INDEX
Reading edition
The figures in italics refer to the notes only
Abbot, Charles, Speaker (afterwards Lord Colchester), and Catholic Emancipation, 170
Abercromby, James (afterwards Lord Dunfermline), 257
Aberdeen, Earl of, 303
Adair, Sir Robert, 75
Adam, William, Attorney-General to Prince of Wales, 26, 90, 110
Alava, General, 229
Albemarle, Lord, 404
Albuera, victory of, 68
Alcudia, Manuel de Godoy, Duke of (“Prince of the Peace”), 19
Alexander I., Emperor of Russia, 2, 3;
visit to England, 155, 196;
his want of firmness, 166, 167;
popularity, 196;
in Paris, 212;
and Lord Holland, 303
Alien Bill, 249, 252, 262, 299
Allen, Dr. John, 53, 76
Althorp, Lord, 28, 265
Amelia, Princess, her death, 61, 67
Ampthill, 259
Andrea, Carlo (Pozzo di Borgo), 191, 258, 304
Andrès, Juan, 374
Anglesey, Lord, 199, 246
Angoulême, Duke d’, 187, 192
Annual Register, 37, 98, 103, 117, 119, 134, 222, 287, 299, 301
Anti-Jacobin, The, 384
Apodaca, Admiral, 12
Appropriation Bill, 53
Arden, Charles George, Lord, 129
Ashburton, Richard, second Lord, 78
Aspern, battle of, 5
Astorga, 22
Atkins, Lord Mayor, 269
Auckland, Lord, 78;
Deputy-Teller of the Exchequer, 48
Austria, 5, 69, 154, 187, 212, 303
Badcock, Samuel, 327
Baird, General Sir David, at Coruña, 20
Barford, Dr. William, his Greek translation of Gray’s Elegy, 313
Baring, Alexander (Lord Ashburton), 258
Barrington, Hon. Shute, Bishop of Durham, 283
Bathurst, Lord, Secretary for War and Colonies, 147, 187, 222, 257
——, Right Hon. Charles Bragge, 40
Bayle, Pierre, Dictionnaire, etc., 386
Beddoes, Dr., Reader in Chemistry at Oxford, 324, 325
Bedford, Duke of, 44, 109, 259
Bell, Mr., 10
Bellingham, assassinates Mr. Perceval, 70, 127, 128;
trial and execution, 130
Berkeley, Frederick Augustus, Earl of, 106
——, William, Earl Fitzhardinge, 106, 107
Bernadotte, General, Crown Prince of Sweden, 112, 168
Blackstone, Sir William, 337
Blanca, Count Florida, 13
Blucher, General, 192, 196
Borgo, Count Pozzo di, 191, 258, 304
Boringdon, Lord, 115, 141
Borodino, battle of, 152
Boswell, 320;
“the Bear Leader,” 321;
a supposed dialogue between Dr. Johnson and, 362
Bourbon, Duke of, 187
Bourbons, plot for the restoration of the, 189-91;
re-establishment, 203, 211
Boyd, Zachary, his bequest to Glasgow University, 341
Boyle, Charles, fourth Earl of Orrery, 327
British Commerce, Orders in Council, 126
Brougham, Henry, his criticisms of Lord Strangford, 11;
accession to the Whig party, 44;
treatment of Lord Holland and Mr. Horner, 45;
his review of Byron’s first poems, 122, 389;
revision of the Orders in Council, 132, 158;
approves Bill for detention of Napoleon, 221;
diatribe against the Prince Regent, 234;
proposals for the Princess of Wales, 277;
appointed Attorney-General, 278;
contributions to The Edinburgh Review, 387
Brown Bread Bill, 60
Brunswick, Crown Princess of, 58
Buchan, Lord, 320
Buckingham, Duke of, assassinated, 128
——, Marquis of, 58, 174
Bullion, Committee on, 103, 104
Bunbury, H., 368
Burdett, Sir Francis, sent to the Tower, 49;
his qualities, 102;
political views, 254;
trial, 281
Burgess, Dr. Thomas, 359
Burgos, attack on, 162
Burke, Edmund, 360;
his intemperate language, 239;
the dagger incident, 252;
eulogy of Sir J. Reynolds, 367
Burlington House, meetings at, 267
Burrard, Sir Harry, 15
Burton Pynsent, 32
Bute, Lord, 62
Byron, Lord, his verses on Princess Charlotte, 122;
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, ibid.;
Brougham’s review of his first poems, 122, 389;
his speech on the Frame-breaking Bill, 123;
his Drury Lane Address, 162
Cadiz, 3, 24, 30;
siege of, 68;
raised, 162
Cambridge, Duke of, 61
Camden, Lord, 35
Campomanes, 369
Canning, George, Foreign Secretary, 3;
his duel with Lord Castlereagh, 6, 34;
resignation, 6, 34, 287, 301;
and Lord Strangford, 10;
enters Cabinet, 145;
Ambassador Extraordinary at Lisbon, 235;
on the Board of Control, ibid.;
his intimacy with the Queen, 286;
contributor to The Microcosm, 310, 314;
facility of composition, 316;
his first verses on the slavery of Greece, 317;
The Anti-Jacobin, 384
Canova, Antonio, 370
Capel, Admiral Sir Thomas Bladen, in command of the Endymion, 21
Caracci, Annibal, story of, 365
Carleton, Sir Guy (Lord Dorchester), 32, 110
Carlyle, Joseph Dacre, 336
Caroline, Queen, her arrival in London, 208, 284;
George IV.’s treatment of, 208;
death, 209, 295, 306;
proceedings against, 285;
her trial in the House of Lords, 289;
withdrawal of proceedings, 292;
at St. Paul’s, 294;
her attempt to appear at the Coronation, 305.
See Wales
Cartwright, Major John, 249
Castlereagh, Lord, the Walcheren Expedition, 5;
duel with Canning and resignation, 6, 34;
Foreign Secretary, 70, 120;
and Catholic Emancipation, 157;
in Holland, 186;
defeat of his Property Tax, 233
Castlereagh Correspondence, 24
Cathcart, Lord, 167
Catholic Emancipation Question, 157;
petitions against, 169;
Bill withdrawn, 170
Cato Street conspiracy, 275
Caulaincourt, General, French plenipotentiary at Chatillon, 154, 186
Cavanilles, Abbé Antonio Josef, 369
Cavendish, Lord G., 267
——, Lord John, on George III., 59
Cesarotti, Melchiore, 374
Chamberlayne, Mr., Consul at Rio Janeiro, 10
Charles IV., of Spain, his abdication, 4
Charlotte, Princess, 122.
See Wales
——, Queen, her death, 208
Chatham, Lord, and the Walcheren expedition, 31-3
Chatillon, Congress of, 154, 186
Chatterton, Thomas, his poems, 312
Chesterfield, Lord, 105
Cholmondeley, Lord, 121
Cintra, Convention of, 4, 15
Ciudad Rodrigo, 25, 68
Clarke, Mrs., 6, 26, 27
——, Rev. Dr., 376
Clausel, General, in command of the French troops, 162
Clergy, Perceval’s grant to the, 53
Clifford, Henry, 56
“Club, The,” 360;
origin and members, 361
Clubs, the King of, founders, 332
Cobbett, William, 16, 50, 249;
his paper The Weekly Political Register, 76, 207;
his characteristics, 253;
flight to America, 255;
article in Edinburgh Review on, 387, 388
Cocchi, 372
Cochrane, Lord, 253
Coke, Mr., of Holkham, 377
Coleridge, S. T., 383
Condorcet, 372
Continental System, result of, 111
Copenhagen, bombardment of, 3
Copley, Sir Lionel, 161
Corn Law of 1815, 207, 215
Cornwallis, Lord, 110
Coruña, 4;
battle of, 22
Courcy, Admiral de, in command at Coruña, 21
Covent Garden Theatre, destroyed by fire and rebuilt, 55
Cowper, Lord, 41
Coxe, William, travelling tutor, 357;
Memoirs of the Administration of Henry Pelham, 358
Cradock, Sir John, 25
Craufurd, Sir James, 65
Creevey, Thomas, 171, 175, 177
Creevey Papers, 28, 137, 197, 218
Croker, J. W., 76
Crowe, William, his verses, 321
Culver, his death in the Marshalsea prison, 99
Cumberland, Duke of, 96
Curran, John, 382
Currie, Dr. James, 377
D’Albany, Countess, 371
Dalberg, Duc de, 188
Dalmatia, Duke of, 193
Dalrymple, Sir Hew, 15
D’Aranjo, Chevalier, Portuguese Minister, 9, 395
Darlington, Lord (afterwards Duke of Cleveland), 144
Darnley, Lord, 257
Dartmouth, Lord, 94
Darwin, Charles, 380
——, Erasmus, 380
Davy, Sir Humphry, 324
Devizes, meeting at, 169
D’Holbach, Baron, 372
Dissenting Ministers Bill, 101-2
Dodd, Captain, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Kent, 27
Donoughmore, Earl of, 124, 286, 293;
and the Catholic Petitions, 125
Dorchester, Lord, 32, 110
Douglas, Dr. John, 359;
his detection of Lauder’s forgeries, 360
Drummond, British Envoy at Palermo, 17
Drury Lane Theatre, destroyed by fire, 55;
rebuilt, 57;
opened, 162;
Byron’s Address, 163
Dumont, Mr., founder of the King of Clubs, 332
——, Pierre Étienne Louis, 263
Dundas, Sir David, Commander-in-Chief, 6, 26
Dundonald, Earl of, 253
Durham, Earl of, 267
East India Company, monopoly of the, 174
Ebrington, Lord (afterwards second Lord Fortescue), 257
Eden, William Frederick, his death, 48
Edinburgh Review, The, 15;
its motto and first appearance, 386;
contributors to, 387, 388;
political character, 387
Egremont, George, third Earl of, 139, 146, 292, 371, 390
Egypt, 226
Eldon, Lord, Lord Chancellor, 75, 115, 140, 147, 159, 160
Elgin, Thomas, seventh Earl of, Ambassador to the Porte, 336
Ellenborough, Edward Law, first Baron, 100;
on the Committee of Inquiry into the Charges against the Princess of Wales, 174, 175, 176;
on the amendment of the Marriage Act, 299
Elliot, Sir Gilbert (second Earl of Minto), on Sheridan’s Begum Speech, 170, 244
Ellis, George, 51-2
Elliston, Robert William, 163;
manager of Drury Lane Theatre, 163
England, outbreak of war with the United States, 156, 159
Erskine, Hon. Henry, Lord Advocate, 320
——, Lord, 54, 144, 146;
on the Committee of Inquiry into the Charges against the Princess of Wales, 174, 175;
his loss of memory, 296;
services in the trials of 1794, ibid.;
character, 297-9;
style of his speeches, 297;
elocution, 298;
death, 299
Estremadura, 24
Ex officio informations, Bills rejected on, 160
Fabre, François Xavier, 370
Fabroni, Giovanni, 373
Fazakerley, Mr., on Napoleon’s admission of failure, 182
Felton, assassinates the Duke of Buckingham, 128
Ferdinand IV., king of Naples, his arbitrary powers, 209
Ferdinand VII., king of Spain, scheme for rescuing, 113;
his return to power, 203
Filmer, Sir Robert, 194
FitzClarence, Lady Mary, her marriage, 211
Fitzgerald, Lady Olivia, 223
Fitzhardinge, Earl, 107
Fitzherbert, Alleyne, 370
Fitzpatrick, General, 52;
his letter to Lord Ossory, 95-7;
death, 171;
the Rolliad, 173;
“my own epitaph,” ibid.;
lines on Gibbon, 349
Fitzwilliam, Lord, 94, 254;
his character, 255;
loan to the Duke of Kent, 272
Flahault, Count Auguste Charles Joseph, 220
——, Madame de, on the flight of Princess Charlotte, 201, 220
Flaxman, John, 371
Folkestone, Lord, 28
Fontana, Professor of Philosophy at Pisa, 372
Fortescue, Earl, 257
Fouché, Joseph, Duke of Otranto, Minister of the Interior, 34, 112, 206, 213
Fox, Charles James, 42, 110;
on the appearance of George III., 59;
on the character of the Prince of Wales’ conversation, 74;
Sheridan on, 242;
on Lord Grenville’s character, 272;
on Gibbon’s want of principle in politics, 348;
his introduction to Sheridan, 349;
on Sir Joshua Reynolds’ picture, “The Death of Cardinal Beaufort,” 366;
on the publication of The Life of Lorenzo of Medici, 376
——, General Charles Richard, 211
——, the Hon. Henry Edward, his death, 110
France, secret alliance with Russia and Prussia against Great Britain, 3;
war with Austria, 5;
treaties with Prussia and Austria, 69;
Allies enter Paris, 154, 193;
provisional Government proclaimed, 154;
amount of indemnities, 205;
political reaction in, ibid.;
result of the election of the Chamber, 206;
settlement of, 216;
removal of works of art, 217
Francis, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 372
——, Sir Philip, his denial of the authorship of Junius Letters, 404
Frederick William, king of Prussia, 153;
in London, 155, 196
Frere, Bartholomew, his contributions to The Edinburgh Review, 388
——, Rt. Hon. John Hookham, 19, 388;
his characteristics, 19, 317;
created Marquis de la Union, 26;
contributor to The Microcosm, 310, 314;
originality of his humour, 317, 318;
conversation, 318;
fondness for reading, 319
Funchal, Marquis de, Portuguese Ambassador, 11
Gainsborough, 367
Gallois, Jean Antoine, 190
Galvani, Aloisio, and galvanism, 372
Garrick, David, the intellectual powers of, 362;
affectation of superiority, 363
George, Dr., his Greek and Latin verse, 313
George III., king, symptoms of insanity, 57-60, 67;
his habits of intrigue and duplicity, 60;
death of his daughter, Princess Amelia, 61, 67;
affection for his children, 61;
character, 61-6;
cause of his popularity, 62;
policy to Hanover, 64;
hopes of his recovery, 88;
interview with Mr. Perceval, 89;
his death, 208, 275;
character of his Court, 378
George IV., his accession, 208;
his treatment of Queen Caroline, 208, 293;
proclaimed King, 279;
illness, 279;
reception at the theatres, 294;
his coronation, 305;
in Ireland, 306;
on the death of Queen Caroline, 306.
See Wales
Ghent, Treaty of, 156
Gibbon, Edward, 308, 347;
devotion to letters, and vanity, 347;
want of principle in politics, 348;
accepts office, ibid.;
lines on, 349;
homage paid to him at Lausanne, 354;
a tribute to, 355
Gijon, 369
Glasgow University, 340-1
Glennie, Mr., 27
Glynn, Dr. Robert, his Seatonian Prize on the Day of Judgment, 312
Goderich, Lord, 189
Godoy, Manuel de, Duke of Alcudia (“Prince of the Peace”), 19
Godwin, William, Caleb Williams, 381;
his marriages, 382
Goodall, Dr. Joseph, 311
Goodwin, Mr., 49
Gordon, Sir Robert, 302
Goya, Francisco José de, artist, 368
Graham, General, at Cadiz, 68
Grampound Enfranchisement Bill, 282, 305
Grantham, Lord, 259
Grant, Sir William, 140
Granville, Earl, Ambassador to Russia, 127
Grattan, 126, 133;
and Catholic Emancipation, 169;
his death, 282
Grenville, Lord, 14, 35;
his refusal to form an Administration, 37;
Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 41;
his views on Roman Catholics, 41;
treatment of Sheridan, 72;
his support of the Regency Bill, 76;
audience with the Prince of Wales, 80-2;
retains his auditorship, 83, 87, 142;
a draft withdrawn, 83, 84;
a laboured remonstrance, 85;
on a change of Ministers, 90;
refuses to accept office, 117-9, 138;
negotiations with Lord Wellesley, 140;
interview with Lord Moira, 142;
on the monopoly of the East India Company, 174;
on the Committee of Inquiry into the charges against the Princess of Wales, 176;
his speech in support of the war, 183;
close of his public life, 271;
on Queen Caroline’s Bill, ibid.;
his proxy for the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, 272;
death, ibid.
Grenville, Thomas, 117
Grey, Lady, 75
——, Lord, 13;
Perceval’s overtures to, 36-40;
on the state of the nation, 53;
his treatment of Sheridan, 72;
in London, 82;
a laboured remonstrance, 85;
on a change of Ministers, 90;
on the invitation to accept office, 117;
manifesto on his opinions, 117-9, 138;
on the Prince of Wales’ duplicity, 121;
negotiations with Lord Wellesley, 140;
interview with Lord Moira, 142;
his motion on the Corn Law, 215;
Lord Holland’s letter to, 400-3
Grosvenor, John, 339
Grove, Sir Nathaniel, 314
Gustavus IV., king of Sweden, 80
Habeas Corpus Act, suspension of, 207, 254-5;
repeal, 261
Halford, Sir Henry, 90, 92, 339
Hall, Captain Basil, 21
Hardenberg, Count, 69
Hardwicke, Lord, 146
Hardy, Thomas, 382
Hare, Mr., his lines on his appointment to Warsaw, 350;
characteristics, 351-2;
marriage, 352;
political views, 353
Harris, Sir John, 229
Harrison, arrest of, 269
Harrowby, Lord, 115;
Lord President of the Council, 147, 303
Heard, Sir Isaac, Garter King-of-Arms, proclaims George IV. King, 279
Hertford, Lady, 125
——, Marquess of, 86
Hervey, Lord, 309
Hewitt, Mrs., 313
Hickes, Thesaurus, 332
Hill, Mr., chaplain to the factory at Lisbon, 384
Hobhouse, Sir Benjamin, 40
Hogarth, his exhibition of pictures, 367;
Sigismonda, 368
Holcroft, Thomas, The Road to Ruin, 382;
indictment, 383;
marriage, ibid.
Holkham, 377
Holland House, 84
——, Lady, 45, 221;
on the execution of Marshal Ney, 222
——, Lord, Lord Privy Seal, 1;
on the dismissal of the Ministry “of all the talents,” 1;
Recorder of Nottingham, 42;
on the Regency Bill, 76;
his attempt to revise cases of libel, 99;
estrangement with Lord Ellenborough, 100;
on forming an Administration, 109;
attempts to modify the law on ex-officio informations, 160;
his Foreign Reminiscences, 189, 210, 219, 305;
on the plot for the restoration of the Bourbons, 190;
Miscellaneous Reminiscences, 210, 307, 390;
accepts the seals of the Duchy of Lancaster, 211;
his protest against the Bill for the detention of Napoleon, 221;
his letter to Lord Kinnaird on the capitulation of Paris, 224-8;
his motion for an inquiry into the treatment of Napoleon at St. Helena, 257;
bequest of Ampthill, 259;
his proposed Repeal of the Royal Marriage Act, 284;
his Bill to amend Treason Laws, 304;
in France, 304;
his publication of Horace Walpole’s Memoirs of the Last Ten Years of the Reign of George II., 309;
conversation with Lord Wellesley on the Prince Regent’s views on the Roman Catholic Question, 396-9;
his letter to Lord Grey, 400-3
——, revolution in, 185
Holy Alliance, Treaty of, 300;
meeting of the Powers, 301
Hone, William, his indictment, 258
Hood, Sir Samuel, at Vigo Bay, 21
Horner, Francis, 13, 234, 386;
his treatment by Mr. Brougham, 45;
on the Regency Bill, 76;
on paper currency, 103;
President of the Parliamentary Committee on bullion, ibid.;
his death—tributes to his memory, 256
Hornsby, Dr. Thomas, Professor of Astronomy, 338
Howley, Dr., Bishop of London, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, 198, 243
Hume, David, his prediction of Lord Ossory, 260
Hunt, Dr., 337
——, Henry, 250;
his arrest, 269;
trial, 281
Hunter, John, 341;
his dogmatical spirit, 342;
self-applause, 343;
denial of the efficacy of mineral springs, ibid.;
belief in the influence of the mind over the body, 344;
affection of his heart, ibid.;
inventive genius and investigation of anatomical truths, 345
Hutchinson, Lord, 90, 124, 226, 286, 293
Indemnity Bill, 261
Ingenhousz, John, 324
Jackson, Dr. Cyril, Dean of Christ Church, 322-3
——, William, Bishop of Oxford, 323
Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, on the character of Sir S. Romilly, 264;
editor of The Edinburgh Review, 386
——, Mr., his charges against Lord St. Vincent, 10
Jenyns, Soame, 308
Jersey, Lady, 200
Johnson, Dr., 51, 360;
pensioned by George III., 65;
his Tour to the Hebrides, 320;
founder of “The Club,” 361;
style of his conversation, 362;
on Garrick, 363
Jones, John Gale, President of the “British Forum,” 49
——, Rev. John Pike, 283
Jordan, Mrs., 211
Jovellanos, Don Gaspar Melchior de, 13;
Goya’s portrait of, 368;
his talents and conversation, 369
Junius Letters, author of, 404
Kemble, John, 55, 363
Kenney, James, 383
Kent, Duke of, his death, 208, 272;
marriage, 247;
character, 273;
Commander-in-Chief in Canada and Governor of Gibraltar, ibid.;
observance of form and love of business, 274;
nickname, 275
Kett, Henry, 321
King, Lord, 281;
his method of defeating the system of paper currency, 104
Kinnaird, Lord, letter from Lord Holland, 224-8
Knight, Richard Payne, his contributions to The Edinburgh Review, 388
Kolli, an adventurer, 113
Labedoyère, executed, 206, 217, 225
“Lake Poets,” 383
La Mancha, 24
Lamb, George, 389
Lambton, Mr., 267, 325
Langford, Dr., 311
Lansdowne, Henry Petty, third Marquess of, 44;
on the Regency Bill, 76;
his advice to Lords Grey and Grenville, 119;
at Devizes, 169
——, John Henry, second Marquess of, his death, 42;
characteristics, 43;
epitaph, ibid.
——, William, first Marquess of, 44, 325
Lauder, William, the forgeries of, 359
Lauderdale, James, eighth Earl of, 47, 78, 262, 286;
his amendment against the payment of compensation to Mr. Thomas Scott, 54;
on the question of the Duke of York’s reinstatement, 93;
champion of the Corn Law, 215
Laurence, Mr. Justice, 107
Lavater, Johann Gaspar, physiognomist, 346
Lawrence, Dr., 76
Laybach, Congress of, 209, 300, 302
Leach, Sir John, 286, 293;
report of his conversation with Lord Holland, 400-3
Leconfield, Lord, 365
Leinster, Augustus, third Duke of, motion on Queen’s trial, 289
Leipsic, battle of, 154, 182
Leitrim, Lord, 94
Leopold, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 372
Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, Prince, 156, 199, 246-7
Leveson, Lord Granville (afterwards Earl Granville), 127
Lewis, Matthew Gregory, his novel The Monk, 379;
his death, 380
Libel, cases of, revision, 99
Lieven, Count, Russian Ambassador in England, 304
Lis mota, 107
Lisbon, expedition to, 3;
fortifications of Torres Vedras formed, 7;
emigration of the Court to the Brazils, 8
Lisle, Hon. Mrs., 176
Liverpool, Lord, Secretary for War, 6;
Premier, 70, 146, 151;
and the Regency Bill, 78;
negotiations for a new Ministry, 134;
declines to serve under Lord Moira, 145;
character of his Administration, 157;
on Lord Stanhope’s speech on the Suspension Act, 261;
his Bill dissolving the Queen’s marriage, 278;
his mission to the French Princes, 330
Londonderry, third Marquess of, 302
Lords, House of, inaction of the, 47;
use of proxies, 78
Loughborough, Lord, 348
Louis XVIII., Emperor of France, recalled to the throne, 155, 193, 195, 205;
plot for his restoration, 190;
and the Prince Regent, 194;
adopts the white cockade, 194;
character, 203
Lowe, Sir Hudson, appointed gaoler of Napoleon, 218
Lugo, 21
Lynch, Mr., 190
Maceroni, Colonel, 257
Mackenzie, General, 30
Mackintosh, Sir James, 267, 337, 358
Mail coaches, invention of, 106, 108
Malone, Mr., his sketch of Mr. Windham’s life, 51
Manchester, meeting at, 269;
“Massacre of Peterloo,” 207, 270
Manfredini, 373
Manners-Sutton, Charles, Archbishop of Canterbury, 64
Maria Louisa, Empress of Austria, 187
Markham, Archbishop of York, 323
Marmont, General, in command of the French, 68, 193;
defeated at Salamanca, 151, 161;
capitulates to Allies, 193
Marriage Act, amendment of, 299
Marshalsea prison, condition of, 99
Maryborough, Wellesley Pole, Lord, 98
“Massacre of Peterloo,” 207, 270
Massena, General, 68;
retires from Portugal, 7;
retreat, 111
Matarosa (Count Torreno), 12
Mellish, Mr., contributor to The Microcosm, 314
Melville, Lord, 32, 54;
his objections to Lord Wellesley, 127, 138;
First Lord of the Admiralty, 147
Mercier, his Tableau de Paris, 383
Metternich, Prince, 7, 189
Mexico, expedition against, 11
Microcosm, The, 310, 314, 316, 317
Middleton, Mr., 310
Milner, Dr. John, Bishop of Castabala, 124
Milton, Charles William, Viscount, 94
Minto, Lord, 170, 244
Mitford, William, History of Greece, 356
Moira, Lord, 81, 90, 133;
his approval of Lord Grey’s and Lord Grenville’s conduct, 124;
declines to form an Administration, 139;
interview with Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, 142;
failure of his negotiations, 144;
hopes to form a Ministry, 145;
Governor-General of India, 148
Monson, Lord, 194
Montholon, Count, 257
Monti, Vincenzo, 374
Montrose, Duke of, and the outrage on Prince Regent, 251
Moore, Thomas; his Life of Sheridan, 86, 237;
parody of the Prince Regent’s letter, 124
——, Admiral Sir Graham, 10
——, Sir John, death at Coruña, 4, 22;
in command of the troops in the Peninsular War, 17;
his qualities, 17-19, 23;
his last letter, 24
Moreau, General, 161
Morning Chronicle, 11
Morpeth, Lord, 171;
his tribute to the memory of Francis Horner, 256
Morris, Captain, 74
Moscow, entered by the French, and burnt, 164-5;
retreat of the French, 180
Mulgrave, Lord, Master-General of the Ordnance, 33, 48
Murat, overthrown by the Austrians, 204
Murray, John, 386
——, Lord James, on the attempt on the life of the Prince of Wales, 251
——, Major-General Sir George, Quarter-Master-General in the Peninsula, 180
Musa Anglicana, 313
Musæ Etonenses, 313
Mutiny Bill, 102
Napier, Sir William, 17;
Memoirs of Sir Charles Napier, 35;
his History of the Peninsular War, 30, 393
Naples and Ferdinand IV., 209;
revolution at, 300
Napoleon, Emperor, his meeting with Emperor Alexander at Tilsit, 3;
invades Portugal, 4;
obtains possession of Spain, 4;
returns to Paris, 5;
divorces Josephine, 7;
his marriage, ibid.;
annexes the Papal States and Holland, ibid.;
on the Danube, 34;
his preparations against Russia, 69;
retreat from Moscow, 152, 180;
defeated at Leipsic, 154, 182;
dethroned and sent to Elba, 154, 193;
his views of Emperor Alexander’s character, 166;
unreasonable demands for peace, 181;
admission of failure, 182;
subterfuges, 187, 189;
abdication, 193;
escapes from Elba and enters Paris, 204;
flight after battle of Waterloo, ibid.;
sent to St. Helena, 205;
Bill for the Detention of, 220;
inquiry into the treatment of, 257;
death, 305
Navarette, battle of, 179
Needy Knife-grinder, The, 384
Nelson, Lord, his conduct at Naples, 226
New Monthly Magazine, 301
Newton, Sir Isaac, 315
Ney, Marshal, his trial and execution, 206, 217, 222, 225
Norfolk, Duke of, 15, 54, 146
North, Hon. Frederick, 51
——, Hon. Dudley, on the author of Junius Letters, 404
Northumberland, Duke of, 11, 55
Oldenburg, Duchess of, 198
Orange, William, Prince of, 156, 198;
proclaimed King of Holland and Belgium, 185
Orders in Council, result of, 126;
relinquished, 132, 158
Orense, 22
Orford, Lord, 376
Orleans, Louis Philippe, Duke of, on the Prince Regent’s views on the Roman Catholic Question, 398
Osborne, Lord Francis, 49
Ossian, Poems, 320
Ossory, Lord, General Fitzpatrick’s letter to, 95-7;
on the death of Mr. Whitbread, 214;
his death, 259;
a tribute to, 260;
on Horace Walpole, 309
Otranto, Duke of. See Fouché
Ouvrard, Gabriel Julien, 34
Pains and Penalties Bill, 288
Palmer, Colonel, his claim for remuneration for the invention of mail coaches, 106-8
Paper and bullion, questions relating to, 103
Parini, Giuseppe, 374
Paris, treaties of, 155, 193, 195, 203, 205, 217;
capitulates to Allies, 222
Parr, Dr. Samuel, his inscription on Sir John Moore’s monument, 22;
master at Harrow School, 241, 325;
a sketch of, 326-9;
his Latin preface to Bellendenus, 329;
on Pitt, ibid.;
on Lord Liverpool’s mission to the French Princes, 330;
at Holkham, 378
Pegge, Sir Christopher, Regius Professor of Physic, 339
Pelham, Dr., 283
Peninsular War, 15
Pembroke, Lord, 357
Perceval, Mr., Prime Minister, 6;
his correspondence with Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, 36-8;
his grant to the clergy, 53;
assassinated, 70, 128;
Regency Bill, 75;
interview with George III., 89;
and Prince Regent, 91-2, 108;
his principles, 132;
character of his speeches, 133
Perry, James, editor of Morning Chronicle, 11
Phalaris, The Epistles of, 327
Pigott, Sir Arthur, Attorney-General, 98;
his death, 295
Pitt, William, his resignation (1801), 60;
on Sheridan’s Begum Speech, 244;
Dr. Parr’s opinion of, 330
Plunket, Lord, on Catholic Emancipation, 170
Poland, annexed to Russia, 205
Pole, Wellesley (afterwards Lord Maryborough), 98
Ponsonby, Right Hon. George, leader of the Whigs, 2, 29, 44, 91, 109;
death, 265
Pope, Alexander, 86, 310
Popham, Sir Home, 33
Porchester, Lord, conducts the Walcheren inquiry, 46
Porson, Richard, his marvellous memory, 331;
character, 332-3;
elected Greek Professor at Cambridge, 333;
religious views, 334;
his drunkenness, 335;
his verses and repartees, 335-6
Portland, Duke of, 35-6;
his death, 41;
Chancellor of Oxford University, 321
Portugal, Royal Family leave for Brazil, 4, 8
Postlethwaite, Dr., 333
Property Tax, 233;
repeal of the, 207
Pulteney, 310
Queen Anne’s Bounty, 53
Queensberry, Duke of, 56
Radnor, Lord, 28, 130
Randolph, Dr. John, his divinity lectures, 338;
Bishop of Oxford and London, 339
Redesdale, Lord, 356
Regency Bill, 75-7
Restrictive Laws, enactment of the, 272
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 360;
his portrait of John Hunter, 346;
character of his pictures, 361;
conversation, 362, 364;
literary works, 363;
price of his pictures, 365;
The Death of Cardinal Beaufort, ibid.;
“a pattern of human happiness,” 366
Richmond, Duke of, 27
Roberts, Dr. W. H., Provost of Eton, 311
Robertson, William, Principal of Edinburgh University, 320
Robison, John, Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, 337
Rogers, Samuel, 122, 389;
his lines on the Prince Regent, 124;
epigram, 194;
a founder of the King of Clubs, 332
Roman Catholic Bishops, veto on the appointment of, 125
Roman Catholic Question, Prince Regent’s views on, 396-9
Romanzow, Count Nicholas, Russian Chancellor, 167
Romilly, Sir Samuel, 235;
on the Committee of Inquiry into the Charges against the Princess of Wales, 174, 175;
his oratory, 256;
elected for Westminster, 263;
his suicide, ibid.;
his Memoirs, 264;
a founder of the King of Clubs, 332
Romney, 367
Roscoe, William, The Life of Lorenzo of Medici, 375-7;
employed at Holkham, 377
Rosslyn, Lord Chancellor, 60
Routh, Dr. Martin Joseph, President of Magdalen College, 326
Royal Marriage Act, proposed repeal, 284
Russell, Lord William, 171
Ryder, Right Hon. Richard, 48
St. Helena, 205
St. Helens, Lord, Ambassador at Madrid, 370
St. John, Lord, 222
St. Vincent, Lord, 38
Salamanca, battle of, 24, 151, 161
Santini, 257
Saxe-Coburg, Prince Leopold of, his marriage, 156, 199, 246;
annuity, 247
Schwarzenberg, General, 192
Scott, Thomas, question of the payment of compensation to, 54
——, Sir Walter, his treatment of Lord Holland, 55;
on Monk Lewis’ verses, 379;
his contributions to The Edinburgh Review, 387
Sefton, Lord, 265
Select Vestry Bill, 250
Selwyn, George, 309, 313, 328
Seneca, quoted, 72
Seville, 24
Seymour, Lord Webb, 386
Shakespeare, Richard II., 129
Sharp, Richard, a founder of the King of Clubs, 332
Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd, first Earl of, 348
Shepherd, Dr. William, 377
Sheridan, Mrs. Thomas, 240, 243;
Sidney Bidulph, 240
——, Richard Brinsley, 39, 308;
his influence over the Prince of Wales, 71;
treatment by Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, 72;
applies for the Secretaryship of Ireland, 73;
his criticism of Lord Grey’s and Lord Grenville’s draft, 83;
close of his career, 236;
debts, 237;
defects of character, 238-40;
parents, 240;
at school, ibid.;
intellectual powers, 241;
physical constitution, 242;
kindness and consideration, 243;
religious views, ibid.;
the Begum Speech, 244;
composition and style of his conversation, 245;
his introduction to Mr. Fox, 349;
The Rivals, ibid.
Sheridan, Thomas, 240
Sibthorp, Dr., 322
Sidmouth, Lord, 40;
his resignation, 60;
his Dissenting Ministers Bill, 101;
Home Secretary, 147, 207;
suspends the Habeas Corpus Act, 207
Sitaro, Mr., 10
Slave Trade, abolition of, 195
Smith, “Easley,” contributor to The Microcosm, 314
——, Rev. Sydney, 315;
his witticism on Lord Grenville, 41;
his proposed motto for The Edinburgh Review, 387
——, Robert Percy (Bobus), on Lord Erskine, 298;
contributor to The Microcosm, 310, 314;
anecdote of Dr. Glynn, 312;
his powers of application and reasoning, 315;
command of language, 316;
a founder of the King of Clubs, 332
——, Sir George, sent to Cadiz, 30
——, Sir Sidney, in command of the English fleet at Lisbon, 9;
on the South American Station, 30
——, Vernon, 97
Smithfield, meeting at, 269
Smollett’s Continuation, 58
Soult, Marshal, 193
Southey, Robert, 118, 383;
his secret marriage, 384;
characteristics, 385
Souza-Continho, Domingo Antonio de, Marquis de Funchal, 11
Spain, campaigns in, 8;
revolution, 12;
condition, 203;
Constitution restored, 281, 300
Spallanzani, Lazaro, 372
Spencer, Lord, 128;
on Committee of Inquiry into the charges against the Princess of Wales, 176
——, Lord Henry, contributor to The Microcosm, 314
Stanhope, Charles, third Earl of, 79, 245;
supports the paper currency system, 104;
his device for preventing forgeries, 105;
his death, 245
——, Lady, 261
Stanhope, Philip Henry, fourth Earl of, on the Suspension Act, 261
Stanley, Edward, Bishop of Norwich, on the “Massacre of Peterloo,” 270
Stephen, James, 159
Stephenson, Mr., 146
Stowell (Sir William Scott), Lord, 360
Strangford, Lord, his negotiations with Portugal, 9;
official despatch Off the Tagus, 10, 393-5;
appointed Minister at Rio Janeiro, 11;
criticism on his poems, 388;
facility in composition, 389;
diplomatic career, 390;
his Observations on a note in Colonel Napier’s book, 393
Strawberry Hill, 309
Sussex, Duke of, 201, 220
Sutton, Mr. Manners, 256
Sweden, Bernadotte, Crown Prince of, 112, 168
Swift, Jonathan, compared with Richard Porson, 335
Tacitus, Ann., quoted, 72
Talavera, battle of, 7, 47
Talleyrand, provisional Government proclaimed under, 154, 193;
his intrigues, 188;
his dismissal, 206
Taylor, Sir Herbert, Private Secretary to George III., 61
Thistlewood, his plot for murdering the Ministry, 275, 280
Thomond, Lady, 364
Thompson, Dr., his bequest to Glasgow University, 340
Thomson, T., 386
Tickell, Richard, 308
Tierney, Mr., 47, 116, 293;
President of the Board of Control, 174;
accepts the Leadership of the House of Commons, 265-8;
his vote of censure, 268
Tiraboschi, Girolamo, 374
Tooke, Horne, 296
Torreno, Count, 12
Toulouse, battle of, 155, 193
Townshend, Lord John, 349
Travis, Archdeacon, 334
Treason Laws, 304
Troppau, meeting of the Holy Alliance at, 301
Tuy, 22
United States, progress of, 63;
war with England, 69, 156, 159;
Non-Intercourse Act, 127
Valette, Antoine Marie, Count de la, 224
Vaughan, Dr. (Sir Henry Halford), 90, 97, 339
Vega, Don Andres de la, 12
Vernon, Caroline (Mrs. Bobus Smith), 315
——, Edward Venables, Archbishop of York, 64
Victoria, Queen, her birth, 272;
name given to, 273
Vienna, Congress at, 155, 204
Vigo Bay, 21
Vimiero, battle of, 15
Vitrolles, M., 188-90
Vittoria, battle of, 152, 179
Walcheren expedition, 5, 30-1, 33, 46
Wales, Princess Charlotte of, her marriage, 156, 198, 246;
character, 199, 248;
letter on her marriage, 199;
flight and return, 201;
death, 208, 247
——, Princess of, charges against, 174-9;
appeal to Parliament, 177;
her character, 178;
in London, 208, 278, 282;
treatment by George IV., 208, 276-9;
death, 209.
See Caroline
Wales, Prince of, 38;
appointed Regent, 67;
abstains from political concert with the Opposition, 71;
character of his conversation, 74;
the Regency Bill, 76;
hostility to Mr. Perceval, 77;
his audience with Lord Grenville, 80-2;
wish to reinstate the Duke of York, 81;
letter from the Queen, 89;
on retaining his Ministers, 91;
takes the oath of Regency, ibid.;
reinstates the Duke of York, 94;
criticisms on his conduct, 94-7;
his interest in the Spanish war, 106;
the Berkeley Peerage, ibid.;
the claim of Mr. Palmer, 107;
his letter to the Duke of York, 117;
invitation to Lord Grey and Lord Grenville to accept office, ibid.;
his resentment of personal slights, 121;
intrigues and devices, 136;
dislike to Lord Grey, 142;
his speech on the victory of Leipsic, 183;
on the restoration of the Bourbons, 191, 211;
his meeting with Louis XVIII., 194;
unpopularity, 197;
dislike of the Emperor Alexander, 198;
accession, 208;
commendation of Napoleon’s letter, 220;
shot at, 250-2;
his wish to divorce his wife, 276;
treatment of her, 276-9;
his tutor, 323;
his views on the Roman Catholic Question, 396-9.
See George IV.
Waller, Edmund, 244
Walpole, Horace, 308-10
Wardle, Colonel, 27
Warton, Thomas, 321
Waterloo, battle of, 216
Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess of, Foreign Secretary, 6, 48;
Ambassador to Spain, 47;
resigns, 70, 113, 116;
policy, 112, 137;
character, 113, 114;
and Wellington, 229;
style of his speeches, 115;
his letters on the new Ministry, 135;
negotiations with Lord Grey and Lord Grenville, 137-41;
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 142;
on the Prince Regent’s views on the Roman Catholic Question, 396-9
Wellington, Duke of, in command of the forces in Portugal, 7, 15;
forms the lines of Torres Vedras, 7;
objections to his appointment, 16;
Talavera, 47;
his policy in Spain, 68;
captures Ciudad Rodrigo, ibid.;
and Wellesley, 114, 229;
his victory at Salamanca, 151, 161;
appointed Commander-in-Chief, 151;
British Ambassador in Paris, 155, 196;
Vittoria, 152, 179;
enters France, 152;
attack on Burgos, 162;
on the restoration of the Bourbons, 190;
character of his operations, 193;
Toulouse, ibid.;
advice to Louis XVIII., 213;
Royalists’ treatment of, ibid.;
endeavour to restrain the Allies, 218;
abuse of Frenchmen, 218;
censures the appointment of Sir H. Lowe, ibid.;
capitulation of Paris, 222-8;
character, 229-32;
harshness to inferiors, and vanity, 231;
on public meetings, 301
Wenman, Dr. Thomas Francis, Professor of Civil Law, 337
Westmacott, Richard, 192
Westmorland, John, tenth Earl of, 13, 38;
on the amendment of the Marriage Act, 299
Wharton, Duke of, his repartee to William IV., 94
Whig Party, policy of the, 29
Whishaw, Richard, a founder of the King of Clubs, 332
Whitbread, Samuel, 13;
on the union of the auditorship and the Treasury, 87;
chief director of Drury Lane Theatre, 162;
his Address, 163;
on the charges against the Princess of Wales, 174;
in support of the war, 184;
his character and death, 214
White, Dr. Joseph, Laudian Professor of Arabic, 327, 328;
his Bampton Lectures, 327
Wickham, William, 14
Wilberforce, William, and Abolition of the Slave Trade, 157, 195;
contributions to The Edinburgh Review, 387
Wilbraham, Roger, 378
William IV., 211
Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury, 173, 349
Wilson, Sir Robert, 224, 258;
his “Lusitanian Legion,” 25;
attached to the Russian army, 167;
at the battle of Leipsic, 182;
protest against the appearance of the Queen at the Coronation, 305
Windham, Mr., 15;
on the duel between Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning, 35;
his support of the privileges of Parliament, 50;
death, 51;
religious views, 52
Woburn Abbey, Temple of Liberty at, 353
Wollstonecraft, Mary, her marriage and death, 382
Wood, Sir Matthew, 284
Wooddeson, Richard, Vinerian Professor, 337
Wordsworth, William, 383
Wortley, Stuart, Mr. A. (afterwards Lord Wharncliffe), his motion to form a new Administration, 136, 147
Wynn, Charles Watkin Williams, 118, 385
Yarmouth, Francis Charles, Earl of, 86
York, Duchess of, 199, 246
——, Duke of, 61, 199, 201, 246;
charge against, 26;
resigns his office of Commander-in-Chief, 26;
question of his reinstatement, 92;
letter from the Prince of Wales, 117;
on the invitation to Lord Grey and Lord Grenville to form an Administration, 120;
his tutor, 323
Yorke, Rt. Hon. Charles Philip, 26;
accepts the Admiralty, 48
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