Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 3 (of 4)
CHAPTER VII.
1768. Walpole determines to resume his Memoirs 180
Audacity of Wilkes 182
March 28th. Beginning of the Middlesex Election 186
Riots during the polling 187
April 20th. Wilkes surrenders to the King’s Bench 194
The General Elections 197
Plan for the Expulsion of Wilkes 200
Meeting of Parliament 203
Riots before the King’s Bench 204
May 11th. Petition of the Sailors to Parliament 206
May 12th. Mark of Distinction to Aldermen Harley 207
Debate on Wilkes in the Commons 216
French Designs on Corsica 217
Heroism of a Sailor 219
June 8th. Renewal of Wilkes’s Outlawry 223
June 18th. Sentence of Wilkes for the _North Briton_ and the “Essay on Woman” 228
Riots at Boston 231