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re-assembled. Royal Speech and Debates. -- Bills for the safety
and preservation of his Majesty's Person, and for the prevention of
Seditious Meetings. Message concerning Negotiation with France.
- Party Violences at Geneva
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A. D. 1796.
YEAR OF GEORGE III. 36 & 37.
PARLIAMENT 6 & 1.
Remaining Parliamentary Proceedings.
Chouans and Vendeans.
Page 1
Entire Reduction of the
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-
French enter
mission of the Duke of Parma. Battle of Lodi.
Milan. Duke of Modena submits. Insurrection in Lombardy
suppressed. 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
Armistice on
back across the Rhine. Moreau's masterly Retreat.
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.
of a Dutch Expedition in Saldanha Bay. — Success of the French at
Newfoundland. - Internal Disorders in France. - Financial Diffi-
culties. 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. Financial
Measures. 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
A. D. 1797.
YEAR OF GEORGE III. 37 & 38.
PARLIAMENT 1 & 2.
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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. Negotiations between
England and France renewed at Lisle, and broken off. Troubles in
Ireland-Winter meeting of Parliament. - Finance. Marriage
of the Princess Royal of England to the hereditary Prince of Wurtem
berg.-Death of the King of Prussia Page 36
A. D. 1798.
YEAR OF GEORGE III. 38 & 39.
PARLIAMENT 2 & 3.
Rebellion in Ireland. Earl Cornwallis appointed Viceroy. - Land-
ing of French at Killala, and their Capture. Naval success of Sir
J. Borlase Warren. Final Extinction of the Rebellion. — Parlia-
mentary Affairs. Bill permitting purchase of the Land-tax, and
other Financial Measures. Plans for National Defence. Tender
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,
and its Result.· Motions of the French Directory to bring Switzer-
land under its Authority. — Bern taken, and the Aristocratical Can-
tons reduced. New Constitution. - Resistance and Destruction of
the Underwalders. Revolution at Rome. The Papal Government
abrogated. The City in Possession of the French. A French Gar-
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
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against the French. St. Domingo relinquished to the People of
Colour. Minorca surrendered to the British.
of Parliament opened. - Income-tax proposed
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A. D. 1799.
YEAR OF GEORGE III. 39 & 40.
PARLIAMENT 3 & 4.
Winter Session
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-
tionists there. 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.
- Seringapatam 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
A. D. 1800.
YEAR OF GEORGE III. 40 & 41.
PARLIAMENT 4 & 5.
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. Treaty of El Arish signed, but
not confirmed. Insurrection against the French at Cairo. Assas-
sination of General Kleber. Goree surrendered to the British. ·
Unsuccessful 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. — Re-
newed Negotiations between England and France, finally fruitless.
Parliament re-assembled on account of the Scarcity of Grain.
Other
Measures adopted. - Bill for ascertaining the Population.
Parliamentary Proceedings.-Election of Pope Pius VII. Page 86
A. D. 1801.
YEAR OF George III.
41 & 42.
THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT 5 & 6.
THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT 1.
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New Royal Title.-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. Battle before Alexandria. 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
Great Britain and Ireland. 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.
tumnal Session of Parliament. - Mr. Pitt's Declaration in favour of
Northern Convention discussed. - Lord Cornwallis sent
Ambassador plenipotentary to France. French expedition to St.
Domingo. Mutiny of the Fleet at Bantry Bay. Mr. Jefferson
elected President of the United States
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.
- Tunis
Parliament.
Mr. Abbot 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.
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
France. German Indemnities settled. 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.
-Meeting of the new Parliament. - King's Speech. - Indications
of a Renewal of Hostilities. - Despard's Conspiracy against the
Government Page 116
A. D. 1803.
YEAR OF GEORGE III. 43 & 44.
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. — Par-
liamentary proceedings on the Subject of War. - English Minister
recalled from the Hague. - Bill for an Army of Reserve. -- Pro-
perty 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. Preparations for the Invasion of England. - Volunteer
Associations renewed. 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, and Acts passed
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