NEGROES,—­law-cases.  See KNIGHT, Joseph, and SOMERSET, James. 
NELSON, Robert, Festivals and Fasts, ii. 458; iv. 311;
  friend of Archibald Campbell, v. 357; the
  original of Sir Charles Grandison, ii. 458, n. 3. 
NENI, Count, iii. 35. 
NERO, ii. 255, n. 4. 
NERVES, weak, iv. 280. 
NETHERLANDS, Johnson’s projected tour, i. 470; iii. 454;
  Temple’s account of the drinking, iii. 330.
Network, defined, i. 294. 
NEUFCHATEL, ii. 215.
New Bath Guide, i. 388, n. 3. 
NEW FLOODGATE IRON, iv. 193. 
NEW PLACE, effects of a, iii. 128.
New Protestant Litany, i. 176, n. 2. 
NEW SOUTH WALES, iv. 125, n. 1.
New Testament, most difficult book in the world, iii. 298. 
NEW ZEALAND, iii. 49. 
NEWBERY, Francis,
  bookseller, and dealer in quack medicines, v. 30, n. 3;
  Johnson’s advice to him about a fiddle, iii. 242, n. 1. 
NEWBERY, John, the bookseller,
  children’s books, iv. 8, n. 3;
  Goldsmith’s publisher, iii. 100, n. 1; v. 30, n. 3;
  James’s powder, vendor of, iii. 4, n. 1
  ‘Jack Whirler’ of The Idler, v. 30, n. 3;
  Johnson’s debts to him, i. 350, n. 3;
  publishes his Idler, i. 330, 335, n. 1;
  The World Displayed, i. 345. 
NEWCASTLE, famous townsmen, v. 16, n. 4;
  Johnson passes through it, ii. 264, 266; v. 16;
  story of a ghost, iii. 297, 394. 
NEWCASTLE, first Duke of, i. 151. 
NEWCASTLE, second Duke of, iv. 63. 
NEWCASTLE FLY, ii. 377, n. 1. 
NEWCASTLE ship-master, a, v. 312. 
NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LINE, iii. 135, n. 1. 
NEWCOME, Colonel (in The Newcomes), ii. 300, n. 3. 
NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERY, iii. 203, n. 1. 
NEWHALL, Lord, iii. 151. 
NEWHAVEN, Lord, iii. 407-8. 
NEWMAN, Cardinal,
  Johnson’s truthfulness, iv. 305, n. 3;
  Oxford about the year 1770, ii. 445, n. 1. 
NEWMARKET, i. 383, n. 3. 
NEWMARSH, Captain, v. 134. 
NEWPORT School in Shropshire, i. 50, 132, n. 1. 
NEWSPAPERS,
  booksellers, governed by the, v. 402, n. l;
  everything put into them, iii. 79, 330;
  knowledge diffused, ii. 170;
  Macpherson’s ‘supervision,’ ii. 307, n. 4;
  in the time of the Usurpation, v. 366;
  whole world informed, ii. 208. 
NEWSWRITERS, ii. 170, n. 3; iii. 267, n. 1. 
NEWTON, Sir Isaac,
  Arguments in Proof of a Deity, i. 309;
  a worthy carman will get to heaven as well as he, iii. 288;
  Bentley’s verses, mentioned in, iv. 23, n. 3;
  free from singularities, ii. 74, n, 3;
  house in St. Martin’s Street, iv. 134;
  infidelity, reported early, i. 455;
  Johnson’s admiration of him, ii. 125;
  Leibnitz and Clarke, v. 287;
  mathematical knowledge unequalled, iv. 217;
  poet, as a, v. 35; ‘stone dolls,’ ii. 439, n. 1. 
NEWTON, John, Bishop of Bristol and Dean of St. Paul’s,
  Account of his own Life, iv. 285, n. 3, 286, n. 1;
  censures Johnson, iv. 285, n. 3;