his dismissal in mass of his French household, 260;
after the victory of Villaviciosa, sleeps on a couch of
standards, 262;
in behalf of Mad. des. Ursins, refuses to sign the treaty of
Utrecht, 281;
he signs the treaty unconditionally, 284;
his choice of a wife limited to three princesses by Louis XIV., 287;
secretly lends his hand to a _coup d'etat_ against Mad. des
Ursins, 291;
gives authority to his new consort to take everything upon
herself, 294;
succeeds in reducing Spain to obedience only a few days before the
fall of Mad. des Ursins, 303.

PORTO-CARRERO, Cardinal, exercises a powerful influence on Innocent
XI. and Charles II. of Spain, 141;
is won over by Mad. des Ursins to favour the pretensions of the
Duke d'Anjou, 142;
champion of the ultra-French political system, 169;
abruptly changes his policy, 172;
becomes a formidable adversary of the Princess des Ursins, 172;
refuses to act with Cardinal d'Estrees and resigns, 172;
the turncoat from every cause, and as a politician is
annihilated, 173;
his intractable and arrogant temper, 173;
his cabal rakes into the private life of the _camerara-mayor_
without success, 173;
he quits Madrid with all the French household, 174.

PORTSMOUTH, Louise Penhouet Querouaille, Duchess of, the political
errors of Charles II. primarily traced to her, 93;
more than any other of his mistresses odious to the English, 93;
the acme of splendour and corruption reached by the French court in
1670, 93;
the household of his sister-in-law, Henrietta of England, supplies
Louis XIV. with a diplomatist in petticoats, 93;
the royal family used her as an instrument without caring about her
origin, 94;
what Mad. de Sevigne says of her antecedents, 94;
revelations of the _Histoire Secrete_, 94;
the Duke de Beaufort enamoured of her, 95;
carries her off to Candia disguised as a page, 95;
on his being cut to pieces, she returns to France, 96;
this prank of hers proves the foundation of her fortunes, 96;
Henrietta of England, interested in her romantic tale, admits her as
one of her maids-of-honour, 96;
Louis XIV. finds her an apt and willing instrument in the secret
negotiation, 98;
the pretext of a progress to Flanders resorted to by Louis XIV. to
bring La Querouaille