attacks Addington, 30, 31;
overtures from Eldon, 30;
interview with the king, 32;
first lord of the treasury, 33-37;
organises third coalition, 35, 37, 38, 41;
loss of Melville, 36;
collapse of the third coalition, 43, 46;
death, 43;
his adherents, 68, 200.

Pius VII., Pope, 7, 35, 78, 150, 166, 163.

Plasencia, 98.

Plata, La. See Argentine, the.

Plattsburg (United States), 140, 141, 146.

Plunket, William (afterwards Lord Plunket), 239;
attorney-general of Ireland, 199, 241, 249.

Plymouth, 259.

_Poictiers_, the British ship, 132.

Poischwitz, 135.

Poland, 52, 53, 79, 80, 122, 144, 152, 153, 156, 166, 310, 381, 387, 388,
395.

Pole & Co., 206.

Pole, W. Wellesley (afterwards Lord Maryborough), master of the mint, 174,
178, 202.

Polignac, French statesman, 223.

Pomerania, Swedish, 54, 80, 122, 143, 166.

Pondicherri, 18;
French towns in India, 18, 19.

Ponsonby, Sir William, 162.

Ponsonby, Lord (afterwards Viscount Ponsonby), 383.

Poona, 398, 405, 406.
See Peshwa.

Poor law, 171, 181, 311, 312, 420, 437;
poor rates, 182, 203;
"new poor law," 340-344, 366;
poor law board, 343;
Ireland, 312, 316, 317, 372, 373.

Popham, Sir Home, 47.

Poros, 266, 392.

Porte, the. See Turkey.

Portland, third Duke of (Cavendish-Bentinck), 49, 66;
home secretary, 1;
lord president of the council, 1;
in cabinet without office, 35;
first lord of the treasury, 50, 52, 60;
minor reforms, 51, 61;
changes in his ministry, 66;
resignation, 67;
death, 68.

Portland, fourth Duke of (Cavendish Scott Bentinck), lord privy seal, 227;
in cabinet without office, 228;
lord president of the council, 230.

Port Mahon, 188.

Port Phillip, 439, 440.

Portsmouth, 39, 148, 197.

Portugal, 11, 53, 60, 122, 151, 190, 200, 201, 226, 395;
treaties of Badajoz and Madrid, 6;
Junot's expedition to, 54, 58, 89-91;
Peninsular war, 59-61, 66, 68, 71, 73, 76, 77, 82, 87-120;
revolutions, 211, 220, 221, 254, 255-258;
cortes, 211, 215, 220, 221, 254, 258;
junta, 220, 221;
relations with Brazil, 221, 222, 253, 254, 388-390;
conference at London, 222;
triple and quadruple alliances, 389, 390;
convention of Evora, 390.

Posen, 166.

Pottinger, British officer, 412.

Potwallopers, 281, 289, 308.

Prague, 135.

Prescott, 141.

Presqu'isle (Pennsylvania), 139.

Press, liberty of the, 180, 358;
Indian press, 411, 412.