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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 350: CHAPTER XIV.
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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 XIV.

GEORGE III. 1784-1786

The Trial of Parties and Triumph of Pitt..... A General Election..... Meeting of the New Parliament ..... Acts to prevent Smuggling, etc...... The Budget of 1784..... Pitt’s India Bill..... Bill for the Restoration of Forfeited Estates in Scotland..... Prorogation of Parliament..... The State of Ireland..... Meeting of Parliament..... The Westminster Scrutiny..... Pitt’s Reform Bill..... Pitt’s Financial Measures..... The Affairs of Ireland..... Continental Affairs.

A.D. 1784