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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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( Bhey self to the health of the new Member for Middle- sex. The cry penetrated even into the royal nursery. The Prince of Wales, afterwards George the Fourth, with that perversity which distinguishes children, found that the best way to annoy his father was to shout, ‘Wilkes and Number Forty-five for ever!’ The only effect of all these demonstrations was to excite the anger of the King still further, and to goad him to extremities. Writing to Lord North, the leader of the House of Commons in the Government of the Duke of Grafton, he demanded that the demagogue should be expelled from Par- liament. The servile and corrupt Parliament obeyed his orders, and on the third of February, 1769, for the second time, Wilkes was expelled from the House of Commons. In the meantime he had been enabled to get his outlawry reversed, but was undergoing his sentence for libel. When he first surrendered and was sent to the King’s Bench Prison the populace made a violent attempt at rescue, stopped his coach and drew him away in triumph. Wilkes, however, showed his good sense by escaping from his admirers and giving him- self up voluntarily at the prison gates. The mob, baulked in their intentions, gave vent to their feel-
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