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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 XLI.

WILLIAM IV. 1831—1832

State of the Reform Question..... Meeting of Parliament..... Introduction of the Reform Bill..... Debate on the Motion that the Bill be read a Second Time, &c...... Motion of Adjournment pending the Ordnance Estimates carried against Ministers..... Prorogation and Dissolution of Parliament..... The Budget..... Proposed Change in Taxes, &c...... Arrangement of the Civil List..... General Election..... Meeting of Parliament: The Reform Question renewed in Parliament, and carried in the Commons..... Rejection of it by the Lords..... Consequences of its Rejection..... Financial Statements..... Prorogation of Parliament..... Coronation of William IV...... Opening of the New London Bridge..... Ravages of the Cholera..... Foreign Affairs..... Meeting of Parliament..... New Reform Bill..... State of Ireland