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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 622: CHAPTER XXVII.
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 XXVII.

GEORGE III. 1807—1809

Debate on the negociation with France..... Financial Arrangements..... The Slave-Trade Question..... Bill for Removing the Disabilities of the Roman Catholics..... Dismissal of Ministers..... New Cabinet..... Trial of Strength between the two Parties..... Dissolution of Parliament..... The New Parliament—Campaign of Napoleon..... The Peace of Tilsit..... Expedition to Copenhagen..... Hostilities against Turkey..... Expedition to Egypt..... Disasters in South America..... War with Russia..... French invasion of Portugal..... Milan Decree, &c...... Disputes with America..... Meeting of Parliament..... Debates on the Orders in Council..... Financial Measures..... Debate on Ireland..... Motion respecting the Droits of Admiralty, &c...... Prorogation of Parliament..... Rising of the Spanish Nation, &c..... Affairs of Portugal..... Confederation of France and Russia..... Operations in Spain..... Naval Affairs in the Mediterranean..... State of the Continent.