Ossian, _Poems_, 320
Ossory, Lord, General Fitzpatrick’s letter to, 95-7;
on the death of Mr. Whitbread, _214_;
his death, 259;
a tribute to, 260;
on Horace Walpole, 309
Otranto, Duke of. _See_ Fouché
Ouvrard, Gabriel Julien, _34_
Pains and Penalties Bill, 288
Palmer, Colonel, his claim for remuneration for the invention of mail
coaches, 106-8
Paper and bullion, questions relating to, 103
Parini, Giuseppe, 374
Paris, treaties of, 155, 193, 195, 203, 205, 217;
capitulates to Allies, 222
Parr, Dr. Samuel, his inscription on Sir John Moore’s monument, 22;
master at Harrow School, 241, 325;
a sketch of, 326-9;
his Latin preface to Bellendenus, 329;
on Pitt, _ibid._;
on Lord Liverpool’s mission to the French Princes, 330;
at Holkham, 378
Pegge, Sir Christopher, Regius Professor of Physic, 339
Pelham, Dr., 283
Peninsular War, 15
Pembroke, Lord, 357
Perceval, Mr., Prime Minister, 6;
his correspondence with Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, 36-8;
his grant to the clergy, 53;
assassinated, 70, 128;
Regency Bill, 75;
interview with George III., 89;
and Prince Regent, 91-2, 108;
his principles, 132;
character of his speeches, 133
Perry, James, editor of _Morning Chronicle_, 11
_Phalaris, The Epistles of_, _327_
Pigott, Sir Arthur, Attorney-General, 98;
his death, 295
Pitt, William, his resignation (1801), 60;
on Sheridan’s Begum Speech, 244;
Dr. Parr’s opinion of, 330
Plunket, Lord, on Catholic Emancipation, 170
Poland, annexed to Russia, 205
Pole, Wellesley (afterwards Lord Maryborough), 98
Ponsonby, Right Hon. George, leader of the Whigs, 2, 29, 44, 91, 109;
death, _265_
Pope, Alexander, 86, _310_
Popham, Sir Home, 33
Porchester, Lord, conducts the Walcheren inquiry, 46
Porson, Richard, his marvellous memory, 331;
character, 332-3;
elected Greek Professor at Cambridge, 333;
religious views, 334;
his drunkenness, 335;
his verses and repartees, 335-6
Portland, Duke of, 35-6;
his death, 41;
Chancellor of Oxford University, 321
Portugal, Royal Family leave for Brazil, 4, 8
Postlethwaite, Dr., 333
Property Tax, 233;
repeal of the, 207
Pulteney, _310_
Queen Anne’s Bounty, 53
Queensberry, Duke of, _56_
Radnor, Lord, 28, 130
Randolph, Dr. John, his divinity lectures, 338;
Bishop of Oxford and London, 339
Redesdale, Lord, 356
Regency Bill, 75-7
Restrictive Laws, enactment of the, 272
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 360;
his portrait of John Hunter, 346;
character of his pictures, 361;
conversation, 362, 364;
literary works, 363;
price of his pictures, 365;
_The Death of Cardinal Beaufort_, _ibid._;
“a pattern of human happiness,” 366
Richmond, Duke of, 27
Roberts, Dr. W. H., Provost of Eton, 311
Robertson, William, Principal of Edinburgh University, 320
Robison, John, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, 337
Rogers, Samuel, 122, 389;
his lines on the Prince Regent, 124;
epigram, _194_;
a founder of the King of Clubs, _332_
Roman Catholic Bishops, veto on the appointment of, 125
Roman Catholic Question, Prince Regent’s views on, 396-9
Romanzow, Count Nicholas, Russian Chancellor, _167_
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 235;
on the Committee of Inquiry into the Charges against the Princess
of Wales, _174_, 175;
his oratory, 256;
elected for Westminster, 263;
his suicide, _ibid._;
his _Memoirs_, 264;
a founder of the King of Clubs, _332_
Romney, 367
Roscoe, William, _The Life of Lorenzo of Medici_, 375-7;
employed at Holkham, 377
Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor, 60
Routh, Dr. Martin Joseph, President of Magdalen College, 326
Royal Marriage Act, proposed repeal, 284
Russell, Lord William, 171
Ryder, Right Hon. Richard, 48
St. Helena, 205
St. Helens, Lord, Ambassador at Madrid, 370
St. John, Lord, 222
St. Vincent, Lord, 38
Salamanca, battle of, 24, 151, 161
Santini, _257_
Saxe-Coburg, Prince Leopold of, his marriage, 156, 199, 246;
annuity, 247
Schwarzenberg, General, 192
Scott, Thomas, question of the payment of compensation to, 54
——, Sir Walter, his treatment of Lord Holland, 55;
on Monk Lewis’ verses, _379_;
his contributions to _The Edinburgh Review_, 387
Sefton, Lord, 265
Select Vestry Bill, 250
Selwyn, George, 309, 313, 328
Seneca, quoted, 72
Seville, 24
Seymour, Lord Webb, 386
Shakespeare, _Richard II._, 129
Sharp, Richard, a founder of the King of Clubs, _332_
Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd, first Earl of, 348
Shepherd, Dr. William, 377
Sheridan, Mrs. Thomas, 240, 243;
_Sidney Bidulph_, 240
——, Richard Brinsley, 39, 308;
his influence over the Prince of Wales, 71;
treatment by Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, 72;
applies for the Secretaryship of Ireland, 73;
his criticism of Lord Grey’s and Lord Grenville’s draft, 83;
close of his career, 236;
debts, 237;
defects of character, 238-40;
parents, 240;
at school, _ibid._;
intellectual powers, 241;
physical constitution, 242;
kindness and consideration, 243;
religious views, _ibid._;
the Begum Speech, 244;
composition and style of his conversation, 245;
his introduction to Mr. Fox, 349;
_The Rivals_, _ibid._
Sheridan, Thomas, 240
Sibthorp, Dr., 322
Sidmouth, Lord, 40;
his resignation, 60;
his Dissenting Ministers Bill, 101;
Home Secretary, 147, 207;
suspends the Habeas Corpus Act, 207
Sitaro, Mr., _10_
Slave Trade, abolition of, 195
Smith, “Easley,” contributor to _The Microcosm_, 314
——, Rev. Sydney, 315;
his witticism on Lord Grenville, _41_;
his proposed motto for _The Edinburgh Review_, 387
——, Robert Percy (Bobus), on Lord Erskine, 298;
contributor to _The Microcosm_, _310_, 314;
anecdote of Dr. Glynn, 312;
his powers of application and reasoning, 315;
command of language, 316;
a founder of the King of Clubs, _332_
——, Sir George, sent to Cadiz, 30
——, Sir Sidney, in command of the English fleet at Lisbon, _9_;
on the South American Station, 30
——, Vernon, 97
Smithfield, meeting at, 269
Smollett’s _Continuation_, 58
Soult, Marshal, 193
Southey, Robert, _118_, 383;
his secret marriage, 384;
characteristics, 385
Souza-Continho, Domingo Antonio de, Marquis de Funchal, 11
Spain, campaigns in, 8;
revolution, 12;
condition, 203;
Constitution restored, 281, 300
Spallanzani, Lazaro, 372
Spencer, Lord, 128;
on Committee of Inquiry into the charges against the Princess of
Wales, 176
——, Lord Henry, contributor to _The Microcosm_, 314
Stanhope, Charles, third Earl of, 79, 245;
supports the paper currency system, 104;
his device for preventing forgeries, 105;
his death, 245
——, Lady, 261
Stanhope, Philip Henry, fourth Earl of, on the Suspension Act, 261
Stanley, Edward, Bishop of Norwich, on the “Massacre of Peterloo,” 270
Stephen, James, 159
Stephenson, Mr., _146_
Stowell (Sir William Scott), Lord, _360_
Strangford, Lord, his negotiations with Portugal, 9;
official despatch _Off the Tagus_, 10, 393-5;
appointed Minister at Rio Janeiro, 11;
criticism on his poems, 388;
facility in composition, 389;
diplomatic career, 390;
his _Observations_ on a note in Colonel Napier’s book, 393
Strawberry Hill, 309
Sussex, Duke of, 201, 220
Sutton, Mr. Manners, 256
Sweden, Bernadotte, Crown Prince of, 112, 168
Swift, Jonathan, compared with Richard Porson, 335
Tacitus, _Ann._, quoted, 72
Talavera, battle of, 7, 47
Talleyrand, provisional Government proclaimed under, 154, _193_;
his intrigues, 188;
his dismissal, 206
Taylor, Sir Herbert, Private Secretary to George III., 61
Thistlewood, his plot for murdering the Ministry, 275, 280
Thomond, Lady, 364
Thompson, Dr., his bequest to Glasgow University, 340
Thomson, T., 386
Tickell, Richard, 308
Tierney, Mr., 47, 116, 293;
President of the Board of Control, 174;
accepts the Leadership of the House of Commons, 265-8;
his vote of censure, 268
Tiraboschi, Girolamo, 374
Tooke, Horne, 296
Torreno, Count, 12
Toulouse, battle of, 155, 193
Townshend, Lord John, _349_
Travis, Archdeacon, 334
Treason Laws, 304
Troppau, meeting of the Holy Alliance at, _301_
Tuy, 22
United States, progress of, _63_;
war with England, 69, 156, 159;
Non-Intercourse Act, _127_
Valette, Antoine Marie, Count de la, 224
Vaughan, Dr. (Sir Henry Halford), 90, 97, 339
Vega, Don Andres de la, 12
Vernon, Caroline (Mrs. Bobus Smith), 315
——, Edward Venables, Archbishop of York, 64
Victoria, Queen, her birth, 272;
name given to, 273
Vienna, Congress at, 155, 204
Vigo Bay, 21
Vimiero, battle of, 15
Vitrolles, M., 188-90
Vittoria, battle of, 152, 179
Walcheren expedition, 5, 30-1, 33, 46
Wales, Princess Charlotte of, her marriage, 156, 198, 246;
character, 199, 248;
letter on her marriage, 199;
flight and return, 201;
death, 208, 247
——, Princess of, charges against, 174-9;
appeal to Parliament, 177;
her character, 178;
in London, 208, _278_, 282;
treatment by George IV., 208, 276-9;
death, 209.
_See_ Caroline
Wales, Prince of, 38;
appointed Regent, 67;
abstains from political concert with the Opposition, 71;
character of his conversation, 74;
the Regency Bill, 76;
hostility to Mr. Perceval, 77;
his audience with Lord Grenville, 80-2;
wish to reinstate the Duke of York, 81;
letter from the Queen, 89;
on retaining his Ministers, 91;
takes the oath of Regency, _ibid._;
reinstates the Duke of York, 94;
criticisms on his conduct, 94-7;
his interest in the Spanish war, 106;
the Berkeley Peerage, _ibid._;
the claim of Mr. Palmer, 107;
his letter to the Duke of York, 117;
invitation to Lord Grey and Lord Grenville to accept office,
_ibid._;
his resentment of personal slights, 121;
intrigues and devices, 136;
dislike to Lord Grey, 142;
his speech on the victory of Leipsic, 183;
on the restoration of the Bourbons, 191, 211;
his meeting with Louis XVIII., 194;
unpopularity, 197;
dislike of the Emperor Alexander, 198;
accession, 208;
commendation of Napoleon’s letter, 220;
shot at, 250-2;
his wish to divorce his wife, 276;
treatment of her, 276-9;
his tutor, 323;
his views on the Roman Catholic Question, 396-9.
_See_ George IV.
Waller, Edmund, 244
Walpole, Horace, 308-10
Wardle, Colonel, 27
Warton, Thomas, 321
Waterloo, battle of, 216
Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess of, Foreign Secretary, 6, 48;
Ambassador to Spain, 47;
resigns, 70, 113, 116;
policy, 112, 137;
character, 113, 114;
and Wellington, 229;
style of his speeches, 115;
his letters on the new Ministry, 135;
negotiations with Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, 137-41;
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, _142_;
on the Prince Regent’s views on the Roman Catholic Question, 396-9
Wellington, Duke of, in command of the forces in Portugal, 7, 15;
forms the lines of Torres Vedras, 7;
objections to his appointment, 16;
Talavera, 47;
his policy in Spain, 68;
captures Ciudad Rodrigo, _ibid._;
and Wellesley, 114, 229;
his victory at Salamanca, 151, 161;
appointed Commander-in-Chief, 151;
British Ambassador in Paris, 155, 196;
Vittoria, 152, 179;
enters France, 152;
attack on Burgos, 162;
on the restoration of the Bourbons, _190_;
character of his operations, 193;
Toulouse, _ibid._;
advice to Louis XVIII., 213;
Royalists’ treatment of, _ibid._;
endeavour to restrain the Allies, 218;
abuse of Frenchmen, 218;
censures the appointment of Sir H. Lowe, _ibid._;
capitulation of Paris, 222-8;
character, 229-32;
harshness to inferiors, and vanity, 231;
on public meetings, 301
Wenman, Dr. Thomas Francis, Professor of Civil Law, 337
Westmacott, Richard, 192
Westmorland, John, tenth Earl of, 13, 38;
on the amendment of the Marriage Act, 299
Wharton, Duke of, his repartee to William IV., 94
Whig Party, policy of the, 29
Whishaw, Richard, a founder of the King of Clubs, _332_
Whitbread, Samuel, 13;
on the union of the auditorship and the Treasury, 87;
chief director of Drury Lane Theatre, 162;
his _Address_, 163;
on the charges against the Princess of Wales, 174;
in support of the war, 184;
his character and death, 214
White, Dr. Joseph, Laudian Professor of Arabic, 327, 328;
his Bampton Lectures, 327
Wickham, William, 14
Wilberforce, William, and Abolition of the Slave Trade, 157, 195;
contributions to _The Edinburgh Review_, 387
Wilbraham, Roger, 378
William IV., 211
Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 173, 349
Wilson, Sir Robert, _224_, 258;
his “Lusitanian Legion,” 25;
attached to the Russian army, _167_;
at the battle of Leipsic, 182;
protest against the appearance of the Queen at the Coronation, 305
Windham, Mr., 15;
on the duel between Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning, 35;
his support of the privileges of Parliament, 50;
death, 51;
religious views, 52
Woburn Abbey, Temple of Liberty at, _353_
Wollstonecraft, Mary, her marriage and death, 382
Wood, Sir Matthew, 284
Wooddeson, Richard, Vinerian Professor, 337
Wordsworth, William, 383
Wortley, Stuart, Mr. A. (afterwards Lord Wharncliffe), his motion to
form a new Administration, 136, 147
Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams, _118_, 385
Yarmouth, Francis Charles, Earl of, 86
York, Duchess of, _199_, 246
——, Duke of, 61, _199_, _201_, 246;
charge against, 26;
resigns his office of Commander-in-Chief, 26;
question of his reinstatement, 92;
letter from the Prince of Wales, 117;
on the invitation to Lord Grey and Lord Grenville to form an
Administration, 120;
his tutor, 323
Yorke, Rt. Hon. Charles Philip, 26;
accepts the Admiralty, 48
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