941l

Updated: May 13, 2025

As for the moral state of the country, and the wretchedness of the people, it is only necessary to record three or four facts: at Manchester, in the year 1797, the poor-rates were 16,941l., but this year, 1817, they amounted to 65,212l.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3