Soon may'st thou join thy long-expecting friends,
Where first to meet thee ev'ry man contends.
May thy good-natur'd wit, as ufual, flow,
To prove what pleasure genius can beftow.
Alas! in vain we wish thy quick return;

In vain, thy half expir'd hard sentence mourn.
Yet hark!-methinks with more than mortal found,
The goddess spreads this welcome news around:
"I come ye Britons, by your king's command,
"T'announce glad tidings thro' his native land.
"Such Christian virtue public blessings brings;

Mercy's the great prerogative of kings!

"Cease then contention-hence your hero's free, "I here proclaim the banns 'twixt Wilkes and Liberty!"

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ETTER from the Rev. Mr. John Douglafs to Mr.
Wilkes, respecting the prevalent report of his being

the author of the Obfervations on the Spanish papers, - I

Mr. Wilkes's answer thereto,

Extract from the Monitor, No. 358,

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3

papers 10

Ditto from No. 359, both concerning the above

Obfervations on the papers relative to the rupture

with Spain; in a letter from Mr. Wilkes to a friend in

the country,

A card from Mr. Secker to Mr. Wilkes, requesting

a meeting,

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46

47

A fecond card from Mr. Secker to Mr. Wilkes, ap-

ib.

Mr. Wilkes's card in answer thereto,

pointing the hour he intended waiting on him,

A letter from Lord Talbot to Mr. Wilkes, wherein

he defires him either to avow or difclaim being author

of the North Briton, Number XLV.

Mr. Wilkes's anfwer thereto,

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Mr. Wilkes's fecond letter to Lord Talbot, on the

receipt of a letter directed to him at Winchefter in his

absence,

ib.

48

ib.

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Letter from Lord Talbot to Mr. Wilkes, hinting at great things,

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49

Mr. Wilkes's fatisfactory and fufficient answer thereto 50 Lord Talbot's manly interrogation continued,

Mr. Wilkes's anfwer, and his indifference as to the

confequences refulting from it,

Letter from Mr. Wilkes to Col. Berkeley, appointing to meet him and Lord Talbot at Bagshot,

· Letter from Mr. Wilkes to Earl Temple, giving a most pleasant account of the duel between him and Lord Talbot, who, as the fong fays,

C Extract from the Auditor, Number XIX. refpecting an infamous attack on the reputation of Mr. Wilkes, in a converfation faid to have paffed between him and the fon of Lord Bute, in a bookseller's shop at Winchefter,

Mr. Wilkes's Letter to the Rev. Dr. Burton, complaining of this false affertion, and defiring that it might be enquired into, and that the parties concerned be brought face to face,

ib.

51

52

,53

-54

160

61

164

Dr. Burton's frivolous and evafive anfwer,
Extract from the North Briton relative to this affair, ib.
A Dedication, prefixed to " The Fall of Mortimer.":

a tragedy, written by Mr. Wilkes,

An extract from Magna Charta,

68

-77

Warrant for the apprehending of the authors, printers, and publishers of the North Briton, Number XLV. ➡* 78

The

The verbal and unconftitutional orders given to the officers for entering into the house of Mr. Wilkes by virtue of the aforefaid warrant,

A motion made in the court of Common Pleas for a Habeas Corpus-granted,

Page

79

ib.

Mr. Wilkes friends are refufed admittance into his house, by a pretended order from the Secretary of State, ib. On producing no legal authority, they enter without any farther question,

ib.

Mr. Wood, the Deputy Secretary of State, demands the reafon of fuch forcible entry,

ib.

Notwithstanding an Habeas Corpus was granted to Mr. Wilkes, he is committed to the Tower,

No perfon whatever permitted to have access to him, ib. Copy of the warrant for Mr. Wilkes's commitment to the Tower,

81

+82

Orders iffued by the Lieut. Governor of the Tower
respecting the detention of John Wilkes, Efq.
Mr. Wilkes's fpeech before the court of Common
Pleas,

Mr. Wilkes remanded back to the Tower, where his friends now were admitted without any dispute

Lord Egremont's letter to Earl Temple, fignifying his Majefty's pleafure to his Lordship, that Mr. Wilkes be difplaced as an officer in the militia for the county of Buckingham,

Earl Temple's letter to Mr. Wilkes, in confequence of his Majefty's commands,

83

84

85

886

➡ib.

Mr. Wilkes's anfwer,

Speech of Mr. Wilkes before the court of Common

Pleas, on his appearing before them a fecond time
His address to the court on his difcharge,
b*

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88

Mr.