The North Briton, XLVI (Volume 3); numbers complete - Softcover

Wilkes, John

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ISBN 10: 1154206602 ISBN 13: 9781154206609

Verlag: General Books LLC, 2012

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1772 Excerpt: ... cellent a corps in that perfect harmony, which has from the beginning subsisted. I have the honour to be, 'with unfeigned respect, My lord, your lordship's most obedient and most humble servant, Tower, May 5, 1763. « JOHN WILKES. 'To the earl Temple.' Angliæ Jura in omni casu Libertat dant Favorem. Impium et Crudelis judicandus est qui Liber Tati non savet.' Coke Littleton. On Friday the 6th of May, Mr. Wilkes Was brought up from the Tower, to the court of Common Pleas, where (as soon as the court was seated) he made the following speech; My Lord, f Far be it from me to regret that I have 1 passed so many more days in Captivity, as it will have afforded you an opportunity of 'doing, upon mature reflection, and repeated 'examination, the more signal justice to my 'country. The liberty of all peers arid 'gentlemen, and what touches me more sen sihly, that of all the middling and inferior B 3 " 'set set of people, who stand most in need of protection, is in my case this day to be finally decided upon: a question of such importance as to determine at once, whether English liberty be a reality or a shadow. Your own free-born hearts will feel with indignation and compassion, all that load of oppression under which I have so long laboured. Close imprisonment, the effect of premeditated malice; all access for more than two days denied to me; my house ranfacked and plundered; my most private and secret concerns divulged; every vile and malignant insinuation, even of high treason itself, no less industriously than falsely circulated, by. my cruel and implacable enemies, together with all the various insolence of office, form but a part of my unexampled ill treatment. Such inhuman principles of star-chamber tiranny, will, I trust, by this court,...

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• Verlag: General Books LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1154206602
• ISBN 13: 9781154206609
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 46