29.-Number of persons employed by Sir Robert, 31 note.
personal appearance, and private character, 35. His intellec-
tual talents, ibid., 36. His easy and unembarrassed manners
amidst his various and extensive concerns, 36. His encourage-
ment of men of abilities, 37. His religious principles, 38.
His pecuniary arrangements, 39. A patron of several public.
institutions, ibid. Some remarkable anecdotes of his benevolence,
40 to 42. Summary of his character, 42, 43.

Peel, Robert, esquire, father of Sir Robert; his character, 4.
Pictures, account of Mr. Angerstein's collection of, 396, 397.
Pitt, Mr., his conversation with M. Maret, the minister from
France in 1793, relative to the existing situation of the two
countries, 196 to 198.

Poet-laureat; history and account of this office, 411. Succession
of English poets-laureat, 413.

Poetry. Verses by Lady Craven (Margravine of Anspach) on
dreaming she saw her heart at her feet, 222 to 224 note.-Ex-
tracts from verses by her and by the late reverend Mr. Jenner,
224, 225. Her parody of a French pamphlet relative to the
siege of Gibraltar, 232 to 235. Account of the poetical pro-
ductions of the Earl of Carlisle, 307 to 317. Sonnet by the
Marquis Hiatente de Paoli, father of the celebrated general, 340
note. Verses by Ben Jonson respecting his salary as poet-lau-
reat, 404. The English tongue produces the best models of
poetry, 543. Poetical productions of Miss Seward; and ex-
tracts from some, 548 to 552. Extract from Mr. Polwhele's
poem of Unsexed Females, 553. Sonnet by Miss Seward ad-
dressed to Wm. Dimond, Esq; author of the Hero of the North,

554.

Polahele, Mr., his tribute to the poetical merits of Miss Seward,
552. Extract from his poem of Unsexed Females, 553-
Pondicherry, siege and capture of by the English in 1793, 78, 79.
Potemkin, prince; account of the visit of Lady Craven to, 242
Prescott, General Robert, 102 note. His services in the attack and

capture of St. Lucia, 103.

Prussian army reviewed by the King in 1788, 258. Principles of
the Prussian system of tactics, 259.

Public Ledger; institution of this newspaper, 122.

PYE, Mr.; memoirs of, 404. His ancestors, ibid., 405. His ju-
venile years; entered of Magdalen College, Oxford, 405.
Doctor of laws; captain in the Berkshire militia; member of
parliament for that county, 406. Poet-laureat; police magis-
trate, 407. His early education, ibid. His first poetical pro-
duction, 408. His travels on the continent, ilid., 409. His
attachment to the sports of the field, 409. His personal cha-
racter and manners, ibid. List of his publications, 410.-Their
general character, 411.

Q.

QUEENSBOROUGH, DUKE OF; memoirs of, 207. His ancestors,
208. His juvenile history; succeeds to the title of Earl of

March;

March; his early attachment to the amusements of the turf,
and gallantry, 209. His life of celibacy, 210. His achieve-
ments on the turf; backs his own horse in a celebrated race,
against another Scotch nobleman, 211.-Runs a four-wheel
carriage nineteen miles in sixty minutes, 212, 213. Lord of
the bed-chamber to his present Majesty when Prince of Wales,
214. His political conduct in the question of the regency,
ibid.-Dismissed from the above situation on this account, 216.
Patronised by Lord Bute, 217. Succeeds to the title of Duke;
elected a knight of the Thistle; created a British peer, by the
title of Baron Douglas, ibid. Attacked in the contest of Mr.
Wilkes, ibid., 218. Continues his attendance at court, 218.
His fortune, and manners, ibid. His habits of life, 219. His
taste for music, 221.

R.

RANDOLPH, Dr., Bishop of Oxford; memoirs of, 530. His edu-
cation, at Westminster-school and Christ Church College, 531.
Master of arts, and public tutor, 532. Rhetoric reader, and
censor, ibid. Pro-proctor, and proctor; poetry professor, ibid.
Publishes a Latin composition in praise of the Greek language
and authors, 533. His first preferments in the church, ibid.
Marries; his family, ibid. Promoted to the bishopric of Oxford,
534 Regius professor of divinity, ibid. His conduct in the
controversy between the Calvinistic and Arminian clergy, ibid.
His dispute with the Bishop of Lincoln respecting the eccle-
siastical jurisdiction in certain parishes, ibid. Publishes his
Enchiridion Theologica, 536. Style of his sermons: His parlia-
mentary conduct, ibid. His predilection in favour of public
schools, ibid.-His proposition in the university of Oxford,
connected with this subject, 537. His controversy with Mr.
Marsh, ibid. His other publications, 538.

Rauzzini, Mr.; an early patron and instructor of Mr. Braham,

377-

Regency, question of in 1788; conduct of the parliament of Ireland
in, and of the Marquis of Buckingham the lord-lieutenant, 188,
495.-Means by which the decision oi the Irish parliament
might have been avoided, 495. Conduct of the different par-
ties in the British parliament; and debates, 214, 288 to 292.
Resentments of the minister, after the King's recovery, 216.
Regius-professorship of divinity; duties and business of that office,

534.

Reide, Captain, his treatise of Military Discipline, 260, 261.
RENNEL, MAJOR; memoirs of, 505. His extraction, ibid. Singu-
larity in the conduct of his father, 506. His education bid.
Enters the navy; anecdote during his service in that situation,
507. Quits the navy, and enters the army; sent upon active
service to India as an officer of engineers, ibid. Promoted ma-
jor; publishes his " Chart of the Bank and Current of Cape
Lagullas," 508. Appointed surveyor-general of Bengal; pub-

Jishes his "Bengal Atlas," and "Account of the Ganges and
Burrampooter Rivers, ibid. Marries; returns to England,
509. Publishes his "Memoir of a Map of Hindostan,” ibid.
His literary contributions to the Asiatic Researches and Register,
ib d. Declines an invitation to become a member of the French
national institute, 510. Constructs a map to Mr. Park's Afri-
can Travels, itil. His decision of the question respecting the
ultimate destination of the water of the Niger after the termina-
tion of its course, 511. Corrects an error of former geogra
phors respecting the extent of the coast of Guinea, ibid. His
great work, the "Geographical System of Herodotus," ibid.-
Its character, 512, 513.-Extraoidinary circumstances under
which he undertook and completed this work, 514. Assists
Dr. Vincent in his "Voyage of Nearchus," ibid.-Account and
character of this work, 515, 516. His subsequent literary em-
ployments, 516. Detects the fraud of Damberger's Travels
onto the interior of Africa, ibid. His personal character and
habits, 517. List of his works, 518.

Rhone; description of the journey down, to Avignon, 229.
Richardson; character of his novels, 544, 545.

Riding, method of, in use among the Italian women, 238.
Rodacy, Admiral, defeats the Count de Grasse in the actions of
the 9th and 12th of April 1782, 70 to 75.

Roy, General, memoirs of, 255.

Rudder, utility of Captain Pakenham's substitute for, 76 note.
Rules and Regulations for the Formations, Field-exe cise, and
Movements of the Forces; composed from General Dundas's
Principles of Military Movements, 259, 260. Character of
this system, 260, 261.

Russian armament, affair of (1791); debates respecting, 294 to 297.
Motion for a vote of censure on ministers for their conduct in
this matter, 302.

Rutherforth, Dr., his great learning, 94, 95.

S..

St. Domingo; General Simcoe appointed to the command of, 149,

150.

St. Kitt's, conquest of by the French in 1782, 64 to 68.

St. Lucia, attack and capture of by the English in 1779, 102 to 106.
Scripture, the authority of confirmed by examination into Indian
history and antiquities, 510..

"Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain," a production of Mr.
Gough; and its plan, 274, 275.

Seringapatam, attempts of Lord Cornwallis against, 115, 117.
Siege and capture of, 429, 430..

SEWARD, MISS; additional memoirs of, 541. Account of her fa-
ther, ibid.-His literary compositions, ibid., 542. Her juvenile
years, 542. Her early introduction to a knowledge of the best
English poets, 543. Her first poetical composition, 544. Her
taste for these pursuits nourished by the romantic situation of
her residence in youth, ibid.—also by the perusal of Ossian and
Richardson's

Richardson's works, ibid., 545.—But discouraged by her mo-
ther, 545. Her situation at Litchfield, ibid. Her friendship with
Miss Sneyd, ibid. Her filial attentions to her father during his
long and extreme illness, 546. Her amiable temper and man-
ners, 547. Her published works: her prize-poems at the in-
stitution at Bath Easton, 548, 549-Her Elegy on Captain
Cooke, and Ode to the Sun, 549.-Her Monody on Major
André, ibid.-remark respecting the fate of this gallant officer,
ibid. Her tribute to the memory of Lady Miller, 550.-Her
poetical novel of Louisa, ibid.-Her Epic Ode on General El-
liot, ibid., 551.-Her late production of Llangollen Vale, and
the poems accompanying it, 551, 552. Mr. Polwhele's tribute
to her poetical merits, 552. Her person and accomplishments,
553. Her recent sonnet to Wm. Dimond, Esq. author of the
Hero of the North, 554.

His early

SIMCOE, LIEUTENANT-GENERAL; memoirs of, 138.
military commissions; lieutenant; and adjutant, thirty-fifth re-
giment, 139. Captain in the fortieth, 140. Major-comman-
dant Queen's Rangers, an American battalion, ibid.-Lieute-
nant-colonel second cops of the same name; brevet colonel,
alvd., 141. Account of Upper Canada; Colonel Simcoe go-
vernor of that province, 141, 144.-His administration, 144.
Promoted Major-general, and appointed to the command in St.
Domingo, 148. Returns to Europe; appointed colonel of the
twenty-second regiment; promoted Lieutenant-general, 150.
Again placed on the staff at the commencement of the present
war, 151. His character, ibid.

S'ppir, golden; a senator of Lucca executed for accepting of one
from the Virgin Mary, 238.

Snend, Miss Honora, her juvenile friendship with Miss Seward, 545.
Her marriage, and death, 546.

"Soldier of Dierenstein," a literary production of the Margravine of
Anspach, 252, 253.

Sonnet by Miss Seward, addressed to Wm. Dimond, Esq. author of
the Hero of the North, 554-

Special pleaders; anecdote relative to the nature of this situation,
153, 154.

"Step Mikr," a tragedy by the Earl of Carlisle, 316.
Stour, Mr. a benefactor of Eton College, 277.

T.

Tamworth; Sir Robert Peel first elected a member for this borough,
11. Improvement in its trade, resulting from this connection,
12. Reciprocal conduct of the electors and their representa-
tive, 13.
Temple, Lord, (uncle to the present Marquis of Buckingham;)
patronises Mi. Almon, 123, 124. Differs with his brother, Mr.
George Grenville, on some political points, 124. His conduct
in the affair relative to the seizure of Mr. Wilkes by a general
warrant, 125. His death, 136.

TEMPLE,

TEMPLE, LORD, (present Marquis of Buckingham.) See BUCK-
INGHAM, MARQUIS OF.

TEMPLE, present EARL; memoirs of, 189, 191. His parliamentary
motion in the case of Mr. Horne Tooke, 189, 190. Branches
of the family of Temple, 201, 202.

Theodore, King of Corsica, account of, 337 to 339.

Toulon, operations of the British forces at, in 1793, 262.
Tours, description of the meadow of, 228.

Townshend, Lord, his administration as lord-lieutenant of Ireland,

492.

Tragedies, account of two written by the Earl of Carlisle, 312, 316.
Tuyl, attack and capture of by General Dundas in December 1794,
263.

ས.

VALLANCEY, GENERAL; memoirs of, 446. His education; early
intimacy with the Marquis of Townshend, 447. Appointed
major of engineers on the Irish establishment by that nobleman
when lord-lieutenant, ibid. His tour to the southern and wes-
tern provinces of Ireland, 448. Results of this tour; his re-
searches into the ancient history of the country, 449. His exer-
tions in this object; publishes his Grammar of the Iberno-celtic
or Irish language, 450. Collates some Phoenician phrases in
Plautus with the Irish as now spoken, 451. Translates a very
ancient historical Irish poem, 452. Projects and begins a tran-
slation of Jeffery Keating, ibid. O'Connor's dissertation on the
history of Ireland; use made of this production, by Vallancey,
453, 454. Establishes an occasional publication, the Collec-
tanea de Rebus Hibernicis, 454.-Disagreement with the other
gentlemen concerned in the management of this work, 455.
Publishes a tract on the aboriginal Irish; letter of Mr. Burke to
the author, 456.-strictures of Dr. Campbell on this letter,
458. Sequel of his researches into the Irish language: his en-
couragement of others in these pursuits; remarkable instance of,
460, 461, 462. Commences a military survey of Ireland; ap-
pointed to the rank of colonel, 470. Retrospect of his literary
productions; his sketch of Gibraltar, 471.-His " Field-En
gineer," Irish Grammar," &c. ibid.-Collectanea de Rebus
Hibernicis, 472.-His "Prospectus of a Dictionary of the Lau-
guage of the Aire Coti, or Ancient Irish," 473.-its character,
ibid., 474. Letter from Charles O'Connor, Esq. to the General,
containing a summary of the literary labours of the latter, 475.
V.

Veterinary College re-established by the exertions of Mr. Anger-

stein, 393.

Voluntary contribution, extraordinary, of Messrs. Peel and Yates in

1797, 15.

Volunteers, general enthusiasm for this service in the year 1798, 17.
Voyage of Nearchus," Dr. Vincent's, 514. Account and cha-
racter of this work, 515, 516.

U.

Union with Ireland, effected by Mr. Pitt and Lord Castlereagh,