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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 375: CHAPTER XVI.
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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 XVI.

GEORGE III. 1787-1789

Meeting of Parliament..... Debate on the Treaty of Commerce between England and France..... Pitt’s Plan of Financial Reform..... Motion for the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts..... Affairs of the Prince of Wales..... Motion for Inquiry into the Abuses of the Post-Office..... Impeachment of Warren Hastings..... Parliament Prorogued..... Continental Affairs..... Meeting of Parliament..... Dispute between Government and the East India Company..... Pitt’s Financial Measures—Additions made to the Bill for trying Controverted Elections..... Claims of the American Royalists, &c..... The Slave-Trade Question..... Charge against Sir Elijah Impey..... Impeachment of Warren Hastings..... Parliament Prorogued..... Continental Alliances..... Derangement of His Majesty..... Meeting of Parliament..... Debates on the regency

A.D. 1787