Note 199 — Chapter XLIX
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Chase writes (Wilmot and Chase, p. 458), “Sir Harry, perfect soldier as he was, had an instinctive horror of shedding blood, which was never more strongly developed than when he curbed the military from retaliating the insults offered to Her Majesty and to themselves by the mobs of the western metropolis during the anti-convict émeute.” We may remember that he had shown the same spirit during the Radical disturbances at Glasgow (see pp. 326-328, 335).