Wilkes and the City (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Wilkes and the City (Classic Reprint) written by William Purdie Treloar and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wilkes and the City But as I came to study his life I learnt that he was a good father; that, although he had been expelled from the House Of Commons, he, like Brad laugh, lived to make the House expunge from their records all account of his expulsion; that he was most improperly prosecuted by the Government, and disgracefully persecuted by it; that he fought against great odds, and won. He did all this under every difficulty, without means and against powerful Opponents. He be came Lord Mayor in spite of his brother aldermen, for which I applaud him. After his mayoralty he became Chamberlain of the City; and when asked by his fellow-aldermen to retire from the Court because of his being elected Chamberlain, he said he would see them further first, as it was his imten tion to live and die an alderman of the City of London. It was quite wrong, Of course; but he did it. A few men like him, without his faults, might do the City good even now. There is no doubt that Wilkes would have done his best to maintain, pre serve, and keep all the rights and privileges of the Corporation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.