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. IV.

Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London 1901

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

CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.

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LXIII. "OPENS AMID ILL OMENS" . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
LXIV. POPULAR ALARMS--ROYAL EXCURSIONS . . . . . . . . 15
LXV. GEORGE CANNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
LXVI. THE CLOSE OF CANNING'S CAREER . . . . . . . . . 46
LXVII. "THE CHAINS OF THE CATHOLIC" . . . . . . . . . . 65
LXVIII. THE LAST OF THE GEORGES . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
LXIX. KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
LXX. LE ROI D'YVETOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
LXXI. REFORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
LXXII. THE GREAT DEBATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
LXXIII. THE TRIUMPH OF REFORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
LXXIV. THE EMANCIPATION OF LABOUR . . . . . . . . . . . 188
LXXV. THE STATE CHURCH IN IRELAND . . . . . . . . . . 205
LXXVI. "ONLY A PAUPER" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
LXXVII. PEEL'S FORLORN HOPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
LXXVIII. STILL THE REIGN OF REFORM . . . . . . . . . . . 261
LXXIX. THE CLOSE OF A REIGN AND THE OPENING OF AN ERA 280
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

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