Police, a preventive, checks crime, 241.
Poor, principle of relief to, in India, 90.
Poor, difficulty of legislating for, 211.
Poor-law amendment bill, the Duke's reasons for supporting it, 340. —act has surpassed expectation, 365. —commissioners must be made to do their duty, 464.
Poor-law, has worked well, 477.
—— his reasons for supporting it, 495.
—— (Ireland) reasons for supporting it, 486.
Popular assemblies unmanageable, 99, 124, 392.
Porte, the, our ancient ally, 138.
Portugal must be a military country, 101.
Advantage of having the people armed on our side in the war, 101.
Letter to a nobleman in, 104.
Conduct of the people to our troops, 108.
Apathy of the people of, 108, 110.
Portuguese troops better than Spanish, 115, 122.
As a frontier country, difficult to defend, 122.
Ingratitude of the Portuguese to the British army, 124.
Its importance to England, 241, 320.
Policy of the Wellington government, 313.
The civil war in, fomented by the Grey government, 316.
Don Miguel, king de facto, 318.
Postage bill, penny, reasons for supporting it, 430.
Protection, not free trade, the principle of our commercial law, 267.