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