of attack on, 246.

Portsmouth, fortification of, 124.

Portugal, Spanish designs on, 233, 234, 244;
loan to, 309;
defended by England, 386, 387, 468, 469;
pays an annual subsidy to France, 513.

Potsdam, Treaty of (1805), 539, 540.

Press-gang, the, 166.

Pretyman, Dr. _See_ Tomline, Bishop.

Price, Dr., his sermon in the Old Jewry, 12 _n._;
his death, 17.

Priestley, Dr., 10, 12, 16 _n._;
his sermon on the death of Dr. Price, 17;
his chapel and house wrecked, 18.

Pringle, Admiral, his opinion of Cape Town, 254.

Prosperous, affair at, 357, 358.

Protestants, the, in Ireland, 394, 396, 397, 400, 430;
their hostility to the Union, 408, 417, 423.

Provence, Comte de (afterwards Louis XVIII), 2, 129, 259;
refused permission to go to Toulon, 155;
at the Russian headquarters, 377.

Prussia, alliance with Austria, 5;
renounces alliance with Turkey, 5 _n._;
declares war against France, 52;
her betrayal of Poland, 52, 53, 129;
invades Poland, 122, 123;
compact with England (1793), 123;
her disputes with Austria, 200-202;
state of her finances, 201;
English proposals to, 202, 203;
treaty with England (1794), 207, 269;
her breach of faith, 212;
treaty with France (1795), 217, 218, 233;
attitude of, in 1799, 374, 380;
her conduct with regard to Hanover, 535-537, 540, 541, 552, 553,
556, 560.
_See_ Frederick William II _and_ Frederick William III.

Puisaye, Comte de, Breton leader, 260-263, 274.

Pulteney, Sir James, failure of his attack on Ferrol, 386.

Pulteney, Sir William, 174;
opposes the taxes of 1797, 329.

Putney, Bowling Green House, 554-557.

Quesnoy, siege of, 138, 141;
surrendered, 210.

Quiberon Expedition, the, 227, 239, 259-262, 274;
failure of landing at (1800), 385.

Quigley (O'Coigly), hanged for treason, 350, 354.

Radical, use of the term, 1 _n._, 10, 23.

Rastatt, Congress of, 365, 374.

Redesdale, Lord. _See_ Mitford, Sir John.

Reeves, John, founder of the "Anti-Levelling Society," 68.

Reform, influence of the French Revolution on, in England, 11;
Flood's motion for, 11, 12;
Hardy's efforts for, 21;
Pitt's opposition to, 23-28, 164, 171, 180;
change of aims, 171, 180.

Regency, threatened, 497.

Reichenbach, Conference of, 3;
Convention of, 48.

Reinhard, 108, 346.

Reuss, Prince, Austrian envoy at Berlin, 43.

Rewbell, Jean Francois, 325.

Reynolds, Dr., 554.

Reynolds, Sir Joshu