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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 513: CHAPTER XXIII.
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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 XXIII.

GEORGE III. 1796-1798

Grey’s Motion for Peace, &c...... Pitt’s Financial Measures..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Negociations of Peace..... Military Affairs on the Continent..... Surrender of Corsica and the Isle of Elba..... Dutch Attempt to retake the Cape of Good Hope..... French Expedition to Ireland..... . Disputes between France and America..... Meeting of Parliament..... Pitt’s Financial Statement..... Mission of Lord Malmesbury to Paris..... Stoppage of Cash- payments at the Bank..... Meeting in the Fleets..... . Grey’s Motion for Reform, &c...... French Descent on Wales..... Battle of Cape St. Vincent..... Battle of Camperdown..... The Blockade of Cadiz, &c...... War on the Continent..... Internal History of France..... Meeting of Parliament

A.D. 1796