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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 397: CHAPTER XVII.
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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 XVII.

GEORGE III. 1789-1791

The Election of Speaker..... The Question of the Regency resumed..... Recovery of his Majesty..... Adoption of a Plan for fortifying the West India Islands..... Bill for the Commemoration of the People’s Rights, etc...... Shop Tax repealed, etc...... Motion respecting the Corporation and Test Acts, etc..... Slave-trade Question..... Election of Speaker..... Pitt’s financial Measures..... Impeachment of Warren Hastings..... Parliament prorogued..... Continental Affairs..... State of Parties in England..... Meeting of Parliament..... Debates on the Test and Corporation Acts..... Mr. Flood’s Motion for Reform in Parliament..... East India Affairs..... Pitt’s financial Statement, etc...... The Slave-Trade Question..... Disputes with Spain..... Impeachment of Warren Hastings..... Parliament prorogued and dissolved..... Settlement of Disputes with Spain..... Continental Affairs..... Progress of revolutionary Principles in England..... War in India..... Meeting of Parliament.

A.D. 1789