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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 690: CHAPTER XXIX.
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 XXIX.

GEORGE III. 1812—1814

Meeting of Parliament..... Augmentation of the Civil List..... Bill for Prohibiting the Grant of Offices in Reversion, &c...... Changes in the Ministry, &e...... Attacks upon Ministers..... Assassination of Mr. Perceval..... Administration of Lord Liverpool..... Financial Statements..... Population Returns, &c...... Bill for Preservation of the Peace..... Bill to extend the Privileges of Dissenters..... Prorogation of Parliament, &e...... Capture of Ciudad Rodrigo by the British..... Storm and Capture of Badajoz..... Operations in Spain..... War between France and Russia..... War with America..... Meeting of the New Parliament..... Debates on the War with America..... Financial Statements..... Renewal of the East India Company’s Charter..... The Catholic Question..... Curates’ Bill, &c...... Appointment of Vice-Chancellor..... Delates on the Treaty with Sweden..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Affairs of Spain..... American Campaign..... Meeting of Parliament..... Bill for allowing the Militia to volunteer into the Line.