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