CHAPTER VII.

Death of Cooke, Tory member for Middlesex, 1768--A fresh election--Serjeant Glynn, Wilkes’s advocate, a Radical candidate for the vacant seat; opposed by Sir W. Beauchamp Proctor--Proctor’s mob of hired ruffians--“The Hustings at Brentford, Middlesex Election”, 1768--Prize-fighters employed to terrorize the electors--Dastardly attack on the hustings--Glynn’s “Letter to the Freeholders of Middlesex”--Proctor’s repudiation of the charge of “hiring banditti”--Horne Tooke’s “Philippic” to Proctor--The true facts of the case--The circumstantial account given in the _Oxford Magazine_--The rioters beaten off--Electioneering manœuvres: summoning electors as jurymen--The bruisers recognized--Broughton engaged as generalissimo of the forces--An expensive contest--Glynn’s letter of acknowledgment to his constituents--The “Parson of Brentford”--Poetical tributes to Horne Tooke--Results of the injuries inflicted by the hired ruffians: Death of Clarke--“The Present State of Surgery; or, Modern Practice,” 1769--Trial of Clarke’s murderers--The bruisers defended by the ministers--Found guilty, and sentenced to transportation, but receive a royal pardon and pensions for life--Partial conduct and verdict of the College of Surgeons--“A Consultation of Surgeons”--The petitions and remonstrances addressed to the Throne--Colonel Luttrell sent to parliament, though not duly elected, to represent Middlesex in place of Wilkes--An unconstitutional vote of the Commons: “296 votes preferred to 1143”--Lord Bacon on the lawful power of Parliaments--The Crown and its advisers, and the odium attaching to their unconstitutional proceedings--Servile addresses--The loyal address from the “Essex Calves”--“The Essex Procession from Chelmsford to St. James’s Market for the Good of the Common-Veal,” 1769--Charles Dingley, “the projector”--The bogus city address--“The Addressers”--The _fracas_ at the King’s Arms, Cornhill--A battle-royal--“The Battle of Cornhill,” 1769--Administrative bribes of preference “Lottery Tickets”--“The Inchanted Castle; or, King’s Arms in an Uproar,” 1769--Walpole’s account of the procession--“The Principal Merchants and Traders assembled at the Merchant Seamen’s Office to sign y^e Address”--“Epistle to the _North Briton_,” 1769--The “Abhorrers” of Charles II.’s reign revived--The Administration arraigned with their crimes--Address of the Quakers to James II.--“The conduct of ninety-nine in a hundred of the people of England ‘Abhorred’”--The loyal address forwarded to St. James’s Palace--“The Battle of Temple Bar,”--The addressers routed--“Sequel to the Battle of Temple Bar: Presentation of the Loyal Address at St. James’s Palace,” 1769--The fight at Palace Yard--“The Hearse,” and Lord Mountmorres--The lost Address recovered--Account of the procession from the _Political Register_--The _Town and Country Magazine_--A royal proclamation against the rioters: _Gazette Extraordinary_--“The Gotham Addressers: or, a Peep at the Hearse”--“A Dialogue between the Two Heads on Temple Bar,” 1769 178