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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 885: CHAPTER XXXVII.
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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 XXXVII.

GEORGE IV. 1827—1828

Death of the Duke of York..... Meeting of Parliament..... Catholic Question..... The Corn-laws..... Dissolution of the Ministry..... Re-assembling of Parliament..... Explanations of, and Hostility to the Ministry..... Opinions of His Majesty on the Catholic Question..... Motion on the Chancellor’s Jurisdiction in Bankruptcy..... Motion regarding the Stamp Duty and Cheap Publications..... The Corn-law Question..... Financial Statements..... Corrupt Boroughs..... The Game-laws..... The Court of Chancery..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Death of Mr. Canning..... Administration of Lord Goderich..... Review of Foreign Policy.