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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 74: CHAPTER IV.
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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 IV.

GEORGE III. 1771-1773

Re-opening of Parliament..... Proceedings against Shoreham..... Resolutions respecting the Publication of Debates..... Committal of the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver to the Tower..... Contest between the City and Legislature..... The question of the Middlesex Election..... The question of the Dissolution of Parliament..... The Session closed..... Release of the Lord Mayor and Alderman Oliver..... Education of the Prince of Wales..... City Petition to the King..... Disputes in the City..... Meeting of Parliament..... Debates on Subscription to the Thirty- nine Articles..... ecclesiastical Nullum Tempus Bill..... The case of Dr. Nowell..... Test and Corporation Acts..... The Royal Marriage Act..... East India Affairs..... The Session closed..... Fate of the Queen of Denmark..... Death of the Princess Dowager of Wales..... Revolution in Sweden..... Partition of Poland..... Investigation of the Middlesex Election..... Changes in the Ministry..... The Meeting of Parliament..... East India Affairs.

A.D. 1771