Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)

i. 65, 149

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Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duke of, i. _149_, _272_, 277; Commander-in-Chief of Austrian and Prussian armies, ii. 311, 319; his retreat, ii. 319, 326, 346; his manifestoes, ii. 368

*Brydges, Sir Egerton, ii. 302

Buckinghamshire, Lord, i. 394; ii. 275

Budé, General, ii. 302, 327

*Bull, Lord Mayor, i. 201

*Burges, Sir James Bland, his account of Gibbon's first meeting with Pitt, ii. 28

Burgoyne, General John, his motion on the E. I. Co., i. 184; in America, i. 249, 291; his surrender at Saratoga, i. 324, 325; refused admission to Court, i. 338

*Burgoyne's _Maid of the Oaks_, i. 219

Buriton. _See_ Beriton

Burke, Edmund, i. 148; Goldsmith's Epitaph, i. _202_; meeting at Captain Horneck's, i. 207; description of, in Goldsmith's _Retaliation_, i. _210_; "a watermill of words and images," i. 240; "a Committee of Oblivion," i. 248; the New York Remonstrance. i. 256; on E. I. Co., i. 294; Tickell's _Anticipation_, i. 348; the Madras Council prosecution, i. 362; his Establishment Bill, i. 376; ii. 28; on literary value of Board of Trade, i. _378_; Paymaster-General, ii. _18_, _34_; Sheridan sinks into arms of, ii. 172; criticises Dr. Price's work, ii. 210; his _Reflections on the Revolution in France_, ii, 237, 249; Gibbon's opinion of, ii. 237, 251; his speech on Quebec Bill, ii. _246_; his strictures on Lally, ii. 274; attacks Paine's _Rights of Man_, ii. 297; "Mr. Fox's coach stops the way," ii. _306_; Irish Roman Catholics, ii. _321_; Philosophers in France, ii. 325; plan for settlement of French refugees, ii. 331

*Burney, Dr., ii. 375

*Burney, Miss, i. 148; on Miss Sarah Holroyd, i. 181; Lawyer Batt, a "prime favourite" of, i. 240; on Lord Eliot, i. 273; her reference to "Pliny" Melmoth, i. 326; her opinion of Lord Sheffield, i. 392; Lady Miller at Bath, ii. 2; Lady E. Foster, ii. 15; Madame de Staël at Dorking, ii. 375

Burrard, Sir H., ii. 84, 93

Burtenshaw's Manifesto, i. 221, 228

*Burton, Rev. David, Canon of Christ Church, ii. 135

Bute, Lord, i. _45_, _50_, _82_; the Ministerial Club, i. _84_; the Irish Catholics in arms, ii. 350

Byng, John, i. 60

*Byron, Lord, his definition of "ridotto," i. 124; his attack on Hayley, i. 398

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Cadell, Thomas, Gibbon's publisher, i. 222, 279, 282, 285, 364;