Beckford’s Bribery Bill 157 Feb. 17th. Bill to restrain the Recovery of Crown Lands 161 Dissolution of Parliament 163 CHAPTER VI. 1768. On the Literature of the Early Part of the Reign of George the Third 164 CHAPTER VII. 1768. Walpole determines to resume his Memoirs 180 Audacity of Wilkes 182 March 28th. Beginning of the Middlesex Election 186 Riots during the polling 187 April 20th. Wilkes surrenders to the King’s Bench 194 The General Elections 197 Plan for the Expulsion of Wilkes 200 Meeting of Parliament 203 Riots before the King’s Bench 204 May 11th. Petition of the Sailors to Parliament 206 May 12th. Mark of Distinction to Aldermen Harley 207 Debate on Wilkes in the Commons 216 French Designs on Corsica 217 Heroism of a Sailor 219 June 8th. Renewal of Wilkes’s Outlawry 223 June 18th. Sentence of Wilkes for the _North Briton_ and the “Essay on Woman” 228 Riots at Boston 231 CHAPTER VIII. 1768. August 2nd. Lord Bute leaves England for the Continent 232 August 3rd. Death of Archbishop Secker 233 August 9th. Trial of a Soldier for Murder 235 Arrival of Christian the Seventh 235 Removal of Amherst from Virginia 239 Contemplated Disgrace of Lord Shelburne 245 Resignation of Lord Chatham 247 Lord Rochford made Secretary of State 248 Privy Seal given to Lord Bristol 250 State of the Country 253 Nov. 8th. Meeting of Parliament 255 Meditated Expulsion of Wilkes 256 Nov. 14th. Sir Joseph Mawbey presents a Petition from him 260 CHAPTER IX. 1768. War between Russia and Turkey 262 The King of France’s new Mistress 264 Nov. 17th. Death of the Duke of Newcastle 265