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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 437: CHAPTER XIX.
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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 XIX.

GEORGE III. 1792-1793

Meeting of Parliament..... Debates on the Russian Armament..... Debate on the Affairs of India..... Pitt’s Financial Statement..... The Slave-Trade Question..... London Police Act..... Act to relieve the Scotch Episcopalians, &c...... Sheridan’s motion respecting the Royal Burghs of Scotland..... Debates on Parliamentary Reform, &c..... Trial of Hastings, &e...... Bill respecting the New Forest and Timber for the Navy..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Changes in the Ministry..... East India Affairs..... Progress of the French Revolution..... Affairs of Poland..... State of the Public Mind in England..... Meeting of Parliament..... The Alien Bill, &c...... Execution of the French King.

A.D. 1792