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

CHAPTER VIII.

1768. August 2nd. Lord Bute leaves England for the Continent 232

August 3rd. Death of Archbishop Secker 233

August 9th. Trial of a Soldier for Murder 235

Arrival of Christian the Seventh 235

Removal of Amherst from Virginia 239

Contemplated Disgrace of Lord Shelburne 245

Resignation of Lord Chatham 247

Lord Rochford made Secretary of State 248

Privy Seal given to Lord Bristol 250

State of the Country 253

Nov. 8th. Meeting of Parliament 255

Meditated Expulsion of Wilkes 256

Nov. 14th. Sir Joseph Mawbey presents a Petition from him 260