Complex sentence: In 1838 Villiers spoke to a meeting of 5,000 "working class men" in Manchester, at the time he proclaimed that the presence of so many of them demonstrated that he had their support.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1838 Villiers spoke to a meeting of 5,000 "working class men" in Manchester. At the time, he proclaimed that the presence of so many of them demonstrated that he had their support.