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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 1079: CHAPTER XLVII.
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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 XLVII.

WILLIAM IV. 1836—1837

Meeting of Parliament..... Consideration of the State of Ireland..... Irish Municipal Corporations Bill..... Question of Establishing a System of Poor-Law in Ireland..... Irish Tithe Question..... Question of Church- Rates..... The Church of Scotland..... Notices of Motions for Constitutional Changes..... Operation of the New Poor- Laws..... The Affairs of Canada..... State of the Banking System, &c...... Consideration of the Foreign Policy of England under the Whig Administration..... Motion on the State of the Nation..... Illness and Death of the King..... Remarks on his Reign, Character, &c.