ii. 128;

-- _on the French Treaty and Commerce_, ii. 148; -- _on the Project for Abolishing the Slave Trade_, ii. 217; -- _on the Corn Bill now depending in Parliament_, ii. 239

Shelburne, Earl, i. 26, _373_; Secretary of State, ii. 14, 17; Prime Minister, ii. 19, 25; resigns, ii. 33

Shelley, Sir John, i. 351

Shelley, Lady, ii. 31

Shelly, Mrs., ii. 386

Sheridan, i. 333; his speech on Begums of Oude, ii. 172; lines on Lord Glenbervie, ii. 180; "Friends of the People," ii. 297

Siddons, Mrs., Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 29

Sidney, Mr., i. 40

*Simolin, M., ii. 254

*Simpson, Mrs. J. Bridgman, i. 153

Sivrac, Duchesse de, ii. 111

Skipwith, Mr. (Gibbon's co-executor of Clarke's will), i. 239, 244, 245, 254

Slave Trade, Abolition of, ii. 239, 294

*Sloane, Sir Hans, i. 29, 89

*Smith, General, ii. 85

*Smithson, Sir Hugh (Duke of Northumberland), i. 82

Smyrna Coffee House, i. 19

Soho masquerade, the (Carlisle House), i. 131

*Southerne's tragedy of _The Fatal Marriage_, ii. 29

Southouse, Mr., Gibbon's solicitor, i. 93, 95, 96, 98, 102, 103, 127

*Southwell, Lord, i. 6

Spain, troubles with, i. 212, 344; Expedition _v._ Barbary, i. 265; Rodney's defeat of Spanish fleet, i. 376; war with France, i. 362; convention between England and, ii. 226

Speed, Miss Harriet (Comtesse de Viry), i. 314, 316

Spencer, Lady, i. _33_, 370; ii. 300, 310, 312, 400

Spencer, Lady Diana. _See_ Bolingbroke, Lady, and Beauclerk, Lady Diana

Spencer Lady Elizabeth (Lady Pembroke), ii. 106, 110

Spencer, Lord, i. 33; ii. 135, 187, 305

Spencer, Lord Charles, i. 376

*Spencer, Lord R., i. 366

*Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, i. 114

Staël-Holstein, Baron de, ii. 292

Staël-Holstein, Madame de, i. _41_, 115, 291, _292_; escapes from Paris, ii. 311; birth of her sons, ii. 319, 347; rescues Princesse d'Hénin, ii. _324_; Miss Burney on, at Dorking, ii. 375; Lord Sheffield's guest, ii. 377

Stafford, Marquis of, ii. 306

Stamford, Lord, i. 254

*Stamp Act, the i. 84

*Standish, Sir Frank, i. 90

*Stanhope, Mrs. Eugenia, i. 195

Stanhope, Philip (Lord Chesterfield's son), i. 188, 191, 195

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

Stanley, Lord, his Fête Champêtre, i. 219

Stanley, Rt. Hon. Hans, i. 29, _44_, 148

*States-General, meeting of the, ii. 279

Stawell, Lord, ii. 26, 175, 182, 189, 199

*Steward, Colonel, i. 398

Steward, Mr., i. 18

Storer, Anthony Morris, i. 207; ii. 67, _86_, 87

Stormont, Lord (2nd Lord Mansfield), i. _314_, 333, 371; President of Council, ii. _34_, 305

Strahan, William, printer to His Majesty, i. _222_, 263, 279

Strange, Lord, i. 90

Strathmore, Lord, ii. 276

Stratton, member of Madras Council, i. 362

*Strode, William, i. 89, 90

*Struensee, Dr., i. 143

Stuart, Andrew, M.P. for Lanarkshire, i. 366

Stuart, Gilbert, _View of Society in Europe_, etc., ii. 22

Stuart, Mrs., ii. 11

Stuart, Sir Simeon, i. 84, 92, 105, 112

*Sturm's _Religious Meditations_, etc., i. 181

Suard, J. B. Antoine, translates _Decline and Fall_, i. 292

Suess, George, Gibbon's valet, ii. 49

Suffield, Lord, i. 250, 252

Sujah Dowlah, Nawab of Oude, i. 187, 209

Sulens, Mdlle., ii. 43

Sussex Militia, i. 336, 340, 361

Sutton, Sir Richard, i. 260

*Sweden, Gustavus III., King of, ii. 279

Swiss Guard massacred in Paris, ii. 312, 322, 355

Swiss Militia, i. 38

Sylva, Madame de, ii. 388, 400

Sydney, Lord (Tommy Townshend), i. 151, 210; ii. 19, _86_

T

Taaffe, i. 6, 35

*Taboureau des Réaux, i. 304

*Talleyrand, ii. 292, 326

*Tandy, Napper, ii. 115

*Tanjore, Rajah of, i. 209, 308

*Tankerville, Earl of, i. 67

Tavistock, Marquis of, i. 27

Temple, Lord, i. _50_, 185-187; ii. 19; the "stormy petrel" of politics, ii. _86_

Tessier, M., i. 278

Theodore, Charles, Elector of Bavaria, ii. 265

*Thiars, Comte de, ii. 324

*Thiers, M., ii. 326

Thomas, Dr., i. 223, 224, 241

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

Thompson, Sir Charles, i. 261

Thurlow, Lord, Attorney General, i. _173_; Lord Chancellor, i. 341; ii. _13_, 86; dismissed, ii. 306

Tickell, Richard, on Gibbon's snuff-box i. _58_; his pamphlet _Anticipation_, i. 341; on Brooks's Club, i. _376_

Tippoo (Hyder Ali's son), ii. 19; defeated by Cornwallis, ii. _276_

Tissot, Dr. Simon André, ii. 77, 105, 108, 115, 130, 179

Titchfield, Marquis of, ii. 363

Tollemache, Hon. W., i. 386

Tonyn, Governor of Florida, i. 300

*Toussaint d'Ouverture, ii. 75

*Towers, Dr., ii. 305

Townley, Colonel, i. 148

*Townshend, C., i. 347

Townshend, Hon. John, i. _58_, _376_; ii. _18_, 19, _179_

Townshend, Lord, duel with Lord Bellamont, i. 180; Master of Ordnance, ii. _34_; on Coalition Ministry, ii. 34

Townshend, Thomas. _See_ Sydney, Lord

Trade and Plantations. _See_ Board of Trade

Trajan's Pillar, i. 67

Tremlet, _Life of Almanzor_, i. 238, 243

Trevor, Mrs., i. 361; ii. 148, 153, 279, 284

Trevor, Hon. John Hampden, ii. 135, 274, 279, 294

*Truguet, Admiral, ii. 314

Tryon, Governor, i. 284

*Turgot, M., i. 304

Turin, Gibbon at, i. 55

Turton, Dr. John, attends Goldsmith, i. 16; Gibbon, i. 114, 150, 371, 378; Godfrey Clarke, i. 224

*Tyers, Jonathan, i. 114

Tylney, Lord, i. 60

Tyrconnell, Countess of, ii. 275

*Tyrconnell, Earl of, ii. 275

Tyrone, Lord, ii. 112

U

*Unitarian Society, the, ii. 305

*Ushant, battle of, i. 349

V

*Vallant, Paul, ii. 60

*Valmy, Duc de (F. C. de Kellerman), ii. 319

*Valory, M. de, ii. 256

Van Berchem, ii. 370

*Vanbrugh's _The Provoked Wife_, i. 19; _The Provoked Husband_, etc., i. 366; ii. 29

Vassall, Elizabeth (Lady Holland), ii. 257

Vaucluse, Mdlle. de, i. 20

Venice, Gibbon at, i. 75

*Vergennes, M. de, i. 334

Verney, Earl, i. 126, 167, 170, 332

Vernon, Mr., i. 149

Versailles, Peace of, ii. 67

*Victor Amadeus III. of Sardinia, ii. 265

Viry, Count de, Foreign Secretary to King of Sardinia, i. 56, 314

Viry, Countess de, i. 314, 316

Voltaire, at _les Délices_, near Geneva, i. 5; at Ferney, i. 43; Gibbon on his acting, i. 43; his financial difficulties, i. 91; protests against French translation of Shakespeare, i. 294; quotation from his _Mélanges de Poésies_, ii. 154; his death, ii. 258

*Volunteer movement, the, i. 373

W

Waldegrave, Lady, i. _131_, _146_, 154

*Waldegrave, Lord, i. 146

Wales, Prince of (George IV.), ii. _97_, 150, 173, _181_, 368

*Wales, Princess Dowager of, i. _143_, 149

Walpole, Horace (Lord Orford), his writings quoted on "The Seven Years' War," i. _14_; Madame Geoffrin, i. _29_; Duke of Bedford's temper, i. _30_; Lord Lichfield and the Jacobites, i. _34_; correspondence with Sir H. Mann, i. _65_; ii. _16_; Mrs. Cornelys, i. _131_; the Pantheon, i. _146_; Lord Chesterfield's _Letters_, i. _195_; Kelly's _School of Wives_, i. _199_; Colman's _The Man of Business_, i. _202_; Louis XV.'s daughters, i. _218_; N. America, i. _231_; America: Ireland--_Journal of Reign of George III._, i. _271_;