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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 936: CHAPTER XL.
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 XL.

GEORGE IV. 1830—1831

State of Parties..... Meeting of Parliament..... Motion for a Committee of the whole House on the State of the Nation..... Reduction of the Salaries of Public Officers, &c...... Motion for revising the whole System of Taxation..... Committee on the East India Company’s Charter..... Debate on the Proposal to alter the Currency..... Financial Statements..... Bill for Repealing the Duty on Beer, &c...... The Question of Reform..... The Case of East Retford, &c...... Mr. O’Connel’s Bill for Reform by Universal Suffrage and Vote by Ballot, &c...... Bill for Removing the civil Disabilities affecting the Jews..... Bill for Capital Punishment in Cases of Forgery..... Bill for Amending the Law of Libel, &c...... Alterations in Courts of Justice..... Illness of the King..... Bill to authorize the adhibiting of the Sign Manual by a Stamp..... Death of the King, and Accession of the Duke of Clarence, William IV...........