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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 1254: CHAPTER LVIII.
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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 LVIII.

VICTORIA. 1846

Position of the Conservative Party on the Defection of Sir Robert Peel, and the Parliamentary Success of his Free- Trade Measures..... Formation of a Whig Cabinet..... The Sugar Duties..... Dreadful Condition of Ireland..... Decline of Mr. O’Connell..... The Young Ireland Leaders..... Colonial Affairs..... War with the Sikhs..... Foreign Affairs..... Coolness with France..... Spanish Marriages