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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 589: CHAPTER XXVI.
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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 XXVI.

GEORGE III. 1804—1807

His Majesty’s Indisposition..... Change in the Ministry: Pitt Resumes Office..... The Slave-Trade Question..... Additional Force Act..... Debate on the Corn Laws..... The Budget: Parliament Prorogued..... Affairs of France: Napoleon created Emperor..... Naval Affairs..... Coalition between Pitt and Addington..... Meeting of Parliament..... Army and Navy Estimates, &c...... Debate on the Rupture with Spain..... Claims of the Catholics..... The Slave Trade Question..... Impeachment of Lord Melville..... Parliament Prorogued..... Dissensions in the Cabinet..... Napoleon crowned King of Italy..... Conquests of Napoleon in Bavaria..... The Battle of Trafalgar, &c...... Meeting of Parliament..... Death of Mr. Pitt..... The Grenville Administration..... Negociations for Peace..... Windham’s Military Plan..... The Budget..... Trial of Lord Melville..... The Slave-Trade Question..... Parliament Prorogued, &c...... Death of Fox..... Naval Successes..... Disputes with America..... Affairs of Sicily..... War between France and Prussia, &c.,..... Meeting of Parliament.