Chapter IV: The King, the Whigs, and Chatham

1765. The king and Grenville 64
April-May. The regency bill 65
The weavers' riot 66
16 July. A whig administration formed under Rockingham 67
Its weakness and difficulties 68
Jan., 1766. Pitt on American taxation 69
Burke, his character and political principles 70
Mar. Repeal of the stamp act. The declaratory act 71
July. Pitt forms an administration, and is created
Earl of Chatham 73
His foreign policy 74
Sept.-Nov. "A forty days' tyranny" 76
Feb., 1767. Chatham incapacitated by disease 76
June, 1763. Revolt of Mir Kasim 77
23 Oct., 1764. Battle of Baxar 78
June, 1767. Parliamentary interference with the E. India
Company 79
1767-69. Haidar Ali's invasions of the Karnatic 80