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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 XXXIV

GEORGE IV. 1823—1825

Meeting of Parliament..... Affairs of Agriculture and Commerce..... The Supplies..... The Catholic Question..... Affairs in Ireland..... Motions to Reform the Criminal Law..... Motion to Reform the Scotch Representation..... New Loudon Bridge Bill..... Motion respecting the Duty on the Leeward Islands..... Expenses of the Coronation..... Munificence of George IV...... Irish Tithe Commutation Bill, &c—Prorogation of Parliament..... State of the Country..... Meeting of Parliament..... Attack on Ministers with Reference to Spain, &c...... Financial Statements..... The Trade Question..... Alien Bill, &c...... Discussion on the Revolt in Demarara,&c...... State of the British Colonies..... East India Affairs.