Changes of Administration.--The Coalition Ministry.--The Establishment of the Prince of Wales.--Fox's India Bill.--The King Defeats it by the Agency of Lord Temple.--The Ministry is Dismissed, and Succeeded by Mr. Pitt's Administration.--Opposition to the New Ministry in the House of Commons.--Merits of the Contest between the Old and the New Ministry.--Power of Pitt.--Pitt's India Bill.--Bill for the Government of Canada.--The Marriage of the Prince of Wales to Mrs. Fitzherbert.--The King becomes Deranged.--Proposal of a Regency.--Opinions of Various Writers on the Course adopted.--Spread of Revolutionary Societies and Opinions.--Bills for the Repression of Sedition and Treason.--The Alien Act.--The Traitorous Correspondence Act.--Treason and Sedition Bills.--Failure of some Prosecutions under them. CHAPTER V. The Affairs of Ireland.--Condition of the Irish Parliament.--The Octennial Bill.--The Penal Laws.--Non-residence of the Lord- lieutenant.--Influence of the American War on Ireland.--Enrolment of the Volunteers.--Concession of all the Demands of Ireland.--Violence of the Volunteers.--Their Convention.--Violence of the Opposition in Parliament: Mr. Brownlow, Mr. Grattan, Mr. Flood.--Pitt's Propositions Fail.--Fitzgibbon's Conspiracy Bill.--Regency Question.--Recovery of the King.--Question of a Legislative Union.--Establishment of Maynooth College.--Lord Edward Fitzgerald.--Arguments for and against the Union.--It passes the Irish Parliament.--Details of the Measure.-- General Character of the Union.--Circumstances which Prevented its Completeness. CHAPTER VI. A Census is Ordered.--Dissolution of Pitt's Administration.--Impeachment of Lord Melville.--Introduction of Lord Ellenborough into the Cabinet.--Abolition of the Slave-trade.--Mr. Windham's Compulsory Training Bill.--Illness of the King, and Regency.--Recurrence to the Precedent of 1788-'89.--Death of Mr. Perceval.--Lord Liverpool becomes Prime-minister.--Question of Appointments in the Household.--Appointment of a Prime-minister. CHAPTER VII. The Toleration Act.--Impropriety of making Catholic Emancipation (or any other Important Matter) an Open Question.--Joint Responsibility of all the Ministers.--Detention of Napoleon at St. Helena.--Question whether the Regent could Give Evidence in a Court of Law in a Civil Action.--Agitation for Reform.--Public Meetings.--The Manchester Meeting.--The Seditious Meetings Prevention Bill.--Lord Sidmouth's Six Acts. CHAPTER VIII.