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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 858: CHAPTER XXXVI.
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 XXXVI.

GEORGE IV. 1826—1827

Meeting of Parliament..... Measures proposed for relieving commercial Distress..... Bill to enable private Banks to have an unlimited Number of Partners, &c..... Appointment of a Committee on Emigration..... Modification of the Corn- Laws..... Debates on Free trade..... Financial Statements..... Bill to prevent Bribery at Elections..... Parliamentary Reform..... Alteration of the criminal Code..... Case of Mr. Kenriek..... State of the Colonies..... Motion for amending the Representation of Edinburgh, &c...... Resolution for the Regulation of private Committees..... Motion to disjoin the Presidency of the Board of Trade from the Treasurership of the Navy...... Motion to hold Parliament occasionally in Dublin and Edinburgh..... Restoration of forfeited Scotch Peerages..... Catholic Emancipation, &c..... India Jury Bill, &e...... Naturalization Act, &c...... Prorogation and Dissolution of Parliament..... General Election..... The Burmese War..... Meeting of the New Parliament..... Motion for a select Committee on Joint Stock Companies, &c..... King’s Message respecting the Conduct of Spain, &e...... Resolutions against Bribery at Elections.