The poem is in octosyllabics (or, considering the many feminine endings, in the hudibrastics of Samuel Butler
). After an opening address to the conventionally starving and scruffy nameless Grubstreet Muses!,
Latter, Mary. Liberty and Interest. James Fletcher, 1764.
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it proceeds...
Timeline
June 1762: John Wilkes and Charles Churchill launched...
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June 1762
John Wilkes
and Charles Churchill
launched the anti-government paper The North Briton; on 23 April 1763 the notorious number 45 attacked the king's speech and indirectly made Wilkes into a hero of radical opinion...
23 April 1763: John Wilkes and Charles Churchill's North...
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23 April 1763
John Wilkes
and Charles Churchill
's North Briton number 45 attacked the king's speech; the arrest of Wilkes and the printers followed.
Miles, Peter. “’Humphry Clinker’: the politics of correspondence”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
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, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 167-82.
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Hill, Bridget. The Republican Virago: The Life and Times of Catharine Macaulay, Historian. Clarendon Press, 1992.
