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.