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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 1171: CHAPTER LII.
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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 LII.

VICTORIA. 1841—1842

Meeting of Parliament..... Poor-law Amendment Act..... Jews’ Civil Disabilities Removal Bill..... Church of Scotland; Non-intrusion Question, &c...... Law Reform..... Financial Statements..... Discussion on the Corn-laws..... Resolution of Want of Confidence in the Government..... Prorogation and Dissolution of Parliament..... State of Parties..... Meeting of the new House of Commons, &c...... Resignation of Ministers..... Sir Robert Peel’s Administration..... Statement of Sir Robert Peel as to his intended Course of Proceeding-, &c...... Financial Statement..... Poor-laws, &c...... East India Affairs..... State of the Continent.