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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 905: CHAPTER XXXVIII.
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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 XXXVIII.

GEORGE IV. 1828—1829

Duke of Wellington’s Administration..... Meeting of Parliament..... Discussions and Explanations concerning the Dissolution of the Goderich Ministry, &c...... Questions of Finance..... Motion for a Grant to the Family of Mr. Canning..... Financial Statement..... Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts..... The Catholic Question...... Motion on the State of the Law, &c...... Bills connected with the Election of Members of the House..... Corn-Law Question..... Divisions in the Cabinet..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Disturbances in Ireland..... Death of the Earl of Liverpool..... Foreign Policy.