SPEECHES OF IOHN WILKES, One of the Knights of the Shire for the VOL. 1. LONDON. 1777. 270. g. 374. ! VOTES of April 16, 1777. The House was moved, "That the Order "made upon Wednesday laft, for referring "the feveral Accounts [refpecting the Civil "Lift] which were then presented to the "House, by the Lord North, by His Ma"jesty's Command, to the Committee of "the whole Houfe, to whom it was refer"red to confider further of the Supply 66 granted to His Majefty," might be read. And the faid Order being read accordingly; A motion was made and the Question being put, "That the faid Order be difcharged;" It paffed in the Negative. Mr. Wilkes faid, Mr. Speaker, THERE HERE is not a Gentleman in this House, or in the kingdom, more anxious than I am that the fplendor and dignity of the crown of England fhould be maintained in its trueft VOL. II. B luftre, |