7.

Pichegru, 375.

Pierson, Major, 211.

Pigot, George, Lord, governor of Madras, 247.

Pigot, Hugh, admiral, 149, 238.

Pigot, Hugh, captain, R.N., 139.

Pilnitz, declaration of, 331.

Pitcairn, Major, 140.

Pitt, John (second Earl Chatham), 159;
first lord of the admiralty, 306;
privy seal, 366.

Pitt, Thomas (nephew of first Earl of Chatham), 245.

Pitt, William, the elder, afterwards Earl of Chatham, his influence
before 1760, 1;
secretary of state, 8;
his political character, 10;
his war policy, 11;
acts with Bute, 15-16;
against government by connexion, 16, 31;
cabal against, 20-21;
his part in negotiations of 1761, 23-27;
demands war with Spain, 28;
resignation, 30-32;
pension and wife's peerage, 32;
his schemes of conquest, 36;
on the Peace of Paris, 42-44;
king's negotiations with, 48, 53, 56, 59, 65, 66;
refuses to take office, 67-69;
speaks against enforcing stamp act, 69, 70;
part in repeal of stamp act, 71;
prime minister, 73;
created Earl of Chatham, 73;
quarrels with Temple, 74;
foreign policy, 74;
proposes defensive alliance between Great Britain, Prussia and Russia,
75;
his long illness, 76, 85;
policy as regards India, 79, 80, 82, 83, 85;
resigns office, 89;
allied with the opposition, 100-102, 104;
scheme for parliamentary reform, 105, 106-111, 128;
opposes the quartering bill, 129-131, 136;
conciliation bill, 138, 160, 170, 184-187;
king refuses to send for, 188-189;
death of, 190.

Pitt, William, the younger, 9;
member for Appleby, 213;
joins the opposition, 214, 228, 229;
on parliamentary reform, 231;
chancellor of exchequer, 240, 241, 243-246;
first lord of treasury and chancellor of exchequer, 251, 252;
India Bills, 252-254, 261, 265, 268, 269, 277, 280-283, 286, 287;
his finance, 284, 285;
his bill for parliamentary reform, 287, 288;
his Irish trade proposals, 290, 291;
sinking fund, 292, 293;
commercial treaty with France, 293, 294;
bill for consolidation of customs and excise, 294-295;
his attitude towards the slave trade, 295, 296, 299, 300, 302-315;
his views on the French Revolution, 317, 318, 321-325, 327, 328;
Canada Bill, 329-336, 338, 339;
warden of the Cinque Ports, 340;
as war minister, 345-352;
his loans, 348, 354, 357-359, 362, 366-367, 369, 370-372;
disagreement with Grenville, 373-374, 376, 378, 379;
budgets, 380, 384, 385, 400, 40