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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 473: CHAPTER XXI.
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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 XXI.

GEORGE III. 1794-1795

Meeting of Parliament..... The Militia augmented..... Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act..... Agitation in England and Scotland..... introduction of Foreign Troops..... The Slave-trade Question..... Motion on behalf of La Fayette..... Motion of Inquiry into the recent Failures of our Armies..... The Trial of Warren Hastings..... The Prorogation of Parliament..... Ministerial Appointments..... Embassy to China, &e...... Corsica annexed to the Crown of England..... Lord Howe’s Naval Victory..... British Conquests in the West Indies..... Disputes in America..... Military Operations on the Continent..... The internal Condition of France..... Convention with Sweden and Denmark..... The State of Poland..... Meeting of Parliament.

A.D. 1794