Chapter I: Front Matter

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A HISTORY OF THE FOUR GEORGES AND OF WILLIAM IV.

by

JUSTIN MCCARTHY and JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY

In Four Volumes

VOL. III.

Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London 1901

Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers, All rights reserved.

CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

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XLII. "SUPREME IRONIC PROCESSION" . . . . . . . . . . . 1
XLIII. GEORGE AND THE DRAGONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
XLIV. THE "NORTH BRITON" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
XLV. NUMBER FORTY-FIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
XLVI. THE AMERICAN COLONIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
XLVII. EDMUND BURKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
XLVIII. THE STAMP ACT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
XLIX. WILKES REDIVIVUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
L. THE SPIRIT OF JUNIUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
LI. CHARLES JAMES FOX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
LII. ON THE CHARLES RIVER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
LIII. THE "VICAR OF WAKEFIELD" . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
LIV. YANKEE DOODLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
LV. THE GORDON RIOTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
LVI. TWO NEW MEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
LVII. FOX AND PITT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
LVIII. WARREN HASTINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
LIX. THE GREAT IMPEACHMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
LX. THE CHANGE OF THINGS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
LXI. "NINETY-EIGHT" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
LXII. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

{1}

A HISTORY

OF

THE FOUR GEORGES.