[60] It was part of Uriconium.
[61] It was at a time of grievous distress and loud discontent that the suspension of this Act was carried. In few places was there greater suffering than in Birmingham. Rowland Hill, before he set out for London, had passed near the Birmingham Workhouse while a crowd was gathered round the doors waiting for their weekly dole. One of them called out to him, “Look there, Sir; there’s a sight, while they’re a-passing their Horpus Corpus Acts. Damn their Horpus Corpus Acts, say I.”
[62] There existed at this time in Birmingham, as Sir R. Hill subsequently recorded, “a very exclusive society for procuring private concerts. It was supposed that the society’s strict rule would be waived in favour of so distinguished a visitor as Mr. Campbell; but upon application being made for his admission to one of these performances, answer was returned that no exception had been made even in the case of an officer who had bled for his country, and whose claims were of course very superior to any that could be advanced by Mr. Campbell.”
[63] See page 87.
[64] Joseph Hodgson, Esq., F.R.S., late President of the College of Surgeons.
[65] M.P. for Midhurst.
[66] “The Recorder of Birmingham.” A Memoir of Matthew Davenport Hill. By his daughters. Page 76.
[67] “History of my Religious Opinions.” Page 290.
[68] See page 47.
[69] See Mr. Trevelyan’s “Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay.” Second edition. Vol. II., p. 463.