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. 334

Ridley, Major, i. 81

*Ridley, Sir Matthew, i. 81

*Ridotto al fresco, i. 114, 124

*Rivarol, ii. 330

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

Roach, Miss, i. 16

Roberts, Mr., i. 201

Robertson, William, author of _History of Scotland_, etc., ii. 132, 190, _292_

*Robespierre, ii. 256, 311

Roche, Captain David, his quarrel with Lieut. Ferguson, i. 209

Rochefoucault-Liancourt, Duc de, ii. 324

Rochford, Lord, i. 272

Rockingham, Lord. ii. _13_, 17

Rodney, 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. 252

Roman Catholic Relief Bill (Ireland), ii. 115, 320

Romans Club, the, i. 89

Romanzov, Count Nicholas, ii. 266, 269

Romanzow, Peter A., 223, 227

Romberg, Messrs., of Ostend, ii. 191

Rome, Gibbon at, i. 66-72, 74

Ross, Sir John, i. 369

Rosset, M., ii. _283_, 293, 328

Rosslyn, 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. 397

Rotombeau, ii. 351, 353

Rous, Lady, i. 171, 173-175

*Rous, Sir John, i. 171

Rousseau, J. J., i. 41; ii. 261, 289; his _Lettres de la Montague_, ii. _318_

*Rowe's _Jane Shore_, ii. 29

*Royal Foresters, the, i. 87

Royal Marriage Bill, the, i. 146, 151, 154

Royal Society, Gibbon a member of the, ii. 187

*Rumbold, Sir Thomas, President of Madras Council, ii. 85

Rumford, Count of (Sir Benjamin Thompson), ii. 72

Russell, Lady, i. 282

Russell, Sir John, i. 191, 196, 216, 218, _282_; ii. 65

Russia, peace signed between Turkey and, i. 223; probability of war with, ii. 247; rupture with France, ii. _280_

Russian mercenaries, proposed hire of, i. 270, 272

*Rutland, Duke of, ii. 86, 115

S

Sackville, 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. 356

Sainsbury, Mr., ii. 189, 199, 224, 233

St. Cierge, Madame de, ii. 43

St. 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. 75

St. Vincent, Earl, ii. 396

Sainte Croix, Bigot de, ii. 329

Salms, Princesse de, ii. 267

Sandwich, 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. 375

Savoy, French invasion of, ii. 314

*Saxe-Teschen, Duke of, ii. 137

Sayer, Stephen, i. 272

*Scawen, Captain, i. 207

*Scholl, Dr., ii. 301

Schomberg, Count de, ii. 223

*Scindiah, i. 350

Scott, George, i. 130, 372, 393

Scott, 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 in _Marmion_,