[297] Referring to Bills in Parliament for embanking the Thames for the purpose of building Adelphi Terrace, which was deemed to encroach upon the City's rights of conservancy.--Walpole, Memoirs, iv, 173. [298] Journal 65, fo. 214b. [299] Walpole, Memoirs, iv, 307; The _Middlesex Journal_, 2 April, 1771; The _London Chronicle_, 2-6 April. [300] Junius to the _Public Advertiser_, 13 Aug., 1771; Woodfall, Letters of Junius, ii, 307. [301] Journal 65, fo. 222. [302] _Id._, fo. 226. [303] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 165. [304] Walpole, Memoirs, iv, 328. The number "allowed by law" appears to have been ten. [305] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 167. [306] The _London Chronicle_, 13-16 April, 1771. [307] The king to Lord North, 26 June, 1771.--Correspondence, i. 76. [308] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fos. 161, 161b. [309] Walpole, Memoirs, iv, 328. The letter will be found printed in Woodfall's Letters of Junius, ii, 252, 253, note. [310] Walpole to Mann, 6 July, 1771.--Letters, v, 313. [311] Wilkes to Junius, 12 Sept. and 17 Oct., 1771.--Woodfall, Letters of Junius, i, 299, 323. [312] Woodfall, Letters of Junius, i, 322. [313] Wilkes to Junius, 17 Oct., 1771. Woodfall, Letters of Junius, i, 323-325. [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. [324] Both Sir Henry Bankes and Richard Peers were senior to Nash, and both were nominated at the election.--Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 166. [325] Woodfall, Letters of Junius, ii, 338-344. [326] Walpole, Memoirs, iv, 346. [327] Journal 65, fos. 250, 253. Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 165. [328] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fos. 162-163. [329] Journal 65, fos. 278b-280b.