Chapter XLII

_Resumption of hostilities.--Pitt recommends the fortifying of
London.--Renewal of the Income Tax.--Nelson takes offence at
the City.--Addington gives place to Pitt.--Volunteer review at
Blackheath.--Pitt's Additional Force Bill.--The City claims to
be treated in a separate Bill.--Artillery practice in Finsbury
Fields.--The French camp at Boulogne.--Disgrace of Lord
Melville.--The Battle of Trafalgar.--Nelson's funeral.--His
monument in the Guildhall.--Death of Pitt.--The Ministry
of all the Talents.--The fall of the Ministry.--The Duke
of Portland.--The Berlin Decree.--The Peninsular War.--The
Convention of Cintra.--The Scandal of the Duke of York.--The
Walcheren Expedition.--The King's Jubilee.--The City urges
an enquiry into the cause of recent failures.--Another
remonstrance of the Livery not received.--The City opposes
Wellington's annuity.--Sir Francis Burdett committed to
the Tower.--Riots in the City.--Petition of the Livery to
Parliament.--Petition dismissed.--Another Petition.--Ordered
to lie on the table.--The King seriously ill.--The Regency
Bill.--The Freedom of the City declined by the Prince_
_Regent.--An address of the Livery to the Regent not
received.--Assassination of Spencer Perceval.--Battle of
Salamanca.--The Shannon and the Chesapeake.--Treaty of
Paris.--The Freedom of the City conferred on Wellington.--The
City and the Slave trade.--The Battle of Waterloo._ _Page 251_