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Royal Speech and Debates.
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Bills for the safety
re-assembled.
and preservation of his Majesty's Person, and for the prevention of
Seditious Meetings. Message concerning Negotiation with France.
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A. D. 1796.
YEAR OF GEORGE III. 36 & 37.
PARLIAMENT 6 & 1.
Page 1
Remaining Parliamentary Proceedings. Entire Reduction of the
Chouans and Vendeans. Buonaparte sent to command in Italy. -
Obliges the King of Sardinia to sue for Peace.
Savoy annexed to
the French Territory. - Buonaparte's further Progress. - Submis-
sion of the Duke of Parma. Battle of Lodi. French enter
Milan. Duke of Modena submits. Insurrection in Lombardy sup-
pressed. Verona taken and Mantua invested. Papal Territory
invaded, and the Pope obliged to purchase an Armistice on hard Terms.
Suspension of Arms between the French and the King of Naples.
-Marshal Wurmser's Campaign in Italy and final Retreat.-
British expelled from Corsica. Austrians totally defeated at Ar-
cola. Campaign in Germany. - Successes of Jourdan, Kleber, and
Moreau. The Duke of Wurtemberg and Margrave of Baden_ob-
liged to abandon the Confederacy. - The Emperor obtains Aid from
Bohemia and Hungary, and the Archduke Charles drives Jourdan
back across the Rhine.· · Moreau's masterly Retreat. Armistice on
the Lower Rhine. Spain and the Batavian Republic declare War
against England. The Dutch Settlements in the East Indies taken
by the British. Success of the latter in the West Indies. Capture
of a Dutch Expedition in Saldanha Bay. Success of the French at
Internal Disorders in France.
Newfoundland.
Financial Diffi-
Projects for ruining the British Commerce. Negotiations
for Peace. Lord Malmsbury sent to Paris. Conditions proposed
by him: returns without Effect. Differences between France and the
United States of America. New Parliament and King's Speech.
Mr. Pitt's Plan for augmenting the National Force.
Motion by Mr. Fox against an Advance of Money to
the Emperor without Consent of Parliament. - Circular of the Duke
of Portland respecting Invasion. — French Expedition to Bantry Bay.
Death of the King of Sardinia, and of Catharine of Russia; and
Retirement of Washington
Depression of the Funds. - King's Message on the Negotiations, and Addresses. Suspension of Cash Payments by the Bank. Measures adopted in consequence. Naval Victory of Admiral Jervis off Cape
St. Vincent.— Landing of French Troops in Pembrokeshire and their
Capture. Reduction of the Island of St. Trinidad by the British,
and Failure at Porto Rico. — Alarming Mutiny in the Navy at Ports-
mouth, quelled by concessions. Renewed by the Fleet at the Nore,
and suppressed by Force. Victory of Admiral Duncan over the
Dutch Fleet. Attempts against Cadiz, and Failure at Teneriffe. -
Farther Parliamentary Occurrences. Attempts of the Austrians to
relieve Mantua. - Their Defeat at Rivoli, and Surrender of Mantua,
- Buonaparte reduces the Pope to renounce the Coalition, and submit
to hard Conditions of Peace. Successes of the French against the
Archduke Charles, in the North of Italy, and in Carinthia and Car-
niola.- Suspension of Arms with the Emperor, followed by a Peace.
- Previous actions on the Upper Rhine. Venice and its territory
conquered by the French. Genoa revolutionized. - Articles of the
Treaty of Campo Formio. Internal Affairs of France. Machi-
nations of the Royalists, and opposition to the Directory. The lat-
ter supported by Buonaparte and the Army. Arrest of Pichegru
and a number of the National Representatives.
England and France renewed at Lisle, and broken off..
Ireland.
- Finance.
Winter meeting of Parliament.
of the Princess Royal of England to the hereditary Prince of Wurtem-
berg. Death of the King of Prussia
A. D. 1798.
Negotiations between
Troubles in
Marriage
YEAR OF GEORGE III. 38 & 39.
PARLIAMENT 2 & 3.
Rebellion in Ireland.
Earl Cornwallis appointed Viceroy.
ing of French at Killala, and their Capture.
Naval success of Sir
Final Extinction of the Rebellion.
Parlia-
J. Borlase Warren.
mentary Affairs.- Bill permitting purchase of the Land-tax, and
other Financial Measures.
Tender
Plans for National Defence.
of foreign Service by the Militia. - Bill passed for regulating Slave
Ships. Preparations of the French for invading Great Britain,
and Measures taken for Resistance. Expedition against Ostend,
Motions of the French Directory to bring Switzer-
abrogated. The City in Possession of the French.
rison admitted into the Citadel of Turin. Grand Expedition to
Egypt under Buonaparte. Malta reduced. Cairo taken.
French Fleet entirely destroyed in the Bay of Aboukir by Admiral
Nelson. Further proceedings of the French in Egypt. Attempt
of the Court of Naples to expel the French from Rome: its final
Defeat. Insurrection in the Low Countries. The Ottoman Porte
declares War against France. Treaty between Russia and Great
Britain.- Preparations of the Americans to assert their Rights
against the French. - St. Domingo relinquished to the People of
Colour. Minorca surrendered to the British. Winter Session of
Parliament opened. Income-tax proposed
tionists there.
A. D. 1799.
YEAR OF GEORGE III. 39 & 40.
PARLIAMENT 3 & 4.
Page 57
Discussion on the Income Tax. Suspension of Habeas Corpus con-
tinued. Message respecting an Union with Ireland, and Plan for
that Purpose. Abolition of the Slave Trade negatived. - New
Confederacy against France. Arrival of the Russians under Su-
warof in Moravia. War declared by France against the Emperor
of Austria. Campaign in Switzerland and Italy. French de-
feated at Novi. ·Russians retire to their own Country. Naples
recovered from the French. Sanguinary Executions of the Revolu
Tuscany recovered; and Genoa the sole remaining
Possession of the French. Expedition of the English and Russians
to North Holland. Capture of the Dutch Fleet at the Texel.-
Duke of York takes the Command of the Land Forces.
Actions, and final Relinquishment of the Project. Surinam reduced
by the English. Buonaparte's Invasion of Syria, and unsuccessful
Siege of Acre. Defeats a Turkish Army in Egypt. He returns
to France. Party Contentions there, terminating in the Dissolution
of the existing Constitution.. Formation of a new Constitution. —
Buonaparte nominated First Consul. - War renewed with Tippoo.
Sering apatam taken by General Harris; Death of Tippoo, and
Extinction of the Mysore Kingdom. Autumnal Session of Parlia-
ment. Royal Speech, and Bill for extending the voluntary Service
of the Militia.
Death of the Pope
- Various
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Overture for a Pacific Negotiation by Buonaparte, and Reply by Lord
Grenville. · Communication of the same to Parliament.
for Enquiry into the Dutch Expedition.- Finances. Completion
of the Irish Union. Suspension of the Habeas Corpus continued.
-Measures for relieving the Scarcity of Bread.-Final Pacifi-
cation of the Royalists in France. — Genoa evacuated by the French
after a long Siege. Buonaparte crosses the Alps into Italy, and
gains Milan and Pavia. — His Victory at Marengo, and Armistice
granted to the Austrians in Italy. Genoa recovered, and Cisalpine
Republic declared. Moreau's Campaign against the Austrians in
Germany. Armistice granted and prolonged. Hostilities re-
newed: Battle of Hohenlinden, and separate Peace made by the
Emperor. Affairs in Egypt.
confirmed.
Treaty of El Arish signed, but not
Insurrection against the French at Cairo. Assassina-
Goree surrendered to the British.
Un-
tion of General Kleber.
successful Attempt on Ferrol. Reduction of Malta by the British
Troops. Curacao taken. Failure at Cadiz. Ionian Republic
founded. Danish Frigate and Convoy stopped. A Squadron sent
to Copenhagen, and Consequences. The Emperor Paul declares
against Great Britain. - Armed Neutrality.
between England and France, finally fruitless.
bled on account of the Scarcity of Grain.
Bill for ascertaining the Population.
ceedings. Election of Pope Pius VII.
Renewed Negotiations
· Parliament re-assem-
Measures adopted.
Other Parliamentary Pro-
Page 86
A. D. 1801.
YEAR OF GEORGE III.
41 & 42.
New Royal Title.
THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT 5 & 6.
THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 1.
Battle before Alexandria.
Great Britain and Ireland.
Definitive Treaty of Luneville. Preparations in
England against the Maritime Confederacy. Measures of the Nor-
thern Powers. Prussian Occupation of Hanover. British Fleet
sent to the Baltic and Nelson's Victory at Copenhagen.
Death of
the Emperor Paul, and succession of Alexander. Convention of
Petersburgh between Russia and Great Britain, acceded to by the other
Members of the Confederacy. Expedition to Egypt under Sir R.
Abercrombie.
Cairo taken, and the
French finally expelled from Egypt. First Imperial Parliament
opened. Speech from the Throne. - The King's Return of Indispo-
sition. Dissolution of the Pitt Ministry, and Succession of that of
Mr. Addington. Measures for preserving the Public Peace in
Indemnity Bill passed. Act declaring
the Ineligibility to Parliament of Persons in Holy Orders. - Pre-
parations in France for Invasion and in England for Defence.
Naval Actions. Ineffectual Attacks on the Boulogne Flotilla.
War declared against Portugal by Spain.—Its Events and Conclusion,
by which the Ports of Portugal were shut against British Ships.-Treaty
between France and Portugal. Madeira occupied by the English.
Preliminaries signed between Great Britain and France. Autumnal
Session of Parliament. Mr. Pitt's Declaration in favour of Peace.
- Northern Convention discussed. - · Lord Cornwallis sent Ambassador
plenipotentiary to France. French expedition to St. Domingo. -
Mutiny of the Fleet at Bantry Bay. Mr. Jefferson elected Presi-
dent of the United States
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A. D. 1802.
YEAR OF GEORGE III. 42 & 43.
Articles of the Treaty of Amiens. — Buonaparte_declared President of
the Cisalpine Republic. Annexations of France.
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Parliament.
Mr. Abbott elected Speaker. · Civil List Debts provided for.
Claim of the Prince of Wales on the Revenues of the Duchy of
Cornwall: Debates on the Subject. The Budget. Debates on the
Conditions of Peace. New Militia Bill. Parliament dissolved.
Proceedings of the French at St. Domingo. Fate of Toussaint.
-Guadaloupe reduced, and the Slave Trade re-established. Tunis
awed by a French Fleet. Concordat between France and the Pope.
·Decree of Amnesty to Emigrants. Buonaparte declared Consul
for Life, with Liberty to nominate a Successor.. Disturbances in
Switzerland.
· Interference of the French. Legion of Honour in-
stituted in France. New Constitution.
Piedmont annexed to
Osnaburg united to Han-
over. The Property of the Knights of Malta in Spain annexed to
the Royal Domains. Insurrections of the Blacks in the West Indies.
Continuation of Bank-payment Restriction. Measures for relieving the
pecuniary Embarrassments of the Prince of Wales. - King's Message
to Parliament for Preparation against Hostilities. Militia called
out.-Ambassadors of France and England recalled. - Complaints on
both Sides. Reprisals granted against the French Shipping, and an
Embargo laid on French and Dutch Ships. - Parliamentary proceed-
ings on the Subject of War. English Minister recalled from the
Hague. Bill for an Army of Reserve. Property Tax voted.
Grant to the Prince of Orange. Insurrection at Dublin, and
Murder of Lord Kilwarden. English in France made Prisoners of
War.
Operations of the French in Italy and Hanover. — Prepara-
tions for the Invasion of England. Volunteer Associations re-
newed. British Successes in the West Indies. French expelled
from St. Domingo. War in India against the Mahratta Chiefs. -
Its Successes and favourable Termination. —Louisiana sold by the
French to the United States. Parliament re-assembled. Speech,