ii. 271

Pitman, Mr., i. 197, 267

Pitt, General, i. 247

Pitt, George (Lord Rivers), i. 54, 56

*Pitt, Lady Harriet, ii. 22

Pitt, Mrs., i. 247

*Pitt, Thomas, M.P. for Old Sarum, ii. 32

Pitt, 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 in _Rolliad_ on, 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. 398

Poix, Prince de, ii. 329, 377

*Poix, Princesse de, i. 314; ii. 334

Poland, partition of, i. 158

*Poland, Stanislaus Poniatowski, King of, i. 29, 158

Polier, Colonel, ii. 43, 370

Polignac, Duchesse de, ii. 203

*Polignac, Prince de, ii. 204

*Pompadour, Madame de, i. 313

Ponsonby, William, Lord, i. 65

Porchester, Lord (afterwards Earl of Carnarvon), ii. 375

Porten, James, i. _2_, _7_, 101, 124

Porten, Lady (Mary Wibault), i. 220, 246, 250

Porten, 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, 5

Porten, Miss Charlotte, ii. 201, 221

Porten, Miss Judith. _See_ Gibbon, Mrs. (mother)

Porten, Sir Stanier (Gibbon's uncle), i. 177, 204, 220, 246, 250, 266; ii. 10, 201

Porteous, Dr. Beilby (Bishop of London), i. 285

*Porter, General, M.P. for Stockbridge, i. 149

Portland, 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, 368

Pouschkin, Mouschkin, Russian Ambassador in London, i. 227

*Powell, Harcourt, M.P. for Newtown, i. 89

Powell, 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. 97

Poyntz, Mrs., i. 33

*Poyntz, Stephen, i. 33

*Pratt, Lord Chief Justice, i. 51

Prevôt, Lieut.-Colonel, i. 81

Prevôt, Madame, i. 81

Price, Dr. Richard, ii. 210; Chairman of the Revolution Society, ii. _305_

*Priestley, Dr., ii. 210, 305

Provence, Comte de (Louis XVIII.), ii. 265

Prowse, Mr., i. 33

Prussia, Prince Henry of, ii. 5, 111, 115-117

Prussia, 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. 91

Pully, Mademoiselle de, ii. 324

Putney Writings, the, i. 93, 106

Q

Quebec Bill, i. 256

R

*Rae, Fraser, ii. 172

Ragobat or Ragonant Ráo, i. 349, 350

Ranelagh Gardens, i. 89

*Ranelagh, Lord, i. 89

Ravaud, Mrs., ii. 2, 8

*Ravensworth, Lord, i. 27

Raynal, 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, 306

Remonstrance Debate, the, i. 113

Rennell, Major James, ii, 212, 226

Revenue Returns (1798), ii. 276, 288

Reynolds, 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. 311

Rhodes, Mr., ii. 224

Richardson, Mr., and S. Sayer's arrest, i. 272

Richmond, Duke of, his reception of Gibbon at Paris Embassy,