Note 327 — Chapter VIII · AFTER SPEENHAMLAND
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Times, June 26. A curious irony has placed side by side with the account in the Annual Register of the execution of the five men who were hung for their share in this spasm of starvation and despair, the report of a meeting, with the inevitable Wilberforce in the chair, for raising a subscription for rebuilding the Protestant Church at Copenhagen, which had been destroyed by the British Fleet at the bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.