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

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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,

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

company in his convent, 380; Gell's
reference to his son's intended mar-
riage, ib.; diplomatic career of his son,
417; reference to the convent at Penta,
382; notice of, 409; letters of, to Lady
Blessington, 418.

D.

D., letter to Lady B. signed, ii., 249.
Dallas, George, letter to Lady B., ii.,

388.

Deerhurst, Lady Mary, references to

her by Gell, i., 336, 339, 348; ditto
"going over the mountains of China,"
356.

Deffand, Madame du, her epistolary and

conversational talents, i., 320; ii., 504.
Delavigne, Casimir, notice and letters
of, i., 458, 459.

Devonshire, Duchess of, her death, at-
tended by Dr. Quin, i., 337.
Dickens, Charles, notice of, ii., 220; let-
ters of, 223.

Dillon, Lord, author of an epic poem at
Florence, i., 101.

D'Israeli, Isaac, notice of, ii., 204; let-
lers of, 208.

D'Israeli, Right Hon. Ben., notice of, ii.,

208; letters of, 216; Lines of, ad-
dressed to "a beautiful mute," i., 481.
D'Orsay, Count Alfred, first acquaint-
ance with Lady B. in England, i., 62;|
acquaintance renewed in Florence,
ib.; sets out from Avignon with the
Blessingtons for Italy, 69; first ac-
quaintance with Byron at Genoa, 73;
Byron's liking for him; sits for his
portrait to D'Orsay, ib.; Byron's allu-
sion to the French count, a Cupidon
déchainé, 72; displays his talent at
drawing out people on Lieut. Smith,
R. N., 90; engagement entered into
with Lord B. to marry one of his
daughters, recited in codicil to Lord
B.'s will, June 22, 1823, 104; engage-
ment set forth in a later will, Dec. 1,
1827; marriage with Lady Gardiner,
108; his father, General D'Orsay,
and the Count Leon, accompanied by
Lord B., visit the Tyrone estates in
1825, 60; marriage settlement, moneys
charged on Lord B.'s estate, &c., 125,
126; deed of separation, 129; his pe-
cuniary difficulties, arrest in London
for a debt of £300 to a Paris bootma-
ker, 168; tradesmen allow his debts
to stand over on account of the advan-
tage of his patronage, ib.; on his keep-
ing at Gore House two years previous-
ly to break-up there, 171; on intima-]

tion of execution put in, told by Lady
B. he must quit London immediately,
172; departure for Paris before break
of day following morning; end of his
London career in April, 1849, ib.; ar-
rival in Paris; expectations formed
of Louis Napoleon's friendship, 182;
former services rendered to the prince,
ib.; his profound grief at the loss of
Lady B., 190; notice of the count:
his origin, early life, some account of
career in London, of his pursuits in
art, the close of his career, observa-
tions on his talents, and the applica-
tion of them, 269; his death, August
4, 1852, 280; religious sentiments in
his last illness; remarkable conversa-
tion with editor on religious subjects,
299; attended by the Archbishop of
Paris, 279; singular inconsistencies
in his character, 281; his embarrass-
ments, reckless extravagance, an ut-
ter ignorance of the value of money,
inordinate and ill-regulated generosi-
ty, forgetfulness of the obligations he
contracted for the sake of others, ib.;
his works of art and talent as an art-
ist: portrait and busts of Wellington,
busts of Napoleon, Emperor of Russia,
Lamartine, Girardin, Napoleon Bona-
parte, son of Jerome; pictures of Sir
Robert Peel, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord
Byron, Dwarkanauth Tajore, 284 ;
verses of Lamartine to D'Orsay on his
artistic talent, 288; Haydon's refer-
ences to ditto, 292; references to his
mother's family, Madame Crawford
(La belle Sullivan), the mother of
Countess D'Orsay, 294; his grand-
mother, Madame Crawford, compared
by Lady B. to Ninon de l'Enclos;
conquests of Ninon at 56, 70, and 80
years of age, 295; notice of his death
in the "Presse" by Emile Girardin,
301; his funeral, 302; concluding ob-
servations on the count as a man of
wit the wit combats of Gore House
compared with those of the days of
Dorset, Sedley, Ethelridge, Denham,
and those of the times of Horace Wal-
pole, Selwyn, Townsend, Bubb Dod-
dington, &c., 307, 309; various kinds
of wit, in conversation, in displays of
eloquence, in bon mots, epigrams, vers
de société, &c., ib.; reference to Cur-
ran's conversational wit, 309; in Hyde
Park, in recent times, as described by
Patmore; contrast with Grammont, as
described in the same place in 1659,
311; Dickens's tribute to his memory,