[ [!-- Note Anchor 148 --][Footnote 148: It is somewhat remarkable that Lord Macaulay, in his endeavors to estimate the population in 1685, takes no notice of any of these details mentioned by Mr. Abbott.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 149 --][Footnote 149: The details of this census of 1801 are given in a [note] in the preceding chapter (see [page 185]), from which it appears that the entire population of the United Kingdom was in that year 16,395,870. Sir A. Alison, in different chapters of the second part of his "History of Europe," gives returns of subsequent censuses, from the last of which (c. lvi., s. 34, note), it appears that in 1851 the population amounted to 27,511,862. an increase of 11,116,792 in half a century.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 150 --][Footnote 150: "Lives of the Chief-justices," by Lord Campbell, iii., 87, life of Lord Kenyon.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 151 --][Footnote 151: "What is this," said George III. to Mr. Dundas, "which this young lord (Castlereagh) has brought over, which they are going to throw at my head? The most Jacobinical thing I ever heard of! I shall reckon any man my personal enemy who proposes any such measure."—Life of Pitt, iii., 274.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 152 --][Footnote 152: "Lives of the Chancellors," c. clxxxiv., life of Lord Erskine.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 153 --][Footnote 153: "Lives of the Chancellors," c. clix., life of Lord Thurlow.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 154 --][Footnote 154: See "Memoires de M. de Metternich," ii., 156.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 155 --][Footnote 155: "Lives of the Chief-justices," iii., 175.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 156 --][Footnote 156: Lord Stanhope, "History of England," i., 133.]
[ [!-- Note Anchor 157 --][Footnote 157: "Lives of the Chief-justices," ii., 451. He is quoting H. Walpole.]