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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

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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 XXXI.

GEORGE III. 1818—1820

Meeting of Parliament..... Motion for Secret Committees preparatory to a Bill of Indemnity..... Extension of the Bank Restriction..... Treaty with Spain..... Royal Marriages..... The Supplies..... The Alien Act, &c...... Prorogation of Parliament..... State of the Manufacturers of Lancashire, &c..... Death of Queen Charlotte..... Meeting of Parliament..... Duke of. York appointed Guardian to His Majesty..... Committee on the Criminal Code..... Measures for Resumption of Cash-Payments..... Financial Statement..... Catholic Claims..... Foreign Enlistment Act..... Slave-Trade, &c...... Prorogation of Parliament..... Seditious Assemblages..... Meeting of Parliament..... Motion for Inquiry into the State of tha Nation..... Parliamentary Reform..... Cession of Parga to the Turks..... Death of George III.