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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

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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 XLV.

WILLIAM IV. 1835—1836

State of Parties..... General Election..... Ecclesiastical Commission..... Meeting of Parliament; Contest for the Office of Speaker..... Opening of the Session..... Discussion in the Lords regarding the Slavery Abolition Act..... Motion of the Marquis of Chandos to repeal the Malt-tax..... The Dissenters’ Marriage Act..... Ministerial Plan for the Commutation of Tithes in England..... Report of Commission regarding the Church of England, &c...... The Question of the Appropriation of the Surplus Revenues of the Irish Church..... Resignation of Ministers and the Restoration of Lord Melbourne’s Cabinet..... Municipal Reform and the Irish Church..... Agricultural Distress..... Municipal Corporations..... Bill for regulating the Irish Church..... Discussion regarding Orange Societies in Ireland..... The Vote by Ballot, &c...... Motion for the Repeal of the Window-tax, &c...... The Budget..... Discussions regarding Canada..... Prorogation of Parliament..... State of the Continent