CONTENTS MAGNA CHARTA: that article of it, which bitrary imprisonment, &c. Page I An account of the illegal feizure of Mr. Wilkes's perfon and papers, and his commitment to the The cuftody of Mr. Wilkes's perfon shifted four times in one day, in order to elude the Habeas Orders iffued by the Lieutenant Governor of the Tower, refpecting the detention of John Wilkes, Mr. Wilkes's fpirited speech at the bar of the court a 16 Letter - from Mr. Wilkes to E. Temple, in reply, 20 Mr. Wilkes's fenfible speech in the court of Common 21 Addrefs to the court, on their ordering him letter to the Secretaries of State, demanding the goods which had been stolen from his houfe, and which, he was informed, were in the poffef- Account of the duel between these two gentlemen, 37 Farther proceedings in the Houfe of Commons, 39 Noble decifion of Lord Chief Justice Pratt, in the caufe of Mr. Wilkes against Mr. Wood, Papers relative to the villainous attempt made upon Mr. Wilkes's life by one Mr. Dun, a Scotch kins, on the two laft being ordered by the Houfe from Mr. Wilkes to Mr. Martin, Letter from Mr. Wilkes at Paris to the Speaker of the House of Commons, inclofing a certificate from two of the French King's physicians, importing, that Mr. Wilkes's ftate of health was fuch, that he could not at that time return to England, 75 Cruel proceedings in the House of Commons against him, and his violent expulfion from it, - 78 Letter from Mr. Wilkes at Paris, to Mr. Coates, - from Mr. Wilkes to the Electors of Ayles- I 20 from Mr. Wilkes to the Duke of Grafton, 154 Addrefs to the liverymen of London, of- fering himself a candidate for that city, Mr. Mr. Wilkes's Addrefs to the freeholders of Middle- Mr. Wilkes's address of thanks to the Mr. Wilkes's addrefs to the freeholders of Middle- fex, from the King's Bench prifon, APPENDIX. [The following are the papers relating to the Profecution of John Wilkes, efq; as the author and publisher of the 45th number of the North Briton.] MAGNA CHARTA, Cap. 29. ULLUS Liber Homo capiatur, vel im N prifonetur, aut diffeifiatur, de libero tene mento fuo, vel LIBERTATIBUS, vel LIBERIS CONSUETUDINIBUS SUIS, aut utlagetur, aut exulet, aut aliquo modo deftruatur. Nec fuper eum ibimus, nec fuper eum mittemus nifi per legale judicium parium fuorum, vel per legem Terra*. * No freeman may be apprehended or imprisoned, or diffeiffed of his freehold, or LIBERTIES or FREE CUSTOMS, or be outlawed or banished, or any wife deftroyed. Nor will we pass upon bim, nor condemn him, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land. |