Chapter XIII: REIGN OF GEORGE III. (continued)

Victory of Pitt--The King's delight--Pitt's Finance--The India
Bill--Pitt's Budget--The Westminster Election--The Scrutiny--Fox
is returned--The Volunteers in Ireland--Flood's Reform Bill--Riots
in Ireland--Pitt's Commercial Policy for Ireland--Opposition
of the English Merchants--Abandonment of the Measure--Pitt's
Reform Bill--His Administrative Reforms--Bill for fortifying
Portsmouth and Plymouth--Pitt's Sinking Fund--Favourable
Reception of the Bill--Pitt's Excise Bill--Commercial Treaty
with France--Impeachment of Warren Hastings--Retrospect of
Indian Affairs: Deposition of Meer Jaffier--Resistance of Meer
Cossim--Massacre of Patna--Battle of Buxar and Capture of
Allahabad--Clive's Return to India--Settlement of Bengal and
Oude--Domestic Reforms--Rise of Hyder Ali--His Treaty with the
English--He is defeated by the Mahrattas--Deposition of the
Rajah of Tanjore--Failure of Lord Pigot to reinstate him--Lord
North's Regulating Bill--Death of Clive--Warren Hastings becomes
Governor-General--His dealings with the Famine--Treatment of
Reza Khan and the Nabob of Bengal--Resumption of Allahabad and
Corah--Massacre of the Rohillas--Arrival of the New Members of
Council--Struggle for Supremacy--Robbery of Cheyte Sing--Nuncomar's
Charges--His Trial and Execution--Hastings' Constitutional
Resignation--His Final Victory--Wars against the Mahrattas--Hyder
Ali's Advance--Defeat of Baillie--Energy of Hastings--Victories of
Sir Eyre Coote--Capture of Dutch Settlements--Naval Engagements
between the British and French--Death of Hyder Ali--Tippoo
continues the War--He invokes Peace--Hastings' Extortions
from Cheyte Sing--Hastings' visit to Benares--Rising of the
People--Rescue of Hastings and Deposition of Cheyte Sing--Extortion
from the Begums of Oude--Parliamentary Inquiries--Hastings'
Reception in England--Burke's Motion of Impeachment--Pitt's
Change of Front--The Prince of Wales and the Whigs--Inquiry into
his Debts--Alderman Newnham's Motion--Denial of the Marriage
with Mrs. Fitzherbert--Sheridan's Begum Speech--Impeachment of
Hastings--Growth of the Opposition to the Slave Trade--The Question
brought before Parliament--Evidence produced--Sir W. Dolben's
Bill--Trial of Warren Hastings--Speeches of Burke, Fox, and
Sheridan--Illness of the King--Debates on the Regency Bill--The
King's Recovery--Address of the Irish Parliament to the Prince of
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