, 274, 279, 294

*Truguet, Admiral, ii. 314

Tryon, Governor, i. 284

*Turgot, M., i. 304

Turin, Gibbon at, i. 55

Turton, Dr. John, attends Goldsmith, i. 16;

Gibbon, i. 114, 150, 371, 378;

Godfrey Clarke, i. 224

*Tyers, Jonathan, i. 114

Tylney, Lord, i. 60

Tyrconnell, Countess of, ii. 275

*Tyrconnell, Earl of, ii. 275

Tyrone, Lord, ii. 112

U

*Unitarian Society, the, ii. 305

*Ushant, battle of, i. 349