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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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OOO (Cea 45) appeared retailing an account of the conversa- tion. On reading this paper the King’s wrath was kindled at once, and incited him to immediate and violent action. By his orders the Secretary of State issued a warrant, authorising the officials to whom its execution was entrusted ‘ to search for the author, printers, and publishers of a seditious and treasonable paper entitled the North Briton (No. 45), apprehend and seize them together with their papers, and bring them before him in order to be examined.’ These orders were carried out without delay. The first person seized under this warrant was a printer of the North Briton. His house was entered at night and he was taken from his bed, notwith- standing the cries of his wife and the serious illness of his child. After every printer, publisher, servant, and jour- neyman connected with the paper had been thrown into prison, Wilkes himself was arrested. He de- manded to see the warrant, and, on finding that it contained no mention of his name, refused to yield to the illegal precept. Every justice of the peace knows that a warrant must specify the particular individual against whom it is directed. But in the long run Wilkes was compelled to surrender to superior force, and arraigned before B
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