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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 366: CHAPTER XV.
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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 XV.

GEORGE III. 1786-1787

Meeting of Parliament..... Bill for the Fortification of the Dock-yards it Portsmouth and Plymouth..... Pitt’s Financial Measures..... Debates on India, etc...... A retrospective View of Indian Affairs..... Attempt on the King’s Life..... Treaties with France and Spain..... Affairs of the Prince of Wales.

A.D. 1786