Chapter X: Part 10

_October, 1811._--Sudden return of Ld. Wm. Bentinck[385] from Sicily for further instructions, after an absence of only a few weeks, has surprised people, and convinced them of his want of capacity and timidity of character. It is understood that his instructions were merely an echo of those given to his predecessor, Lord Amherst, the substance of which was to induce the Court by moderate means to admit the native Sicilians into the Governt., and to diminish the burthens upon the people, and various other points of importance. Ld. Wm. is accused of having very unskilfully in his first paper to Circello betrayed the whole context of his secret instructions; whereupon its not appearing that Ld. Wm. had the power of withholding the subsidy Circello made a most able diplomatic reply, deprecating the interference of any foreign power, however allied, with the internal Governt., and giving it plainly to be understood that _allies_ who acted thus might withdraw their forces. Upon the receipt of this, Ld. Wm., without further discussion, got on board the first vessel, which happened to be Capt. Clifford, of the _Cephalus_, gun brig, and came home. It is said Ministers were astonished, but declared everywhere that they were highly pleased at his conduct. As that is _impossible_, the glossing it over must be out of compliment to the D. of Portland. The report is that the Cabinet have resolved upon vigorous measures, and those who know the Queen believe she will not resist, but in case of her being so disposed, she is to be made to submit, and a retreat into Austria suggested as her best resource. The unfortunate Barons who were imprisoned in consequence of their appeal,[386] are left in severe confinement, and Prince Belmonte, who is in a precarious state of health, will certainly not survive the confinement in one of the worst dungeons, and in the most unwholesome spot in the Island. The idle English, by their silly language in the coffee houses have contributed much towards irritating the Queen. Fredk. Lamb[387] is at last to accompany Ld. Wm.

[Sidenote: COMMISSION TO MEXICO]

The Commissioners to Mexico are to begin their peregrinations in about 3 weeks; it is a trading voyage. Capt. Cockburn,[388] who is one and is to have the rank of Commodore and a flag, goes first to Lisbon to pick up Mr. Stewart; then to Cadiz for the Spaniards; to Jamaica for Mr. Morier; and finally to Vera Cruz. From what is said, the expedition seems to be rather a wild goose chase. It is not certain that the Spanish Governt. will accept the offered mediation. When it was originally proposed, they accepted, annexing the condition that if the colonies did not within 15 months fall into their allegiance to the Mother Country, that in that case the English should assist with military force and compel them to submit by subduing them. This condition has not been acceded to on the part of this Governt., but they send out this Commission, without waiting for the final determination of the Govt. of Cadiz, now they know that they are only to be supported in any pacific measures. The man upon whom much depends is Bardachi, a sort of Secretary of State, who, with some abilities and honesty, is full of prejudice against this country, and of an impracticable temper. B. Hoppner is Sec. to the Commission. Frere, who has been living here upwards of a month, to my astonishment expressed himself surprised and offended that he had been neglected by Ld. Wellesley, saying that from his knowledge of Spain he considered himself as the fittest to be employed; boasted of his influence over Bardachi, who owes his place to him, and various other such _absurdities_. I was petrified, it not being possible to acquiesce in the reasonableness of his complaint, or consider it as an injury the not selecting him.

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A

The following lines are taken from Lord Holland’s verses ‘To a lady on her Birthday, Florence, March 25, 1795.’[389]

When twice twelve times the rolling earth
Brought back the period of her birth,
Thus to the Genius of the day
A certain Dame was heard to pray:
‘Give me, indulgent Genius, give
’Midst learned cabinets to live,
’Midst curiosities, collections,
Specimens, medals, and dissections,
With books of every tongue and land
All difficult to understand,
With instruments of various sorts,
Telescopes, air pumps, tubes, retorts,
With friends, fair wisdom to pursue,
Fontana, Macie, Blagden, Drew.’

* * * * *

Such are thy wishes, but if kind
The Gods, and of a mortal’s mind,
These sacrifices they will spare,
And long preserve you what you are;
And when obdurate time besprinkles
Your head with grey, your face with wrinkles,
When sickness and when age shall come
And wither transient beauty’s bloom,
Still shall the beauties of your mind,
By reading and by time refin’d,
Still shall thy wit and polish’d ease
In spite of fickle nature please;
And then th’ enchanted world shall see
Rochefoucauld’s laws belied in thee,
See female merit youth outlive,
And loveliness thy charms survive.
So when old Time’s relentless page
At full threescore shall mark thy age,
With equal truth but better verse
Some Bard thy merits shall rehearse,
And like myself be proud to pay
A tribute to this happy day.

Thirty-six years afterwards, on March 25, 1831, Lord Holland gave his wife another copy of verses, and the reader will probably be interested in seeing a short selection from them.

I promised you, ’tis long ago,
Some six and thirty years or so,
Another Bard your praise should sing
When you had reached your sixtieth Spring.
That sixtieth spring has come--to you,
My Dearest Soul, the verse is due.
Nor ever thine more fit t’inspire
The heart’s delight, the Poet’s fire,
Than Charms, unfading Charms, like yours,
Than merit which the test endures
Of health and sickness, smiles and tears,
And all that chequers lengthened years.
Nor will you frown, tho’ my prediction
In one sole point turn out a fiction,
And this so late reviving lay
Raised to record your natal day
Prove no strange minstrel’s ode or hymn,
But the unaltered vows of him,
Whose earliest and whose last emotion
Has been and must be warm devotion
To all the Charms he sees combined
In thy dear frame and lovely Mind.

* * * * *

I write not, I, for prize or fame,
Nor bays nor triumph is my aim;
To you, My Love, my strains belong,
To you I dedicate my song:
And all my hope and all my due
Is one kind happy smile from You.
Content if on this blessed day
My simple rugged lines convey
One truth, which be it verse or prose,
From my heart’s heart sincerely flows:
‘I loved you much at twenty-four,
I love you better at threescore.’

APPENDIX B

The following letters from Mr. Campbell to Lord Holland, referring to the first meeting of the Cortes at Cadiz, have been considered of sufficient interest for publication.

_Mr. R. Campbell to Lord Holland._

Cadiz, Sept. 26th, 1810.

MY LORD,--I am just returned from the Isle of Leon where
I had been to witness the opening of the Cortes, and am
favoured with your Lordship’s letter of the 6th inst; the
packet has orders to sail immediately upon receiving Mr.
Wellesley’s despatches, which I am informed will be ready
in less than an hour, so that I have only time to give your
Lordship a very short and imperfect account of what has
hitherto passed in the Cortes; such, however, as it is, I
have no doubt but it will be interesting to your Lordship.

The Cortes met, agreeably to the summons of convocation, in
the Isle of Leon, on the 24th inst, and having taken the
usual oaths, administered to them in an adjoining church
by the Bishop of Orense, President of the Regency, they
repaired in a Body to the _Theatre_ which had been fitted
up for their reception, as the most convenient for _them_
and the best adapted for the accommodation of the _public_
of any place that could be selected in the Island. They
were accompanied by a great concourse of people of all
ranks, shouting, ‘Viva España, viva la nacion, y vivan
los Padres de la Patria.’ After they were installed,
the Regency who had accompanied them gave an account of
their administration and made a formal demission of their
authority in the hands of the Cortes, and then withdrew.

I was not present during the whole of the sitting, which
continued till 5 _o’clock_ in the morning, but the
following is, I believe, a pretty correct account of the
most important Decrees which were passed, some of which you
will allow to be of _great importance indeed_, viz.:--

The _sovereignty_ of the nation, now assembled in Cortes.
The legislative power vested in them. The inviolability
of the persons of the deputies. All the cessions made in
Bayonne declared to be null and void, not only on account
of the violence employed in obtaining them, but _chiefly_
for having been made without the consent and contrary to
the will of the Spanish nation so strongly pronounced.
Ferdinand VII. declared to be King of Spain and the Indies.
(The motion was, King and _Sovereign_, but the word
_Sovereign_ was rejected.)

The late Regency, for the present (_interinamente_) to
exercise the executive power; they and the Ministers to
be responsible to the Cortes for their conduct in the
administration of public affairs and to grant no offices
which were not absolutely and indispensably necessary in
the actual circumstances of the nation.

The Regency to take the usual oaths to the Cortes (which
they did on the same evening).

The Regency not to remove more than one league from the
place where the Cortes shall be sitting.

All officers, civil, military, and judiciary, confirmed in
their appointments. The judiciary to confine themselves
_strictly_ to their _judicial_ capacities.

Everything was conducted with a greater degree of
decorum than could have been expected, all circumstances
considered. Your Lordship will be of opinion that it was
a spectacle highly interesting to see a body of men thus
suddenly assembled and unaccustomed to public business,
discussing objects of the greatest magnitude with calmness
and dignity and with as much confidence that they were
laying the foundations of the independence, liberty,
and happiness of their country as if there was not a
Frenchman on this side of the Pyrenees, tho’ they were then
deliberating with a French army in sight and almost within
reach of their batteries.

I have the strongest hopes that the meeting of the Cortes
will produce the most favourable effects. It cannot fail
to rouse every dormant energy of the nation; _here_ the
enthusiasm is universal, and I am not afraid of its running
into any of those horrible excesses which disgraced the
French Revolution. The elections have fallen upon persons
distinguished for talents, probity, and patriotism; this
I know to be the case with respect to those deputies which
have been chosen here, and I have reason to believe that
it is _generally_ so. There is but one Grandee in the
Cortes--Villafranca--who was chosen by the _Ayuntamiento_
of Murcia. Infantado would have been chosen by the
Emigrants from Madrid here. He had the greatest number of
suffrages; but being only one of three, who were balloted
for agreeably to the mode of election prescribed by the
enclosed paper, the lot fell upon a _Relator_ of the
Council of Castile, a very able and upright lawyer.

A commission, or rather committee, was appointed yesterday
to draw up a plan of the forms by which their future
proceedings were to be regulated. We expect that a decree
will be passed in a few days establishing the liberty of
the press; the plan of it, I have reason to think, is
now preparing. We expect likewise that a journal of the
proceedings and debates of the Cortes will be published
daily, and this, I hope, will be circulated, in thousands,
all over the country occupied by the enemy, by means of
the _guerrillas_ which are every day increasing in number,
force, and audacity. I saw yesterday a respectable person
who was in Madrid when the _Empecinado_ attacked the _Casa
de campo_, and when Joseph and his suite fled in confusion
and dismay from the playhouse. Very few of the French
cabinet couriers escape the vigilance and boldness of the
_guerrillas_. Another intercepted mail has just arrived
here containing correspondence of a very interesting
nature; it will be soon published.

The Cortes will probably remove their sittings in a short
time to Cadiz, where they will assemble in the church of
St. Phelipe Neri, the place in Cadiz best adapted for
the purpose. As it is not a parish church it will be
ceded without difficulty by the confraternity to which
it belongs. Your Lordship may remember that it is a
handsome _rotundo_ of modern architecture, with capacious
galleries. Above the altar of the principal chapel there
is a celebrated ‘Conception’ of _Murillo_; I mention this
circumstance to assist your memory in recollecting the
place.

I enclose a very well written address to the deputies of
the Cortes which was published here three days before they
met; the author, tho’ the initials of the name were not
subjoined, your Lordship would readily know to be Quintana.
He has not been elected for the Cortes. Capmany is one of
the deputies for Catalonia.

The last decree of the _Junta Central_ which you had the
goodness to send me was not suppressed by their successors;
it was circulated here in manuscript. I read it a few days
after it was passed: it was not printed and published, but
its not being so did not, in my opinion, arise from any
improper motive. The truth is that the _Junta Central_
were and still are held in such universal abhorrence
that anything coming from them, were it ever so good in
itself, would have been ill received by the public. The
only member of that body to whom no public odium has
attached is your friend Jovellanos. He has retired to some
corner in Asturias; it was reported some weeks ago that
he had been named deputy to the Cortes from some parts
of that province, and the intelligence gave great and
general satisfaction. Garay and a few others are still
here, but seldom appear in public. Valdes is in Gibraltar.
Tilly and Calvo close prisoners in the Castle of St.
Sebastian. Villel in Catalonia, and the rest I know not
where. Riquelme, who, to avoid the effects of the popular
indignation, had taken refuge on board a Spanish frigate
commanded by Dn. Raphael Lobo, was the only person killed
by the fire of the French batteries on the Trocadero when
the frigate, having been driven from her anchors during
a violent storm, grounded within reach of the French
batteries and was at last set on fire by red hot shot.

I enclose a number of the _Conciso_ (a new paper published
here) which has just come from the press; the account which
it gives of the proceedings in the Cortes differs very
little from what I have written above.

The assembly of the Cortes, tho’ late, is a most fortunate
circumstance; it affords the only hope of saving the
nation. The single circumstance of the Regency having been
appointed by the _Junta Central_, would for ever have
prevented them from obtaining the confidence of the public.

I beg to offer my best respects to Lady Holland and Mr.
Allen, and have the honour to be, &c.

R. CAMPBELL.

P.S.--Though the Cortes in a body are to have the
_tratamiento of Majesty_, the individual members are to
have no _tratamiento_ nor any badge of distinction as
members of Cortes. When the Regency took the oaths to the
Cortes on the evening of the 24th, the Bishop of Orense did
not come, saying he was fatigued and much indisposed, and
he has since declined to take the oaths from some _scruple
of conscience_, of what nature we do not know. The Cortes
were sitting yesterday in a secret committee of the whole,
deliberating upon a communication from the Regency.

_Mr. R. Campbell to Lord Holland._

Cadiz, Dec. 10, 1810.

MY LORD,--Being much hurried at present I must refer your
Lordship to the public reports for an account of the
further proceedings of the Cortes and of the events which
have lately taken place in this country. I shall only say
in general that we are still full of confidence. A measure,
which I have taken the liberty of strongly recommending to
some of my friends among the deputies, will probably be
moved in the Cortes this day or to-morrow. It is to pass
a decree making it a fundamental law of the state that
any King of Spain or Prince of the blood royal who shall
marry a _foreigner_ without the consent of the Cortes,
shall by that act forfeit his title to the crown. The
subject of this decree, independent of its general policy,
is immediately to anticipate any new trick or stratagem
which Bonaparte may probably devise, should the campaign
in Portugal prove, as we hope, signally disastrous to
his arms, by marrying Ferdinand to a Frenchwoman or an
Austrian, and bringing him to Spain as King, in order to
create new factions and disunion. This law will probably be
proposed by Arguelles, and I have little doubt will pass.

Your Lordship will perceive from this that we are at
present more afraid of the artifices than of the arms of
Napoleon.

Some discussion will likewise soon take place in the Cortes
with respect to the assumption of the title of _Majesty_

by them; a measure which, I was aware, would be liable
to much misconstruction in England. I shall write your
Lordship more fully on this and some other subjects by
next packet; in the mean time, your Lordship may be assured
that there was no intention, by the assumption of this
title, to degrade the royal authority.

I beg leave to offer my best respects to Lady Holland and
Mr. Allen, and have the honour to be, &c.

R. CAMPBELL.

_Mr. R. Campbell to Lord Holland._

Cadiz, Dec. 20th, 1810.

MY LORD,--The decree which I mentioned in my last letter
with respect to the marriage of the Princes of the Spanish
Blood Royal was actually proposed by Capmany, and discussed
on the 10th. Capmany’s motion was that no King of Spain
or Prince of the blood royal should contract matrimony
with _any person whatever_, without the consent of the
Cortes lawfully assembled; this is more general and, as a
fundamental Law of the State, more consistent, perhaps,
with sound policy, than the decree to which I alluded. The
motion was referred to the committee on the constitution,
and I hope they will lose no time in deciding upon it.

Such had been the shameful intriguing and trafficking for
places and pensions, for titles and ribands and crosses
and promotions in the army and navy, frequently conferred
upon the most worthless individuals, during the government
of the Central Junta and of the late Regency, that the
_self-denying_ decree appears to me to have been absolutely
necessary to give the Cortes that degree of public
confidence and popularity which alone could render their
labours of any benefit to the nation.

With respect to the title of Majesty, I am convinced that,
in assuming it, the Cortes had no intention to degrade
the royal dignity and that no democratic views lurk under
this measure. Your Lordship will be pleased to consider
the very peculiar circumstances under which they met. The
nation was _then_ for the first time in the history of the
Monarchy represented by deputies that had the least shadow
of a claim to fair or legitimate election; they had to
give to their country what it never possessed before--a
_Constitution_, by which the hitherto despotic power of
the King should be limited, and which should be binding
on him as well as on the people. They had to prescribe
to him the conditions upon which the Spanish nation were
willing that he should continue to wear the crown. It was
necessary that, at the first moment of their meeting, they
should make some kind of public and solemn expression of
the sovereign and inherent rights of the nation, lawfully
represented, to form and establish the fundamental laws of
the State. The title of Majesty was therefore not assumed
with levity; its expediency was maturely considered.
It was requisite that the multitude and all ranks and
classes of the State should at once receive the deepest
impression that the authority and dignity of the _present
extraordinary_ Cortes were paramount to every other; before
which all other authorities and dignities must, for the
present, bend. It was necessary, therefore, that they
should be addressed in the language corresponding to the
high dignity of their situation--they could not otherwise
have taken or maintained possession of the lofty ground
upon which they now stand, especially in a country where,
more than in any other, respect and authority are connected
in the minds of the vulgar with title and external
appearance. Besides, the title of Majesty had just been
given to the _Central Junta_ and to the late Regency; and
if the Cortes had not assumed the same title, it might have
been considered as a public acknowledgment of inferiority
in power and dignity to these two bodies. Had the Cortes
taken the title of _Highness_ and left that of _Majesty_
with the _Regency_, how would it have sounded in the ears
of a Spanish public that his _Majesty_ was nominated by
and responsible for his conduct to his _Highness_? I have
not heard it even insinuated that any future Cortes (or by
whatever other appellation the elective representatives of
the people shall be distinguished) ought to be addressed
by the title of Majesty. This title, it is generally
understood, when the Constitution is established,
should belong to the King _alone_, as the hereditary
representative of the power and Majesty of the nation.

In addition to all this, your Lordship will have observed
that the title of Majesty was more general in its
application in Spain than it is in England. In England it
belongs exclusively to the King; in Spain, it was likewise
given to the _Camera del Consejo Real_ and to the _Consejo
de Guerra_. I ought to beg your Lordship’s pardon for
hazarding these hasty opinions, which I submit with great
sincerity to your more enlightened judgment.

A fungous growth of political pamphlets and periodical
publications issue daily from the press. We have the
_Conciso_, the _Tertulia_, the _Buen Español_, the
political _Telescope_, and I believe the political
_Microscope_ and the political _Spectacles_; none of these
have any merit except the _Conciso_, which gives the best
diary we have yet had of the proceedings of the Cortes;
but we have likewise the _Semanario_, revived by Quintana,
which maintains its ancient reputation, and the _Patriot in
the Cortes_, as yet chiefly distinguished for its boldness.
Some numbers of these last I shall do myself the pleasure
to send to your Lordship by the first good opportunity.
I should have requested of Mr. Wellesley or Mr. Vaughan
to take charge of any parcel or packet for you, but they
reside at present in the _Isla_, whither I seldom go; and
which is so crowded that I could not procure in it a house
or accommodation of any kind. We are and have been in daily
expectation that the Cortes will transfer their sittings
to this city. The Cortes have committed and are _daily_
committing a great many errors; but they are the errors of
inexperience, and as they have upright intentions and are
not indocile they will, I hope, soon correct such mistakes
as they may inadvertently fall into, more especially when
the forms are once established which are to regulate
their future proceedings; and I am happy to say that this
necessary regulation, the want of which has been already on
many occasions severely felt, will soon take place.

I have seen exaggerated accounts in the English papers of
the yellow fever which prevailed here; it was not virulent
nor general, and has now, I believe, entirely vanished.

The French have at last succeeded in throwing a few
nine-inch shells within our walls from their battery on
the _cabezuela of the Trocadero_. One fell near the signal
tower, almost in the centre of the city, and distant from
the _cabezuela_ about 2500 French _toises_, greater by
200 _toises_ than any range of a shell formerly known.
Not more than a dozen altogether fell within the walls;
they fortunately did no damage and occasioned very little
alarm. I am assured by Artillery officers that the charge
of powder necessary to throw a shell to such a distance is
so great, that after a few discharges the mortar will be
rendered entirely useless. A few shells were first fired
two or three days ago, a few more the next day, and they
have since been silent. We are informed that one of their
mortars burst.

A general enlistment is now carrying on here and rigorously
executing, of all unmarried men _without exception_
from the age of 16 to 45. Men we can find in abundance,
but where we can get the means of clothing, arming, and
subsisting them, unless we receive very liberal aid from
England, it is difficult for me to conceive; two days
ago, notwithstanding every measure of economy that has
been adopted and is adopting, there was not a dollar in
the treasury. The Government had applied a few weeks ago
to the _Junta_ of Cadiz for the loan of a million of
dollars, to be repaid upon the arrival of the _Bulwark_
from Vera Cruz; this the _Junta_ had the scandalous
indecency to refuse, except upon the condition that the
regulation and collection of the customs of the port of
Cadiz should be committed exclusively to their management,
with other stipulations, the effect of which would have
been to erect the _Junta_ into a little petty sovereignty.
This proposition was rejected with indignation, and the
conduct of the _Junta_, upon this occasion, has justly
rendered them extremely unpopular. Yesterday morning,
the Government, being absolutely without a dollar, made
application to the _Consulado_, and a meeting of the most
respectable merchants being called most of whom never had
any concern with the _Junta_, a great many very patriotic
speeches were made, the million of dollars was immediately
granted, without interest or condition of any kind and to
be repaid whenever it was convenient for the Government.
The _Bulwark_ fortunately arrived in the evening, but has
not brought so much money as was expected, only a million
and a half dollars for the public treasury and about two
millions private property.

I am sure I must have now tired your Lordship completely
with this long and uninteresting letter, to which I shall
here put a close, and have the honour to be most truly,

Your most obedt. Servt.

R. CAMPBELL.

INDEX

(_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

_Annual Register_, the, i. _226_, _237_; ii. _30_, _41_, _106_,
_126_, _163_, _175_, _178_

_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

Lucchesini, M., ii. _184_, _187_

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

Masséna, General, ii. _30_, _264_, 265

Matarosa (Count Torreno), ii. 245

Maurice, Thomas, his _Indian Antiquities_, i. 275

Mayence, siege of, i. 78–80, 81–3

_Memoirs of the Whig Party_, Lord Holland’s, i. _47_; ii. _61_,
_121_, _168_, _183_, _200_, _235_

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

Napoleon Bonaparte, ii. 51, 56, 85, 109, _110_, 151, 153, _187_;
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

Popham, Admiral Sir Home, and capture of Buenos Ayres, ii. _185_,
_189_, 192

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