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Gallas, count, (the Imperial envoy). Forbid the British court, for his infamous conduct, iv. 97. His base intrigues, ibid. Deservedly disgraced, xv. 171.
Galway (earl of). Humorous threat of a surgeon whom he had offended, ix. 225.
Gaming. Some pertinent inquiries concerning it, made by the king of Brobdingnag, vi. 147.
Garth (Dr). A bon mot of his, when dying, xiii. 186.
Gascon. Description of a week's sustenance of his family, xii. 34. The artifice of one confined by the French king to speak only one word, 200, 201.
Gay (Mr). An epistle to him, in verse, viii. 114. Appointed secretary to lord Clarendon, xi. 333. Epigrammatical petition by him, ibid. His treatment by the court, after a long attendance on it, v. 212. Asthmatical, xviii. 263. Proposes to print the second part of the Beggars Opera, ibid. Suspected unjustly of writing a libel against Mr. Walpole, xiii. 18; who was with difficulty persuaded to let Gay continue a second year commissioner to a lottery, 19. After fourteen years attendance on the court, rejects the servile dignity of gentleman usher to a girl of two years old, and retires in disgrace, vii. 3. viii. 114. xii. 259. xiii. 19. Wrote an eclogue in the quaker style, x. 213. Reflections on the conduct of great men toward him, xii. 89. Appointed a commissioner of the state lottery, 98. Gives Swift an account of the success of the Beggars Opera, 274. Acquaints him with more particulars respecting it, 276. The great friendship of the duke and duchess of Queensberry toward him, 305. Receives great contributions toward the publication of the second part of the Beggars Opera, 306. His fortune increased by oppression, 307. Most of the courtiers refuse to contribute to his undertaking, ibid. Chief author of the Craftsman, by which he becomes very popular, 310. Engaged in law suits with booksellers, for pirating his book, 313. Declines in the favour of courtiers, 456. Some account of his fables, to Dr. Swift, 469. 482. Gambadoes commended by him as a fine invention, xiii. 2. Finds in himself a natural propensity to write against vice, 12. His death, 22. Is universally lamented, and buried with great pomp, 23. Curll assiduous in procuring memoirs of his life, ibid. Duchess of Oueensberry's character of him, 33. Dr. Swift's condolence with the duchess for his death, with a short character of him, 38. His opera of Achilles [and the Distrest Mother a tragedy] brought out after his death, 14. 117. The Present State of Wit probably written by him, xviii. 28.
Gazetteer. A salary of two hundred pounds a year settled on that employment, by Dr. Swift's procurement, xv. 310.
General. The errour of commissioning such an officer for life, how
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