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RNYG.779.123
31 Jul 1779:11,12 (296 Supplement)
Extract of a Letter from Falmouth, April 20. A noble Lord
some years past, when the writings of Mr. Wilkes made a
noise in the world, and for which he was soon after
apprehended, happened to be in company one evening with the
well-known writer, the Rev. Charles Churchill, and talking
upon the subject of commitments to libels, declared that was
he a Printer, and should be apprehended by the order of
either House of Parliament, and be by them committed, he
would starve and rot in the prison to which he was sent,
sooner than petition for his liberty. Some short time after
a poem appeared wrote by the reverend author above
mentioned, wherein he gave his opinion of the noble Lord's
sentiments in the following lines.
Starve! pretty talking! but I fain would view
That man, that honest man would do it too,
Hence to you mountain that out braves the sky,
And dart from Pole to Pole, thy strengthened eye,
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