1

A.

ABELL, Mrs., Napoleon's pet English
child at St. Helena, Betsy Bal-
combe," ii., 89.
Aberdeen, Lord, Gell's reference to fam-
ily of, 1., 341.

Abinger, Lord, notice of, ii., 230; letters
of, 234.

Acton, Lady, her theatricals at Naples
in 1834, i., 374.

Acton, Sir Frederick, notice of, i., 401.
Aguilar, Colonel, inclosing a lock of
Mrs. Hemans's hair to Lady B., ii.,|

383.

Alpinula, Julia, remarkable sepulchral
inscription, ii., 111, 129, 130.
Anson, Henry, acquaintance with Lady
B. at Florence, i., 101.
Arlincourt, Vicomte M. De, notice of,
and letter to Lady B., i., 452.
Auckland, Lord, notice of, ii., 516, 517.
Auldjo, John, his ascent to summit of
Mont Blanc, i., 380; letter to Lady B.,
466.

B.

Barings, the, at Florence in 1828, ii., 185.
Bathurst, Miss, account of her death by
drowning at Rome, i., 337; reference
to her death, 403, 404; account of find-
ing her dead body, 426; Lord Aylmer's
account, 134.
Beattie, Dr. William, notice of, letters
and poems, ii., 340.
Biography, observations of editor on its
legitimate inquiries, i., 1; of Sir Eger-
ton Brydges, 4; of a German writer, 6
on, in respect to Goldsmith's Life, 8.
Blakeney, General, present at the mar-
riage of Miss M. Power, i., 513.
Blessington, Lord, notice of origin, Right
Honorable Charles John Gardiner, 2d
Viscount Mountjoy, i., 43; notice of
1st Viscount Mountjoy, career, death,
42; succession of his son, large for-
tune, 44; adopts his father's political
principles, ib.; elected a representative
peer in 1809, ib.; first speech in House
of Peers, ib.; part taken by him on

queen's trial, ib.; young lord's man-
ners, deportment, and education, ib. ;
taste for the drama, lavish in his pat-
ronage, 45; habits of self-indulgence,
46; acquaintance with Mrs. Brown in
1808, ib.; establishment at Worthing,
ib.; in Portman Square, ib.; his son,
Charles John, born there, ib.; in Man-
chester Square, ib.; his daughter,
Emilie Rosalie, born there, ib.; mar-
riage with Mrs. Browne in 1812, ib.;
birth of Lady Harriet Frances Anne
Gardiner, 47; Lord and Lady Mount-
joy proceed to Paris, ib. ; death of Lady
Mountjoy at Paris in Sept., 1814, ib.;
ages of children, birth and death of son
and heir, ib.; dates of marriages of
daughters, ib.; grief for Lady Mount-
joy, 48; funeral pageant of great mag-
nificence, ib.; remains of Lady M. con-
yeyed to Dublin, ib, ; vast expenditure,
lying in state, extraordinary pomp and
splendor, ib.; scene at the house of
mourning, ib.; burial in St. Thomas's
Church, Dublin, ib. ; second marriage,
in February, 1817, with Mrs. Farmer,
50; present at marriage, Sir W. P.
Campbell, W. Purves, Robert Power,
F. S. Pole, ib.; his residence, Henri-
etta Street, Dublin, 53; his prodigal-
ity, 54; dinner there, first introduction
of Lady B. to his friends, 53; one guest
at that bridal party who had been last
there when Lady M.'s remains were
lying in state, ib.; vast expenditure
of preparations for visit to Mountjoy
Forest, 54; evidence of unsoundness
of judgment in his lavish expenditure,
ib.; created earl, 43; embarrassments
at time of marriage, 54; annual income
from Irish estates, 55; visit of editor
to Tyrone estates, ib.; liberality as a
landlord, ib.; builds a theatre on one
of his estates at Rash, ib. ; private
theatricals there, enormous expendi-
ture, 56; actors and actresses domi-
ciled at Rash, ib.; Moore's reference
to those theatricals, ib.; dilapidation
of the house, disappearance of theatre.

estates from ditto, 528; account of his
death, in letter to Landor, ii., 104;
letters from Duke of Richmond to, ii,
480; letter from Mrs. Siddons, 481;
his letter to C. J. Mathews, 452; to
W. S. Landor, 486; from Lord Ross-
lyn, 487.
Blessington, Lady, Miss Power's ac-
count of her family early life, i., 10;
pedigree of the Sheehy family, 11;
account of her mother's family, the
Sheehys, 14; details of persecution
of Father Sheehy, 484, education,
home, family circle, 15; removal from
Knockbrit to Clonmel, 16; first mar-
riage and results, see Power, 1804, 27;
residence at Cahir, 32; in Dublin, 33;
at Sidmanton, Hants, 50; second mar-
riage with Lord B. in 1818, ib.; the
peculiar character of her beauty, 51;
first presentation to his Irish friends,
53; she accompanies Lord B. to his
Tyrone estates, ib.; costly prepara-
tions made at Mountjoy Forest, 53;
singular contrasts of splendor and mis-
ery, 54; numerous claims on Lady B.'s
bounty, 36; removal of Lady B. from
Manchester Square to St. James's
Square, 60; launched into fashionable
life, ib.; the eclat of her beauty and
graces of her conversation, ib.; turn
for grave irony, 61; reference to her
by Moore, visits her with W. Irving
in 1822, ib.; brilliant society in St.
James's Square, ib.; surrounded by
the first celebrities of the time, 62;
first acquaintance with Count D'Orsay
in London, ib.; illustrious personages
visitors at St. James's Square, 62, 63;
leaves England on a Continental tour
in 1822, 63; Miss M. Anne Power ac-
companies them, 64; Count D'Orsay
joins their party in France, 69; exten-
sive preparations in Paris for their
tour, 65; renews her acquaintance
with Denon, ib.; mentions two visits
to Paris previous to 1822, 66; Moore's
frequent visits to her at Paris, ib.; in
Moore's company, descends
Montagne Russe," ib.; observations
on art in the galleries of the Louvre,
67; admires a Madonna and Child by
Raphael in spite of her "stern Prot-
estantism," ib.; sets out for Switzer-
land, 68; joined by Count D'Orsay,
and sets out for Italy, 69; her works,
"The Idler in France," "The Idler
in Italy," ib.; is introduced to Byron,
1st April, 1823, at Genoa, ib.; her de-
scription of Byron, 70; Byron's ac-

58; assists at banquet to John Philip
Kemble, on his retirement, 57; assists
in the Kilkenny theatricals, ib.; played
The Green Knight in Valentine and
Orson, ib.; the Rash theatricals from
1802 to 1812, ib.; theatrical tastes of
Lord B.'s father, 537; visits his Tyrone
estates with General D'Orsay and a
son of the Duc de Guiche, 60; his last
visit to them in 1825, ib.; sets out for
the Continent in Sept., 1822, 63; hires
the cook of an emperor, provides a vast
batterie de cuisine, 68; renews his ac-
quaintance with Byron at Genoa, 70;
buys Byron's yacht "The Bolivar,"
79; receives the news at Genoa of the
death of his son and heir, 102, 103; an
account of his surviving children, 102;
his two daughters left in Ireland, in
charge of his sister, Lady Harriet Gar-
diner, ib.; makes a codicil to his will
at Genoa, 22d June, 1823, naming Count
D'Orsay sole guardian of his surviving
son, and his sister guardian of his
daughters, reciting engagement enter-
ed into with Count D'Orsay to marry
one of his daughters, 104; bequeaths
£3000 a year to Lady B., 105; 31st
Aug., 1823, executed a new will, pro-
vides for intended marriage, reduces
annuity to Lady B., ib.; D'Orsay's
marriage took place the 1st of Dec.,
1827, 108; great extravagance in Paris
in 1828, 116; large outlay in decoration
of the Hotel Ney, ib.; proceeds to
England in 1829, to vote for Catholic
emancipation, 118, 119; editor visits
his lordship at St. James's Square,
119; his deep interest in the Catholic
question, ib.; letter to editor: his
views for the amelioration of Ireland,
119, 120; letter of introduction to Lord
Strangford, ib. ; having voted on Cath-
olic question, returns to Paris, 120;
23d May, 1829, on his return to Paris,
dies suddenly, 121; remains conveyed
to Dublin: deposited in family vault
in St. Thomas's Church, ib.; letters
of W. S. Landor on the death of, 121,
122; the embarrassment of his affairs
at the time of his death, 123; value
and extent of his Irish estates, from
the schedules to act of Parliament for
their sale passed in 1846, 123, 124;
lists of mortgages, debts, bequests,
&c., 124-126; remnant of the vast
properties of the Mountjoys now un-
sold, 129; detailed account of encum-
brances on his estates from schedules
of act for their sale, 524; rental of the

La

count of this interview, 72; first men-]
tion of D'Orsay in her diaries, ib.;
arrangements for the count's accompa
nying the party to Naples, ib.; Byron's
liking for D'Orsay, 73; Byron's epi-
gram, "Il diavolo è ancora entrato in
Paradiso," ib. ; lines of Byron to, 74;
letter of Byron to, 75; parting with
Byron, 76; Byron's farewell letter to,
ib.; second visit to Genoa; visits his
former abode, 77; observations on By-
ron's death, ib.; refers to "conse-
quences resulting from the violation of
ties, never severed without retribution,"
78; no cordial friendship between her
and Byron, ib.; departure from Genoa
for Naples, 2d June, 1823, 79; arrival
in Rome, 5th July, 1823, 80; disap-
pointed, departs after nine days for
Naples, 81; fastidious tastes, ib.; oc-
casional aims at stage effects, 82; ar-
rival at Naples, delighted with its
scenery, climate, site, &c., ib.; her
glowing description of the bay, ib.;
yachting excursions, 89; her account
of "The Bolivar," ib.; residence in
the Palazzo Belvidere, 91; singular,
beauty of its site and scenery, ib.; her
description of it, 91, 92; visits to
Pompeii and Herculaneum with Gell,
92; her lines on Pompeii, 93; visits
to ancient monuments, with eminent
savans and artists, 92; visits Pæstum
with Lord Morpeth, Mr. Millingen,
&c., 93; notice of ruins of Pæstum,
95; ascent of Mount Vesuvius, ib.;
celebrities who frequented the Palaz-
zo Belvidere, 97, 98; removal to the
Villa Gallo in March, 1825, 99; de-
parture from Naples in February, 1826,
ib.; proceeds via Rome to Florence,
sojourn there, ib.; revisits Genoa,
meets Lord John Russell, 99, 100; re-
turns to Pisa, remains there till June,
1827, 100; returns to Florence; ac-
quaintance there, 101; returns
Rome, December, 1827, rents the Pa-
lazzo Negroni, 107; enormous expen-
diture there, ib.; the seeds of the En-
cumbered Estates' Court sown in Ita-
ly, ib.; editor, on return from Egypt,
visits the Blessingtons in Rome, 108;
saw there the first time the young
Countess D'Orsay, then three months
married, ib.; preparations for depart
ure from Rome, May 7th, 1828, 109;
parting entertainment given to her by
Mr. Mills, ib.; among the guests, Sir
William Gell, Mr. and Mrs. Dodwell,
110; Gell and Count Esterhazy see

to

her take her departure, ib.; Gell's
fears expressed that they should meet
no more, ib.; refers to her visit that
day to Sir W. Drummond's grave, ib.;
visits the shrine of the Santa Casa at
Loretto, 111; philosophizes à l'An-
glaise on superstitious mummeries,
ib.; witnesses the execution of three
men at Ravenna, 111, 112; renews
her acquaintance at Venice with W.
S. Landor, 112; visits the Ambrosian
library at Milan, ib.; her account of a
lock of the golden hair of Lucretia
Borgia, and several letters of hers to
Cardinal Bembo: obtains some of the
hair, reference to it in the "New
Monthly Magazine" for 1825, 113;
visits the shrine of San Carlo Borro-
meo, in the Duomo of Milan, 114; at
the close of 1828 revisits Genoa, 133;
five years previously knew Byron
there, 115; on last occasion saw Lady
Byron and her daughter there, ib.;
departure for Paris, and close of her
Italian life, ib.; returns to Paris in
June, 1828, after an absence of six
years, ib.; first visitors, Duke and
Duchess de Guiche, ib.; rents the
Hotel Ney, 116; great expenditure in
adorning said hotel, ib.; the magnifi-
cence of the decorations, &c., ordered
by Lord B., suitable for royalty, ib. ;
her description of the chambre à
coucher and dressing-room: the bed,
with its gorgeous hangings, supported
on the backs of large silvered swans,
&c., 117; the luxurious adornments
and furniture compared with those of
the imperial palace at Fontainebleau,
118; publication of her memoirs sug-
gested by one of her friends, ii., 379,
380; return to London in 1830, i., 130;
conversational powers: love of intel-
lectual society, ib.; three leading cir-
cles of London intellectual celebrities
some twenty years ago: the remarka-
ble women who presided over them,
ib.; conversational powers of Fox,
Mackintosh, Sydney Smith, Lord Hol-
land, Madame de Stael, 133, 134; her
love of London life, like De Stael's
love of Paris, 135; establishment in
Seamore Place in 1831: beginning of
third phase in her literary career, 142;
her picture of "the modern Mecænas-
es of May Fair," patronesses of
"lame poets and petits litterateurs,
who run about drawing-rooms as do-
cile as lapdogs," ib. ; reasons for giv-
ing up house in St. James's Square,

64

143; description of the réunions of
London: celebrities at her house in
Seamore Place, ib.; Willis's refer-
ences to those réunions, and their ce-
lebrities, 144; B. R. Haydon's refer-
ences to her soirées, 155; her house
robbed in Seamore Place, ib.; re-
moves to Gore House, ib. ; changes
in her tastes at different epochs, 156;
different periods of editor's renewed
acquaintance with her, 157; character
of Gore House society, ib.; laudable
aim of Lady B. in bringing people to-
gether of opposite pursuits, opinions,
and interests, 159; one of her foreign
guests, Monsieur Julien le jeune de
Paris, in his youth a secretary of Ro-
bespierre, said to be a regicide, a ter-
rorist in his youth, a philanthropist, a
poet, and a sentimentalist in his old
age, ib.; his recitations in the first
revolution, 160; at Lady B.'s, of his
dolorous poem,
Mes Chagrins Poli-
tiques," ib.; his free gift of tears, 161;
D'Orsay's talent in drawing out Ju-
lien a scene with Dr. Quin, editor,
&c., &c., 163; Julien and L. E. L.,
165; embarrassments consequent on
the expensive establishment of Gore
House: D'Orsay's difficulties, and
claims of many persons on her boun-
ty, ib.; strictness and punctuality in
her accounts, ib.; folly of thinking of
sustaining a fashionable position by
the aid of literature, ib.; Charles
Lamb's opinion on literature as a call-
ing for a livelihood, 166; expenditure
at Gore House, ib.; costly efforts to
maintain a literary position: Scott's
reference to Lydia White, 167; pres-
sure of misfortunes and pecuniary loss-
es, 167, 168; beginning of literary ca-
reer in St. James's Square, with the
publication of Sketches of Scenes
in the Metropolis," &c.: the first
sketch, descriptive of the ruin of a
fashionable London establishment, and
an auction of its magnificent furniture,
might serve for that of the sale at Gore
House twenty-seven years later, 179;
vicissitudes and changes of fortune of
occupiers of Gore House, 529; arrives
in Paris the middle of April, 1849, 181;
takes an appartement near the Champs
Elysée, and furnishes it with much
elegance, ib.; preparations made in
vain: takes possession of the new
abode on the 4th of June, 1849, and
dies the day following, after a sojourn
of five weeks in Paris, 183; on arriv-

al in Paris, found coldness and neg-
lect in some quarters where she had
a right to expect kindness and grati-
tude, 181; accueil of Prince Louis Na-
poleon, ib.; plans for a new literary
career formed in Paris, 182; vague
and unfounded rumors concerning her
death, 183; striking coincidences in
circumstances of the sudden deaths
of Lord and Lady B. in Paris, each
event shortly after arrival from Lon-
don, ib.; reminded, in a letter to her a
few weeks before her death, by a Brit-
ish peeress, of the necessity of re-
membering religious duties, ib.; on
two Sundays, while in Paris, attended
the church of the Madeleine, 184;
Heath's failure, Irish famine, and dif-
ficulties leading to the break-up at
Gore House, 168; advice of a friend
on ditto, 169; in April, 1849, the long-
impending crash, 171; execution put
in, ib.; for two years previously, con-
stant fears of executions, arrest of
D'Orsay, and precautions to prevent
them, ib.; particulars of first intima-
tion of the execution in Gore House,
ib.; auction at Gore House-foreshad-
ows of that denouement in some of
her works: her remarks on the old cu-
riosity shops of Paris, and breaking up
of great establishments, 172; the con-
cluding words, "So will it be when I
am gone," 173; catalogue of magnif-
icent effects and furniture of Gore
House, ib.; 10th May, 1849, and fol-
lowing days, editor attends sale, meets
several of the old guests and intimate
friends of the house, sees Lawrence's
portraits of Lord and Lady B. sold,
several of D'Orsay's portraits, the li-
brary, Lady B.'s ornaments of gold
and silver, 174; letters of a few kind
friends to her on the break-up, 177,
178; departure from Gore House, ac-
companied by her nieces, for the Con-
tinent, 14th of April, 1849, and end of
the London career of Lady B., 178;
state of religious opinions for many
previous years, weariness of spirit,
vague desires for retirement from the
turmoil of a life in salons and literary
labors, 184; remarkable conversation
of editor with D'Orsay respecting La-
dy B.'s religious sentiments and creed
shortly before his death, 300; particu-
lars of her last illness and death given
in a letter of Miss Power to editor,
184; account of monument erected by
D'Orsay, 186; English inscription by