onroe's return, 135;
quoted in connection with mission, 146, 177, 215, 216, 218, 219, 230,
238, 241, 251;
party relations, 169;
early forwards a copy of Orders in Council of November 11, 1807,
179 (note);
letter of Secretary of State to, communicating dismissal of Jackson
by U.S. Government, 226-228;
communicates the same to the British Government, 230;
construes Champagny's letter to revoke French Decrees, and demands
recall of British Orders in Council, 238;
letter to British Secretary for Foreign Affairs, analyzing and
condemning system of Orders in Council, 245;
conditional instructions to, to present recall, 250;
dilatory course of Wellesley towards, 251;
presents recall, 252;
returns to the United States, 252;
no successor to, till after the war, 252.

_Pitt, William._ Prime Minister of Great Britain.
Popularity of, i. 1;
as Chancellor of Exchequer, 1783, introduces bill favorable to United
States, for regulating commerce, 58;
controversy over bill, 60;
measure then dropped, 67, 68;
concession becomes possible to, 87, 97;
return to power, in 1804, 100;
new measures of, due to popular discontents, 101-104;
remark to Gouverneur Morris, concerning impressment difficulties, 120;
death of, 104.

_Porter, David._ Captain, U.S.N.
Commands frigate "Essex," i. 407; ii. 1-3, 13;
cruise of "Essex," in Pacific, ii. 244-247;
action with, and capture by, "Phoebe" and "Cherub," 249-252;
approves of commerce destroying by naval armed schooners, appointed
to command a squadron of them, and draws up plan of operations, 270;
engaged in harassing retreat of British frigates in Potomac, 350.

_Porter, Peter B._ Representative in Congress from New York, and general
of New York militia.
Testimony at trial of General Hull, i. 340;
duel with General Smyth, 358;
tribute to gallantry of naval detachment at Niagara, 315;
engaged at Chippewa, ii. 295,
on Niagara peninsula, 306,
and Lundy's Lane, 310.

"_President._" American frigate.
Rencounter with British sloop of war "Little Belt," i. 256-259;
cruises under command of Commodore Rodgers, i. 322-324, 407-409;
ii. 128-129;
sails under Decatur, 397;
capture of, by British squadron, 398-401.

_Prevost, Sir George._ British general.
Governor of Nova Scotia, reports failure of American embargo, i. 199.
Governor-General of Canada, and commander-in-chief, reports B