3, 434, 435;
desires peace, 382, 383, 387, 388, 392, 395-397, 399, 401, 403, 433;
duel with Tierney, 404;
preparations for a union with Ireland, 412, 413, 420, 421, 436-438, 444;
desires Irish union, 445-447, 449;
and favours catholic emancipation, 369, 452;
will resign, 452;
budget of 1801, 453, 454;
resignation, 455.

Pius VI., Pope, 420.

Plunket, William Conyngham, Lord, 447.

Plymouth, 196.

Pocock, Admiral, 37.

Point Judith (U.S.A.), 194.

Point Levi (Canada), 152.

Poland, partition of, 115, 296, 338, 349, 351, 363;
invaded by Russia, 338;
insurrection in, 361.

Police system, 267.

Political trials, 357, 358, 434.

Pondicherry, 1, 14;
taken by English, 196, 356;
French fleet at, 237.

Ponsonby, John, 368, 447.

Penthievre, 377.

Pontiac, 58.

Poor law, 273, 277, 278.

Popham, Major, 237.

Port Egmont, 113, 114.

Portland, Duke of (Cavendish-Bentinck), 75, 87, 232, 233, 240;
first lord of treasury, 245, 333, 334, 340;
home secretary, 366, 368-371, 452.

Porto Novo, battle of, 237.

Porto Praya, naval action at, 237.

Portsmouth, 170, 192.

Portugal: ally of England, 33, 40, 257, 349, 381, 397, 442.

Pownall, Thomas, 89.

Pratt. See Camden, Lord.

Press, liberty of the, 116-118, 324.

Preston, Captain, 109.

Pretender, the Old, 1.

Pretender, the Young, 1.

Prevost, Augustine, general, 195, 198.

Price, Richard, 291, 292.

Priestley, Joseph, 263, 331, 332.

Prime Minister, title and functions of, 9, 64, 85-86, 90, 103, 189, 229,
230, 244, 281, 332.

Printers, the House of Commons and the, 117, 118.

Prisons, 267.

Provence, Count of (Louis XVIII.), 352, 432.

Providence. See Bahama Islands.

Prussia, 75, 115, 300;
declares war against France, 336;
peace with France, 374.

_Public Advertiser_, newspaper, 99.

Puerto-rico, 389.

Puisaye, Comte de, 376, 377.

Pulaski, Count, 182.

Pulteney, Sir James, general, 439.

Putnam, Israel, American general, 164.

Pyramids, battle of the, 416.

Quebec act, 129, 145, 146, 151, 166;
siege of, 152, 155, 205, 329.

Quiberon bay, 376.

Queensberry, Duke of. See March, Earl of.

Radcliffe, Ann, 260.

Raeburn, Henry, 262.

Raikes, Robert, 265.

Rawdon, Lord (Hastings), later Earl of Moira and Marquis of Hastings,
219, 220, 223, 354, 361, 376, 406.

Reeve, Clara, 260.

Regency bill, 64, 65;
later question of the, 309-314, 453.

Regulating act, Nort