...the House resolved that Mr. Wilkes "having dared void, been, in this session of Parliament, expeUed the House, was and is incapable of being elected a member, to serve in this present Parliament." The election was accordingly declared void, and a new writ issued. 2 There...

...constituency, but it was resolved that " having been in this session of parliament expelled it, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in the present parliament." He, therefore, was again " expelled for the reasons (the above) set forth in the resolutions of this...

...resolved, on the 17th of February, " that having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, he was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament." The election was declared void, but Mr. Wilkes was again elected, and his...

...February he was re-elected without opposition. On the 17th, on a motion by Lord Strange, he was declared " incapable of being elected a member " to serve in the present Parliament" by a majority of 146 (23589). On the Kith of March he was again returned for Middlesex. On the 22nd...

...House resolved " that John Wilkes, Esquire, having been in this session of Parliament expelled this House, was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament; " and his election was declared void. Again the freeholders of Middlesex returned...

...following resolution : " That John Wilkes, esq., having been in this session of Parliament expelled this house, was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament." Wilkes was again elected, but the House of Commons declared the seat vacant...

...following resolution : u That John Wilkes, esq., having been in this session of Parliament expelled this house, was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present Parliament.?? Wilkes was again elected, but the House of Commons declared the seat vacant...

...defiance of Middlesex led ! it now to go further. It resolved, "That Mr. Wilkes having been in • this session of Parliament expelled the House, was and...elected a member to serve in the present Parliament ;" and it issued a writ for a fresh election. Middlesex answered this insolent claim to limit the free...

...moved in the commons, " That John Wilkes, Esq., having been in this session of parliament expelled this house, was and is incapable of being elected a member to serve in this present parliament." Mr. Dowdeswell, the ex-chancellor of the exchequer, spoke strongly against...

...Lynn-Regis, which he had before represented, a petition was lodged against him, and the commons voted him incapable of being elected a member to serve in the present parliament. Their next attack was upon the duke of Marlborough, who was found to have received a yearly sum from...