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Reforms of all kinds were being debated. Many politicians of the day understood that these reforms must be evolutionary rather than revolutionary. One example was the abolition of slavery. In 1807 trading in slaves was made illegal, slavery was not. In 1827 it was obvious that preparations would have to be made should all slaves be freed.

George Canning

GEORGE CANNING (1770-1827)

• Tory MP and Prime Minister (1827)
• Father died in early childhood and mother worked hard to keep George and his half siblings
• Went to Eton and Oxford
• Entered Parliament in 1794
• Married an heiress in 1800
• Twice Foreign Secretary (1807-1809 and 1822-1827)
• Prime Minister in 1827 - he died in office that same year
• Famous for fighting a duel with the then Secretary of War, Castlereagh, and as a supporter of George IV's wife Caroline of Brunswick
• Resigned from Government because he believed, rightly, that it was hounding her

From the 15th Century Greece had been ruled by Turkey. The 1821 Greek War of Independence became a 19th-century crusade.

CANNING'S DEMANDS TO LORD LANSDOWNE ON BECOMING PRIME MINISTER

Twenty third of April, eighteen hundred and twenty seven

One: The Catholic question is to remain, as in in Lord Liverpool's Government, an open question, upon which each member of the Cabinet is at perfect liberty to exercise his own judgement in supporting that question if brought forward by others, or in propounding it either in the Cabinet or to Parliament. But if any member of the Cabinet should deem it an indispensable duty to bring forward individually the Catholic question in Parliament, he is distinctly to state that he does so in his individual capacity.

Two: The inconvenience (now unavoidable) of having one open question in the Cabinet, makes it more necessary to agree that there should be no other. All the existing members of the Cabinet are united in opposing the question of Parliamentary Reform, and could not acquiesce in its being brough forward or supported by any member of the Cabinet.

Three: The present members of the Cabinet are also united in opposition to the motion for the repeal of the Test Act, of which notice stands on the books of the House of Commons. They see great inexpendiency in now stirring a question which has slept for upwards of thirty years, and they could not consent to a divided vote by the members of the Cabinet upon it.

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1803	The Napoleonic Wars begin
1792	French Revolutionary Wars begin
1793	Britain enters the Wars
1801	Pitt the Younger resigns
1802	Napoleonic Wars begin
1805	Nelson is victorious but dies at Trafalgar
1810	George III becomes insane
1815	Battle of Waterloo end Napoleonic Wars
1820	George III dies George IV becomes king
1821	George IV excludes Queen Caroline from the coronation
1822	Castlereagh commits suicide
1823	O'Connell forms the Catholic Association
1828	Wellington becomes Prime Minister
1829	Metropolitan Police is formed
1830	George IV dies William IV becomes king