Note 321 — Chapter XXXVIII
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It is strange to find Wilkes giving this character of a mayor, who had shown him great partiality at the time that No. 45 of the North Briton was ordered to be burnt at the Royal Exchange—and who in other respects displayed a distinct democratic tendency. Can it be possible that Wilkes was hood-winking Junius, and that he would have been equally pleased to have seen either Bridgen or Crosby in the mayoralty chair?