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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Accession of George III. to the Twenty-Third Year of the Reign of Queen Victoria

Chapter 1003: CHAPTER XLIII.
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The volume traces British political, parliamentary, and military developments from the accession of George III through the early nineteenth century, chronicling changes of ministry and cabinet, debates over colonial taxation and the American conflict, parliamentary controversies involving figures such as Wilkes and Warren Hastings, questions of Catholic relief and slave-trade abolition, and responses to the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars, including major naval and continental campaigns, the union with Ireland, and domestic legislation on finance, civil liberties, and parliamentary reform.

CHAPTER XLIII.

WILLIAM IV. 1832-1833

Meeting of Parliament; Reelection of Mr. Manners Sutton as Speaker..... . Opening of the Reformed Parliament by the King in person..... Case of Mr. Pease..... Irish Coercion Bill..... Irish Church Bill..... Irish Tithe Bill..... Financial Statements..... Bank of England Charter renewed..... . East India Question..... Abolition of Slavery in the Colonies..... Factory Bill..... The Corn Laws..... Resolutions against Bribery, &c...... Bill to Remove the Civil Disabilities of Jews..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Foreign Affairs