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621.

_To Lord Sheffield._

Lausanne, May, 1793.

*MY DEAR FRIEND,

[Sidenote: ADVICE FOR FRIENDS IN GRIEF.]

I must write a few lines before my departure, though indeed I scarcely know what to say. Nearly a fortnight has now elapsed since the first melancholy tidings, without my having received the slightest subsequent accounts of your health and situation. Your own silence announces too forcibly how much you are involved in your own feelings; and I can but too easily conceive that a letter to me would be more painful than to an indifferent person. But that amiable man, Count Lally, might surely have written a second time; but your sister, who is probably with you; but Maria, alas! poor Maria! I am left in a state of darkness to the workings of my own fancy, which imagines every thing that is sad and shocking. What can I think of for your relief and comfort? I will not expatiate on those common-place topics, which have never dryed a single tear; but let me advise, let me urge, you to force yourself into business, as I would try to force myself into study. The mind must not be idle; if it be not exercised on external objects, it will prey on its own vitals.

A thousand little arrangements, which must precede a long Journey, have postponed my departure three or four days beyond the term which I had first appointed; but all is now in order, and I set off to-morrow, the ninth instant, with my Valet de Chambre, a courier on horseback, and Severy, with his servant, as far as Frankfort. I calculate my arrival at Sheffield-place (how I dread and desire to see that mansion!) for the first week in June, soon after this letter; but I will try to send you some later intelligence. I never found myself stronger, or in better health. The German road is now cleared, both of enemies and allies, and though I must expect fatigue, I have not any apprehensions of danger. It is scarcely possible that you should meet me at Frankfort, but I shall be much disappointed at not finding a line at Brussels or Ostend. Adieu. If there be any invisible guardians, may they watch over you and yours! Adieu.*

621*.

_To Lady Elisabeth Foster._

Lausanne, May the 4th, 1793.

I know not whether you are already informed of the sudden death of poor Lady Sheffield after four days' illness; but I am sure that your feeling affectionate mind will not be surprized to hear that I set out for England next week, and that in a journey undertaken at the call of friendship all the dragons of the way have already vanished. I go by Basle, Frankfort, Cologne, Brussels, and Ostend, and I flatter myself that the success of our allied arms will contribute every week to open my passage; it is even possible, though scarcely probable, that I may embark from the English town of Calais. Your answer to my last letter is doubtless on the road and will follow me: but you must write immediately to Sheffield place, and I promise you a speedy and sincere account of our afflicted friend. I wish to hear of your motions and projects; I now sigh for your return to England, and shall be most bitterly disappointed if I have not the pleasure of seeing you in that happy island, yourself and the most amiable of Dutchesses before the end of the autumn: I cannot look with confidence beyond that period.

My friend and your Chevalier[314] will guard me as far as Cologne or Frankfort; his tender attachment to his mother who is still very melancholy will recall him from thence to Lausanne; but in the course of next winter he has thoughts of visiting England. The circumstances of the times which impoverish every one, have persuaded him to listen to my advice of conducting on his travels some English pupill of fashion and fortune. Such a pupill will be fortunate in finding a real Gentleman, and I trust that the Dutchess and yourself will exert your omnipotence in providing some connection equally honourable and advantageous for my friend, and your sincere Votary. Adieu. Excuse brevity and address a Classic prayer in my behalf before some statue of Mercury the God of travellers.

[314] Wilhelm de Severy.

622.

_To his Stepmother._

Lausanne, May the 8th (my fifty-seventh birthday), 1793.

DEAR MADAM,

[Sidenote: JOURNEY TO ENGLAND.]

I have the pleasure of acquainting you that to-morrow, the 9th instant, I set forwards for England, but the pleasure of revisiting my friends and my native country is deeply embittered by the melancholy tidings from Downing Street, which have fixed and hastened my Journey. I travel by the way of Frankfort and Brussells, and your tenderness should not feel the slightest apprehension for my safety. Every enquiry is made, every convenience is provided, every precaution is taken, and though there will undoubtedly be some fatigue, I can assure you with truth, that there does not remain the shadow of a danger. I may expect to reach Sheffield-place the first week in June, from whence I will immediately give you a line. My first cares must be devoted to poor Lord S., whose grief I feel and even fear, but I shall be impatient to see the Belvidere and the maternal countenance of my most faithful friend. May the progress of fine weather confirm your health and spirits. My own are perfectly good, and I never, in my whole life, found myself better qualified for a long Journey.

I am, Dear Madam, Ever most affectionately yours, E. GIBBON.

623.

_Lord Sheffield to Edward Gibbon._

Mercer's Hall, 14th May, 1793.

We shall ever acknowledge that you are a right good friend. I was hardly able to read your letter. This is the first foreign post since its arrival. I had hopes you would come forthwith, but hardly expected such an effort as your speedy departure required. Maria & Louisa rejoice at your approach, Sarah is with us. Your apartment will be prepared; your letter arrived too late for me to write to you at Francfort. I shall address this to Brussels. All Friends wish me to involve myself as much as possible in business; I am so with a vengeance in a commission[315] (at the Head of which I am) for the Issue of 5 millions of Exchequer Bills for the relief of Commercial Credit--a matter very interesting indeed, & which I flatter myself will be of great service. I pass the day at Mercer's Hall with my fellow Commissioners--16 of the chief men of the City, excellent men, and four others.

Yours ever, S.

[315] A select committee appointed (April 25, 1793) to consider the state of commercial credit reported (April 29), recommending, _inter alia_, that five millions should be issued in Exchequer Bills for the relief of credit. The report was considered on April 30; a resolution, and subsequently a Bill, were carried for the issue of the Bills. A commission was appointed (May 3), with Lord Sheffield at the head of it, to effect the necessary arrangements.

624.

_To Lord Sheffield._

Frankfort, May 19th, 1793.

[Sidenote: FRENCH COURAGE DESERVES BETTER CAUSE.]

*And here I am, in good health and spirits, after one of the easiest, safest, and pleasantest journies which I ever performed in my whole life; not the appearance of an enemy, and hardly the appearance of a War. Yet I hear, as I am writing, the canon of the siege of Mayence,[316] at the distance of twenty miles; and long, very long, will it be heard. It is confessed on all sides, that the French fight with a courage worthy of a better cause: the town of Mayence is strong, their artillery admirable; they are already reduced to horse-flesh, but they have still the resource of eating the inhabitants, and at last of eating one another; and, if that repast could be extended to Paris and the whole country, it might essentially contribute to the relief of mankind. Our operations are carried on with more than German slowness, and when the besieged are quiet, the besiegers are perfectly satisfied with their progress. A spirit of division undoubtedly prevails; and the character of the Prussians for courage and discipline is sunk lower then you can possibly imagine. Their glory has expired with Frederic. I am sorry to have missed Lord Elgin,[317] who is beyond the Rhine with the King of Prussia. As I am impatient, I propose setting forwards to-morrow afternoon, and shall reach Ostend in less than eight days. The passage must depend on winds and packets; and I hope to find at Brussels or Dover a letter which will direct me to S. P. or Downing-street. Severy goes back from hence. Adieu: I embrace the dear Girls.

Ever yours, E. G.*

[316] Mayence was invested by the Prussian and Austrian forces early in April, 1793. It was surrendered July 22, 1793.

[317] Thomas, Lord Elgin, was appointed in August, 1792, Envoy Extraordinary at Brussels. Subsequently appointed Ambassador at Constantinople in 1799, he collected the Elgin marbles.

625.

_To Lord Sheffield._

Brussels, May 27, 1793.

*This day, between two and three o'Clock in the afternoon, I am arrived at this place in excellent preservation. My expedition, which is now drawing to a close, has been a journey of perseverance rather than speed, of some labour since Frankfort, but without the smallest degree of difficulty or danger. As I have every morning been seated in the Chaise soon after sun-rise, I propose indulging to-morrow till eleven o'Clock, and going that day no farther than Ghent: on Wednesday the 29th instant I shall reach Ostend in good time, just eight days, according to my former reckoning, from Frankfort. Beyond that I can say nothing positive; but should the winds be propitious, it is possible that I may appear next Saturday, June 1st, in Downing Street. After that _earliest_ date, you will expect me day by day till I arrive. Adieu. I embrace the dear Girls, and salute Mrs. Holroyd. I rejoyce that you have anticipated my advice of plunging into business; but I should now be sorry if that business, however important, detained us long in town. I do not wish to make a public exhibition, and only sigh to enjoy you and the precious remnant in the solitude of Sheffield-place.

Ever yours, E. G.

If I am successful I may outstrip or accompany this letter. Yours and Maria's waited for me here, and overpaid the Journey.*

626.

_To his Stepmother._

Downing Street, June 13th, 1793.

DEAR MADAM,

As you know that I am now safe, well and happy at my friend Lord Sheffield, you will easily excuse a delay of some days in my promised letter.

As long as I was on the road, and it was a long time, your apprehensions, I am much afraid, were awakened not so much in proportion to the real magnitude of the danger, as to the exquisite sensibility of your own feelings. For my own part, though the scene was nearer and more familiar to me, I must fairly own, that I saw through a magnifyer, and that my resolution to visit Lord Sheffield in his state of affliction was an effort of some courage. But I was most agreably surprized to find the Lyons whom I had seen at a distance become little gentle lap-dogs on a nearer approach. I wheeled round behind the armies by the way of Basel, Frankfort, Cologne, Brussells, and Ostend, without meeting with any hostile impediment, and indeed without seeing the face of a Soldier. My passage from Ostend was short and prosperous, and I reached Downing Street not in the least affected by the fatigue of a rough and tedious journey. I found Lord S. much better and even more chearful than I could have expected: he feels his loss, but the new scenes of public business in which he verily wisely engaged have alleviated his grief by occupying his mind. The Ladies are gone into the Country, and he proposes to follow them next week. I could much have wished to visit Bath without delay: but Lord S. will not hear of so early a separation, and as he is the immediate object of my journey, I must submit, unless you particularly desire to see me very soon. Adieu.

Dear Madam, I am ever yours, E. GIBBON.

627.

_Mrs. Gibbon to Edward Gibbon._

Thursday Noon.

MY DEAREST SIR,

[Sidenote: MRS. GIBBON'S JOY.]

I truely rejoice, & congratulate you on your being once more safely arrived in your native Country; may health & happiness attend you in it. I am so happy that you have escaped all the evils I foresaw & dreaded, that I find myself better then I have been this year, & this letter is a proof of it; my last but one was to you, as a complaint in my head frighted me from attempting to use a pen, & I hope the forbearance has cured it. I wish'd to tell you so yesterday, but the joy your letter gave would not suffer my hand to be steady enough to write. I thank you most sincerely for writing so soon, & shall impatiently expect the letter you promise me. I am glad you are with Lord Sheffield. When you write tell me how he does; & the young ladies are. I shall soon acknowledge Mrs. Holroyd's kindness in writing to me; make best & kindest Compliments for me, & believe me,

My Dear Sir, Most affectionately yours, D. GIBBON.

628.

_Mrs. Gibbon to Edward Gibbon._

Belvedere, Bath, August 29, '93.

MY DEAR SIR,

I have but one excuse for not answering your last letter, to wit, not being able, as I could not hold a pen steady enough to write; yet I never felt myself happier, because I never was so miserable, as from the time those vile miscreants the french Democrats was within forty miles of Lausanne, till you arrived safe in England. Many has been the disappointments I have borne with fortitude, but the fear of having my last & only friend torn from me, was very near overseting my reason: my aggitation prevented my feeling my excessive weakness, till after I had answered your letter, which gave me a joy I shall never again experience, at least I hope not, as I trust you will not be any more expos'd to such eminent danger.

If I have the satisfaction of seeing you next month, I shall be more able to enjoy your Conversation, as my health & strength are wonderfully improv'd within this fortnight; but as much as I long to see you, I would not be the cause of bringing you from agreeable partys & places you like, till it is convenient to you to come. I have not been out this twelve month, dare not encounter the heat, & have little company at home. Your friend Mrs. Gould is as agreeable as ever, Mrs. R. grows old, Mrs. Shelly just as usual. Madame Ely & Mrs. Bonfoy are here. Mrs. Holroyd has probably told you that Miss Gould is now Mrs. Horneck. I wish she had been Mrs. Gibbon.

I am very sorry to hear Miss Louisa Holroyd's health is so indifferent, she is a charming girle, & her sister a very fine one, pray say every thing that is kind to both the Ladies for me; make my best compliments to Lord Sheffield, I make my own to Mrs. Holroyd; let me know when I may hope to see you, and believe me to be,

My Dear Sir, Your most affectionate D. GIBBON.

629.

_To his Stepmother._

Sheffield Place, Sept. 3, 1793.

DEAR MADAM,

Many days have passed away, since I have received any letter so truly, so dearly acceptable as your last. I had no occasion indeed for any fresh assurances of that regard and tenderness which I have invariably known and felt during the space of thirty-five years: but I was delighted at seeing under your own hand, and again confirmed by your letter of the same date to Mrs. Holroyd, the clearest evidence of your health, spirits, and strength, and I am still more persuaded that some minds will rise superior to the infirmities which Nature has attached to the advanced period of human life.

[Sidenote: ANXIETY TO SEE MRS. GIBBON.]

My own inclinations would immediately have carried me to the Belvidere from Dover or London; but reason compelled me to acknowledge that, as Lord Sheffield's unexpected misfortune had prompted me to undertake a Journey more hazardous in appearance than in reality, my first attention was due to him, and that it was incumbent on me to try how far the society of a friend might contribute to his relief and amusement. In the three months which we have now spent together I have had the satisfaction of finding that my labours have not been unsuccessful. Our domestic society, which is much improved by the presence of Mrs. Holroyd, some chosen company in the house, the seasonable diversion of Camps and visits, and above all, the very important business of the Exchequer bills which frequently calls him to Mercer's hall, have seconded my endeavours, and I shall leave him in a placid and even chearful temper of mind. As I now find myself of less use, I had fixed my departure about the 15th or 20th instant, but he absolutely insists on keeping me here till the end of the month; and as we expect a very agreable friend, Mr. Douglas, who married Lady Catherine North, I am almost inclined to yield to his importunity. At all events, as I shall only pass three or four days in town, you may depend on seeing me at Bath in the first week of October. I remember that your elegant little mansion will not admit of an additional inhabitant, though I may be perfectly accommodated as heretofore either in your court or over the way. But I am likewise ignorant whether our dining together, at my Lausanne hours of two or three o'Clock, may not be too great an exertion for your returning strength. Should you content yourself with receiving my morning and afternoon visits (and perhaps such an arrangement would be the most prudent), I might be tempted to prefer the Hotel, from whence a chair would convey me in a few minutes to the Belvidere. I shall expect on that subject a line from yourself or our old friend Mrs. Gould. Lord S., who is gone to town this morning, and the young Ladies beg to be kindly remembered to you. Mrs. H. will soon answer your obliging letter. I have a thousand things to say, but they will be best deferred for our interview, which I impatiently desire.

I am, Dear Madam, Ever yours, E. GIBBON.

630.

_To Lord Sheffield._

October 2nd, 1793.

*The Cork Street hotel has answered its recommendation; it is clean, convenient, and quiet,* but the expence for a Winter residence, five guineas per week for two small rooms and closet, would much surpass that of a similar lodging without affording any superior advantages. *My first evening was passed at home in a very agreeable _tête-à-tête_ with my friend Elmsley. Yesterday I dined at Craufurd's with an excellent set, in which were Pelham and Lord Egremont. I dine to-day with my Portuguese woman[318] at Grenier's, most probably with the well-washed feet of Lady W[ebster], whom I met last night at Devonshire-house; a constant, though late, resort of society. The Duchess is as good, and Lady Elizabeth as seducing, as ever. No news whatsoever. You will see in the papers Lord Hervey's Memorial.[319] I love vigour, but it is surely a strong measure to tell a gentleman you have _resolved_ to pass the winter in his house. London is not disagreeable; yet I shall probably leave it Saturday. If any thing should occur, I will write.* Douglas with the Doctor, &c., called on me this morning. *Adieu; I embrace dear little Aunt and la Marmaille. Ever yours.*

P.S.--I have not had your letter, and if you could impart

## particulars, they should be entrusted only to Vulcan.

[318] Madame de Sylva.

[319] John Augustus, Lord Hervey, a captain in the Royal Navy, second son of the Bishop of Derry, and brother to Lady Elisabeth Foster, was ambassador at Florence from 1787 to 1794. In 1793 he insisted in a violent note on the dismissal of the French Minister, La Flotte, from the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. "It was generally supposed," writes Lord Holland, (_Memoirs of the Whig Party_, p. 56), "in the _maldicente_ city of Florence, that resentment at the French Minister for having supplanted him in the good graces of a lady quickened his hatred of the French Republick, or at least gave it the turn of insisting on the dismissal of his rival." Lord Hervey, in consequence of the affair, was recalled from Florence in 1794.

631.

_To his Stepmother._

Cork Street Hotel, Friday, October 4th, 1793.

DEAR MADAM,

[Sidenote: FROM LONDON TO BATH.]

I propose to reach Bath next Monday for a _very_ late dinner at York-house, where my old friend Will Budd will be so good as to secure me a bed-chamber and dining-room on the same floor with accommodations for two servants. I am very impatient to embrace you, but must postpone that pleasure till the _usual_ time of your rising next day: for not the minutest circumstance of your life must be disarranged on my account, as I mean to leave you in every point of health and spirits at least as well as I find you.

I am Ever yours, E. G.

632.

_To Lord Sheffield._

York-house, Bath, October 9th, 1793.

*Sunday afternoon I left London, and lay at Reading, and Monday in very good time I reached this place after a very pleasant airing; and am always so much delighted, and improved, with this union of ease and motion, that, were not the expence enormous, I would travel every year some hundred miles, more especially in England. I passed the day with Mrs. G. yesterday. In mind and conversation she is just the same as twenty years ago. She has spirits, appetite, legs, and eyes, and talks of living till ninety. I can say from my heart, Amen. We dine at two, and remain together till nine; but, although we have much to say, I am not sorry that she talks of introducing a third or fourth actor. Lord Spenser expects me about the 20th; but if I can do it without offence, I shall steal away two or three days sooner, and you shall have advice of my motions.

The troubles of Bristol[320] have been serious and bloody. I know not who was in fault; but I do not like appeasing the mob by the extinction of the toll, and the removal of the Hereford militia, who had done their duty. Adieu. The Girls must dance at Tunbridge. What would dear little Aunt say if I was to answer her letter? Drop in my ear something of your secret conversations.

Ever yours, &c., E. G.

I still follow the old style, though the Convention has abolished the Christian Era, with months, weeks, days, &c.*

[320] New toll-gates had been placed on the bridge at Bristol; but they were burnt by a mob which, from September 30 to October 3, attacked the toll-houses, and broke the windows of the Guildhall and Council-house. The Herefordshire Militia were twice called out and ordered to fire on the mob; eleven rioters were killed and forty-five wounded. The attempt to raise a toll was abandoned.

633.

_To Lord Sheffield._

York-house, Bath, October 13th, 1793.

*I am as ignorant of Bath in general as if I were still at Sheffield. My impatience to get away makes me think it better to devote my whole time to Mrs. G.; and dear little aunt, whom I tenderly salute, will excuse me to her two friends, Mrs. Hartley and Preston, if I make little or no use of her kind introduction. A _tête-à-tête_ of eight or nine hours every day is rather difficult to support; yet I do assure you, that our conversation flows with more ease and spirit when we are alone, than when any auxiliaries are summoned to our aid. She is indeed a wonderful woman, and I think all her faculties of the mind stronger and more active than I have ever known them. I have settled, that ten full days may be sufficient for all the purposes of our interview. I should therefore depart next Friday, the 18th instant, and am indeed expected at Althorp on the 20th; but I may possibly reckon without my host, as I have not yet apprized Mrs. G. of the term of my visit; and will certainly not quarrel with her for a short delay. Adieu. I must have some political speculations. The Campaign, at least on our side, seems to be at an end. Ever yours.*

634.

_To his Stepmother._

Star Inn, Oxford, Friday evening, Oct. 18, 1793.

DEAR MADAM,

If true friendship were not always a coward, it would be almost useless to say that after a very pleasant airing I am arrived here without accident or fatigue. By the first post you shall hear of me from Althorp.

I am Ever yours, E. G.

635.

_To his Stepmother._

Althorp, Oct. 20th, 1793.

DEAR MADAM,

[Sidenote: MRS. GIBBON'S MENTAL YOUTH.]

The remainder of my Journey has been as easy and prosperous as the beginning, and I am now most agreably settled for a fortnight at this place. The society of a very pleasing and friendly family does not however make me forget the Belvidere, and I wish that I could have given myself a larger scope for my visit to Bath. Yet I have the satisfaction of thinking, that of the narrow span I did not lose any part, and as you were my sole object, I never deviated into any other company or amusement. As we were almost always alone, we enjoyed perhaps as much of each other's society in ten days, as we should have had with the common dissipations of the World in ten weeks. I had the satisfaction of finding and leaving you in a state of health, spirits, and even _mental_ youth, which you have the fairest prospect of preserving to a very late period of life, and what more can either yourself or your friends desire? My best compliments to Mrs. Gould.

I am, Dear Madam, Ever yours, E. G.

636.

_To Lord Sheffield._

Althorpe library, Tuesday, four o'clock, Nov., '93.

*We have so completely exhausted this morning among the first editions of Cicero, that I can only mention my departure hence to-morrow, the sixth instant. I lye quietly at Woburn, and reach London in good time Thursday. By the following post I write somewhat more largely. My stay in London will depend, partly on my amusement, and your being fixed at Sheffield-place; unless you think I can be comfortably arranged for a week or two with you at Brighton.* An insignificant Minister is often soothed by sops and jobbs. *The military remarks seem good; but now to what purpose! Adieu. I embrace and much rejoyce in Louisa's improvement. Lord Ossory was from home at Farning Woods.*

637.

_To Lord Sheffield._

London, Friday, Nov. 8th, four o'clock.

*Walpole has just delivered yours, and I hasten the direction, that you may not be at a loss. I will write to-morrow, but I am now fatigued, and rather unwell. Adieu. I have not seen a soul except Elmsley.*

638.

_To Lord Sheffield._

St. James's Street, Nov. 9th, 1793.

*As I dropt yesterday the word _unwell_, I flatter myself that the family would have been a little alarmed by my silence to-day. I am still awkward, though without any suspicions of gout, and have some idea of having recourse to medical advice. Yet I creep out to-day in a chair, to dine with Lord Lucan. But as it will be literally my first going down stairs, and as scarcely any one is apprized of my arrival, I know nothing, I have heard nothing, I have nothing to say. My present lodging,[321] a house of Elmsley's, is chearful, convenient, somewhat dear, but not so much as a Hotel: a species of habitation for which I have not conceived any great affection. Had you been stationary at Sheffield, you would have seen me before the twentieth; for I am tired of rambling, and pant for my home, that is to say, for your house. But whether I shall have courage to brave *P. of W.* and a bleak down, time only can discover. Adieu. I wish you back to S.-pl. The health of dear Louisa is doubtless the first object; but I did not expect Brighton after Tunbridge. Whenever dear little aunt is separate from you, I shall certainly write to her; but at present how is it possible?*

Ever yours, E. G.

[321] 76, St. James's Street.

639.

_To Lord Sheffield._

[Most private.]

St. James's Street, Nov. 11th, 1793.

[Sidenote: IN THE HANDS OF THE SURGEONS.]

*I must at length withdraw the veil before my state of health, though the naked truth may alarm you more than a fit of the gout. Have you never observed, through my _inexpressibles_, a large prominency _circa genitalia_, which, as it was not at all painful, and very little troublesome, I had strangely neglected for many years?[322] But since my departure from Sheffield-place it has increased, most stupendously, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Yesterday I sent for Farquhar,[323] who is allowed to be a very skilful surgeon. After viewing and palping, he very seriously desired to call in assistance, and has examined it again to-day with Mr. Cline,[324] a surgeon, as he says, of the first eminence. They both pronounce it a _hydrocele_ (a collection of water), which must be let out by the operation of tapping; but from its magnitude and long neglect, they think it a most extraordinary case, and wish to have another surgeon, Dr. Bayley, present. If the business should go off smoothly, I shall be delivered from my burthen, (it is almost as big as a small child), and walk about in four or five days with a truss. But the medical gentlemen, who never speak quite plain, insinuate to me the _possibility_ of an inflammation, of fever, etc. I am not appalled at the thoughts of the operation, which is fixed for Wednesday next, twelve o'clock; but it has occurred to me that you might wish to be present, before and afterwards, till the crisis was past; and to give you that opportunity, I shall solicit a delay till Thursday, or even Friday. In the mean while, I crawl about with some labour, and much indecency, to Devonshire-house, where I left all the fine ladies making flannel waistcoats;[325] Lady Lucan's, &c. Adieu. Varnish the business for the ladies; yet I am afraid it will be public;--the advantage of being notorious. Ever yours.*

[322] Gibbon had, in 1761, consulted Mr. (afterwards Sir Cæsar) Hawkins, the surgeon, who wished to see him again. But he never returned, or consulted any other medical man till November, 1793.

[323] Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart. (cr. 1796), was originally an army doctor. He died in 1819.

[324] Henry Cline (1750-1827) was a pupil of Hunter, and at this time surgeon of St. Thomas's Hospital.

[325] For the soldiers serving in Flanders under the Duke of York.

640.

_To his Stepmother._

St. James's Street, No. 76, Nov. 21, '93.

MY DEAR MADAM,

My friend Lord S. having left me to return into Sussex, I thought you would not be sorry to receive a short assurance of my health under my own hand. You may justly reproach me with the long neglect of a growing complaint, but I am now in the hands of the most skillful physicians and surgeons, who have given me immediate relief, and promise me a safe and radical cure. With their approbation I live as usual, and dine abroad every day, and in a fortnight, when my friends return from Brighton, I shall meet them at S. P. and remain there till after Christmas.

I am Ever yours, E. G.

641.

_To Lord Sheffield._

St. James's, Nov. 25, '93.

[Sidenote: A SECOND OPERATION NEEDED.]

*Though Farquahar has promised to write you a line, I conceive you may not be sorry to hear directly from me. The operation of yesterday was much longer, more searching and more painful than the former, but it has eased and lightened me to a much greater degree: no inflammation, no feaver, a delicious night, leave to go abroad to-morrow and to go out of town when I please _en attendant_ the future measures of a radical cure. If you hold your intention of returning next Saturday to S. P., I shall probably join you about the Thursday following, after lying two nights at Beckenham.[326] The Devons are going to Bath, and the hospitable Craufurd follows them. Yet I do not want dinners. I passed a delightful day with Burke; an odd one with Monsignor Erskine, the Pope's Nuncio.--Of public news, you and the papers know much more than I do. We seem to have strong sea and land hopes; nor do I dislike the Royalists having beaten the _Sans-Culottes_ and taken Dol. How many minutes will it take to guillotine the seventy-three new members of the Convention who are now arrested? Adieu. I embrace the Ladies.*

Ever yours, E. G.

[326] At Lord Auckland's, at Eden Farm.

642.

_Lord Sheffield to Edward Gibbon._

Brighton, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1793.

We are very much content with the account of you, especially Mr. Farquar's. His is really excellent. As this air does not particularly suit Louisa, & as I brought a bowel complaint with me from London and cannot bathe, the Ladies will settle at Sheffield Place to-morrow & I shall settle there on Thursday. We shall expect you on the Thursday following, at furthest, perhaps sooner. I suppose you write to Mrs. Gibbon, but I do not know why I suppose it. There is little or no Society here. I have had one pleasant dinner with Gerrard Hamilton, who is tolerably well, and am to dine with him to-morrow.

I have seen an officer just come from Portsmouth, who says that the Fleet, with Sir Charles Grey,[327] dropped down to St. Helens yesterday, & that Lord Moira[328] has ordered all his officers to be on board to-morrow. I understand that Lord Moira will have from ten to fifteen thousand troops. They are to rendezvous at Jersey, & afterwards, if circumstances are favourable, their destination is somewhere about Cancale. There are good accounts of the encreasing scarcity of provisions among the Infidels & murderers. The garrison at Fort Louis[329] have judiciously preferred the surrendering prisoners of War to the deadly privilege of going home.

A letter from Lord Auckland talks of going for three or four days to Lambeth soon. I have mentioned in a letter that you proposed to pass two nights with him. I shall be sorry if you should not see him.

Ever yours, SHEFFIELD.

Aunt shall be much obliged if Mr. G. can obtain for her Louisa _Les pensees de Paschal_[330] in one Vol. to bring down with him.

[327] Sir Charles Grey, afterwards first Earl Grey (1729-1807), sailed November 23, in joint command with Jervis, afterwards Earl St. Vincent, on an expedition against the French West Indian Islands.

[328] Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira and first Marquis of Hastings (1754-1826), had served with distinction in the American War. The expedition here alluded to was that which sailed in December, 1793, to aid the French royalists in Brittany. The expedition returned without effecting anything.

[329] Fort Louis, part of the position held by the French army in Alsace, was besieged by the Austrians, November 10, 1792. It surrendered on November 14, and the four thousand French troops who formed its garrison became prisoners of war.

[330] Gibbon was a diligent student of Pascal, and his irony was cultivated by constant reading of his works. One curious parallel may be noted in their writings. "Abu Rafe," writes Gibbon (_Decline and Fall_, ed. 1862, vol. vii. p. 252), "was an eye-witness, but who will be witness for Abu Rafe?" Similarly Pascal, in the _Lettres Provinciales: neuvième lettre_, p. 154 (ed. Firmin Didot, 1853), writes, "'Mais, mon père, qui nous a assuré que la Vierge en répond?' 'Le père Barry,' dit-il, 'en répond pour elle.' 'Mais, mon père, qui répondra pour le père Barry?'"

643.

_To Lord Sheffield._

St. James's Street, Nov. 30, '93.

[Sidenote: DINNER WITH THE CHANCELLOR.]

*It will not be in my power to reach S. P. quite so soon as I wished and expected. Lord Auckland informs me that he shall be at Lambeth[331] next week Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday: I have therefore agreed to dine at Beckenham on Friday. Saturday will be spent there, and, unless some extraordinary temptation should detain me another day, you will see me by four o'clock Sunday the ninth of December. My conversation with the Ambassador in what relates to you shall be _proper_: but a Swiss Philosopher is not a match for his Excellency. I dine to-morrow with the Chancellor[332] at Hampstead, and what I do not like at this time of the year, without a proposal to stay all night. Yet I would not refuse, more especially as I had denied him on a former day.--My health is good but I shall have a final interview with Farquhar before I leave town.--We are still in darkness about Lord Howe[333] and the French ships: but hope seems to preponderate.--Adieu, nothing that relates to Louisa can be forgot.*

Ever Yours, E. G.

[331] Dr. John Moore (1730-1805), Archbishop of Canterbury (1783-1805), was, by his marriage to Catherine Eden, daughter of Sir Robert Eden, connected with Lord Auckland.

[332] Lord Loughborough.

[333] Richard, Earl Howe (1726-1799), had sailed (November 9) in search of the French; but he was compelled to return to Spithead (November 29) without bringing them to action. "We continue in the same eternal state of anxious expectation of news from Lord Howe. Nothing is yet heard" (Lord Auckland to Lord H. Spencer, December 3, 1793: _Correspondence_, iii. 151). Gibbon did not live to hear of the victory of June 1, 1794.

644.

_To Lord Sheffield._

St. James's Street, Dec. 6th, 1793. 16 du mois Frimaire.

The man tempted me and I did eat--and that man is no less than the Chancellor, whose frigid reserve has thawed into sudden kindness and civility. I dine and lye to-day, as I intended, at Beckenham: but he recalls me (the third time this week) by a dinner to-morrow (Saturday) with Burke and Windham, which I do not possess sufficient fortitude to resist. Sunday he dismisses me again to the aforesaid Beckenham, but insists on finding me there Monday, which he will probably do supposing there should be room and wellcome at the Ambassador's.[334] I shall not therefore arrive at Sheffield till Tuesday the 10th instant, and though you may perceive that I do not want society or amusement, I sincerely repine at the delay. You will likewise derive some comfort from hearing of the spirit and

## activity of my motions. Farquhar is satisfied, allows me to go, and

does not think I shall be obliged to precipitate my return. Shall we never have anything more than hopes and rumours from Lord Howe? Pray embrace the Ladies for me, and assure Mr. Greg. Way of my concern that our different arrangements have not permitted us to meet at Sheffield.

Ever yours, E. G.

[334] Gibbon met Pitt at Eden Farm. "He was much pleased," writes Lord Sheffield, December 17, 1793, of this stay at Beckenham, "with his visit there, and his occurrence with the minister, in a family way, was a great satisfaction to him" (_Auckland Correspondence_, iii. 158).

645.

_To his Stepmother._

Sheffield-place, Dec. 12, 1793.

MY DEAR MADAM,

I should have continued to write from London, if the state of my health, or rather my particular complaint, on the subject of which it is not easy to be explicit, had afforded any events. But you may rest assured that I am now in the best hands, and that my occasional relief will be concluded in due time by a safe and radical cure. I have not been advised to make any change in my way of life, and after enjoying as usual the best Society in London, my physician has allowed me to visit Sheffield-place. I arrived here yesterday, and shall remain in this quiet retirement till the middle of January. Lord Sheffield is nervous and rather low-spirited, complains of his eyes and bowels, and appears to me more affected with his loss than he was some months ago. The three Ladies pass the winter in the Country, but he will frequently visit town and the house of Commons. They all wish to be remembered to you, and Mrs. H. has enclosed a letter for her maid. Adieu, my Dear Madam, believe me with the warmest feelings of affection and gratitude,

Ever Yours, E. GIBBON.

646.

_Mrs. Gibbon to Edward Gibbon._

A thousand thanks to you, my Dear Sir, for your very kind letter; none ever gave me so much joy. I truly congratulate you on your recovery, and sincerely hope it will improve every day to good & lasting health, yet I fear you will make too free with the liberty you have obtain'd, & therefore beg you to remember it is the middle of winter; I am too happy at present to reproach you, & too much rejoiced to express myself as I wish. I love L^d. Sheffield dearly, indeed I cannot say how much, & shall be glad to hear you are at S. P.

I cannot help thinking you have had some share in certain appearances at Court. Has L^d. S. refused the Irish vice royalty? Next to you, I think of my Country. Ah, what a falling off from Roman Fortitude. I shall add no more, but that I hardly know myself how much I am interested in your health & happiness; may both attend you, & alway think of me as

Your most affectionate D. GIBBON.

647.

_To Lord Sheffield._

St. James's Street, four o'clock, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1794.[335]

[Sidenote: RETURN TO LONDON.]

*This date says every thing. I was almost killed between Sheffield-place and East Grinsted, by hard, frozen, long, and cross ruts, that would disgrace the approach of an Indian wigwam. The rest was something less painful; and I reached this place half dead, but not seriously feverish, or ill. I found a dinner invitation from Lord Lucan; but what are dinners to me? I wish they did not know of my departure. I catch the flying post. What an effort! Adieu, till Thursday or Friday.*

* * * * *

Gibbon died at 76, St. James's Street, on January 16, 1794. He was buried in Lord Sheffield's family burial-place in Fletching, Sussex.

[Sidenote: LAST MOMENTS OF GIBBON.]

The following account of his last moments is given by Lord Sheffield in his edition of Gibbon's _Miscellaneous Works_ (1814), vol. i. pp. 422-425:--

"After I left him on Tuesday afternoon, the fourteenth, he saw some company, Lady Lucan and Lady Spencer, and thought himself well enough at night to omit the opium draught, which he had been used to take for some time. He slept very indifferently; before nine the next morning he rose, but could not eat his breakfast. However, he appeared tolerably well, yet complained at times of a pain in his stomach. At one o'clock he received a visit of an hour from Madame de Sylva, and at three, his friend, Mr. Craufurd, of Auchinames, (for whom he had a particular regard,) called, and stayed with him till past five o'clock. They talked, as usual, on various subjects; and twenty hours before his death, Mr. Gibbon happened to fall into a conversation, not uncommon with him, on the probable duration of his life. He said, that he thought himself a good life for ten, twelve, or perhaps twenty years. About six, he ate the wing of a chicken, and drank three glasses of Madeira. After dinner he became very uneasy and impatient; complained a good deal, and appeared so weak, that his servant was alarmed. Mr. Gibbon had sent to his friend and relation, Mr. Robert Darell, whose house was not far distant, desiring to see him, and adding, that he had something particular to say. But, unfortunately, this desired interview never took place.

"During the evening he complained much of his stomach, and of a disposition to vomit. Soon after nine, he took his opium draught, and went to bed. About ten, he complained of much pain, and desired that warm napkins might be applied to his stomach. He almost incessantly expressed a sense of pain till about four o'clock in the morning, when he said he found his stomach much easier. About seven, the servant asked, whether he should send for Mr. Farquhar? he answered, no; that he was as well as he had been the day before. At about half past eight, he got out of bed, and said he was '_plus adroit_' than he had been for three months past, and got into bed again, without assistance, better than usual. About nine, he said that he would rise. The servant, however, persuaded him to remain in bed till Mr. Farquhar, who was expected at eleven, should come. Till about that hour he spoke with great facility. Mr. Farquhar came at the time appointed, and he was then visibly dying. When the _valet de chambre_ returned, after attending Mr. Farquhar out of the room, Mr. Gibbon said, '_Pourquoi est-ce que vous me quittez?_' This was about half past eleven. At twelve, he drank some brandy and water from a tea-pot, and desired his favourite servant to stay with him. These were the last words he pronounced articulately. To the last he preserved his senses; and when he could no longer speak, his servant having asked a question, he made a sign, to shew that he understood him. He was quite tranquil, and did not stir; his eyes half-shut. About a quarter before one, he ceased to breathe.

"The _valet de chambre_ observed, that Mr. Gibbon did not, at any time, shew the least sign of alarm or apprehension of death; and it does not appear that he ever thought himself in danger, unless his desire to speak to Mr. Darell may be considered in that light."

[335] "The Gibbon is better, but I am by no means without inquietude on his account. It is thought necessary that he should go to London on Tuesday; probably I shall follow him shortly for two days, for I shall be impatient to see how he goes on" (Lord Sheffield to Lord Auckland, January 5, 1794: _Auckland Correspondence_, iii. 168).

INDEX.

[Names, etc., marked with an asterisk occur only in the notes; where names occur in both text and note (on different pages), the numerical note-references are printed in italics.]

A

Abercromby, General, ii. 276, 285

Abingdon, Earl of, i. 90

Abingdon, Lady, i. 90

Abington, Mrs. (Fanny Barton), ii. 4

Abolition of Slave Trade, the, ii. 239, 294

Acland, Colonel John Dyke, i. 325

*Acland, Sir Thomas, i. 273

Acton, Dr., his kindness to Gibbon, i. 36, 37; his misfortunes, i. 67

Acton, Mrs., Gibbon's opinion of, i. 38

*Acton, Lord, i. 37

*Acton, Sir John F. E., i. 37

Adam, Père, i. 92

Addington, Dr. Anthony, attends Gibbon's father, i. 122; predicts recovery of George III., i. _122_; attends Godfrey Clarke, i. 238, 241

*Adelaide, Madame, i. 326; ii. 292

*Aitken ("John the Painter"), the Bristol incendiary, i. 301

Albemarle, Lady, i. 207

Alien Bill, the, ii. 363

*Allen, Ethan, i. 270

Almack's Club, i. 283

Althorpe, Lord, ii. 18

America, resolutions of Congress, i. 242; Declaration of Independence, i. _283_; troubles with, i. 249-251, 256-265 _passim_, 270, 272, 278, 284, 287 _et seq._, 316, 324, 325, 329; ii. 9, 25, 69, 151; treaty with France, i. 333

Amherst, Colonel, i. 174

*Amory, Thomas, _The Life of John Buncle_, i. 189

*Amyand, Sir George, ii. 184

Ancaster, Duchess of, ii. 300, 315

Ancram, Earl of, ii. 275

Andrews, Richard, ii. 126, 138, 184

*_Annual Register_, quoted, i. 17, 108, 146, 156, 220, 371

*Anselme, General, ii. 314

Apsley, Lord, i. 149

*Arbuthnot, Admiral, i. 363, 384

Arles, Archbishop of. _See_ Dulau, J. F. M.

Armitstead, Mrs., marries C. J. Fox, ii. 179

*Arnold, Benedict, i. 270, 275, 294

*Arnould, Sophie, ii. 211

Arras, Bishop of (M. H. de Conzie), ii. 266

*Articles, Parliament and the XXXIX., i. 147

Ashburnham, Lord, i. 225; ii. 305

Ashburton, Lord, i. 90, 238; Madras Council prosecution, i. _362_; Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster, ii. 13, 96

Ashby, Mrs., i. 253, 287; ii. 22

Associations, formed to support the Government, ii. 349, 352

*Astley, Sir John, i. 148

Aston, Lady, i. 38; ii. 135

Aston, Sir Willoughby, i. 38; ii. 135

Atwood's Club, Gibbon joins, i. 152

Auckland, Lord (William Eden), American Commissioner, i. _332_; Gibbon's colleague on Board of Trade, i. _366_; his advice to Gibbon, i. 387; M.P. for Woodstock, i. 390; created a peer, ii. 25; squib on his mission to France, ii. 148; signs treaty between England and France, ii. _152_; Gibbon's claret, ii. 282, 288; at the Hague, ii. 365; Gibbon's host at Beckenham, ii. 395, 397; his _Journal and Correspondence_ quoted, ii. _19_, _35_, _57_, _92_, _157_, _158_, _162_, _172_, _265_, _397-399_

Augusta, Princess (Duchess of Brunswick), i. 65, 149

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

Austria, Empress Maria Theresa of, i. 394

*Autobiography, Gibbon's, quoted, i. 25, 29, 173

*Avranches, Bishop of, ii. 324

B

Bach, Johann Christian, appointed Director of Public Concerts in London, i. 204

*Baddeley, Mrs., i. 146

Bagshot camp, review at, ii. 304

Baker, the Jesuit, receives Gibbon into Roman Catholic Church, i. 1

*Ball, Dean of Chichester, i. 399

Balsamo, Giuseppe. _See_ Cagliostro, Comte de

Baltimore, Lord, i. 91

*Bankes, Mr., M.P. for Corfe Castle, ii. 97

Banks, Sir Joseph, ii, 218, 226, 239

Barazzi, M. (Banker at Rome), i. 71, 72

Barbary, and Spain, i. 265

Barré, Colonel Isaac (the Black Musqueteers), i. 26, 145, 238, 240, 250; Paymaster of the Forces, ii. 19

*Barri, Madame du, i. 313, 314

*Barrington, Viscount, i. 349

*Barrington, Sir J., i. 89

Barrington, Shute (Bishop of Durham), i. 195

Barrymore, Lord, ii. 303

Barthélemy, Marquis de, ii. 355, 370

Bartoli, M., i. 59

Barton, Mr., i. 142, 193

Barton, George (Lord Sheffield's footman), i. 250, 252

Bassano, Duc de, ii. 367

Bathurst, Earl, i. _341_, 393

Batt, John Thomas ("Lawyer Batt"), Master in Chancery, and Commissioner for auditing Public Accounts, i. 191, 196, 216, 240, 261, 265, 273, 279, 390; ii. 136, 158, 163, 218, 225, 239, 244, 313, 330, 349

Batten, Mr., i. 162

*Bavaria, Elector of, i. 334

Bavois, Madame de (Miss Comarque), i. 82, 83, 220

Bayley, Mr., i. 17, 119, 152, 249

Bayley, Dr., ii. 394

Beauchamp, Lord, i. 247, _393_; ii. 6, _32_, 102

Beauclerk, Lady Diana, i. _82_, 279, 304, 348

Beauclerk, Topham, i. _82_, 279, 280, 299, 304, 333, 348

*Beaumarchais, i. 371

*Beaumont and Fletcher's _Knight of the Burning Pestle_, i. 284

Beauvais, Bishop of, ii. 342

Beauvau, Princess de, i. 314, 319

*Beckford, Lord Mayor, presents "Remonstrance" to King, i. 113

*Beckford, Mr., and Gibbon's library, ii. 300

Bedford, Duchess of, i. 262

Bedford, Duke of, ambassador to France, i. 30, 32, 35; and the British Coffee-House, i. _201_

*_Bedford Correspondence_, the, quoted, i. 28

Belmore, Lady, ii. 275

*Belmore, Lord, ii. 275

Bellamont, Lord, his duel with Lord Townshend, i. 180, 182

*Benfield, Paul, i. 308

*Bengal, famine in, i. 184

*Bentinck, Lord Edward, ii. 350

Beriton, Gibbon's Hants Estate, i. 128, 153; ii. 6, 138, 175, 182, 189, 199 _et seq._, 222 _et seq._, 227, 234, 240

Berkeley, Lord, i. 58, 74

Berne, Canton of, ii. 283, 295, 299, 316, 370

*Berry, Miss, on Gibbon's library, ii. 301

Bertrand-Molleville, Marquis de, ii. _311_, 329

Besançon, Gibbon at, i. 36

*Besson, Madame, i. 60

*Best's _Personal and Literary Memorials quoted_, i. 396

*_Biographie Universelle_, ii. 326

Birch, Rev. Dr. Thomas, ii. 366

*Biron, Duc de, ii. 290

Biron, Duchesse de, ii. 289, 324, 333

Black Musqueteers, the, i. 26

Blackstone's _Commentaries_, quotation from, ii. 205

Blessington, Earl of, i. 2

Blondel, Gibbon's valet, ii. 124, 131

Board of Trade, Gibbon appointed Commissioner of, i. 354, 366; vote passed against: Burke on value of, i. 378; suppressed, ii. 14

Bobbin, Benjamin, i. 35

Boissier, i. 94, 105

Bolingbroke, Lady (Lady Diana Spencer), i. 82, 85

Bolingbroke, Lord, "the Bully," i. 82, 85, _312_

*Bollmann, M., ii. 292

Bolton, Duke of, i. 39, 44, _153_

Bolton, Theophilus, i. 81

*Bombelles, Madame de, ii. 115

*Bondeli, Julie von, her account of Gibbon and Mdlle. Curchod, i. 40

*Bonfoy, Captain Hugh, R.N., i. 189, 265

Bonfoy, Mrs. Hugh (_née_ Eliot), i. 189, 220, 266; ii. 386

Bonham, Mr., ii. 175, 182

Bontemps, Madame, i. 31, 35

Boodle's Club, Masquerade given by, at the Pantheon, i. 212, 215

Bordot, M., i. 22

Borromean Islands, i. 57

Boston, attack upon the teaships in the harbour, i. _205_; Port Bill, i. 206, 208; investment of, i. 257, 258

*Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ quoted, i. 273

*Boufflers, Duc de, ii. 289

*Boufflers, Marquise de, i. 312

Bouillé, Marquis de, ii. 254, 256, _270_, 285, 286, _329_

Bouillon, Duc de, ii. 256, _334_

Bouillon, Madame de, ii. 334

Boulogne, Gibbon at, i. 27

Bourbon, Abbé de, ii. 115

Bourbon, Duc de, ii. _237_, 269

Bourcard, M., ii. 45

Boydell, John (Lord Mayor), his edition of Shakespeare, ii. 276, 359, 374

Bradley, Thomas, i, 35

*Bramston's _The Man of Taste_, i. 124

*Brandt, i. 143

*Brathwaite, Colonel, ii. 19

*Brentès, Madame de, i. 81

Bricknall, Mr. Gibbon's lawyer, i. 131, 133, 141, 150, 153

Bridgewater, Duke of, i. 27, 28

*Brienne, Cardinal de (Archbishop of Sens), ii. 162, 181

Brighton, Gibbon's house at, ii. 3, 7

Brissoné, Madame de, i. 2

Brissot, J. Pierre (de Warville), ii. _258_, 259, _318_, _325_, 350

*Bristol, Earl of, i. 21, 265; ii. 15

Bristol, Countess of. _See_ Kingston, Duchess of

Bristol, toll-gate riots at, ii. 390

Bristow, Miss, ii. 105, 117

British coffee-house, the resort of Scotchmen, i. 201

Broglie, Duc de, ii. 269

Bromwich, Mr., i. 93

*Brooke, Member of Madras Council, i. 362

*Brooklyn, battle of, i. 287

*Brooks's Club, i. 283, 376

Brown, Lancelot (the landscape gardener known as "Capability Brown"), i. 203

Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, ii. 226

Brunswick, Antiquities of the House of, ii. 228-232

Brunswick, Hereditary Prince of, ii. 115, 117

Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of, (Princess Augusta of Wales), i. 65, 149

Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duke of, i. _149_, _272_, 277; Commander-in-Chief of Austrian and Prussian armies, ii. 311, 319; his retreat, ii. 319, 326, 346; his manifestoes, ii. 368

*Brydges, Sir Egerton, ii. 302

Buckinghamshire, Lord, i. 394; ii. 275

Budé, General, ii. 302, 327

*Bull, Lord Mayor, i. 201

*Burges, Sir James Bland, his account of Gibbon's first meeting with Pitt, ii. 28

Burgoyne, General John, his motion on the E. I. Co., i. 184; in America, i. 249, 291; his surrender at Saratoga, i. 324, 325; refused admission to Court, i. 338

*Burgoyne's _Maid of the Oaks_, i. 219

Buriton. _See_ Beriton

Burke, Edmund, i. 148; Goldsmith's Epitaph, i. _202_; meeting at Captain Horneck's, i. 207; description of, in Goldsmith's _Retaliation_, i. _210_; "a watermill of words and images," i. 240; "a Committee of Oblivion," i. 248; the New York Remonstrance. i. 256; on E. I. Co., i. 294; Tickell's _Anticipation_, i. 348; the Madras Council prosecution, i. 362; his Establishment Bill, i. 376; ii. 28; on literary value of Board of Trade, i. _378_; Paymaster-General, ii. _18_, _34_; Sheridan sinks into arms of, ii. 172; criticises Dr. Price's work, ii. 210; his _Reflections on the Revolution in France_, ii, 237, 249; Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 237, 251; his speech on Quebec Bill, ii. _246_; his strictures on Lally, ii. 274; attacks Paine's _Rights of Man_, ii. 297; "Mr. Fox's coach stops the way," ii. _306_; Irish Roman Catholics, ii. _321_; Philosophers in France, ii. 325; plan for settlement of French refugees, ii. 331

*Burney, Dr., ii. 375

*Burney, Miss, i. 148; on Miss Sarah Holroyd, i. 181; Lawyer Batt, a "prime favourite" of, i. 240; on Lord Eliot, i. 273; her reference to "Pliny" Melmoth, i. 326; her opinion of Lord Sheffield, i. 392; Lady Miller at Bath, ii. 2; Lady E. Foster, ii. 15; Madame de Staël at Dorking, ii. 375

Burrard, Sir H., ii. 84, 93

Burtenshaw's Manifesto, i. 221, 228

*Burton, Rev. David, Canon of Christ Church, ii. 135

Bute, Lord, i. _45_, _50_, _82_; the Ministerial Club, i. _84_; the Irish Catholics in arms, ii. 350

Byng, John, i. 60

*Byron, Lord, his definition of "ridotto," i. 124; his attack on Hayley, i. 398

C

Cadell, Thomas, Gibbon's publisher, i. 222, 279, 282, 285, 364; ii. 152, 157, 158, 176, 243, 282; Gibbon's letter to, ii. 313

Cadogan, Dr., ii. 123, 310

Cagliostro, Comte de (Giuseppe Balsamo), ii. 45, 54

Calonne, Chas. Alexandre de, ii. 162, 237, 269

Cambis, Madame de, i. 312; ii. 290

*Cambis, Vicomte de, i. 312

Cambridge, Richard O., i. 108, 279; ii. 226; his family called by Gibbon "eloquent nymphs of Twickenham," i. 192, 197; "the Cantabs," i. 228, 233

Camden, Lord, i. 149, 333; President of the Council, ii. _13_, 306

*Campazas, Friar Gerund de, i. 144

*Campbell, Lord, and the Rosslyn MSS., ii. 372

Cane, Eliz. Bridget (Mrs. Armitstead), ii. 179

Caplin, Gibbon's servant, i. 197, 230, 248; ii. 8, 9, 59, 110, 119, 131, 166

*Carey, General, i. 282

*Carhampton, Earl of, i. 146

Carleton, Sir Guy (Gov.-General of Canada), i. _270_, _276_, 277, 286, 290; siege of Ticonderoga, i. 294

Carlisle, Lord, his opinion of Madame Geoffrin, i. _29_; appointed American Commissioner, i. 332; Lord Privy Seal, ii. _34_

Carmarthen, Marquis of, ii. _28_, _86_, 327

Carnarvon, Marquis of, i. 39, _44_; ii. 303

*Carnatic, Nabob of the, i. 209, 308

Carter, Miss, ii. 135

Castries, Marquis de, ii. 210, 267, 269

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

Catherine, Empress of Russia, i. _158_, 270; ii. 247

*Cavendish, Lord George, i. 232; ii. 350

Cavendish, Lord John, his amendment on American affairs, i. 240, _273_; ii. _32_; Chancellor of Exchequer, ii. _13_, 18, _34_

Cazalès, Jacques Marie de, ii. 252, 269, 274

Celesia, Madame (_née_ Mallet), i. 18, 21, 62, 124

Celesia, Pietro Paolo, i. _18_, 20, 62

Chandieu, Mdlle. de, ii. 43

*Charlemont, Lord, i. 85

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

Charles X. (Comte d'Artois), ii. 203, _204_, 251, _266_

Charrières, Madame de, ii. 43

Chateauneuf, M. de, French Resident at Geneva, ii. 317

Chateau-Vieux, Swiss regiment of, ii. 270

*Chatham, Earl of, returns to public life, i. 112; his American Bill, i. 251; his boast, i. 290; conciliation for America, i. 324; his death, i. 338

Chatillon, Marie Jeanne de. _See_ Bontemps, Madame

Chauvelin, M., ii. 362, _366_, 367, 370

Chelsum, Dr. James, on _Decline and Fall_, i. 295

*Chermont d'Amboise, Marquis de, i. 314

Chesterfield, Lord, i. _25_, 150, 158; his _Letters_, i. 195; his _Portraits_, i. _313_

*Cheyte Singh, Rajah of Benares, ii. 26

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

Chichester, Lady, i. 200

*Child, Mr., author of _English and Scottish Popular Ballads_, i. 283

*Chimay, Prince de, i. 312

Choiseul, Duc de, i. 312, _314_, 318; ii. 286

Cholmondeley, Earl, i. 262

Christian VII., King of Denmark, i. 143

Christie, Mr., ii. 69, 83

*Chudleigh, Miss. _See_ Kingston, Duchess of

*Cibber and Vanbrugh's _The Provoked Husband_, i. 366; ii. 29

*Clare, Lord, i. 132

Clarges, Lady (_née_ Skrine), ii. 135

*Clarges, Sir Thomas, ii. 135

Clarke, Godfrey Bagnal, Gibbon's intimate friend, i. 144, 148, 155, 201, 205, 208, 211, 214, 219, 222-224, 229, 232, 238, 241, 244

Clarke, George Hyde, i. 61

*Clarke, Jervoise, i. 89, 90

Clavière, Etienne, ii. 315

*Cleland, John, i. 53

*Clermont-Tonnerre, ii. 329

Cline, Henry, ii. 393

Clinton, Sir Henry, i. _349_, 384; ii. 71, 153, 240, 377

Clinton, General Sir William, i. 249, 300; ii. _71_

Clive, Lord, i. _184_, 238

Clive, Mrs., i. 175

Coalition Ministry, the (1783), ii. _34_, 86, 92

Cobham, Lady, i. _314_, 316

*Coblentz, the rallying-point of the _Emigrés_, ii. 265

Cocoa-Tree Tavern, i. 84

*Coke, T. W., M.P. for Norfolk, ii. 33

Coleraine, Lord, i. _146_, 148, 310

Colman, George, "The Luminous Historian," etc., i. _59_; ii. _154_; Gibbon's opinion of _The Man of Business_, i. 202; his description of Gibbon in _Random Records_, i. _213_

Comarque, Miss. _See_ Bavois, Madame de

Concord, the March to, i. 257

*Conches, M. Feuillet de, ii. 257, 352

Condé, Louis Joseph, Prince de, ii. 237, 265, 269

Congress, American, i. 242, 250

Conway, General, i. 84, _85_, _287_; Commander-in-Chief, ii. _13_, 18, 20, _32_

Conway, Hon. and Rev. Edward, ii. 112

Conway, Hon. William, ii. _7_, _18_, 20, 32

Conway, T., i. 247

Conzie, Marc Hilaire de (Bishop of Arras), ii. 266

*Cook, Captain, ii. 218

*Cooke, Dr., Provost of King's, Cambridge, i. 108, 157

*Cooke, Thomas, known as "Hesiod" Cooke, i. 284

*Cooper, John, M.P. for Downton, i. 250

*Coote, Sir Eyre, ii. 26

Corcelles, Madame de, ii. 43

*Corisande, La belle, ii. 265

*Cork, Earl of, i. 34

Corn Regulation Bill, ii. 239

*Cornelys, Mrs. Theresa, and the Soho Masquerades, i. 131

Cornwallis, Hon. F. (Archbishop of Canterbury), i. 319

Cornwallis, Lord, in America, ii. _171_; campaign against Tippoo, ii. 275, 285

Courtenay, Hon. Charlotte, ii. 24

Courtenay, Harry, i. 18

Courtenay, Lord, ii. 24

Coventry election petition, i. 393

Cowper, Earl, i. 65

*Cowper, William, i. 83

Coxheath Camp, i. 340, 346; Lord Sheffield at, ii. 18, 25

*Cradock, Joseph, i. 143

*Craon, Prince de, i. 314

Crauford, "Fish," ii. 67

*Crauford, "Flesh," ii. 67

Crauford, Mrs., Gibbon's landlady, ii. 164

Craufurd of Auchinames, ii. 388, 400

Craven, Lord, i. 148

*Crewe, Lord, ii. 350

*Cromwell, Major Henry, ii. 72

Cromwell, Oliver (solicitor), ii. 72

*Crosby, Lord Mayor Brass, i. 130

Crousaz, Catherine, ii. 81

Crousaz, Madame de. _See_ Montolieu, Madame de

Cumberland, Duchess of (Mrs. Horton), i. _146_, 150, 154

Cumberland, Duke of, i. _146_, _149_, 150, 154; ii. 3, 111

*Cumberland's _Fashionable Lover_, i. 143

*Cunningham, Captain, i. 310

Curchod, Mdlle. Suzanne. _See_ Necker, Madame

Custine, Adam de, his incursion into Germany, ii. 319, 332

Cuthbert, Dr., attends Gibbon's father, i. 115

D

d'Agnesseau, Madame, ii. 333

*d'Allonville, Comte, ii. 326

Dalrymple, Sir John, _Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland_, i. 131

Damas, Comte, ii. 286

Damer, Hon. John, i. 139, 144, 287

*Damer, Hon. Lionel, ii. 350

*d'Arblay, Madame, _Diary and Letters_, quoted, i. 108; ii. 15, 211, 284, 302

Darby, Captain, i. 257, 258, 260

*d'Argenteuil, M., i. 294

d'Argout, Comte, ii. 280

Darrel, Mr., i. 7, 20, 74

Darrel, Mrs., i. 7, 17, 38

Darrel, Robert, ii. 34, 280, 376, 400

Dartmouth, Lord, i. 258, _278_

d'Artois, Comte (Charles X.), ii. 203, _204_, 251, _266_

*d'Assas, Chevalier, ii. 204

d'Augny, M., i. 31, 35

*d'Aunoy, Madame, _Mémoires de la Cour d'Espagne_, quoted, i. 202

*Davis, Henry Edward, i. 355

*Davy, Sir Humphrey, i. 139

Dawkes, Mrs., i. 204

*d'Ayen, Duc, i. 305; ii. 333

*Dean, Sir Robert, i. 85

Deane, Silas, i. _301_, 334; ii. 66

_Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, History of_, i. 259, 261, 264, 275, 277, 279, 285, 295, 304, 342, 355, 366, 396; ii. 21, 119, 143, 152, 170, 230

Deffand, Madame du, on Madame Geoffrin, i. _29_; on Voltaire's _La Princesse de Babylone_, i. _91_; her reference to the Neckers, i. _281_; her life in Paris described by Gibbon, i. 312; on Gibbon and Madame de Cambis, i. _313_; on Bishop of Arras, ii. 266

*Deffand, Marquis du, i. 312

*Defoe's _Memoirs of Captain Carleton_, i. 273

*de la Borde, Jean Benjamin, ii. 54

Delacour, Dr., i. 268, 304, 336, 337, 394; ii. 10

*Delaval, Lord, ii. 275

*Delaval, Sir Francis, ii. 275

*de la Warr, Lord, i. 107

*d'Enghien, Duc, ii. 237

Denhoff, Countess, i. 149

Denmark, Christian VII., King of, i. 143

Denmark, Juliana Maria, Queen Dowager of, i. 143

Denmark, Queen Caroline Matilda of, i. 143

Denmark, Revolution in, i. 143, 144, 146, 149

*d'Ennery, Comte, ii. 280

Denton, Mrs., i. 130

Denys, Madame (Voltaire's niece), i. 43, 92

*Derry, Bishop of, ii. 15, 388

d'Estaing, Comte, i. 337, 350, 370, _384_, 395

Devonshire, Duchess of, i. _33_, 370; ii. 300, 310, 312, 315, 319, 327, 339, 388

Devonshire, Duke of, ii. _15_, 305

Deyverdun, George, Gibbon's intimate friend, i. 82, 83, 110, 158, 188-214 _passim_, 232, 236, 255, 262, 291; offers his house to Gibbon, ii. 41, 108; his description of Lausanne society, ii. 43; Gibbon's host at Lausanne, ii. 75 _et seq._; Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 89, 118; his illness, ii. 176, 179, 188; and death, ii. 194, 207, 229; Gibbon's letters to, ii. 35, 45, 54; his letters to Gibbon, ii. 39, 52

*d'Haussonville, M., his _Salon de Madame Necker_, i. 40, _41_

*d'Hénin, Prince, ii. 211

d'Hénin, Princess, ii. 211, _290_, 322, 324, 329, 334, 342, 349, 377

_Diary_, the (newspaper), ii. 351, 370

*_Dictionary of National Biography_ quoted, i. 283

Digby, Captain, i. 334

*Dillon, Mr., i. 180

*Dillon, General, murdered, ii. 299

*Disraeli's _Calamities of Authors_ quoted, i. 23

*Dodsley's tragedy of _Cleone_, i. 18

Dorchester, Earl of, i. 139; ii. _350_

d'Orleans, Regent Duc, i. _312_, 326

Dorset, 1st Duke of, i. 139

Dorset, 3rd Duke of, Ambassador at Paris, i. 226; ii. _86_

*d'Orvilliers, Count, i. 349

Douglas, Lady Catherine, ii. 377, 387

*Dowling, Surgeon, ii. 295

Down, Charles, i. 244

Downes, Rev. Dr. Dive, i. 205

Downshire, Marquis of, ii. 5

Draper, General Sir William, ii. 22

*Drouet, Postmaster, ii. 254, 326

Drummond, Andrew, i. 71

Duane, Mr., i. 201, 218, 226, 234, 261, 264

Dulau, J. F. M. (Archbishop of Arles), ii. 322, 325; his murder described, ii. 333, 341

*Dummer, Thos. Lee, i. 90, 250

Dumont, M., ii. 258

Dumouriez, M., ii. _299_, _319_, 326, 368

Duncannon, Lady, ii. 310, 312

Duncannon, Lord, ii. _18_, 19

*Duncombe, Thomas, i. 250

Dundas, Hon. Henry (afterwards Lord Melville), Treasurer of Navy, ii. _19_, _86_; Lord Advocate, ii. _85_; Secretary of State, ii. _247_, 306; Abolition of Slave Trade, ii. 294; suggests coalition between Pitt and Fox, ii. 306; king's message for augmentation of forces, ii. 365

Dunning, John. _See_ Ashburton, Lord

d'Ursel, Duke, ii. 83

Dutch, fears of war with, i. 348, 353

Dutens, Louis, i. 56, 59

*_Dutensiana_, i. 314

Dux, George, i. 52

E

*Eames, John, i. 89

Eardley, Lord (Sir Sampson Gideon), i. 225, 332; ii. 216

East India Company, the, i. 184, 186, 209, 308; ii. 85

*_Eccentricities for Edinburgh_ quoted, i. 59

*Eden, Sir Robert, ii. 397

Eden, William. _See_ Auckland, Lord

Egerton, Sir Thomas, i. 148

Egremont, Lord, i. 247, 249; ii. 175, 182, 305, 388

Elgin, Thomas, Lord, Envoy at Brussels, ii. 383

Elkin, Sir George, i. 16

Eliot, Captain John, i. 62

Eliot, Hon. Edward James, i. 390, 394; ii. 19, 20, 22, 143

Eliot, Hon. John, i. 217, 229, 380

Eliot, Lady, i. 98, 110, 122, 131, 132, 365

Eliot, Lord (of St. Germans), i. 70, 84, 183, 188, 193, 228, 230, 231, 254, 273, 342, 367, 369, 374; Gibbon's appeal to and defence, i. 385, 389

Eliott, Admiral Sir George A. _See_ Heathfield, Lord

Elizabeth, Queen, story of Lord Essex's ring, i. 276

Elliot, Grey, ii. 69

*Elliot, Lady, ii. 374

Elliot, Sir Gilbert, i. 251; on treaty between France and U. S. A., i. _333_; his daughter's marriage, ii. 25; his _Life and Letters_ quoted, ii. _172_, _306_, _351_, _374_; his support of Government, ii. 305; Duke of Portland's views of Alien Bill, ii. 363

Ellis, George, editor of _Fabliaux_, etc., i. _139_; Sir Walter Scott on, ii. 184; lines on Pitt in _Rolliad_, _ibid._

Ellis, Governor Henry, i. 73

*Elliston, Mrs., of South Weald, i. 70

Elmsley, Peter, the bookseller, i. 372; ii. 60, 94, 105, 113, 126, 158, 214, 314, 388

*Elstob, Lewis, i. 118, 372

Elstob, Mrs., i. 372

Ely, Lady, i. 266

Ely, Lord, i. 265

Ely, Madame, ii. 386

Erskine, ii. 297

_Essai sur l'étude de la Littérature_, Gibbon's first published work, i. 20, 80

Essex, Earl of, i. 276

Establishment Bill, i. 376

Etienne, Gibbon's valet, ii. 243, 253

Exchequer Bills, issue of, ii. 382

Exeter, Lord, i. 65

Exilles, Fort, i. 59

*Eyre, Mr., printer, i. 263

F

*Falkland, Lord, i. 282

*Fanshaw, Miss, ii. 284

Farquhar, Sir Walter, ii. 393, 395, 398, 401

*Farquhar's _The Twin Rivals_, ii. 102

Faukier, Mr., i. 163

Featherstonhaugh, Lady, i. 232, 235, 246, 249

Featherstonhaugh, Sir H., i. 162, 214, 235, 247, 249

Featherstonhaugh, Sir M., i. 56, _67_, 83, 84, 131, 162, _247_

Fenestrelle, Fort, i. 59

*Ferguson, Lieut. James, killed by Captain Roche, i. 209

Ferrières, M. de, ii. 318

*Fersen, Comte de, ii. 292

*Feuchéres, Madame de, ii. 237

Firth, Miss, ii. 82, 91, 98, 334; Gibbon's letter to, ii. 98; and Severy's studies, ii. 167

Fischer, M., ii. 260, _283_, 375

*Fitzherbert, Mrs., ii. 150

Fitzjames, Duchess of, ii. 324

Fitzmaurice, Lord. _See_ Shelburne, Earl of

Fitzpatrick, Lady Mary. _See_ Holland, Lady

Fitzroy, Mrs., i. 90

Fitzwilliam, Lord, ii. 305

Flanders, invasion of, ii. 299

*Fleming, Sir John, i. 261

Flood, Henry, i. 264

Florence, Gibbon at, i. 63

*Floyer, Mr., Member of Madras Council, i. 362

Foley, Mr., English banker at Paris, i. 33, 36

Foote, Samuel, his _Bankrupt_, i. 192; _A Trip to Calais_ stopped by Duchess of Kingston, i. 265

Ford, Mrs., Gibbon's housekeeper, i. 192; ii. 8

Fordwich, Lord. _See_ Cowper, Earl

Fort Louis, surrender of garrison to Austrians, ii. 396

Foster, Lady Elizabeth, described by Gibbon as "a bewitching animal," "goddess," "still adorable," "Bess," etc., ii. 15, 81, 117, 300, 308, 310, 312, 319, 339, 388; Gibbon's letter to, on Lady Sheffield's death, ii. 380

Foster, John. _See_ Oriel, Lord

*Foster, John Thomas, ii. 15

Fothergill, Dr., i. 177

Fowler, Mr., ii. 340

Fox, Charles James, supports Church of England, i. 148; Royal Marriage Bill, i. 151; his debts, i. 198, 264; on troubles with America, i. 249, 256, 303, _324_, _328_; the king's debts, i, 308; on the Canadian Expedition, i. _333_; Tickell's _Anticipation_, i. 348; his lines on Gibbon as Commissioner of Trade, i. 354; on Sheffield's Regiment of Horse, i. _380_; M.P. for Westminster, i. 388, 390; "the black Patriot," ii. 4; Secretary of State, ii. _13_, _34_; resigns office, ii. 18; and American independence, ii. 25; George III.'s behaviour to, ii. _34_; sale of his library, ii. _68_; his two India Bills, ii. _86_; Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 85, 92, 96, 251, 356, 360, 372; suggested union with Pitt, ii. 92, 306, 307, 330; no compromise, ii. 97; his "Martyrs," ii. 102; "the man of the people," ii. 179; his marriage, _ibid._; twelve hours' talk with Gibbon, ii. 180; speech on treaty between Russia and Turkey, ii. 246; on Abolition of Slave Trade, ii. _294_; his half-support of Grey's motion, ii. 297, 320; "but fifty followers," ii. 305; rejoices at retreat of Prussians, ii. _320_; "detestable" on French affairs, ii. 330; on the calling out of the Militia, ii. 349, 350; his motion for an Embassy to France, ii. 350, 353; opposes Alien Bill, ii. 364; Duke of Portland's adherence to, ii. 367, 368; opposes augmentation of forces, ii. 368

Fox, Hon. Stephen. _See_ Holland, 2nd Lord

France, fears of war with, i. 289, 317; treaty with America, i. 333; war with, i. 339; ii. 362, _374_; treaty with England, ii. _152_; war declared against Francis Joseph, ii. _279_; war with Austria and Prussia, ii. 319; treaty with Geneva, ii. 325, 331, 345; war with England, Holland, and Spain, ii. 362, 374

Francillon, M., ii. 283

*Francis Joseph, of Austria, ii. 279, 292

Frankland, Miss Anne (Lady Chichester), i. 200

*Frankland, Sir Thomas, i. 200

Franklin, Dr., i. 162, _243_, 310, 313

Fraser, General, i. 264, 299, 363

Fraser, General Simon, i. 325

Fraser, Mrs., "Donna Catherina," i. 300; ii. 105, 117

Fredennick, M., ii. 260

*Frederick the Great, i. 158; ii. 210

Frederick II. of Prussia, i. 143; ii. 137

Frederick William of Prussia at Pilnitz, ii. 271

French Revolution, ii. _246_, 249, 270, 287, 293, 311; massacres of September, 1792, ii. 312, 321, 351; and Ireland, ii. 320; murder of Louis XVI., ii. 360, 365

Frey, M., escorts Gibbon to Lausanne, i. 1

*"Friends of the People," an association for reform of representative system, ii. 297

Fullarton, Colonel, ii. 168

Fuller, Miss, called "Sappho" by Gibbon, i. 196, 198, 202, 208, 241

Fuller, Rose, i. _196_, 208

G

Gage, General, i. 206, 257, 258, 260, 266

Gage, William Hall, Viscount, "the green plumb," i. 225, 227

*Galovkin, Comte Fédor, i. 81

*Gansel, Major-General, i. 109

Garrick, David, as "Sir John Brute," i. 19; Gibbon a friend of, i. 201, 289, 333; in _Hamlet_, i. 203; letter from Gibbon to, quoted, i. _317_

Gascoyne, Bamber, i. 366

*Gates, General, i. 325

_Gazette_, the, i. 257, _392_

*_Gazetteer_, the, i. 146

Gee, Mr., i. 3, 6

*Genlis, Comte de, i. 326

Genlis, Madame de, her opinion of Madame de Cambis, i. _313_; of Princesse de Beauvau, i. _314_; on _Decline and Fall_, i. 326; on Dr. Tissot's skill, ii. _77_; her story of Gibbon and Madame de Montolieu, ii. 154

Geneva, threatened by French, ii. 317, 322; the Government at, ii. 318; treaty with France, ii. 325, 331, 345; new constitution of, ii. 370

Genoa, Gibbon at, i. 61

_Gentleman's Magazine_ cited, ii. _289_, _301_, 302, 314, _349_

Geoffrin, Madame, i. 29

*George II., ii. 321

George III., i. _45_; grants pension to M. de Viry, i. _56_; his intervention in Denmark, i. 143; Royal Marriage Bill, i. 154; reviews fleet at Spithead, i. _186_; the King's speech and America, i. 238; negotiates for hire of Russian mercenaries, i. 270; and Sir H. Palliser's leg, i. _356_; his behaviour to Fox, ii. _34_; refuses to dismiss ministers, ii. 100; his illness and recovery, ii. _181_, 191; and Lally, ii. 285; reviews troops at Bagshot, ii. _304_; proclaims tumultuous meetings, etc., ii. _305_; Lally's _Plaidoyer_, ii. _375_.

George IV. _See_ Wales, Prince of

Germain, Lady George, i. 328

Germain, Lord George. _See_ Sackville, Lord

*Germain, Sir John, i. 198

Germanie, M. de, ii. 291

*Gibbon, Mrs., _née_ Porten (Gibbon's mother), i. 2

Gibbon, Mrs., _née_ Patton (Gibbon's stepmother), her opinion of Miss Catherine Porten, i. 2; marries Gibbon's father, i. 7; Gibbon's inquiries about, i. 8; subjects of Gibbon's letters to:-- Dr. Turton, i. 16, 114, 150, 371; money troubles, i. 19, 352, 359; his own health, i. 83, 114, 150, 158, 246, 321, 322, 371, 377-379, 399; ii. 12, 108, 129, 141, 166, 248; his father's accident, i. 26; Paris and the Parisians, i. 28-32, 315, 320; Duke of Bedford, i. 30, 32; M. d'Augny: Madame Bontemps, i. 31; Dr. Acton at Besançon, i. 36; his life at Lausanne, i. 39, 42, 49, 50; ii. 76, 88-141 _passim_, 177; Mdlle. Curchod, i. 40; Voltaire, i. 43, 91; Lady M. W. Montagu's _Letters_, i. 53; his tour in Italy, i. 63; English visitors at Lausanne, i. 65; Rome to Naples, i. 73; Venice, i. 75; Deyverdun and Miss Comarque, i. 83; the "School of Vice," i. 84; Ranelagh Gardens, i. 89; his father's reproaches, i. 98; his father's illness and death, i. 97, 105, 106, 118; fall of the ministry, i. 112; the "Remonstrance" debate, i. 113; Lenborough, i. 126, 158, 182, 185, 187, 210, 289; Beriton, i. 128, 153; ii. 175, 206, 248; "the formal Mr. Bricknall," i. 131-133, 141; Danish revolution, i. 143; Royal Marriage Bill, i. 154; house-hunting in London, i. 171, 172, 175, 179; James Scott's death, i. 177; the Townshend-Bellamont duel, i. 180, 182; his "notions" of London life, i. 188; his friend Deyverdun, i. 188, 210, 262; ii. 89 _et seq._, 177, 207; "an approaching daughter-in-law," i. 197; Johann C. Bach, i. 204; masquerade at Pantheon, i. 215; "Mrs. Gibbon of Northamptonshire, not of Bath," i. 216; Madame de Bavois, i. 220; offer of a seat in Parliament, i. 230, 231; M.P. for Liskeard, i. 234; Godfrey Clarke's illness and death, i. 238, 244; his Parliamentary life, i. 248, 253, 289, 325, 331, 365, 373; his History, see _Decline and Fall_; story of Essex's ring, i. 276; the Neckers, i. 283, 306, 320; ii. 122; Garrick, i. 289; two answers to his History, i. 295; Dr. Hunter's Anatomy Lectures, i. 304; her groundless fears, i. 305, 306; his Paris friends, i. 315; Duke of Richmond, i. 316; Madame de Genlis, i. 326; at Coxheath Camp, i. 346; his views on matrimony, i. 351; a Lord of Trade, i. 366, 378; Lord Eliot, i. 369, 374, 386, 391; his _Mémoire Justificatif_, i. 371; Mrs. Williams, i. 372, 374; Irish trade, i. 373; Lord Sheffield's first speech, i. 380; a dissolution expected, i. 380; the Gordon riots, i. 381, 382; Sheffield and the Northumberland Militia, i. 381; Sir Henry Clinton, i. 384; weary of political life, i. 391; George Scott's death, i. 393; M.P. for Lymington, ii. 1; at Brighthelmstone, ii. 3, 7; Hayley, the poet, ii. 8, 17; North's resignation, ii. 13; Board of Trade suppressed, ii. 14; Lady Elizabeth Foster, ii. 15; Rockingham's death, ii. 17; at "Single-Speech" Hamilton's house, ii. 21; Mrs. Ashby, ii. 22; Pitt, ii. 28; Mrs. Siddons, ii. 29; the Coalition Ministry, ii. 34; retires from Parliament, ii. 58; his Lausanne plans, ii. 58, 61, 64, 71; his propensity for happiness, ii. 88; society at Lausanne, ii. 89, 90, 122; climate at Lausanne, ii. 129; changes in English politics, ii. 131; a regimen of boiled milk, ii. 142; his house and garden, ii. 142, 248; a ministry of respectable boys, ii. 143; intention to visit England, ii. 155; the two Mr. Gibbons, ii. 159; Sheffield Place, ii. 160; Bath, ii. 161; his compliment to Lord North, ii. 170; Cadell's discretion, ii. 176; Hugonin's neglect, ii. 207; the French Revolution, ii. 249, 308; the Sheffields' visit to Lausanne, ii. 309; her illness and recovery, ii. 348; his return to England, ii. 381, 384; at Althorp, ii. 391; his illness, ii. 394, 398. Her letters to Gibbon, ii. 385, 399

Gibbon, Edward (father), subjects of his son's letters to:-- First impressions of Lausanne, i. 1; Voltaire, i. 5; a stepmother, i. 10; studies under Pavillard, _ibid._; proposed Swiss tour, i. 13; Holland, i. 15; Sir George Elkin's marriage, i. 16; the Lottery, i. 17; King's Scholars' play, i. 18; the Celesias, i. 18, 62; Dr. Maty: Mdlle. de Vaucluse and M. Celesia, i. 20; his London friends, i. 21; hopes of Parliament, i. 23, 45; paternal doubts and suspicions, i. 34; Taafe, i. 35; gambling losses, i. 36, 47; Dr. Acton and Besançon, i. 37; the Swiss Militia, i. 38; financial troubles, i. 45-48, 51, 52, 55, 69, 71, 73, 93-107 _passim_; Mont Cenis, i. 55; Turin, i. 56; Venice, i. 61; his friend Guise, i. 62; Rome, i. 66; Trajan's Pillar, i. 67; Barazzi the banker, i. 71; Sir T. Worsley, i. 78; a burgess of Newtown, i. 88; the Putney Writings, i. 93; Gosling's mortgage, i. 94, 95. His death, i. 117

Gibbon, Edward-- 1753-1772. Under Pavillard's care at Lausanne, i. 1; a gambling scrape: his appeal to Aunt Catherine, i. 3, 4; Voltaire at Geneva, i. 5, 43; his father's second marriage, i. 7; his plans and studies, i. 9-11; his father's silence, i. 13; returns to England, i. 15; the Lottery, i. 17; the Celesias, i. 18, 20; distressed for money, i. 19; his quarrel with Dr. Maty, i. 21; a seat in Parliament--ambitions, hopes, and fears, i. 23, 45; in the Hants Militia, i. 25, 87; at Boulogne, i. 27; friends and acquaintances in Paris, i. 28, 33; Thomas Bradley's affair, i. 35; Dr. Acton at Besançon, i. 36; with his old acquaintance at Lausanne, i. 38 _et seq._; Mdlle. Curchod, i. 40, 81; the fall of our tyrant, i. 44; unhappy circumstances of our estate, i. 47; a mixture of books and good company, i. 49; Lady M. W. Montagu's _Letters_, i. 53; proposed tour in Italy, i. 54; Turin, i. 55, 58; Borromean Islands, i. 57; his snuff box and the King of Sardinia's daughters, i. 58; Milan, i. 60; Genoa, i. 61; Florence, i. 63; Englishmen at Florence, i. 65; Rome, i. 67 _et seq._; ways and means, i. 69, 100 _et seq._, 127, 136, 165-170; the very worst roads in the universe, i. 73; least satisfied with Venice, i. 75; Austrian etiquette, i. 80; separations increase daily, i. 82; the "School of Vice," i. 84; "Monsieur Olroy's" marriage, i. 85; a burgess of Newtown, i. 88; Ranelagh Gardens, i. 89; Voltaire ruined, i. 91; the Putney Writings, i. 93, 105; paternal doubts and suspicions, i. 98; the deed of trust, i. 99, 101; Wentzel, the oculist, i. 105; the plain dish of friendship, i. 108; the "Remonstrance" debate, i. 113; his father's illness and death, i. 115, 117, 121, 122; Aunt Hester's kind letter, i. 121; detained by Ridottos, i. 124; the Soho masquerade, i. 131; the eternal Bricknall, i. 133; "Farmer Gibbon of no use!" i. 138; "Quis tulerit Gracchos," i. 140; these Denmark affairs, i. 143, 149; Royal Marriage Bill, i. 146, 151, 154; the Pantheon, i. 147; Worthy Champions of the Church, i. 148; the business of Lord and Lady Grosvenor, i. 149; Dr. Nowell's sermon, i. 151; Sir R. Worsley, i. 153; Lord Sheffield's editorial methods, i. _155_; Deyverdun's arrival, i. 158 (_see also_ Deyverdun, George); Master Holroyd's death, i. 160; a sprained ankle, i. 161; the loud trumpet of advertisements, i. 163; a tenant for Beriton, i. 165; Lady Rous' house, i. 171-175; North's somnolence, i. 173; James Scott's death, i. 177 1773-1783. Bellamont-Townshend duel, i. 180; a due mixture of study and society, i. 183; the E. I. Co., i. 184, 186, 209, 308; ii. 85; sale of Lenborough, i. 186; ii. 83; Hume: W. Robertson, i. 190; Foote's _Bankrupt_, i. 192; the beauties of Cornwall, i. 194; declines publication of Chesterfield's _Letters_, i. 195; an approaching daughter-in-law, i. 197; Fox's debts, i. 198; Kelly's _School of Wives_, i. 199; a dinner at the "Breetish" Coffee House, i. 201; Colman's _Man of Business_, i. 202; heads of a convention, i. 205; Boston Port Bill, i. 206; Mrs. Horneck, i. 207; great news from India, i. 209; receiving one friend and comforting another, i. 210; Johnson and Gibbon--a contrast, i. 213; Boodle's triumph, i. 215; all the news of Versailles, i. 218; Lord Stanley's fête champêtre, i. 219; Madame de Bavois, i. 220; Godfrey Clarke's illness and death, i. 223, 238, 244; a new man for the county, i. 225; Romanzow's victory, i. 227; offer of a seat, i. 228; M.P. for Liskeard, i. 229; dissolution and election, i. 231; Wilkes at the Mansion House, i. 231; a visit to Bath, i. 231; his anxiety for Mrs. Holroyd, i. 237; deep in America, i. 243 (_see also_ America); a party of foxhunters, i. 247; troops for America, i. 249; North's conciliatory scheme, i. 251; a silent member, i. 253; presentation at Court, i. 255; the march to Concord, i. 257; a great historical work, i. 259; his History going to press, i. 261; nothing new from America, i. 265; his dog the comfort of his life, i. 267; his stepmother's small-pox, i. 268; difficulty in raising troops, i. 271; at work on his History, i. 273; the book almost ready, i. 275; story of Essex's ring, i. 276; his History published, i. 279; the Neckers in London, i. 281, 282; poor Mallet, i. 283; Dr. Porteous, i. 285; an Irish edition of the _Decline and Fall_, i. 288; fears of French war, i. 289; Howe's proclamation, i. 291; Suard translates his History, i. 293; two answers to his book, i. 295; Septehênes' translation of _Decline and Fall_, i. 297; a war of posts, i. 299; "John the Painter," i. 301; his uniform life, i. 302; Hunter's Lectures, i. 304; his stepmother's groundless fears, i. 306; starts for Paris, i. 309; pleasures and occupations in Paris, i. 311; his success in French society, i. 313; his friends and acquaintances, i. 315; no risk of war with France, i. 317; Duc de Choiseul, i. 318; a martyr to gout, i. 321; weary of the war, i. 323; Saratoga, i. 324; Madame de Genlis, i. 326; London a dead calm and delicious solitude, i. 327; conciliation for America, i. 329; suing for peace, i. 331; war with France, i. 333; his private affairs, i. 335; "in attendance of my Mama," i. 336; d'Estaing's fleet, i. 337; Keppel and the French frigates, i. 339, 343; Coxheath Camp, i. 340, 346; Brighton unsuitable, i. 345; Paul Jones, i. 347; battle of Ushant, i. 349; an effort of friendship, i. 351; advice to his stepmother, i. 352, 362; prospect of a place, i. 355; Palliser and Keppel, i. 356; his plans of economy, i. 359; Parliament and the Roman Empire, i. 361; a crestfallen ministry, i. 363; at work on his second volume, i. 365; a Lord of Trade, i. 366, 373; disclaims the _History of Opposition_, i. 369; his _Mémoire Justificatif_, i. 371; Holroyd for Coventry, i. 375; Rodney's victory, i. 376; "a mighty unrelenting tyrant, called the Gout," i. 377; Gordon Riots, i. 380; his two volumes in the press, i. 382; his seat uncertain, i. 385; another seat promised, i. 387; M.P. for Lymington, i. 387, 400; ii. 1; defends his conduct in Parliament, i. 389; weary of political life, i. 391; the Coventry election, i. 393; Holroyd created Lord Sheffield, i. 395; the reception given to his two volumes, i. 397; his annual Gout-tax, i. 399; his house at Brighton, ii. 3; French and Spanish ships in the Channel, ii. 5; Brighton in November, ii. 7; William Hayley, ii. 8, 17; his advice in a quarrel, ii. 9; noise and nonsense of Parliament, ii. 11; fall of North's ministry, ii. 13; his loss of office, ii. 14; Rockingham's death, ii. 17; Shelburne's ministry, ii. 19; immersed in the Roman Empire, ii. 21; his Hampton Court Villa, ii. 23; Lord Loughborough's marriage, ii. 24; relief of Gibraltar, ii. 25; enthusiasm for Sir George Eliott, ii. 27; Pitt, ii. 28; Mrs. Siddons, ii. 29; the dearth of news, ii. 31; Shelburne resigns, ii. 33; Coalition Ministry, ii. 34; his view of English politics, ii. 37; proposes to settle abroad, ii. 38; Deyverdun offers his house, ii. 41; Lausanne society, ii. 43; his gratitude to Deyverdun, ii. 45; his hesitation to accept, ii. 47; his friend and valet, ii. 49; hopes of a political place, ii. 51; social habits at Lausanne, ii. 52; decides to leave England, ii. 55; plan of joining Deyverdun, ii. 57; his departure necessary, ii. 58; his reasons, ii. 61; his preparations, ii. 63; farewell to Sheffield Place, ii. 65; the Peace of Versailles, ii. 67; his departure delayed, ii. 69; the Sheffields' kindness, ii. 71 1783-1794. His journey through France, ii. 73; the Abbé Raynal, ii. 75; the charms of Lausanne, ii. 77; a _pension_, for Miss Holroyd, ii. 79; proud of Fox, ii. 85; North's insignificance, ii. 87; his daily life, ii. 89; the zeal and diligence of Sheffield's pen, ii. 91; sale of his seat, ii. 93; a factious opposition, ii. 95; arrival of his books, ii. 97; a happy winter, ii. 99; Parliament dissolved, ii. 101; a free-spoken counsellor, ii. 103; English friends, ii. 105; the reign of sinecures over, ii. 107; his house and garden, ii. 108; his hospitalities, ii. 111; his pecuniary affairs, ii. 112; a list of his acquaintances, ii. 115; Prince Henry of Prussia and Mdlle. Necker, ii. 117; thoughts of marriage, ii. 118, 220; loses Caplin, ii. 119; invites the Sheffields, ii. 120; a temperate diet and an easy mind, ii. 123; his establishment at Lausanne, ii. 125; Pitt a favourite abroad, ii. 127; a young man at fifty, ii. 129; changes in English politics, ii. 131; his reported death, ii. 132; a curious question of philosophy, ii. 133; his countrymen at Lausanne, ii. 135; Achilles Pitt and Hector Fox, ii. 136; his History delayed, ii. 139; his health improved, ii. 141; "glories of the landskip," ii. 142; Aunt Kitty's death, ii. 144; books longer in making than puddings, ii. 147; hopes to visit England, ii. 149, 155; building a great book, ii. 151; a citizen of the world, ii. 153; his arrival in London, ii. 157; the two Mr. Gibbons, ii. 159; visits his stepmother, ii. 161; a miserable cripple, ii. 163; an unlucky check, ii. 165; an act of duty at Bath, ii. 167; his work and friends, ii. 169; the horrors of shopping and packing, ii. 171; dines with Warren Hastings, ii. 173; sale of Beriton, ii. 175, 189; back at Lausanne, ii. 177; Deyverdun ill, ii. 179, 187; George III. insane, ii. 181; Hugonin dead, ii. 183; Hugonin's deceit, ii. 185; George III. recovers, ii. 191; "the Saint ripe for heaven," ii. 193; Deyverdun's death, ii. 194, 207; "fierce and erect, a free master," ii. 197; a defect in Beriton title, ii. 199; his idea of adopting Charlotte Porten, ii. 201; a life interest in Deyverdun's house, ii. 203; the authority of Blackstone, ii. 205; Deyverdun's loss irreparable, ii. 207; France's opportunity, ii. 209; French exiles at Lausanne, ii. 210; "dirty land and vile money," ii. 213; legal forms benefit lawyers, ii. 215; Sheffield M.P. for Bristol. ii. 216; Aunt Hester's will, ii. 218, 225; a comfortless state, ii. 221; his Madeira almost exhausted, ii. 223; Bruce's _Travels_, ii. 226; M. Langer, ii. 227; history of the Guelphs, ii. 229; servitude to lawyers, ii. 231; seriously ill, ii. 233; an annuity for Newhaven, ii. 235, 240; Burke's _Reflections_, ii. 237; Corn Law and Slave Trade, ii. 239; a bargain with the Sheffields, ii. 243; snugness of his affairs, ii. 245; danger of Russian war, ii. 247; effects of French Revolution, ii. 249; Burke a rational madman, ii. 251; Sheffield an anti-democrat, ii. 253; flight and arrest of Louis XVI., ii. 255, 286; the crisis in Paris, ii. 257; Sheffield at the Jacobins, ii. 259; safe in the land of liberty, ii. 261; Switzerland's strange charm, ii. 263; Coblentz and white cockades, ii. 265; the sights of Brussels, ii. 267; military forces on French frontier, ii. 269; the Pilnitz meeting, ii. 271; a distressful voyage, ii. 273; Lally, ii. 274; the demon of procrastination, ii. 277; peace or war in Europe? ii. 279; an amazing push of remorse, ii. 281; Maria's capacity, ii. 283; Lally Tollendal, ii. 284; the hideous plague in France, ii. 287; Massa King Wilberforce, ii. 289; a month with the Neckers, ii. 291; Jacques Necker, ii. 292; the march of the Marseillais, ii. 293; an asylum at Berne, 295; democratic progress in England, ii. 297; Gallic wolves prowl round Geneva, ii. 299; the destiny of his library, ii. 301; his Tabby apprehensions, ii. 303; Opposition and Government, ii. 305; the attempted Pitt-Fox union, ii. 306; taint of democracy, ii. 309; Brunswick's march on Paris, ii. 311; every day more sedentary, ii. 313; French invasion of Savoy, ii. 314; Geneva threatened, ii. 316; prepared for flight, ii. 319; the Irish at their old tricks, ii. 321; the liberty of murdering defenceless prisoners, ii. 323; Sheffield's emigrants, ii. 324; Brunswick's strange retreat, ii. 326, 346; occupants of the hotel in Downing Street, ii. 329; the Geneva flea and the Leviathan France, ii. 331; the Gallic dogs' day, ii. 333; neither a monster, nor a statue, ii. 335; Severy's state hopeless, ii. 336; France's cruel fate, ii. 337; Archbishop of Arles' murder, ii. 339-342; common cause against the Disturbers of the World, ii. 343; Montesquieu's desertion, ii. 345; Necker's defence of the king, ii. 347; associations in London, ii. 349, 353; "Is Fox mad?" ii. 350; Sheffield's speech, ii. 353; the _Egaliseurs_, ii. 355; the great question of peace and war, ii. 358; the Memoirs must be postponed, ii. 359; a word or two of Parliamentary and pecuniary concerns, ii. 362; Duke of Portland and Fox, ii. 363, 367; Louis XVI. condemned to death, ii. 365; a miserable Frenchman, ii. 367; poor de Severy is no more, ii. 369; his letter of congratulations to Loughborough, ii. 372; the Pays de Vaud, ii. 373; Madame de Staël at Dorking, ii. 375; a pleasant dinner-party in Downing Street, ii. 377; Lady Sheffield's death, ii. 379; the cannon of the siege of Mayence, ii. 382; safe, well, and happy in London, ii. 384; intends to visit Bath, ii. 387, 389; Lord Hervey's Memorial, ii. 388; a _tête-à-tête_ of eight or nine hours daily, ii. 390; at Althorpe, ii. 391; a serious complaint, ii. 393; hopes of a radical cure, ii. 395; in darkness about Lord Howe, ii. 397; reaches St. James's Street half-dead, ii. 400; account of his last moments, ii. 400, 401

Gibbon, Miss Hester (Gibbon's aunt), "the Northamptonshire Saint," i. 7, 134, 244, 295, 398; ii. 91, 185, 187, 190, 193, 218, 222, 225; Gibbon's letters to, i. 15, 121

Gibbon, John, Bluemantle Pursuivant at Arms, ii. 162

Gibraltar, relieved by Rodney, i. _276_; by Howe, ii. 19, 25, 27; defended by Lord Heathfield, ii. 25

Gideon, Sir Sampson (Lord Eardley), i. _225_, 332; ii. _216_

Gilbert, Mr., of Lewes, i. 244, 248, 295

Gilbert, Bett, i. 7

Gilliers, Baron de, ii. 330, 377

Glenbervie, Lord (Sylvester Douglas), ii. 180

Gloucester, Duchess of, i. 173

*Gloucester, Duke of, i. 131; his clandestine marriage, i. 146; on _Decline and Fall_, i. 396

Glynn, Serjeant, the advocate of Wilkes, i. 90

Godolphin, Lord, i. 172

Goldsmith, Oliver, Gibbon's friendship with, i. 191, 202; his "Captain-in-Lace," i. _207_; quotation from his _Retaliation_, i. _210_

*Gonchon, M., ii. 352

Gordon, Duchess of, ii. _157_, 164, 168

Gordon, Lord George, i. _376_; "No Popery" riots, i. 380; sent to the Tower, i. 382

Gordon Riots, the, i. 381

Gosling, the banker, i. 94, 126, 166-168, 332; ii. 110. 281

Gosling's mortgage, i. 94, 116, 126, 166, 187

Gould, Colonel. i. 114, 159, 274

Gould, Mrs., i. 114, 159, 272, 274; ii. 386

Gouvernet, Comte de la Tour-du-Pin, ii. 329

Gower, Lord, i. 148; ii. _86_, 255, _311_, 360

*Grafton, Duchess of, i. 27

Grafton, Duke of, i. _26_, 90, _112_, _278_, 377; Lord Privy Seal, ii. _13_

*Grammont, Duc de (de Guiche), i. 89; ii. 203, 265, 266

*Granby, Marquis of, i. 192

Grand, M., banker at Lausanne, i. 4, 61, 74, 81

Grand, Mdlle. Nanette. _See_ Prevôt, Madame

Grantham, Lord, ii. 19

*Grasse, Comte de, ii. 16

Graves, Admiral Lord, i. 384

Gray, Booth, i. 254, 264

Grenville Act, the, i. 233

*_Grenville Correspondence_, i. 44

*Grenville, George, i. 45, 85, 233, 243

Grenville, James, ii. 19, 93

Grenville, Lord, ii. 362, _366_

*Greville, Hon. Charles, i. 366

Grey, Mr., and the "Friends of the People" resolution, ii. 297, 305, 320

Grey, Sir Charles (afterwards 1st Earl), ii. 396

Grey, Sir W. de. _See_ Walsingham, Lord

*Grey, Thomas de, i. 366

*Grimaldi, Marquis Jeronymo, i. 30

Grimstone, Mrs., ii. 339

Grosvenor, Lady, i. 149

Grosvenor, Lord, i. 82, 149

Guiche, Duc de. _See_ Grammont, Duc de

Guilford, 1st Lord, ii. 86, 164, 238

Guilford, 2nd Lord. _See_ North, Lord

Guines, Duc de, ii. 210

Guise, Sir William (Gibbon's intimate friend), i. 40, 50, 56, 61, 63, 79, 80, 82, 87, 195

Gunning, Sir Robert, British Envoy at Petersburg, i. 270

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

H

Hague, the, Gibbon at, i. 15

*Hailes, Daniel, ii. 86

*Hales, Sir Philip, i. 250

Hall, James, i. 26

*Hallifax, Sir Thomas, i. 393

*Hamilton, Emma, Lady, i. 74, 214

*Hamilton, Lord Archibald, i. 148

Hamilton, Sir William, British Minister at Naples, i. 74

Hamilton, William Gerard ("Single-Speech"), i. 343; ii. 21, 31, 396

Hammersley's Bank, ii. 303

Hamond, Sir Andrew Snape, R.N., ii. 81, 93

Hampden, Lord, ii. 135

Hampshire Militia, i. _25_, 109; Gibbon major in, i. 51; colonel, i. 87; "father" of, i. 346

Hanger, William (Lord Coleraine), i. _146_, 148, 310

Hanley, Mrs., ii. 159

Harbord, Hon. Harbord (afterwards Lord Suffield), i. 250, 252

Harcourt, Earl of, i. 9

Harcourt, Mr., i. 232, 233

Hardy, Sir Charles, i. 347; ii. _72_

Hare, James, politician and wit ("the Hare and many Friends"), i. 201

Harris, John, Lenborough Estate Agent, i. 95, 127, 165, 167, 170; ii. 104

Harrison, John Butler, Gibbon's opinion of, i. 27

Harrison, Mrs., i. 87

Hartley, David, M.P. for Kingston-upon-Hull, i. 240

Harvey, Stephen, i. 95

Hastings, Marquis of. ii. 396

Hastings, Warren, i. _209_, _349_; Governor-General of India, ii. _26_, _85_; his trial, ii. _172_; Gibbon dines with, ii. 173

*Hawkins, Sir Cæsar, ii. 393

Hayes, Mrs., i. 21

Hayley, Mrs., i. _399_; 11, 14

*Hayley, Thomas, ii. 17

Hayley, William, i. _398_; ii. 8, 162; his _Essay on Epic Poetry_, etc., ii. 17, 21

*Hayti, independence of, ii. 280

*Hazlitt, on Thos. Amory, i. 189

Heathfield, Admiral Lord, his defence of Gibraltar, ii. 25, 27; his Sussex estate, ii. 240

Heberden, Dr. William, called by Dr. Johnson "Ultimus Romanorum," i. 83

Helvétius, Claude Adrien, author of _De L'Esprit_, i. 29

*Hénault, President, i. 312

Henley, Lord. _See_ Northington, Lord

*Henry, Robert, ii. 23

Herbert, Lady Charlotte, ii. 106

*Herbert, General the Hon. W., ii. 375

Herefordshire Militia, and the Bristol riots, ii. 390

*Hertford, Lord, i. 190; ii. 32; interdicts Foote's _The Capuchin_, i. 265

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

Hervey, Lady Elizabeth. _See_ Foster, Lady Elizabeth

*Hervey, Bishop (of Derry), ii. 388

*Hervey, Lord, the "Sporus" of Pope's Prologue to the _Satires_, i. 21

Hervey, John Augustus, Lord, Ambassador at Florence, ii. 388

Hesse, Landgrave of, i. _272_, 277

Hesse-Rheinfels-Rothenburg, Prince Charles of, ii. 332

*Hill, Dr. G. B., i. 83, 273

Hill, Sir Roger, i. _139_; ii. 4

Hillsborough, Lord (Marquis of Downshire), ii. 5

Hobart, Harry, i. 212

Hobson, Mrs. (Miss Comarque and Madame de Bavois), i. 82, 83, 220

*Holcroft, Thomas, ii. 154

Holland, Lady (Lady Mary Fitzpatrick), i. 247

Holland, Lady (Elizabeth Vassall), ii. 257

Holland, 1st Lord, i. 198

Holland, 2nd Lord (Stephen Fox), i. 198, _247_

*Holland, 3rd Lord, ii. 257

Holland, Gibbon in, i. 15; fears of war with, i. 348, 353; war with France, ii. 362; "abject state" of, ii. 376

*Holland's _Memoirs of the Whig Party_ quoted, ii. 388

Holmes, Mayor of Newtown, i. 88

*Holmes, Sir Robert, i. 89

Holmet, i. 89

Holroyd, Hon. Maria (afterwards Lady Stanley of Alderley), her letters to Gibbon, ii. 157, 167, 216, 245, 271, 273, 322, 340, 353; Gibbon's letters to, ii. 259-266, 337

Holroyd, Isaac, i. _180_, 237

Holroyd, J. B. _See_ Sheffield, Lord

Holroyd, John William, i. 160

Holroyd, Miss Sarah M., i. _180_, 237, 336, 342, 345

Holroyd, Mrs. (Sheffield's mother). Gibbon's letter to, i. 160

Home, John, author of _Douglas_, etc., i. 202

*Hood, Lord, ii. 179

Horneck, Captain Charles, i. 207

Horneck, Mrs., i. 207

*Hornsby, William, President of Bombay Council, ii. 85

Horton, Mrs. (Duchess of Cumberland), i. _146_, 150, 154

*Hotham, Commodore, i. 349

Howe, Admiral Lord, i. _283_, 291, _332_; the relief of Gibraltar, ii. 19, 25, 27; First Lord of Admiralty, ii. _86_; dock-yards shut to strangers, ii. 173; his search for the French fleet, ii. 397

Howe, General Sir William, his campaign in America, i. 249, 287, 300, _303_; his American mission, i. _283_, _332_; occupies New York, i. 290; captures Fort William, i. _298_; captures Philadelphia, i. 323

Howe, Thomas, i. 91

Hugonin, Francis, i. 7, 128, 157, 163-165, 196, 199, 213, 246, 277, 344, 348; ii. 138, 183, 185, 234

Hume, David, i. 8, 22; referred to in Mason's satire, i. 190; his essay on _Polygamy and Divorces_, i. 202; his _Philosophical Works_ quoted, i. _203_; Parisian civilities to, i. 307

Hume, Sir Abraham, i. 201, 255, 261

Hunter, Dr. John, his Lectures on Anatomy attended by Gibbon, i. 302, 304, 307

Huntingtower, Lord, i. 2

*Hutcheson, Archibald, M.P. for Hastings, i. 398

Hutcheson, Mrs., i. 398

Hutchinson, Governor Thomas, _History of the Colony of Massachusetts_, i. _206_, _240_, 243, 247, 257, 258

Hyder, Ali, i. _209_; ii. 26

*Hylton, Sir R., i. 111

I

*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

L

*Laborde, M. de, ii. 329

La Brunette, Fort, i. 59

Laclos, François 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_, i. _8_, 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 Guelficæ_, 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

Prevôt, Lieut.-Colonel, i. 81

Prevôt, 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; L. C. J. of Common Pleas, i. 387; 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 Staël 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

Staël-Holstein, Baron de, ii. 292

Staël-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

V

*Vallant, Paul, ii. 60

*Valmy, Duc de (F. C. de Kellerman), ii. 319

*Valory, M. de, ii. 256

Van Berchem, ii. 370

*Vanbrugh's _The Provoked Wife_, i. 19; _The Provoked Husband_, etc., i. 366; ii. 29

Vassall, Elizabeth (Lady Holland), ii. 257

Vaucluse, Mdlle. de, i. 20

Venice, Gibbon at, i. 75

*Vergennes, M. de, i. 334

Verney, Earl, i. 126, 167, 170, 332

Vernon, Mr., i. 149

Versailles, Peace of, ii. 67

*Victor Amadeus III. of Sardinia, ii. 265

Viry, Count de, Foreign Secretary to King of Sardinia, i. 56, 314

Viry, Countess de, i. 314, 316

Voltaire, at _les Délices_, near Geneva, i. 5; at Ferney, i. 43; Gibbon on his acting, i. 43; his financial difficulties, i. 91; protests against French translation of Shakespeare, i. 294; quotation from his _Mélanges de Poésies_, ii. 154; his death, ii. 258

*Volunteer movement, the, i. 373

W

Waldegrave, Lady, i. _131_, _146_, 154

*Waldegrave, Lord, i. 146

Wales, Prince of (George IV.), ii. _97_, 150, 173, _181_, 368

*Wales, Princess Dowager of, i. _143_, 149

Walpole, Horace (Lord Orford), his writings quoted on "The Seven Years' War," i. _14_; Madame Geoffrin, i. _29_; Duke of Bedford's temper, i. _30_; Lord Lichfield and the Jacobites, i. _34_; correspondence with Sir H. Mann, i. _65_; ii. _16_; Mrs. Cornelys, i. _131_; the Pantheon, i. _146_; Lord Chesterfield's _Letters_, i. _195_; Kelly's _School of Wives_, i. _199_; Colman's _The Man of Business_, i. _202_; Louis XV.'s daughters, i. _218_; N. America, i. _231_; America: Ireland--_Journal of Reign of George III._, i. _271_; ii. 68; the story of Essex's ring, i. 276; Tessier's acting, i. _278_; Mrs. Damer, i. 287; introduces Gibbon to Madame du Deffand, i. 312; American privateers, i. _317_; Lord North and America, i. _329_; Admiral Keppel, i. _340_, _343_; on Gibbon's _Vindication_, i. _355_; his quarrel with Gibbon, i. _396_; Lady Miller, ii. _2_; combined French and Spanish fleets, ii. _5_; Lady E. Foster, ii. _15_; on Rodney's defeat of Comte de Grasse, ii. _16_; Fox's library, ii. _68_; Sheridan, ii. _172_; peace with Spain, ii. _226_; Necker's fall, ii. _236_; Gibbon's admiration for Burke, ii. _237_; _Essay on Modern Gardening_, ii. 375

*Walpole, Sir Edward, i. 146

*Walsingham, Lord, i. 387

*Warburton, General, i. 65

Ward, Colonel, i. 258

Ward, Dr., i. 8

*Waring, Walter, i. 375

Warkworth, Lord, i. 82

*Warren, Admiral Sir Peter, i. 90

Warren, Miss (Countess of Abingdon), i. 90

Warren, Sir George, i. 301

Warton, his picture of Gibbon, i. 364

Warville, de. _See_ Brissot, J. Pierre

*Washington, Fort, taken by British i. 298

Washington, George, i. 279, 286, _298_, 300, 303, _323_

Watson, Dr. Richard (Bishop of Llandaff), criticizes _Decline and Fall_, i. 289, 291, 295

Watteville, M. de, ii. 316

Way, Miss Abigail. _See_ Sheffield, Lady

Way, Benjamin, i. _139_, 157, _243_

Way, Mrs. Benjamin, i. 259

*Way, Gregory Lewis, i. 139; ii. 64

Way, Lewis, i. _85_, 139

Way, Richard, i. 173, 186, 187, 200, 201, 205, 207, 211, 213; ii. 104, 113

Webster, Lady (Elizabeth Vassall), ii. 257, 388

*Webster, Sir Godfrey, ii. 257

Wedderburn, Alexander. _See_ Rosslyn, Earl

Wentzel, Baron de, the famous oculist, i. 105, 112

*Wesley, Dr., his _Calm Address to our American Colonies_, i. 271

*Westmorland, Lord, ii. 321

Weymouth, Lord, i. 333, 371; ii. _5_

*Whately, Thomas, i. 243

*Whitbread, Mr., ii. 368

Whitehead, "the hirer of horses," ii. 104, 113

*White's Club, "The School of Vice," i. 84

Whitshed, James, M.P. for Cirencester, i. 239

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

Wilberforce, William, ii. 32; Abolition of Slave Trade, ii. _239_, 294; "Massa King," ii. 289

Wilbraham, George, i. 144, 229

Wilkes, John, his duel with Martin, i. 50; expelled from House of Commons and outlawed, i. 91; chosen Alderman, i. 93; the Middlesex election, i. _146_, _251_; his illness, i. 223; elected Lord Mayor, i. 233; on Lord George Germain, i. _290_; the Royal debts, i. 308

*William III., ii. 321

*Williams, Captain, R.E., 118

Williams, Mrs. Arabella, i. 118-121, 123-125, 372, 374; ii. 4

Williamson, Mrs., i. 95, 97, 100

*Wilmot, John, ii. 216

Wilson, Sir Thomas S., i. _225_, 232, 233, 237

Winchester Camp, Gibbon at, i. 25

Windham, William ("Weather-Cock"), M.P. for Norwich, ii. 60, 305; Secretary at War, ii. _306_, _363_, 369

Windsor, Captain, i. 343

Winton, tenant of Beriton, i. 164, 167, 196, 199, 201, 213, 244, 246, 346; ii. 84

*Wolfe at Quebec, i. 145

Wood, Mr., i. 107

Wood, Mrs., ii. 267, 282

*Woodfall, Henry, ii. 92

Woodfall, William ("Memory Woodfall"), editor of _Morning Chronicle_, ii. 82, 91, 97, 246, 250, 368, 370

Woolfe, George, i. 35

*Worcester, Marquis of, ii. 216

Worsley, Sir James, i. _34_, 88

Worsley, Sir Richard, i. _34_, _82_, 111, 153, 261; ii. 4, 10

Worsley, Sir Thomas, i. 34, 44, _50_, 52, 76, 78, _87_, 88, 90

*Wraxall's _Historical Memoirs_ quoted, i. 381; _Posthumous Memoirs_ quoted, ii. 275

Wray, Mrs., i. 20

Wurtemberg (Wirtenbergh), Duke of, i. 91

*Wyatt, architect of Pantheon, i. 146

Wyndham, Lady F., i. 247

Wynn, Sir Watkin Williams, i. 148

Wyttenbach, M., ii. 260

X

Xaintes (Saintes), Bishop of, ii. 342

Y

*Yarborough, Earl of, i. 153

*Yates, Mrs., i. 252

*Yeo, Edward Roe, i. 393

York, Duchess of (Princess Frederica of Prussia), ii. 275

York, Edward Augustus, Duke of, i. 54, 65; ii. 275; with troops in Flanders, ii. 376, 394

Young, Arthur, ii. 324

Young, Sir George, ii. 19

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