ington, 328; character of, 354; on political unions, iii.
12; in society, 35; position of, in the House of Commons, 64;
collection of pictures, 70; great dinner given by, 72; speech
on admission of Dissenters to the University, 75; policy of the
Administration of, 161; friendship with the Duke of Wellington
renewed, 167; arrival of, from the Continent, 174; formation of
Administration, 177; manifesto to the country, 178; prospects
of the Ministry, 179; qualities of, 189; Toryism of
Administration of, 194; false position of, 208; prospects of
Government, 214, 235, 236; talents of, 224; conduct to his
adherents, 230, 244; courage of, 283; impending resignation of,
242; Government defeated, 246; resignation of Administration
of, 1835, 246, 248; speech on Corporation Reform, 263; on Irish
Church Bill, 281; relations with Lord John Russell, 282;
seclusion of, 297; speech on Corporation Reform, 304;
consideration for Lord Stanley, 335; conduct with regard to the
Corporation Bill, 340; position of, 358; on the beginning of
the new reign, 402

Peel, Sir Robert, sen., account of, ii. 125

Peel, Right Hon. Jonathan, iii. 243

Pemberton, Thomas, ii. 314; in the appeal of Swift _v._ Kelly,
iii. 267, 271

Pembroke, Earl of, i. 250

Pension List, _see_ Commons, House of

Pepys, Right Hon. Sir Christopher, Master of the Rolls, iii. 328.
_See_ Cottenham, Lord

Perceval, Spencer, discourse of, iii, 41; the Unknown Tongue, 41;
on the condition of the Church, 123; apostolic mission to the
members of the Government, 331; at Holland House, 331;
apostolic mission of, 333

Perier, Casimir, momentary resignation of, ii. 175; attacked by
cholera, 288; death of, 307

Persian Ambassador, the, quarrel of, with the Regent, i. 21

Perth election, 1835, iii. 197

Petworth House and pictures, ii. 336; fete at, iii. 84

Peyronnet, Comte de, i. 393

Phillpotts, _see_ Exeter, Bishop of

Pisa, i. 297

Pitt, Right Hon. William, described by Talleyrand, ii. 345;
anecdotes of, iii. 131

Plunket, Lord, Lord Chancellor in Ireland, ii. 90; anecdote of,
107; at Stoke, iii. 21; Deanery of Down, 70

Poland, contest in, ii. 157

Polignac, Prince Jules de, head of the Administration in France;
i. 160, 229, 283; Administration of, 394; behaviour of, ii. 29;
letter to M. de Mole, 33; exasperation against, 38, 39

Pompeii, i. 338; excavations at, 343

Ponsonby, Viscount, Minister at Nap