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 thee imputations were jut, the expulion was urely eaonable, and that they were jut, the Houe had reaon to determine, as he had confeed himelf, at the bar, the author of the libel which they term editious, and was convicted in the King’s Bench of both the publications.

the Freeholders of Middleex were of another opinion. They either thought him innocent, or were not offended by his guilt. When a writ was iued for the election of a knight for Middleex, in the room of John Wilkes, Eq.; expelled the Houe, his friends on the ixteenth of February choe him again.

the 17th, it was reolved, that John Wilkes, Eq.; having been in this Seion of Parliament expelled the Houe, was, and is, incapable of being elected a member to erve in this preent Parliament.