If theſe imputations were juſt, the expulſion was ſurely ſeaſonable, and that they were juſt, the Houſe had reaſon to determine, as he had confeſſed himſelf, at the bar, the author of the libel which they term ſeditious, and was convicted in the King’s Bench of both the publications.
But the Freeholders of Middleſex were of another opinion. They either thought him innocent, or were not offended by his guilt. When a writ was iſſued for the election of a knight for Middleſex, in the room of John Wilkes, Eſq.; expelled the Houſe, his friends on the ſixteenth of February choſe him again.
On the 17th, it was reſolved, that John Wilkes, Eſq.; having been in this Seſſion of Parliament expelled the Houſe, was, and is, incapable of being elected a member to ſerve in this preſent Parliament.
