Produced by Charles Franks, Robert Connal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE RT. HON. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN BY THOMAS MOORE IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. [Illustration] CONTENTS TO VOL. II. CHAPTER I. Impeachment of Mr. Hastings. CHAPTER II. Death of Mr. Sheridan's Father.--Verses by Mrs. Sheridan on the Death of her Sister, Mrs. Tickell. CHAPTER III. Illness of the King.--Regency.--Private Life of Mr. Sheridan. CHAPTER IV. French Revolution.--Mr. Burke.--His Breach with Mr. Sheridan.--Dissolution of Parliament.--Mr. Burke and Mr. Fox.--Russian Armament.--Royal Scotch Boroughs. CHAPTER V. Death of Mrs. Sheridan. CHAPTER VI. Drury-Lane Theatre.--Society of "The Friends of the People."--Madame de Genlis.--War with France.--Whig Seceders.--Speeches in Parliament--Death of Tickell. CHAPTER VII. Speech in Answer to Lord Mornington.--Coalition of the Whig Seceders with Mr. Pitt.--Mr. Canning.--Evidence on the Trial of Horne Tooke.--The "Glorious First of June."--Marriage of Mr. Sheridan.--Pamphlet of Mr. Reeves--Debts of the Prince of Wales.--Shakspeare Manuscripts.--Trial of Stone.--Mutiny at the Nore.--Secession of Mr. Fox from Parliament. CHAPTER VIII. Play of "The Stranger."--Speeches in Parliament.--Pizarro.--Ministry of Mr. Addington.--French Institute.--Negotiations with Mr. Kemble. CHAPTER IX. State of Parties.--Offer of a Place to Mr. T. Sheridan.--Receivership of the Duchy of Cornwall bestowed upon Mr. Sheridan.--Return of Mr. Pitt to Power.--Catholic Question.--Administration of Lord Grenville and Mr. Fox.--Death of Mr. Fox.--Representation of Westminster.--Dismission of the Ministry.--Theatrical Negotiation.--Spanish Question.--Letter to the Prince. CHAPTER X. Destruction of the Theatre of Drury-Lane by Fire.--Mr. Whitbread--Plan for a Third Theatre.--Illness of the King.--Regency.--Lord Grey and Lord Grenville.--Conduct of Mr. Sheridan.--His Vindication of himself. CHAPTER XI. Affairs of the new Theatre.--Mr. Whitbread.--Negotiations with Lord Grey and Lord Grenville.--Conduct of Mr. Sheridan relative to the Household.--His Last Words in Parliament.--Failure at Stafford. --Correspondence with Mr. Whitbread.--Lord Byron.--Distresses of Sheridan.--Illness.--Death and Funeral.--General Remarks. MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. CHAPTER I. IMPEACHMENT OF MR. HASTINGS. The motion of Mr. Burke on the 10th of May, 1787, "That Warren Hastings, Esq., be impeached," having been carried without a division, Mr. Sheridan was appointed one of the Managers, "to make good the Articles" of the Impeachment, and, on the 3d of June in the following year, brought forward the same Charge in Westminster Hall which he had already enforced with such wonderful talent in the House of Commons.