George III. 1760

The House of Commons

The Prime Minister?

Lord Bute

Lord North 1770-1782

John Wilkes

Reform:

• Wilkesite Radicals
• Country Gentlemen (some)
• Economical Reform (Burke)
• Dunning's Resolution of 1780
  • "the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished."
• Gordon Riots 1780

War

• Taxes
• Yorktown 1781

Lord North

Charles James Fox

Fox-North Coalition 1782-1783

• Who names the government?
• An Unconstitutional government?

William Pitt. 1783-- PM

Fox's Martyrs: 1784 Election

Pitt's administration 1784-

• Taxes
• Consolidated Fund
• Sinking Fund
• Navy
• "Triple Alliance" 1788
  • Britain-Netherland-Prussia
• Prime Minister

The British Empire

• Loss of American Colonies

Canada

• Conquest of 1763
• Canada Act of 1791
• Upper Canada
• Lower Canada
• Parliaments with little power

India

• East India Company 1599
• Moghul Empire
• Wars with French--1740s, 1750s
• Robert Clive
• Bengal
• India Act of 1784
  • Haileybury College
  • Impeachment of Warren Hastings
• Military Expansion

French Revolution 1789--taxes

• Early Enthusiasm
• Reaction

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France 1790

"swinish multitude"

Tom Paine The Rights of Man. 1791

War Scare

British patriotism

Taxes

Why were some people demanding "reform" in eighteenth century Britain?

What were the major political achievements of William Pitt?

What do you think of them?