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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 233: CHAPTER X.
By Edward Farr
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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 X.

GEORGE III. 1779-1780

Trial of Admiral Keppel and Vice-admiral Palliser..... Attacks on Lord Sandwich..... Investigation respecting the Conduct of General and Lord Howe..... Relief to Protestant Dissenters..... Debates on the Trade of Ireland..... War with Spain..... Debates on the Militia Bill..... Bill for the Impressment of Seamen..... Parliament prorogued..... The Causes of the Rupture with Spain..... Spanish Attempt upon Gibraltar..... French and English Fleets in the Channel..... Affairs in the West Indies..... Operations in Georgia..... Ineffectual Attempt of the Americans to reduce Savannah..... British Incursions into Virginia...... Capture of Stony Point and Verplanks..... British Expedition against Connecticut..... Stony Point re-captured, but deserted at the Approach of the British..... British Garrison surprised at Paulus Hook..... American Disaster at Penobscot..... American Retaliation on the Indians, &c...... Spanish Incursions..... Action between Paul Jones and Captain Pearson..... Changes in the Ministry..... Meeting of Parliament..... Lord Shelburne attacks Ministers in the case of Ireland..... Lord Ossory’s Attack on Ministers respecting Ireland..... Lord Worth’s Proposition for the Relief of Ireland..... Debates on Economical Reform.

A.D. 1779