[140]'Pratt:' Lord Camden.
[141] 'Seals:' The general warrant for the apprehension of Wilkes was signed by the Earls of Egremont and Halifax, joint secretaries of state for the home department.
[142] 'Forbes and Dun:' two Scotchmen, one of whom challenged Wilkes, and the other tried to assassinate him. Dun was insane.
[143] 'The Bastile:' Wilkes was six days in the Tower.
[140] 'First:' the great William Warburton, who rose partly through his
marriage with the niece of the rich Ralph Allen.
[141] 'Potter:' mentioned above. He was suspected by Warburton of being
the author of the infamous notes to Wilkes's infamous 'Essay on Woman.'
[142] 'Comments:' referring to the notes to 'The Dunciad,' and on
Shakspeare.
[143] 'Man of law:' Mr Thomas Edwards, a barrister, wrote a clever book against Warburton's criticism. Warburton alluded to him contemptuously afterwards, in a note to a new edition of 'The Dunciad.'
[144] 'Tom:' this son was Warburton's only child, and died before his
father.
[145] 'A lawyer:' Sir Fletcher Norton, who as well as Warburton is
caricatured.