*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