Previous question, the rule of, adopted, v. 353–356; denounced by Stanford, vi. 146. Prevost, Sir George, governor general of Canada, vi. 317; his report on the lukewarm and temporizing spirit in Upper Canada, 318, 319; negotiates armistice with Dearborn, 323; ix. 33; his military superiority in August, 1812, vi. 338, 339; unable to assist Proctor, vii. 108; on Proctor’s defeat at Fort Stephenson, 113; unable to man the British fleet on Lake Erie, 118, 119; his difficulties of transport, 145; his remarks on supplies from Vermont, 145; viii. 93; charged with timidity, vii. 147; visits Kingston in March, 1813, 150; his supposed force at Kingston, 151, 153; comes to Kingston in May, 1813, 163; embarks for Sackett’s Harbor, 164; attacks Sackett’s Harbor, 165; repulsed, 166–168; charged with want of courage, 168–170; his remarks on Hampton’s movement, 193; his force for the defence of Montreal, 194–196; shows timidity toward Hampton, 197; his proclamation on the burning of Black Rock and Buffalo, 204; his letter to Wilkinson on the execution of hostages, 361; reinforced by ten thousand troops in July, 1814, viii. 31, 91; his letter of Oct. 18, 1814, on the impossibility of supplying an army in Upper Canada, 92; his expedition against Plattsburg, 101–105, 107–113, 172; recalled to England, 118; asks Cochrane to retaliate for American outrages in Canada, 125; at Kingston, 267; effect of his campaign on the negotiation at Ghent, ix. 27, 34–36. Prevost, J. B., appointed judge at New Orleans, ii. 220; iii. 219; one of Burr’s correspondents in New Orleans, 296, 319, 324. Prices of American produce, affected by blockade, vii. 263; speculative, in imported articles, 263. Priestley, Dr. Joseph, i. 157, 311. “Prince of Neufchatel,” in the Irish Channel, viii. 196; beats off the “Endymion’s” boats, 207–209. Prince of Peace (see Godoy). Prince Regent (see George, Prince of Wales). Princeton College in 1800, i. 129. Pringle, John Julius, declines appointment as attorney-general, iii. 11. Prisons in 1800, i. 128. Privateers, American, their depredations in the West Indies in 1812, vii. 12; types of, 314–317; qualities of, 318, 320, 324; modes of capturing, 328, 329, 330; number of, 330, 331; in British waters, 332, 333; disadvantages of, 333–338; in 1814, viii. 194–209; their value as a test of national character, ix. 228, 229. Privateers, French, not received in American ports, vii. 395. Prizes, number captured in 1813, vii. 331; American success in taking, in 1814, viii. 198, 199.