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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 L.

VICTORIA. 1839—1840

State of Parties..... Meeting of Parliament..... The Corn- law Question..... The Affairs of Ireland discussed in Parliament..... Proceedings in Parliament respecting Jamaica..... Resignation of Ministers, and Failure of Sir Robert Peel to form a new Administration, &c...... National Education..... The Affairs of Canada..... The second Jamaica Bill, &c...... Bill for the Suppression of the Portuguese Slave trade, &c...... Motion for the Ballot..... Act for the better ordering of Prisons..... Motion for a Committee of the whole House to consider the National Petition..... Birmingham Riots, &c...... The Budget; proposed Reduction of Postage Duties, &c...... Prorogation of Parliament..... Affairs in the East Indies..... State of the Continent.