285; correspondence with Adams, i. 8; iv. 376; Beattie, ii. 148, n. 2; v. 15; Blair, iii. 402; v. 398; Blacklock, v. 417; Chatham, Earl of, ii. 13, n. 3, 59, n. 1; Cullen, iv. 263; Dempster, v. 407; Dilly, iii. 110; Elibank, Lord, v. 181; Forbes, Sir W., v. 413; Garrick, ii. 279, n. 1; iii. 371; v. 347-50, 382, n. 2; Hailes, Lord, i. 432; v. 406; Hastings, Warren, iv. 66; Hector, iv. 375; Johnson: See below, JOHNSON, and under JOHNSON; Langton, iii. 424; Monboddo, v. 74; Parr, iv. 47, n. 2; Percy, iii. 278; Pitt, iv. 261, n, 3; Rasay, v. 410-1; Robertson, v. 14, 32; Reynolds, iv. 259, n. 2; Thurlow, iv. 327, 336; Vyse, iii. 125; Wilkes, ii. 11, n. 3; iv. 224, n. 2; Correspondence with the Hon. Andrew Erskine, i. 383; Corsica, Account of: See CORSICA; Corsica, his head filled too much with it, ii. 22, 58, 59; his memory honoured there, ii. 3, n. 1; a tradition of him, ii. 451, n. 3; Corsicans, raises a subscription for the, ii. 59, n. 1; Counsel, engaged as, Douglas Cause, iii. 219, n. 2; v. 378, n. 2; Ecclesiastical censure case, iii. 58; House of Lords, before the, ii. 144, 375, n. 4, 377, n. 1; iii. 219; House of Commons, iii. 224; iv. 73, 259, n. 1; Dr. Memis's case, ii. 291; schoolmaster, prosecution of a, iii. 212; Society of Solicitors' case, iv. 128; country-house, takes a little, iii. 116, 128; Court of General Assembly, despises pleading at the, ii. 381, n. 1; Court of Sessions, little dull labours, ii. 381, n. 1; Court of Session Garland, i. 432, n. 3; ii. 200, n. 1; Courtenay's lines on him, i. 223; cow, lows like a, v. 396; cowardly caution, iii. 210-1; critical skill, v. 214; Critical Strictures, i. 383, n. 3, 409; critics 'cannot or will not understand him,' v. 259, n. 1; Cub at Newmarket, i. 383, n. 3; curiosity, his wise and noble, ii. 4, 59; Dalblair and Young Auchinleck, known as, v. 116; daughters, on the treatment of, ii. 420, n. 1; 'dazzled' by Johnson and Paoli, i. 460; death, at times not afraid of, iii. 153; debts, i. 2, n. 2; ii. 275; paid by his father, iii. 93; Johnson's warnings, against incurring any, iv. 148-9, 152, 154, 163; dedications, his, i. 1; ii. 1, n. 2; v. 1; delights to talk of the state of his mind, iv. 249; describes visible objects with difficulty, v. 173, 219; desert, has wished to retire to a, ii. 75; Devonshire, visits, ii. 371; dignity, hardly possible uniformly to preserve, ii. 69, n. 3; acquires 'dignity in London,' 375, n. 4; dinners, gives admirable, ii. 59, n. 3; gives one to some Hebrideans and Highlanders, ii. 308, 380; goes without one, ii. 178; displays his classical learning, v. 15, n. 5; dissatisfaction, too much given to, iii. 225; Dorando, A Spanish Tale, ii. 50, n. 4; 'Drawing-room' dress, his, ii. 83, n. 1; Dresden, visits, i. 266, n. 2; drudges in an obscure corner, ii. 381, n. 1; duel, risk of having to fight a, ii. 179, n. 3; early rising, difficulty of, iii. 168; Easter meetings with Johnson, iv. 148. n. 2; elated at getting Johnson to the Hebrides, v. 215; Elegy on the Death of an Amiable Young Lady, i. 383, n. 3; elevated by pious exercises, iv. 122; English Bar, enters at the Inner Temple, ii. 375, n. 4; iii. 178; eats his dinners, ii. 377, n. 1; iii. 45, n. 1; called, i. 2, n. 2; iv. 309, n. 5; discouraging prospects, iii. 179, n. 1; takes chambers, ib.; attends the Northern Circuit, iii. 261, n. 2; discussion with Johnson on the way to success at the bar, iv. 309; enthusiasm of mind, solemn, iii. 122, n. 2; to go with Captain Cook, iii. 7; to go to the wall of China, iii. 269; feudal, iii. 178; v. 223; genealogical, v. 379; envy of Dundas's success, ii. 160, n. 1; Epistle from Menalcas to Lycidas, i. 383, n. 3; Essays, his, iv. 179; Essence of the Douglas Cause, ii. 230, n. 1; Essex Head Club, member of the, iv. 254, n. 2; estate, income of his, iv. 154, n. i; 155, n. 4; Eumelian Club, member of the, iv. 394, n. 4; exact likeness, draws an, i. 486; executions, love of seeing, ii. 93, n. 3; iii. 384, n. 1; iv. 328; executors, his, iii. 301, n. 1; 'facility of manners,' v. 19, n. 1; fame, ardour for literary, ii. 69, n. 3; iv. 50, n. 2; fancies that he is neglected, ii. 384; iii. 44, 135; that Johnson is ill or offended, ii. 410; that his wife or children are ill, iii. 4; at Stains Castle, v. 105; in a Highland inn, v. 139; farm, purchases a, iii. 207; father, his (Lord Auchinleck), death, iv. 154; disagreement with, i. 346, n. 2; ii. 311, n. 1; iii. 95; about heirs general and male, ii. 414-5; iii. 86; uneasy with him, i. 426; a timid boy in his presence, ii. 382, n. 1; iii. 93, n. 1; on better terms with him, iii. 93, 95, 108, 212, 368, 442; dulls his faculties by strong beer before him, ii.

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