Abbott.]
[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.]
[Footnote 150: "Lives of the Chief-justices," by Lord Campbell, iii.,
87, life of Lord Kenyon.]
[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.]
[Footnote 152: "Lives of the Chancellors," c. clxxxiv., life of Lord
Erskine.]
[Footnote 153: "Lives of the Chancellors," c. clix., life of Lord
Thurlow.]
[Footnote 154: See "Memoires de M. de Metternich," ii., 156.]
[Footnote 155: "Lives of the Chief-justices," iii., 175.]
[Footnote 156: Lord Stanhope, "History of England," i., 133.]
[Footnote 157: "Lives of the Chief-justices," ii.
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