CHAPTER XLI.

_Fox's East India Bill.--Pitt and the Coalition.--The City and Pitt.--Pitt's East India Bill.--The Reform Bill.--The City and the Shop Tax.--The Convention with France.--The City and the Slave trade.--Pitt's Regency Bill.--Thanksgiving service at St. Paul's for the King's recovery.--Pitt's Excise Bill for duty on tobacco.--The Military Guard of the Bank of England.--The French Revolution.--France declares war.--The Battle of the first of June.--Riots in the City.--Great scarcity of wheat.--Standard wheaten bread.--Assault on the King.--Negotiations for Peace.--Pitt's Loyalty Loan.--Foreign subsidies.--Suspension_ _of cash payments by Bank of England.--Another remonstrance of the Livery not received.--The Mutiny at the Nore.--Duncan's victory off Camperdown.--Pitt mobbed in the City.--Military associations in the City.--The Battle of the Nile.--Pitt's Income Tax Bill.--Royal review of City volunteers.--Capture of the Dutch fleet.--French overtures for peace declined.--The Livery protest against the prolongation of the war.--The Act of Union.--Bread riots in the City.--Conduct of Harvey Combe, Mayor.--Pitt resigns.--Battle of Copenhagen.--Peace of Amiens._ _Page 204_