SHE

Shelley's influence over Byron on the
subject of religion, 509
Shelley, Mrs., her grief at the death of
her child, 359

Shenstone, William, to Mr. Graves, on
the impossibility of happiness without
social intercourse, 251; to Richard
Jago, describing his recovery from
mental affliction, 253

Sheppard, John, to Lord Byron, commu-
nicating his deceased wife's prayer for
Byron's conversion, 494; Byron's reply,

495

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 355
Shirley, the dramatic poet, 399
Shrewsbury, Earl of, to Queen Elizabeth,
promising close custody of Mary Queen
of Scots, 25; to Lord Burghley, touch-
ing the allowance for keeping his cap-
tive, 26

Shrewsbury, Earl (afterwards Duke) of,
131 note

Siddons, Mrs., a butcher's opinion of, 479;
her faculty of impersonation, 512; her
sparing use of gesticulation, 513
Sidney, Algernon, to his father, relating

his real connection with the proceed-
ings against Charles I., 119

Sidney, Sir Henry, to his son Philip,
giving him moral counsel, 23
Simnel, Lambert, conspiracy of, 8
Sloane, Sir Hans, to John Ray, relating a
tiger-baiting in London, 150
Small-pox, Lady Mary Wortley MOL-
tagu's discovery of inoculation for, 201
Smith, Mrs. Charlotte, her friendship
with Hayley and Cowper, 328 note
Smith, Rev. Sydney, Plymley letters of,
see Plymley; to Lady Holland, alluding
to the game-shooting propensity of the
clergy, 412; to Roderick Murchison, on
receipt of a pamphlet from him, 413;
to the Rev. R. H. Barham, on receipt
of a present of game, 413; to the Editor
of the Morning Chronicle,' on the
perils of railway travelling, 414; his
Letters to Archdeacon Singleton, 502
Snuff, Addison's letter on, 180
Sophocles, Macaulay's opinion of, 534

SWI

Sotheby, William, to Professor Wilson,
concerning his translation of Homer,

362
Southey, Robert, to Miss Barker, an-
nouncing the preparation of his 'Speci-
mens of the Late English Poets,' and
alluding to Coleridge and Wordsworth
428; to Joseph Cottle, acknowledging
past benefits, 431; to John Rickman
on death, 432; his friendship with
Lamb, 432 note; with Landor, 439 note;
his 'Roderic,' 467

Sowerby, Mr., Haydon's butcher, 478
Spain, Cromwell's treaty with France
against, 84. See also Peninsula
Spanish marriage scheme of James I.
45, 46, 73

Staël, Madame de, her impression of
English women, 456

Stage, defence of the, 348, 443; gestion-
lation on the, 513

.

Stamp Act, American, repeal of the, 235
Stanhope, Philip, Comte de Perron's
judgment of, 221

Steele, Richard, to Miss Mary Scurlock, s
love-letter, 171; to the Earl of Halifax.
enclosing 'Isaac Bickerstaffe's' pro
posal for a subscription, 172; to Lady
Steele, 173

Stilling fleet, Benjamin, blue stockings of
277 note; correspondence of, with Mrs.
Elizabeth Montagu, 280

Sterne, Lawrence, to Ignatius Sancho,
sympathising with the negro race, 249 ;
to Miss Sterne, bewailing his lonely and
afflicted condition, 250

Stowe, Mrs., her influence in exciting

English prejudice against America, 557
Strawberry Hill, Walpole's residence
259,268

Strong, Rev. Paschal, his denunciation of
the stage, 443 note

Suckling, Sir John, to, announcing the
arrival of the English army at Berwick,

97

Suffolk, Duke of, capture and murder of, 3
Sweden. See Holland

Swift, Dean, to the Earl of Halifax,

soliciting preferment, 159: to Arch-

TALLEYRAND. See Palmerston

Talma, acting of, 513

Tarbat, New, Erskine's description of, 336
Taylor, Mr., Landor's publisher, 441
Taylor, Jeremy, to John Evelyn, after his

visit to Sayes Court, 104

Taylour, Charles, to Mr. Rich, the pub-
lisher, stating how Mrs. Oldfield came
to be an actress, 224

Temple, Sir William, to Lord Lisle, on
sundry subjects, 122; to Mr. Godolphin,
relating the negotiation of the Triple
Alliance, 124; to Lord Halifax, con-
cerning his own deserts, 127
Testament, New, ancient manuscripts of
the, 156

Thackeray, William M., to the Hon. W.

B. Reed, (1) on meditated pleasures,
with reflections on death, 555; (2)
expressing his admiration of Swiss
scenery and his recollections of the
American people, 556
Theocritus, poetry of, 140

Thiers, M., his attitude towards England
on the Egyptian question, 460
Thoresby, Ralph, the antiquarian, 148 note
Thornhill, Sir James, 269

Thrale, Mrs., married to Mr. Piozzi, 240
Thurlow, John, Cromwell's secretary of
state, 386

Tickell, Addison's friendship with, 181
Tiger-baiting in London at the end of the
seventeenth century, 150

Tillotson, Dr., to the Earl of Shrewsbury,
exhorting him against dissolute con-

WAL

duct, 131; to Lady Rachel Russell,
concerning his appointment to the See
of Canterbury, 133

Tobacco-smoking, defence of, 146
Tories, historical veracity of, 345
Tortoise, the Selborne, 274

Toulon, escape of the French fleet from,
369

Trafalgar, the eve of, 371

Tréville, Admiral, his false official report
concerning Nelson, 368 note; Nelson's
threat against, 369

Triple Alliance, the, 124

Turkey, cuisine of, 204; music of, 206
Turkish ladies, 203
Tweed, the, 97

Walsh, Mr., embezzlement of, 356

Walton, Isaac, to John Aubrey, in reply
to inquiries concerning Ben Jonson, Mr.
Warner, and Mr. Hariott, 69
War, Lord Macaulay's views of, 536
Warbeck, Perkin, 9

Warner, Mr., asserts his disclosure to
Harvey of the circulation of the blood,
69

Warton on ancient plays, quoted, 349
Waterloo, battle of, 395, 396
Waverley Novels, Scott's denial of the
authorship of, 402, 403, 404, 473
Weatherhead, Lieutenant, one of Nelson's
officers, 368

Wellington, Duke of, to Sir William Pole,

on his difficulties in the Peninsula, 389;
to -, concerning a young lady lan-
guishing for one of his officers, 392; to
Lord Burghersh, on the oppression of
the French peasantry by their own
troops, 393; to Sir J. Sinclair, concern-
ing inaccurate accounts of the battle of
Waterloo, 395; to Francis Mudford, on
the same subject, 396; to Lord Fitzroy
Somerset, with reference to the Czar's
request for information concerning the
British army, 397

Wentworth, Lady Harriet, 145
Wesley, John, to a friend, on the right
method of preaching, 229; to John
King, against 'screaming,' 231; to his
brother Charles, asserting his supreme
control of the Methodist body, 232
West, Benjamin, his precept to Con-
stable concerning skies, 446 note
Westmoreland, Lord, 266
Wheatley, James, a Methodist preacher,
230

WOR

Whig historians accused of untruthful-
ness, 345

White, Gilbert, to Mrs. Chapone, giving
the autobiography of Timothy, the
Selborne tortoise, 274

White, Henry Kirke, to John Charles-
worth, declaring his zeal for the classics,
469; to P. Thompson, on the immoral
tendency of Moore's poetry, 470
Whitechapel, singular outbreaks of plague
in, 74

Whitgift, Archbishop, and the Puritans,

57

Wilberforce, William, to the Earl of Gal-
loway, in praise of the country gentry,

378

Wilkes, John, to Lords Egremont and
Halifax, concerning the restoration of
his private papers, 291; to Humphrey
Cotes, after his withdrawal to France,
292; arbitrarily replaced by Colonel
Luttrell, 316

Wilkie, Sir David, to his sister, describing
his entertainment at Abbotsford, 472;
anecdote of, 479

William III., ecclesiastical policy of, 129
note; presses the primacy on Dr. Tillot-
son, 134; promises a prebend to Swift,

161

Williams, Sir William, killed at Belleisle,
268

Wilson, Professor, to James Hogg, record-
ing his Highland tour, and alluding to
the poets of the day, 465
Wolfe, General, to his mother, (1) on
military service in Scotland, and the
character of his associates, 288; (2)
with reference to his possible neglect by
the authorities, 290
Wollstonecraft, Mary, to Captain Imlay,

(1) reverting to their past intercourse,
380; (2) reproaching him with neglect,

381

Wolsey, Cardinal, to Dr. Stephen Gar-
diner, bewailing his distressed condi-
tion, 10

Woodcock, praise of the, 552

Woolstable, near Charing Cross, 69
Worcester, battle of, 80

WOR

Wordsworth, William, to Sir George
Beaumont, deploring the loss at sea
of his brother, Captain Wordsworth,
397; to Alexander Dyce, on the poet
Shirley's end, with a companion story,
399; the cabal against, at Allfox-
den, 418 note; tragedy composed by,
419; portrait of, 430; invites Charles
Lamb into Cumberland, 434; poetry of,
467, 476; receives a degree at Oxford,
519

Wotton, Sir Henry, to John Milton, on
receiving a copy of Comus' and hear-
ing of the poet's intended journey to
Italy, 52