ing of Parliament.....
Army and Navy Estimates, &c...... Debate on the Rupture with
Spain..... Claims of the Catholics..... The Slave Trade
Question..... Impeachment of Lord Melville..... Parliament
Prorogued..... Dissensions in the Cabinet.....
Napoleon crowned King of Italy..... Conquests of Napoleon
in Bavaria..... The Battle of Trafalgar, &c......
Meeting of Parliament..... Death of Mr. Pitt..... The
Grenville Administration..... Negociations for Peace.....
Windham's Military Plan..... The Budget..... Trial of
Lord Melville..... The Slave-Trade Question.....
Parliament Prorogued, &c...... Death of Fox..... Naval
Successes..... Disputes with America..... Affairs of
Sicily..... War between France and Prussia, &c,..... Meeting
of Parliament.

HIS MAJESTY'S INDISPOSITION.

Parliament had scarcely re-assembled after the Christmas recess, before
it became known that the king was suffering from an attack of his old
malady. It was announced by a bulletin on the 14th of February, that his
majesty was much indisposed, and a succession of similar notices left
little doubt as to the nature of the complaint. The attack, however,
was not so serious as to render a suspension of the royal functions
necessary; and on the 14th of March the lord chancellor declared that
"the king was in such a state, as to warrant the lords commissioners in
giving the royal assent to several bills."

CHANGE IN THE MINISTRY--PITT RESUMES OFFICE.

At this time a systematic attack on ministers was pursued by all parties
in opposition, through the medium of investigations into the military
and naval affairs of the empire. Pitt himself at length appeared in the
character of a direct antagonist to Addington. On the 15th of March he
moved for an address, requesting that his majesty would order to be laid
before parliament an account of the number of ships in commision on the
31st of December, 1793, on the 30th of September, 1801, and on the
31st of December, 1803, specifying the service in which they were
respectively employed. The debate on this motion lasted several hours,
but it was lost on a division, by a majority of two hundred and one
votes against one hundred and thirty. Addington was next attacked by
Fox, who, on the 23rd of April, moved for a committee to revise the
several bills that had been proposed for the defence of the countr