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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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eo they did with great good humour and much laughter. But Wilkes was less fortunate in a duel with Mr. Martin, an ex-Secretary of the Treasury, who had been practising for six months in anticipation of the meeting which he had resolved to provoke, and in which he was dangerously wounded. The conduct of both adversaries is worthy of notice. On seeing Wilkes fall Martin was much distressed, and rushed to his assistance. Wilkes, however, urged him to seek safety in flight ; and on reaching his house returned to him the written challenge which he had received the same morning, so that in the event of his death no evidence should appear against Martin. Nor did his humour abandon him. When his medical adviser insisted on complete seclusion, ‘I will not admit,’ he said, slyly, ‘even my own wife.’ To ensure a speedier recovery Wilkes went abroad, but when Parliament reassembled was still disabled from travelling. Although he sent a medical certificate to this effect, the House made use of some technical quibble, and taking advantage of his absence, decreed that because he did not appear at the Bar when sum- moned, he should be expelled from the House for having written what was held to be a seditious and scandalous libel.
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