Pitt, Mr. W., on the privileges of House of Commons respecting
  money-bills;
  note;
  becomes Prime-minister;
  his long struggle against, and eventual defeat of the Opposition;
  comparisons between his father and him;
  his India bill;
  his Quebec bill;
  his Regency bill;
  founds Maynouth;
  carries the Irish Union;
  resigns on the Catholic question. 
Plunkett, Mr., opposes the Irish Union. 
Ponsonby, Mr. G., condemns the policy of open questions. 
Poor-law, the, reform of. 
Portland, Duke of, becomes Prime-minister;
  again. 
Post-office, reform of;
  letters opened by the order of the Secretary of State. 
Powis, Earl, brings in a bill to preserve the Welsh sees. 
Pownall, Governor, introduces a corn bill. 
Poynings’ Act;
  repeal of.

RADETSKY, MARSHAL, his campaign in North Italy. 
Reform of Parliament, Alderman Sawbridge proposes a measure of;
  Mr. Pitt brings in a bill for;
  agitation for, in 1818;
  introduced and carried by Lord Grey’s administration;
  the people indifferent to farther reform. 
Regency bill of 1764;
  of 1840;
  former Regency bills had been passed in the reigns of Edward III.,
  Richard II., Henry VI., and George II.;
  in Ireland;
  bill of 1810. 
Registration, extension of, 342. 
Rice, Mr. Spring, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, introduces
  Post-office reform;
  as Lord Monteagle proposes the rejection of the paper-duty bill. 
Roberts, Mr., returning officer for New Shoreham. 
Rochfort, Lord, introduces the Royal Marriage Act. 
Rockingham, Marquis of, Prime-minister in 1768;
  moves a resolution condemning the proceedings against Wilkes;
  Prime-minister a second time;
  repeals the American taxes;
  disapproves of the employment of Hanoverian troops at Gibraltar;
  wisdom of his policy toward America;
  his speech on the influence of the crown;
  becomes Prime-minister a second time. 
Rolle, Mr., moots the question of the Prince’s marriage. 
Romilly, Sir S., opposes the Regency bill;
  applies himself to reforms of the law. 
Rose, Mr., opposes Sir A. Pigott’s bill on the slave-trade. 
Russell, Lord J., his opinion on Fox’s conduct in Opposition;
  on the Regency bill;
  carries the repeal of the Test Act;
  introduces the Reform Bill;
  introduces a bill for municipal reform;
  his resolutions in the case of Stockdale v.  Hansard;
  becomes Prime—­minister. 
Russia, war with.

SANDWICH, EARL OF, denounces Wilkes’s “Essay on Woman.” 
Sarsfield, General, takes refuge in France. 
Savile, Sir G., his bill for the limitation of the Nullum Tempus Act. 
Seaforth, Lord, reports of the treatment of slaves in Barbadoes. 
Seditious Meetings Act. 
Shelburne, Lord, denounces the employment of Hanoverian troops at
  Gibraltar;