[591] Report of the Committee on Agricultural Depression (1822), pp. 3, 4.
[592] Walpole, History of England, ii. 23.
[593] Hansard, ix. 1544.
[594] Ibid. x. 1, 2.
[595] Ibid. xii. 1.
[596] Rural Rides, ii. 199.
[597] Walpole, History of England, ii. 526. The distress was aggravated by rot among sheep, which is said to have destroyed one-fourth of those in the kingdom. See Parliamentary Reports, Commissioners (1836), viii (2), p. 198.
[598] Tooke, History of Prices, ii. 227.
[599] Report of 1833, p. 6.
[600] Tooke, History of Prices, ii, 238.