CHAPTER XLII.

_Resumption of hostilities.--Pitt recommends the fortifying of London.--Renewal of the Income Tax.--Nelson takes offence at the City.--Addington gives place to Pitt.--Volunteer review at Blackheath.--Pitt's Additional Force Bill.--The City claims to be treated in a separate Bill.--Artillery practice in Finsbury Fields.--The French camp at Boulogne.--Disgrace of Lord Melville.--The Battle of Trafalgar.--Nelson's funeral.--His monument in the Guildhall.--Death of Pitt.--The Ministry of all the Talents.--The fall of the Ministry.--The Duke of Portland.--The Berlin Decree.--The Peninsular War.--The Convention of Cintra.--The Scandal of the Duke of York.--The Walcheren Expedition.--The King's Jubilee.--The City urges an enquiry into the cause of recent failures.--Another remonstrance of the Livery not received.--The City opposes Wellington's annuity.--Sir Francis Burdett committed to the Tower.--Riots in the City.--Petition of the Livery to Parliament.--Petition dismissed.--Another Petition.--Ordered to lie on the table.--The King seriously ill.--The Regency Bill.--The Freedom of the City declined by the Prince_ _Regent.--An address of the Livery to the Regent not received.--Assassination of Spencer Perceval.--Battle of Salamanca.--The Shannon and the Chesapeake.--Treaty of Paris.--The Freedom of the City conferred on Wellington.--The City and the Slave trade.--The Battle of Waterloo._ _Page 251_