[314] Junius to Wilkes, 21 Oct., 1771.—Letters of Junius, i, 325-328.
[315] Horne to Junius, 13 July, 1771. Id., ii, 259.
[316] A hit at Wilkes's connection with the city. It was usual at one time for the chamberlain thus to address a recipient of the honorary freedom of the city. The expression went out of use, but was revived by Wilkes when he became chamberlain.
[317] Horne to Wilkes, 10 July.—Stephens, Memoirs of John Horne Tooke, i, 310.
[318] "Mr. Wilkes, if not persecuted, will soon be forgotten."—Junius to the Duke of Grafton, 24 April, 1769. Woodfall, Letters of Junius, i, 478.
[319] Junius to Horne, 24 July, 1771. Id., ii, 267.
[320] The letter was placed in Wilkes's hand by a chairman, who said he brought it from a gentleman he had met in the Strand. Id., i, 263, note.
[321] It is strange to find Wilkes giving this character of a mayor, who had shown him great partiality at the time that No. 45 of the North Briton was ordered to be burnt at the Royal Exchange—and who in other respects displayed a distinct democratic tendency. Can it be possible that Wilkes was hood-winking Junius, and that he would have been equally pleased to have seen either Bridgen or Crosby in the mayoralty chair?
[322] Wilkes to Junius, 12 Sept., 1771.—Woodfall, i, 297-304.
[323] Junius to Wilkes, 18 Sept., 1771.—Woodfall, i, 307-308.