[465] There are no statistics for Wilts, Hants, Bucks, and Dorsetshire prisoners. At Reading out of 138 prisoners 37 could read, and 25 of the 37 could also write. At Abingdon, out of 47, 17 could read, and 6 of them could also write. In Wilts and Hants the proportion was probably smaller, as the people were more neglected.
[466] Times, December 24, 1830.
[467] Ibid., January 8, 1831.
[468] Times, January 7, 1831.
[469] Ibid., December 24, 1830. Henry Bunce was transported for life to New South Wales.
[470] Ibid., January 14.
[471] Cobbett, Political Register, vol. lxxiii. p. 535, and local papers.
[472] Fussell’s sentence was commuted to imprisonment. Boys was sent to Van Diemen’s Land.
[473] H. O. Papers, Municipal and Provincial. Hants, 1831, March 24.
[474] As early as November 26, Mr. Richard Pollen, Chairman of Quarter Sessions and afterwards a commissioner at Winchester, had written to the Home Office, ‘I have directed the Magistrates’ attention very much to the class of People found in the Mobs many miles from their own homes, Taylors, Shoemakers etc., who have been found always very eloquent, they are universally politicians: they should be, I think, selected.’—H. O. Papers.