quoted on, 131.
Parliament, passes and repeals Stamp Act, 49; lays duties on paper, tea, etc., 49; other irritating measures passed by, 53, 58; enacts penal laws, 58, 59.
"Parsons Cause, The," 50.
Parties, in _W_.'s first term, 186, 187.
Peale, Charles, portrait of _W_., 148, 150.
Peale, Rembrandt, portrait of _W_., 148.
Pearson, Captain, 120.
Pendleton, Edmund, 59.
Pennsylvania, population of, in 1775, 68; 58, 155.
Peter the Great, 259.
Philadelphia, non-importation agreement of merchants of, 52; Continental Congresses meet at, 59, 64; _W_.

at, 75 _ff_.; British troops at, in 1777-78, 104, 105; _W_.

takes possession of, 106; to be national capital for ten years, 183, 185; Genet at, 196.
Philipse, Frederick, 31.
Philipse, Mary, 31, 32.
Pickering, Timothy, Cabinet offices held by, 228, 229; 231.
Pinckney, Charles, 162.
Pinckney, Charles C., on X.Y.Z.mission to France, 215, 216; 162, 165, 166, 217.
Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, effect of his accession to power, 27, 28; dismissed by George III, 29; his last appearance in the Lords, 119, and death, 120.
Pitt, William, the younger, 55, 62.
Pittsburgh, on site of Fort Duquesne, 34, 255.
Plassey, Buttle of, 48.
Portraits of _W_., 148, 149, 150.
President, discussion as to term and method of election of, 167, 168; _W_.'s view of office of, 178; _W_.'s example as preventive of third term for, 223, 224.
Press, the, virulence and indecency of, 219 _ff_.
Princeton, Battle of, 86, 87.
Privateering, effect of French Alliance on, 108, 120, 121.
Protective tariff, Hamilton's, 188.
Pulaski, Count Casimir, 95, 97.
Quebec, Battle of, 28, 48; abortive attack on, 71, 72; persistence in project of capturing, 77.
Quincy, Josiah, 49.
Rall, Colonel, 86.
Randolph, Edmund, Attorney-General, 181, 186, 229; Secretary of State, 206,228; his "Vindication," 229, 230; letter of _W_.

to, 208, 209; 161, 169, 193.
Randolph, Peyton, 59.
Rawlins, Mr., 243, 253.
Reconciliation, Commission on, 109, 120.
Representation of States in Congress, question of, settled by compromise, 167.
Republicans, 186.
Revolutionary War.

_See_ American Revolution.
Robinson, Beverly, 31.
Robinson, Mr., Speaker of the House of Burgesses (Va.), quoted, 36.
Rochambeau, Jean B.D.de Vimeure, Count de, 122, 125.
Rockingham, Charles Wentworth, Marquis of, 130.
Rodney, George, Lord, 153.
Rutledge, Edward, on committee to confer with Howe, 79; 59.
Rutledge, John, 59, 162, 168.
St.Clair, General, 191.
St.Leger, Barry, 91.
Saratoga, Battle of, Burgoyne defeated in, 93; effect of, in France, 99.
Schuyler, Philip, 65.
Senate of U.S., representation of States in, 167.
Seven Years' War, 27 _ff_.; effect of, 29.
Shays, Daniel, 158.
Shays's Rebellion, causes of, 157,158.
Shelburne, William Petty, Earl of, 130.
Sherman, Roger, 59, 161, 168.
Shirley, William, 32.
Slave labor, _W_.'s view of, 38; 68.
Slave trade, question of, settled by compromise, 165, 166.
Slavery, why _W_.