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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 559: CHAPTER XXV.
By Edward Farr
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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 XXV.

GEORGE III. 1801-1806

Commencement of the Union with Ireland..... Meeting of Parliament..... Resignation of Mr. Pitt, &c...... The New Ministry..... Motion for an Inquiry into the State of the Nation..... Parliamentary Measures..... War with the Northern Powers..... Dissolution of the Northern Confederacy..... Expedition to Egypt..... Affairs on the Continent..... Naval Operations..... Treaty of Amiens..... Meeting of Parliament..... Parliamentary Measures..... Preparations for Hostility..... Meeting of the New Parliament..... Trial of Colonel Despard..... Parliamentary Proceedings..... Act to Relieve Catholics, &c...... War Proclaimed with France..... The Causes for the renewal of War with France..... War with Holland..... Militia Bill, &c...... Financial Measures..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Insurrection in Ireland..... Letter of the Prince of Wales..... Movements of the French..... Naval Conquests..... East India Affairs..... Meeting of Parliament.