iii. 218, 219:

---- King of, i. 213

_Polite Conversation_, by Swift, ii. 6 _note_

Political Barometer. _See_ State weather-glass

_Political State of Great Britain_, by Abel Boyer, i. 157 _note_

Politicians, of the Mall, iii. 220 _seq._: of the coffee-house, iv. 360 _seq._: referred to, i. 327; iii. 256

Politics, complaint of I. B.'s incursions into, iv. 13 _note_

Poluglossa, her character, i. 344

Polybius, a just historian, ii. 229

Polyglottes, a pedant, iv. 25

Polypragmon (? Harley), his character, iii. 395 _note_ and _seq._

Pompey in the Chamber of Fame, ii. 229: his modesty, ii. 262: referred to, iii. 89

---- a blackamoor boy, iv. 251

Pontack, son of President of Bordeaux, iii. 95 _note_

Pontius Pilate, his wife's chambermaid's sister's hat, i. 283

Poor Robin's _Almanac_, i. 169; iv. 169 and _note_

Pope, Alex., his _Pastorals_, i. 112 _note_: his _Epitaph on Withers_, i. 378 _note_: his _Rape of the Lock_, ii. 29 _note_, 79 _note_; iv. 353: his _Epistle to Miss Blount on her leaving the town after the Coronation_, iv. 336 _note_: his _The Basset Table_, iv. 337 and _note_: referred to, i. 8 _note_, 38 _note_, 112 _note_, 380 _note_; ii. 6 _note_, 249 _note_

---- the, i. 49, 50, 60, 61, 71, 73, 94, 102, 155, 316; iii. 85, 86, 375; iv. 128

---- Clement XI., ii. 142

Popham, Elizabeth, wife of Viscount Hinchinbroke, i. 47 _note_, 286 _note_

---- Alexander, of Littlecot, father of Elizabeth, i. 47 _note_, 286 _note_

Poplar, ii. 372 _note_

Porcia, ii. 141

Portland, Duchess of, ii. 104 _note_

Portocarrero, Cardinal, i. 51, 88

Portugal, i. 87, 149, 253; iv. 323

---- Row, iii. 410 _note_

---- King of, i. 94, 106, 149, 261

"Porus," battle of, by Le Brun, i. 74

---- an Indian king, i. 74 _note_

Pory, Dr. Robert, a pluralist, iv. 169 _note_, 382

"Posnet," a, iv. 284 and _note_

Post, days of leaving London, i. 11, 12 and _note_

_Post-Boy, The_, i. 156 and _note_, 347; ii. 211 _note_, 347 _note_; iii. 112 _note_, 220, 279 _note_; iv. 151 _note_, 152 _note_, 187

_Postman, The_, i. 293 _note_, 347, 349 _note_; ii. 156 _note_, 211 _note_, 272 _note_; iii. 83 _note_, 218, 220, 332 and _note_, 333; iv. 56, 57, 96, 97, 148 _note_, 149 _note_, 150 _note_, 169 _note_, 186

Posture-master, ii. 389 _seq._

Potatrix, Elizabeth, letter from, i. 290

Potsdam, i. 72, 213, 276, 305

Poultry, the, iv. 153 _note_, 379, 381

Poverty, an unhappy female, ii. 283: referred to, iii. 53, 54

Povey, Charles, started halfpenny post in London, ii. 130 _note_

Powell, George, i. 36 and _note_, 37 _note_; iii. 409

---- Martin, the puppet-show man, i. 100 _note_, 140 _note_, 359 _seq._, 365, 366; ii. 8 _note_ and _seq._, 205; iii. 7, 158, 335 and _note_: letters from, ii. 9 _seq._, 17 _seq._

_Prælections Physicæ Mathematicæ_, by Whiston, i. 350 _note_

Pre-Adamite, a, ii. 150; iv. 301

Precedence, the difficulties of, ii. 258 _seq._: among women in Vision of Justice, ii. 353 _seq._

_Predictions for the Year 1712_, by I. B., i. 22 _note_

_Predictions_ of Bickerstaff (_i.e._ Swift), i. 8, 102

Pretender, the, i. 35, 173, 206, 371 _note_; iii. 377

Pretty Fellow, a, imitation gentleman, i. 175: not a rake, i. 225: Hannibal and Scipio, in their days, ii. 62 and _note_: Virgil translated for, iii. 107 _seq._: referred to, i. 239, 322, 366; ii. 398, 399; iii. 256: Very Pretty Fellow (which see), i. 198 _seq._

Priam, iii. 172

Pride, some thoughts on, iii. 72 _seq._: examples of, iii. 74 _seq._

Prie, Marquis de, i. 49, 71, 94

Prim, Mrs., i. 118

---- Beau, ii. 72

---- Penelope, a clear-starcher, petition of, iii. 25

Prior, Mat., at the Smyrna, i. 92 _note_: his poem on Blenheim, iii. 163 _note_: referred to, iv. 216, 249 _note_, 310 _note_

Privy Garden, the, iii. 296 and _note_

Proctorstaff, of Clare Hall, kinsman of I. B., iv. 374

Prodicus, a fable by, ii. 324 _seq._

Professions, the lower the understanding, the greater the capacity for success in, ii. 58

_Project for the Advancement of Religion; by a Person of Quality_, dedicated to the Countess of Berkeley (by Swift), i. 48 and _note_, iv. 294 _note_

Properties of Drury Lane on sale, i. 344 _seq._, 358

Prophecy, I. B. will use his powers of, sparingly, i. 14

_---- of Things Past, &c._, by I. B., i. 151

"Prophets, the French," attacked by D'Urfey, i. 100 _note_: referred to, i. 244 _note_, 301 _note_

_Prospect of Peace, The_, by Tickell, i. 382 _note_

Protestants, French, struggle against Louis XIV., i. 244 _note_

Provence, i. 94; ii. 48

Prudely, Lady, her defence, iv. 333

Prudence, the goddess of, ii. 283

Prudentia, an ambitious lady, in the autumn of life, i. 139 _seq._

Prudes, their true character, ii. 357; compared to coquettes, iii. 67 _seq._

Prue, Mrs., i. 89 _note_

---- _i.e._ a prude, i. 141 and _note_

---- Steele's wife, i. 141 _note_, 142 _note_

Prussia, King of, i. 27, 174, 213, 236, 304

---- Queen of, i. 129

---- Prince Royal of, i. 105, 151

Public good, those interested in, profess disinterestedness, i. 37

Public-spirited persons, newspapers designed for, i. 11: their characteristics, of strong zeal and weak intellects, _ibid._: none in this age, i. 152: their difficulties, ii. 127

Pudding, Jack, the mountebank, i. 163

Pultowa, battle of, ii. 47 and _note_

"Punch Nag," a, iii. 157 and _note_

Punch turned prophet, i. 100 and _note_: a pretty fellow, i. 366: his scandalous behaviour, i. 170: out of place in the Ark, i. 140, 141: referred to, ii. 10, 11; iv. 335 _note_

Punchinello, i. 366, 367; iii. 7

Punning, letter from an expert in the art of, i. 268, 289 _seq._

Punto, Major, his indictment against Richard Newman, iv. 302

Purbeck, Countess of, ii. 5 _note_

Puzzlepost, Ned, his handwriting, iii. 153

Pylades, iii. 46

_Pylades and Corinna_, by Mrs. Thomas, i. 380 _note_; ii. 19; iii. 263 _note_

Pyrrha, preserved at the destruction of mankind, iii. 173

----, in Horace, iii. 309

_Pyrrhus and Demetrius_, opera, translated from the Italian of Scarlatti, i. 40 and _note_

Pythagoras, his theory reversed, i. 369: turned out of the Chamber of Fame, ii. 231 and _note_: his school, ii. 317 _seq._: his _Golden Sayings_ quoted, ii. 392: referred to, ii. 239; iii. 109; iv. 228

Quacks to be exposed, iv. 15: she-quacks, iv. 160 _seq._: concerning, iv. 327

Quakers, letters from, ii. 170, 206: protest from, iii. 390: their speech defended, iv. 57

Quarterstaff, Mr., i. 80 _note_, 102, 103

Queenhithe, ii. 178, 187 _note_

Queen's Bagnio, iv. 380

Queen's College, Humphry Mopstaff, a scholar at, i. 152; referred to,