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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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( 36 ) severed from his name. In the honours and favours showered upon him, incommensurate to his services as they may have been, we cannot fail to recognise the outcome of an immense popularity, which is seldom undeservingly accorded. Of his popularity there are numberless instances, and trivial as some of them may appear, they prove its extensiveness. In 1769 a clergyman pulled the nose of a Scotch naval officer for talking disparagingly of the member for Middlesex, and then ran him through the sword- arm in Hyde Park. A gentleman in Abergavenny announced his in- tention to erect a monument, a miniature imitation of Stonehenge, and dedicate it to Liberty, and begged of him a ‘few strong, words’ by way of inscription. A correspondent wrote to offer his friendship and fortune, proposed to marry his daughter as an excuse for giving Wilkes himself ten or fifteen thousand pounds, and ended by leaving him a hand- some legacy. Another gentleman framed as precious relics the buttons which, when Wilkes fought the duel with Mr. Martin, diverted the bullet and hindered the wound from proving fatal. Again, in a conversation between two women, when one of them disparagingly spoke of Wilkes’
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