Chapter XLI

_Fox's East India Bill.--Pitt and the Coalition.--The City and
Pitt.--Pitt's East India Bill.--The Reform Bill.--The City
and the Shop Tax.--The Convention with France.--The City and
the Slave trade.--Pitt's Regency Bill.--Thanksgiving service
at St. Paul's for the King's recovery.--Pitt's Excise Bill
for duty on tobacco.--The Military Guard of the Bank of
England.--The French Revolution.--France declares war.--The
Battle of the first of June.--Riots in the City.--Great
scarcity of wheat.--Standard wheaten bread.--Assault on the
King.--Negotiations for Peace.--Pitt's Loyalty Loan.--Foreign
subsidies.--Suspension_ _of cash payments by Bank of
England.--Another remonstrance of the Livery not received.--The
Mutiny at the Nore.--Duncan's victory off Camperdown.--Pitt
mobbed in the City.--Military associations in the City.--The
Battle of the Nile.--Pitt's Income Tax Bill.--Royal review
of City volunteers.--Capture of the Dutch fleet.--French
overtures for peace declined.--The Livery protest against the
prolongation of the war.--The Act of Union.--Bread riots in the
City.--Conduct of Harvey Combe, Mayor.--Pitt resigns.--Battle
of Copenhagen.--Peace of Amiens._ _Page 204_