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BEP(F.763.041
4 Jul 1763:11,12,13 (1452)
A New North Briton. Monday Apr 11. 1763. . . To the
Right Honourable the Earl of Bute. . . [2d para.:]
Your Lordship is at last detected: even Scotchmen, without
second sight, can see into your base desertion of your
country. Is there a single pedlar, that does not look on
your resignation as an irreparable injury to the Scotch ?
What is to become of those numberless Sawneys, who are now
upon the North Road. . .
An now, my lord, I shall conclude with a flagrant proof of
your lordship's not being a friend to literature. The
liberty of the press, the liberty of all liberties, most
dear, to me, and all that write politics,---I will speak
out, boldly,---had been scandalously infringed under your
lordship's administration. I need only mention a late
instance. I call upon your lordship to declare publickly,
whether it was, or was not, by and through your lordship's
advice and instigation, that a certain ballad singer was
taken up by the pump in St. Paul's churchyard, for singing a
ballad beginning with A Scotchman he must have the itch of
getting money. I ask your lordship whether this ballad-
singer is not now in Bridewell, and whether she has not
three whippings a day?. . .
[signed:] John Pompey Wilkes.
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