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the excited people had riotously attacked several
Fearing for the safety of our own and our children’s dwellings, we went out with the rest, and were at length informed that the excited people had riotously attacked several bakers’ shops, and committed depredation in the houses of the owners, because, notwithstanding the fall that had taken place in the price of corn, they had raised the price of bread.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

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