The Virginia Gazette

The Differences between Mr. Wilkes and Mr. Townshend have now risen to so extravagant a Height, that, though no formal Challenge is expected from either, the Friends of both are apprehensive for the Consequences of their first Meeting. As Mr. Wilkes, in his Charge against Mr. Townshend, has thought proper to mention illiberal Invectives against the Princess Dowager, as some of the most heinous of his Offences, I must take the Liberty (says a Correspondent) to tell a trifling Anecdote of Mr. Wilkes, to prove how abominably odious such illiberal Invectives are in that worthy Gentleman's Eyes. The North Briton, which first spoke of an improper Connection between Lord Bute and the Princess Dowager, was shown in Manuscript, by John Wilkes, to his then Acquaintance Doctor B--- in Norfolk Street: who, after reading it, asked him if he believed there was any such Connection really subsisting: Not I, by G---d (replies Jack) but it will make an excellent North Briton.