MAL

he conquered a tendency to redundant

action, 513

Malebranche, conversation of, with Addi-
son, 178

Malone, Mr., Ritson's opinion of, 346
Mann, Sir Horace, pedigree of, 262
Margaret of Anjou, her interview with
Henry VI. after his return to reason,
5; letter from, to Dame Carew, urging
the love-suit of Sir Thomas Burneby, 7
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, her in-
trigues against the Lancastrian party, 8
Maria Theresa, deathbed of, 565
Marie-Antoinette, Burke's championship
of, 306, 309, 310

Markham, Dr., to the Duchess of Queens-
bury, soliciting her interest for Edmund
Burke, 300

Marlborough, Duke of, his displacement
from command, 211

Marlborough, Duchess of, occupations of
her latter years, 215

Marriott, Dr., projects a musical amphi-
theatre for Cambridge, 256
Marsh, Dr. Herbert, 529

Martineau, Miss Harriet, to a friend in

America, predicting a struggle of West-
ern Europe with Russia, 542
Marvell, Andrew, sought by Milton as
amanuensis, 99; to the Mayor and
Aldermen of Hull, touching the affairs
of the constituency, 113; to William
Ramsden, on public events in 1670, 111
Mary Queen of Scots, captivity of, 25, 26;

the Scotch Commissioners' proposal for
her release, 30; her passage of the bor-
der, 241

Mary II. congratulates Dr. Tillotson on
his acceptance of the See of Canterbury,
135

Mathews, Charles, to his wife, recording
his success at Edinburgh, 442; to the
Rev. Pascal Strong, concerning his ser-
mon against the stage, 443; his friend-
ship with Theodore Hook, 499; Hook's
Life of, 501

Mathews, Charles J., to his father, d -
scribing a visit to Vesuvius, 548; to
his mother, relating his occupations at

Naples, 550; to the manager of the
Gaiety Theatre, apologising for being
prevented by gout from playing for
John Parry's benefit, 551
Mazarin, Cardinal, anecdote of, 386
Mead, the Quaker, trial of, 112
Meadows, Lady Francis, 210
Mehemet Ali, French support of, 461
Methodism, preaching of, 229; adminis-
trative rules of, 232

Milbanke, Miss, Byron's marriage to, 383,
488

Miller, Major, De Quincey's memorial
lines on, 482

Milton, John, presents Sir H. Wotton
with a copy of Comus,' 53; to John
Bradshaw, requesting the appointment
of Andrew Marvell as his amanuensis,
98

Modelling, art of, 572

Molière, Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu's re-
commendation of his plays, 278
Monasteries, reports on the, 33, 34
Monmouth, Duke of, execution and dying
statements of, 144

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, to E. W.
Montagu, a love letter, 198; to Mrs. S.
C., announcing her discovery of inocu-
lation, 200; to the Countess of Mar,
describing her visits to Turkish harems,
202; to her daughter, the Countess of
Bute, (1) on the relation of parent and
child, 207; (2) on the education of
children, 209; (3) criticising Boling-
broke's writings, 211; (4) on the amuse-
ments of her latter years, 214
Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, to Gilbert West,
(1) in praise of Molière's plays, 278;
(2) alluding to his indisposition through
eating salt fish and ass's milk, with
observations upon Queen Elizabeth's
alleged passion, 279; to Benjamin Stil-
ling fleet, railing him on asking for
answers to his letters, 280; to David
Garrick, in behalf of a young play-
wright, 282

Moore, Edward, recommended by Fielding
to Lord Lyttleton, 234

Moore, Thomas, to Miss Godfrey, on

Naples, Bishop Berkeley's account of, 188
Negro, Sterne's sympathy for the, 249
Nelson, John, the Methodist, 230
Nelson, Lord, to his wife, (1) describing
his injuries at Calvi and Bastia, 363;
(2) relating anecdotes illustrative of
his world-wide reputation, 364; (3) on
the loss of his arm, 368; to Sir Gilbert
Elliott, respecting his reward for Cape
St. Vincent, 366; to Admiral Jervis,
(1) recommending for promotion his
son-in-law, Josiah Nisbet, 367; (2) on
the uselessness of a left-handed Admiral,
367; to the Rev. Dr. Nelson, respecting
the Toulon fleet, 369; to Alexander
Davison, expressing his mortification
at its escape, 369; to Lady Hamilton
(unfinished) on the eve of Trafalgar,
371

Newcastle, Duchess of, to her husband,
concerning aspersions cast upon her
writings, 116

Newcastle, Duke of, appointed Chancellor
of Cambridge, 262; presents the Cam-
bridge address to George III., 266; his

PAL

ludicrous behaviour at the funeral of
George II., 267

Newmarket, Gray's night at, 255
Newton, Sir Isaac, to Richard Bentley,
on the Divine formation of the world,
143

Newton, Rev. John, his influence upon
Cowper, 322 note; his opinion of Pope's
Homer, 324

Newton, Mrs., her present of oysters to
Cowper, 321

Nichols, Rev. Norton, his friendship with
Gray, 255 note

Nisbet, Josiah, Lord Nelson's stepson, 364;
his act of devotion at Santa Cruz, 367,
368

Nivelle, passage of the, 394

Olney, the lacemakers of, 320
Opium, warning against indulgence in,
564

'Ossian,' authenticity of, 243; probable

influence of, upon Chatterton, 273; the
original composer not a Highlander, 467
Otway, Thomas, to Mrs. Barry, a love
letter, 147

Oxford, academic life at, 517, 519
Oxford, Countess of, to John Paston, en-
joining a search for Viscount Lovell, 7
Oxford, Lord, his quarrel with Boling-
broke, 168; Swift's admiration of, 169;
death of, 342

PAGLIANO, Duca de, 53

Painting, judges of, 269; study of, at
Rome, 287; truth in, 445; treatment
of skies in, 446; insufficient encourage-
ment of, in England, 479; the Prince
Consort's observations on, 572

Palimpsest, the Ephrem, 157

Palmerston, Lord, to Viscount Granville,
reporting a conversation with Talleyrand
respecting Luxembourg, 459; to Sir H.
L. Bulwer, instructing him how to treat
French bluster, 460

PAR

Parliament, election versus appointment
to, 316

Parr, Dr. Samuel, to Mr. Cradock, de-
scribing his intimacy with Dr. Johnson,
343; his conversational powers, 313
note; his friendship with Landor, 441;
his rebuke of an ill-mannered man, 457
Paston letters, 3-7; William, jun., to his
brother John, from Eton College, 6
Pedro, Don, capture of, 32

Peel, Sir Robert, transfers Hood's pension
to Mrs. Hood, 525

Peninsula, Wellington's campaign in the,
389

Penn, trial of, 112

P'enruddock, Mrs., her farewell letter to
her husband on the eve of his execution,
114; his reply, 115

Perron, Comte de, his observations con-
cerning Philip Stanhope, 221
Phillips, Mrs. Susanna, death of, 346
Pilkington, Lætitia, 174 note
Pindaric poetry, 138

Piozzi, Mrs., to Dr. Johnson, in reply to

his vituperation, 242

Pitt, William, to his wife, announcing
the repeal of the American Stamp Act,
235; personally complimented by Ho-
race Walpole, 264. See also Chatham
Plague of 1625, the, 74
Plaxton, the Rev. George, to Ralph
Thoresby, on the power of gold, 148
Plumptre, Rev. J., his defence of the
drama, 348

Plymley, Peter, to his brother Abraham,

on the Catholic question, 405
Poetry a facetious defence of, 95; Pin-
daric, 138

Pope to Dean Swift, on his mother's age,
186; his translati n of Homer, 189, 324;
to Richard Steele, on the philosophy
of sickness, 189; to Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu, on her Eastern travels, with
the description of the lovers killed by
lightning, 191; to Dean Swift, describ-
ing Bolingbroke's life at Dawley, 194;
accused of selfishness towards Boling-
broke, 261; weakly constitution of,
358; admired by Byron, 478, 492

REY

Porson, Richard, to Dr. Postlethwaite,
concerning the Greek Professorship and
subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles,

377

Postage in 1812, 358

Power, Miss, Lady Blessington's sister,
550

Powle t, Earl, 162

Preaching, Wesley's method of, 229;
'screaming' in, 231

Priestley, Dr., his attempt to draw Gibbon

into controversy, 330

Prince Consort, the, to the Crown Prin-
cess of Prussia, (1) on painting, model-
ling, gardening, and freemasonry, 572;
(2) on the sacrifices involved in services
to royal personages, 573
Protestants, persecution by, 410
Pulpit, degeneracy of the, 563
Puritan movement, the, in the reign of
Elizabeth, 57

QUAKERS, persecution of, 111

R

Queen, the.

See Victoria

AFFAELLE, paintings of, 288
Railway travelling, perils of, 414
Ralegh, Sir Walter, to Sir Robert Cecil,
on the death of Lady Cecil, 36; to
James I., justifying his conduct in the
expedition to Guiana, 37
Ramsbottom, Miss Dorothea, to Mr. Bull,

describing her visit to 'Room,' 496
Rasay, house of, Dr. Johnson's misstate-
ment concerning the precedence of the,
239

Ray, John, to Tankred Robinson, de-
scribing the burning fountain of Gre-
noble, 121

Reed, Hon. W. B., on Thackeray's success
in America, 554 note
Retz, Cardinal de, 223
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his judgment of
paintings questioned by Hogarth, 269;
to Mr. Barry, on the study of painting
at Rome, 286; exhibits at the Academy
in 1770, 338

RIC

Rice, John ap, to Thomas Cromwell,
on the state of the monastery at Bury,
33

Rich, Christopher, engages Mrs. Oldfield,
225

Richardson, Samuel, to Aaron Hill, ex-
pressing his views of his writings, 196
Richmond, Duke of, 272
Rickman, John, 429

Ristori, Signora, acting of, 514
Ritson, Joseph, to Sir Harris Nicolas,
stigmatising Whig writers as untruth-
fúl, 345

Robertson, Rev. F. W., to, complain-
ing of his vexations at Brighton, 562;
to -, against indulgence in opiates,
564

Robespierre, early objection of, to capital
punishment, 568

Rochford, Lord, dedication by Crabbe of
a volume of poems to, 351
Rockingham, Marquis of, 315
Rogers, Samuel, to Thomas Moore, relat-
ing his impressions of Venice, 382
Rome, study of painting at, 287; a ludi-
crous description of, 496

Rousseau, his accusation of Hume, 247,
248

Roxburghe Club, Sir Walter Scott's elec-
tion to the, 404
Royal Society, the, 108
Royalty, services to, 573

Rugby, Dr. Arnold's administration of,
515, 518

Russell, Lady Rachel, to Charles II., ex-
culpating her deceased husband, 128;
to Dr. Tillotson, counselling him to
accept the see of Canterbury, 129; his
reply, 133

Russia and the British army, 396 note;
aggressiveness of, 543; antagonism of,
to Western Europe, 544
Rymer, Dryden's opinion of, 138

JOHN, Mr., stabs Guiscard, 162. See
Bolingbroke

St. Vincent, Cape, Admiral Jervis's action
at, 365 note

SHE

Salvini, his opinion of Pope's 'Homer,'
189

Sancho, Ignatius, addresses Sterne in be-
half of his coloured brethren, 249
Sanderson, Mr., the story of, 399
Santa Cruz, Nelson's attack on, 366 note
Scipione, Alberto, Sir Henry Wotton's
host at Siena, 53

Scotland, the Reformation in, 55
Scott, Sir Walter, to George Crabbe in
praise of his poems, 400; to the Rev.
T. Frognall Dibbin, (1) concerning the
presentation copy of his Tour' to be
conveyed to the author of Waverley,
402; (2) replying to a query as to
whether the author of Waverley would
join the Roxburghe Club, 403; (3)
acknowledging his election to the Club,
404; anecdote related by Charles Ma-
thews, 443; his Field of Waterloo,'
467; entertains Sir David Wilkie at
Abbotsford, 472; conceals the author-
ship of the novels from his own family,
473; Wilkie's picture of his family,
473; his poetry praised by the Prince
Regent, 486

Scurlock, Miss, Steele's second wife, 171

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-nox, Lady Mary Wortley Mon-
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; gesticu-
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, a
love-letter, 171; to the Earl of Halifax,
enclosing 'Isaac Bickerstaffe's' pro-
posal for a subscription, 172; to Lady
Steele, 173
Stillingfleet, 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-