oin Grenville, 495, 496;
agrees to accept office, 497;
attack on Addington, 499;
forms a ministry, 500-502;
and the Slave Trade, 502, 503;
difficulties of his position, 503, 504;
declines Livingston's peace proposals, 505, 506;
remonstrates with the Princess of Wales, 508;
his measures for strengthening the army, 509, 511;
constructs the Hythe Military Canal, 512;
seizes Spanish treasure-ships, 514;
on the restoration of the French monarchy, 515;
rejects Napoleon's overtures, 516, 566;
forms a junction with Addington, 517;
opposes Fox's motion for Catholic Emancipation, 518, 519;
on the impeachment of Lord Melville, 519-521;
his foreign policy (1805), 523-525;
negotiations with Russia, 525-529;
final parting with Addington, 530;
fails to form a national administration, 530;
multiplicity of his cares, 530, 531;
interview with Nelson, 533;
receives the news of Ulm, 537, 538;
his speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet (1805), 538;
his magnanimous offers to Prussia, 538, 539;
his foresight in South Africa, 539;
rejects Prussia's demand for Hanover, 541, 542;
correspondence with Harrowby, 541-547;
goes back to Bath, 547;
story of his reception of the news of Austerlitz, 548, 549;
returns home, 553, 554;
last days and death, 554-558;
opposition to his burial in the Abbey, 559;
summary of his career and character, 560-570.

Place, Francis, 283, 284, 286, 349, 350.

Pleville, Admiral, 323.

Plunket, William C. (afterwards Baron), 399, 404, 411.

Plymouth, fortification of, 124.

Pocket Boroughs, in Ireland, disfranchised, 428.

Poland, new Constitution in, 7, 52;
Russian designs on, 9, 46, 52;
scheme of partition of, 53, 129;
Russian invasion of, 53-56;
Prussian invasion of, 122;
rising in, 206;
third Partition of, 218.

Polastron, Mme., 263.

Pondicherry, 198.

Ponsonby, George, 521, 559.

Ponsonby, George, and William (afterwards Baron), Fitzwilliam's overtures
to, 339-342;
402.

Poor Bill, Pitt's (1797), withdrawn, 298, 568.

Portland, Duke of, proposed coalitions with Pitt, 35-38, 191, 208, 270;
Canning and, 39;
refuses to break with Fox, 89, 90;
Home Secretary, 191, 244-247, 257, 258, 271, 285, 316, 322, 339, 341,
342, 359, 398, 404, 407, 421, 440, 446, 483;
censures Abercromby, 353, 354;
his letters to Shelburne on the Irish settlement of 1782, 422;
Lord President, 501.

Porto Rico, failure