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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 264: CHAPTER XI.
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 XI.

GEORGE III. 1780-1781

Burke’s Plan of Economical Reform..... Rejection of Lord Shelburne’s Motion for a Commission of Accounts...... Ministerial Bill for Commission of Accounts..... Bill for excluding Contractors from Parliament rejected..... Motions regarding Places and Pensions..... Political Altercations..... Debates on the Increase of Crown Influence..... Lord North’s Proposal respecting the East India Company..... General Conway’s Plan of Reconciliation with America..... Popular Rage against the Catholics; Riots in London, etc...... Measures adopted by Parliament arising out of the London Riots..... Parliament Prorogued..... Trial of Lord George Gordon and the Rioters..... Admiral Rodney’s success against the Spaniards..... Armed Neutrality..... Rodney engages the French Fleet..... Expedition against South Carolina..... Battle of Camden, etc...... Affairs at New York..... Treason of Arnold and Fate of Major André..... Maritime Losses sustained by the British..... War with Holland..... General Election..... Meeting of Parliament.

A.D. 1780