Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)

by Edward Gibbon

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

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

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

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

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[INDEX.]

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

A
Abercromby, General, ii. 276, 285
Abingdon, Earl of, i. 90
Abingdon, Lady, i. 90
Abington, Mrs. (Fanny Barton), ii. 4
Abolition of Slave Trade, the, ii. 239, 294
Acland, Colonel John Dyke, i. 325
*Acland, Sir Thomas, i. 273
Acton, Dr., his kindness to Gibbon, i. 36, 37;
his misfortunes, i. 67
Acton, Mrs., Gibbon's opinion of, i. 38
*Acton, Lord, i. 37
*Acton, Sir John F. E., i. 37
Adam, Père, i. 92
Addington, Dr. Anthony, attends Gibbon's father, i. 122;
predicts recovery of George III., i. 122;
attends Godfrey Clarke, i. 238, 241
*Adelaide, Madame, i. 326; ii. 292
*Aitken ("John the Painter"), the Bristol incendiary, i. 301
Albemarle, Lady, i. 207
Alien Bill, the, ii. 363
*Allen, Ethan, i. 270
Almack's Club, i. 283
Althorpe, Lord, ii. 18
America, resolutions of Congress, i. 242;
Declaration of Independence, i. 283;
troubles with, i. 249-251, 256-265 passim, 270, 272, 278, 284, 287 et seq., 316, 324, 325, 329; ii. 9, 25, 69, 151;
treaty with France, i. 333
Amherst, Colonel, i. 174
*Amory, Thomas, The Life of John Buncle, i. 189
*Amyand, Sir George, ii. 184
Ancaster, Duchess of, ii. 300, 315
Ancram, Earl of, ii. 275
Andrews, Richard, ii. 126, 138, 184
*Annual Register, quoted, i. 17, 108, 146, 156, 220, 371
*Anselme, General, ii. 314
Apsley, Lord, i. 149
*Arbuthnot, Admiral, i. 363, 384
Arles, Archbishop of. See Dulau, J. F. M.
Armitstead, Mrs., marries C. J. Fox, ii. 179
*Arnold, Benedict, i. 270, 275, 294
*Arnould, Sophie, ii. 211
Arras, Bishop of (M. H. de Conzie), ii. 266
*Articles, Parliament and the XXXIX., i. 147
Ashburnham, Lord, i. 225; ii. 305
Ashburton, Lord, i. 90, 238;
Madras Council prosecution, i. 362;
Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster, ii. 13, 96
Ashby, Mrs., i. 253, 287; ii. 22
Associations, formed to support the Government, ii. 349, 352
*Astley, Sir John, i. 148
Aston, Lady, i. 38; ii. 135
Aston, Sir Willoughby, i. 38; ii. 135
Atwood's Club, Gibbon joins, i. 152
Auckland, Lord (William Eden), American Commissioner, i. 332;
Gibbon's colleague on Board of Trade, i. 366;
his advice to Gibbon, i. 387;
M.P. for Woodstock, i. 390;
created a peer, ii. 25;
squib on his mission to France, ii. 148;
signs treaty between England and France, ii. 152;
Gibbon's claret, ii. 282, 288;
at the Hague, ii. 365;
Gibbon's host at Beckenham, ii. 395, 397;
his Journal and Correspondence quoted, ii. 19, 35, 57, 92, 157, 158, 162, 172, 265, 397-399
Augusta, Princess (Duchess of Brunswick), i. 65, 149
Austria, Emperor Leopold of, his meeting with King of Prussia at Pilnitz, ii. 271
Austria, Empress Maria Theresa of, i. 394
*Autobiography, Gibbon's, quoted, i. 25, 29, 173
*Avranches, Bishop of, ii. 324
B
Bach, Johann Christian, appointed Director of Public Concerts in London, i. 204
*Baddeley, Mrs., i. 146
Bagshot camp, review at, ii. 304
Baker, the Jesuit, receives Gibbon into Roman Catholic Church, i. 1
*Ball, Dean of Chichester, i. 399
Balsamo, Giuseppe. See Cagliostro, Comte de
Baltimore, Lord, i. 91
*Bankes, Mr., M.P. for Corfe Castle, ii. 97
Banks, Sir Joseph, ii, 218, 226, 239
Barazzi, M. (Banker at Rome), i. 71, 72
Barbary, and Spain, i. 265
Barré, Colonel Isaac (the Black Musqueteers), i. 26, 145, 238, 240, 250;
Paymaster of the Forces, ii. 19
*Barri, Madame du, i. 313, 314
*Barrington, Viscount, i. 349
*Barrington, Sir J., i. 89
Barrington, Shute (Bishop of Durham), i. 195
Barrymore, Lord, ii. 303
Barthélemy, Marquis de, ii. 355, 370
Bartoli, M., i. 59
Barton, Mr., i. 142, 193
Barton, George (Lord Sheffield's footman), i. 250, 252
Bassano, Duc de, ii. 367
Bathurst, Earl, i. 341, 393
Batt, John Thomas ("Lawyer Batt"), Master in Chancery, and Commissioner for auditing Public Accounts, i. 191, 196, 216, 240, 261, 265, 273, 279, 390; ii. 136, 158, 163, 218, 225, 239, 244, 313, 330, 349
Batten, Mr., i. 162
*Bavaria, Elector of, i. 334
Bavois, Madame de (Miss Comarque), i. 82, 83, 220
Bayley, Mr., i. 17, 119, 152, 249
Bayley, Dr., ii. 394
Beauchamp, Lord, i. 247, 393; ii. 6, 32, 102
Beauclerk, Lady Diana, i. 82, 279, 304, 348
Beauclerk, Topham, i. 82, 279, 280, 299, 304, 333, 348
*Beaumarchais, i. 371
*Beaumont and Fletcher's Knight of the Burning Pestle, i. 284
Beauvais, Bishop of, ii. 342
Beauvau, Princess de, i. 314, 319
*Beckford, Lord Mayor, presents "Remonstrance" to King, i. 113
*Beckford, Mr., and Gibbon's library, ii. 300
Bedford, Duchess of, i. 262
Bedford, Duke of, ambassador to France, i. 30, 32, 35;
and the British Coffee-House, i. 201
*Bedford Correspondence, the, quoted, i. 28
Belmore, Lady, ii. 275
*Belmore, Lord, ii. 275
Bellamont, Lord, his duel with Lord Townshend, i. 180, 182
*Benfield, Paul, i. 308
*Bengal, famine in, i. 184
*Bentinck, Lord Edward, ii. 350
Beriton, Gibbon's Hants Estate, i. 128, 153; ii. 6, 138, 175, 182, 189, 199 et seq., 222 et seq., 227, 234, 240
Berkeley, Lord, i. 58, 74
Berne, Canton of, ii. 283, 295, 299, 316, 370
*Berry, Miss, on Gibbon's library, ii. 301
Bertrand-Molleville, Marquis de, ii. 311, 329
Besançon, Gibbon at, i. 36
*Besson, Madame, i. 60
*Best's Personal and Literary Memorials quoted, i. 396
*Biographie Universelle, ii. 326
Birch, Rev. Dr. Thomas, ii. 366
*Biron, Duc de, ii. 290
Biron, Duchesse de, ii. 289, 324, 333
Black Musqueteers, the, i. 26
Blackstone's Commentaries, quotation from, ii. 205
Blessington, Earl of, i. 2
Blondel, Gibbon's valet, ii. 124, 131
Board of Trade, Gibbon appointed Commissioner of, i. 354, 366;
vote passed against: Burke on value of, i. 378;
suppressed, ii. 14
Bobbin, Benjamin, i. 35
Boissier, i. 94, 105
Bolingbroke, Lady (Lady Diana Spencer), i. 82, 85
Bolingbroke, Lord, "the Bully," i. 82, 85, 312
*Bollmann, M., ii. 292
Bolton, Duke of, i. 39, 44, 153
Bolton, Theophilus, i. 81
*Bombelles, Madame de, ii. 115
*Bondeli, Julie von, her account of Gibbon and Mdlle. Curchod, i. 40
*Bonfoy, Captain Hugh, R.N., i. 189, 265
Bonfoy, Mrs. Hugh (née Eliot), i. 189, 220, 266; ii. 386
Bonham, Mr., ii. 175, 182
Bontemps, Madame, i. 31, 35
Boodle's Club, Masquerade given by, at the Pantheon, i. 212, 215
Bordot, M., i. 22
Borromean Islands, i. 57
Boston, attack upon the teaships in the harbour, i. 205;
Port Bill, i. 206, 208;
investment of, i. 257, 258
*Boswell's Life of Johnson quoted, i. 273
*Boufflers, Duc de, ii. 289
*Boufflers, Marquise de, i. 312
Bouillé, Marquis de, ii. 254, 256, 270, 285, 286, 329
Bouillon, Duc de, ii. 256, 334
Bouillon, Madame de, ii. 334
Boulogne, Gibbon at, i. 27
Bourbon, Abbé de, ii. 115
Bourbon, Duc de, ii. 237, 269
Bourcard, M., ii. 45
Boydell, John (Lord Mayor), his edition of Shakespeare, ii. 276, 359, 374
Bradley, Thomas, i, 35
*Bramston's The Man of Taste, i. 124
*Brandt, i. 143
*Brathwaite, Colonel, ii. 19
*Brentès, Madame de, i. 81
Bricknall, Mr. Gibbon's lawyer, i. 131, 133, 141, 150, 153
Bridgewater, Duke of, i. 27, 28
*Brienne, Cardinal de (Archbishop of Sens), ii. 162, 181
Brighton, Gibbon's house at, ii. 3, 7
Brissoné, Madame de, i. 2
Brissot, J. Pierre (de Warville), ii. 258, 259, 318, 325, 350
*Bristol, Earl of, i. 21, 265; ii. 15
Bristol, Countess of. See Kingston, Duchess of
Bristol, toll-gate riots at, ii. 390
Bristow, Miss, ii. 105, 117
British coffee-house, the resort of Scotchmen, i. 201
Broglie, Duc de, ii. 269
Bromwich, Mr., i. 93
*Brooke, Member of Madras Council, i. 362
*Brooklyn, battle of, i. 287
*Brooks's Club, i. 283, 376
Brown, Lancelot (the landscape gardener known as "Capability Brown"), i. 203
Bruce, James, of Kinnaird, ii. 226
Brunswick, Antiquities of the House of, ii. 228-232
Brunswick, Hereditary Prince of, ii. 115, 117
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess of, (Princess Augusta of Wales), i. 65, 149
Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duke of, i. 149, 272, 277;
Commander-in-Chief of Austrian and Prussian armies, ii. 311, 319;
his retreat, ii. 319, 326, 346;
his manifestoes, ii. 368
*Brydges, Sir Egerton, ii. 302
Buckinghamshire, Lord, i. 394; ii. 275
Budé, General, ii. 302, 327
*Bull, Lord Mayor, i. 201
*Burges, Sir James Bland, his account of Gibbon's first meeting with Pitt, ii. 28
Burgoyne, General John, his motion on the E. I. Co., i. 184;
in America, i. 249, 291;
his surrender at Saratoga, i. 324, 325;
refused admission to Court, i. 338
*Burgoyne's Maid of the Oaks, i. 219
Buriton. See Beriton
Burke, Edmund, i. 148;
Goldsmith's Epitaph, i. 202;
meeting at Captain Horneck's, i. 207;
description of, in Goldsmith's Retaliation, i. 210;
"a watermill of words and images," i. 240;
"a Committee of Oblivion," i. 248;
the New York Remonstrance. i. 256;
on E. I. Co., i. 294;
Tickell's Anticipation, i. 348;
the Madras Council prosecution, i. 362;
his Establishment Bill, i. 376; ii. 28;
on literary value of Board of Trade, i. 378;
Paymaster-General, ii. 18, 34;
Sheridan sinks into arms of, ii. 172;
criticises Dr. Price's work, ii. 210;
his Reflections on the Revolution in France, ii, 237, 249;
Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 237, 251;
his speech on Quebec Bill, ii. 246;
his strictures on Lally, ii. 274;
attacks Paine's Rights of Man, ii. 297;
"Mr. Fox's coach stops the way," ii. 306;
Irish Roman Catholics, ii. 321;
Philosophers in France, ii. 325;
plan for settlement of French refugees, ii. 331
*Burney, Dr., ii. 375
*Burney, Miss, i. 148;
on Miss Sarah Holroyd, i. 181;
Lawyer Batt, a "prime favourite" of, i. 240;
on Lord Eliot, i. 273;
her reference to "Pliny" Melmoth, i. 326;
her opinion of Lord Sheffield, i. 392;
Lady Miller at Bath, ii. 2;
Lady E. Foster, ii. 15;
Madame de Staël at Dorking, ii. 375
Burrard, Sir H., ii. 84, 93
Burtenshaw's Manifesto, i. 221, 228
*Burton, Rev. David, Canon of Christ Church, ii. 135
Bute, Lord, i. 45, 50, 82;
the Ministerial Club, i. 84;
the Irish Catholics in arms, ii. 350
Byng, John, i. 60
*Byron, Lord, his definition of "ridotto," i. 124;
his attack on Hayley, i. 398
C
Cadell, Thomas, Gibbon's publisher, i. 222, 279, 282, 285, 364; ii. 152, 157, 158, 176, 243, 282;
Gibbon's letter to, ii. 313
Cadogan, Dr., ii. 123, 310
Cagliostro, Comte de (Giuseppe Balsamo), ii. 45, 54
Calonne, Chas. Alexandre de, ii. 162, 237, 269
Cambis, Madame de, i. 312; ii. 290
*Cambis, Vicomte de, i. 312
Cambridge, Richard O., i. 108, 279; ii. 226;
his family called by Gibbon "eloquent nymphs of Twickenham," i. 192, 197;
"the Cantabs," i. 228, 233
Camden, Lord, i. 149, 333;
President of the Council, ii. 13, 306
*Campazas, Friar Gerund de, i. 144
*Campbell, Lord, and the Rosslyn MSS., ii. 372
Cane, Eliz. Bridget (Mrs. Armitstead), ii. 179
Caplin, Gibbon's servant, i. 197, 230, 248; ii. 8, 9, 59, 110, 119, 131, 166
*Carey, General, i. 282
*Carhampton, Earl of, i. 146
Carleton, Sir Guy (Gov.-General of Canada), i. 270, 276, 277, 286, 290;
siege of Ticonderoga, i. 294
Carlisle, Lord, his opinion of Madame Geoffrin, i. 29;
appointed American Commissioner, i. 332;
Lord Privy Seal, ii. 34
Carmarthen, Marquis of, ii. 28, 86, 327
Carnarvon, Marquis of, i. 39, 44; ii. 303
*Carnatic, Nabob of the, i. 209, 308
Carter, Miss, ii. 135
Castries, Marquis de, ii. 210, 267, 269
Catch Club, The Noblemen and Gentlemen's, i. 200, 283
Catherine, Empress of Russia, i. 158, 270; ii. 247
*Cavendish, Lord George, i. 232; ii. 350
Cavendish, Lord John, his amendment on American affairs, i. 240, 273; ii. 32;
Chancellor of Exchequer, ii. 13, 18, 34
Cazalès, Jacques Marie de, ii. 252, 269, 274
Celesia, Madame (née Mallet), i. 18, 21, 62, 124
Celesia, Pietro Paolo, i. 18, 20, 62
Chandieu, Mdlle. de, ii. 43
*Charlemont, Lord, i. 85
*Charles Emanuel III., King of Sardinia, i. 58
Charles X. (Comte d'Artois), ii. 203, 204, 251, 266
Charrières, Madame de, ii. 43
Chateauneuf, M. de, French Resident at Geneva, ii. 317
Chateau-Vieux, Swiss regiment of, ii. 270
*Chatham, Earl of, returns to public life, i. 112;
his American Bill, i. 251;
his boast, i. 290;
conciliation for America, i. 324;
his death, i. 338
Chatillon, Marie Jeanne de. See Bontemps, Madame
Chauvelin, M., ii. 362, 366, 367, 370
Chelsum, Dr. James, on Decline and Fall, i. 295
*Chermont d'Amboise, Marquis de, i. 314
Chesterfield, Lord, i. 25, 150, 158;
his Letters, i. 195;
his Portraits, i. 313
*Cheyte Singh, Rajah of Benares, ii. 26
Chichester, Earl of (Lord Pelham of Stanmer), i. 200
Chichester, Lady, i. 200
*Child, Mr., author of English and Scottish Popular Ballads, i. 283
*Chimay, Prince de, i. 312
Choiseul, Duc de, i. 312, 314, 318; ii. 286
Cholmondeley, Earl, i. 262
Christian VII., King of Denmark, i. 143
Christie, Mr., ii. 69, 83
*Chudleigh, Miss. See Kingston, Duchess of
*Cibber and Vanbrugh's The Provoked Husband, i. 366; ii. 29
*Clare, Lord, i. 132
Clarges, Lady (née Skrine), ii. 135
*Clarges, Sir Thomas, ii. 135
Clarke, Godfrey Bagnal, Gibbon's intimate friend, i. 144, 148, 155, 201, 205, 208, 211, 214, 219, 222-224, 229, 232, 238, 241, 244
Clarke, George Hyde, i. 61
*Clarke, Jervoise, i. 89, 90
Clavière, Etienne, ii. 315
*Cleland, John, i. 53
*Clermont-Tonnerre, ii. 329
Cline, Henry, ii. 393
Clinton, Sir Henry, i. 349, 384; ii. 71, 153, 240, 377
Clinton, General Sir William, i. 249, 300; ii. 71
Clive, Lord, i. 184, 238
Clive, Mrs., i. 175
Coalition Ministry, the (1783), ii. 34, 86, 92
Cobham, Lady, i. 314, 316
*Coblentz, the rallying-point of the Emigrés, ii. 265
Cocoa-Tree Tavern, i. 84
*Coke, T. W., M.P. for Norfolk, ii. 33
Coleraine, Lord, i. 146, 148, 310
Colman, George, "The Luminous Historian," etc., i. 59; ii. 154;
Gibbon's opinion of The Man of Business, i. 202;
his description of Gibbon in Random Records, i. 213
Comarque, Miss. See Bavois, Madame de
Concord, the March to, i. 257
*Conches, M. Feuillet de, ii. 257, 352
Condé, Louis Joseph, Prince de, ii. 237, 265, 269
Congress, American, i. 242, 250
Conway, General, i. 84, 85, 287;
Commander-in-Chief, ii. 13, 18, 20, 32
Conway, Hon. and Rev. Edward, ii. 112
Conway, Hon. William, ii. 7, 18, 20, 32
Conway, T., i. 247
Conzie, Marc Hilaire de (Bishop of Arras), ii. 266
*Cook, Captain, ii. 218
*Cooke, Dr., Provost of King's, Cambridge, i. 108, 157
*Cooke, Thomas, known as "Hesiod" Cooke, i. 284
*Cooper, John, M.P. for Downton, i. 250
*Coote, Sir Eyre, ii. 26
Corcelles, Madame de, ii. 43
*Corisande, La belle, ii. 265
*Cork, Earl of, i. 34
Corn Regulation Bill, ii. 239
*Cornelys, Mrs. Theresa, and the Soho Masquerades, i. 131
Cornwallis, Hon. F. (Archbishop of Canterbury), i. 319
Cornwallis, Lord, in America, ii. 171;
campaign against Tippoo, ii. 275, 285
Courtenay, Hon. Charlotte, ii. 24
Courtenay, Harry, i. 18
Courtenay, Lord, ii. 24
Coventry election petition, i. 393
Cowper, Earl, i. 65
*Cowper, William, i. 83
Coxheath Camp, i. 340, 346;
Lord Sheffield at, ii. 18, 25
*Cradock, Joseph, i. 143
*Craon, Prince de, i. 314
Crauford, "Fish," ii. 67
*Crauford, "Flesh," ii. 67
Crauford, Mrs., Gibbon's landlady, ii. 164
Craufurd of Auchinames, ii. 388, 400
Craven, Lord, i. 148
*Crewe, Lord, ii. 350
*Cromwell, Major Henry, ii. 72
Cromwell, Oliver (solicitor), ii. 72
*Crosby, Lord Mayor Brass, i. 130
Crousaz, Catherine, ii. 81
Crousaz, Madame de. See Montolieu, Madame de
Cumberland, Duchess of (Mrs. Horton), i. 146, 150, 154
Cumberland, Duke of, i. 146, 149, 150, 154; ii. 3, 111
*Cumberland's Fashionable Lover, i. 143
*Cunningham, Captain, i. 310
Curchod, Mdlle. Suzanne. See Necker, Madame
Custine, Adam de, his incursion into Germany, ii. 319, 332
Cuthbert, Dr., attends Gibbon's father, i. 115
D
d'Agnesseau, Madame, ii. 333
*d'Allonville, Comte, ii. 326
Dalrymple, Sir John, Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland, i. 131
Damas, Comte, ii. 286
Damer, Hon. John, i. 139, 144, 287
*Damer, Hon. Lionel, ii. 350
*d'Arblay, Madame, Diary and Letters, quoted, i. 108; ii. 15, 211, 284, 302
Darby, Captain, i. 257, 258, 260
*d'Argenteuil, M., i. 294
d'Argout, Comte, ii. 280
Darrel, Mr., i. 7, 20, 74
Darrel, Mrs., i. 7, 17, 38
Darrel, Robert, ii. 34, 280, 376, 400
Dartmouth, Lord, i. 258, 278
d'Artois, Comte (Charles X.), ii. 203, 204, 251, 266
*d'Assas, Chevalier, ii. 204
d'Augny, M., i. 31, 35
*d'Aunoy, Madame, Mémoires de la Cour d'Espagne, quoted, i. 202
*Davis, Henry Edward, i. 355
*Davy, Sir Humphrey, i. 139
Dawkes, Mrs., i. 204
*d'Ayen, Duc, i. 305; ii. 333
*Dean, Sir Robert, i. 85
Deane, Silas, i. 301, 334; ii. 66
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, History of, i. 259, 261, 264, 275, 277, 279, 285, 295, 304, 342, 355, 366, 396; ii. 21, 119, 143, 152, 170, 230
Deffand, Madame du, on Madame Geoffrin, i. 29;
on Voltaire's La Princesse de Babylone, i. 91;
her reference to the Neckers, i. 281;
her life in Paris described by Gibbon, i. 312;
on Gibbon and Madame de Cambis, i. 313;
on Bishop of Arras, ii. 266
*Deffand, Marquis du, i. 312
*Defoe's Memoirs of Captain Carleton, i. 273
*de la Borde, Jean Benjamin, ii. 54
Delacour, Dr., i. 268, 304, 336, 337, 394; ii. 10
*Delaval, Lord, ii. 275
*Delaval, Sir Francis, ii. 275
*de la Warr, Lord, i. 107
*d'Enghien, Duc, ii. 237
Denhoff, Countess, i. 149
Denmark, Christian VII., King of, i. 143
Denmark, Juliana Maria, Queen Dowager of, i. 143
Denmark, Queen Caroline Matilda of, i. 143
Denmark, Revolution in, i. 143, 144, 146, 149
*d'Ennery, Comte, ii. 280
Denton, Mrs., i. 130
Denys, Madame (Voltaire's niece), i. 43, 92
*Derry, Bishop of, ii. 15, 388
d'Estaing, Comte, i. 337, 350, 370, 384, 395
Devonshire, Duchess of, i. 33, 370; ii. 300, 310, 312, 315, 319, 327, 339, 388
Devonshire, Duke of, ii. 15, 305
Deyverdun, George, Gibbon's intimate friend, i. 82, 83, 110, 158, 188-214 passim, 232, 236, 255, 262, 291;
offers his house to Gibbon, ii. 41, 108;
his description of Lausanne society, ii. 43;
Gibbon's host at Lausanne, ii. 75 et seq.;
Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 89, 118;
his illness, ii. 176, 179, 188;
and death, ii. 194, 207, 229;
Gibbon's letters to, ii. 35, 45, 54;
his letters to Gibbon, ii. 39, 52
*d'Haussonville, M., his Salon de Madame Necker, i. 40, 41
*d'Hénin, Prince, ii. 211
d'Hénin, Princess, ii. 211, 290, 322, 324, 329, 334, 342, 349, 377
Diary, the (newspaper), ii. 351, 370
*Dictionary of National Biography quoted, i. 283
Digby, Captain, i. 334
*Dillon, Mr., i. 180
*Dillon, General, murdered, ii. 299
*Disraeli's Calamities of Authors quoted, i. 23
*Dodsley's tragedy of Cleone, i. 18
Dorchester, Earl of, i. 139; ii. 350
d'Orleans, Regent Duc, i. 312, 326
Dorset, 1st Duke of, i. 139
Dorset, 3rd Duke of, Ambassador at Paris, i. 226; ii. 86
*d'Orvilliers, Count, i. 349
Douglas, Lady Catherine, ii. 377, 387
*Dowling, Surgeon, ii. 295
Down, Charles, i. 244
Downes, Rev. Dr. Dive, i. 205
Downshire, Marquis of, ii. 5
Draper, General Sir William, ii. 22
*Drouet, Postmaster, ii. 254, 326
Drummond, Andrew, i. 71
Duane, Mr., i. 201, 218, 226, 234, 261, 264
Dulau, J. F. M. (Archbishop of Arles), ii. 322, 325;
his murder described, ii. 333, 341
*Dummer, Thos. Lee, i. 90, 250
Dumont, M., ii. 258
Dumouriez, M., ii. 299, 319, 326, 368
Duncannon, Lady, ii. 310, 312
Duncannon, Lord, ii. 18, 19
*Duncombe, Thomas, i. 250
Dundas, Hon. Henry (afterwards Lord Melville), Treasurer of Navy, ii. 19, 86;
Lord Advocate, ii. 85;
Secretary of State, ii. 247, 306;
Abolition of Slave Trade, ii. 294;
suggests coalition between Pitt and Fox, ii. 306;
king's message for augmentation of forces, ii. 365
Dunning, John. See Ashburton, Lord
d'Ursel, Duke, ii. 83
Dutch, fears of war with, i. 348, 353
Dutens, Louis, i. 56, 59
*Dutensiana, i. 314
Dux, George, i. 52
E
*Eames, John, i. 89
Eardley, Lord (Sir Sampson Gideon), i. 225, 332; ii. 216
East India Company, the, i. 184, 186, 209, 308; ii. 85
*Eccentricities for Edinburgh quoted, i. 59
*Eden, Sir Robert, ii. 397
Eden, William. See Auckland, Lord
Egerton, Sir Thomas, i. 148
Egremont, Lord, i. 247, 249; ii. 175, 182, 305, 388
Elgin, Thomas, Lord, Envoy at Brussels, ii. 383
Elkin, Sir George, i. 16
Eliot, Captain John, i. 62
Eliot, Hon. Edward James, i. 390, 394; ii. 19, 20, 22, 143
Eliot, Hon. John, i. 217, 229, 380
Eliot, Lady, i. 98, 110, 122, 131, 132, 365
Eliot, Lord (of St. Germans), i. 70, 84, 183, 188, 193, 228, 230, 231, 254, 273, 342, 367, 369, 374;
Gibbon's appeal to and defence, i. 385, 389
Eliott, Admiral Sir George A. See Heathfield, Lord
Elizabeth, Queen, story of Lord Essex's ring, i. 276
Elliot, Grey, ii. 69
*Elliot, Lady, ii. 374
Elliot, Sir Gilbert, i. 251;
on treaty between France and U. S. A., i. 333;
his daughter's marriage, ii. 25;
his Life and Letters quoted, ii. 172, 306, 351, 374;
his support of Government, ii. 305;
Duke of Portland's views of Alien Bill, ii. 363
Ellis, George, editor of Fabliaux, etc., i. 139;
Sir Walter Scott on, ii. 184;
lines on Pitt in Rolliad, ibid.
Ellis, Governor Henry, i. 73
*Elliston, Mrs., of South Weald, i. 70
Elmsley, Peter, the bookseller, i. 372; ii. 60, 94, 105, 113, 126, 158, 214, 314, 388
*Elstob, Lewis, i. 118, 372
Elstob, Mrs., i. 372
Ely, Lady, i. 266
Ely, Lord, i. 265
Ely, Madame, ii. 386
Erskine, ii. 297
Essai sur l'étude de la Littérature, Gibbon's first published work, i. 20, 80
Essex, Earl of, i. 276
Establishment Bill, i. 376
Etienne, Gibbon's valet, ii. 243, 253
Exchequer Bills, issue of, ii. 382
Exeter, Lord, i. 65
Exilles, Fort, i. 59
*Eyre, Mr., printer, i. 263
F
*Falkland, Lord, i. 282
*Fanshaw, Miss, ii. 284
Farquhar, Sir Walter, ii. 393, 395, 398, 401
*Farquhar's The Twin Rivals, ii. 102
Faukier, Mr., i. 163
Featherstonhaugh, Lady, i. 232, 235, 246, 249
Featherstonhaugh, Sir H., i. 162, 214, 235, 247, 249
Featherstonhaugh, Sir M., i. 56, 67, 83, 84, 131, 162, 247
Fenestrelle, Fort, i. 59
*Ferguson, Lieut. James, killed by Captain Roche, i. 209
Ferrières, M. de, ii. 318
*Fersen, Comte de, ii. 292
*Feuchéres, Madame de, ii. 237
Firth, Miss, ii. 82, 91, 98, 334;
Gibbon's letter to, ii. 98;
and Severy's studies, ii. 167
Fischer, M., ii. 260, 283, 375
*Fitzherbert, Mrs., ii. 150
Fitzjames, Duchess of, ii. 324
Fitzmaurice, Lord. See Shelburne, Earl of
Fitzpatrick, Lady Mary. See Holland, Lady
Fitzroy, Mrs., i. 90
Fitzwilliam, Lord, ii. 305
Flanders, invasion of, ii. 299
*Fleming, Sir John, i. 261
Flood, Henry, i. 264
Florence, Gibbon at, i. 63
*Floyer, Mr., Member of Madras Council, i. 362
Foley, Mr., English banker at Paris, i. 33, 36
Foote, Samuel, his Bankrupt, i. 192;
A Trip to Calais stopped by Duchess of Kingston, i. 265
Ford, Mrs., Gibbon's housekeeper, i. 192; ii. 8
Fordwich, Lord. See Cowper, Earl
Fort Louis, surrender of garrison to Austrians, ii. 396
Foster, Lady Elizabeth, described by Gibbon as "a bewitching animal," "goddess," "still adorable," "Bess," etc., ii. 15, 81, 117, 300, 308, 310, 312, 319, 339, 388;
Gibbon's letter to, on Lady Sheffield's death, ii. 380
Foster, John. See Oriel, Lord
*Foster, John Thomas, ii. 15
Fothergill, Dr., i. 177
Fowler, Mr., ii. 340
Fox, Charles James, supports Church of England, i. 148;
Royal Marriage Bill, i. 151;
his debts, i. 198, 264;
on troubles with America, i. 249, 256, 303, 324, 328;
the king's debts, i, 308;
on the Canadian Expedition, i. 333;
Tickell's Anticipation, i. 348;
his lines on Gibbon as Commissioner of Trade, i. 354;
on Sheffield's Regiment of Horse, i. 380;
M.P. for Westminster, i. 388, 390;
"the black Patriot," ii. 4;
Secretary of State, ii. 13, 34;
resigns office, ii. 18;
and American independence, ii. 25;
George III.'s behaviour to, ii. 34;
sale of his library, ii. 68;
his two India Bills, ii. 86;
Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 85, 92, 96, 251, 356, 360, 372;
suggested union with Pitt, ii. 92, 306, 307, 330;
no compromise, ii. 97;
his "Martyrs," ii. 102;
"the man of the people," ii. 179;
his marriage, ibid.;
twelve hours' talk with Gibbon, ii. 180;
speech on treaty between Russia and Turkey, ii. 246;
on Abolition of Slave Trade, ii. 294;
his half-support of Grey's motion, ii. 297, 320;
"but fifty followers," ii. 305;
rejoices at retreat of Prussians, ii. 320;
"detestable" on French affairs, ii. 330;
on the calling out of the Militia, ii. 349, 350;
his motion for an Embassy to France, ii. 350, 353;
opposes Alien Bill, ii. 364;
Duke of Portland's adherence to, ii. 367, 368;
opposes augmentation of forces, ii. 368
Fox, Hon. Stephen. See Holland, 2nd Lord
France, fears of war with, i. 289, 317;
treaty with America, i. 333;
war with, i. 339; ii. 362, 374;
treaty with England, ii. 152;
war declared against Francis Joseph, ii. 279;
war with Austria and Prussia, ii. 319;
treaty with Geneva, ii. 325, 331, 345;
war with England, Holland, and Spain, ii. 362, 374
Francillon, M., ii. 283
*Francis Joseph, of Austria, ii. 279, 292
Frankland, Miss Anne (Lady Chichester), i. 200
*Frankland, Sir Thomas, i. 200
Franklin, Dr., i. 162, 243, 310, 313
Fraser, General, i. 264, 299, 363
Fraser, General Simon, i. 325
Fraser, Mrs., "Donna Catherina," i. 300; ii. 105, 117
Fredennick, M., ii. 260
*Frederick the Great, i. 158; ii. 210
Frederick II. of Prussia, i. 143; ii. 137
Frederick William of Prussia at Pilnitz, ii. 271
French Revolution, ii. 246, 249, 270, 287, 293, 311;
massacres of September, 1792, ii. 312, 321, 351;
and Ireland, ii. 320;
murder of Louis XVI., ii. 360, 365
Frey, M., escorts Gibbon to Lausanne, i. 1
*"Friends of the People," an association for reform of representative system, ii. 297
Fullarton, Colonel, ii. 168
Fuller, Miss, called "Sappho" by Gibbon, i. 196, 198, 202, 208, 241
Fuller, Rose, i. 196, 208
G
Gage, General, i. 206, 257, 258, 260, 266
Gage, William Hall, Viscount, "the green plumb," i. 225, 227
*Galovkin, Comte Fédor, i. 81
*Gansel, Major-General, i. 109
Garrick, David, as "Sir John Brute," i. 19;
Gibbon a friend of, i. 201, 289, 333;
in Hamlet, i. 203;
letter from Gibbon to, quoted, i. 317
Gascoyne, Bamber, i. 366
*Gates, General, i. 325
Gazette, the, i. 257, 392
*Gazetteer, the, i. 146
Gee, Mr., i. 3, 6
*Genlis, Comte de, i. 326
Genlis, Madame de, her opinion of Madame de Cambis, i. 313;
of Princesse de Beauvau, i. 314;
on Decline and Fall, i. 326;
on Dr. Tissot's skill, ii. 77;
her story of Gibbon and Madame de Montolieu, ii. 154
Geneva, threatened by French, ii. 317, 322;
the Government at, ii. 318;
treaty with France, ii. 325, 331, 345;
new constitution of, ii. 370
Genoa, Gibbon at, i. 61
Gentleman's Magazine cited, ii. 289, 301, 302, 314, 349
Geoffrin, Madame, i. 29
*George II., ii. 321
George III., i. 45;
grants pension to M. de Viry, i. 56;
his intervention in Denmark, i. 143;
Royal Marriage Bill, i. 154;
reviews fleet at Spithead, i. 186;
the King's speech and America, i. 238;
negotiates for hire of Russian mercenaries, i. 270;
and Sir H. Palliser's leg, i. 356;
his behaviour to Fox, ii. 34;
refuses to dismiss ministers, ii. 100;
his illness and recovery, ii. 181, 191;
and Lally, ii. 285;
reviews troops at Bagshot, ii. 304;
proclaims tumultuous meetings, etc., ii. 305;
Lally's Plaidoyer, ii. 375.
George IV. See Wales, Prince of
Germain, Lady George, i. 328
Germain, Lord George. See Sackville, Lord
*Germain, Sir John, i. 198
Germanie, M. de, ii. 291
*Gibbon, Mrs., née Porten (Gibbon's mother), i. 2
Gibbon, Mrs., née Patton (Gibbon's stepmother), her opinion of Miss Catherine Porten, i. 2;
marries Gibbon's father, i. 7;
Gibbon's inquiries about, i. 8;
subjects of Gibbon's letters to:—
Dr. Turton, i. 16, 114, 150, 371;
money troubles, i. 19, 352, 359;