A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV

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A History of the Four Georges and of William?by Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy

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Title: A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)
Author: Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy

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A HISTORY OF THE FOUR GEORGES
AND OF WILLIAM IV.
by
JUSTIN MCCARTHY
and
JUSTIN HUNTLY MCCARTHY
In Four Volumes
VOL. IV.

Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London 1901
Copyright, 1901, by Harper & Brothers. All rights reserved.

CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.
LXIII. "OPENS AMID ILL OMENS" . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
LXIV. POPULAR ALARMS--ROYAL EXCURSIONS . . . . . . . . 15
LXV. GEORGE CANNING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
LXVI. THE CLOSE OF CANNING'S CAREER . . . . . . . . . 46
LXVII. "THE CHAINS OF THE CATHOLIC" . . . . . . . . . . 65
LXVIII. THE LAST OF THE GEORGES . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
LXIX. KING WILLIAM THE FOURTH . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
LXX. LE ROI D'YVETOT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
LXXI. REFORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
LXXII. THE GREAT DEBATE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
LXXIII. THE TRIUMPH OF REFORM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
LXXIV. THE EMANCIPATION OF LABOUR . . . . . . . . . . . 188
LXXV. THE STATE CHURCH IN IRELAND . . . . . . . . . . 205
LXXVI. "ONLY A PAUPER" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
LXXVII. PEEL'S FORLORN HOPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
LXXVIII. STILL THE REIGN OF REFORM . . . . . . . . . . . 261
LXXIX. THE CLOSE OF A REIGN AND THE OPENING OF AN ERA 280
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295

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A HISTORY OF THE FOUR GEORGES.
CHAPTER LXIII.
"OPENS AMID ILL OMENS."
The closest student of history would find it hard indeed to turn to the account of any other royal reign which opened under conditions so peculiar and so unpropitious as those which accompanied the succession of George the Fourth to the English throne. Even in the pages of Gibbon one might look in vain for the story of a reign thus singularly darkened in its earliest chapters. George the Fourth had hardly gone through the State ceremonials which asserted his royal position when he was seized by a sudden illness so severe that, for a while, the nerves of the country were strained by the alarm which seemed to tell that a grave would have to be dug for the new King before the body