Prince of Wales, Frederick, vide _Wales_.
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.
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.
Qualification Bill, proceedings on, iii. 279.
Quakers exempted in the Marriage Bill, i. 340.
Quebec, expedition against, iii. 171, et seq.; General Murray defeated at, 284; the French driven thence, _ib._
Queries, constitutional, so called, an attack on the Duke of Cumberland, i. 9, et seq.
Ralph, a dull political author, bought off by mistake, i. 345, 346.
Randan, Duc de, the French governor of Hanover, his praiseworthy humanity, iii. 104.
Ranelagh masquerades, curious denouncement of, by drunken mobs, iii. 98.
Ravensworth, Lord, his character as a warm and honest Whig, i. 303; affair of the pretended memorial, _ib._, et seq.
Reduction of duties proved to be beneficial, ii. 177.
Regency, political views respecting, if during the minority of Prince George, i. 98, 104, 146.
Reporters in Parliament, first taken notice of in the House of Commons, ii. 108.
Republicanism, observations on, i. 376, 377.
Rewards to military and naval officers, iii. 237, 238.
Richelieu, Duc de, character of, and affair of Minorca, ii. 210, 225, 226; writes to Voltaire in vindication of Admiral Byng, 311.
Richmond, second Duke of, his death, i. 3.
Richmond Park, remarkable law-suit respecting, i. 401, 402; further contests with the Princess Amelia about the right of way, ii. 220.
Rider, Sir Dudley, parliamentary character, i. 123, 124; dies just as made a peer, ii. 202; the patent withheld, and why, _ib._