[202] The letter is dated from Paris, 12 Dec., 1767. Almon's Life of Wilkes, iii, 184. [203] Walpole. Memoirs, iii, 186-188. Walpole to Mann, 31 March, 1768. Letters, v, 91-93. The City offered a reward of £50 for the capture and conviction of the ringleaders. Journal 64, fos. 247b, 248. [204] Walpole to Mann, 23 April, 1768.--Letters, v, 98; Walpole, Memoirs, iii, 199. [205] The king to Lord North, 25 April, 1768.--"Correspondence of George III with Lord North" (W. Bodham Donne), i, 2. [206] Walpole to Mann, 6 June, 1768.--Letters, v, 101; Walpole, Memoirs, iii, 204-206. [207] Journal House of Lords, xxxii, 152. [208] Walpole to Mann, 22 June, 1768.--Letters, v, 110; Walpole, Memoirs, iii, 228, 229. [209] Walpole, Memoirs, iii, 297. [210] Repertory 173, fos. 91-94, 114, 115. [211] Repertory 173, fos. 140-142, 153-155. [212] Repertory 173, fos. 264-314. [213] _Id._, fos. 315-318. [214] Journal House of Commons, xxxii, 178. Walpole, Memoirs, iii, 292, 298, 313-319, 324-325, 327. [215] Journal House of Commons, xxxii, 228, 229. [216] Annual Register, xii, 80, 82 [217] Journal 64, fo. 341b. Several wards met and drew up instructions to the Common Council not to allow of an address to the king, "as calculated to countenance the unconstitutional measures of the present administration, rather than to express duty and affection to the best of kings."--Annual Register, xii, 88. [218] Annual Register, xii, 75. Walpole, Memoirs, iii, 339. [219] Annual Register, xii, 82, 84. [220] Walpole, Memoirs, iii, 353. [221] Journal House of Commons, xxxii, 386, 387. [222] "The arbitrary appointment of Mr. Luttrell"--he wrote to the Duke of Grafton (8 July)--"invades the foundation of the laws themselves, as it manifestly transfers the right of legislation from those whom the people have chosen to those whom they have rejected. With a succession of such appointments, we may soon see a House of Commons collected in the choice of which the other towns and counties of England will have as little share as the devoted county of Middlesex."--Letters of Junius (Woodfall), i, 509. [223] Journal 64, fo. 344b. [224] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fos. 146b-147b. The petition is printed in a small volume of "city petitions, addresses and remonstrances," (1778), preserved in the Guildhall Library. [225] Beckford denied this--Walpole, Memoirs, iii, 380. [226] "That the moment of his [Chatham's] appearance, _i.e._, so immediately after the petition of the livery of London set on foot and presented by his friend Alderman Beckford, has a hostile look, cannot be doubted."--Walpole to Mann, 19 July, 1769. Letters, v, 177. [227] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 148b. [228] "London, for the first time in its life, has not dictated to England. Essex and Hertfordshire have refused to petition; Wiltshire and Worcester say they will petition, and Yorkshire probably will."--Walpole to Mann, 19 July, 1769. Letters, v, 177. [229] Common Hall Book, No. 8, fo. 149.