CONTAINING A NUMBER OF CURIOUS PAPER S, RESPECTING Mr. WILKES: A Few of which, are not to be found in any other Publication. PETITION of John Wilkes, was prefented to the House, and read; fetting forth, that, in April 1763, the Petitioner, then a member of the House, was by a general warrant apprehended, and carried the two principal Secretaries of Srate; that he applied by his friends to the Court of Common Pleas for a Habeas Corpus, which was ordered to iffue immediately; of this he acquainted the faid Secretaries at his examination by them, who, notwithftanding, committed the petitioner a clofe prifoner to the TOWER, although charged only with a mifdemeanor; that for three days, no perfon was fuffered to have accefs to him; that his house was plundered, his bureaus broke open, and his papers carried away, under the faid IN THE KING'S BENCH. MIDDLESEX. THE KING AGAINST JOHN Rancis Barlow, of the Crown-office, in the Temple, and William Hughes, of the fame place, feverally make oath and first the deponent Barlow for himself faith, that on the 18th day of February last, he received directions from Mr. Wallace or Mr. Web, to apply to a judge to get the information against the defendant amende ed and, by ftriking out the word Purport and inferting in its ftead the word Tenor; that he this deponent did accordingly apply to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield, and obtained a fummons to fhew caufe why it fhould not be amended; a copy whereof is hereunto annexed: and this deponent, immediately after he had obtained the fame, fent two copies thereof, viz. one to the other deponent, Hughes, and Philips, folicitor for the faid defendant; and this deponent was inform ed, and does believe, that fuch copies were left that night at their refpective houfes; and this deponent Barlow further fays, that in confequence thereof, he this deponent, on Monday the 20th day of the fame month of February in the morning, attended Lord Mansfield at his houfe, and there met the other deponents, Hughes and Philips; and this deponent remembers, that Lord Mansfield faid he did not ask them their No. 41. ST confent, |