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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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of which seven were daily; and in the year after that appeared the first Sunday paper in England. It may be asserted that, although utterly uncon- scious of the achievement, Wilkes was the indirect means of securing to England one of its greatest and most valued liberties—freedom of the press. On the expiration of his term of imprisonment Wilkes was compensated by municipal honours for the loss of his Parliamentary seat. He was elected a Sheriff ; presented with a silver goblet, on which, at his request, the following words were engraved :— ‘May every tyrant feel The keen, deep searchings of a patriot steel !’ Twenty thousand pounds were collected by his friends to pay his debts ; and he was successively elected Alderman and Lord Mayor, despite all the influence which the Court brought to bear against him. It must be borne in mind that in those days the Lord-Mayoralty was considered a more important post, and one of far greater distinction, than at the present time. Soon afterwards he was appointed to the very lucrative post of the Chamberlainship of the City; and finally, at the General Election of 1784, he was put forward for the fifth time, and returned unopposed as member for Middlesex. Such had been the progressive march of public
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