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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 652: CHAPTER XXVIII.
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 XXVIII.

GEORGE III. 1809—1812

Meeting of Parliament..... The Supplies, &c...... Charges against the Duke of York..... Parliamentary Corruption..... Motion for Reform..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Affairs of Spain..... Further Operations in Spain..... Campaign of Napoleon in Italy..... British Expedition against Naples and Walcheren..... Dissensions in the Cabinet..... Meeting of Parliament..... Debate on the Walcheren Expedition..... Proceedings against Sir Francis Burdett..... The Supplies..... The Slave-Trade Question..... Petition of the Irish Catholics. &c...... Prorogation of Parliament &c...... . Campaign in Portugal..... Affairs of Spain..... Foreign Conquests, &c...... The Marriage of Napoleon, &c...... Illness of His Majesty: Opening of Parliament, &c...... Opening of Parliament by the Regent..... Debate on the Re-appointment of the Duke of York to the War-office..... The Supplies..... The Bullion Committee, &c...... Subject of Military Discipline..... Lord Sidmouth’s Motion respecting Dissenting Preachers..... Affairs of the Irish Catholics..... Amendment of the Criminal law..... . Prorogation of Parliament..... Disputes with America..... Capture of Java..... Affairs of Portugal..... Affairs of Spain; Capture of Badajoz, &c...... Naval Affairs..... Affairs of France.