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SCG-C.769.062
22 Jun 1769:21 (1761)
London, April 23. A remarkable instance of the perverseness
of the temper of a certain young gentleman, now only in his
fourteenth year, and who sailed about six weeks ago for
Bengal. This youth, who is the son of a very unpopular
nobleman, would at all events go one night to the Opera in
his father's chair. The more the servants begged and
insisted that he should not go, the more he insisted that he
would. Many devices were put into practice to compel him to
stay at home that night; but all was to no purpose. He gets
into his father's chair, and sends for two chairmen:-- They
had not carried him a hundred yards from South Adley-Street,
when the young buck gets out of the chair, chalks it all
over with the number 45, and in this manner arrives at the
Opera-House, crying out, Wilkes and Liberty!, Wilkes and
Liberty for ever!-- My young gentleman was packed off the
next morning for the East-Indies.
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