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VOL. I.
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LIST of funds.
An equal land tax recommended.
On the neceffity of raising the supplies within the year.
Importance of Ireland to England.
Propofal for a law to regulate flock-brokers.
Inattention of counsellors to their briefs.
Mr. Pitt's letter to his friend in the City on his refig-
nation in 1761.
Remarks on that letter.
To a great man; containing further remarks on that letter.
Epigram.
Abfurdities in the Commoner's character.
Vindication of Mr. P—.
On national attachments, occafioned by the Earl of
Bute's acceffion to the treasury.
Anfwer.
Reply.
Second anfwer.
Second reply.
General objections to the Earl of Bute's elevation.
A defence of Lord Bute.
An anfwer.
Remarkable letter on the prospect of peace dated from
Wandsworth.
Queries on the preliminary articles of peace.
Account of tonnage.
Anfwer with an account of exports and imports.
On Lord Bute's refignation.
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Warrant
Warrant for feizing Mr. Wilkes and fome particu- lars concerning the execution of it.
Warrant of commitment to the Tower; and other par-
ticulars relative to it.
Orders iffued by the lieutenant of the Tower.
Mr. Wilkes's first speech in the court of Common
Pleas
Lord Egremont's letter to Lord Temple, containing the
King's order to difmifs Mr. Wilkes from the
Bucks militia.
Lord Temple's letter to Mr. Wilkes on that occafion.
Mr. Wilkes's anfwer.
Mr. Wilkes's fecond Speech in the court of Common
Pleas.
Mr. Wilkes's fpeech on his discharge by the court of
Common Pleas.
Letter from Mr. Wilkes to the Earls of Egremont
and Halifax.
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95.
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98
Their lordships anfwer.
Mr. Wilkes's reply
Mr. Wilkes's Speech in the House of Commons.
Letters between Mr. Wilkes and Mr. Martin.
Account of the duel between them.
Letters between Mr. Wilkes, Dr. Brocklesby, Dr.
Heberden, and Mr. Hawkins.
Letters of Sir William Lee, with the answer, rela-
tive to a canvass at Aylesbury..
Papers relative to the attempt which Dun made on Mr.
Wilkes's life.
Cards between Mr. Wilkes, and Mr. Martin at
Paris.
Mr. Wilkes's letter to the speaker.
The certificate of the French king's Surgeons.
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104
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112
114.
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128
ib.
Letter from Mr. Wilkes to Mr. Cotes.
Queries on Mr. Wilkes's cafe
Standing orders of the Lords and Commons.
Cafe of chief justice Scroggs.
Short note from Sir William Temple
General obfervations; with a quotation from Fofter 158
On privilege of parliament.
160
Quotation from Grey's debates, on the feizure of papers. 163
Remarks on the 45th No. of the North Briton.
Strong letters on the evafion of the Habeas Corpus.
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169
Queries with their anfwers on kings fpeeches to parliament. 180
Another answer to thofe queries.
Quotation from the Craftsman on the king's fpeeches to
parliament.
Further frictures on the king's fpeeches.
The fubject continued.
Extracts from a variety of fpeeches in parliament, on
the king's Speech.
A remonftrance of the lords in behalf of lord Arundel.
Remarks on the fcurrility thrown on Mr. Wilkes's
private character.
Obfervations on a great man's declaration.
The trial of the king's messengers at Guildhall, with
obfervations.
On the integrity of a judge.
Further remarks on the messengers trial.
Dr. Leighton's cafe.
On the perfons concerned in the Monitor giving notice
to lord Halifax, that they intended to profecute
bim.
On favouritifm, from an old MSS.
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223
Vindication of chief juftice Pratt and the common
council of London.
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Anecdote of a fervile preacher.
228
To Mr. Kidgell.
231
The Spaniel and the cat.
Hypocrify detected.
On trials by Special juries.
The judges oath and office.
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243
On the liberty of the prefs.
On juries
A tribune's oration to the people
On the rights of juries
On trials by juries
The fubject continued
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260
Sir George Yonge's letter concerning the debate in parlia-
ment on the queftion of general warrants
On lord Halifax ftanding out in contempt of the laws
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270
State of the cafe between Mr. Wilkes and lord Halifax
273
Letters between Mr. Pitt and Mr. Allen
274
Remarks on thofe letters
278
Aftrong and mafterly answer to the remarks
279
Vindication of Mr. Pitt's plan of the peace
285
Confiderations on lord Bute's peace
293
On the London merchants addrefs on the peace
304
On the addrefs of eight aldermen on the peace
305
On the fame; with remarks on the principles of the Fa-
vourite
308
Subftance of the Letters to the duke of Devonshire
Detection of falfities propagated by the minifterial writers 312
On the frong national attachment of the Scots
Prudent conduct of France fince the peace
On the difmiffion of Gen. A'Court
On the difmiffion of Gen. Conway
333
On granting a patent of precedence to a fuppofed great
lawyer
338
Epigrams
343
Character of Louis XIII. from lord Herbert's life
Princes deceived by wicked minifters
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345
·Power of the treafury in elections
347
Curious defcription of Weft Wycomb church, &c.
Parody of Chevy Chace
A COLLECTION OF
INTERESTING
PAPERS.
A lift of the feveral funds transferable at the Bank, India, and South Sea-Houfe, with the annual interest paid to the proprietors, at the acceffion of bis prefent Majefty, in Oct. 1760.