account of him, A. N. xxxii.
Anstey, Christopher, author of the Bath
Guide, ii. 42; Walpole's estimate of his
merits, 43; influence of social rank in
the success of his poem, ib; Walpole
anxious to know him rather than Gold-
smith, 275.

Answer to the Critical Review, i. 185;
reviewed by Goldsmith, ib.
Antiquity, evil effects of its form without

its spirit on modern poetry, i. 123.
Antwerp, visited by Goldsmith, i. 62; sees
the slave, the subject of a future essay,
ib.

Ardagh, the "best house" in, i. 21;

Goldsmith's youthful adventure there,
21, 22.

Ascham, Roger, his dictum with respect to
composition, i. 22.

Ass, the Owl and, Mr. Griffiths's sign, i. 190.
Athelstan, a tragedy by Dr. Brown, i. 108.
Athenæum, writer in, revival of imputa-
tations against Burke, ii. 301.
Auchinlech, Lord (Boswell's father), appeals
to Sir Andrew Mitchell to check James's
extravagance, ii. 151; his controversy
with Johnson on Oliver Cromwell, 167;
his despair at his son James's attachment
to Johnson, 188.

Author and bookseller, their squabbles, i.

93, 198, 199; a supper, 229; duty of
the state, 291; a contrast, 297.
Author's profession, the, i. 160; Gold-
smith speaks out for it, 161.
Authors, question of the rights of, i. 192;
200; 209; 291; 297; ii. 474; 480,
482.

Axe-lane, Goldsmith's residence with the
beggars there, i. 78.

B.

BALLANTYNE, William, his MS. account of
the persons composing the Wednesday
(Goldsmith's) club, ii. 77; author of
Mackliniana, ib; notice of Kelly, 78;
of Mr. Gordon, 80; account of the epitaph
on poor Ned Purdon, 81; anecdote of
Goldsmith at "a cheerful little hop,"
130.

Ballymahon, the scene of Goldsmith's school-
boy holidays, i. 20; survival there of
anecdotes of Goldsmith, 21; effects of its
scenery and society upon his character,

42.

Barbarossa, a tragedy by Dr. Brown, i.
108; what Gray thought of it, 235, n.

Johnson's, ii. 188; ill-temper and rough
manners, ib; serviceable to Johnson in
his Dictionary, 189; his malice towards
Goldsmith, ib; kills a man in a street
scuffle, ib; examination before Sir John
Fielding, ib; exalted character of his
bail, ib; witnesses to his character, 190;
recommended by Johnson as tutor in
the family of the Thrales, ib; appointed
foreign secretary to the Royal Academy,
ib; his persecution of Mrs. Piozzi, 188,
190; Johnson's apology for his rudeness,
A. N. xxxvii.

Barlow, Peter, copyist for Goldsmith, ii.
143; his independent and eccentric char-
acter, ib; Goldsmith's generosity to him,
144.

Barnard, Dr, Dean of Derry and Bishop of

Killaloe, associate of Goldsmith in the
university, i. 28; conversation in the
painting-room of Reynolds, ib; describes
Johnson's and Garrick's entry into
London, ii. 54; Johnson's advice to
him, 334; retorts on Johnson's rudeness
with a copy of verses, 335; reply to
Goldsmith's and Cumberland's epitaphs,
451; apology for his own epitaph,

452.

Barnard, Provost of Eton, does justice to
Johnson's good-breeding, 334.

Baron, M, French actor, his dictum on the
education of actors, ii. 62.

Barré, Col, the only objector to the first

taxation of America, i. 412; his attack
on Parson Scott in the House of Commons,
ii. 263.

Barret, Mr, keeper of a boarding-school
at Ashford in Kent, friend of Johnson
and Cave, translator of Ovid's Epistles,
i. 158; reviewed by Goldsmith, ib.
Barry, James, his first interview with
Hogarth, i. 327; sent to Rome by the
munificence of the Burkes, i. 427; Gold-
smith disputing with him, ii. 351.
Basle, visited by Goldsmith, i. 70.
Bath, Lord, uncle to the elder Colman, ii.
71; his enormous fortune, ib; how dis-
posed of, ib.

Bayly, Anselm, author of an Introduction
to Languages, i. 165; reviewed by
Goldsmith, ib.

Bayly, Zachary, Goldsmith writes his
epitaph, i. 380.

Beattie, Essay on Truth, its great success,
ii. 103; receives a pension of 2007. a-
year, ib; a source of discontent to Gold-
smith, ib; adopted against Voltaire and
Hume, 430; becomes a social idol, ib ;

Goldsmith's jealousy of him, 431; ad-
hered to by Reynolds, ib; receives the
degree of DCL. at Oxford, ib; painted
by Reynolds, as triumphing over Voltaire,
Hume, and Gibbon, ib; his reply to
Goldsmith's attacks, 432; pensioned by
the king, 433; his attack upon Gold-
smith, A. N. Xxxv.

Beatty, Mr, schoolfriend of Goldsmith, i.
19; account of early times, ib; sizar-
associate of Goldsmith in the university,
27; school-fellow at Edgworthstown,
ib; obtains sizarship at same time, ib;
one of his chums, ib; relieves Gold-
smith's necessities, 28; interview with
Goldsmith practising as physician, 79.
Beauclerc, Topham, i. 307; a frequenter
of Davies's in Russell-street, ib; his
view of a humiliating situation, 308;
original member of the literary club,
333; grandson of the Duke of St.
Albans, 346; makes the acquaintance of
Bennet Langton at Oxford, ib ; introduced
to Johnson there, ib; diversity of character
and bond of union between the friends,
ib; night-frolic with Johnson, ib; Lady
Sidney's anger, 347; his propensity to
satire, 348; love for his mother, 349;
the power he possessed over Johnson, ib;
peculiar air of his conversation, ib;
A. N. xxxiii; his malicious attacks upon
Goldsmith, 350; example of his wit,
ib; nature of his woman-friendships, 361;
takes a countess to Johnson's chambers,
362; instance of his witticism, 423;
sees a strange apparition in Goldsmith's
chambers, ii. 163; his painful sense of
the ridiculous, 164; marriage with Lady
Di Spencer, 167, 168; rejoins the
club, 167; dinner-talk at his house, 176;
anecdote of Goldsmith, 220; Johnson's
affection for him, 423; his enjoyment of
the alehouse in Gerrard-street, 431;
his account of Goldsmith to Lord Charle-
mont, 441, 444; Walpole playing off
Goldsmith at his house, 442; Goldsmith
plays mufti with Garrick there, 443.
Bee, the, quoted for the usher's experiences,
i. 38; for his own despair and its cure,
137; for his admiration of Dryden, 160;
established by Wilkie, 220; Gold-
smith, editor, ib; first number, 221;
excellence of its stage criticism, 222;
its indifferent success, 224; second
number, ib; essay on Cardinal de Retz,
ib.; third number, ib; essay on the use
of language, ib; germ of Talleyrand's
celebrated mot, 225; struggles till the
eighth number and dies, 231; issued

as a half-crown volume, 265; reviewed
by Kenrick, ib.

"worthy

Behn, Mrs., anecdote of, ii. 23.
Beighton, Rev. Mr, Garrick's
parson," i. 420; description of his
character, 421; promoted by Garrick's
interest with Chancellor Camden, ib.
Benevolence and sensibility contrasted, i.
30; Southey's dictum on the subject,
ib.

Bensley, Mr, ponderous delivery of John-
son's prologue to the Good Natured Man,
ii. 120; acts Honeywood, 127.
Bentham, Jeremy, his arguments for ame-
liorating the laws, anticipated by Gold-
smith, i. 280.

Berne, visited by Goldsmith, i, 70.
Best, Mr (Personal and Literary memo-
rials), anecdote of Axe-lane, i. 78; de-
scription of Bennet Langton, 348,; of
Johnson's roll, 381.

Betty's, the fruiterer's in St. James's-street,
i. 307; frequented by George Selwyn,
Lord March, and Lord Carlisle, ib.
Bickerstaff, Mr, throws up his commission
in the Marines, ii. 114; turns theatrical
writer for bread, ib; author of Love in a
Village, ib; offers his opera of Lionel
and Clarissa to Colman, ib; objects to
the interference of the Good Natured Man
with his opera, 115; his infamous end,
ii. 160; the annoyance it entailed upon
Garrick, ib; Johnson's noble remark,
161.

Bincly, John, a dram-drinking acquaint-
ance at Ballymahon, i, 51; subject of
Goldsmith's inquiries, ib.

Bishop, Mr Samuel, anecdote of Goldsmith
while at Peckham, i. 89; meets him at
an apple-stall in London, 90.
Black, professor, favourable reminiscences of
Goldsmith in Edinburgh, i. 50;
Blackstone, judge, writing fourth volume
of his Commentaries, ii, 129; disturbed
by the social noises in Goldsmith's cham-
bers, ib.

Bloomsbury gang, the, i. 411; their
political blunders, ib; give occasion for
the rebellion in America, 412; their
downfall, 413.

Boadicea, a tragedy by Mr. Glover, i. 108.
Boileau, supplies Goldsmith with hint for
his Haunch of Venison, ii. 262; himself
borrowed from Horace, ib n.
Bonstetten, Gray's friend, notice of, ii. 166,
167.

Bookseller and author, their squabbles,
i. 93, 198, 199; great days for the trade,
214; an evening together, 229; festivity,

ib; the last great undertaking of the
trade, 458, 459; their shrewdness
and shabbiness after Goldsmith's death,
486-493.

Booth, treatment of the writers of the time

of Queen Anne, i. 236; compared with
Garrick's, ib.

at

Boswell, James, attends Sheridan's lectures
in Edinburgh, i. 317; his admiration of
the lexicographer, ib; dinners
Davies's, 318; imitating the cow, ib; cha-
racter of the future biographer, 319; his
belief in ghosts, 335; A. N. xxxviii. ;
introduction to Johnson at Tom Davies's,
353; first attempts at ingratiating him-
self, 354; suppers at the Mitre, 355;
Johnson declares his liking for him, ib;
author of Newmarket, a Tale, ib;
his opinion of Goldsmith, 356; sup-
pers at the Turk's-head, ib; departure
for Utrecht to study law, 357; accom-
panied by Johnson to Harwich, ib; causes
of his impatience of Goldsmith, 358;
probabilities of Goldsmith's offence to
him, 359; astonishment at the success
of the Traveller, 393; attributes it to
conversation with Johnson, ib; visit to
Paoli in Corsica, 427; to Voltaire at
Ferney, ib; lion-hunting everywhere, ib;
brings Madame le Vasseur to England,
434; visit to Johnson, ib; forces his
way to Mr Pitt, 435; appears in imita-
tion of Rousseau, in a Corsican dress,
ib; his suit of execution black, ii. 7;
acquits Goldsmith of the charge of envy,
103; book about Corsica, 150; visits
London, 151; follows Johnson to Oxford,
ib; dinner-parties at the Crown and
Anchor, ib; gives a dinner in Old
Bond-street, 188; the company and
conversation, 188, 192; how his guests
treat him, 193, 194; a clue to his re-
ports of Goldsmith, 212; ludicrous airs
of patronage, 218; execrable lines attri-
buted to him, 240; instance of his false
estimate of Goldsmith's nature, 247;
astonishment at Goldsmith's fame, 328;
true cause of his jealousy of Gold-
smith, 329; pins himself to Johnson's
skirts for the purpose of writing his
biography, 329, 330; the contempt and
abuse he submitted to, 329; the triumph
of biography he achieved, 330; his pes-
tering habit, 391; dines at Johnson's, ib;
a clubbable man, 408; the drawback on
his good qualities, 409; elected secretary
for foreign correspondence to the Royal
Academy, ib; elected to the club, 410;
has fits of stinginess, ib; his inter-

meddling, 420; secures Johnson for a
visit to the Hebrides, 421; wonderful
absurdities, ib; criticism on his biography,
422; the caution with which it ought to
be read, 423.

Bott, Mr, Goldsmith's neighbour in the
Temple, lends him money, ii. 129; takes
cottage in connection with Goldsmith in
the Edgware-road, 147; their midnight
pranks and perils, 148.

Boufflers, Countess de, i. 361; acknow-
ledged leader of French society, ib;
mistress of the Prince of Conti, ib; her
Anglomania, ib; writes a tragedy in
English on subject from the Spectator,
362; breakfasts with Walpole, ib;
dines with the Duke of Grafton, ib;
sups at Beauclerc's, ib; description of
her at the breakfast at Strawberry-hill,
ib; taken by Beauclerc to visit Johnson,
ib; description of the scene by Beauclerc,
363.

Boydell, printseller, his health drank at
the Royal Academy dinner, ii. 276.
Break-neck-steps, access to Green Arbour-
court, i. 162; alluded to by Ward in
his London Spy, 163; 'melancholy ascent
of them, 164.

Bristow, Mr, printer of the Public Ledger,
i. 272; publishes a pamphlet on the
Cock-lane Ghost, assumed to be Gold-
smith's, 298; Mr. Crossley's opinion
(Notes and Queries), ib.

Brown, Dr, author of Athelstan and Bar-
barossa, i. 108.

Brown, Tom, Goldsmith borrows from his
Laconics, ii. 197.

Browne, Hawkins, i. 262; Johnson's
opinion of him, ib; Pope's, A. N. xxxi.
Brussels, visited by Goldsmith, i. 62.
Bryan and Pereene, ballad by Grainger,
i. 141; appearance in the Grand

Magazine, ib.; first appears in Percy's
"ancient" reliques, 403.

Bryanton, Robert, associate of Goldsmith
in the University, i. 27; relieves Gold-
smith's necessities, 28; affectionate and
touching letter to, 145; another letter,
446.

Brydges, Sir Egerton, points out resemblance
between the Traveller and a poem of
Blackmore's, i. 392; his account of Gray's
first perusal of Junius, ii. 182.
Buchan, Lord, character of Boswell, i.
435.

Buffon, M de, description of, i. 427;
Johnson's admiration of him, ib.
Bulkley (Miss Wilford), Mrs, praises the

Good Natured Man, ii. 119; plays Miss

Richland, ib; speaks Goldsmith's epi-
logue to the Sister, 171; plays Miss
Hardcastle, 372; insists on speaking the
epilogue, ib; George Steevens's account
of her, 373; not able to sing, 392.
Bunbury, H W (Geoffrey Gambado), ii.
172; married to Miss Catherine Horneck,
ib; his abilities as an artist and carica-
turist, ib.

Bunbury, Mrs (Little Comedy), invitation

to Goldsmith at Barton, ii. 316; frolics
at Barton, 317, 318; letter from
Goldsmith to, 319. See HORNECK.
Burgoyne, General, author of the Heiress,

ii. 170; opinion of Strawberry-hill
critics, ib; Horne Tooke's praise of it,
171; characters stolen from Mrs. Len-
nox's Sister, 171.

Burke, Edmund, recollections of Goldsmith

in the University, i. 26; opinion on the
status of a man of letters, 93; his
Sublime and Beautiful criticised by
Goldsmith, 112; pleased with his critic,
113; earliest eloquence displayed at the
Robin Hood debating society, 310; ori-
ginal member of the literary club, 333;
introduces his father-in-law, Dr. Nugent,
ib; pensioned on the Irish Establish-
ment, ib; entered on it under the ob-
scure name of "William Birt," 334;
rudely attacked at the club, 339; con-
sidered an Irish adventurer, ib; intro-
duced to the Duchess of Queensbery, ib;
writes for the booksellers, 340; sup-
plies the historical portion of the Annual
Register, ib; feels uneasy as to terms
of his pension, ib; remonstrances of
Secretary Hamilton, b; throws up his
pension, ib: apologies for his vehemence
and impetuosity, 341; the club, the sole
stage for the exhibition of his powers,
ib; Johnson's opinion of his powers of
conversation, 342; denies him the faculty
of wit, ib; Goldsmith exalts his talk
above Johnson's, 343; contrast between
Johnson's and Burke's powers, ib; first
meeting with Johnson at Garrick's dinner-
table, 344; the mutual generosity of their
wit-combats, ib; subjects of discussion
with them, 345; on imitations of
Johnson, 346; his conduct to beggars,
360; indiscreetly attacks Dean Tucker,
412; Hawkins's calumny, 414; appointed
private secretary to the Marquis of Rock-
ingham, 417; commencement of his poli-
tical life, ib; his first letter addressed to
David Garrick, 418; sends Barry to
Rome, 427; his return for the borough
of Wendover, 436; takes part in the

debate on the Stamp Act, 437; obtains
the praises of Pitt, ib; receives with
Pitt and Conway the applauses of the
lobby, ib; opinion in favour of the Vicar
of Wakefield, ii. 19; disowned by the
great families, 39; recognised by young
Charles Fox, ib; rises superior to the
political storm, 83; his passionate ridi-
cule of Chatham and his ministry, 85;
his personal satire of North, 89; ex-
posure of the attack on the East India
charter, ib; rebukes his protégé, Barry,
for want of temper, 104; his happiness
at his own fire-side, 108; reads the
comedy of the Good-Natured Man, 113;
talked of at Lord Holland's table, 156;
purchases the estate of Gregories, 157;
threatens to throw open the doors of the
House of Commons, 183; his habit of
punning and his puns, 209, n; 413,
447; of playing jokes upon Goldsmith,
214, 215; unsparing vehemence in the
House of Commons, 223; admirable
remark on candour, ib; leaves John-
son to be defended by Fitzherbert, 223;
publishes his Observations, 224; still
attached to the Rockingham party, ib;
his allusions to Junius in the house,
225; criticism on the Deserted Village,
228; farmer occupations at Beaconsfield,
298; liberty of the press, the battle-
question in parliament, 299; divides
house twenty-three times, and carries the
point against Lord North, ib; attacked
by Fox, Onslow, and Markham, 299,
300; unscrupulous attacks upon his
private character, 300; refuted, 301;
attempt to fasten the authorship of
Junius on him, 302; denial of the accu-
sation, ib; inference to be drawn from
the attack on Garrick in the letters,
303; winces under the charge, 302, 304;
opportunity to have freed himself and the
Rockinghams, 305; works only for a
party, ib; detestation of the French
Revolution, 306; sketch of his character,
307; Goldsmith's epitaph on him pro-
phetic of his future, 308; return from
Paris, 347; popularity there, ib; visions
of Versailles and Marie Antoinette,
blindness to coming events, ib; visit
with Goldsmith to the Puppets in Panton-
street, 348; disputing with Goldsmith,
351; his brogue, 353; his surprise at
Boswell's nomination for the club, 408;
noble statement of his experience in life,
412; his wit and talk, 413, 414; Gold-
smith's admiration of him, 421; poor
opinion of the Beggars' Opera, 367; a

grave pun, 447; has the MS. of Retalia-
tion, 455; arrangements for the funeral
of Goldsmith, 468; wishes his epitaph
to be English, 472; See ADDITIONAL
NOTES.

Burke, Richard, his appointment to the
Grenadas, ii. 301; comes home and goes
out again, 302; letter to Garrick, and
laugh at Goldsmith, 344; his wit and
whim, 354, 355; niched into Retalia-
tion, 354.

Burke, William, retires from the post of
under-secretary to Marshal Conway, ii.

39.

Burney, Dr, visit to Johnson's garret,
i. 218; talk about Hawkins, 338; about
Smart, 368; confused reiterations after
Boswell, ii. 15; promises an article
on music to Goldsmith's projected Dic-
tionary, 425.

Burns, Robert, his treatment by William
Pitt, i. 209.

Burton, Dr, author of Pentalogia, i. 166;
reviewed by Goldsmith, ib.
Burton's Anatomie of Melancholy, com-
parison of Virgil's entrance into hell, as
being like entrance into literature, i. 315;
used also by Johnson, ib.

Busy Body, the, established by Mr. Pot-
tinger, i. 227; contributed to by Gold-
smith, ib.

Bute, Marquis of, confers pension upon
Johnson, i. 305; terms of the gift, ib;
incongruous company in his pension list,
ib; his regard for literature, ib; Gold-
smith's petition for a pension neglected,
314; retires before No. 45, 354;
tampers secretly with ministries, ii. 35;
obnoxious to the Rockingham adminis-
tration, ib; coming again into fashion,
88; conduct to Gray, 94; still exerting
an influence, 155; his papers searched
for Goldsmith's memorial, A.N. xxxii.
Butler's Remains, i. 185; reviewed by
Goldsmith, ib; his example of the
miseries of literature, 149; A.N. XXX.
Byrne, Thomas, i. 10; master of the
village school at Lissoy, ib; quarter-
master of an Irish regiment in the
Spanish wars, ib; character and accom-
plishments, 11.

Byrom, his Tom the Porter, familiar to
Goldsmith, i. 277.

C.

Caleb Williams, author of (Godwin), per-
suasion that Goldsmith wrote Goody Two
Shoes, i. 371.

Camden, Lord, black balled at the literary
club, i. 336; ii. 258; opposes Rock-
ingham on taxation of America, and
joins Chatham, 36; consents to act
with the Grafton ministry, 88; quits it,
156; his neglect of Goldsmith, 258;
speech against the royal marriage act,
397; carries the reversal of Lord Mans-
field's decree in favour of authors, 476.
Campbell, Lord, Lives of the Chancellors,
reasons for Lord Camden not being of the
club, ii. 258; his mistake, ib; his
summary of the claims on posterity of
Lord Hardwicke and Johnson, 259; on
the Poker Club, A. N. xxix.
Campbell, Dr, his Philosophical Survey of
the South of Ireland, quoted, i. 77;
ii. 472; A. N. xxviii; compiles biography
for Percy, i. 14; ii. 487, 488; afraid of
the reviews, i. 127; his notion of
Percy's dignity, 181; his lost anecdotes,
296; his correspondence with Percy,
487, 489; Mrs. Thrale's character of him,
488.

Campbell, Thomas, criticism on the Deserted
Village, ii. 235.

Campbell, Rev. Mr., master of school at
Athlone, i. 19.

Candide, its European reputation, i. 268;
Goldsmith's "humble optimist," ib;
translated into French, ib; likely to
have been read at Les Délicés, ib.
Canning, George, father of the statesman,
poor translation of the first three books
of Cardinal de Polignac's Anti-Lucretius,
i. 119.

Carinthia visited by Goldsmith, i. 74;
subject of a hasty reproach, ib.
Carlyle, Thomas, opinion on the organisation
of literature, i. 202; description of the
French court before the revolution, ii.
347.
Carter, Mrs, opinion as to the authorship
of Letters of a Nobleman to his Son,
ii. 75.

Catcott, George, ii. 243, 280; A. N. xxxvii.
Cavendish, Lord John, i. 415; the best of
all Johns, ib; Burke's opinion, A. N.
xxxiv.

Cavendish, Sir Henry, Notes, ii. 184:
summary of the debates of the time, ib;
their curious history, ib; suggestions as
to their complete publication, ib.
Chambers, Sir William, affecting incident
with Goldsmith at a whist party, ii. 428,

429.

Chambers, Vinerian professor, entertains
Johnson and Goldsmith at Oxford, ii. 167;
his name in the Newcastle grammar-