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,