iii. 16;

session of 1758, 87, 149; session of 1759, 224.

Parliamentary orators of 1755, characters of, ii. 145, 148.

Party feeling, extraordinary instance of, i. 183.

Parties, state of, in the year 1752, i. 262, 263.

Patriots, spurious, how made, and why, i. 33.

Peerages, refusal of one in Ireland, and why, i. 282.

Pelham, Right Hon. Henry, his political suavity, i. 3; parliamentary discussion on the constitutional queries, 11; political inconsistency, 18; financial expertness, 32; political and family differences, 47; proposes the subsidy to Bavaria, 48; excites surprise by supporting the Naturalization Bill, 54; conduct in regard to the auditorship of the exchequer, 84, 85; conduct on the regency affair, in regard to the Princess of Wales, 104; carries the bill on a first reading, 122; his feelings on the opposition of Speaker Onslow, 128; speech on third reading of the Regency Bill, 153, 154, 155; power secured by the passing of that bill, 161; political character and anecdotes, 166, 183; intrigues against Lord Sandwich, 188; his political and private character exposed to the king by the Duke of Bedford, 193; hurt by Lord Trentham’s resignation and reproaches, 194; unhandsome conduct in regard to private correspondence, 202; jealousy of Mr. Fox during the illness of the Duke of Cumberland, 213; dull speech in reply to Lord Egmont opposing the army estimates, 216; proposes the land tax, and proposes a most extraordinary system of national policy, 218; his power confirmed by a cessation of opposition, 229; parallel between him and Sir R. Walpole, 231, et seq.; political influence at opening of 1752, 239; supports the Saxon treaty, 243; in 1753 replies to Lord Egmont in defence of the address, 294; rebukes Alderman Beckford for opposition, 307; parliamentary sparring with Fox on the Marriage Bill, 343, 344; interesting conversation with Fox on the debates on the Marriage Bill, and his difference with the Chancellor Hardwicke, 350; opposes the repeal of the Plantation Act, 366; his death and character, 370, et seq.

Pelham interest, accused of supporting Vandeput in Westminster, i. 14; regency, 99; their power in parliament and in the cabinet secured by the Regency Bill, 161; intrigues, 171, 184.

Pelham, Lady Catharine, interference in party politics, iii. 21.

Pensions, heavy ones brought on the nation by the capricious change of ministry in 1755, ii. 143; heavy charges entailed on the public by the coalition of Pitt, Fox, and Newcastle, iii. 31.

Philipps, Sir John, his character, i. 114; moves the King’s Bench for a Habeas Corpus for Murray, _ib._

Pitt, Right Hon. William, political inconsistency, i. 7; parliamentary recantation, 8, 9; renews his connexion with the Prince of Wales, 12; differs with Pelham on the vote for seamen, 17; his parliamentary oratory, 42; parliamentary politics, 61; offends the Whigs, _ib._; Fox’s opinion of him, 62; politics at the prince’s court, 76; his friends suffer from the king’s displeasure, 85; anecdotes biographical, 92, 93; mortification at the royal silence and neglect, 110; levels an attack at Fox upon Anstruther’s affair, 110; change of politics upon the Regency Bill, 137, 141; he and his party dissatisfied at the triumph of the Pelhams over the Bedford interest, 240; incites Lord Cobham to traverse the king’s politics in favour of the Archduke Joseph of Austria, 241; opposes the repeal of the Plantation Act, 366; looked to as a candidate for the premiership, 379; is persuaded to join the Newcastle administration, 387; his disgust at the new arrangements leads to an explanation with Fox, 392; differences with the Duke of Newcastle, 407; alarms the House with his spirited remarks on the charges of bribery, 408; attacks the Solicitor-General Murray as secretary at war, 413; breach with Sir George (Lord) Lyttelton, 414, et seq.; his conduct during a projected change of ministry, 418; is disclaimed by Fox, 420; makes one of his best speeches on the Scottish Sheriffs-Depute Bill, ii. 7; objected to by the Tories, who now first unite to form a distinct political party in the state, on points unconnected with jacobitism, 12; separates from Fox, 37; refuses to support the German treaties, 41; his interference guarded against during the coalition of Fox and Bedford, 47; commences a tempestuous opposition in the House, 49; most eloquent speech on that occasion, 55; is dismissed from office, 62; but accepts a pension, 63; speech on the naval estimates, 67, 70; florid speech in favour of the war in America, in preference to German campaigns, 86; supports the militia question, 98; parliamentary quarrel with Hume Campbell, 107; admirable and witty speech in reply on the committee report, 135; character of, as a parliamentary orator, 148, 149; contemptuous treatment of Lyttelton as chancellor, 153; ridicules the affair of the Swiss battalions for American service, 162; opposition to the Hessian troops, 187; and to the Hanoverians, 188; violent philippic against ministers in the debate upon vote of credit, 193; sarcastic attack of Lyttelton, 197; anecdotes of his connexion with Lord Bute, 205; proceedings on Fox’s resignation, political and courtly intrigues, 254, et seq.; visits Lady Yarmouth, 259; declines acting with Fox, 262; gradual relaxation in his demands and politics, 264; comes into power, 270; arrangements for his friends, 274; his conduct as first minister, 275; his long speech for the opening of parliament sent back by the king unread, to be shortened, 276; affairs connected with Byng’s trial, 310, 312, 322; first appearance in the House as minister, and to demand money for Hanover, 313; declares in favour of mercy to Admiral Byng in the House, 322, 329; asks mercy of the king, but refused, 326; exertions in the House on the royal message of reprieve, 333; intrigues to dismiss him from power, 377; events leading to a change of ministry, 378, 379; chooses to be turned out in preference to resignation, iii. 1; his power and popularity, 5; tendency towards the Duke of Newcastle, 6; extraordinary finesse in attending the House on the Minorca inquiry, 8; further negotiations, 14, 15; comes again into power with the Duke of Newcastle, 31; commences a vigorous system of government, 42; political honesty in the affair of Closter Seven, 60; of Rochfort also, 74; patronizes Wolfe, 75; political influence in 1758, 84; objects to German campaigns, 88; supports the Habeas Corpus, 103; his conduct of the war, 123; opens the session of 1758, personal and ministerial conduct, 149; character of his military administration, 160; successes of 1759, 169, et seq.; character and ministry, 173, 174; offends the House by taxes and excise, 178; speech in parliament, after the glorious successes of the war, 1759, 225; loses Lord Temple, 228; but who returns to office, _ib._; declines offers of peace from France from a determination to humble her, 236; rupture with Lord Bute, 237; writes a warm letter to the Duke of Bedford on the affairs of Ireland, 245.

Plantation Act, its repeal proposed in the House of Commons, i. 364.

Planting in England, first encouraged by Archibald, Duke of Argyle, i. 278.

Plate, wrought, taxed, ii. 176; ignorance of leading members, 182.

Pococke, Admiral, successes in the East Indies, iii. 217.

Police, national, observations on, in commutation of capital punishments, i. 256.

Policy, national, a most extraordinary system of, proposed by Pelham, i. 218.

Pompadour, Madame, affair of Miss Murphy’s rivalship with, i. 334.

Ponsonby, Speaker, in Ireland, party politics during the Bedford administration, iii. 68, et seq.

Pope, Alexander, anecdote of his duplicity towards Lord Bolingbroke, i. 224.

Popedom, consequences of election to, upon general politics, iii. 131.

Porteous, Captain, affair of, at Edinburgh, curious facts relating to, i. 43, 59.

Portugal, complaints about money smuggled by English ships of war, i. 256.

Portugal, King of, assassinated, iii. 141, et seq.

Post-office, breach of confidence in opening letters, i. 202.

Potter, Thomas, parliamentary exertions on the Gin Bill, i. 70.

Potter, Mr., shameful conduct in falsifying votes as a teller in the House, ii. 11.

Poulet, Earl of, his political character and conduct, ii. 18; absurd motion by, 21.

Prague, battle of, and Prussian victory, iii. 13.

Pratt, Mr. (Lord Camden), becomes attorney-general at the express desire of Mr. Pitt, iii. 32; brings in a bill to explain and support the Habeas Corpus, 103.

Prerogative, royal, observations on, i. 403.

Press, public, first notice of reports in the House of Commons, ii. 108.

Pretender, the, account of his family and court, i. 284, et seq.

Prevot’s regiment, long debates respecting, ii. 156, et seq.

Prince Edward, vide _Edward_.

Prince George (George III.), conduct on demise of his father, i. 78; changes in his establishment, 80, 86, 94; extraordinary suspicion of the Duke of Cumberland, 105, 106; created Prince of Wales, 114; new appointments in his household, 226; divisions in his tutorship, and connected with affairs in Ireland, 289, et seq., 292; affair of the pretended memorial, written by Horace Walpole, 298, 305; marriage proposed with a princess of Brunswick, ii. 36; opposition to the coalition of Fox and Bedford, 47; attains the age of majority, 204; proposed separation from his mother, 207, 221, et seq.; new household established, 258; enters on political life by interfering in the formation of a ministry, iii. 25; animadversions on his education, 39; influence of Lord Bute, 121; secret politics of his court discovered, 237.

Prince of Wales, Frederick, vide _Wales_.

Princess of Wales, vide _Wales_.

Prize Bill, debates on, ii. 78.

Protestant ascendency, vide _Ascendency_.

Protester, a new anti-ministerial paper, its history and first appearance, i. 345.

Prussia, Frederick, King of, account of his successes and reverses in the campaign in Germany, of 1760, iii. 289-297. See also _Frederick_.

Prussia, accommodation with that state, ii. 152; new treaty, 197; its politics previous to the German war, 219, 238, et seq.; pacific politics of Frederick, 240; his political and military character, 244; successes of Frederick in Bohemia, iii. 12, et seq.; new treaty with, 110.

Publications, licentious, prohibited by the police in 1758, iii. 98.

Pulteney, Lord, political character and connexions, ii. 78, 79; speech on the treaties, 119.

Pulteney, William, see _Bath_.

Purity of elections, infringed by the people, i. 335.

Quackery, medical, anecdotes of, i. 174, 225.

Qualifications for the House of Commons, conscientious arrangement of the Duke of Devonshire, ii. 86.

Qualification Bill, proceedings on, iii. 279.

Quakers exempted in the Marriage Bill, i. 340.

Quebec, expedition against, iii. 171, et seq.; General Murray defeated at, 284; the French driven thence, _ib._

Queries, constitutional, so called, an attack on the Duke of Cumberland, i. 9, et seq.

Ralph, a dull political author, bought off by mistake, i. 345, 346.

Randan, Duc de, the French governor of Hanover, his praiseworthy humanity, iii. 104.

Ranelagh masquerades, curious denouncement of, by drunken mobs, iii. 98.

Ravensworth, Lord, his character as a warm and honest Whig, i. 303; affair of the pretended memorial, _ib._, et seq.

Reduction of duties proved to be beneficial, ii. 177.

Regency, political views respecting, if during the minority of Prince George, i. 98, 104, 146.

Reporters in Parliament, first taken notice of in the House of Commons, ii. 108.

Republicanism, observations on, i. 376, 377.

Rewards to military and naval officers, iii. 237, 238.

Richelieu, Duc de, character of, and affair of Minorca, ii. 210, 225, 226; writes to Voltaire in vindication of Admiral Byng, 311.

Richmond, second Duke of, his death, i. 3.

Richmond Park, remarkable law-suit respecting, i. 401, 402; further contests with the Princess Amelia about the right of way, ii. 220.

Rider, Sir Dudley, parliamentary character, i. 123, 124; dies just as made a peer, ii. 202; the patent withheld, and why, _ib._

Rigby, Mr., becomes an agent between Fox and the Duke of Bedford,