one so much as of the late Charles Bradlaugh, member for Northampton; in other respects the two characters will not bear comparison. FOOTNOTES: [269] See _Annals of the Mayoralty of the Right Hon. Barlow Trecothick, Esq._, ascribed to Wilkes, printed in Stephens's Memoirs of John Horne Tooke, i, 191, note. [270] Annual Register, xiii, 161, 162. [271] _Id._, xiii, 157. [272] Journal 65, fos. 140 _seq._ The king was very angry at having to receive more of this "stuff." "The idea of a fresh address, remonstrance and petition is so extremely absurd, and considering the time I may add puerile, that it deserves contempt."--The king to Lord North, 15 Nov., 1770.--Correspondence, i, 39. [273] Walpole, Memoirs, iv, 196, 197. [274] Journal House of Commons, xxi, 238. [275] Walpole, Memoirs, iv, 278, 287-289. [276] Correspondence, i, 64. [277] Crosby sat for Honiton, whilst Oliver had succeeded Beckford as one of the members for the city. Wilkes was also summoned to attend, but not as a member. He therefore disobeyed the summons, informing the Speaker by letter that when admitted to his seat for Middlesex he would attend, but not before.--Gentleman's Magazine, xli, 140; Annual Register, xiv, 188. [278] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 275. [279] Annual Register, xiv, 83. [280] Walpole to Mann, 22 March.--Letters, v, 286. [281] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 269. [282] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 275; Journal 65, fo. 210. [283] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 279, 280. [284] "Last night, when I went to bed at half-an-hour after twelve, I had just been told that all the avenues to the House were blockaded, and had beaten back the peace-officers who had been summoned, for it was _toute autre chose_ yesterday when the lord mayor went to the House from what it had been the first day." Walpole to Mann, 26 March, 1771.--Letters, v, 291. [285] Annual Register, xiv, 84; Gentleman's Magazine, xli, 141. [286] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 283-285. [287] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 285, 286. Walpole to Mann, 26 March, 1771, Letters, v, 291. Calcraft to Chatham, 26 March; Barré to the same, 26 March, Chatham Correspondence, iv, 125-127, 131-133. Walpole, Memoirs of reign of George III, iv, 299, 300. [288] Barré to Chatham, 26 March.--Chatham Correspondence, iv, 134. Gentleman's Magazine, xli, 170. Walpole, Memoirs, iv, 300, 301. [289] Journal 65, fos. 212-212b. [290] Chatham to Calcraft, 26 March, 1771; The same to Barré. 26 March.--Chatham Correspondence, iv, 129-130, 136-137. [291] Letters of Junius, iii, 376. [292] Annual Register, xiv, 85. Gentleman's Magazine, xli, 141. Calcraft to Chatham, 28 March, 1771.--Chatham Correspondence, iv, 138-140. Walpole to Mann, 30 March.--Letters, v, 292. Walpole Memoirs, iv, 292. [293] Baker sat for Plympton Earls, co. Devon, and Martin for Gatton, co. Surrey. [294] Journal House of Commons, xxxiii, 289. [295] _Id., ibid._ [296] Journal 65, fos. 213, 214, 214b.