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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 1203: CHAPTER LIV.
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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 LIV.

VICTORIA. 1843—1844

State of the Country..... Meeting of Parliament..... National Distress..... The Corn-law Question..... Address to the Crown on the Subject of Education..... Affairs of India, &c...... The Corn-law Question resumed..... Irish Affairs..... Financial Statements, &c...... Education..... Church Extension, &c...... Law Reform..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Agitation; Ireland..... Formation of the Free Church in Scotland..... The State of India..... Continental Affairs.