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.