PORTO-CARRERO, Cardinal, exercises a powerful influence on Innocent XI. and Charles II. of Spain, 141; is won over by Mad. des Ursins to favour the pretensions of the Duke d'Anjou, 142; champion of the ultra-French political system, 169; abruptly changes his policy, 172; becomes a formidable adversary of the Princess des Ursins, 172; refuses to act with Cardinal d'Estrees and resigns, 172; the turncoat from every cause, and as a politician is annihilated, 173; his intractable and arrogant temper, 173; his cabal rakes into the private life of the _camerara-mayor_ without success, 173; he quits Madrid with all the French household, 174. PORTSMOUTH, Louise Penhouet Querouaille, Duchess of, the political errors of Charles II. primarily traced to her, 93; more than any other of his mistresses odious to the English, 93; the acme of splendour and corruption reached by the French court in 1670, 93; the household of his sister-in-law, Henrietta of England, supplies Louis XIV. with a diplomatist in petticoats, 93; the royal family used her as an instrument without caring about her origin, 94; what Mad. de Sevigne says of her antecedents, 94; revelations of the _Histoire Secrete_, 94; the Duke de Beaufort enamoured of her, 95; carries her off to Candia disguised as a page, 95; on his being cut to pieces, she returns to France, 96; this prank of hers proves the foundation of her fortunes, 96; Henrietta of England, interested in her romantic tale, admits her as one of her maids-of-honour, 96; Louis XIV. finds her an apt and willing instrument in the secret negotiation, 98; the pretext of a progress to Flanders resorted to by Louis XIV. to bring La Querouaille under the notice of Charles II., 98; she embarks with the Duchess at Dunkirk for Dover, where she captivates the king, 99; Louise returns to France with the Duchess of Orleans, 100; the key to the will of Charles II. found in Louise, 100; Louis XIV. promises of handsomely rewarding the compliant maid-of-honour, 102; the Duke of Buckingham seeks to turn her to his own advantage as a rival to the Duchess of Cleveland, 108; an invitation formally worded sent her from the English Court, 109; is left in the lurch at Dieppe by Buckingham, 109; Lord Montague has her conveyed to England in a yacht, 109; she is appointed maid-of-honour to the queen, 109; the intoxication of Charles at "les graces decentes" of Louise, 109; the purpose of her receiving an appointment at the Court of St. James's foretold by Madame de Sevigne, 109; St. Evremond's equivocal advice, 110; created Duchess of Portsmouth, 110; the domain of d'Aubigny conferred upon her by Louis XIV., 111; Charles Lennox, her son by Charles II., created Duke of Richmond, 111;