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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

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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 XIII.

GEORGE III. 1782-1784

Recent events on the Theatre of War..... Fox’s Motion for Inquiring into the Navy..... Motions of Inquiry in the House of Lords..... Debates on Lord George Germaine’s Elevation to the Peerage..... Renewed Attacks on Lord Sandwich: Resignation of Lord North..... The New Ministry..... Affairs of Ireland..... Bill for excluding Contractors, &c...... Resolutions respecting Wilkes expunged from the Journals..... Disfranchisement of Cricklade, &c...... Debates on Parliamentary Reform..... East India Affairs..... Change in the Ministry..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Victory of Rodney..... Affairs of the War in America..... State of the War in the West Indies, &c...... Maritime Events..... Siege and Relief of Gibraltar..... Prospect of general Pacification..... Meeting of Parliament..... Preliminaries of Peace..... Re-assembling of Parliament..... The Coalition Ministry..... Re-establishment of Commercial Intercourse with America, &c...... Pitt’s Plan for Reforming the Treasury, &c...... East India Affairs..... Petition of the Quakers against the Slave Trade..... Settlement on the Prince of Wales..... Parliament Prorogued..... Execution of Treaties, &c...... Meeting of Parliament..... Fox’s India Bill..... Dissolution of the Coalition Ministry: Pitt made Prime Minister..... Efforts of the Opposition against the New Ministry.

A.D. 1782