Perceval, Spencer, his comments on Howick’s Order in Council, iii. 417, 421; iv. 80; Chancellor of the Exchequer, 55; character of, 56; Sydney Smith’s caricature of, 56 _et seq._, 73; takes office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, 81; his paper on the policy and justice of retaliation, 83 _et seq._; submits his paper on retaliation to the Ministry, 88; his letter to Charles Abbot, 97; his orders approved in Council, 102; prohibits the export of cotton and quinine, 323; affected by the embargo, 324; his plan to conciliate the Federalists, 324; carried into effect, 327; his relaxations of the Orders in Council, v. 42, 45, 63; decline of his authority in 1809, 57, 58, 62, 63; his difficulties with Canning and Castlereagh, 107; becomes First Lord of the Treasury, 263; invites Wellesley into the Cabinet, 267; Wellesley’s opinion of, 281, 282, 283; prime minister of England, becomes ruler after the insanity of George III., vi. 2, 3; retained as prime minister by the Prince Regent, 14; his indifference to Wellesley’s advice, 268; his remarks on an American war, 271; his persistence in the system of commercial restriction, 272; his remarks on licenses, 274; his silence toward Canning, 280; his bargain for Sidmouth’s support, 281; concedes a committee on the Orders in Council, 283; his assassination, 284. Percy, W. H., captain of British 22-gun sloop-of-war “Hermes,” viii. 322, 325; attacks Fort Bowyer, 323; abandons his ship, 324. Perkins, Jacob, i. 182. Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, iv. 411. Perry, Oliver Hazard, commander in U. S. Navy, ordered to Lake Erie, vii. 115; creates squadron, 116, 118; destroys British fleet, 120–127; his despatch of Sept. 10, 1813, 128; effect of his victory on the Creek war, 232; its effect in England, 355, 359, 360; erects batteries on the Potomac, viii. 164; his rewards, ix. 141, 142. Petry, M., v. 228, 229. Philadelphia in 1800, i. 28, 29; library company, 61; intellectual centre in 1800, 117; population of, in 1810, v. 289; banks suspend payment, Aug. 31, 1814, viii. 214; depreciation of currency, ix. 62, 98; allotted share in loan of 1815, 102; growth of population of, 156; immigrants to, 161; steamboats in 1816, 172. “Philadelphia,” 38-gun American frigate, captured, ii. 138. Phillimore, Dr. Joseph, his pamphlets on the license system, vi. 274. Physick, Dr. Philip Syng, i. 127. Piankeshaw Indians, vi. 71, 75.