The Grenville Administration.

1763.[The new ministers][45]
April.[The North Briton, No. 45, and the general warrant][46]
Aug.[The king's attempts to strengthen the administration][48]
Sept.[Changes in the administration][49]
Nov.[Proceedings in parliament against Wilkes][50]
19 Jan., 1764.[The commons expel Wilkes][51]
[Violation of the privileges of parliament][52]
[Grenville's economy][53]
[Great Britain's colonial policy][54]
1763.[Defence of the American colonies][58]
10 Mar., 1764.[The stamp bill proposed][59]
22 Mar., 1765.[The bill enacted][60]
[American resistance][60]
[The right of taxation][62]
[Unstatesmanlike policy][63]

[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 Mír Kásim][77]
23 Oct., 1764.[Battle of Baxár][78]
June, 1767.[Parliamentary interference with the E. India Company][79]
1767-69.[Haidar Alí's invasions of the Karnatic][80]

[CHAPTER V.]

Growth of the King's Power.

1767.[C. Townshend and the new American duties][82]
[The ministry in Chatham's absence][85]
Jan., 1768.[Junction with the Bedford party][87]
Feb.[The Nullum Tempus bill][87]
[Massachusetts heads resistance to the revenue acts][88]
1 May, 1769.[Partial repeal of the new duties decided on][90]
1761.[Condition of Ireland. Rise of Whiteboyism][91]
[The government of Ireland][93]
1768-69.[Octennial act and augmentation of Irish army][94]
1768.[The general election of 1768][94]
[Wilkes returned for Middlesex][95]
10 May.[Riot in St. George's Fields][96]
1769.[Wilkes and the Middlesex electors][97]
[French annexation of Corsica. Faltering policy of ministers][98]
[Arrears of the civil list][99]
[The Letters of Junius][99]
[Chatham in opposition][100]
28 Jan., 1770.[Grafton resigns. North forms an administration][102]
[Triumph of the king's policy][103]
[Discontent with the constitutional machinery][103]
[Chatham and Burke differ on character of needful reforms][105]

[CHAPTER VI.]

The King's Rule.