Chapter XX: Part 20

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