DEV

Devonshire, third Duke of, 261
Devrient, M., his performance of Hamlet,

511

Dibdin, Dr., his stratagems for settling
the authorship of the Waverley Novels,
401, 403

Dickens, Charles, the Christmas Carol'
of, 431; to Mr. T. J. Thompson,
counterfeiting a violent passion for the
Queen, 558; to Messrs. Forster, Maclise,
and Stanfield, accepting an invitation to
dinner, 559; to Mrs. Cowden Clarke on
the break-up of his Dramatic Company,
560; to his youngest child, about to
depart for Australia, 561

D'Israeli, Isaac, to William Godwin, for-
warding an anecdote about Oliver Crom-
well and Louis XIV., 385; to Dr.
Dibdin, on the erratic genius of William
Blake, 386

Donne, Dr., to the Marquess of Bucking-

ham, assuring him of his devotion, 60;
to Lady G, 60; to Sir Henry
Goodere, on letters, 61; to Mrs. B.
W-, 62; to Sir J. H-
Douglas, Captain, his heroic devotion to
discipline, 123

63

Drake, Sir Francis, to Lord Walsingham,
concerning the pursuit of the Armada,

31

Drama, defence of the, 348

Draper, Sir William, the half-pay granted
to, 312

Draper, Mrs. Eliza, Sterne's anticipatory
epitaph on, 251

Drew, Sarah. See Hewet

Dryden to John Dennis, comparing modern
with ancient poetry, and alluding to
attacks upon his own character, 136;
to Miss Elizabeth Thomas, in praise of
her poetry, 140

Dudley, John, Duke of Northumberland,
to the Earl of Arundel, on the eve of
his execution, 22

EASTERN question, Lord Palmerston's

policy on the, 461, 535
Edgeworth, Maria, to Miss Smith, describ-

EVE

ing the Rev. Sydney Smith as the man
for Ireland, 387
Edinburgh in 1749, 289

'Edinburgh Review,' establishment of
the, 422

Edmund, St., nail-parings of, 33

Egremont and Halifax, Lords, their reply
to Wilkes's demand for his papers,
291

Egypt, French intrigue in, 461, 535
Eliot, Sir John, to John Hampden, (1)
describing the state of his health in the
Tower, 65; (2) on the medicine of the
Christian, 65

Elizabeth, Queen, to Henry IV. of France,
concerning his abjuration of Protest-
antism, 27; to Lady Norris upon the
death of her son, 28; to James VI. of
Scotland, warning him against double-
dealing, 29; explaining her intentions
towards Mary Queen of Scots, 30;
letters from the Earl of Essex to,
48, 52; alleged tender passion of,
280; her persecution of the Catholics,
410

Ellis, George, his 'Specimens of the Early
English Poets,' 429

England, French notions of, 270, 271
English women compared with American,
455

Ephrem Syrus, the palimpsest of, 157
Epomeus Mons, the ancient, 188
Erskine, Andrew, to James Boswell, de-
scribing New Tarbat, 335

Essex, Earl of, to Queen Elizabeth, (1)
during his outward voyage to Spain,
48, 49; (2) after his exclusion from
Court, 49; (3) during his imprisonment.
in York House, 50; (4) in the earliest
period of their intimacy, 51

Eton, schoolboy's letter from, in the fif-
teenth century, 6

Euripides, Macaulay's opinion of, 534
Evelyn, John, the Lucretius' of, 104; to
Cowley, invoking his pen in defence of
the Royal Society, 107; to Lady Sun-
derland, referring to his various publi-
cations, 109

Eversley, curacy of, 565

FAR

FARQUHAR, George, the dramatist,

causes Mrs. Oldfield to become an
actress, 225

Fatima, a Turkish lady visited by Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu, 205

Felton, assassination of the Duke of Buck-

ingham by, 75

Fénelon, Boileau's opinion of the 'Télé-
maque' of, 179

Fielding, Henry, to the Hon. George
Lyttleton, congratulating him on his
second marriage, 234

Flanders, the French army in, 124
Fordyce, Dr., to David Garrick, in praise

of his impersonation of King Lear,
284

Forster, John, his edition of Landor, 505
note

Fox, Hogarth's portrait of, 268

Fox How, Dr. Arnold's residence, 517
France, treaty of, with Cromwell against
Spain, 84; the bourgeoisie of, 177; tree
culture in, 270; the war of 1803 with,
423; Lord Palmerston's way of deal-
ing with, 459, 460

Francis II. of France styles himself 'King

GUI

ter on his grandson, 263; his funeral,
266

George III., accession of, 265; govern-
ment of, 315; his policy towards the
Catholics, 408

Gibbon, Edward, to Dr. Priestley, (1) re-
fusing his challenge to controversy, 320;
(2) declining correspondence with him,
331; to Lord Sheffield, on the death of
Lady Sheffield, 332

Glamorgan, Earl of, disavowed by Charles
I., 94

Godwin, William, to Samuel Taylo
Coleridge, describing Curran, the Irish
barrister, 353; to Percy Bysshe Shelley,
condemning political associations and
inculcating tolerant views, 356; to his
daughter, Mrs. Shelley, on her depres-
sion at the loss of her child, 359; his
"History of the Commonwealth,' 385 note
Gold, the power of, Rev. G. Plaxton's
letter on, 148

Goldsmith, Mr., a cousin of General Wolfe,
290

Goldsmith, Oliver, to Mr. Griffith, in reply
to his threat of imprisonment, 295;
to his brother Maurice, relinquishing
his uncle's legacy for the benefit of his
poor relatives, 297; to Bennet Langton,
announcing the completion of 'She
Stoops to Conquer,' 299; his professor-
ship of Ancient History at the Royal
Academy, 297, 338

Gondolas, Venetian, 384

Grafton, Duke of, Junius's letter to,
313

Grattan, Henry, 354

Gray, Thomas, to the Rev. Norton
Nicholls, (1) retailing Cambridge news,
255; (2) describing country scenery;
his Odes from the Norse tongue, 268
Grenoble, the burning fountain of, 121
Grenville, George, administration of, 315
Grenville, Mr. G., his electioneering visit
to the poet Cowper, 322
Guadiana, passage of the, 392
Guiana, Ralegh's expedition to, 38
Guiccioli, Marchesa, Byron's passion for,

489

161. See Oxford

Harvey, discovery of the circulation of
the blood by, 70

Haydon, Benjamin Robert, to John Keats,
letter of encouragement, 474; to Miss
Mitford, (1) animadverting upon Haz-
litt's treatment of Keats, 473; (2) com-
paring Byron and Wordsworth, 476;
(3) on a butcher who had an ambition
to feed genius, 479; to William Words-
worth, recalling a jovial dinner in the
company of Lamb and Keats, 480
Hayley, William, his friendship with

Mrs. Charlotte Smith, 329; with Wil-
liam Blake, 361

Hayward, Mr., on Sydney Smith's liberal-
mindedness, 413 note

Hazlitt, his treatment of Keats, 475
Hellespont, Byron's swim across the, 485
Henrietta Maria, Queen, to Charles I.,
dissuading him from yielding to Parlia-
ment on the questions of Presbyterian
government and the militia, 89
Henry IV. of France, abjuration of Pro-
testantism by, 27

Henry VI., recovery of, from mental de-
rangement, 5

HOW

Henry VII. to Sir Gilbert Talbot, calling
upon him for military service against
the York faction, 8

Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn, 15, 16
Herbert, Sir Edward, 62

Herrick, Robert, to Sir William Herrick,
appealing to his purse, 67, 68
Herries, Lady, 342

Hesketh, Lady, Cowper's affection for,

325 note

Hewet, John, killed together with his
sweetheart, Sarah Drew, by lightning,
192

Hewlett, Mr. J. T., 523 note
Highland poetry, 243
Highlanders, the, 466, 467
History, language of, 540

Hogarth, his conversation with Horace
Walpole, 268

Hogg, James, to Professor Wilson, declin-
ing an invitation to Elleray, 421
Holland, league of England and Sweden
with, 124

Home, John, his conversation with Mac-
pherson on Highland poetry, 243
Homer, translation of, by Pope, 189, 324;
by Cowper, 328 by Sotheby, 362
Hood, Thomas, to his daughter, alluding
to his march across Germany with the
19th Polish Infantry, 522; to Charles
Dickens, deferring an appointment,
523; to May Elliot, a child, 523; to
Sir Robert Peel, bidding him a dying
farewell, 525

Hook, Theodore, his 'Ramsbottom Let-
ters,' see Ramsbottom; to Charles Mat-
thews, relative to some remarks on
strolling players in the 'Fugglestone
Correspondence,' 499; engaged to write
the life of Charles Mathews, 501; his
impromptu epigram on the action of De
Roos v. Cumming, 502
Horner, Francis, 422

Howel, James, to Sir James S-, on the
composition of letters, 71; to his
father, relating the death of James I.
and the accession of Charles I., 73; to
Lady Scroop, describing the assassina-
tion of the Duke of Buckingham, 75

HUM

a

to Sir S. C, giving his wayside
meditations, 76; to Lady E. D–
complimentary letter, 79
Hume, David, to, concerning the
'Poems of Ossian,' 243; to Rousseau,
asserting the groundlessness of his accu-
sations, 246; to Dr. Blair, detailing
Rousseau's charges, 248

Hunt, Leigh, to Mr. Ives, stating his
wishes in prison, 462; to Joseph Severn,
sending a cheering message to Keats,
464; Haydon's judgment of, 474; in-
vited by Byron to become partner in a
periodical at Pisa, 507; style of, 527
Hyde, Edward (Earl of Clarendon), to
Lord Witherington, soliciting informa-
tion to be used in his 'History,' 100; to
Mr. Mordaunt, on the relations of the
Army with the Parliament, 101; to Sir
Henry Bennet, relating the end of the
Commonwealth, 102

IMLAY, Captain Gilbert, his base treat-

ment of Mary Wollstonecraft, 379 note
Inarime, the island of, Bishop Berkeley's
visit to, 187

Inchbald, Mrs., to the Rev. J. Plumptre,
iu defence of the stage, 348

India, climate of, 533; Black Act of, 533
'Ingoldsby Legends,' the, 501
Inoculation. See Small-pox
Inquisition, Spanish, suggested for Eng-
land, 112

Inverness, Macbeth's castle at, 334
Ireland, women of, 176; state of, 504
Ireland, Samuel W. H., to Dr. Parr, pro-
testing the genuineness of his Shake-
speare forgeries, 448

Irish, love for wit of the, 387; the rent
grievance among the, 388
Ischia, the island of, 187

Italians, assassination among the, 490

JAGO, Richard, 253 note

James I. to his son Prince Henry, on
departing from Scotland to take pos-
session of the English crown, 44; to

KEA

Prince Charles and the Duke of Buck-
ingham on the proposed Spanish mar-
riage, 45, 46; death of, 73

Jeffrey, Francis, to William Empson, de-
scribing summer delight in the High-
lands, 425; to Charles Dickens, in praise
of his Christmas Carol, 431; to his
brother John, concerning the Edin-
burgh Review' and the war, 422; to
Thomas Campbell, criticising 'Gertrude
of Wyoming,' 424

Jerome, St., the Vulgate of, 157
Jerrold, Douglas, to Miss Sabilla Novello,
acknowledging her present of a purse,

545

Jervis, Admiral. See St. Vincent
Jewel, Bishop, to Peter Martyr, on the re-

ligious affairs of the kingdom after the

accession of Elizabeth, 54

Johnson, Dr., to Warren Hastings, point-
ing out to him the field for study
offered by India, 236; to the Earl of
Chesterfield, resenting his patronage,
238; to the Laird of Rasay, apologising
for a misstatement, 239; to Mrs. Piozzi,
(1) stigmatising her marriage as igno-
minious, 240; Mrs. Piozzi's reply, 242;
(2) advising her to remain in England,
241; intimacy of Dr. Parr with, 343
Jonson, Ben, to Dr. Donne, on the defence
of his own reputation, 64; Isaac Wal-
ton's account of. 69

Junius to Sir William Draper, denouncing
his half-pay as a Government job, 311;
to the Duke of Grafton, denouncing
Colonel Luttrell's appointment' to the
representation of Middlesex, 313
Juries, independence of, 112

6

KPM

Kemble, Fanny, afterwards Mrs. Butler.

See Butler

Kemble, John, acting of, 512

Kemp, Cardinal, death of, 5
Kent, scenery of, 257

Kenyon, Lord Chief Justice, 341
Keriel, Sir Thomas, 4

Kingsley, Rev. Charles, to Mr. Wood, in-
viting him to Eversley, 565; to J. M.
Ludlow, in defence of Rajah Brooke,
566; to Mrs. Gaskell, concerning her
'Life of Charlotte Brontë,' 569; to a
clergyman, protesting against the term
• Muscular Christianity,' 569
Knox, John, 55

LAMB, Charles, to Robert Southey, on

his tailor's innovations, 432; to
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, propounding
some absurd theological queries, 433;
to William Wordsworth, expressing his
apathy for country scenery, 434; to
Thomas Manning, giving him a ficti-
tious record of events, 436; to Mr.
Cary, respecting an election to a
widows' fund society, 438; anecdote
of, 480

Landor, Walter Savage, to Robert
Southey, (1) concerning his silence and
the death of his son, 439; (2) complain-
ing of his publisher, 441; to Dr. Parr,
relative to the omission of his name
from the Imaginary Conversations,'
440; his 'Examination on William
Shakspeare,' 504; his letter to Forster,
entrusting to him the editorship of his
writings, 505 note

Lawrence, St., the coals with which he
was burnt, 33

Lear, Garrick's acting of, 284

Lee, Nathaniel, his witty retort to a bad
poet, 138

Letters, composition of, 71; private, not

to be communicated to others, 282
Lille, siege of, by the French, 124
Little, Thomas, poems of. See Moore
Lloyd, Bishop, to Dr. Fell, describing the
execution of the Duke of Monmouth, 144

MAC

Locke, John, to Lady Calverley, 141
Lomner, Wm., to John Paston, relating
the capture and murder of the Duke of
Suffolk, 3

London, tiger-baiting in, 150; corrupting
social influence of, 379; life in, 435
Long Parliament, end of the, 102
Louis XIV., anecdote of See Cromwell
Lovell, Viscount, 7

Lowerz, Lake of, 385

Luttrell, Colonel, declared Member of
Par.iament for Middlesex, 316
Luxembourg, Lord Palmerston's ideas
concerning, 459

Lyly, John, to Lord Burleigh, vindicating
his own character, 39

Lytton, Lord, his 'Last Days of Pompeii,'
505; to Lady Blessington on novel-
writing, &c., 552

MACAULAY, Lord, his opinion of the

Chesterfield Letters, quoted, 215; to
his mother, juvenile reflections on the
fall of Napoleon, &c., 529; to his father,
(1) recording a visit paid to him by the
Rev. Sydney Smith, 530; (2) relating
his visit to the Rev. Sydney Smith's
parsonage, 531; to Thomas Flower
Ellis, concerning the Indian climate,
the Black Act, and his reading of clas-
sical authors, 532; to Macvey Napier,
(1) on Lord Palmerston's policy in the
Turco-Egyptian difficulty, 535; (2)
concerning the style of Leigh Hunt's
contributions to the Edinburgh Re-
view,' 537; (3) concerning the style of
his own article on Frederic, 539
Macbeth, castle of, at Inverness, 334
McLeod of Dunvegan, Dr. Johnson's mis-
statement concerning, 239

6

McNab, Mr., a recalcitrant Methodist
preacher, 232

Macpherson, the 'Poems of Ossian' by,

243; Chatterton's inspiration probably
derived therefrom, 273

Macready, W. C., to Frederick Pollock,

concerning theatrical impersonation,
511; to Mrs. Pollock, explaining how