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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 1189: CHAPTER LIII.
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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 LIII.

VICTORIA 1842—1843

Meeting of Parliament..... Debate on the Corn-Laws: Proposition of Ministers on the subject of the Corn- Laws..... Financial Measures; Income-Tax Bill, &c—New Tariff..... Mr. Villiers’s Motion on the Corn Laws..... The Great Chartist Petition..... Bill for Restraining the Employment of Women and Children in Mines and Collieries..... Bribery at Elections..... Law Reforms..... Bill for the Protection of the Royal Person..... Copyright Act..... Poor Law Amendment Bill..... Prorogation of Parliament..... East India Affairs, &c.