CONTENTS the 29th day of January 1762, by his majesty's command, in a letter from John Wilkes, Efq. late Member for Aylef- The speech of the speaker of the house of commons, when he reprimanded Philip Ward, late mayor of the city of Ox- ford; John Treacher, Sir Thomas Munday, Thomas Wife, John Nicholes, John Philips, Ifaac Lawrence, Richard Tawney, all of the faid city; Thomas Robinson and John Brown, late bailiffs of the faid city; upon their knees at A monumental inféription erected over the grave of Mr. Al- len, junior, in the church-yard of St. Mary Newington, A collection of fugitive pieces printed in the news-papers; relative to the Essay on Woman, and the North Briton 104 Copies of the two fentences against Mr. Wilkes An exact copy of the speech made by John Wilkes, Efq. to the guild of Berwick, on the 16th of April 1754, when he food candidate for that borough Authentic papers relating to the election of an alderman for A letter from the Hon. Henry Bilfon Legge to Mr. Wilkes 172 -from Mr. Andrew Baxter, author of Matho, &c. to Mr. Wilkes Letters of Dr. Brewster, author of an excellent translation A letter of the Rev. Dr. Douglas, author of several pam- to the Right Hon. George Grenville, occafioned by his Notes on a few passages of Mr. Churchill's works 238 MISCE L MISCELLANIES. FROM THE PUBLIC PRINT S, etc. Obfervations on the Papers relative to the Rupture with Spain, laid before both Houfes of Parliament, on Friday the 29th Day of January 1762, by his Majesty's Command, in a Letter from John Wilkes, Efq; late Member for Aylesbury, to a Friend in the Country: Quis ferae I Bellum curet Iberiae? DEAR SIR, HOR, March 9, 1762. MUCH regret that it is not yet in my power fully to gratify the curiofity you exprefs of feeing all the papers relative to the rupAppend. VOL. II, A ture ture with Spain. The fubject is so very interefting, that I am not furprized at your impatience. My concern is, that fo much is withheld from the public, and that a person, uninformed as I am, cannot pretend with clearness to unravel the thread of a negotiation, defignedly kept intricate and embarraffed. I fear. you will find fome things rather obscure; but will endeavour to pour all the light I can on the subject, and to diffipate every cloud of obfcurity which is meant to cover it. Had the public been gratified with the fight of the memorials and papers relating to the demand of liberty to the Spanish nation to fish on the banks of Newfoundland (a matter held facred *) and to * You will again on this occafion, let M. Wall clearly underftand, That this is a matter held facred; and that no conceffion on the part of his Majefty, fo deftructive to this true and capital intereft of Great Britain, will be yielded to Spain, however abetted and fupported. Mr. Pitt's letter. With regard to the Newfoundland fishery, M. Wall urged, What had principally given offence here as to that article, was my being fo frequently ordered to declare, and the Conde de Fuentes having been as often told, that England would never hear of that inadmissible pretenfion. Lord Briftol's letter to the earl of Egremont. The declaration of the Count de Fuentes, that Mr. Pitt's ordinary and last answer was, "That he would not relax in any "thing, till the Tower of London was taken fword in hand,' is undoubtedly a grofs mifreprefentation. That expreffion muft have been confined to the Spanish claim of fishing on the banks of Newfoundland; for it is apparent from these papers, that Mr. Pitt was ready to make greater conceffions to preserve the friendfhip of Spain, than any former minifter had ventured to offer; witnefs the paragraph in lord Bristol's letter, of August 31. Laftly, |