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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 1237: CHAPTER LVI.
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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 LVI.

VICTORIA. 1845-1846

Meeting of Parliament..... Finance and Commercial Policy..... Retention of the Income Tax, &c...... The Sugar Duties Question..... Corn Laws and Free Trade..... The Affairs of Ireland..... Maynooth Improvement Bill, &c...... Academical Education in Ireland..... Colonial Policy..... Question of the Oregon Territory..... Miscellaneous Measures of the Session..... Prorogation of Parliament..... The Affairs of India..... The State of the Continent.