nation, we have not to anfwer for the confequences, though we fhould be the innocent caufe, [what, though your fentence were iniquitous though you had not reverfed the Outlawry?-Would you not then have been answerable for all the confequences?] we can only fay, fiat juftitia, ruat calum; we fhall difcharge our duty without expectations of approbation, or the apprehenfions of cenfure; if we are fubjected to the latter unjustly, we muft fubmit to it; we can't prevent it; we will take care not to deferve it. [then you will prevent it] He must be a weak man indeed who can be staggered by fuch a confideration. The misapprehenfion, or the misreprefentation of the ignorant or the wicked, the Mendax infamia, which is the confequence of both, are equally indifferent to, unworthy the attention of, and incapable of making any impreffion on men of firmnefs and intrepidity.[true, but Horace tells you that the MENDAX ANFAMIA TERBET MENDOSUM ET MENDACEM]-Thofe who imagine judges are capable of being influenced by fuch unworthy indirect means, moft grofsly deceive themelves; [Judges have been fo influenced in former times] and for my own part, I trust that my temper, and the colour [what is the colour? black?] and conduct of my life, have clothed me with a fuit of armour to fhield me from fuch arrows. If I have ever supported the king's measures [what King's ?] if I have ever afforded any affiftance to government; if I have difcharged my duty as a public or private character, [rife, departed shade of Vernon of Ludgate-hill, and tell us how and you paffed your evenings no effay on woman I dare fay. You both held with Pope, THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND IS MAN,] by endeavouring to preferve pure and perfect the principles of the Conftitution, [by the famous letter to the Mayor of Maidstone to deliver the Heffian joldier committed for felony, which Lord. only copied from your Manufcript, &c] maintain unfullied the honour of the courts of Juice, by the Juryman fet afide, D' bufinefs, &c.] and, by an upright adminiftration of, to give a due effect to the laws, I have hitherto done it without any other gift or reward [Is not 4000l. a year, &c. &c. a REWARD?] than that moft pleafing and most honourable one, the confcientious conviction of doing what was right. I do not affect to fcorn the opinion of mankind; I wish earnestly for popularity; [I believe it] I will feek and will have popularity; [I do not believe it] but I will tell you how I will obtain it [impoffible while -] I will have that popularity which follows, and not that which is run after [never of any kind, you run from it]-It's not the applaufe of a day, it's not the huzzas of thousands, that can give a moment's fatisfaction to a rational being; that man's mind mult indeed be a weak one, and his ambition of a moit depraved fort, who can be captivated by fuch wretched allurements [what as the applaufe of one's country?] or fatisfied with fuch momentary gratifications [what! as the approbation of his fellow Citizens?-following a steady Course of Virtue]-I fay with the Roman Orator, and can fay it with as much truth as he did, “Ego hoc ani¬ mo femper fui, ut invidiam virtute partam, gloriam non infamiam, pu tarem;" tarem :" [then like Cicero to Lucceius, you must beg your Countryman To bias Smollet to falfify Hiftory for you, and you will fhine on our Records] but the threats have been carried further, perfonal violence has been denounced, [when?] unless public humour be complied with; I do not fear fuch threats; I don't believe there is any reafon to fear them: [then why make this parade of your pretended courage in not fearing them?] "Tis not the genius of the worst of men in theworft of times to proceed to such shocking extremities [furely this often happened to the worst of men in the worst of times, to Buckingham, and others] bat if fuch an event should happen, let it be fo; even fuch an event might be productive of wholefome effects; fuch a stroke might roufe the better part of the nation from their lethargic condition to a state of activity, to affert and execute the law, and punish the daring and impious hands which had violated it; and those who now fupinely behold the danger which threatens all liberty, from [prophane Scottifh bands and an arbitrary adminiftration] the moft abandoned licentioufnefs, might, by fuch an event, be awakened to a sense of their fituation, as drunken men are oftentimes ftunned into fobriety. If the fecurity of our perfons and our property, [against General Warrants, the Seizure of Papers, and the Third Regiment] of all we hold dear and valuable, are to depend upon the caprice of a giddy multitude, or to be at the difpofal of a giddy mob [an arbitrary Secretary, or his Man's Man] if, in compliance with the humours, and to appeafe the clamours of thofe, all civil and political inftitutions [I do not like Judges who talk of POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS] are to be disregarded or overthrown, a life somewhat more than fixty is not worth preferving at fuch a price, and he can never die too foon, [I think fo] who lays down his life in fupport and vindication of the policy, the government and the conftitution of his country [I had rather a bad life were paid down to justice than to nature.] QUERIES. Query 1. Is not this Speech rather panegyrick on him felf, than a difcourfe on the reverfal of Mr.'s Outlawry? II. Would it not have been more proper for the ESTABLISHING than the REVERSAL of the Outlawry? III. Was it not ftudied when the former was intended? Extract of a Letter from Guildford, July 19. N "The quarter feffions ended on Friday laft, Sir F chairman. Many perfons were to be tried for riots in St. George's fields and Southwark :-Whether Sir F― was chairman pro hac vice, or is intended to be continued in that ftation, I cannot tell; but the gentlemen of the county, who remember how odious he was in the eyes of a certain knight of the fhire fome few years ago, were ftruck with as much amazement at his prefiding amongst them, as they were at the former's joining him at the Guildford election. Most of the prisoners charged with committing riots, appearing to have been bound over for the most trivial offences, (if waiting waiting to fee Mr. Wilkes from a window at the King's-Bench-prifon from motives of curiofity can be faid to be any offence at all) were discharged; but John Truckle, who was feized one evening in St. George's-fields, was ordered to be imprifoned nine months, and to find furety for his good behaviour; and John Percival, being convicted of marking No. 45 on the back of Richard Capel, Efq; one of the Juftices, was ordered to be imprifoned two years, and to find fureties for his good behaviour for feven years after. At the fame time John Seymour, convicted of ftealing linen and ftockings, was ordered to be imprifoned fix weeks. At dinner fat at the upper end, Sir FN, and the Right Hon. G——— O, Efq. From the familiar intercourfe between them, it is certain they are on the best terms, notwithstanding former diflikes. After giving fome few other toaits, the chairman, at the defie of Mr. O drank Gillam and Liberty, with three huzzas, which was followed by part of the company only. After that they drank the healths of fuch other of the Juftices of the peace as were concerned in the action of St. George's-fields, and thanks to them for their conduct. It is faid, feveral of the Juftices prefent, and amongst them the other knight of the fhire, betrayed great diflike to the apparent change in the principles of fome of the company; and the middling and lower clafs of people in the county are univerfally difcontented. They recollect Mr. O's profeffions formerly, and his drinking at Epfom, on his re-election in 1765, Mr. Wilkes's health, with nine huzzas, and the epithets he then gave him, of his being the firft and most deferving of Englishmen. The efteem we all had for the late Sp-r hath hitherto prevented any oppofition; but the notion the electors have of his fon's junction with the Favourite, the fhare he had in the grant of the P—————₫ eftate to Sir J-s L, and his turning against Mr. Wilkes, added to other lefs public confiderations, have worked a very great change in the opinions of the freeholders, and they are now extremely anxious for an oppofition, which cannot fail to break out at the next general election at fartheft. It is faid near thirty gentlemen have agreed to raise zool. each to fupport an oppofition; but, though their names are frequently mentioned, they have kept, and, it is faid, intend to keep, their plan a fecret. "Sir F N- has got very good footing at Guildford; he takes every opportunity of obliging the electors, by employing them in the buildings he is carrying on in the neighbourhood, laying out his money in town, and giving advice gratis. The voters that were for Mr. Parker, at the late election, either have, or will join Sir F; fo that in all probability he will be able to return two members for this town hereafter. Thofe who have heard of his conduct to Sir William Meredith, in relation to the borough of Wigan, do not doubt bis inclination.-Your quondam friend's conduct, has appeared irreconcileable to the rules of common sense in supporting him, but Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat. The The harvest in Spain has failed this year; and the merchants of that country have written to their correfpondents here, to enquire what appearance the wheat makes in England, and in case of a good one, whether it is probable the prohibition of the exportation will be taken off, and they may expect a fupply from hence. In Spain the harveft is much earlier than in England, and at Cadiz they had new wheat at market the middle of last month. According to accounts from many parts of England, the wheat makes a moft promifing appearance; but as to the prohibition being taken off, the merchants have been told there is little or no reason to expect it, as one good harvest will not now furnish us with the Stock which ought to be kept up. Extract of a letter from Rome. "The cruel death of Abbe Winckelmann has spread a general horror through this city, where he was univerfally beloved. It is as yet uncertain, who will fucceed him as fecretary of the Vatican, and Superintendant of the antiquities of Rome. His collection of Roman coins he has left to Mr. Wilkes, with whom he was in conftant correfpondence, and to whom he had given a fine antique urn of porphyry. The Abbe was every day with him during his abode in this city, and had then a medal ftruck of him, on one fide of which was the head, with the words of Virgil, pulchra pro libertate, in the exergue natus 28 die Octobris, 1727. On the other was a crown of laurel, and in the middle, Amicitia vot. In the exergue the two lines of Horace, Serus in coelum redeas, diuque lætus interfis populo quirini. There is a falfe notion, which generally prevails, that our fellow-fubjects of Scotland approve the meafures of adminiftration, because it is well known that Lord Bute is the fecret mover of every political fpring. But the moft fenfible among the Scots are enemies to his lordship; for they are convinced he was the cause of the antient enmity between the two nations being revived in all its force, which, if he had never been born, would have now been almost extinguished, and because he feems determined not to let them, any more than the English, enjoy thofe liberties and priyileges, which they begin to relish among us, fince they have been the heirs of Magna Charta.. 1. Was the general warrant, under which Mr. Wilkes was apprehended legal? 2. Was the feifure of his papers legal? 3. Was the making ufe of thofe papers in a criminal profecution legal? 4. Was the corrupting a fervant to betray and rob his mafter Legal? 5. Was 5. Was fhifting the cuftody of Mr. Wilkes, after the Habeas Corpus was known to be granted, legal? 6. Was his commitment to the tower for a bailable offence, and denying any perfon accefs, who was ready to have bailed him, and the depriving him of the use of pen, ink, and paper, to apply to counsel, or otherwife, legal ? 7. Was the alteration of the records in two criminal profecutions, only the evening before the trials, without his knowledge, and against the confent of his folicitor, legal? 8. Was the branding the North-Briton, No. 45, with the epithet treasonable at firft in the general warrant in order to inflame, when in all the fubfequent proceedings that pretence was given up, legal? 9. Was the refufal to accept Mr. Wilkes's perfonal furrender, in order to question the legality of the outlawry, legal? 10. Was the refufal of bail, during the dependance of the queftion on the outlawry, legal? 11. Was the delay of juftice in the reverfal of the outlawry, when it was reverfed on the arguments first used, legal? 12. Was the outlawry, legal? PRAY RAY when is this rage of the alteration of records and authentic papers to ceafe? Ever fince L-M-juftified the alteration he made in Mr. Wilkes's two caufes, the confequence of which was that Gentleman's conviction, every little printer and engraver -alters even the original pieces which bear his name, without the leaft fcruple or ceremony. Mr. S. Bladon, in Paternofter Row, has published a print called the arms of liberty and flavery, and at the bottom has given Mr. Wilkes's laft addrefs to the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the county of Middlefex: but, Sir, he has made a material alteration, and has put Mr. Wilkes's name to what he never faid. He declared, the juftice of the nation fhould have place against the firft and great criminal, the late fecretary of State, Lord Halifax; but in the address re-publifhed by Mr. Bladon, the words are, the first and great DELINQUENT. This proceeding, Sir, is very unfair, and we can never know what a man has really faid, if fuch alterations area llowed. It is the addrefs of Mr. Bladon, not of Mr. Wilkes In the Craftsman, or Say's Weekly Journal, the words first and great crimina, are entirely omitted, and without a dafh from the printer, at least, to have informed the reader that the whole fentence was not given. I do not, Sir, at present trouble you with any other authorities to justify L- M- , except thefe two of Mr.Samuel Bladon, and Mr. Charles Say; but as I have mentioned the word criminal, I muft take notice of what a gentleman fays on that fubject in the Public Advertiser, who figns Pro Bono Publico, and dates his letter from W-Hall, Staffordshire, June 29. The words are, Surely there is one paffage in that addrefs which deferves cenfure; I mean |