Legislation passed under his government included the Eden Treaty, promoting free trade with France, an India Act that brought the East India Company under government control, and the Canada Act that divided Upper from Lower Canada.
Legislation passed under his government included the Eden Treaty, promoting free trade with France, an India Act that brought the East India Company under government control, and the Canada Act that divided Upper from Lower Canada. He also passed the Gag Acts and the Combination Acts, which outlawed anti-government meetings and trade unions. His efforts to pass the Act of Union included offering emancipation to Irish Catholics: this was opposed by King George III, thus ending this man's first term as Prime Minister. His second term ended with his death shortly a year after the battles of Austerlitz and Trafalgar. FTP, name this man who between 1783 and 1801 organized and sponsored European coalitions against revolutionary France as British prime minister, an office vacated in 1768 by the Earl of Chatham, his father.
Legislation passed under his government included the Eden Treaty, promoting free trade with France, an India Act that brought the East India Company under government control, and the Canada Act that divided Upper from Lower Canada.
William {Pitt} the {Younger} (prompt on {Pitt})