Note 296 — JOURNAL OF ELIZABETH LADY HOLLAND (continued 4)
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The figures were: Wilberforce 11,806, Milton 11,177, Lascelles 10,989, the two first being therefore returned. Wilberforce’s expenses, after many of his supporters had paid their own, amounted to 28,600l., while those of his opponents were reckoned to be 200,000l. (Dictionary of Nat. Biog.).