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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 1464: CHAPTER LXIX.
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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 LXIX.

VICTORIA. 1857-1858

Foreign Affairs..... European Treaties in alliance with France..... Difference with the United States of America..... War with China, to the conclusion of Peace in 1858..... Treaty with Japan effected by Lord Elgin in 1858..... Colonial..... Chinese Insurrection at Sarawak..... India: the Mutiny..... Home: General State of the Country; Monetary Panic..... Debate on the Chinese War..... Defeat of the Ministry..... General Election..... Marriage of the Princess Royal..... Parliamentary Proceeding’s..... The Court..... Art-Treasures Exhibition, Manchester.