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. 323Howe, Thomas, i. 91Hugonin, Francis, i. 7, 128, 157, 163-165, 196, 199, 213, 246, 277, 344, 348; ii. 138, 183, 185, 234Hume, David, i. 8, 22;referred to in Mason's satire, i. 190;his essay onPolygamy and Divorces, i. 202;hisPhilosophical Worksquoted, i.203;Parisian civilities to, i. 307Hume, Sir Abraham, i. 201, 255, 261Hunter, Dr. John, his Lectures on Anatomy attended by Gibbon, i. 302, 304, 307Huntingtower, Lord, i. 2*Hutcheson, Archibald, M.P. for Hastings, i. 398Hutcheson, Mrs., i. 398Hutchinson, Governor Thomas,History of the Colony of Massachusetts, i.206,240, 243, 247, 257, 258Hyder, Ali, i.209; ii. 26*Hylton, Sir R., i. 111I*Impey, Sir Elijah, ii. 86India, i. 349, 350, 357; ii. 280Ireland, debates on, i. 338, 373; ii. 115, 137;effects of French Revolution on, ii. 320;Roman Catholicsv.Protestants, ii. 320, 343, 350Irish Parliament, i. 196*Irnham, Lord (Earl of Carhampton), i. 146*Irvine, Lord, i. 247Italy, Gibbon's tour in, i. 64JJackson, Richard, ii. 19*Jacobin Club, the, ii. 305Jamaica, Light Dragoons for, ii. 289Jenkinson, Charles.SeeLiverpool, LordJenyns, Soame, i.366,391; ii. 94*Jephson, Robert, author of tragedy ofBraganza, i. 252"John the Painter" (Aitken), i. 301Johnson, 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. 75Johnson, Sir William, i. 291*Johnston, Governor George, i. 308, 332Jolliffe, William, M.P. for Petersfield, i. 111, 153, 171, 247, 346, 366Jones, Paul, i.317, 347Joseph II., Emperor, i. 158, 313; ii. 137*JourdanCoupe-Tête, ii. 293*Journal, Gibbon's, quoted, i. 27, 35, 40, 50, 57, 84Junius, Letters of, i. 108,146; ii.22,92KKeene, Colonel, i. 302*Kellerman, F. C. de, ii. 319*Kelly, Hugh,School of Wives, i. 199Keppel, 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, 18,34Keppel, General, i. 346Kimber, Captain John, ii. 295*Kingsbergen, Admiral, ii. 247*Kingston, Duchess of, i. 265, 281*Kingston, Duke of, i. 265*Kippis, Dr., ii. 305Knight, Gowin, i. 18*Kolbel, Baron, i. 319*Korff, Baroness de, ii. 254L*Laborde, M. de, ii. 329La Brunette, Fort, i. 59Laclos, François C. de, ii. 258*Lacretelle, ii. 326*Ladbroke, Sir R., i. 201La Fayette, Marquis de, i. 305; ii. 311,324,329Lake, Miss, Gibbon's landlady in St. James's Place, i. 82, 83Lally, Comtesse, ii. 274, 284Lally-Tollendal, M., ii.19, 211;Burke's opinion of, ii. 274;Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 284, 337;hisStrafford, 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;hisSonge d'un AngloisandPlaidoyer pour Louis XVI., ii. 375;Sheffield's guest in Downing Street, ii. 377*Lamballe, Prince de, ii. 312Lamballe, Princesse de, ii. 312, 352La Motte, i. 34; ii. 283, 293, 328La Motte Piquet, i. 334*Langara, Admiral, i. 376Langer, M., ii. 227Langlois, Benjamin, M.P. for St. Germains, i. 391Lansdowne, Lord, ii. 350Lascelles, Mr., i. 140, 191, 216, 240Lauderdale, Lord, ii.297, 320*Laudohn, Field-Marshal, i. 158Laurens, Henry, ii. 72Lausanne, 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. 290Lauzun, Duchesse de (Duchesse de Biron), ii. 289, 324, 333Lavington, Lady, i. 319, 336Lavington, Lord, i.319, 336; ii. 214Law, Rev. William, author of theSerious Call, i. 7, 398; ii. 218Lee, Arthur, i. 334Lee, Captain, i. 89Lee, General, i. 284, 302Lee, Mrs., i. 126, 184, 199, 201, 208Leeds, Duke of, ii.247, 302, 327Leigh, Mr., i. 27*Le Marchant, Sir Denis, i. 91Lenborough Manor, Gibbon's Bucks estate, i. 69, 186, 384; ii. 64, 81, 83, 93, 96, 112, 124.See alsoLovegrove, Mr.Lennox, Lord George H., i.225, 226, 232Leopold II., Emperor of Austria, at Pilnitz, ii. 271;his death, ii.279, 292*Lepel, General Nicholas, i. 21Lepel, Molly (Lady Hervey), i. 21, 29Le Rebours, Postmaster at Pontarlier, ii. 357, 361Lescure'sCorrespondence Secrète sur Louis XVI., etc., i. 314;Vie de la Princesse de Lamballe, ii. 352Lessart, Antoine de, Minister of Interior and Foreign Affairs, ii. 292Lessart, M. de, Paris banker, ii. 94, 99Lethieullier, Benjamin, M.P. for Andover, i. 240, 247*Lethieullier, Smart, i. 240Levade, M., ii. 268, 275, 339*Lévis, Duc de, ii. 266, 290Lewisham, Lord, ii. 86*Leycester, Sir Peter, i. 90Liancourt, Duc de (Rochefoucault), ii. 324*Library, Gibbon's, its fate, ii. 300, 301Lichfield, Earl of, Jacobite leader, i. 34Ligne, Prince de, ii. 83, 137*Ligonier, Lord, i. 180Lincoln, Lord, i. 388Lisburn, Lord, i. 376Liskeard, Gibbon M.P. for, i. 229, 234Liverpool, Lord (Charles Jenkinson), i.264;Secretary at War,349; ii. 2;Gibbon's host, ii. 9Llandaff, Bishop of, i. 240Lockwood, Mr., i. 134*Loftus, Rev. Smyth, i. 328*London Evening Post, i. 130, 180*Long, Dudley, i. 391Lonsdale, Earl of (Sir James Lowther), i. 82Loughborough, Lord.SeeRosslyn, Earl of*Louis XV., i. 218Louis XVI., i.218,334; ii.204,226,252;his escape and recapture, ii. 254et 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'sPlaidoyer, ii. 375Louis XVIII., ii. 265*Louis Philippe, i. 326*Louvois, Marquis de, ii. 211*Lovat, Lord, i. 264Lovegrove, Mr., tenant of Lenborough, i. 186, 201, 205, 207, 210, 235, 239, 261, 286; ii. 84Lowther, Sir James (Lord Lonsdale), i. 82Lucan, Earl of, ii. 135, 162, 392Lucan, Lady, ii. 400Lucca, the Opera at, i. 66*Luckner, Baron de, ii. 269Luff, Mr., i. 138, 167Luna, Miguel de, i. 243Luttrell, Colonel, i.91, 146, 247, 249*Luxembourg, Maréchale de, ii. 289*Luynes, Madame de, i. 314Lymington, Gibbon M.P. for, i. 387, 400; ii. 1Lyons, Gibbon at, i. 77Lyttelton, Lord, i. 65Lyttleton, Hon. William, i. 273MMacartney, 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. 56Macpherson, James, author ofFragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands, etc., i. 202;History of Opposition, i. 369Madras Council, arrest of Lord Pigot, i.308, 362Mahrattas insurrection, the, i. 349, 350;peace with, ii.26Maine, Sir William, i. 240*Malden, M. de, ii. 256Mallet, Arabella.SeeWilliams, Mrs.Mallet (or Malloch), David, author of the balladWilliam and Margaret,$1, 283;his tragedyEurydice, i. 19Mallet, Dorothea.SeeCelesia, Madame*Mallet du Pan, ii. 318, 329Mallet, Mrs., i. 31, 34, 315Malmesbury, James. Earl of, ii. 184;"theaudacieuxHarris," ii. 300;on Fox, ii.306;hisDiaries and Correspondencequoted, ii.350,363*Malmesbury, Lady, on Duke of Portland, ii. 306;on England's mourning for Louis XVI., ii. 374Malouet, Victor, ii.311,324, 329, 377Manchester, Duke of, i. 154; ii.67, 82, 86Mann, Sir Horace, i. 65Mansfield, 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.362Mansfield, 2nd Lord, President of Council under Pitt, i. 333, 383Manuel, Louis Pierre, ii.311, 341Maret, Hugues B. (Duc de Bassano), ii. 367Maria 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. 329Marriage Bill, Royal, i. 146, 151, 154Marseillais, march of the, ii. 293Martin, Samuel, his duel with Wilkes, i.50, 51Marvell, Andrew, i. 284*Mason's satire,An Heroic Epistle, etc., i. 190Masquerade, the Soho (Carlisle House), i. 131Massachusetts Charter Act, i.329, 331Massey, Miss, i. 118, 119Massey, Mrs., i. 352*Mathews, Henry,Diary of an Invalid, ii. 40;on fate of Gibbon's library, ii. 301Matthews, Mr., i. 200, 207, 235, 269Maty, Dr., i. 18, 20;quarrels with Gibbon, i. 21Mauduit, Isaac, author ofConsiderations on the Present German War, i. 240, 243, 247Maury, Abbé, ii. 252, 270Mayence, siege of, ii. 382Maynard, Mrs., ii. 271-273Melmoth, William ("Pliny"), i. 326Meluner, Captain, ii. 375Melville, Lord.SeeDundas, Hon. HenryMémoire Justificatif, Gibbon's, i. 371*Mémoires Littérraires de la Grande Bretagne pour l'An 1767, by Gibbon and Deyverdun, i. 82Mentrond, M., ii. 267Mercier, Sebastien, author ofTableau de Paris, ii. 82, 115*Meredith, Sir W., i. 147Mesery, M. de, i. 40Mesery, Madame de, ii. 83*Michaud, ii. 326*Michelet, ii. 75*Middleton, Dr., i. 83Midleton, Lord, i. 210, 232, 236Milan, Gibbon at, i. 60Milbank, Sir Ralph, i. 344Militia Bill, New, i. 366Militia, calling out of the, ii. 348*Millar, Andrew, i. 222Miller, Anna, Lady,Letters from Italy by an Englishwoman, ii. 2Miller, Sir John, i. 159Miller, Sir John Riggs, ii.2, 8Miller, Sir Thomas, M.P. for Lewes, i. 240, 247Milner, Sir William, i. 19Milton, Lord (afterwards Earl of Dorchester), i. 139; ii.350*Ministerial Club, the, i. 84*Minto, Earl of, ii. 25Mirabeau, Marquis de, i. 35;hisLa 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, 400Moira, Lord (afterwards Marquis of Hastings), ii. 396Molesworth, Sir J., i. 273Molyneux, Lord, ii. 262Monciel, Terrier de, ii. 329Monkeith, Mr., i. 168Mont Cenis, i. 55Montagny, M. de, i. 61; ii. 195, 203, 229Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, Gibbon's opinions of herLetters, i. 53*Montagu, Wortley, i. 6*Montague, Mrs., i. 294*Montconseil, Marquis de, ii. 211Montesquieu, 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. 275Montolieu, Madame de, ii. 43, 154Montolieu, M. de, ii. 43*Moore, Dr. John, Archbishop of Canterbury, ii. 397*Moore'sMemoirs of Sheridan, ii. 172*Mordaunt, Hon. and Rev. George, i. 19*More, Hannah, ii. 75*Morning Chroniclecited, i. 212; ii. 91, 172, 351Morning Post, i. 291*Mortimer-Ternaux, hisHistoire de la Terreurquoted, ii. 352Moss, Mrs., ii. 167, 249, 295, 300, 321, 331, 343*Mouchy, Maréchal de, ii. 329*Moultou, Pastor, i. 41Mounier, J. Joseph, ii. 211,274Mountstuart, Lord, i. 56Mouschkin Pouschkin, i. 227*Moustier, M. de, ii. 256Mulgrave, Lord, i. 376*Munro, Sir Hector, i. 349*Murphy'sGrecian Daughter, ii. 29Murray, John, Resident at Venice, and Ambassador at Constantinople, i. 76*Mutiny Bill, the, ii. 95, 101*Mysore, third war in, ii. 276NNaijeiraud, ii. 367Napier, Sir Gerard, i. 25Naples, Gibbon at, i. 72*Napoleon Bonaparte,Essai sur l'Histoire de la Corse, ii. 75Narbonne-Lara, Comte de, ii. 292, 347, 375Nassau, Madame de, ii. 43, 266Nassau-Siegen, Prince of, ii. 265National Assembly, the, ii. 279,280;and English Nonconformists, ii.305Necker, Jacques, i.41, 81;Directeur Général, i. 304; ii. 115;Mrs. Mallet's resentment, i. 316;"no sign of jealousy," i. 320;hisAdministration 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. 373Necker, Louis (Germanie, M. de), i. 291Necker, 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. 345Neville, Mr., i. 28, 30, 370New Monthly Magazine, ii. 301New River Share, the, i. 100, 167, 168, 335, 344; ii. 190*Newcastle, Duke of, i. 50Newhaven Estate (Meeching Farm), Gibbon's, ii. 218, 235, 240, 242, 244, 250Newton, Mr., Gibbon's solicitor, i. 127, 132, 169, 205-207, 227, 261, 269; ii. 113, 127, 139, 146Nicholls, Mr., ii. 169, 171*Nichols'Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Centuryquoted, i. 7, 263Nichols, John, ii. 301, 313, 314, 328Nicol, George, ii. 359, 374Nivernois, Duc de, i.31, 314; ii.375"No Popery" riots, the, i. 380-382*Noailles, Comte Charles de, ii. 329Noailles, Comtesse Charles de, ii. 329Noailles, Marquis de, French Ambassador, i. 305, 333; ii. 259Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club, The, i. 200, 283Nonconformists 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. 198North, 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 toDecline and Fall, ii. 170;succeeds to Earldom of Guilford, ii. 238;his kindness to Lally, ii. 285, 287;his death, ii. 311North, Major Frank, ii. 238, 244Northington, Lord, i.142; ii.34,60, 135, 136*Northumberland, Duke of, i. 82Northumberland Militia and the Gordon Riots, i. 381; ii.28Norton, Sir Fletcher (Speaker), i. 238*Notes and Queries, ii. 301Nott, Mr., ii. 262Nottingham, Countess of, and Lord Essex's ring, i. 276Nowell, Rev. Dr., i. 151Nugent, Lieut.-Colonel, i. 132Nuneham, Lord (Earl of Harcourt), i. 9OOchs, M., ii. 262*Oglander, Sir J., i. 90*Oliver, Alderman Richard, i. 130*Oliver, Lieut.-Governor Andrew (Massachusetts), i. 205, 240, 243Oliver, Mr., i. 177Onslow, Mr. and Mrs., i. 83Orford, Lord.SeeWalpole, HoraceOriel, Lord (John Foster), i. 200, 261, 269; ii. 136Origines Guelficæ, ii. 227Osborne, Sir George, i. 91Ossory, Earl of, i. 27,274, 296, 333,373Ostervald, Madame, ii. 79Oude, Sujah Dowlah, Nawab of, i. 187, 209PPache, Jean Nicolas (Mayor of Paris), ii. 368Palliser, Sir Hugh, his charges against Admiral Keppel, i. 349, 356,357Palmer, Mr., arbitrator in Lenborough dispute, i. 205, 207Palmerston, Lord (father of Prime Minister), i. 50;member of the Catch Club, i. 283*Panin, M., Russian Foreign Minister, i. 270Pantheon, the,The Pantheon Rupture, etc., i. 146;Boodle's masquerade at, i. 212, 215Paris, Gibbon in, i. 28-36, 311-320;Treaty of, i. 28;Gibbon's opinion of, i. 317*Parker, George Lane, i. 90Parsons, Sir William, i. 204Pascal, a parallel between his and Gibbon's writings, ii. 396Patton, Miss Dorothea.SeeGibbon, Mrs. (stepmother)Patton, W., i. 30, 51, 169Pavillard, M., Gibbon's tutor, etc., at Lausanne, i. 1et seq., 40;his description of Gibbon, i.2*Payba, Abraham, i. 6Payne, Lady.SeeLavington, LadyPayne, Sir R.SeeLavington, LordPeachy, Lady, i. 162Peachy, Sir James, i. 162, 234Pearson, General Sir Richard, i. 397Pechell, Master in Chancery, i. 102Pelham of Stanmer, Lord (Earl of Chichester), i. 200Pelham, Thomas (2nd Earl of Chichester), ii. 60*Pembroke, Earl of, ii. 375Pembroke, Lady, ii. 106, 110*Penthièvre, Duc de, i. 326*Percy'sReliquesquoted, i. 284*Peterborough, Earl of, i. 19Petier, M., ii. 258*Petit Manin, ii. 351Philadelphia, capture of, i. 323Pigot, Admiral, i. 362; ii.16Pigot, Lord, Governor of Madras, i. 308, 362Pigott, Charles,The Jockey Club; or, A Sketch of the Manners of the Age, ii. 297Pilnitz, meeting of King of Prussia and Emperor of Austria at, ii. 271Pitman, Mr., i. 197, 267Pitt, General, i. 247Pitt, George (Lord Rivers), i. 54, 56*Pitt, Lady Harriet, ii. 22Pitt, Mrs., i. 247*Pitt, Thomas, M.P. for Old Sarum, ii. 32Pitt, 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 inRolliadon, 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. 398Poix, Prince de, ii. 329, 377*Poix, Princesse de, i. 314; ii. 334Poland, partition of, i. 158*Poland, Stanislaus Poniatowski, King of, i. 29, 158Polier, Colonel, ii. 43, 370Polignac, Duchesse de, ii. 203*Polignac, Prince de, ii. 204*Pompadour, Madame de, i. 313Ponsonby, William, Lord, i. 65Porchester, Lord (afterwards Earl of Carnarvon), ii. 375Porten, James, i.2,7, 101, 124Porten, Lady (Mary Wibault), i. 220, 246, 250Porten, 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, 5Porten, Miss Charlotte, ii. 201, 221Porten, Miss Judith.SeeGibbon, Mrs. (mother)Porten, Sir Stanier (Gibbon's uncle), i. 177, 204, 220, 246, 250, 266; ii. 10, 201Porteous, Dr. Beilby (Bishop of London), i. 285*Porter, General, M.P. for Stockbridge, i. 149Portland, 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, 368Pouschkin, Mouschkin, Russian Ambassador in London, i. 227*Powell, Harcourt, M.P. for Newtown, i. 89Powell, 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. 97Poyntz, Mrs., i. 33*Poyntz, Stephen, i. 33*Pratt, Lord Chief Justice, i. 51Prevôt, Lieut.-Colonel, i. 81Prevôt, Madame, i. 81Price, Dr. Richard, ii. 210;Chairman of the Revolution Society, ii.305*Priestley, Dr., ii. 210, 305Provence, Comte de (Louis XVIII.), ii. 265Prowse, Mr., i. 33Prussia, Prince Henry of, ii. 5, 111, 115-117Prussia, 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. 91Pully, Mademoiselle de, ii. 324Putney Writings, the, i. 93, 106QQuebec Bill, i. 256R*Rae, Fraser, ii. 172Ragobat or Ragonant Ráo, i. 349, 350Ranelagh Gardens, i. 89*Ranelagh, Lord, i. 89Ravaud, Mrs., ii. 2, 8*Ravensworth, Lord, i. 27Raynal, 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, 306Remonstrance Debate, the, i. 113Rennell, Major James, ii, 212, 226Revenue Returns (1798), ii. 276, 288Reynolds, 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. 311Rhodes, Mr., ii. 224Richardson, Mr., and S. Sayer's arrest, i. 272Richmond, 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. 334Ridley, Major, i. 81*Ridley, Sir Matthew, i. 81*Ridotto al fresco, i. 114, 124*Rivarol, ii. 330Rivers, Lord (George Pitt), i. 54, 56Roach, Miss, i. 16Roberts, Mr., i. 201Robertson, William, author ofHistory of Scotland, etc., ii. 132, 190,292*Robespierre, ii. 256, 311Roche, Captain David, his quarrel with Lieut. Ferguson, i. 209Rochefoucault-Liancourt, Duc de, ii. 324Rochford, Lord, i. 272Rockingham, Lord. ii.13, 17Rodney, 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. 252Roman Catholic Relief Bill (Ireland), ii. 115, 320Romans Club, the, i. 89Romanzov, Count Nicholas, ii. 266, 269Romanzow, Peter A., 223, 227Romberg, Messrs., of Ostend, ii. 191Rome, Gibbon at, i. 66-72, 74Ross, Sir John, i. 369Rosset, M., ii.283, 293, 328Rosslyn, 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. 397Rotombeau, ii. 351, 353Rous, Lady, i. 171, 173-175*Rous, Sir John, i. 171Rousseau, J. J., i. 41; ii. 261, 289;hisLettres de la Montague, ii.318*Rowe'sJane Shore, ii. 29*Royal Foresters, the, i. 87Royal Marriage Bill, the, i. 146, 151, 154Royal Society, Gibbon a member of the, ii. 187*Rumbold, Sir Thomas, President of Madras Council, ii. 85Rumford, Count of (Sir Benjamin Thompson), ii. 72Russell, Lady, i. 282Russell, Sir John, i. 191, 196, 216, 218,282; ii. 65Russia, peace signed between Turkey and, i. 223;probability of war with, ii. 247;rupture with France, ii.280Russian mercenaries, proposed hire of, i. 270, 272*Rutland, Duke of, ii. 86, 115SSackville, 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. 356Sainsbury, Mr., ii. 189, 199, 224, 233St. Cierge, Madame de, ii. 43St. 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. 75St. Vincent, Earl, ii. 396Sainte Croix, Bigot de, ii. 329Salms, Princesse de, ii. 267Sandwich, 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. 375Savoy, French invasion of, ii. 314*Saxe-Teschen, Duke of, ii. 137Sayer, Stephen, i. 272*Scawen, Captain, i. 207*Scholl, Dr., ii. 301Schomberg, Count de, ii. 223*Scindiah, i. 350Scott, George, i. 130, 372, 393Scott, 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 inMarmion, ii. 184Seeker, Archbishop, i. 285*Selwyn, George, hisCorrespondencequoted, i. 29, 58, 82, 343, 347, 356, 388Septchênes, Le Clerc de, translates part ofDecline and Fall, i. 296Serle's Coffee-House, i. 218Servan, Joseph, ii.315, 332,368Severy, Wilhelm de, ii. 162, 163, 165, 172, 176, 199, 206, 242, 287, 303, 316, 336, 358, 366, 369Severy, Madame de, ii. 43, 178, 222, 335, 369Sévigné, Madame de, i. 260Shakespeare, Voltaire protests against French translation of, i. 294;Boydell's edition of, ii. 276Sharrock, Captain Robert, i. 26Sheffield, 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. 377Sheffield, 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, 182et 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. 74-157passim, 176, 178, 191, 194;Lord Holland and Fox's debts, i. 198;British Coffee-House, i. 201;Boston Port Bill, i. 206, 208;