[326] Cambridge Chronicle, June 28, 1816.
[327] Times, June 26. A curious irony has placed side by side with the account in the Annual Register of the execution of the five men who were hung for their share in this spasm of starvation and despair, the report of a meeting, with the inevitable Wilberforce in the chair, for raising a subscription for rebuilding the Protestant Church at Copenhagen, which had been destroyed by the British Fleet at the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.
[328] Agricultural State of the Kingdom, p. 13.
[329] 59 George III. c. 50.
[330] See Annual Register, 1819, p. 320.
[331] Those assessed at £100 were to have two votes, those at £150 three votes, and those at £400 four votes. Whitbread did not propose to copy the provision of Gilbert’s Act, which withdrew all voting power in vestries in parishes that adopted that Act from persons assessed at less than £5.
[332] Political Register, August 29, 1807, p. 329.
[333] Letter to Samuel Whitbread, M.P., on his proposed Bill for the Amendment of the Poor Laws, 1807.
[334] 58 George III. c. 69.
[335] 59 George III. c. 12.