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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 457: CHAPTER XX.
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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 XX.

GEORGE III. 1793-1794

Hostile Message of the King to Parliament..... Declaration of War by the French, &c..... Pitt’s Financial Statement..... The Traitorous Correspondence Bill..... Preparations for War..... Relief granted to Mercantile Men..... Renewal of the East India Company’s Charier..... Relief of the Roman Catholics of Scotland, &c...... Trial of Warren Hastings..... Discussion on a Memorial presented to the States-General..... Fox’s Motion for Peace ..... Mr. Grey’s Measure of Parliamentary Reform..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Affairs of Ireland..... Prospects of the French Republic, &c.

A.D. 1793