CHAPTER XL.
GEORGE IV. 1830—1831
State of Parties..... Meeting of Parliament..... Motion for a Committee of the whole House on the State of the Nation..... Reduction of the Salaries of Public Officers, &c...... Motion for revising the whole System of Taxation..... Committee on the East India Company’s Charter..... Debate on the Proposal to alter the Currency..... Financial Statements..... Bill for Repealing the Duty on Beer, &c...... The Question of Reform..... The Case of East Retford, &c...... Mr. O’Connel’s Bill for Reform by Universal Suffrage and Vote by Ballot, &c...... Bill for Removing the civil Disabilities affecting the Jews..... Bill for Capital Punishment in Cases of Forgery..... Bill for Amending the Law of Libel, &c...... Alterations in Courts of Justice..... Illness of the King..... Bill to authorize the adhibiting of the Sign Manual by a Stamp..... Death of the King, and Accession of the Duke of Clarence, William IV...........