Volume 2 — INDEX
Reading edition
(The figures in italics refer to the notes only)
Abbot, Charles, Speaker (afterwards Lord Colchester), and Public Debtors Bill, ii. 89, 90, 94, 95
Abercorn, John James, 1st Marquess of, i. 201, 202, 257; ii. 56, 67, 68, 69, 70
Aboukir, battle of, ii. 31
Adair, Sir Robert, i. 263; ii. 270, 274
Adam, William, M.P., Attorney-General to Prince of Wales, ii. 229, 273, 274, 283, 284
Adderley, Mr., i. 235, 237, 243, 245, 252, 253, 254, 265, 266, 269, 271, 273, 274, 276, 279
Addington’s Administration, ii. 280
Addington, Henry (Viscount Sidmouth), ii. 132, 147, 202, 210, 211;
and Catholic Emancipation Bill, ii. 213–19, 221, 223
Addison, Joseph, ii. 64–5
Affleck, Sir Gilbert, i. 147; ii. 104
Alfieri, Vittorio, i. 48, 56, 140, 145
Ali Pacha, ii. 173
Allen, Dr. John, ii. 280
Amelia, Princess, her death, ii. 265, 266
American Treaty, the, ii. 194
Amherst, William Pitt (afterwards Earl Amherst), i. 129, 264; ii. 29, 264
Amiens, Treaty of, ii. 195, 237
Andover, Viscount, his death, ii. 43
Anti-Jacobin, the, i. 7, 205, 243; ii. 42
Apodaca, Admiral, ii. 245, 246
Armstead, Mrs., see Mrs. C. J. Fox
Assessed Taxes, i. 164, 165, 169, 170
Association of the Friends of the People, i. 14, 15, 101, 102
Aston, Col. Harvey, i. 261
Auckland, Lord, i. 101, 236; ii. 71, 77, 96, 173–4, 227;
and the Divorce Bill, ii. 77, 96
Auerstadt, battle of, ii. 187
Augustus, Prince Frederick, Duke of Sussex, i. 8, 35, 47; ii. 82, 84
Austerlitz, battle of, ii. 161
Baia, i. 23–4
Balbi, Comtesse de, i. 7, 86
Bathurst, Rt. Hon. Charles Bragge, ii. 222, 223
Beauchamp, Lady (afterwards Lady Hertford, q.v.), i. 96
Beauclerk, Charles George, i. 124, 233, 234, 235, 244;
his disposition, i. 121, 122, 256; ii. 34, 80
Beauclerk, Mrs., i. 232, 233; ii. 34, 50, 80;
character, i. 234, 235, 256;
marriage, i. 244
Bedford, Francis Russell, 5th Duke of, i. 98; ii. 74, 87;
his manner and qualities, i. 270;
on the Divorce Bill, ii. 78–9;
builds Russell Square, ii. 106 and note;
his death, ii. 149
Bedford, John Russell, 6th Duke of, in Ireland, ii. 199, 200, 225
Belgrave, Robert Grosvenor, Viscount (afterwards 1st Marquess of Westminster), and Sunday newspapers, i. 258
Belsham, William, his History of Great Britain, ii. 236, 244–5
Bentinck, Lord William Cavendish, ii. 290, 291
Berington, Father Joseph, ii. 247–8
Berkeley, Frederick Augustus, 5th Earl of, i. 262; ii. 82
Berthier, General, i. 200–1
Bessborough, Lady, i. 54–5, 122, 124, 126;
and Lady Ann Hatton, ii. 69
Biddulph, Mr., his Committee on Public Expenditure, ii. 206–7
Bojanowitz, Mme., and Lord Thanet, i. 233, 248; ii. 102
Bonaparte, Jerome, ii. 178
Bonaparte, Joseph, i. 175, 200; ii. 246
Bonaparte, Mme. (Josephine), i. 200–1
Bonaparte, Napoleon, see under Napoleon
Bordeaux, Jérôme de Cicé, Archbishop of, ii. 22
Boringdon, Lord (afterwards 1st Earl of Morley), i. 190, 241–2; ii. 19;
and Duke of Somerset, ii. 46
Boscovitch, Roger Joseph, i. 19
Bouillé, Marquis de, i. 151, 152, 153
Bragge, Rt. Hon. Charles, see Bathurst
Bristol, Frederick Augustus, 4th Earl of, and Bishop of Derry, i. 141, 169, 242;
and Lady Holland’s portrait, i. 138, 142;
prisoner in Milan, i. 219
Brougham, Henry, Lord, on C. J. Fox’s writings, ii. 58
Browne, William George, i. 33, 172–3, 207–8
Brunswick, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of, his manifesto, i. 14
Buenos Ayres, ii. 185, 189, 192, 203–4
Buller, Mr. Justice, i. 184–5, 186, 233
Burdett, Sir Francis, i. 251; ii. 8, 50–1, 136
Burke, Edmund, on capture of Toulon, i. 97
Burr, Aaron, ii. 190–1
Busaco, battle of, ii. 264
Caffarelli, Charles Ambroise de, ii. 153–4
Calonne, Charles Alexandre de, i. 231; ii. 34, 36–7, 160
Cambridge, Prince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of, ii. 113, 114
Camden, Lord, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, i. 188, 189, 190
Camelford, Lord, on La Fayette, i. 71
Campbell, R., his letters to Lord Holland on the opening of the Cortes, Appendix B, ii. 297–305
Camperdown, battle of, i. 148
Campo Formio, treaty of, i. 148
Canning, George, i. 123, 216–18, 239, 257, 259, 265, 273, 274, 277; ii. 52, 98, 222, 248, 277, 288;
his Preface to the Intercepted Letters, ii. 44;
and Lord Grenville, ii. 208, 210, 211, 285–7;
and Danish Expedition, ii. 239–40;
duel with Lord Castlereagh, ii. 247
Canterbury, Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of, ii. 226
Carlisle, Frederick, 5th Earl of, i. 194, 267; ii. 48;
and Lord Kenyon, ii. 93, 95–6
Caroline, Princess, see Wales
Castlereagh, Viscount, Chief Secretary in Ireland, i. 206; ii. 254, 280;
his duel with Mr. Canning, ii. 247;
his principles, ii. 277–8
Catholic Emancipation Question, the, ii. 128, 199–200, 201–5, 213–17;
Lord Holland in favour of, ii. 76;
Bill withdrawn, ii. 218–20
Chaplin, Thomas, ii. 15, 104–5
Charlotte, Queen, her letter to Prince of Wales, ii. 289
Clairon, Mlle., her Memoirs, i. 247–8
Clare, John Fitzgibbon, Earl of, in Ireland, ii. 131
Clarke, General (afterwards Duc de Feltre), and peace negotiations, ii. 168, 175–6
Clarke, Mrs., ii. 282
Cockburn, Capt. (afterwards Admiral Sir George), ii. 292
Coigny, Mme. de, i. 237; ii. 150;
her witticisms quoted, i. 245; ii. 41–2, 49
Coke, Thomas William (afterwards Earl of Leicester), ii. 193, 286
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, writes against C. J. Fox, ii. 237–8
Copley, Sir Lionel, i. 232, 256–7
Cornwallis, Charles, 2nd Earl and 1st Marquess, i. 115;
in Ireland, i. 190; ii. 131
Cornwallis, Admiral the Hon. William, ii. 132–3
Corresponding Society, the, i. 206, 250
Corsica, i. 120
Cortes, first meeting of the, ii. 270–1;
Appendix B, 297–305
Courier, the, i. 258; ii. 237
Cowper, William, i. 125
Creevey Papers, ii. 253
Cumberland, Duke of, ii. 224, 290
Curran, John Philpot, ii. 33
Custine, General, i. 78, 82
Czartorisky, Adam Georges, ii. 166
D’Albany, Comtesse (Princesse de Stolberg), i. 48, 135, 140
Dalton, General, i. 92, 93
Dampierre, General, his monument, i. 88–9
D’Armfeldt, Baron, i. 46–7, 49–50, 51, 52–3, 55, 56, 123–4
Darnley, John, 4th Earl of, i. 104, 277
D’Artois, Comte, i. 198;
and Mr. Pitt, ii. 50–1
Devonshire, Georgiana, Duchess of, i. 5, 26, 27, 97, 105, 171, 244
Digby, Edward, 2nd Earl of, i. 122, 276
Divorce Bill, the, ii. 77, 93;
Duke of Bedford on, ii. 78–9;
passed House of Lords, ii. 84;
rejected by Commons, ii. 96
Dom John, Regent of Portugal, ii. 261
D’Oubril, M., and peace negotiations, ii. 162–3, 165, 166, 168, 173
Drummond, Sir William, and Sicily, ii. 211–12
Dumont, Pierre Etienne Louis, i. 229, 234, 236;
his conversation, ii. 11, 23–4, 39
Dumouriez, General, i. 53, 59, 81, 85, 87, 150–1; ii. 110
Duncan, Admiral, i. 160–1
Dundas, Henry (afterwards 1st Viscount Melville), i. 72, 102, 231; ii. 191, 223, 227
Dunkirk, siege of, i. 92–3
Dupont, General, in Andalusia, ii. 242, 245
Dutch Expedition, the, ii. 23, 32, 35
Eden, William Frederick, ii. 254
Egremont, George, 3rd Earl of, i. 103; ii. 104, 105
El Arish, treaty of, ii. 72
Eldon, John, 1st Earl of, ii. 93;
and George III., ii. 192, 193, 223, 224
Elgin, Thomas, 7th Earl of, i. 86, 87, 104, 105, 146
Elliot, Sir Gilbert (afterwards Lord Minto), i. 99–100, 118;
and Toulon, i. 98, 119;
and Corsica, i. 120;
his character, i. 161–2;
on Emma, Lady Hamilton, i. 242;
Governor-General of India, ii. 196;
and the Prince of Wales, ii. 198
Elliot, Hugh, British Minister in Dresden, i. 13, 50; ii. 121
Ellis, Charles Rose, i. 5, 6, 15, 218, 242
Erskine, Thomas, 1st Lord, i. 102, 164; ii. 202;
on religion, ii. 60;
on Serjeant Lens, ii. 94
Fagniani, Maria (afterwards Lady Hertford), ii. 163
Farquhar, Sir Walter, ii. 49, 135
Faulkner, Thomas, his History of Kensington quoted, ii. 63
Ferdinand III. of Tuscany, i. 48–9
Ferdinand IV. of Naples, i. 26, 28, 29
Fergusson, Robert Cultar, i. 233, 246, 247, 250, 251, 254, 262; ii. 103
Fersen, M. de, i. 87
Fingall, Arthur James, 8th Earl of, and Catholic Question, ii. 205
Fitzgerald, Lady Edward (Pamela), i. 181–2, 188, 208
Fitzgerald, Lord Edward, i. 181, 182, 260;
his arrest, i. 185;
his death, i. 187, 189;
and character, i. 188
Fitzgerald, Lord Henry, i. 112, 186, 188, 189, 273
Fitzgerald, Lady Lucy, i. 234, 235–6, 244, 246, 254
Fitzherbert, Mrs., i. 245, 258; ii. 49, 83
Fitzpatrick, General, i. 201, 254, 255–6; ii. 57, 58–9, 148;
his epigrams, i. 267–8;
letters to Lord Kenyon, ii. 48;
on C. J. Fox, ii. 84–5
Fitzwilliam, William, 4th Earl, i. 181; ii. 127;
and Prince of Wales, ii. 131
Flahault, Mme. de, ii. 155–6
Fontana, Felix, i. 51–2, 118, 139;
his homme de bois, i. 117
Forfeiture Bill, the, i. 275
Fox, Miss, i. 127, 147, 254, 256;
on Mrs. Fox, i. 149
Fox, C. J., Mrs., i. 149, 150, 228; ii. 180, 181
Fox, Charles James, and the Association, i. 14, 15, 102;
his opposition to the war, i. 97;
and Sir Gilbert Elliot, i. 99–100;
and Mr. Grey, i. 100–1;
and Lord E. Fitzgerald, i. 186;
and Lord Thanet’s case, i. 246;
and Mr. Francis, i. 268, 269;
and peace negotiations, ii. 46–8, 163–6;
his History of the Revolution, ii. 57–8, 78;
his Memorials and Correspondence, ii. 140;
and secession, i. 148, 163; ii. 74;
and Napoleon, ii. 150;
on Lord Holland’s debut in House of Lords, i. 169;
his illness, ii. 167, 169, 171–5, 178, 179;
death, ii. 180–1;
and funeral, ii. 187;
referred to, i. 69, 70, 121, 149, 153, 165, 177, 214, 227–8; ii. 44, 45, 126
Fox, the Hon. Charles Richard (afterwards General), i. 267; ii. 5, 7, 8, 121, 148–9, 236, 252, 259, 272
Fox, the Hon. Georgina Anne, ii. 247
Fox, the Hon. Henry Edward (afterwards 4th Lord Holland), ii. 234–5, 244
Fox, General the Hon. H. E., ii. 26, 42
Fox, the Hon. Stephen, i. 249; ii. 25, 125
Francis, Sir Philip, i. 230, 255; ii. 78, 141;
on C. J. Fox, i. 268–9
Frederick William II., i. 168
Frederick William III., i. 167, 168; ii. 118, 187, 188
Frere, Bartholomew, i. 265; ii. 186, 293
Frere, John Hookham, succeeds Canning as Under-Secretary, i. 243, 265
Freyne, Manuel, General, ii. 245
Further Memoirs of the Whig Party, Lord Holland’s, ii. 284
Genlis, Mme. de, ii. 110–11
George III., i. 97; ii. 130, 268;
fired at, ii. 80;
his coolness, ii. 81, 89;
his madness, ii. 131, 265, 275, 276;
and Catholic Emancipation Question, ii. 128, 199, 201–3, 214–21, 224;
on the death of C. J. Fox, ii. 182;
and Lord Eldon, ii. 192, 193
Gibbon, Edward, i. 2, 69, 96–7; ii. 37, 39
Godoy, Manuel de (Prince of the Peace), ii. 172, 243
Grattan, Henry, arrested, i. 191, 192
Grenville, Rt. Hon. Thomas, i. 226; ii. 182;
and ‘Virtuous Triumvirate,’ i. 118–9
Grenville, William Wyndham, Lord, i. 72; ii. 147, 170, 171, 269–70, 284, 286, 287;
resigns office, ii. 128, 129;
and Catholic Emancipation Bill, ii. 213, 215, 217, 219, 221;
Chancellor of Oxford, ii. 249, 256;
and Lord Buckingham, ii. 256;
and the Regency, ii. 267, 281–4;
and the Auditorship, ii. 285–8
Grey, Charles (afterwards Viscount Howick and 2nd Earl Grey), his character, i. 98, 100–2, 171;
and Prince of Wales, i. 178, 190–1; ii. 282, 283;
and secession, i. 215, 270; ii. 74;
and Parliamentary Reform, ii. 73;
and Mr. Tierney, ii. 137–140;
his plans for an Administration, ii. 171;
and the Foreign Office, ii. 184, 185;
and Catholic Emancipation, ii. 200, 201, 203, 214, 216, 217;
and Mr. Whitbread, ii. 245;
and Lord Grenville, ii. 284–8;
referred to, i. 210, 211, 214; ii. 172, 178, 181, 197, 224–5, 227, 269
Gustavus III. of Sweden, i. 46, 49–50
Gustavus IV. of Sweden, ii. 188–9, 279
Halford, Sir Henry (Dr. Vaughan), influences Prince of Wales, ii. 290
Hamilton, Emma, Lady, i. 143, 242–3; ii. 13
Hamilton, Sir William, i. 123, 143, 219, 243
Hardwicke, Philip, 3rd Earl of, ii. 223–7
Hare, James, i. 204, 223, 226; ii. 53;
and Lord Macartney, i. 241;
on Sheridan, i. 224
Hatton, Lady Ann (afterwards Lady Abercorn), i. 55, 122; ii. 56, 67, 69
Hertford, Lady, ii. 163;
and Prince of Wales, ii. 275;
see Beauchamp
Hervey, John Augustus, Lord, i. 47, 54, 103, 112, 115–16
Hobart, Robert, Lord (afterwards 4th Earl of Buckingham), i. 236–7, 243, 257
Hobhouse, Sir Benjamin, ii. 55
Holland House, i. 181;
its history, ii. 62–6
Holland, Henry Richard Vassall, 3rd Lord:
meets Lady Webster, i. 116;
marriage, i. 147;
his character, i. 121; ii. 58;
his speech on Assessed Taxes, i. 169;
on Land Tax, i. 189;
on case of Benjamin Flower, i. 248–9;
on Russian Subsidy, i. 264–5;
his manner of speaking, i. 183;
and Prince of Wales, i. 178;
and Lord E. Fitzgerald, i. 186;
and Lord Lansdown, i. 221;
and Lord Thanet, i. 250, 269;
and Mr. Adderley, i. 273;
and Lord Sidmouth, ii. 217;
and peace negotiations, ii. 29–30, 31, 44–5;
and the Divorce Bill, ii. 77;
and Public Debtors Bill, ii. 90;
and Catholic Emancipation Bill, ii. 76, 201–3, 215–16;
and Jacobinical Party, ii. 101–2;
his Foreign Reminiscences, i. 231;
at Court, i. 253–4;
and the mission to Paris, ii. 167, 168;
successor to C. J. Fox, ii. 170, 171;
Commissioner on American Question, ii. 173, 174;
Privy Seal, ii. 182, 183, 186, 187;
advice to Prince of Wales, ii. 197–8;
Recorder of Nottingham, ii. 249;
his lines ‘To a Lady on Her Birthday,’ i. 130,
Appendix A, 294–6
Holland, Elizabeth, Lady:
on Sir Godfrey Webster, i. 6, 30, 33, 38, 42–3, 53, 68, 83, 92, 159;
on his death, ii. 90–1;
her marriage with Sir G. Webster annulled, i. 147;
on Lord Holland, i. 117, 125, 159, 166, 170, 183, 265;
on the Papal Government, i. 174–5;
on Lord E. Fitzgerald’s arrest, i. 187, 188;
on Napoleon in Egypt, i. 199–201;
on cliques, i. 257;
on Harriet Webster, i. 263–4;
on the death of C. J. Fox, ii. 179–182;
her early education, i. 158–9;
her reading, and studies, i. 5, 7, 130, 173, 192, 199, 213, 215–16; ii. 24, 37, 41, 61;
her criticisms on art, i. 18, 19, 32–8, 48, 84–5, 132, 134, 137–8, 140, 141–2; ii. 151–2, 250–1
Holroyd, Maria Josepha, on Lady Webster, i. 3
Hood, Admiral Lord, at Toulon, i. 98, 115, 119, 120
Horner, Francis, on the Regency, ii. 280
Horsley, Samuel, Bishop of Rochester, and the Divorce Bill, i. 86–7; ii. 96
Howick, Lord, see Grey, Charles
Humanitarians, the, ii. 55
Huskisson, William, The Depreciation of the Currency, ii. 272
Ingenhousz, John, i. 205, 273; ii. 11;
his death, ii. 16–17
Intercepted Letters, the, i. 200; ii. 44, 57
Ireland, civil war in, i. 190
Italinski, M., Russian Secretary at Naples, i. 16, 27, 29, 122, 123, 124;
and Lady Holland’s portrait, i. 138, 142
Jamaica, ii. 51
Jekyll, Joseph, i. 175, 204, 254; ii. 24, 129
Jemappes, battle of, i. 87
Jena, battle of, ii. 187
Jenkins, Thomas, i. 31
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, i. 72; ii. 65
Kenyon, Lord Justice, i. 204, 246, 248;
and Mr. Wakefield, i. 241;
and Lord Holland, i. 249;
and General Fitzpatrick, ii. 48;
and Lord Carlisle, ii. 93, 95–6
King, Peter, 7th Lord, ii. 27–8, 45
Knight, Richard Payne, ii. 8, 9, 79, 136–7
La Fayette, Marquis de, i. 71, 72, 105, 151, 152, 208
Lally-Tollendal, Comte de, ii. 155
Lamb, Hon. William (afterwards 2nd Viscount Melbourne), i. 225; ii. 100, 280
Landau, siege of, i. 109, 114
Lansdown, William Petty, 1st Marquess of, i. 100, 127, 191, 209–211, 239, 245;
his character, i. 175–7;
and Lord Wycombe, i. 209–10;
and Lord Holland, i. 221; ii. 76;
on the Fitzgerald Attainder Bill, i. 231;
and Dr. Ingenhousz, ii. 11, 16–17
Lansdowne, John, 2nd Marquess of, see Wycombe, Lord
Lauderdale, James, 8th Earl of, i. 164–5, 198, 227, 270–1, 272; ii. 162, 183, 268;
and Association of the Friends of the People, i. 101;
on Mr. Canning, i. 217;
peace negotiator at Paris, ii. 167, 169, 172, 173, 175–9, 185, 191, 195
Law, Edward (afterwards Lord Ellenborough), i. 246–7; ii. 103
Leinster, Duchess of, i. 232, 234, 236, 240, 244
Lennox, Lady Sarah, at Holland House, ii. 66
Lens, Serjeant, and Norfolk Committee, ii. 194, 197, 204
Leveson-Gower, Lord Granville (afterwards 1st Earl Granville), i. 116, 121, 167; ii. 32–3, 253;
his debut in House of Lords, i. 213;
and the Czar, ii. 236
Lewis, Matthew Gregory (‘Monk’), The Monk, i. 166–7;
and Sheridan, i. 184;
his translation of Juvenal, i. 224–5;
Alonzo and Imogene, i. 239;
Reflections in a Royal Burying-ground, ii. 39;
and Duke of Somerset, ii. 45–6, 60;
Address from Friendship to Youth, ii. 74–5, 87
Lille, Abbé de, ii. 67–8
Lima, M. de, ii. 176
Lisbon, departure of Portuguese Royal Family from, ii. 261–2
Llandaff, Richard Watson, Bishop of, and Mr. Wakefield, i. 179;
and Benjamin Flower, i. 248–9
Lorne, George William, Marquess of (afterwards 6th Duke of Argyll), i. 199, 233; ii. 46
Louis XVIII., i. 145, 229
Ludlow, Edmund, at Vevey, i. 69
Macartney, George, 1st Earl, i. 136, 228–9, 272; ii. 30;
on Warren Hastings, i. 240;
and Mr. Hare, i. 241
Macdonald, General, ii. 48–9
Mackintosh, Sir James, his principles, i. 251–2;
his History of Holland House, ii. 63
MacMahon, Col., ii. 273, 278
Malherbe, his Consolation, i. 183
Malmesbury, James, 1st Earl of, i. 104, 105–6, 153, 169
Manfredini, Prime Minister of Tuscany, i. 48, 49, 54, 114, 145
Marat, assassination of, i. 71, 72
Marengo, battle of, ii. 85
Marie Antoinette, Queen, i. 85, 87
Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of, her vindication, i. 192–4
Marsh, Rev. Matthew, i. 122, 216, 244–5, 246
Martial Law Bill, Protest against, ii. 140–1
Matarosa (Count Torreno), ii. 245
Maurice, Thomas, his Indian Antiquities, i. 275
Mayence, siege of, i. 78–80, 81–3
Mexico, Commission to, ii. 292
Microcosm, the, i. 13, 265–6
Millar, Professor John, ii. 100
Milton, John, quoted, i. 130
Minto, Lord. See Elliot, Sir Gilbert
Miscellaneous Reminiscences, Lord Holland’s, i. 265
Moira, Francis Rawdon, 2nd Earl of, i. 105, 109, 114–15, 178, 222; ii. 137, 284;
his character, i. 165–6;
and Duc de Luxembourg, i. 203–4;
discontented with his party, ii. 195–6, 222;
and Prince of Wales, ii. 268–9, 283
Monroe, James, ii. 174, 209
Moore, Capt. (afterwards Admiral Sir Graham), ii. 261
Morla, Don Thomas, succeeds Solano at Cadiz, ii. 242
Morning Post, the, ii. 237
Morpeth, George, Viscount (afterwards 6th Earl of Carlisle), i. 70, 122, 218; ii. 82, 134;
on Arthur O’Connor, i. 186;
his qualities, i. 238–9;
and negotiations with Prussia, ii. 186
Morris, Capt. Charles, ii. 11
Murat, General, massacre at Madrid, ii. 241;
and King of Prussia, ii. 183–4
Murray, Lady Augusta, i. 35
Mutiny Bill, the, in Ireland, ii. 199, 200, 201, 213, 214, 216, 218
Naples, i. 15–16, 220; ii. 12–13
in Egypt, i. 199–201; ii. 42;
and Sir Sidney Smith, ii. 12, 31;
Grand Consul, ii. 40;
and Mme. de Staël, ii. 101;
attempted assassination of, ii. 142–4;
receives C. J. Fox, ii. 150;
and Russian Treaty, ii. 169
National Defence Fund, i. 170
Nelson, Lord, at Naples, ii. 12
Nepean, Evan, ii. 27
Nile, battle of the, i. 199
Norfolk, Charles, 11th Duke of, ii. 9–10;
his seditious speech, i. 177, 191
Northumberland, Duke of, and Prince of Wales, i. 179–80
Nugent, Baroness (formerly Lady Buckingham), and George III., ii. 130
O’Coigly, James, in court, i. 185
O’Connor, Arthur, trial of, and attempted rescue, i. 184–6, 233, 246–7;
and Lady Lucy Fitzgerald, i. 235–6
O’Hara, General, at Toulon, i. 98, 108, 113
Ossulston, Charles Augustus, Lord, i. 272, 275
Ostrach, battle of, i. 237
Oxford, Lady, ii. 8–9, 136–7
Paget, Sir Arthur, ii. 235
Park, Mungo, i. 172, 213
Parr, Dr., i. 230; ii. 18, 72, 79
Pelham, Hon. Thomas (afterwards 2nd Earl of Chichester), i. 1, 13, 47, 54, 96, 97–8;
his letter on the Association, i. 15;
and siege of Dunkirk, i. 104;
and ‘Virtuous Triumvirate,’ i. 118–19;
resigns the Irish Secretaryship, i. 206;
Secretary of State, ii. 147–8
Perceval, Spencer, speaks against C. J. Fox, ii. 196–7;
the Prince of Wales and, ii. 276, 280, 289, 290
Petty, Lord Henry (afterwards 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne), i. 176; ii. 54, 186, 208, 211;
his character, ii. 100–1;
and Lord Wycombe’s will, ii. 247
Piron, M., i. 202–3, 212–13
Pitt, William, i. 153, 267;
and Mr. Grey, i. 100–1;
and the Coalition, i. 102;
and Lord Abercorn, i. 202;
and the Union, i. 220;
on Mr. Tierney, ii. 50–1;
resigns office, ii. 128–9
Pius VI., Pope, i. 125
Plymouth, Sarah, Lady (afterwards Lady Amherst), i. 16, 20, 29, 122, 123; ii. 7, 264
Polignac, Duchesse de, i. 111–12
Pollen, ‘Prodigy,’ i. 222–3
Pondicherry, siege of, i. 114–15, 116
Ponsonby, Rt. Hon. George, ii. 34, 225, 254;
elected for Wicklow, ii. 133–4;
Leader of the Opposition, ii. 235;
and Danish Expedition, ii. 239
Ponsonby, John, 2nd Baron, his letters to Lord Howick, ii. 205–6;
and the Irish Catholics, ii. 212, 223, 225
Portland, William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of, ii. 223, 225, 291;
and Sir Gilbert Elliot, i. 99–100;
supports the war, i. 118;
at the Home Office, i. 182, 186;
and Henry Grattan, i. 191–2
Presburg, treaty of, ii. 161, 176, 177
Priestley, Joseph, ii. 55
Prussia, Prince Ferdinand Augustus of, ii. 117
Prussia, Prince Henry of, his qualities, ii. 119–120
Public Debtors Bill, ii. 89, 90, 94–5
Queensberry, William, 4th Duke of, ii. 281
Quesnoy, siege of, i. 53, 89–90, 93
Rastadt, murder of French Deputies at, i. 249, 250
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, ii. 244
Richmond, Charles, 3rd Duke of, and Duke of York, i. 94;
and Lord E. Fitzgerald, i. 188;
and Lady Lucy Fitzgerald, i. 235–6;
his death, ii. 191–2
Rose, Mr., and Abolition of Slave Trade, ii. 205
Rosslyn, James, 2nd Earl of, and Mission to Lisbon, ii. 167, 171, 175
Royal Institution, the, ii. 52, 60–1
Rumford, Count von (Sir Benjamin Thompson), Prime Minister of Bavaria, i. 12, 59, 108;
in England, i. 206–7, 279; ii. 52
St. Januarius, ceremony of the liquefaction of blood of, i. 21
St. Vincent, Admiral Viscount (Sir John Jervis), and Admiral Duncan, i. 160–1;
First Lord of the Admiralty, ii. 132;
and Mission to Portugal, ii. 162, 174–5
San Leucio, Colony of, i. 27–8
Santa Croce, Princess, i. 34, 35, 125
Scarlett, James (afterwards Lord Abinger), ii. 38
Scott, Sir William, on Divorce Bill, ii. 88
Selwyn, George, ii. 66
Sheffield, John Baker Holroyd, Lord, i. 2, 97
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, i. 98, 102, 123, 249, 255, 258, 278–9; ii. 55;
and ‘Monk’ Lewis, i. 184;
and Mr. Canning, i. 217;
and Mr. Tierney, i. 220–1;
and Prince of Wales, i. 221–2; ii. 283–4;
James Hare on, i. 224;
and the O’Connor trial, i. 246–7;
and Pizarro, i. 255;
and George III., ii. 81;
and Abbot’s Bill, ii. 95;
and Divorce Bill, ii. 96;
on the successor to C. J. Fox, ii. 170;
his intrigues, ii. 172–3
Sheridan, Charles Francis, i. 268, 274–5
Sicily, ii. 164–5, 263–4, 290–1
Sidmouth, Lord, see Addington, Henry
Simon, General, ii. 265
Slavery Bill, the, i. 271, 275; ii. 205
Smith, Robert Percy (‘Bobus’), i. 248, 275;
his marriage, i. 163;
and Lord Lansdown, i. 210;
his vaunted independence, ii. 17
Smith, Sir Sidney, and Napoleon, ii. 12, 31;
and treaty of El Arish, ii. 72;
takes Capri, ii. 167;
in Sicily, ii. 212
Solano, M., Governor of Cadiz, his murder, ii. 240–2, 246
Somerset, Edward Adolphus, 11th Duke of, his character, ii. 21–2;
and ‘Monk’ Lewis, ii. 45–6, 60
Southey, Robert, ii. 231–2, 257
Spencer, George John, 2nd Earl, and Catholic Emancipation Bill, ii. 221, 223
Spencer, Lord Henry, i. 257; ii. 19;
at the Hague, i. 13, 86;
ordered to Stockholm, i. 61, 97;
in Parliament, i. 123;
on Baron d’Armfeldt, i. 124
Staël, Mme. de, and Talleyrand, ii. 57;
and Napoleon, ii. 101
Stahremberg, Prince, ii. 236–7, 254–5
Stanhope, Charles, 3rd Earl of, ii. 102
Strangford, Lord, at Lisbon, ii. 261
Stroganoff, M., Russian Ambassador in England, ii. 168, 177, 178
Talleyrand, M., his sarcasms, ii. 57;
and peace negotiations, ii. 163–5, 176–7
Tandy, James Napper, ii. 109
Thanet, Lord, indicted for attempting to rescue Arthur O’Connor, i. 233, 241, 248;
Sheridan’s evidence, i. 246–7;
desires a pardon, i. 249–250, 251;
sentenced to the Tower, i. 262, 269;
released, ii. 102;
at Appleby, ii. 232
Thurlow, Lord, on Triple Assessments, i. 164;
and Lord Auckland, ii. 71
Tierney, George, i. 171–2, 179, 241, 260–1, 272, 274, 278; ii. 76;
on Arthur O’Connor, i. 203;
and Mr. Nicholl, i. 205;
his speech on the Income Bill, i. 221;
speech on Finance, i. 265;
and Evan Nepean, ii. 27;
his loyalty questioned, ii. 50–1, 53;
his parody on Lewis’s Address from Friendship to Youth, ii. 75;
and Mr. Grey, ii. 137–140
Tilsit, treaty of, ii. 173, 230
Tooke, Horne, his trial, i. 186, 247; ii. 48;
at Westminster, ii. 52–3;
elected for Old Sarum, ii. 134, 140;
on C. J. Fox, ii. 146
Toulon, siege of, i. 98, 99, 108, 112, 113, 115
Treating Act, the, Messrs. Windham and Coke and, ii. 193, 194
Trebbia, battle of, i. 278
Turkey, the war with Russia, ii. 209
Tyrwhitt, Sir Thomas, ii. 266–7
Valenciennes, siege of, i. 54, 70–3, 80, 88–90, 99
Van Dyke, his portrait of the Earl of Holland, ii. 63
Vassall, Florentius, ii. 92
Vassall, Richard, father of Lady Webster, his illness, i. 19–20, 69, 96;
his death, i. 131
Vega, Don Andres de la, ii. 245
‘Virtuous Triumvirate,’ the, i. 118
Voltaire, and Piron, i. 202–3, 212–13;
and Lord Bristol, i. 219;
personated by M. Chauvet, i. 234;
Condorcet’s Life of, ii. 15–16;
his Memoirs, ii. 23;
on the Collège de Montaigne, ii. 67–8
Wakefield, Gilbert, and Bishop of Llandaff, i. 178–9;
his trial and imprisonment, i. 241, 248, 258
Walcheren Expedition, inquiry into, ii. 253
Wales, George, Prince of, ii. 49, 266, 275–6;
and Mr. Grey, i. 178;
and Duke of Northumberland, i. 179–180;
at Holland House, i. 190; ii. 82;
and Sheridan, i. 221–2; ii. 283–4;
and Mrs. Fitzherbert, i. 258;
on Lord Holland’s succession to Mr. Fox, ii. 183, 186–7;
on the Princess of Wales, ii. 197–9;
and the Catholic Question, ii. 222;
and Duke of York, ii. 268, 281–2;
and Mr. Adam, ii. 273–4;
and the Regency, ii. 278, 281–4;
and Mr. Perceval, ii. 276, 280, 289, 290;
and the Queen’s letter, ii. 289;
and Dr. Vaughan, ii. 290
Wales, Caroline, Princess of, ii. 199;
charges against, ii. 192–3, 207;
her defence, ii. 210
Washington, George, ii. 52
Webster, Sir Godfrey, his character, i. 6, 30;
he returns to England, i. 132;
his marriage annulled, i. 147;
and Harriet Webster, i. 263, 264;
his death, ii. 90–1;
the guardianship of his children, ii. 104
Webster, Harriet Frances, her birth, i. 126;
restored to her father, i. 263–4;
her fortune, ii. 98
Webster, Lady, see Holland, Elizabeth, Lady
Webster, Godfrey Vassall (‘Webby’), i. 113, 143, 237; ii. 67, 98, 104–5
Wellesley, Sir Arthur (afterwards Duke of Wellington), ii. 246, 254, 264
Wellesley, Richard Colley, Marquess of, ii. 247–8, 249, 254
Westmoreland, John, 11th Earl of, in Ireland, ii. 14–15;
and George III., ii. 278
Whig Club, the, i. 214, 227
Whitbread, Samuel, and secession, ii. 38;
on Lord Lauderdale’s negotiations, ii. 196–7;
and Lord Howick, ii. 208, 211;
at Southill, ii. 244;
his unpopularity, ii. 285;
and Lord Grenville, ii. 287–8
Whitelocke, General, ii. 204
Whitworth, Charles, Lord, and the Czar, ii. 73
William V., of Holland, ii. 107
Wilson, General Sir Robert, in Portugal, ii. 271–2
Windham, William, refuses office, i. 118;
refuses a peerage, ii. 184;
and Lord Grenville, ii. 226;
his death, ii. 255–6
Wordsworth, William, ii. 231
Wycombe, Lord (afterwards 2nd Marquess of Lansdowne), i. 137, 240, 256, 266, 271–2; ii. 127;
his character, i. 126–7;
in Ireland, i. 191;
his disputes with his father, i. 176, 209–10, 239; ii. 85;
his journal quoted, ii. 142–5;
his death, ii. 247
Wyndham, Hon. William Frederick, i. 1;
British Ambassador at Florence, i. 103;
the appointment criticised, i. 104, 116;
quarrel with Lady Holland, i. 133, 135
Wyndham, Mrs., and Lady Holland, i. 96, 127, 136;
and Harriet Webster, i. 126;
she quits her husband, i. 133
Yarmouth, Francis, Earl of (afterwards 2nd Marquess of Hertford), i. 69, 80, 104;
and peace negotiations, ii. 163–5, 167–9, 177, 179
York, Frederick Augustus, Duke of, i. 89, 104;
and siege of Valenciennes, i. 80, 87, 91;
at Dunkirk, i. 93–5;
in Holland, ii. 13, 23, 32, 59;
and Catholic Bill, ii. 224;
and Prince of Wales, ii. 268, 281–2
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