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;