FOOTNOTES:
[130] The king to Peel (Feb. 22, 1835), Parker, Sir Robert Peel, ii., 287-89.
[131] See Melbourne's letters to Brougham, Melbourne Papers, pp. 257-64.
[132] The abuses in the Scottish municipalities had, however, been already removed by an act conferring the municipal franchise on £10 householders. Not the least important result of this act was the increased strength which it gave to the "evangelical" party in the general assembly of the Church of Scotland, which was partly elected by the municipalities.
[133] Campbell, Lives of the Chancellors, viii., 470.
[134] Campbell, Lives of the Chancellors, viii., 476.
[135] Annual Register, lxxviii. (1836), p. 244