Note 271 — Chapter XII
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[Footnote 271: Alison, quoting the General Report of the Census Commissioners, estimates the deaths caused by famine and the diseases engendered by it at the appalling number of 590,000, and states the sums advanced under different acts of Parliament to meet the emergency at £7,132,268.—History of Europe, vii., 274, 276, 2d series.]